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Chapter 196: Chapter 196: The Awakened Patient
"Bang!——"
The white high-end porcelain shattered into pieces, along with the soup and liquids inside, splashing all over the floor. The grease quickly soaked into the expensive carpet, leaving behind marks of varying depths.
"Get out! Get out!!" the man on the sickbed roared, his voice coarse and breaking at a high pitch.
When Long Yueze entered the room, this was the scene he saw.
He smiled faintly and said, "Mr. Qin, such fury isn’t conducive to your recuperation."
Qin Wenhao lie back in bed irritably and glared at the trembling nurse on the floor, scolding, "Aren’t you going to scram?!"
The nurse hurriedly picked herself up from the ground, too panicked to even clean up the broken pieces, and fled with a pale face.
Long Yueze closed the door to the ward and walked unhurriedly to Qin Wenhao’s bedside, pulling up a chair to sit.
Lying on the sickbed, Qin Wenhao asked with a dark face, "How many days has it been! Tell me, have your people figured anything out? Why has my Ability disappeared?! Why?!"
"Mr. Qin, please be patient," Long Yueze said with the ever-present faint smile on his face, "Those who survive a great disaster are destined for good fortune thereafter. Even if the Ability has disappeared, it’s no big deal. Our Ability Potion has yielded many new products recently, the effects of which have been confirmed in experiments. They’re not much inferior to those with innate awakenings."
Qin Wenhao sneered repeatedly, "I’m the investor. Don’t I know whether your potions smell of roses or reek? Ha! Long Yueze, you’re ruthless, turning Crystal Cores from Mutant Animals into Energy Potions and then injecting them into human bodies—gaining Abilities only to soon become half-human half-beast monsters! Would you dare try it on me? Don’t think just because you have Chujiang Base backing you up that my dad and I wouldn’t dare touch you! I’m telling you, stop playing tricks on me!"
Long Yueze didn’t show any anger; in fact, his smile deepened slightly. "Mr. Qin, you are being too grave. We businessmen highly value mutual benefit. How could I resort to trickery in front of you? The previous potions were all prototypes, which is why Mr. Qin might have misunderstood. Recently, we’ve had several success stories... they’re all exceptional."
Qin Wenhao scoffed derisively, "The success rate of your experiments is too low. After trying so many people, only a few succeeded. If my dad were to rely on this potion to establish the Ability Army... it would not be worth it."
"Using Crystal Cores from Mutant Beasts, the success rate is indeed very low, but... if we switch to another kind, naturally, it would be different," Long Yueze said calmly.
Qin Wenhao raised an eyebrow at him, "Long Yueze, don’t beat around the bush with me."
Long Yueze’s lips curled into a smile, and he took out a very small test tube from his shirt pocket. It was about the thickness of a pinky finger and contained a mysterious orange-colored liquid.
"Perhaps Mr. Qin would like to give this a try. It will certainly surprise you."
Qin Wenhao took it, examining the tiny test tube carefully in front of his eyes, and asked with a puzzled expression, "What is this thing?"
"Rest assured, this wasn’t extracted from Mutant Beasts, but from... humans," Long Yueze assured.
Qin Wenhao looked at Long Yueze in astonishment, "Superpower Users also have Crystal Cores inside them?"
Long Yueze laughed twice, replying, "Of course not. The energy in Superpower Users’ bodies doesn’t naturally condense into Crystal Cores like it does in Alien Species and Mutant Beasts. Their energy is dispersed in the flesh and cells. Our research staff has exerted great effort to extract it. Although the process and cost are several times that of extracting from Mutant Beasts, the success rate of the product is also much higher."
Qin Wenhao fell silent for a moment before asking, "How high is the success rate?"
"Over eighty percent."
"And the side effects?"
Long Yueze looked at Qin Wenhao with a profound gaze, and after a long pause, he replied with a smile, "After awakening a new Ability through the potion, the only way to enhance the Ability is to continue injecting the potion. Absorbing Crystal Cores or practicing the Ability won’t have any enhancing effect."
Upon hearing this, Qin Wenhao’s face showed some hesitation.
Long Yueze continued, "However, there are also many advantages. The greatest benefit is that the awakened Abilities are controllable, and there’s no limit to the types, meaning, you can choose whatever Ability you want to awaken, whatever Ability you desire, how many Abilities you wish to have, all these are controllable."
Qin Wenhao held the test tube, his heart filled with doubt, "...My Ability, is it really never coming back?"
"The foreign poison has completely destroyed all the Ability cells in your body, the chances of recovery are extremely low."
Qin Wenhao slammed the bed violently and cursed fiercely, "Damn bitch!"
Long Yueze said, "It’s a pity that the poison dissipated too quickly, we couldn’t obtain a sample before it vanished, I’m personally very interested in this poison—How did you encounter it, Mr. Qin?"
"Ran into a crazy woman." Qin Wenhao leaned back irritably, his face displaying a fierce and ruthless expression, "...It must be her."
"Who?" Long Yueze asked.
Qin Wenhao closed his eyes, recalling the moment he was drowning, the pleasure of success flashing in that woman’s eyes. He couldn’t have mistaken it. Although he didn’t understand why she wanted to kill him, this incident must be related to her.
She certainly didn’t expect him to survive, did she?
—Success or failure, due to Xiao He, the poison underneath the scattering spray made its way into his mouth and nose, but it was precisely this water that diluted the poison; otherwise, he might have truly died in the river.
Such a malicious woman...
"Han Jiaojiao," Qin Wenhao’s mouth curled into a cold smile, "I will repay her well."
Long Yueze was slightly taken aback.
Qin Wenhao had already turned to him, lifting the test tube and asking, "How effective is this potion?"
"This is an Explosion Ability potion. If you want a Thunder Type, I’m afraid you’ll have to wait a bit longer. Recently, test subjects have been scarce, especially for Thunder Type commodities, which are very hard to come by."
Explosion? That sounds quite good, but...
"What about the values?" Qin Wenhao asked.
Seeing Qin Wenhao’s interest in trying the potion, Long Yueze’s mouth curled slightly as he replied, "The estimated value is close to five million."
Qin Wenhao’s previous Thunder Type Ability was MAX, meaning the value was at least two million; Long Yueze’s current quoted value was more than twice the original!
Such a high value made Qin Wenhao skeptical.
Long Yueze seemed to discern his thoughts and chuckled lightly, "Of course, it’s not an instantaneous process. It requires a cycle of one month, and the potion will be injected in five stages with the intervals being ten days, seven days, five days, three days, and one day. The Ability’s strength will peak after one month."
"Peak value?" Qin Wenhao frowned and said discontentedly, "So, the Ability’s strength isn’t stable?"
"The value of the Ability’s strength, from the moment the potion is injected, follows a parabolic trend. Regular supplementation with the Ability Potion each month can maintain its intensity, but without the potion..." Long Yueze smiled slightly before continuing, "The Ability’s strength will gradually decrease, and it can last up to six months. If there’s no potion for half a year, the Ability will vanish."
Qin Wenhao’s complexion looked troubled upon hearing this.
This potion was clearly a bottomless pit, yet, he had no choice but to jump in. After so much difficulty... after so much struggle to reach this day, if people found out his Ability had vanished, if he was no longer MAX, if he no longer had an Ability, if he was no longer on a pedestal... he couldn’t accept any of it!
Qin Wenhao watched the liquid flowing in the test tube in his hand, his eyes flashing with ruthless determination. —Han Jiaojiao, I won’t let you off!
