The Dean immediately felt that this student was quite promising, and his gaze towards Professor Sun softened considerably.
After all, she wasn't here to ask for money, so everything was actually quite negotiable.
"Give me the content you want to apply for assessment," the Dean extended his hand towards Professor Sun.
Professor Sun chuckled and handed over the application form.
The Dean looked down at it, his mouth twitching instantly. Without letting it linger in his hands for even a second, he immediately stuffed the application form back to Professor Sun. "What were you thinking, letting someone go in to mine Clarity Stones? It's impossible, you're daydreaming!"
Clarity Stone mines, as the name suggests, produced Clarity Stones. Unlike other materials, Clarity Stones contained mental energy.
A thumb-sized Clarity Stone could contain nearly 100,000 points of mental energy. It was an essential mineral for all mass-produced white cards nowadays, and also an important material for many experimental research institutions to control mental energy for stable output experiments.
In summary: very expensive and rare.
"Dean, think about it. Letting a student go in to mine, isn't it something that can particularly test a person's comprehensive abilities? As long as she can bring out three or five pieces, no one will have any objections to her enrollment, right?" Professor Sun said, seemingly very sincerely. After explaining the logic, she started to appeal to emotions, "Each research institute originally had the opportunity to go once a year to the Clarity Stone mine, with the obtained Clarity Stones belonging to the institute. Our Mental Control Research Institute hasn't gone for three years. Letting a child go in once won't bring out much."
"You haven't gone for three years because you traded the qualification for funding!" The Dean cruelly stated a fact to Professor Sun.
"Well, Sarah isn't really part of our institute. She's part of the Card Engineering School, she's your student," Professor Sun, failing to persuade, immediately started to change concepts.
The Dean, irritated by Professor Sun's roundabout way, didn't want to argue about these things at all. He waved his hand, "Stop trying to use a new student's identity to get your hands on Clarity Stones. Has the equipment in your research institute been repaired? I said before, nothing is negotiable until it's fixed." The Dean brought out his trump card.
Professor Sun had been waiting for this very sentence from the Dean. She immediately moved a few chairs out of the office, cleared a space, and set up the analyzer from her pocket.
"Dean, the analyzer has been repaired and is guaranteed to function normally!" Professor Sun said with a grin, even slapping the device twice hard, as if to demonstrate its durability.
The Dean stared at the device before him in disbelief for a few seconds, then immediately closed his eyes. "What is this thing?!" It was too ugly for him!
Sarah had taken Professor Sun down the "if it works, it's fine" route, naturally adding many components to this device. So the once sleek and beautiful analyzer in Professor Sun's research room immediately became a bizarre product after repair, with bulges here and protrusions there.
"Ahem, it's your beloved material analyzer~" Professor Sun forced the Dean to face reality, and placed a piece of material in the analyzer's operation area. Soon, relevant data information appeared on the screen. "Look, Dean, it's working perfectly normally."
Looking at the screen data, the Dean felt incredibly frustrated, and could only reluctantly accept that this ugly thing was indeed once one of his precious babies.
Who could have imagined that after a few years, his baby would really turn into a lump.
The Dean felt incredibly weathered inside, but he still painfully put this analyzer into his pocket and stated very fairly, "Alright, your research institute's 25 billion debt is reduced." After saying this, the Dean looked at Professor Sun, "Did you repair this analyzer together with that student?"
Professor Sun nodded, and explained all the situations to the Dean, including the fact that Sarah was the main force in the later stages of repair, except for the fact that Sarah had created a mini version of the mental energy detector out of thin air.
In Professor Sun's view, there was nothing to hide from the Dean about these matters.
As for that mini version... if the school knew about it, they would want a share of the money in the later manufacturing process! Professor Sun was calculating very carefully.
The style of the analyzer after repair was clearly not Professor Sun's habit, and although Professor Sun was also a rather troublesome person, she wouldn't lie. The Dean believed Professor Sun's words.
As the Dean, he naturally loved talent, and Professor Sun was also a person with high standards. If she could be so certain, the Dean didn't want such a student to lose the opportunity to enroll because of mental energy injuries that hadn't recovered.
Of course, having 25 billion return to his pocket also made the Dean feel much better, naturally making him more agreeable on certain matters.
Many research institutes were clamoring for the school to reconfigure this device.
It was such a headache.
Although this treasure had become ugly now, it wasn't like he had to look at it every day.
After final consideration, the Dean said fiercely to Professor Sun, "No matter how many Clarity Stones she brings out, they all belong to the school to dispose of, and have nothing to do with your Mental Control Research Institute."
Professor Sun cheerfully gave an OK hand gesture.
Receiving the good news brought back by Professor Sun, Sarah's eyes also showed surprise.
She hadn't expected the school to really agree to let someone who wasn't even a student of the school enter such an important place in the school.
Sarah immediately felt full of goodwill towards Axiom Central University, and also felt that her choice to enter the Mental Control Research Institute was not a loss at all.
If Sarah had listened to Professor Mo's words at that time and asked to be accepted for assessment by a better research institute, other institutes weren't lacking in researchers, students, or assistants, and definitely wouldn't have gone to fight for things for her like now, with a director going to negotiate on her behalf.
It could only be said that everything has its pros and cons.
"...Although all the Clarity Stones brought out have to be handed over, you can secretly absorb a bit in the safe area before coming out," Professor Sun added after explaining the situation to Sarah.
This was actually also tacitly approved by the Dean, otherwise he wouldn't have agreed to let her go in after knowing Sarah had issues with her total mental energy.
Generally, people wouldn't use Clarity Stones to supplement mental energy. Although the mental energy in Clarity Stones was mild and gentle, without any harm to people, the feeling after absorption was like a person who doesn't eat cilantro suddenly being stuffed with a mouthful of it. That kind of reaction where the whole body was expressing rejection was very obvious, and it would take many days to recover. During those days, don't even think about having any success rate in card making.
Except for Sarah's situation, no one would use this thing to supplement their mental energy.
"Also, after you enter the Clarity Stone mining area, remember to seal off your mental sea. There's raw mental energy in there that will continuously wash over you. If you can't hold on, don't worry about whether you've collected enough Clarity Stones, come out immediately, understand?" Professor Sun instructed Sarah.
Sarah nodded, her eyes full of solemnity as she firmly remembered these instructions. A week later, with extreme caution, she carried a small basket and entered the Clarity Stone mining area under the supervision of more than ten teachers.
Once again, she brought nothing with her.
Because the mental energy in the Clarity Stone mining area was too chaotic, any cards would be destroyed in the mining area. In the Clarity Stone mining area, one could only rely on oneself.
The entire Clarity Stone mining area wasn't very large, about the size of five stadiums, completely enclosed by a huge isolation wall. Sarah passed through several isolation doors before officially stepping into the mining area.
Before entering, Sarah had been thinking about what Professor Sun said about the turbulent mental energy washing over her, but after walking in... this feeling of turbulent mental energy washing over her was quite comfortable, and Sarah even instinctively felt she could directly absorb it.
This made Sarah take a deep breath, recalling when she had taken out the total test module of that mini tester after Professor Sun left her research room, replaced it with two modules, and tested two other mental energy values of herself.
-- Mental energy condensation: 87%.
This was a number that made even Sarah silent.
Normally, when the mental sea wasn't fully filled, this condensation value was between 5-10%.
Of course, this wasn't the most speechless part for Sarah. After all, if a card maker was old enough and their mental sea was filled enough, cases higher than this value weren't unheard of.
It was still within human range after all.
The other tested value was what really made Sarah feel like her head was about to explode.
-- Mental energy deviation value: 0.
This number came out and directly silenced Sarah.
As far as Sarah knew, among all registered card makers to date, no one had a mental energy deviation of this number.
When Yun had told Sarah earlier that her mental energy definitely had problems, Sarah couldn't have imagined that her mental energy could have problems to such a large extent in every aspect.
In comparison, her mental energy total of over a hundred really wasn't a big deal at all.
What did a deviation value of 0 represent?
The biggest difficulty faced by the mental energy stabilizer that Inspector Vega had been pursuing and wanting to create was finding this 0.
No one knew what a deviation value of 0 was like.
According to the guesses of other card-making predecessors, 0 represented absolute control over mental energy, and also represented that this mental energy could harmoniously coexist with all mental energy.
How was this possible?
After seeing this number, Sarah was skeptical of the device she had created and didn't fully believe the results displayed on it.
Maybe her deviation value was 0.00001?
And now.
Standing in the legendary terrifyingly turbulent mental energy mining area, feeling incredibly comfortable and at ease, Sarah finally completely believed it.
Her deviation value really was 0.