The next day.

Xia Duo finally waited for Rhodes, who had completed all the formalities and selected the laboratory, he didn't ask why the other party didn't come over last night, now the two sides are equal, and it is normal for Rhodes to have changed.

"Rhodes, now that you're a full-fledged researcher, I'll ask you again today, would you like to be a collaborator in McCard's lab?"

Xia Duo got straight to the point.

And Rhodes did not hesitate, and immediately replied sincerely: "I do!" It was an honor to work with Fellow McCad! ”

"Great, you made the right choice! You won't regret your choice today! ”

Seeing that Rhodes still chose to cooperate with McCard's lab after becoming a full-fledged researcher, Xia Duo was quite happy, and this was also the truest emotion in his heart at the moment.

There are a total of fourteen research assistants in the McCadder lab, and now Huck and Rhodes have been successfully promoted, and they have also agreed to continue working with the McCadder lab.

Others, to a greater or lesser extent, will also be influenced by them, from using this place as a springboard for promotion, to being willing to cooperate.

Now Xia Duo's situation in the research institute is very delicate, if he is just alone, it is easy to be handled by those formal researchers who suppress the promotion of subordinates.

The so-called "public anger is difficult to commit", even Vice President Samuel can't stand up to everyone's opposition and insist on supporting him.

But the so-called "public anger is difficult to criminal" actually refers to those "vampire" researchers, but no one has resisted in the past, which makes them coerce everyone and create an unrivaled and irresistible momentum.

Once there are spoilers, rebels, and as there are more and more rebels, when the unspoken rules are broken, they are immediately weakened.

In the final analysis, they just took advantage of the loopholes of the rules, and the upper echelons of the remnants of the empire are not corrupted, and once the upper echelons wait for the right opportunity, they will definitely not let go of this group of tumors!

And Xia Duo, in a sense, is the existence of a bug that artificially contributed to this opportunity.

If you are a researcher in other empires, it is estimated that you will not dare to be the first to stand up and speak against it, and it is more likely that you will completely integrate into this system of unspoken rules.

In the long run, the base branch of the trial division of the research institute will be completely rotten.

……

After finalizing the basic framework of cooperation with Rhodes, the next step was to discuss specific cooperation projects.

"I intend to hand over the body repair related projects to you, the institute has accumulated a lot in this area, and it is just right for you to open up the situation, what do you think?"

Although Xia Duo believed that Rhodes would most likely not refuse his request, for the long-term consideration of win-win cooperation, he still gave Rhodes the opportunity to fully express and even refuse.

It's just that Rhodes didn't refuse, nor did he put forward other strings attached, but agreed and said, "I trust your judgment, and I will complete this project well." ”

Next, the two quickly reached an agreement on the points to be paid for the project commission and the specific indicators for the completion of the project.

After the signing of the agreement, the laboratories of the two parties officially became cooperative units.

……

In the days that followed, Xia Duo spent almost every day in anticipation and joy, and after Huck and Rhodes, two assistant researchers were successfully promoted one after another, and agreed to choose to join his laboratory cooperation system.

Every time one more assistant researcher is promoted, it means that Xia has three more assistants, how can he not be happy.

The only regret is that after him, there are also researchers in the research institute who do not suppress the promotion of subordinates, which makes it a little more difficult for his cooperative laboratory to recruit people.

But fortunately, there are many high-level mages in the research institute, but these assistant researchers found later do not bring their own projects like the first batch, and they can also advance to arcane masters at any time, and as soon as they meet the project evaluation conditions for promotion, they can immediately advance and obtain new laboratories.

As a result, Xia Duo's laboratory alliance system soon fell into a bottleneck of expansion, and there was no way to allow it to expand rapidly in a short period of time.

But as time went on, Chado eventually had more than 20 partner labs, which far exceeded his initial expectations.

This means that there are now (20*4+3)=83 high-level mages working for him.

If we wait until next year's graduation season of the base college, the skyrocketing number of laboratories will still make the number of admitted graduates skyrocket compared to previous years!

By that time, there will be at least 252 mid- and low-level mages joining his work, although these people are actually here to be apprentices, but so many free spell batteries, there is no need to use them in vain.

Isn't it good to teach while working, and learn while working?

Of course, at that time, perhaps the number of cooperative laboratories will most likely continue to increase, and the number of people will be even larger.

……

June 1103 in the Imperial Calendar.

This is the tenth month that Xia Duo has entered the projection plane, except for the first few days when he shook outside, and after joining the research institute, he has not gone out again.

This time almost broke the record for the longest time he has stayed in the same place so far!

Even in the Tower of Time on the main plane, he would often go out and about, but here, for nearly ten months, except for the occasional visit when Elise came to visit, he would go to the Negative 5th Floor Academy Plaza, and the rest of the time he would stay almost near the Energy Center on the negative 3rd floor.

After Harker, Rhodes, and others also chose their laboratories near the Energy Center, other formal researchers from McCard's Laboratory, or other cooperative laboratories, as long as they chose to cooperate with Xia Duo, chose their own laboratories near the Energy Center.

To this end, Vice President Samuel of the Research Institute also arranged for assistants to come forward to persuade several laboratories that were "obstructing the place" to leave, and the cooperative laboratories on the side of Xia Duo were connected.

In the past ten months, Xia Duo has almost given up his research and devoted himself to various projects, and his daily task is to inspect the various project teams in various laboratories.

Or check the progress of the project, or exchange a few words casually, or more often solve some problems encountered in the process of the project.

During this period, although Xia Duo has not advanced to the Arcanist, no one will doubt that he will not be able to advance.

Everyone, including Vice Dean Samuel, will be full of respect for the "McCadder Fellow" after learning about the list of projects submitted and completed in the past ten months of the McCadder Lab System!

If nothing else, "McCard" will be the fastest existence in the history of the base branch of the Academy's Trial Division to be promoted to Level 2 researcher!

He will also be the youngest Level 2 researcher.

This is the real reason why Vice Dean Samuel will also give respect!

Without him, he just made a lot of contributions within the research institute system!