Chapter 99. The Poet and The Doctor

     It was Monday, with drizzling rain and a slight chill.

     As soon as she arrived at Chuanming Group, Ye Mo first printed out this year’s CNC project plan and handed it over to the leader. At the same time, she kicked two engineers from the project team to Liu Bo’s CNC team next door.

     It’s better to hire new people to fill vacancies than to deal with backstabbers and slackers. Among the fish that were screened out, there was a person who was blowing rainbow farts every day in the WeChat group. Unaware of how he was discovered.

     Deputy Manager Liu’s face turned black at noon that day. It is said that he found fault with all the project engineers he was responsible for, including the engineer assistants, and he was not in a good mood with the three engineers who had just transferred.

     The reason why the leaders aren’t upset is that both Liu Bo and Ye Mo’s plans exceeded expectations this year. As expected, competition brings such pleasant surprises. This promotion was well-deserved.

     Manager Xie gave Ye Mo a thumbs up, saying, “It’s only been three days, but you’ve really surprised me! That was a great move.” But then, he added jokingly, “Old Ye, are you sure you have a good eye for talent?”

     Ye Mo didn’t answer directly. “It’s just three engineers,” she replied. “I’m sure you can adjust your team or recruit some new ones on your end. We can also fill one position with an engineering assistant.”

     Manager Xie: “…”

     No matter what industry, talents who can really take on things are always scarce.

……

     On Tuesday morning, Ye Mo held a brief project meeting. She assigned design tasks to each project team and stipulated that the inspection period of the first stage was limited to next month This caused a chorus of groans and howls from the group of men.

     Ye Mo smiled. There was no room for negotiation on this matter. As an offhand remark, she mentioned a couple of points, and two project teams immediately became brimming with ideas.

     No one objected vehemently anymore. They suspected that the supervisor might have been working on these things alone in the lab the previous week, especially in the materials section. It seemed she had indeed made some progress. No wonder she was the chief engineer!

     After the Spring Festival, employees have finally settled back into their work. With the troublemakers and those who sow discord removed, the atmosphere in each project team has improved significantly.

     Seeing that her subordinates loved their work so much, Ye Mo, who was also very busy every day, was really relieved.

     Xiao Fang, who felt that she had made a lot of progress these days: “…”

     Just going to work, her procrastination, laziness, and empty mind were all cured.

…

     That night, the Unnatural-Investigation Bureau contacted Wang Xue and gave her a bunch of root bone data sheets and 1,000 commission points.

     The Unnatural-Investigation Bureau also expressed a very high degree of trust in Mi Wenjing and Wang Xue. Based on these lists, Ye Mo almost figured out the root bone talent ratio of ordinary people.

     Maybe they are not ordinary people. Ordinary people account for a small part of them. There is still a difference between agents and ordinary people.

     Approximately 5,500 survivors remain. Among them, 17 have exceptional root bone talent, 212 have good or better root bone talent, and over 900 have at least average root bone talent.

     The root bone talent of the remaining survivors is unknown, but it’s certain that there are those with aptitude for spiritual cultivation hidden among them. However, based on the data, it’s likely that those with high spiritual cultivation aptitude are fewer than those with high root bone talent.

     Ye Mo adjusted the cultivation techniques for all 17 individuals with exceptional root bone talent, and made partial adjustments for the 212 individuals with good or better root bone talent. For the over 900 individuals with at least average root bone talent, she made even fewer adjustments. For the rest, she only corrected logical errors.

     This wasn’t because she discriminated against ordinary people, but because many cultivation techniques only show significant differences when practiced by those with high talent.

     There is only one way to let the inferior talents catch up with the medium talents – spend money, borrow potions, equipment, spirit stones, etc.; if you don’t have inferior talents like Ye Mo, then don’t practice martial arts, it’s better to increase your attributes like her in the dungeon.

     As for the potion problem, Watson can also help them a little. The Unnatural Investigation bureau has contacted Watson, which has nothing to do with Mi Wenjing’s account.

     Ye Mo spent several hours tinkering, feeling like doing physics problems, and became a little more proficient in the knowledge of the Five Elements Array. At nine o’clock the next morning, Wang Xue replied to the Unnatural Investigation Bureau.

     For the training of external cultivation techniques, Wang Xue may be more professional and can give some constructive suggestions.

     In order not to offend the two, the Unnatural Investigation Bureau even slowed down the investigation of their identities. In fact, they have no time to do this recently. The martial arts training of thousands of agents can be said to be a big deal.

…

     It was already mid-March. Ye Mo’s workshop had acquired many more mechanisms and tools, which had piled up until they were almost completely depleted. She had spent spirit stones very generously

     On Monday night of the third week, the second transaction with the Unnatural Investigation Bureau was completed, netting nearly 70,000 in labor fees. This marked the beginning of the final round of transactions, mainly for the purpose of exchanging points for medicines, and other uses.

     With this 70,000 points, Ye Mo’s workshop was nearly finished. In addition to the Mohist-style workshop, a full set of goblin workshop equipment was also added, complete with small smelting equipment and an inlay station.

     When it is possible to process a large amount of materials, Ye Mo still prefers to smelt and refine at Chuanming Group because it can reduce the consumption of spirit stones and does not have to deal with subsequent environmental problems.

     Dealing with environmental problems is a very point-consuming thing. Not only does it require wind formations, but it may also require space magic cores or space attribute spirit jade. Even the cheapest low-level space magic core can buy medium and high-level weapons.

     These goblin basic equipment can be used in dungeons, and the real world is still mainly based on mechanical rooms.

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     On Friday afternoon of the third week, her post on the Survivor Forum ignited a sensation again, garnering nearly 180,000 points

     In the evening, Ye Mo celebrated with Watson and Wang Xue from a distance. This form of celebration came from Wang Xue’s suggestion.

     The three of them still communicated on the survivor forum, not because they were worried about each other, but before finding the most suitable chat software, the survivor forum was the safest and no one would break in.

     Wang Xue sent a recorded guqin piece to Watson and Ye Mo. As everyone knows, the five senses of the survivors are too sharp, and this guqin has the effect of concentrating the mind.

     Wang Xue: 【It’s a pity that you can’t listen to it live. My current guqin sound can already make cats and dogs sleep. It should be very useful for treating insomnia for people. The video sound reduces this effect several times.】 

     Watson: 【After listening for a while, I think it’s not bad. It can obviously help thinking, but don’t put these sounds on the Internet. Someone will come to invite you for tea.】 

     The reason for talking about this is that the three of them have basically revealed their professions to each other during the chat.

     Watson is a doctor in the south. He has resigned and moved from a lake view room to a sea view room. He is rich, Ye Mo is a mechanical engineer of a group enterprise. She has recently received a promotion and is very satisfied with her new personal laboratory.

     Wang Xue, a versatile girl from the north, is currently backpacking through the southwestern mountains. As a freelancer, she juggles multiple roles: Uploader, travel photographer, and freelance writer.

     Before entering the dungeon, even though Wang Xue was a towering 1.8 meters tall and people often mistook her for a boy, she never dared to travel alone to remote places. Now, she’s completely let loose.

     After all, even if she really encountered bad people in some remote, impoverished area, the only thing Ye Mo and Watson would worry about is her hitting them too hard and exposing her identity, forcing her to join the national team as the main player.”

     Ye Mo: 【Recording and playback are essentially an electromagnetic conversion process. When recording, the sound passes through the microphone and sensor-like devices to generate an induced current signal that changes with the sound. The current signal is quantized into a digital signal, and then these numbers are recorded in the mobile phone’s memory…】

     Wang Xue: 【Sister Jing, I don’t understand (grievance jpg)】

     Ye Mo: 【Alright, fine. (Shrugs) I haven’t finished researching spirit energy conversion and cutting yet, so I can’t create a recording and playback device that’s completely distortion-free. But we can add it to our experimental projects. 】

     Watson & Wang Xue: 【……】

     Ye Mo: 【Pfft. 】

     Aside from the ‘Calming and Focusing’ piece, Wang Xue has composed many other musical works. Although she claims they’re distorted, these pieces allow someone with no musical background, like Ye Mo to clearly discern the emotions of joy, sorrow, anger, and pleasure. There’s even one piece that so vividly paints a picture of mountains and rivers in her mind.

     It’s truly a reflection of her recent experiences in the countryside. Beyond the music, the photos she’s taken – the verdant mountains and clear waters, the beautiful Miao, Shui, and Dai women, the squirrels and wild geese, the streams and fish – all possess a unique beauty

     Wang Xue: 【I’ll sing you a piece of Chu Ci^[1]Chu Ci: A genre of Chinese poetry, often associated with the ancient state of Chu and known for its lyrical and evocative style. that I wrote myself. It doesn’t compare to the great poet Qu Yuan^[2]Qu Yuan: A renowned Chinese poet from the Warring States period, known for his contributions to Chu Ci and his tragic life., but I really love this pastoral spring scenery. These past few days of climbing mountains and wading through rivers have been absolutely wonderful. 】

     Watson and Ye Mo didn’t think Wang Xue’s poetry had the same tragic undertones as Qu Yuan’s. Instead, they felt her verses were more akin to the emotions expressed in pastoral poems, like Wang Wei’s^[3]Wang Wei: A Tang Dynasty poet known for his landscape poetry. ‘松风吹解带，山月照弹琴’ (a gentle breeze rustling through the pines as I loosen my sash, the mountain moon illuminating my lute).

     Ye Mo: 【It’s different from your poem last week, but it’s nice to listen to, the sound is nice, and the artistic conception is even better.】 

     Wang Xue: 【It’s about the vigorous sunrise, the hope of life, of course it’s different. 】

     Well, Wang Xue writes poetry, sings, and plays the qin. She not only captures the ancient style but also expresses the diverse and complex emotions of modern people. Sometimes, a person’s inner self and their outward personality don’t always align perfectly.

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     The celebration party not only has Wang Xue’s music and poetry, but also Watson’s report on his experience in making medicines.

     First, before making attribute potions, he experimented extensively with traditional Chinese medicine, purchasing herbs from various medicinal shops. He personally tasted all non-toxic herbs, creating herbal packs for beautifying the skin, clearing heat, detoxifying, aiding sleep, cleansing the intestines, and regulating the stomach, among others.

     Even the bath and shampoo formula that Ye Mo memorized in the last copy was made, because the herbs were complete.

     Watson took a photo of his villa, which was filled with Chinese medicine, medicinal materials, and the alchemy furnace made by Ye Mo, and sent a message: 【Do you need it?】 

     Wang Xue: 【Yes, a few packets of detoxification, do you have mosquito repellent? There are too many mosquitoes in the mountains in spring? I dare not wear yellow clothes like rape flowers, and there are also many poisonous snakes.】 

     Ye Mo: 【Is there anything for the elderly?】 

     Watson: 【Wang Xue has some. Will you use it yourself? I can grind it into powder for you or make it into pills with honey. Maria, the old saying goes, ‘Food is better than medicine’. Do you have their physical examination report?”】