16: Chapter 16: A List of Materials Worth Two Million!

Noon the next day.

[Three-Person Card-Making Mutual Aid Group] group chat.

[Zhao Dahai]: "Brothers!!!!!!!!!!"

[Zhao Dahai]: "I!!!!!!!!!!"

[Zhao Dahai]: "C+!!!!!!!"

[Lin Xiao]: "?"

[Zhao Dahai]: "C+! Big Sister Lin! C+ grade! I made a C+ grade Armament Card!!!!"

[Lin Xiao]: "Oh."

[Zhao Dahai]: "Oh??? You just say 'oh'??? I'm C+ grade!! Aside from Li Haoran, who in the whole class dares to say they can consistently produce C+ grade cards???"

[Lin Xiao]: "I'm A grade."

[Zhao Dahai]: "..."

[Zhao Dahai]: "Say that again."

[Lin Xiao]: "A."

[Zhao Dahai]: "..."

[Zhao Dahai]: "Damn."

[Zhao Dahai]: "No, how did you manage an A???"

[Lin Xiao]: "Modified Su Bai's rotation framework. Three places. Just three places."

[Zhao Dahai]: "Damn, I also modified his rotation framework!! I only modified one place!! One place!! And I jumped straight from D to C+!!!"

[Zhao Dahai]: "Do you know what the mentor said!! The mentor said I must have been possessed!! He said this isn't a level he could have taught!!"

[Lin Xiao]: "...Same reaction."

[Zhao Dahai]: "What on earth is that guy Su Bai's circuit anyway??? I only took one look!! I only understood a tiny bit!! And that tiny bit let me fly from D to C+!! Then what quality must his own card be???"

[Lin Xiao]: "That kind of thing can no longer be measured by quality."

[Lin Xiao]: "By the way. After my cousin went back yesterday, she dug out a paper of hers that had been rejected before and spent the whole night rewriting the core argument section. She submitted it to the 'Jinghai Journal of Card Creation' this morning. Now, the editorial department has urgently summoned three Tier-6 Spatial-type peer reviewers for an emergency meeting overnight."

[Zhao Dahai]: "???"

[Zhao Dahai]: "Your cousin... submitted to the journal... using Su Bai's theory???"

[Lin Xiao]: "Yes. She said if this paper can be published, her Tier-6 Spatial-type grandmaster might come to see Su Bai's card in person."

[Zhao Dahai]: "F*ck."

[Zhao Dahai]: "I can't go on living."

[Zhao Dahai]: "I've known Su Bai for half a year, and he sleeps in the back of the classroom every day. I f*cking thought he was a muggle, but it turns out he's a hidden master. F*ck!"

Five minutes later, Su Bai finally replied.

[Su Bai]: "Don't get excited. The principle is very simple; it's just phase intersection of the spatial axes. The core is to let the four phase axes rotate 720 degrees, which can eliminate the compatibility bottleneck of the three-axis lock when folding biological nervous systems. I've written a document with the specific framework. Do you want it?"

[Zhao Dahai]: "Yes."

[Zhao Dahai]: "Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes."

[Zhao Dahai]: "I beg you, Daddy, let me see it."

[Lin Xiao]: "Send it. Although I probably won't understand even one-thousandth of it."

Su Bai uploaded a file.

[Su Bai]: "Attachment: Derivation of the Underlying Logic Framework for 721-Degree Spatial Distortion Stuffing a Strong Man.pdf"

[Zhao Dahai]: "...Is this filename serious?"

[Lin Xiao]: "How did it evolve by one degree?"

[Su Bai]: "There was a precision error with 720 degrees before. I optimized it by one more degree after coming back yesterday."

[Zhao Dahai]: "I'm going to kill you."

Zhao Dahai opened the file and looked at it for about fifteen seconds. Then he closed it. It wasn't because it was useless. It was because the amount of information was too huge. What was written in the document—he felt like he was reading a heavenly script. It wasn't a derogatory "can't understand," but a complimentary "can't understand." It was like an ant placed in front of a world map. It knows that what is in front of it is very important, but its brain cannot hold so much information. He could only extract the smallest, smallest, smallest fragments from it to use. And those fragments—each one was worth more than all of his combined card creation knowledge.

[Zhao Dahai]: "Su Bai."

[Su Bai]: "Yeah."

[Zhao Dahai]: "After the Monthly Exam ends, I'm going to kowtow to you."

[Su Bai]: "?"

[Zhao Dahai]: "No, why would a big shot like you stay in second-to-last place for half a year???"

[Su Bai]: "I was relatively low-key before."

[Su Bai]: "Now I feel like being low-key is meaningless."

[Zhao Dahai]: "F*ck!"

[Zhao Dahai]: "So you've been acting this whole half year!!!"

[Lin Xiao]: "I don't think he was acting. He was truly not good before."

[Lin Xiao]: "My judgment is—he recently stumbled upon some lost ancient heritage in the black market. The kind with heaven-defying luck."

[Zhao Dahai]: "Can an ancient heritage allow someone to understand three master-level textbooks in three days and then draw a circuit that makes a Tier-4 Card Creator tremble??"

[Lin Xiao]: "What if it's a god-level heritage?"

[Zhao Dahai]: "..."

[Zhao Dahai]: "Then he is just too f*cking lucky!!!"

Tsk, Lin Xiao actually still doesn't believe it. But that's normal; after all, a classmate changing so much all of a sudden, it's normal not to believe it... Su Bai thought this, and sent another message.

[Su Bai]: "I have another even luckier thing to tell you all."

[Zhao Dahai]: "...Don't add a period when using the word 'lucky'. It's terrifying."

[Lin Xiao]: "What is it?"

[Su Bai]: "I've finished organizing the material list for Kyubey's physical form. I just sent it to Cousin Lin."

[Lin Xiao]: "..."

[Lin Xiao]: "How much money?"

[Su Bai]: "Not expensive. Cheaper than I imagined."

[Lin Xiao]: "I asked how much money."

[Su Bai]: "Just around two million."

The group was silent for thirty seconds.

[Zhao Dahai]: "Around two million."

[Zhao Dahai]: "Just."

[Zhao Dahai]: "Do you f*cking know that my family's total assets don't even add up to two million!!!"

[Su Bai]: "That's why I said I'm lucky. Someone is covering the materials."