Chapter 555: Catherine’s Ruthlessness and the Real Threshold of Special Funding
Locke opened the Green Grass Cloud and found two articles of his own in this monthly magazine. He also briefly scanned the articles of other wizards in the monthly magazine to see if there was anything he needed.
According to the rules of Qingcao Yunze, a magazine will be sent to you in the month when your submission is approved, which is regarded as a benefit from the journal to the wizards who have passed the submission.
"Sure enough, most of the wizards above are from the seven top wizard organizations in Yunze Wetland, and some are from the top ten shop alliances in Yunze Wetland, and are researchers in the research institute established by the shop alliance."
"Then less than a quarter of the remaining articles come from wizards from hundreds of medium-sized wizard organizations in Yunze Wetland. And there are no articles from wizards in the small wizard organization in Yunze Wetland...at least in this issue."
"In Yunze Wetland, as long as you go to the local small wizard organization, you are basically far away from the first district, and maybe the second district is not involved."
Locke sighed.
That's why I came to Zhenzhiyuan, which represented a higher starting point and also gave a young first-level wizard like me with no background a good platform.
Locke flipped through the magazine and found an article that was very inspiring to him. It was written by Will Collins, a senior Zhenzhiyuan breeder from the Rose Council. The mechanism of using type 3 daffodil inhibitor can turn multi-headed roses into double-headed roses.
Locke quickly read this article. As a breeder and a potion master, he quickly realized that he used type 3 daffodil inhibitor as the core material, and used the core materials, secondary materials, auxiliary materials and marginal materials in potion science to prepare a set of potions that could help his hydra turn into a three-headed snake.
Although it requires a try, with my current level of potions training through the Feathered Serpent Ancient Pavilion Ladder, I can indeed give it a try.
Combined the methods of potion science and breeding science to create a potion that can mutate the Hydra magic plant to mutate the plant essence.
Locke placed this issue in his astral ring. "Finally, there is a possible direction. If you need the materials, you can shamelessly go to the industrial park in Alsace to ask for them. If possible, you can give them to me."
"This can save about one hundred thousand magic stones."
"Let's hire a first-class wizard apprentice first."
Locke left the dormitory.
At the same time, there is a wizard here that he has met before, also the Griffin wizard from Ekaterina's Advanced Academy of True Knowledge.
Wizard Griffin looked up at Locke in shock for a moment, and then moved his head unnaturally.
At the same time, the wizard shop owner with a white beard in the liquefaction stage seemed to be very irritable. He was the kind of person who had been suppressing his anger forcibly, but at this moment he could no longer suppress it.
“No, I am a small shop here, and I really don’t have anyone here who can help you solve the problem of your Shinchiin’s first-class project fund.”
“If someone can do it, do we still need you to go to Shinchiin? We can’t go to Shinchiin ourselves?”< br/>
"I am an ordinary local wizard who is in the liquefaction stage. I can help you write a few articles, and at most I can help you with some small projects, but I really can't help you."
"Besides, I don't have anyone here who can help you."
Locke glanced at the current situation doubtfully.
Obviously, he can force a wizard in the liquefaction stage. To be so angry with a wizard in the crystallization stage must be his colleague, Wizard Griffin, who really made excessive demands on him that he could not fulfill.
Griffin coughed a few times in embarrassment and said: "I'm just asking you, since it can't be done, it can't be done."
Griffin nodded to Locke and said, "Researcher Augustine, you also come to hire wizards from the general school. ?"
Locke nodded and said: "I saw outside that this shop said that they could recommend a first-class wizard apprentice who specializes in writing articles. I have some articles to write about the second area. The experiments are done and the key data are there, but I am missing someone to write the articles."
The white-bearded old wizard's eyes suddenly lit up. "Our shop is good at this. I have many first-class wizard apprentice students in general studies."
"I can help you write it. As long as you pay, you don't need to put your name on the article. Of course, in this case, they can only help you write it, and they have absolutely no ability to modify it."
While speaking, the old wizard with a white beard always looked at Wizard Griffin.
Wizard Griffin was a little embarrassed, coughed, and then said to Locke: "I entered school three years earlier than you, and I am currently working on the first-class project fund of Zhenzhiyuan. I am not afraid of your laughter, Locke. I do have a little problem at the moment. This project cannot be completed."
"So, I can only try my best."
Obviously, what Wizard Griffin said about leaving no stone unturned was to find foreign aid.
But he has nothing to say about this kind of thing. If he can really get someone to help him solve the problem without putting his name on it, that is his own ability.
Loke nodded in understanding. "Well, it's quite difficult for everyone."
"I can't handle it myself, so I came here to hire a few first-class wizard apprentices to help me publish articles."
Wizard Griffin breathed a sigh of relief and walked down the steps given by Locke. "That's right. When I entered Golden Mian Mountain, I originally thought I could make a big difference. To be honest, I even unrealistically wanted to get special funding and a sub-project from tutor Ekaterina."
"But now, I'm stuck on the first-class fund and can't move. Alas, now I just hope that I can complete this first-class fund before leaving the station. Then my journey to Zhenzhiyuan will be considered complete."
Wizard Griffin sighed. "The most important thing for people is to be self-aware."
"Colleague Locke, I have now recognized the reality."
"I just want to be able to complete the first-class project fund."
"I don't expect special funding."
Locke frowned and noticed something was wrong. "But you still have two years. In the next time, you may complete the first-class fund at any time. If so, you still have a chance to rush...special funding and key individual sub-projects..."
Wizard Griffin looked at him deeply, as if he saw his past in Locke, and he regarded himself as Locke's future.
He sighed. "Sure enough, every researcher who enters the Advanced Academy of True Knowledge has unrealistic ideas at the beginning."
He smiled bitterly. "You think the future is too beautiful and too simple. As your senior, let me tell you something. Don't trust too much our mentor, Witch Ekaterina."
A flash of fear flashed in his eyes. "I'm not saying that Lord Throne is not good, but I am saying that when you are within the scope of training of Lord Throne, you will indeed be very happy."
"But Lord Throne is changeable. She is the sun in the sky, and we are the living beings on the ground protected by it. You can't always expect that the sun in the sky will always favor you."
Wizard Griffin sighed. "We are not that important. We have far overestimated our status and our talents."
Locke frowned.
Wizard Griffin seemed to have suffered a serious blow. He came to Zhenzhiyuan more than three years before him, so Locke didn't know what happened specifically to change the mentality of such a wizard genius.
However, from the fact that he has to find outside wizards to do his own projects, you can know how much pressure he is under.
Wizard Griffin whispered to Locke: "The difficulty of obtaining key individual sub-projects from Catherine's Throne is far higher than you think."
"Furthermore, the threshold for getting special funding is also higher than you thought. You don't know anything yet, right, you just came here, so you I don’t know the gap and threshold.”
Wizard Griffin persuaded Locke like a kind-hearted senior: "I tell you, the prerequisite for getting special funding is that you are a second-level wizard and you do a second-level research project."
Locke frowned. "Second-level wizards?"
"But the people in Zhenzhiyuan are all first-level wizards..."
Wizard Griffin smiled and said: "As far as I know, those senior Zhenzhiyuan researchers in the first and second groups, as well as a few ordinary Zhenzhiyuan researchers in the first three groups, have become second-ring wizards."
“Special funding is something we, first-level wizards, don’t even have to think about. The recruitment requirement for Zhenzhiyuan is only to become a first-level liquefied person before the age of fifty, but look at which wizards at the liquefaction stage can actually enter Zhenzhiyuan.”
"Similarly, the real starting threshold for special funding projects is no longer the crystallization stage, but the second ring! Only second ring projects can receive special funding from the Land of Sanze."
“The competition is so fierce.” Griffin Wizard. "But let alone special grants, even first-class funds have been stretched to the limit. Whether I can complete the first-class fund is not certain. By the way, how far has your Zhenzhiyuan Fund reached?"
Locke said: "I just applied for a second-class fund."
Wizard Griffin raised his eyebrows, "Then. You keep working hard. The future foundation will be more and more difficult. "Zhenzhiyuan has always been easy first and then difficult." "The real difficulty is still behind!"
"And... you will be increasingly short of money in the future." Wizard Griffin said: "You will find that you need money to do scientific research, your students need money to advance, your students and you need money to participate in competitions, you need money to buy your own equipment, and you need a lot of money to advance to the second ring..."
"Money, money, money...I started from I have never been so short of money. I am going crazy with money. "
"I never thought that I was so short of money. To advance to the second ring, you even need to conquer a medium-sized plane. These days, how can there be a wizard organization that will directly give you a medium-sized plane..."
Wizard Griffin sighed. "Locke, I wish you good luck in the future."
"Currently, you only see the benefits of Yunze Wetland, but not the horror of Yunze Wetland. This is the land of Sanze, a place where countless geniuses gather, very close to the Star Territory Sea. I don't know how many of us geniuses are buried here."
"You have never even seen the tip of the iceberg of Yunze Wetland. This place... can swallow up geniuses."
Before Wizard Griffin walked out of the store, he sighed, "I hope you will be mentally prepared soon, otherwise I will be you tomorrow."
As he walked past, the old wizard with a white beard poked his head to see that he was walking away, and then said to Locke: "Guest, don't take what he said to heart. I have seen many people like him. It's just because his mentality has collapsed, and he wants to attract more people."
"So that he can prove that it is not his own personal problem."
"My name is George."
"You can call me Old George. How many first-class wizard apprentices do you want?"
Locke shrugged his shoulders. At least when he talked to Griffin, he got two important pieces of information - first, special funding originally required second-level wizards and second-level research to be possible.
It is very important to obtain this information in advance, as it will change a lot of your layout.
It seems that I really need more and more money.
Without money, it is impossible to even advance to the second level wizard, let alone do scientific research.
Fortunately, this is Golden Crown Mountain, which has a wealth of first-level wizard secret realms. There are also multiple opportunities to enter first-level wizard secret realms, and it also provides a large number of resources needed to advance to second-level wizards.
So, although the situation has changed and it is more difficult to obtain special funding, there is still a chance for me to overcome it.
It’s just that you really need to pay close attention.
Furthermore, it seems that now we really need to obtain more funds to use horizontal funds to support our vertical projects.
I hope that my sales of Hydra will be okay.
Hence, he really had to make the three-headed snake he envisioned as soon as possible.
The second point is that Witch Ekaterina’s attitude towards a talented researcher seems to have a critical point. Once a wizard’s performance exceeds this critical point, Witch Ekaterina’s attitude is likely to change dramatically.
However, I don’t know the specific changes, because they are just Griffin’s own personal words.
Locke nodded to Old George and said: "I know, I will not be affected by him. Old George, how much does it cost per month for you to hire a first-class wizard apprentice in general studies?"
Old George said: "It's not much, we just make ends meet. One thousand magic stones a month."
"You can also hire me. I can also write some articles and help you slightly modify the project. But I want ten thousand magic stones a month."
Locke nodded. "Then I will first hire a first-class wizard apprentice in general studies. You ask him to find me in my dormitory. This is my address...this is a thousand magic stones. Let's sign a contract."
"Can he come to my dormitory this afternoon? I hope to have him post some articles in the second area as soon as possible."
In Yunze Wetland, being awarded in the third and fourth districts is completely equivalent to watering down one's qualifications, but the first and second districts can be issued.
For most wizards, the main purpose of creating the second area is not to add to their resume, but to obtain contribution points and accumulate contributions.
Although the second area is mosquito leg meat, when accumulated, it is also a considerable sum of money.
Old George smiled and said: "Of course. As long as this guest is willing, he can report at noon today. I will help you choose a reliable student. However, our first-class wizard apprentices here are all from small wizard organizations, so their level is definitely not as good as your first-class wizard apprentices from Golden Crown Mountain..."