Online Fortune Telling: Your Son Has Another Dad-Chapter 390 - 388: Fate Cannot Be Defied

"After Subject No. 5 took the Vitality Pill..."

Fu hesitated for a moment before saying softly, "No special effect!"

"What? No effect?"

Hearing this answer, everyone present was dumbfounded.

Previously, the attempt to replicate the pill taking ten to twenty years had already been a blow to them.

Now, Fu’s response had completely shattered their ambitions even further.

After all that effort, it was like a naked person push-pulling a grindstone—going in circles and making a fool of themselves!

They originally thought of excluding Xiao Yan, synthesizing the pill using modern pharmaceutical methods, and then using the Vitality Pill and other pills to try and cultivate cultivators...

But now, it seemed that this plan, no matter how loudly calculated, was utterly useless.

"How could it possibly have no effect?"

Director Xing frowned deeply, unable to help but question.

"Director Xing, I’m truly not lying to you!"

Fu said with a helpless expression, "After Subject No. 5 took a Vitality Pill, he quickly felt a warm current emerging within his body."

"But this warm current only lasted for about a dozen seconds before dissipating completely."

"Then we conducted a series of medical examinations on him and found no special changes..."

Hearing this explanation, Director Xing frowned even more.

"Ahem!"

At this moment, Director He suddenly coughed.

Director Xing heard the sound, glanced at him, and asked, "Old He, do you have something to say?"

Director He smiled faintly and said, "Regarding the lack of effect from the Vitality Pill, I might understand what’s going on."

"What’s going on?"

Director Xing’s curiosity was immediately piqued.

Everyone else also turned their gaze to Director He.

Director He spoke in a calm voice: "During my trip to Minma, when investigating the vampire zombie, I communicated with Zhenyuan for some time and asked him a lot of questions."

"Once, I happened to witness Zhenyuan cultivating and saw him take a pill."

"That pill looked very similar to the Vitality Pill."

"After Zhenyuan finished cultivating, I asked about it, and he said that pill was called the ’Spiritual Qi Pill,’ containing spiritual qi, a necessary pill for cultivators in the current environment."

"At that time, I curiously asked if an ordinary person could cultivate by taking a Spiritual Qi Pill?"

"Zhenyuan shook his head and told me one thing..."

At this point, Director He sighed lightly before continuing, "Zhenyuan said that ordinary people without a Spirit Root cannot absorb the spiritual qi contained within the Spiritual Qi Pill."

"In other words, it’s like someone with a very poor digestive system who can’t absorb the nutrients from food no matter how good it is."

"So, I believe that without a Spirit Root, one cannot absorb or digest the spiritual qi in the Spiritual Qi Pill or Vitality Pill."

"Even if you take ten or twenty Vitality Pills, what good would it do? You can’t absorb the spiritual qi in them..."

Upon hearing these words, everyone at the scene fell silent again.

Over the past couple of days, everyone had been in an excited state, but at that moment, it was as if they had fallen into a bottomless abyss, filled with utter despair.

Everyone remained silent for about a dozen minutes before the meeting room door was suddenly knocked on.

"Let them in!"

Director Xing glanced at Fu and motioned for him to open the door.

Fu nodded, reached out, and opened the meeting room door.

"Director Xing, Captain Wang from the city bureau is here!"

A female staff member in her early thirties reported.

"Got it, have Captain Wang wait for a moment, I’ll be right there."

After saying that, Director Xing turned to Director He and said in a deep voice, "Old He, come with me to see Captain Wang."

Upon hearing this, Director He nodded.

After the two left the meeting room, they met the waiting City Bureau Captain Wang under the guidance of the female staff member.

"Director Xing, Director He, we have tracked Li Yingyuan’s whereabouts."

Seeing the two of them, Captain Wang shook hands with them before getting right to the point.

"Tracked? Where is he now?"

Director Xing asked urgently.

"Li Yingyuan has already gone to sea by ship."

"We don’t know his exact destination."

"However, his probable destination is Japan!"

Captain Wang carefully recounted everything they had discovered to Director Xing and Director He.

"Damn! This bastard must have already formed an alliance with the Japanese!"

Upon hearing this, Director Xing couldn’t help but curse.

Judging from Li Yingyuan’s criminal acts and subsequent escape, he was certainly well-prepared.

Otherwise, how could he have escaped so smoothly?

Director He, standing beside him, also didn’t look good.

Zhenyuan’s notebook contained too many secrets.

If the Japanese decipher the secrets within, the consequences are unimaginable.

"Captain Wang, is there any chance we can still catch that bastard?"

Director Xing asked again.

"It’s very difficult!"

Captain Wang shook his head and replied, "We discovered he went to sea over a day ago."

"At normal speed, barring any mishaps, he likely has already reached Japan."

"Sigh!"

Upon hearing this, Director Xing let out a heavy sigh.

He felt as though his career had reached a dead end.

He would undoubtedly bear the greatest responsibility for the theft of the notebook copy.

After all, it was him who forcibly transferred Li Yingyuan.

He didn’t pay much attention to the notebook copy either.

Now that Li Yingyuan had stolen the notebook copy and fled to Japan, his position as a director had likely run its course.

Initially, he had planned to leverage the big projects of pill replication and mass production of cultivators to redeem himself.

But what happened?

Replicating pills would take ten to twenty years.

And ordinary people taking the Vitality Pill had no effect.

These two major projects ended before they even began.

"Fate is hard to defy!"

Director Xing was full of dejection and hopelessness.

Director He could somewhat empathize with Director Xing’s feelings, his expression also somewhat gloomy.

Seeing their off-color expressions, Captain Wang quickly excused himself, "Directors, we will continue to monitor the Li Yingyuan case."

"There’s nothing more from my side, so I’ll take my leave now..."

With that, Captain Wang swiftly left the Religious Affairs Bureau.

The afternoon came quickly.

Two pieces of news sent waves through the entire Religious Affairs Bureau.

The first piece of news was that Director Xing had retired early due to the theft of the notebook copy.

The second piece of news was that Director He moved one step ahead.

Sitting in the director’s office, Director He was filled with deep feelings.

He hadn’t expected that the "Deputy" prefix would be removed so quickly!

In his view, Old Xing’s retirement was not surprising.

The main reason was not the theft of the notebook copy.

Rather, it was Old Xing’s aggressive tactics.

Having just transferred to the Religious Affairs Bureau, Old Xing began constantly transferring people and kicking people out.

His attitude towards the cultivators Zhenyuan and Xiao Yan was also too outrageous, attempting various means to recruit them.

In just two or three months, he had thrown the Religious Affairs Bureau into chaos.

Even if the notebook copy hadn’t been stolen, Old Xing would likely have been transferred soon...