Chapter 12: There is another training tonight for the Vulcan Cup
Xu Nuo has lived in this world for eight years, but has never heard of or seen any information about pheromones.
Not to mention that she herself is a guide. From the purification experience in the past few years, except for that inexplicable Gu Feihai, no sentinel has ever mentioned that he has a unique aura.
Is it because her memory is too old and there is something wrong? Or is there something fishy about this world?
Fino Technology Group...did it appear in the text of the original novel?
She raised her head with difficulty: "Lili, can you do me a favor?"
Huang Li quickly put down her phone and asked, "Should I ask the teacher for leave or go to the infirmary?"
Xu Nuo shook his head: "Come closer."
Huang Li approached, and the person on the bed stretched out a hand weakly: "Hold on to me, hold on tight."
"Yeah! Are you okay?"
Xu Nuo felt his hand being gripped tightly. He took a deep breath, exerted all his strength, and sat up with a somersault.
She bared her teeth and said, "Help me up and go listen to the sermon!"
Today the auditorium was packed with people wearing the dark green uniforms of the guides and the dark blue uniforms of the sentinels.
The Finno Technology Group is very wealthy and has built a large stage. The advertising slogan can be seen from dozens of rows away. Everyone entering the venue is given a flyer, and it is said that if you sign in, you can participate in a lucky draw and win gifts.
Xu Nuo received a small bottle of a brightening and beautifying nutrient solution. "How can a nutrient solution also have beauty benefits?"
It's all wasteland. Is the function so impractical?
Huang Li shrugged: "Not everyone in this world is working so hard. Sales volume means there is a market." It's just that their target customer group is not them.
His muscles still ached, Xu Nuo limped to a seat and unfolded a flyer: "Vulcan Cup Friendly Match, what is this?"
Huang Li's eyes lit up as she pointed at the artistic cursive calligraphy on the flyer. "I almost forgot. Near midterms, the Fino Group will be holding its annual Vulcan Cup friendly tournament. The top ten teams will receive a year's supply of nutritional supplements from the group, and they'll also get to visit the factory."
"The Vulcan Cup? What's its origin?" Xu Nuo asked.
Huang Li scratched his head and said, "I don't know about that. It's one of the two major charity events sponsored by the Fino Group. The competition venues span land, sea, and air. Every year, they invite elite students from various universities to participate, and the rewards are generous."
Xu Nuo exclaimed, "Ah!" "Only the elite can participate?"
Huang Li shook her head. "You can participate just by signing up. The elite students are just a gimmick for the competition. Bringing a fixed partner isn't allowed. Everyone's on their own at the start, and it depends on luck to find a partner."
"Think about it. If I get to know elite Sentinels who work well together through the competition, I won't have to worry about training at the White Tower next year. Besides, the rewards from the Phino Group are more than just what they say."
Xu Nuo: "What's the complexity behind the words?"
Huang Li slapped her hard: "How should I know? I've never been in the top ten. But you..."
She leaned closer and whispered, "Xu Nuo, are you interested in this Vulcan Cup?"
Xu Nuo covered his forehead and said: "It's okay, why are you asking this?"
Huang Li smiled meaningfully: "You've been getting pretty close to Senior Wei lately, haven't you? If you're interested, maybe you could ask him to join you in the Vulcan Cup..."
Xu Nuo got to the point: "Wait, why did you mention Wei Yan?"
Huang Li showed a hint of understanding, looked around, and whispered: "Weren't you dating your senior after class yesterday? Don't tell me being alone in the classroom doesn't count as a date. Everyone saw you having dinner in the cafeteria. To be honest, I'm a little disappointed with you two."
Xu Nuo: "..."
She tried to explain that she wasn't on a date, but it was true that she was "alone" after class, and that she was having dinner together. She also said she would have dinner together every day in the future...
But that was because she would be tortured in the training room every day in the future, and Wei Yan was afraid that she would find an excuse not to go, so he simply came to take her away in advance!
My God, she was suffering in the training room, and there was some romantic love story going on outside...
"Dear students--" The microphone on the stage sounded, interrupting the conversation between the two. Xu Nuo could only listen depressedly with the nutrient supplement in his hand.
"Dear new blood among the evolved humans, future whistle stars, I am very happy to see your energetic smiles. I am Muklan, the R&D director of Fino Technology Group." The middle-aged man in a suit and tie standing in the middle of the stage said with a smile.
"Ten years ago, Fino was just a studio with only a few employees. Our founder, Mr. Junlin, personally set up Fino's first booth in the clean and tidy campus square. Looking back, I would like to thank your university for accepting Fino. The respected and visionary President Jiang did not look down on us because we were a startup, but instead gave us the opportunity to showcase ourselves."
"Today, Phinuo Technology Group has become the largest multi-site pharmaceutical technology company. Some of your seniors have also joined the company. It can be said that our relationship with your school goes back a long way."
Xu Nuo lowered his head and whispered, "What is a cross-base pharmaceutical technology company?"
Huang Li also replied quietly: "It's like almost every base has a branch. Their nutritional supplements are extremely popular, and there's no substitute in the market. Even a base as remote as my hometown has a large advertisement for them."
Xu Nuo was surprised and asked, "Aren't the bases separated by contaminated areas? How do they connect so many branches?"
Huang Li: "Fino has its own communication base station and information receiving terminal, the kind you wear on your wrist with multi-frequency communication devices. Oh, and they also own the self-built railway track to the south. I guess they're richer than many bases. You can imagine how wealthy they are, right?"
Xu Nuo nodded blankly.
Just a few days ago, she saw a high-tech underground building in the administrative center, and today she saw a small bottle of 200 yuan beauty supplement and a multi-band communication terminal. And yet, even though she was relatively well-off in the scavenging area, after paying tuition with her previous earnings, she couldn't even afford a cell phone...
The gap between the rich and the poor is so wide.
Muklan eloquently introduced the history of Fino's development, and then began to focus on introducing the latest new products. When he picked up an injection in his hand, Xu Nuo could no longer sit still.
On the big screen behind Muklan, there was a picture of a huge white pill.
"This is the original version of the guide agent," he said. "At first, we envisioned it taking the form of an ordinary tablet, which would make it more concealed and convenient to store and carry. But then the R&D team found that tablets are still not as fast-acting as injections, and the situations in which guide agents are needed are usually more urgent..."
The image behind him changed to a white syringe set wrapped in a transparent bag: "So, we finally decided to sell it in the form of injections. Of course, the guide element in tablet form can also be purchased during the pre-sale..."
Xu Nuo stared at the injection on the big screen.
On the way here, she had confirmed with Huang Li, and the other party had never heard of any special smell between the sentinels and guides. She was very sure that there was no pheromone setting in this world.
Since there are no pheromones in this world, it means that the inspiration and material sources for making guide elements are missing. So... how did Fino make the guide elements?
"Our guide essence can suppress the Sentinels' inappropriate emotional agitation and help Sentinels who have no guides around or whose guides are exhausted to control themselves. It has been clinically proven to have no side effects..."
She only knew the copy of the second half of the novel but had not read the main text. Could it be that the plot was advanced due to the butterfly effect?
After the presentation, Xu Nuo gathered his thoughts and prepared to rush to the training room with the poster that Huang Li had forced upon him.
The weather was bad today. It gradually got dark in the afternoon, and in the evening, it started to drizzle in the gray sky.
Outside the auditorium, a tall and handsome young man in a black windbreaker stood under a dim street light with an umbrella. The slanting raindrops wet a corner of his clothes.
This attracted the attention of many passersby. Unfortunately, the young man had an expressionless face, his dark eyes were sharp, and he exuded an aura of keeping people away. His cold eyes passed over the crowd, as if he didn't focus on anyone.
Until a sweet-looking but depressed girl walked out of the auditorium door. Unlike the people around her who looked at her with a little admiration and gossip, she was startled when she saw the young man and took two steps back like a mouse seeing a cat.
The tall young man walked towards her, holding a large, black umbrella with thick ribs above her head. His voice was clear and pleasant: "The lecture ended early today. Do you need a bag?"
The girl put away her umbrella and shook her head: "Aren't we meeting in the training room?"
How did they catch her here?
Wei Yan looked up and saw that the rain seemed to be getting heavier. Huge and dense raindrops hit the umbrella, making a crisp sound.
He said in a deep voice, "We have another training schedule tonight."
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