Skill extraction from Dragon Clan

Chapter 578 Bargaining
"It's simple. I hope she can assist me in my research."

Hearing Stephen's question, Zheng Shu chuckled and pointed to an empty place in the room.

Stephen was stunned for a moment, then he understood why Zheng Shu pointed here, because along with Zheng Shu's voice, Zhen's figure appeared from the air.

It was obvious that the werewolf was following Stephen all the time during their conversation.

At this moment, Jane's eyes and movements were full of vigilance. Her body involuntarily took a defensive posture, and her fingers had already touched the gun beside her leg.

As long as Zheng Shu felt something was wrong, he would immediately draw his gun and shoot.

Even Jane herself knew that given this guy's strength, guns would have no effect on him at all.

"Assist in research?" Stephen's eyes flashed with a hint of coldness. "I may disappoint you, Jane is not a professional researcher. If you need, I can introduce you to a few research laboratories with professional researchers."

"That's not necessary. I have my own channels with professional researchers and laboratories and they are more senior. The reason I chose her is because I'm interested in her abilities and want to study her." Zheng Shu curled his lips and said nonchalantly.

"!!!"

As Zheng Shu said this, the atmosphere in the room immediately changed.

The originally relaxed atmosphere immediately became heavy. Zhen, who was already on alert, disappeared on the spot. Although he had not yet completely entered the state of extreme dilution, Zheng Shu also felt that the other party had become quite difficult to observe.

Moreover, Jane's body was half-hidden and half-exposed in the wall, so she would escape immediately if the situation went wrong.

Stephen's face had turned completely cold.

No, not only his face, but his body also turned cold. Zheng Shu could even see large patches of ice fog spreading from under his feet, and the place where his feet touched the house was even frozen.

"If I heard you correctly, Your Excellency means that you want my partner to be your experimental subject?"

Stephen's tone was already quite harsh, and from the look on his face, he would fight without hesitation if Zheng Shu gave a wrong answer.

“Hey, hey, hey! Although you rented this house to me, I live here now anyway. It will be very troublesome for me if you destroy it casually!”

Zheng Shu still looked relaxed. He seemed unaware of the hostility in Stephen's tone. He just turned his attention to the pair of Stephen's feet that were in contact with the ground.

At this moment, the frozen area on the ground is becoming larger and larger with the passage of time. Although the speed is getting slower and slower, it has frozen the surrounding area of ​​more than one meter in a very short time.

Under the damage of such low temperature, the wool carpet on the ground could not withstand such damage and turned into ice and shattered.

This gave Zheng Shu a headache. Even if Stephen withdrew his strength later, damage to the carpet on the ground was inevitable. It would be very ugly to have a big hole on the carpet.

"This thing is counted as your mistake, remember to reimburse me."

Stephen frowned and looked in the direction Zheng Shu pointed. He was stunned when he saw the damaged wool carpet under his feet.

Looking up at Zheng Shu, whose expression and posture were relaxed, Stephen thought for a moment and actually retracted his strength.

Without the biting cold, the tense atmosphere in the room relaxed a little.

"Your Excellency has not yet answered my question."

Zheng Shu scratched his hair and said, "Ah... I do intend to study the abilities of that werewolf. It seems that there is nothing wrong in saying that he is a test subject."

"..."

After confirming that Zheng Shu was not joking, Stephen was silent for a moment, then sighed and shook his head:

"I'm sorry, but I cannot meet your request. We in Libra don't have the tradition of selling out our partners for profit."

"I don't intend to let you betray your partner. Even if she really wants to be with me, I still don't want her." Zheng Shu leaned back on the sofa and rolled his eyes. "I mean to hire her for a period of time and let her assist me in some experiments."

After a pause, Zheng Shu added:

"Don't worry, these experiments are absolutely harmless and will not cause any physical damage to her. As for psychologically... generally speaking, it should be fine. However, if her mental state is more fragile than that of ordinary people, then it is not certain. But under normal circumstances, it should be fine, probably."

Zheng Shu's relatively conservative and scientifically precise statement did not dispel Stephen and Jane's inner anxiety, but rather aggravated it.

After all, Zheng Shu's statement is too much like those mad scientists in some novels.

"I'm sorry, even though Jane and I have a superior-subordinate relationship in Librari, I still don't have the authority to make decisions for her." Stephen made up an excuse.

Anyway, in his opinion, there was no way Jane would volunteer to be a test subject.

"This sudden visit is really disturbing to you, so we will take our leave now. As for your damaged carpet, I will send someone to replace it with a new one soon."

Not wanting to stay here any longer, Stephen planned to leave the room quickly. Although Zheng Shu seemed to have no ill intentions, he seemed to have some different ideas from ordinary people.

The Warlock Association's support for the space warlock will come a little later, so just wait a while. I feel it's more suitable than the current mad scientist.

"Oh... okay, what a shame. Actually, my experiment will not only not cause any harm to the werewolf, but if I'm lucky, it can even increase the strength of the werewolf's talent."

Zheng Shu seemed a little regretful, but not too sorry.

After all, even if Zhen didn't cooperate much, he could still slowly obtain relevant information simply by relying on his own observation skills, but this would slow down the process a lot.

Fortunately, Zheng Shu himself is not short of things like longevity, so he can just go slow.

"Strength is something that you will feel more assured if you train yourself." Stephen raised the corner of his mouth and smiled politely, "Then I won't bother you anymore."

"and many more."

Just as Stephen was about to leave, a woman's voice appeared in the room.

Zheng Shu looked at Zhen's appearance with great interest. Although they had met many times, this was the first time they had actually met.

Jane is a beautiful woman with short hair and purple eyes. She has a great figure and looks particularly capable in a black suit.

After being looked at by Zheng Shu, although Zhen still maintained her expressionless look, her mental strength had become somewhat restrained and flustered.

She glanced at Stephen, who was in shock at the door, and quickly calmed herself down: "Is it true that you can strengthen my abilities?"

"No, no, no, I didn't say that. I said it's possible to strengthen your abilities." Zheng Shu shook his finger and corrected, "Although I already have a certain degree of understanding of the relevant abilities, I can't be completely sure before I come to a conclusion."

Zheng Shu's denial did not make Zhen back down, but instead made her think deeply.

If Zheng Shu had directly said that it would definitely improve her abilities, she might have been confused, but since he had such an attitude, it actually proved the truthfulness of what he said.

The werewolf's own combat power is not very strong. Its real powerful offensive ability is probably that it can sneak its arms into the enemy's body in a diluted state, grab their heart or brain to kill them.

However, at the moment of crushing the heart or brain, the dilution of the werewolf arm itself will drop a lot. If you are unlucky, you will be injured or even killed if you are attacked during this period.

After all, the werewolf's physical fitness is only at the level of an ordinary person, and even if only a few fingers are exposed it is dangerous enough.

So even with such incredible abilities, there are only a few things that werewolves can do. Without violating public order and good morals, what they can do can basically only be concentrated in the intelligence area.

The two contacts with Zheng Shu made Zhen feel a great sense of crisis. Less than a year after they came into contact with the other world, monsters that could see through their dilution appeared. Even a genius among werewolves like Zhen needed to dilute himself until his existence disappeared in order to escape.

So now Jane has to start thinking about the possibility of encountering the same type of enemy in the future. The werewolf's only ability is "invisibility". If even this ability is cracked by the enemy, then she will lose her only purpose.

"Jane? Are you sure? It's going to be used as an experimental subject for research!" Stephen turned back from the door, looking worried.

Zheng Shu blinked and decided to explain the situation to the man in front of him:
"I feel like you have some misunderstanding about 'research'. Few people would conduct destructive inspections on precious specimens. Research is usually conducted without causing any damage to the specimen as much as possible."

Stephen narrowed his eyes and stared at Zheng Shu, his face full of disbelief. He didn't think that a "mad scientist" like him would really follow this principle.

"I always feel like you've added some weird labels to me for no apparent reason, and I feel a little unhappy about it." Zheng Shu pinched his nose.

After thinking for a while, Zheng Shu suggested again: "How about this, if you are really worried, I will invite you to watch every time I ask this werewolf lady to assist in research? Or I can simply conduct the research in the place you provide."

"Hmm? Is this okay?"

Stephen's eyes lit up, and Jane, who was a little hesitant, also became interested.

If this is really possible, then at least you can ensure that the research topic you are involved in is not something too scary.

"Ah, no problem. Anyway, with the level of knowledge you just showed, you probably can't understand what I want to study."

Zheng Shu waved his hand generously, but the words he said made Stephen's veins bulge involuntarily.

However, although he was looked down upon by the other party, Stephen had to start thinking carefully about the feasibility of this matter.

After struggling for a moment, he gave the choice to Zhen: "What do you think?"

From the perspective of the Libra organization, Stephen certainly hopes that Jane can stay and assist in the research. After all, the risks are controllable and there are good returns. The saved compensation alone is already considerable.

And with any luck, Jane's abilities might improve.

Just as Jane thought, Stephen also discovered the limitations of the werewolf's abilities due to Zheng Shu's amazing insight.

Zhen didn't think too long. After all, the conditions Zheng Shu offered were generous enough: "Okay, I agree!"

"Okay! Then I'll help you with the research after I help you complete the space technique! Hmm... three months, what do you think?"

"Impossible, Jane is an important intelligence agent of Libra, it is impossible for her to spend so much time researching with you!"

Now that the two parties have reached an agreement, it’s time for bargaining, which is what Stephen is best at:
"One week! And I can only assist in research for four hours a day at most."

"What can I come up with in twenty-eight hours? Do you know how to bargain? Two months, assisting in the research for twelve hours every day!" Zheng Shu held up two fingers.

"No! Our people from Libra need to accompany them during the research process, which is equivalent to holding two people at a time. We can't spend so much time!" Stephen shook his head firmly, "Two weeks, six hours a day!"

"I see you have no intention of completing this deal! No way..."

……

……

The condition they finally reached was that Zhen would assist Zheng Shu in his research for one month, and no more than six hours a day.

Both sides were very satisfied with the result.

In fact, with the assistance of the Werewolf Bureau, Libra will not lack intelligence-related support, but he still has to make a certain gesture.

As for Zheng Shu...he was just playing around.

For Zheng Shu, as long as this matter was accomplished, his goal would have been achieved, even if the other party only asked Zhen to assist him for one day.

The focus of Zheng Shu's proposal is not on studying the abilities of werewolves, but on the act of "studying other creatures" itself.

This cooperation means that the relevant cooperation between the two parties has made progress from 0 to 1. The next time Zheng Shu encounters something else he wants to study, it will be easier to get a similar proposal.

As long as this goal is achieved, nothing else matters.

Stephen acted quickly, and the next day Zheng Shu, led by the old butler Gilbert, arrived at the headquarters building of Libra.

"Not bad, your Libra's economic strength is quite considerable, you can actually buy such a building." Zheng Shu looked at the high-rise building in front of him with some admiration, the top floor hidden in the thick fog.

He could feel that a huge amount of protective spells were cast inside this tall building. When the firepower was fully opened, the defense and firepower would definitely not be inferior to the sky garden he had seen in the Type-Moon world.

This is not a building at all, but a war fortress!
　Thanks to the reader Tai Shang Daluo Tianxian Wanshou Emperor for the two rewards. Thank you for your support.

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