CHAPTER 295: CHAPTER 293 BEING UNDERESTIMATED

After finishing the modification of the police station shelter’s boiler, Chen Xin and Qin Lan returned to Qin Lan’s room once again.

It must be said, the heating effect of the boiler after modification is completely different. At least, as Chen Xin and Qin Lan sat in the room, they could clearly feel the temperature rising, and the frost that had formed on the walls was slowly dissipating.

"It seems the temperature has risen above zero," Qin Lan said, looking at the disappearing frost on the wall, and then at Chen Xin. "Now, the people in the shelter should be much better off, right?"

"It’s definitely more comfortable than the previous temperatures below minus ten degrees. At least above zero, it’s not so easy to get frostbite." Chen Xin deliberately took a thermometer, glanced at it, and saw the room temperature had indeed risen to 1°C, which made him smile.

This time, although the modifications to the boiler and the ground source heat pump earned Chen Xin two survival points, totaling ten thousand survival points and an additional one hundred survival points per day, Chen Xin invested eleven thousand survival points in these two modifications.

And this was even with the police gathering the necessary materials for him.

The investment required for large equipment modifications is indeed not low. Even if Chen Xin can currently earn over four hundred survival points a day, it would only amount to more than twelve thousand points a month. Adding the previous accumulation he had, Chen Xin currently had enough survival points to modify four more boilers.

Of course, this means that without additional income, Chen Xin can only modify four more boilers. Counting the five thousand survival points earned for each completed shelter modification, Chen Xin could actually modify all the boilers in the city’s shelters.

However, this would require full cooperation from the municipal government, or else without materials, the tenfold increase in survival point consumption would make it impossible for Chen Xin to modify even one boiler.

Before doing that, the ones who approached Chen Xin first were still the scientific institutions.

They were already gathering materials according to Chen Xin’s requirements, but it takes time to collect the materials. However, these researchers were already eager to understand what Chen Xin meant by the isotopic generator.

Faced with the eagerness of these researchers, Chen Xin hesitated for a moment, but after a little consideration, he and Qin Lan took two Power Armor suits and returned to the scientific institution set up in the city with the researchers.

It was called a scientific institution, but in reality, it only occupied a laboratory at the Polytechnic College, essentially serving as a relay station.

After all, the tasks they took on were not mainly research. They were responsible for receiving projects that needed Chen Xin’s upgrades, collected from various national scientific institutions by a special team from the upper echelons, and then sending them to Chen Xin along with the materials according to priority. Then they’d return the upgraded project products to the original institutions for reverse engineering.

So for this scientific institution, they were essentially equivalent to a transit warehouse, but logistics and warehousing personnel couldn’t be in charge of these matters.

Because all the project samples sent here were considered high-tech products, many things were even more fragile than the most exquisite porcelain. Additionally, they needed to categorize and assign priority levels, tasks that could not be handled by non-professionals.

This resulted in a group of serious researchers essentially doing the work of porters here.

However, these researchers themselves didn’t really mind. Having witnessed Chen Xin’s entirely unscientific upgrading capability, they knew how important their work was and how carefully the project samples sent here needed to be handled. They didn’t mind being reduced to mere warehouse porters.

But just because the researchers themselves were not bothered doesn’t mean there weren’t others who had complaints.

At least, when Chen Xin and Qin Lan followed the researchers to the lab located at the Polytechnic College shelter, a young researcher passing by showed displeasure towards Chen Xin, humming in displeasure and walking around him as if Chen Xin was something dirty.

This left Chen Xin puzzled, while the researchers around appeared embarrassed.

After Chen Xin asked, the researchers explained somewhat sheepishly.

Although Chen Xin’s capabilities were truly heaven-defying, especially in these end times, Chen Xin’s abilities saved a lot of research funding and time, allowing many important ongoing research projects to be swiftly converted into products. This was of strategic importance to the entire nation.

But Chen Xin’s capabilities were also unscientific. Even though all processes were "handmade" by him, he couldn’t explain the rationale or principles behind them, let alone any design thinking. This made him seem like a typical pseudo-scientist, a fraudulent amateur in the eyes of many academic or traditional researchers.

In these people’s view, the nation should not spend a penny on someone like Chen Xin, someone who deceived the nation unknowingly with his notoriety, and should not waste resources on him.

These resources should be used in more beneficial areas, like their research projects.

That young researcher just now was precisely one of those academic-centric individuals, whose mentor was a traditional researcher with some achievements, always looking down on such folks as Chen Xin.

After hearing the researchers’ explanations, Chen Xin could only shake his head helplessly. In a sense, he was indeed a fraud because he didn’t possess any knowledge and abilities himself; everything relied on the system.

The upgrades depended on the system’s functions, not his own abilities. In a way, Chen Xin was indeed deceiving people.

But the things he could provide were real, and all the upgrades were visible and effective, prompting the nation to specially create a task force and allocate national resources for this matter.

However, matters at the national strategic level were indeed of a very high tier, and Chen Xin’s abilities were also too crucial from the national perspective. The truth of the matter was sealed off. While the researchers at the Polytechnic College knew that this scientific institution was established because of Chen Xin, the civilian, it was difficult for them to know Chen Xin’s actual capabilities.

This undoubtedly created the illusion for those unaware that Chen Xin seemed like a fraud squandering national resources.

"Alright, just let it go. We should just focus on doing our own thing." Faced with this situation, Chen Xin could only feel helpless. After all, he couldn’t explain it to everyone individually. He could only say to do his job well, and eventually, the truth would become clear on its own.