DLWAV CH156

The President and his officials: “…”

The Little Milk Dumpling: “…”

You call this a minor flaw?

The Little Milk Dumpling: “Also, I just thought of a problem. If these people didn’t awaken ancient divine beast bloodlines and instead all turned into Shadowfire Pigs, their DNA must have changed too, right? What if one day their parents or children suddenly get the urge to run a paternity test on them?”

Ao Ruize: “…”

“No problem. Domestic DNA testing technology doesn’t exist yet, so for at least the next fifteen years, their parentage remains uncomplicated.”

The Little Milk Dumpling: “…”

Then it finally realized something.

“Wait a minute, you and they clearly injected the exact same potion, so why did you turn into a dragon?”

Ao Ruize: “Figure it out yourself.”

The Little Milk Dumpling: “…”

Could it say that it didn’t dare to think about it?

Right at this moment, the policewoman who was the first to awaken into a Shadowfire Pig suddenly threw her head back with a ferocious roar, and spat out a massive fireball.

In the next second, the fireball flew straight toward another small hill.

Boom!

Another ear-splitting explosion swept across the entire training grounds in an instant.

And as the blinding flames dispersed, that small hill vanished without a trace as well.

The President and his officials: “…”

They abruptly turned their heads to look at Ao Ruize, their eyes practically turning red with emotion: “Student Zhang must be joking. How could this be considered a flaw?”

If they could all become this powerful, never mind merely turning into a pig—they’d be willing even if they turned into a fly!

Because every bit of this signaled that Great Yang was truly about to welcome an unprecedented, monumental leap forward—

“Student Zhang, Student Zhang…”

The President clasped Ao Ruize’s hands tightly, completely struck speechless.

Only when calls from the municipal government, the fire department, and the military command came pouring in one after another, asking why repeated explosions were echoing from the training ground, did they finally manage to calm down and remember that it was already the dead of night.

The President immediately said: “Then why doesn’t Student Zhang go rest first?”

The Police Chief, subsequently shifting back into human form, offered: “I can arrange for someone to take you to the nearest state guesthouse.”

Ao Ruize glanced at Gao Zong beside him: “Alright.”

But the President and his officials couldn’t sleep at all.

They immediately ordered a thorough inside-and-out medical examination for the Police Chief and his officers.

After learning from Gao Zong that there indeed seemed to be nothing abnormal about them, the President and his officials slumped right back into their chairs.

Although Gao Zong added a final remark: “However, this potion can only awaken ancient divine beast bloodlines; it cannot extend human lifespan. Moreover, whatever tier a person awakens at upon injection is the tier they remain at for life; it will not increase through subsequent cultivation.”

“Nevertheless, it has one immense advantage: after awakening the ancient divine beast bloodline, when a person exhausts their power, they do not need to cultivate to recover it—they only need to consume large amounts of food.”

But the President and his people didn’t care in the slightest whether this potion could extend their lifespans; they only cared about whether Great Yang could soar.

As for the fact that people who awakened this bloodline could recover their energy purely by eating—

One could only say: truly worthy of pigs!

If Ao Ruize were here right now, they would definitely clasp his hands and repeat: “You must be joking. How is this a flaw? This is an advantage practically tailored for Great Yang!”

—Because since the seventeenth century, frequent wars had raged across the globe, and the spiritual energy between heaven and earth had grown increasingly thin. By today, most cultivators found it difficult even to sustain their daily routines, let alone help their country resist the oppression of foreign powers.

Exactly—they were referring to Gao Zong and his division.

So how could the fact that those who awakened the ancient divine beast bloodline didn’t need to absorb spiritual energy, and merely needed a full stomach to restore their power, be anything other than a colossal blessing?

And so, they sat bolt upright again immediately.

They then convened an emergency meeting through the night, contacting everyone who couldn’t attend in person by phone.

Soon after, anxious voices echoed in unison from over a dozen telephone lines: “How is it?”

The President took a deep breath and uttered just three words: “It is real.”

“Wonderful!”

Hearing this, on the other end of the lines, some burst into euphoric laughter, while others welled up with tears.

Meanwhile, the President and his officials calmed down completely.

“Now is not the time to celebrate.”

“The top priority is to collect all the meteorites as quickly as possible.”

The Minister of Agriculture spoke immediately: “First thing tomorrow morning, I’ll have the ministry issue a public notice stating we’ve discovered these meteorites make excellent raw materials for fertilizer, and then instruct subordinate chemical fertilizer plants to buy up those meteorites at generous prices.”

Principal Li added at once: “Remember to include a clause noting that directly crushing the meteorites and spreading them on the fields has no yield-boosting effect.”

This was naturally to prevent overly curious folks from actually dumping the meteorites directly onto their farmland.

Minister of Agriculture: “Understood.”

The President: “Next is the matter of winning over Zhang Ruize—”

Although Ao Ruize had handed over the formulation method of the awakening potion to the Police Chief right away,

he was someone who concocted an awakening potion at merely seventeen years of age; one could easily imagine how boundless his future achievements would be barring any unforeseen accidents.

So right now, they not only wanted to secure the awakening potion, but even more so, they wanted Ao Ruize himself.

Yet from Ao Ruize’s dossier, they all felt he likely wouldn’t be an… easy master to please.

After all, it was all written in his file: first, feeling his adoptive father wasn’t good to him, he acted ungrateful, following his mother to abandon the adoptive father who raised him for over a decade to return to his biological father; then, realizing his adoptive father could offer him more, he cut ties with his biological parents and ran right back to his adoptive father.

And so, early the next morning, they knocked on Ao Ruize’s door.

“Student Zhang, the main reason we came so early is to bring you good news.”

“Based on the formula you provided, we have already successfully concocted a batch of awakening potions.”

Ao Ruize was taken aback instead: “You’ve already started direct production? No need to refine it further?”

After all, he could still tell just how much the President and his officials had detested turning into a pig.

The President and his officials instantly declared with righteous conviction: “No need, no need! What’s wrong with pigs? They’re easy to raise, yield lots of meat, and even pig bristles can make brushes! Starting today, the entelodont is our Great Yang’s national treasure, and we are all Descendants of the Entelodont!”

Ao Ruize, having suddenly been evicted from the throne of the ancestral progenitor by the President and his officials: “…”

What else could he say?

He could only nod: “Fair enough!”

The President immediately added: “To commend your contributions to Great Yang, Yangda will exceptionally grant you the title of full Professor.”

“Of course, the existence of the awakening potion cannot be disclosed for now, so our public explanation is that you invented a new type of washing machine capable of automatic water injection.”

Naturally, that washing machine was actually the joint effort of dozens of experts from the National Academy of Sciences, but at this moment they hardly cared about individual credit.

“Yangda will issue your salary at the standard rate of one hundred and twenty yuan per month. Beyond that, the government will privately allocate you an additional monthly subsidy of two thousand yuan.”

Two thousand yuan was truly an astronomical sum. In these days, rice was only twenty cents a catty, peanut oil was just fifty cents a catty, and a monthly wage of thirty to forty yuan could feed a household of five.

Of course, this was strictly within Great Yang.

After all, in developed foreign nations nowadays, any random dishwasher could earn a monthly salary topping a thousand.

So the President immediately followed up: “We naturally understand that compared to your immense contributions, Student Zhang, these perks amount to very little. So if you have any other requests, please feel free to raise them—so long as the government can accomplish it, we will certainly make it happen.”

Ao Ruize thought for a moment: “Then I actually do have one matter I hope the government can help with.”

The President and his officials sat bolt upright in an instant.

Hoping against hope that Ao Ruize wouldn’t make an exorbitant demand.

Then they heard Ao Ruize say: “It’s about the electronics factory where my old man works. Their subsidized employee housing has been under construction for three years without finishing, supposedly because factory funds are tight. Could the state perhaps help resolve this?”

“After all, I’ve been waiting to move into a new house for a very long time.”

The President and his officials: “…”

Just this?

Then they snapped out of it: “Good, good, good!”

“I will call the Ministry of Finance right now and have them immediately allocate a special fund to the Qianshi Electronics Factory.”

Seeing this, Ao Ruize raised an eyebrow.

It seemed he couldn’t have failed to guess what they were thinking.

So they took him for a villain?

Soon, however, the President calmed down.

“In addition, to ensure your safety, we have assigned you several security personnel, led by Deputy Director Gao. What do you think?”

Ao Ruize’s mood brightened even further. He cast a glance at Gao Zong, who had been sitting ramrod straight from start to finish: “That would be wonderful.”

The state really was issuing him a partner, huh.

Only then did they finally remember Xue Jiazhi.

The Police Chief spoke up immediately: “Xue Jiazhi is awake.”

After observing his condition, the doctor diagnosed him with acute mercury poisoning and administered emergency treatment immediately.

Although his life was saved, his kidneys were completely ruined; the doctor said he could live for another ten years at most.

“May we ask how Student Zhang wishes to deal with him?”

Ao Ruize smiled instead: “Indeed, heavenly justice is manifest, and retribution never fails.”

“Just deal with him according to the law.”

The President and his officials: “…”

It seemed Ao Ruize truly had discovered long ago that his lab had been tampered with, and that the culprit had handled mercury.

—They had dispatched people to investigate overnight.

In the end, on two of the reagent bottles in Ao Ruize’s lab, they discovered two clear fingerprints. Photographing the prints, they ultimately confirmed they belonged to Xue Jiazhi, thus clearing Ao Ruize of suspicion.

This also allowed them to breathe a direct sigh of relief.

After all, if the poison in Xue Jiazhi’s system had truly been planted by Ao Ruize, they really wouldn’t know how to treat him.

Yet right now, they only felt they had rejoiced a little too early.

They naturally thought Ao Ruize’s approach was very satisfying.

But they couldn’t ignore the fact that Ao Ruize had a prior record of being ungrateful and disloyal.

At this thought, they couldn’t help exchanging glances, and then shot Gao Zong a meaningful look: make sure to provide 24-hour close protection to Ao Ruize and keep a strict watch on him.

Gao Zong: “…”