316: Chapter 316 Unexpected

When Lin Yuan's calm yet powerful three words clearly echoed in the hall, which was so quiet that a pin drop could be heard...

Zhou Kai and all the veteran experts present shook violently, completely unable to control themselves.

They looked at each other, their eyes filled with an indescribable mix of wild joy, shock, and even awe at this dimensional-reduction-strike-like scientific research speed.

In the massive space, their chests heaved violently, and their heavy breathing sounded exceptionally clear in the extremely quiet environment.

A complete set of technical data.

The weight of these words was simply too heavy and profound for people like them who had spent their entire lives struggling on the front lines of scientific research.

Zhou Kai knew all too well.

In the field of traditional pharmaceutical research and development, the most agonizing part was never the technological barriers themselves.

Instead, it was the long, tedious 'trial and error' phase, filled with endless unknowns and failures.

The validation of a single target or a minor adjustment to a molecular formula could easily cost a top-tier team several years, or even over a decade.

It would also burn through billions or even tens of billions in funding.

And what they ultimately got in return was often just a simple 'this path is a dead end.'

This was the norm in scientific research.

But now...

Lin Yuan casually told them that these dead-end problems, which had tortured the human medical community for countless years and left countless top scientists with lifelong regrets because they couldn't solve them...

He had already placed the standard answers, along with detailed step-by-step solutions, right here!

After a mental pause of just a fraction of a second, Zhou Kai's brain switched to a high-speed operational state at an incredible pace.

His gaze swept rapidly across the row of hard drives, and his brain already began planning multi-threaded tasks at an astonishing speed.

A complete set of data...

This meant that as long as they followed the blueprints and strictly adhered to every parameter and process in the technical documentation,

they could rapidly and perfectly replicate these miracles, which only existed in theories or even science fiction, into reality!

Just like the two wonder drugs that had already entered Phase II clinical trials before the New Year.

From receiving the data to preparing the first batch of finished products, it had taken less than a month in total!

Even if there were over a dozen types of drugs this time, as long as the tasks were distributed and expert teams from various fields worked in parallel, the project's progress would definitely not be slow!!

Zhou Kai's gaze swept over the hard drives, but his mind was already picturing the terrifyingly grand prospects once these technologies were implemented.

Scarless regeneration for large-area severe burns...

Forcibly breaking epiphyseal plates to achieve secondary growth and height increase...

And targeted fat burning with absolutely no side effects...

Any single one of these was a dead-end challenge that seemed like a pipe dream in modern medicine.

Those top-tier medical laboratories on The Other Side of the Ocean had poured in countless amounts of real gold and silver, yet they still hadn't produced any results.

But now, these world-class problems lay quietly in these black metal boxes, like homework problems that had already been completely solved.

Waiting for them to copy and manifest.

Zhou Kai's thoughts couldn't help but continue to wander wildly into the more distant future.

Unlike the previously prepared serums, which required extremely high physical thresholds to use, these were truly universal, life-benefiting miracle medicines for the public!

He could already imagine what a violent impact and transformation would be brought upon the social structure of the entire Xia Country, and even the whole world, once these wonder drugs were successfully prepared and smoothly launched into the market!

An era where the entire population had no hair loss worries, no obesity anxiety, a significant surge in average height, and was no longer tormented by most difficult and complicated diseases...

What a brilliant and desirable era that would be!

"If... if all of these drugs are truly launched on the market..."

Zhou Kai could no longer suppress the surge of emotion in his heart as he murmured with a slightly trembling voice.

"Then the average physical fitness and mental outlook of our Xia Country's people will directly lead other countries in the world..."

"By an entire era! No, by several eras!"

His single sentence was like a spark falling into a pool of oil, instantly igniting the emotions of all the surrounding veteran experts.

The veteran experts were all flushed with excitement, their fists clenched tightly. They wished they could divide up all those hard drives right now and plunge straight into the laboratory to dedicate themselves to this great cause that would surely go down in history.

Seeing the seniors' impatient look as if they wanted to start divvying things up on the spot, a warm and relaxed smile appeared on Lin Yuan's face.

Lin Yuan did not say any more passionate mobilization speeches, because there was absolutely no need.

He simply reached out in an extremely relaxed manner and, with his slender fingers, gently pushed forward the dozen or so hard drives on the table that carried the future hope of human medicine.

*Shua—*

The dozen or so hard drives slid a short distance across the smooth metal lab bench, finally coming to a steady halt in front of Zhou Kai.

"Dean Zhou, seniors."

Lin Yuan raised his eyes, calmly scanning the crowd, and said in a relaxed tone,

"All the technical data is right here."

"I will have to trouble you all to handle the subsequent laboratory preparation, the overall allocation of the research groups, and the follow-up clinical progress arrangements."

These words were spoken politely, considerately, and reasonably.

Zhou Kai subconsciously reached out with both hands and carefully gathered the hard drives in front of him, his movements like touching the most precious treasure in the world.

However, when his fingertips touched the casing of the hard drives, he suddenly froze.

Something was wrong!

Zhou Kai's extremely sharp intuition allowed him to catch an unusual subtext from Lin Yuan's seemingly ordinary polite words.

Why did this sound less like a general task distribution and more like... a complete and total handoff of full authority?

Zhou Kai suddenly looked up, his gaze passing over the stacked hard drives, staring straight at Lin Yuan's calm and composed face.

He opened his mouth, and a thought that even he found somewhat absurd, and even a bit unnerving, uncontrollably welled up in his mind.

"Academician Lin..."

Zhou Kai's voice carried a sense of alarm and uncertainty that even he hadn't noticed.

"From what you mean..."

"for the next step of the preparation work, you don't plan to... continue leading the team and pushing it forward together?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the fanatical atmosphere that had just ignited in the entire hall suddenly came to a halt, as if a pause button had been pressed.

All the experts stopped their wild imaginings of the future and, in unison, turned their stunned gazes toward Lin Yuan, holding their breath as they awaited his answer.

Under the focus of dozens of gazes, Lin Yuan did not show the slightest hesitation or panic.

Meeting their uncertain and suspicious gazes, the smile on the corner of his lips did not fade.

Then, nodding slightly, he spoke calmly and with certainty.

"Yes, that's correct."