Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 954 - 190: Tears of Delayed Graduation

Chapter 954: Chapter 190: Tears of Delayed Graduation

Yuki looked at this group of people who inexplicably fell into anger and gloom, and didn’t know what to say for a moment.

The young man held his head: "Ah, so even Scientific Knights have it this tough... I used to think... When I was little, I thought about trying to become a Scientific Knight when I grew up."

Realizing he was smarter than his peers, Yuki also had this thought. In a place like Recycling Station Town, even an ordinary soldier guarding the Gene Bank was intimidating, and Research Knight Apprentices were like Lords.

Even Old Master Zhao’s daughter, with her status as a Research Knight Apprentice, was considered an advantage.

"Ha? Are you talking about those golden-plated cadres’ children?" Inzewei commented: "They have no future at all; they’re just used by security cadres to show ’I respect science.’ Such people, the time they spend on missions for the security forces is more than the time working in the Scientific Knight Order. You expect them to make any significant achievements?"

Zhao Zhengxin cut in, gritting his teeth: "It’s infuriating that these people still get priority when distributing machine work hours..."

"We Research Knight Apprentices aren’t that good." Inzewei sighed: "No money, no connections, can’t get things done... no chance for success."

Zhao Zhengxin muttered: "Don’t think becoming a Scientific Knight is a big deal. Ugh."

With that, he went off to brood alone, saying no more.

And Inzewei privately messaged Yuki: [Don’t shout these things out loud. Old Zhao is in a bad spot. He originally had a great project. He spent all his resources to cultivate a special kind of algae. You know, even though gene editing is very simple now, to create a designated trait still requires some effort. For people like us without resources, it’s all about luck.]

[Old Zhao had great luck initially, creating an excellent variety. In the final test phase, when put into the wild for environmental impact observation, many indicators seemed promising, and the algae even began to form clusters. But when the algae drifted into the Restricted Area, his mentor unreasonably stopped his tracking...]

Yuki was puzzled: [Just that? Algae, as long as you retain the spores, the experiment can be done again, right?]

[Originally, yes. But ’placing in the wild for observation’ consumes resources.] Inzewei sighed deeply.

[That’s not right. You’re with the Scientific Knight Order; getting 3D printer and full set robot blueprints shouldn’t be that difficult. Find a mining area, build it yourself...]

Inzewei held her forehead: [That’s why... you Heroes just don’t understand. Once you’ve exhausted your resources, can you afford not to do the group’s tasks? The tasks assigned by the Order, even if you’re not leading them, you have to finish them before you can do your own things. How much time does that leave?]

[But isn’t this the Scientific Knight Order’s task...?]

[The tasks given by the Order, when you exhaust your funding, the Order defaults them as "failed." They give you a pass, and if you want to prove yourself, to continue doing it, you can. But by then, it’s your own affairs, and you can only complete it by raising resources yourself under the premise that it doesn’t affect the overall plan of the group—under the premise that it doesn’t affect the overall plan!]

Yuki scratched his head: [I heard that Scientific Knights also have vagabonding and lodging around...]

[You still think Scientific Knights have it easy? That’s a privilege not even Official Knights always have! Official Knights without prefixes like ’Yangtze’ or ’Saint’ might not even have this privilege. Following a mentor’s journey isn’t called vagabonding; it’s called field investigation!]

When it came to this topic, Inzewei was very talkative; Yuki asked one sentence, and she just couldn’t help but respond with three. If not for the fact he felt her anger wasn’t directed at him, Yuki might have wanted to run for his life.

Inzewei finally took a breath, roughly shifting the topic to Zhao Zhengxin: [Actually, he initially thought the same as you. He crafted parts for a fully automated industrial system in his free time in his room, then went to assemble and prepare in a seabed mining area near the Order during holidays, spending several years this way. Then...]

Yuki timely asked: [And then?]

Though the ending was somewhat predictable, after all, if Zhao Zhengxin had successfully struggled, he probably wouldn’t be here. Yet he cooperated with Inzewei.

[Then a group of passing Heroes came along and casually rewrote the command of that fully automated industrial system, taking all the haste with them. That mining area was undefended, with few seabed Heroes, and he didn’t guard against it, thus losing several years of effort.] Inzewei sighed: [That time, Old Zhao hated Heroes to the core.]

Yuki carefully looked at Zhao Zhengxin’s Prosthetic Eye.

[Rest assured, that was the past. Anyway, Old Zhao wasted several years that time and, unwilling to give up, started over. But not long after, he received devastating news. Another apprentice, while searching for supplies in a cryogenic storage unit, accidentally took out the spores of his privately kept algae, causing the spores to die—You know, with some things, if they are delayed, accidents will happen. In games, if you clear the enemy quickly, nothing happens.]

Yuki found it hard to believe: [Just... this?]

[What do you mean "just this"—If Old Zhao had gotten the tracking permission the first time, this wouldn’t have happened at all. He found out later that applications for scientific activities in certain sea areas had never been approved. If those big shots up there really wanted to designate these as Restricted Areas, then say so outright! Delimit it! Make it clear!] Inzewei was heartbroken: [But how could we apprentices know about these things? Huh? How could we know! Before getting screwed over, we all thought it was just normal here—Do you know? Song faced something similar. She was tracking a biological group she had been following, and then she was forcibly called back, told ’you can’t go any further.’ But her permit clearly didn’t say ’there are places you can’t go’!]

[The top kept telling us that place was conducting very important experiments, had some unstable outcomes or other, and couldn’t be easily accessed! But just explain it clearly! We don’t even want you to explain why we can’t go, we just want to know in advance ’this place is off-limits’!]

[Some people even said they observed large creatures over a meter in size inside the Restricted Area—at least radar indicated so. If this discovery passes, an Official Knight opportunity is inevitable, right? But not only did he not get a scientific expedition permit, but he also got a harsh scolding! Said he had gone crazy wanting to get conferred!]