Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 402 - 397: Preliminary Competition (Part 5)

Chapter 402: Chapter 397: Preliminary Competition (Part 5)

When Bai Xiaotang was participating in the competition, Bai Yusen originally wanted to come over, but was held up by company matters.

He directly asked Huang Ying to help with the live broadcast.

Bai Yusen was watching his sister’s competition remotely, sneaking glances during the meeting.

When he felt tense and excited, he couldn’t help blurting out, "Damn, this is too intense!"

In the meeting room, the employee who was reporting was shocked, thinking he had misspoken, and was about to explain when he heard the boss say, "I wasn’t talking to you, continue!"

The employees looked at each other curiously, wondering what their boss was watching.

He seemed so frustrated, as if he was about to eat the Smart Brain screen in front of him.

On the screen, Bai Xiaotang climbed up from the track, enduring the pain and continued to run forward.

Earlier during the relay, a boy from the neighboring track, whether intentionally or not, veered off course, his hefty elbow directly hitting her in the face.

The boy didn’t feel guilty at all, even turning back to smile at her.

Bai Xiaotang only felt her teeth tear the flesh inside her mouth, a rush of blood drenching up.

Her cheek throbbed with pain, her body involuntarily sat on the ground, but time was of the essence, she couldn’t care about her reddened face, she got up and continued to run.

Although Lin Yuanyang told her to conserve her energy for this match, that boy’s actions suddenly reminded her of past events during her schooling days in Beijing.

The same shoving, the same disdainful laughter, clearly two different people, yet the memories strangely overlapped in her mind.

That distant memory, seemingly forgotten, became clear, exploding in her mind.

"Bai Loser, my mom wants me to be first in history, remember to hand in a blank paper in the afternoon exam, no matter how well you do in cultural classes, it’s useless, obediently start your loser persona..."

No...

She’s not a loser.

She can become better too.

Bai Xiaotang’s eyes reddened more and more, her speed increased rapidly, reaching a B9 physique, under extreme sprinting, directly breaking through to A1, and still improving...

Ji Ning was quite surprised, a hint of satisfaction flashing in her eyes, saying to Huang Ying, "She’ll awaken to dual superpowers in the future."

Huang Ying noticed too, speculating, "The speed right?"

Ji Ning pursed her lips and smiled.

Their conversation was overheard by Bai Yusen, who excitedly stood up abruptly, abandoning the meeting, rushing out of the meeting room, and locked himself in the office.

"Ah Ying, does Tangtang really have the talent to awaken superpowers?"

Huang Ying glanced down at him, "Everyone does."

"No, you and Ji Ning said she could awaken dual systems, is that true?" Bai Yusen’s voice trembled, blood rushing to his head.

With that expression of excitement, it was as if Bai Xiaotang already became a superpower user.

Huang Ying felt somewhat speechless, giving him a sidelong glance, lowering her voice, "She doesn’t lack aptitude, her physique is already at A-level, spiritual power at B5-level. In a few years, it will naturally come to fruition."

"I... I, thank you... no, thank Ji Ning, thank you both, if Tangtang truly awakens superpowers, I’ll give you big red envelopes, no wait, transfer shares..."

Bai Yusen was so excited he was talking nonsense.

Huang Ying didn’t want to engage with this sister-obsessed fanatic, turning the camera towards the arena again.

At this moment, Bai Xiaotang had already surpassed the boy by over 200 meters, adeptly bandaging the dummy on the ground, handing it over to Li Mu and Ma Weiwei.

They just needed to lift the dummy on a stretcher to the finish area, and the competition would be over.

Li Mu’s physique was undoubtedly strong, Ma Weiwei’s around B8-level, with the time Bai Xiaotang gained back.

The speed at which they lifted the stretcher was almost like a gust of wind.

Unsurprisingly, Anhe Middle School won this event.

Scoring 3 points.

Bai Xiaotang covered her face, laughing as she said "ouch" repeatedly, looking very comical.

Li Mu and Ma Weiwei pointed a finger towards the boy who elbowed Bai Xiaotang earlier, threatening, "Don’t leave after the match!"

The boy felt guilty too, forced out a spit, slinking away.

"Bai Xiaotang, are you alright? Go to Sister Ning’s quickly to get checked out." Ma Weiwei looked at her cherub-like face, half swollen, feeling angry, "Damn, can’t compete so you resort to cheap tricks, shameless little bastard! Even an Elite Class student? What trash!"

"Sister Wei, let’s deal with him later, let’s get Bai Xiaotang medicine first, there’s another match coming up."

Ma Weiwei glared at the boy’s retreating figure one more time, quickly pulling Bai Xiaotang towards the stands.

Huang Ying told Bai Xiaotang to open her mouth, seeing a large area of the inner cheek scraped open, blood staining her neat teeth crimson.

Eyes involuntarily revealed a hint of sympathy.

"Endure for a moment, I’ll clean it up for you first, then apply some medicine."

"Oww... why does the competition rule against using healing abilities?" Bai Xiaotang mumbled, eyes welling up with water.

It hurt too much...

It was like a series of oral ulcers being bitten open.

Bai Xiaotang was nearly falling apart.

"Here, rinse your mouth before applying the medicine." Ji Ning handed Bai Xiaotang a bottle of mineral water.

The water’s color had a light hue of yellow. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Bai Xiaotang didn’t notice, directly drinking it down, needing to say, the coolness seemed to alleviate the pain somewhat.

Bai Xiaotang looked at Ji Ning in surprise, then swirled and rinsed her mouth twice, noticed that after spitting the water, the oral pain really subsided.

"Sister Ning, what is this?"

"Painkiller."

Bai Xiaotang: ...

***

Anhe Middle School’s second competition project was based on a complex chemical equation, extracting corresponding chemical substances from various reagents and items, completing the reaction steps within the entire chemical equation.

This was a chemistry-related competitive project called "Chemistry Dash."

Each school needed two participating students, working together to complete a chemical reaction.

Besides Bai Xiaotang, Wu Muzhe also signed up for this competition from Anhe Middle School.

The two had already divided the workload during winter training, Bai Xiaotang being meticulous, responsible for extracting chemical substances from herbs, while Wu Muzhe handled reagent compounding and calculations.

A complex chemical equation can be broken down into several simple sub-equations, as long as one calculates the amounts correctly, compounding them one by one, it could be done.

But Bai Xiaotang got injured in the last match, Wu Muzhe couldn’t help but worry if she could still complete the operations.

"Is your hand alright?"

Bai Xiaotang nodded, fortunately, when she fell she had pulled back her hand specially, only bruising her backside, not injuring her hand.

"Okay, if you feel uncomfortable later, let me know, I’ll complete the subsequent operations."

"No problem."

...

With the competition starting signal lighting up, Bai Xiaotang and Wu Muzhe respectively began reading the topic, breaking down the simple steps written above.

Starting to detail each step in operation.

Their cooperation was fairly cooperative.

The technique Bai Xiaotang learned from Ji Ning while extracting toxic plant liquids, immediately attracted the attention of on-site referees.

In chaotic times, Ji Ning’s chemistry and pharmacology knowledge was all self-taught, somewhat unconventional, her operations naturally not standard.

Much of it relied on powerful spiritual power for control, conclusions drawn through extensive experiments, some reagent usage estimated, unlike the procedures taught in textbooks.

"Oops, the step is wrong! Who taught her to operate like this?"

Among the teachers leading Anhe Middle School this time was one who happened to be a chemistry teacher.

Looking at Bai Xiaotang’s operation of extracting a plant’s juice, he was so furious a Buddha ascended to heaven, two Buddhas burst into smoke, wishing he could dash into the arena and pull her back to re-learn.

Ji Ning glanced at him, pursed her lips.

She had seen Ye Xingyan’s method of extracting substances; indeed, it was somewhat different from hers but the final purity wasn’t as good as hers.

Ye Xingyan found it strange back then, reviewing the difference between their operations, discovered his reagent used for breaking plant cell walls had issues, wasting certain cell fluids. Although it’s a trace amount, placed on an entire plant, that meant extraction concentration lowered by 4-5 percent.

Later, Ye Xingyan even sighed a remark:

"The reagent’s manufacturer is not rigorous enough. The written procedure listed less time, if soaked for another 15 minutes, extraction purity could increase by another 2 percent."