The Alluring Boss O's Slacker A (Transmigration GL) - Chapter 18.1

After Wen Jin finished breakfast, she went to the water dispenser to get herself a cup of water. In the end, when she inserted her water card into the dispenser, the balance displayed on it was zero.

The weather had been cooling down recently, and the clothes in her wardrobe would soon become unwearable.

Wen Jin turned and glanced at the wardrobe, then remembered the torn dress from yesterday. For the first time in her life, she began making plans for her livelihood.

In truth, the knowledge in her head was so vast and miscellaneous that it could be bound into an encyclopedia. If she truly made up her mind to earn money, then among Wen Jin’s past work experience, casually applying any of the skills she had mastered would be enough for her to live a stable life.

But Wen Jin did not really want to use them.

Living in her comfort zone carried much less risk than rolling up her sleeves and grinding.

Right now, she had too many things in her head, and the knowledge was too mixed. She did not even have time to organize it, let alone recuperate. Besides, if she still had to use her brain after retirement and accidentally broke her mind from the strain, the loss would outweigh the gain.

In this life, she could no longer grind. Before Wen Zheng Qing came looking for her, she would try her best to choose slightly easier, less effortful ways to earn money and maintain her livelihood. In any case, the money on Luo Xi’s side could be paid in installments. The urgent matter now was to get some quick cash first and resolve her immediate living difficulties.

The pyramid-scheme-like competition she had taken part in this morning had not given her any money, and the system had crashed. It was clearly unreliable.

Wen Jin completely gave up on the idea of earning money online.

This plane was extremely lacking in Ancient Earth knowledge, especially in professional knowledge involving Ancient Earth prescriptions and medicinal materials.

If she wanted to make money quickly, she could temporarily start from these two directions.

Wen Jin had seriously considered Ruan Ting Zhi’s suggestion from last night.

First, she could become familiar with this plane’s potion-refining methods and earn some quick money for herself.

Second, Wen Jin’s mental strength problem required her to prepare a Mind-Calming Pill as soon as possible in order to ease it.

But the laboratories in this world were different from the xianxia plane. Preparing the Mind-Calming Pill would require improvement and experimentation according to current conditions.

From every angle, Wen Jin needed to go to the laboratory in advance and learn about this plane’s potion-preparation techniques.

Once she made her decision, Wen Jin moved very quickly. She skipped all her morning classes and used her temporary access pass to make a trip to the laboratory.

The Pharmacy Department’s elite-class students had classes all day: theory in the morning and experiments in the afternoon.

When Wen Jin arrived at this hour, the lab benches were almost empty.

After swiping her card and entering the laboratory building, Wen Jin planned to find an exhibition hall and observe this world’s potion-mixing techniques.

Unfortunately, she had come at the wrong time. Vice Dean Wen was standing in the hall, speaking with a few doctoral students beside him with a worried expression.

“The batch of Ancient Earth documents excavated by the Sirius Legion on Senade Planet is currently the top priority for deciphering. Some experts suspect this document is related to the half of an ancient martial body-tempering potion formula stored in the museum.”

“The president held a meeting yesterday and repeatedly emphasized that I must cooperate with you all as soon as possible to complete the translation work.”

“Vice Dean, with our current level, deciphering it will probably be difficult.” The leading doctoral student looked troubled. This group of people could be considered the best of the best in Federal University’s Ancient Earth major.

But the content of this document contained too many academic terms. Even if the school gave them another half a year, they might not be able to fully decipher it.

After a few sentences, Vice Dean Wen’s expression grew uglier and uglier.

The decoded contents of this document concerned a body-tempering prescription, so the school valued it greatly. Vice Dean Wen pondered for a moment, then asked in compromise, “Is there really no other way?”

The hall quieted for a moment.

“There is one place we could try.”

“On StarNet’s Ancient Earth forum, a hidden translation master appeared today. She’s called Salted Fish Jin. In this morning’s Ancient Earth Text Translation Championship, she defeated Mount Hua Sword Debate and Grind King Loves Me. She even answered so hard she crashed the translation question-bank system.”

Professor Wen’s eyes lit up. “Can we invite her over?”

“I’m afraid not. The forum identities are encrypted, meant to make it convenient for experts to hide their identities and freely communicate.”

“We can post this translation document on the forum as an encrypted high-paying mission. If we’re lucky, it may be cracked very quickly.”

“The encrypted file will be scanned by the platform the entire way, and all three parties will sign a confidentiality agreement. The safety factor is high. Even if there is a risk of leakage later, it can be connected to the StarNet credit rating of all three contracting parties…”

After Professor Wen asked a few detailed questions with great interest, he was very satisfied with the doctoral student’s suggestion. After discussing it, they finally decided to outsource the encrypted document translation.

Wen Jin had originally been standing relatively far away, but Professor Wen waved at her from a distance.

Left with no choice, she could only accept her fate and walk over to be criticized.

But when she got closer, her gaze happened to fall on the newly excavated Ancient Earth document in Professor Wen’s hand.

Wen Jin’s expression turned strange. She looked at it again.

Then again.

An indescribable smile swept across her lips.

The translation material that those mentors described as extremely difficult, with great research reference value and a translation price set at one hundred thousand Federation coins, had a cover titled I Conquer the World with Traditional Chinese Medicine—a leveling-up novel.

Wen Jin lowered her head. She tried to hold it in, but failed, and pulled her lips into a laugh.

The result was that her improper learning attitude was caught red-handed by Professor Wen.

The little old man held his face tight, his expression looking both stern and sinister.

His gaze swept over Wen Jin. No one knew what scheme he was plotting in his heart. After looking around, he finally lifted his finger and pointed toward Laboratory Three not far away.

“You. Go clean that laboratory.”

Wen Jin: “…”

As a firm retirement-and-elder-care believer, Wen Jin always walked with tai chi steps. At this moment, the laboratory floor was paved with marble, smooth and bright. After receiving Vice Dean Wen’s punishment, she walked toward her destination one slow step at a time.

Her long legs were straight and slender, and the steps she took were also beautiful. The only problem was that her stride was too small. She walked at a uniform speed with a tai chi pace that made ordinary people sigh in amazement.

Professor Wen watched for a while until his presbyopia nearly acted up. He blew his beard, glared, and shifted his gaze away. Then he took out his phone and called Teacher Qu, the laboratory administrator.

“Lock it.”

On the other end, Teacher Qu confirmed repeatedly, “From the surveillance room, I can see a student inside Laboratory Three.”

Professor Wen smiled gloomily. “Teacher Qu, open the door for her again when you go to lunch at noon. Also, turn on the basic potion and medicinal herb sorting instructional videos inside the laboratory and loop them.”

“…” Teacher Qu was somewhat speechless. “Vice Dean, is this the new student you have your eye on?”

Vice Dean Wen gave an “mm” and added protectively, “My final disciple.”

Even through the phone, Teacher Qu could feel the suffocating aura of whipping someone into shape from the other side. “…”

The seedlings Vice Dean Wen took a liking to in past years all ended up quite pitiful.

Vice Dean Wen rarely taught students anymore, but his teaching methods were more sinister than anyone else’s. When it came to the disciples he had his eye on, he trained them with all his might.

Through the surveillance footage, Teacher Qu looked at Wen Jin in front of Laboratory Bench Three with pity.

But thinking again, it might not necessarily be a bad thing. Famous teachers produced outstanding students.

Almost every student personally trained by Vice Dean Wen could step into the ranks of intermediate pharmacists or above in the future.

After Wen Jin entered Laboratory Three, she found that the laboratory was extremely clean. The sweeping robot was charging, and the screen showed that it had completed a cleaning ten minutes ago.

On the wall beside the glass door, a 6D instructional video on basic potion preparation was playing.

These things happened to be exactly what Wen Jin currently needed. She pulled over a chair and sat in front of the experimental bench.

In the surveillance room.

“Old Wen, where did you find this student?”

Professor Wen was somewhat pleased. In the surveillance footage, Wen Jin was taking notes.

Teacher Qu had not previously had the strange habit of peeking at students’ notes, but since he was bored anyway, and since Old Wen had personally acknowledged her as his final disciple, he paid extra attention.

Then he saw the notes Wen Jin had written on her phone.

After quickly watching all the basic videos once, she made a complete summary. Of course, that was not the main point. What surprised Teacher Qu was her ability to draw inferences from one example.

For example, regarding the storage methods of traditional Chinese medicine, the interstellar world currently had four methods: low temperature, avoiding light, classification, and sealing.

But Wen Jin added a row of notes afterward: Why not store them together? Placing Sichuan pepper with animal-based medicinal materials that have a fishy smell, such as deer antler and earthworm, can prevent animal medicinal materials from being damaged by insects and going bad. Placing alisma and moutan bark together makes alisma less vulnerable to insect damage and moutan bark less likely to spoil.

Vice Dean Wen clearly saw Wen Jin’s note as well. “She means to store complementary medicinal materials together?”

Teacher Qu nodded. “But wouldn’t the medicinal effects weaken or neutralize each other?”

“This line of thought can be tested.” Vice Dean Wen tapped the table with his fingers, one beat at a time, and sank into thought.

Two hours later, Wen Jin finally gained a simple understanding of this world’s basic potion-preparation instruction.

What differed from the potion ratios she had encountered before was that, in the interstellar world, potion blending required the addition of mental strength. Because interstellar medicinal materials were not abundant, and considering practical use, one had to fully bring out the medicinal properties of every plant-based medicinal material, use mental strength to extract the needed potion components, and then synthesize them with mental strength.

To be honest, this was connected in principle to the pill-refining synthesis techniques of the xianxia plane. But there was one point that was difficult for Wen Jin: she did not know how to release mental strength externally to refine the purity of medicinal materials.

In the xianxia plane, cultivation supported her, so releasing mental strength externally had been simple. But this shell had no cultivation.

On the experimental bench before her, bottles and jars had already been arranged, but Wen Jin did not touch a single one.

She did things very cautiously. As the Quick Transmigration Bureau’s most outstanding employee, she naturally had abilities others did not. For example, even now, when she was poor and destitute, she would not easily do any unnecessary action that might expose herself.

She had no idea that the notes she had casually written down earlier had already been printed out by two old professors in the surveillance room, who were now studying them like madmen. When Wen Jin walked out of the laboratory, it was already noon.

The Pharmacy Department’s morning classes were fully packed today.

During the noon break, news came that Old Yuan would bring an assistant robot to the first public class that afternoon and conduct routine attendance.

In the class group chat, Lu Yuanyuan frantically tagged Wen Jin and Ruan Ting Zhi, the two class-skipping sisters.

Old Yuan is taking attendance for once. Are you coming? It’s once a semester and connected to credits.

Ruan Ting Zhi: Not coming. The Ancient Martial Arts Department has class this afternoon.

Ruan Ting Zhi had to take the legion selection preparatory exam. In addition, her peak cultivation from before her rebirth had not yet recovered, so most of the time, Ruan Ting Zhi would report to the training field.

After completing three major circulations, Ruan Ting Zhi came out of her exclusive cultivation room.

What about your roommate? Lu Yuanyuan asked.

Ruan Ting Zhi: Her? She didn’t go to class?

Lu Yuanyuan let out a strange cry. Yeah, she hasn’t come all morning.

Ruan Ting Zhi: I’ll ask.

When Wen Jin received Ruan Ting Zhi’s call, she was in the laboratory bathroom.

Beyond the door, a sharp, delicate voice was sobbing.

Ruan Ting Zhi asked over the phone, “What’s wrong?”

Wen Jin rubbed her aching forehead and said quietly, “Nothing. I ran into something.”

“Do you want me to come get you?” Ruan Ting Zhi vaguely heard the hidden sobbing over the call and quickly guessed one possibility: an Omega was in heat in the bathroom.

Wen Jin refused. “No need. It’ll be over soon.”

Ruan Ting Zhi fell silent.

In truth, outside the bathroom, it was not an Omega in heat at all. It was a young couple tangled together in passionate kisses.

The Omega probably had not been very willing. At first, there had been quiet sobbing, and Wen Jin had been prepared to go out and save them. But the development afterward turned somewhat surreal. After the Alpha said a few soft words, the Omega’s attitude quickly softened, and pleasure gradually mixed into their voice. Half resisting, half yielding, the two of them began doing the whole thing in the bathroom as if no one else existed.

But Wen Jin could not explain all this to Ruan Ting Zhi. Especially since there was still an Alpha’s scent in the bathroom. Ruan Ting Zhi, as an Omega, had unstable pheromones. If her pheromones were drawn out, that would not be very good.

Wen Jin yawned and said listlessly, “Don’t Omegas care a lot about reputation? Sigh. I’ll sit on the toilet and sleep for a while.”

Ruan Ting Zhi laughed softly on the other end, but did not insist on coming over.

Wan Shi Shi asked beside her, “The laboratory is right ahead. Are we calling Ji Lan over to swipe us in, or do you have a card yourself?”

Ruan Ting Zhi curled her lips and turned in the opposite direction.

“Why aren’t we going again?” Wan Shi Shi was full of surprise. Seeing Ruan Ting Zhi’s strange smile again, she said earnestly, “Zhi Zhi, I heard from Ji Lan. You used the family’s connections to prepare an experimental bench in the Pharmacy Department for that deskmate of yours?”

“To be honest, you’re playing a little big this time.” Wan Shi Shi asked, “Do you really like her?”

Ruan Ting Zhi narrowed her eyes. Only after a long while did she give a vague answer. “Interesting.”

A person who would rather lie flat like a salted fish anytime, anywhere, could squat on a toilet and not come out for half a day for the sake of an Omega’s reputation.

Ruan Ting Zhi could not help thinking that, in her previous life, when she had differentiated with pheromone contamination, if the person she met had been Wen Jin, she probably would have been treated this gently too.

Wen Jin discovered that Ruan Ting Zhi cooked for herself every day and, by the way, lovingly fed her roommate.

But Goddess Ruan’s cooking skills were terrible. She only knew how to use a steam pot, and her only cooking technique was boiling food in plain water.

The key point was that her cooking was not good, and the things she made were basically impossible to swallow.

She used top-tier fresh ingredients, but possessed the hands of a kitchen killer. The food Ruan Ting Zhi cooked had not a single seasoning added.

It produced the effect of pig feed.

So the next day, Wen Jin began cooking herself.

Ruan Ting Zhi was responsible for buying ingredients, while Wen Jin did the cooking.