death of hope

Chapter 837: Wild Growth (253) Dangerous Knowledge
VIP seats, back row,
The middle-aged bald man in a black round-neck shirt and glasses stared intently at the superpower entering the venue.
This man was not surprised or frightened like the others, but had a kind of morbid joy on his face.

To describe it, it is the fanatical expression of the mad scientist character in the movie, who is thirsty for forbidden knowledge.

Although this person sat in the back row, kept silent, and acted low-key, he was actually quite important;

He is one of the most famous experts in the field of psychic power in the Terran Federation, and is currently a senior observer assigned by Sakura Corporation to the New Sapporo Colony;

'Joseph HF Dann' Dr.

Because he was dull and slow, and full of the pedantic bookish air of an old-school scholar, Kondo Toranosuke gave him a nickname, "Director Qiao".

As a technical backbone of a large company, Dr. Joseph came to this violent city full of gangster crimes not for excitement.

Instead, it is to survey and guide the company's new project, a large-scale scientific research facility, the Psychic Energy Research Institute, which has already started construction in the High-tech Industrial Park of the Development Zone.

The head of the Matsushita family and the president of Sakura Corporation, Yumi Matsushita, has invested a huge amount of money in this project and regards psychic research as an important direction for the company's development in the next 20 years.

As the technical backbone of the company, Dr. Joseph HF Dann was highly regarded by the president, received a high salary, and was appointed in advance as the director of the newly built Psychic Research Institute.

Dr. Joseph and his family moved to the luxury residential area of ​​Shin-Sapporo. In the foreseeable twenty years, he will lead a scientific research team of hundreds of people to work hard in this laboratory.

The company has invested so much money, and the president trusts me so much, it would be unreasonable if I don't make some achievements.
The doctor made up his mind and simply moved into the shed, leaving home early and returning late every day to stay at the construction site. He was involved in every detail of the institute's construction work, from civil engineering to electrical wiring, striving for perfection and avoiding mistakes.

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This afternoon, Joseph was wearing a fluorescent green supervisor's vest and a hard hat directing the workers at the construction site.

Because there was a problem with the lifting of expensive equipment in the laboratory, the doctor slapped the drawings, put his hands on his hips and yelled at the engineers.

When he was feeling very angry, he received a call from Kondo Isao, the boss of Kyokushin Group, who invited him to attend the martial arts trial as the representative of Sakura Company, hoping that he would witness the revenge of Kondo family against Yamagami family.

The construction site was busy, and Director Qiao was a little impatient and wanted to find an excuse to shirk his responsibilities.
A hard-working and talented scientist like him really doesn't want to waste his time on boring mundane activities that have nothing to do with academics.

Sakura Corporation is the big moneymaker behind the Kyokushin Group. To put it bluntly, it pays a bunch of gangsters to do the dirty work for the company that corporate warriors are not convenient to do and that cannot be seen in public.

Now the funds for the company's first batch of key projects in the development zone have all been in place, and all have been cut in ribbons and started.

In view of the poor security environment in New Sapporo, the company needs local bosses to help watch the place to prevent its main competitor, Mitsubishi Corporation, and the local gangsters sponsored by it, the Sannokai, from coming to the construction site to cause trouble.

Just two days ago, Joseph received a call from the company's top management, asking him to establish good relations with the Kyokushin Group. Even though he didn't like the arrogant old man Kondo Isao, he had to pretend to do so.

Different places have different rules. If a company wants to invest and take root in New Sapporo, it must establish good relations with these local bosses.

The doctor had to reluctantly accept Kondo Isao's invitation and leave the construction site he had been longing for.

I came to this deserted gymnasium at night and watched the bloody and cruel trial by combat.

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Joseph's major is psychic power. Anyone who studies this subject is inevitably viewed with stereotypes by others.

They are just like the professors of quantum physics in universities, all of them are unkempt, all kinds of weird and crazy ideas often pop up in their minds, and they are unaware of what is happening around them.

They wrote a series of formulas on the blackboard with chalk, as if they were a group of wizards hiding in an ivory tower and studying black magic.

Although it is a stereotype, it is also somewhat based on facts. Joseph himself belongs to this kind of people, sloppy, mumbling, and talking to himself. He does not care if others look at him strangely;
His mentor once told him that there is only a fine line between genius and madness, and that many winners of the Nobel Prize in Science have psychological problems.

In recent decades, human academia has been conducting research into the tracing of alien technology and the technology left over from the Golden Age of Ancient Terra.

Due to the degeneration of human knowledge on Terra, the understanding and mastery of psychic energy lags behind other civilizations in the galaxy, and there have been no technological breakthroughs for many years.

In this context, the Nobel Prize in Psychic Powers is also considered the most difficult award to obtain, and no one has won it for ten consecutive years.

The medal, which symbolizes the pinnacle of honor for scientists, is held by a bald, beer-bellied, greasy middle-aged man; the ultimate goal for which Joseph Dann has been striving all his life.
The difficulty of psychic research is astronomical, and the cost is also astronomical, so it must be supported by the financial resources of a large company.
Because of this, Joseph had no choice but to follow the advice of the company's top management and participate in this boring "socializing" activity.

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The people in the VIP seats were excited, sometimes clapping and cheering, sometimes sighing in surprise.
Joseph was worried about the construction site, fearing that the civil engineers and electricians would be lazy and leave hidden dangers for the laboratory. His face was filled with worry.

Ever since he entered the venue, he has had a bitter face full of resentment. Kondo Isao knew his temper and did not greet him.

Joseph's mind was filled with scaffolding at the construction site and expensive laboratory equipment. He had no interest in the swordplay and fistfights of the martial artists.

Although the duel tonight was extremely exciting, and all the players on stage were masters, and the audience exclaimed in amazement, Joseph felt extremely bored, yawning and feeling sleepy.

There were two draws and all the proxy warriors died. By the end of the sixth game, both sides had won and lost, and the score was tied at 2-2. The sudden outbreak of the Gu worm crisis made Joseph perk up.
He had never seen such a strange insect before, so he planned to consult his entomologist friend.

What concerned him even more was that a person with super powers broke into the venue and resolved the crisis in an instant.

Joseph realized that this person's power was exactly in line with his own research expertise, and he was no longer sleepy.

In the seventh and final round, a superpower joined the battle, and the doctor was extremely alert and observed carefully;
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Joseph placed the homemade psychic detection device on his knees and activated it.

When the computer started up, he looked down and opened his mouth in surprise.

He suspected that he had seen it wrong, so he took off his glasses, blew on them, wiped the lenses with a handkerchief and put them back on.

This time, he saw it clearly.
A string of garbled characters appeared on the screen, followed by a blue screen error, showing a string of letters and codes:

Error: 114514
Unmeasurable data,

Please turn off the power and restart the device to try again.」

(Bug 114514:

Data that cannot be measured,

Please turn off the power and restart the device to try again.)

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The doctor's face was covered with cold sweat;
(What?!

I made a psychic energy meter with a range of hundreds of millions...

It's exploded?! )