“Yes, he’s human, and he is... the true breakthrough on the Deification Ranking!”

He had only looked up, but once he realized that figure matched the man he had just met, he gave a bitter smile and supplied the answer.

“He’s the one who came today to take the test. He brought an entirely new tower structure and broke the record in one stroke.”

“And the upper limit of that architecture of his is far beyond this. At the very least... at the very least it can reach a thousand times!”

A thousand times. That was a terrifying achievement, enough to reach dean level, a breakthrough without precedent and without equal to come.

From the founding of the Academy of Sciences until now, apart from the original Nine Heroes, not a single later arrival had ever reached such a result in any field and joined the Academy directly as a dean.

But at this moment Hou Congwen could not care about any of that. Gritting his teeth, he added another three hundred times to the number on the spot.

In one move he raised Su Mo’s importance from the earlier 1, and the earlier 5,

tenfold, a hundredfold, a thousandfold, up to 500, 5,000, even 50,000!

“A thousand times! My God! That’s not a dean. No, that potential already surpasses dean level!”

“If even a tower structure can hit a thousand times, then if we let him refine those architectural systems of ours that we already researched to the ceiling, our Architecture Institute might turn the tables and become the foremost institute!”

“These people are surrounding and killing a dean-level figure of our Architecture Institute? This... this is cutting off the very roots of humanity!”

“Yes, they’re cutting off humanity’s roots. No wonder the murlocs have gone so mad they’ll pay any price to strike inside the Academy.”

“No. We have to get this news out. We can’t just watch him die in front of us.”

“Right. Even if I die, even if we die, as long as he lives, what he can bring humanity will be enough to turn this age upside down!”

“Charge out! We’ll split up and find communications gear. We have to tell the Grand Dean this information. We must use the Academy of Sciences’s ultimate weapon!”

“He’s worth it. He’s completely worth bringing out the ultimate weapon!”

The scene grew more and more chaotic.

Under the murlocs’s roars, under the spray of bullets, under the agonized howls of the wounded,

adrenaline surged through many of the researchers as well. Hot blood rushed to their heads without stop.

No one understood better than they did what it would mean if the Academy of Sciences gained one more dean-level figure, one more pillar of the nation.

It was no exaggeration to say that such a person was not merely a treasure of one territory. To humanity as a whole, he was a divine being, infinitely precious.

On a day when universal education and advanced education were so scarce!

On a day when the break in knowledge had grown so severe that learning had to be passed on by word of mouth!

On a day when humanity’s numbers were falling tenfold, a hundredfold, and extinction was near!

On a day when wasteland disasters grew worse and worse, and humanity could only research how to retreat underground!

Lose even one such person, and humanity’s odds of surviving the future fell by one percent, or even more.

And for that one percent...

“Charge! For humanity, for tomorrow!”

“The clamor of the dust blinds the pillars of the nation; countless brave men are buried alive. No matter how mighty a commoner may be, how can one hand press down the blue sky!”

“Brothers, charge! I want to see whether they dare turn their guns on us!”

“Charge out and show them that we researchers have guts too!”

“They dare surround and kill a pillar of the nation who hasn’t even received status yet, and we can’t stop them. But if you dare touch a single finger of ours, you’d better be ready to fight our Academy of Sciences to mutual destruction!”

Suddenly twenty or thirty people surged to their feet. Their roaring voices spread out and forced the three or five murlocs holding guns to hesitate, not daring to move.

True, in surrounding and killing this Su Youzong, who had no status and whose behavior was extremely abnormal, they could still dig up a few reasons afterward to argue their case.

But if they truly dared to tear off the mask with the Academy of Sciences and open fire on these researchers... even with the Western Military Region behind them...

Almost without meaning to, the murlocs stepped aside and left the way to the outside open.

With that one concession, a dozen or so people’s eyes lit up, and they hurried to charge outward.

Along the way, whenever a murloc tried to step forward and block them, one glare from the researchers made him slow as if frozen.

They could only watch as those people rushed out of the Architecture Institute’s research building one after another and headed into the open grounds.

“I’ll find communications gear and contact the Tianpo Army for emergency support!”

“I’ll find the Grand Dean and have him deploy our Academy’s trump-card weapon!”

“I’ll find my father. He’s the captain of the Luna Town defense force. I’ll have him bring men straight over to save me!”

“Right. I’ll find my uncle. The Inspectorate isn’t strong at fighting, but we have plenty of specially supplied high-grade weapons. Enough to deal with these mad fish!”

“Hurry. He may not last much longer...”

Outside the building, the entire Academy of Sciences had already become a battlefield of flying fire and shrapnel.

Severed limbs and stray bullets were everywhere.

Unable to tell who was fighting whom, the researchers who had just left the building could only whisper to one another, then split up and head in different directions.

In that moment they desperately hoped they could find support soon and save that mysterious pillar of the nation still inside.

But in that moment they also knew clearly that even the fastest support would take at least five minutes to arrive.

Could he hold out for five minutes?

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