Chapter 370: I, Cheng Tian, am stealing business!
[Portable Laboratory: Template Tool. Converts an entire 'Hammond's Innovation Lab' building and department into a conceptual existence. Basic research can be done in portable mode, but more detailed experimental operations can only be performed when it is established in a dungeon.
The Portable Laboratory has two forms: 'Portable' and 'Dungeon'.
In 'Portable' form, you can normally use all effects of the four template skills: 'Genetic Gene Collection', 'Ancient Creature Incubation', 'Genetic Genome Modification', and 'Genetic Genome Hybridization', but you cannot perform expansion operations.
You can set up and integrate the Portable Laboratory into the setting of a dungeon with a suitable background. Once successfully set up, the Portable Laboratory will be considered to have originally existed in the dungeon's background setting.
Under normal circumstances, you will be recognized by NPCs as the 'biggest shareholder/boss/investor of the laboratory'. The laboratory's reputation spread in the circle will be determined based on the level of its achievements.
Once built, a Portable Laboratory is considered a 'Dungeon Laboratory'. You can use the Dungeon Laboratory as a medium to hire more NPC units to work for you by spending Chosen Coins to sign 'Scientific Contracts', 'Entertainment Contracts', and 'Security Contracts'.
An already built Dungeon Laboratory can be destroyed, but it will not affect your own Portable Laboratory. Related scientific research results and progress will be retained in the Portable Laboratory; if a Dungeon Laboratory is destroyed, you can re-establish a Dungeon Laboratory by spending a large amount of Chosen Coins; an already established Dungeon form of laboratory can also be relocated by spending Chosen Coins.
You can only establish a maximum of 1 Dungeon Laboratory in each dungeon; you need to be responsible for the profits and losses of each Dungeon Laboratory; if you cannot bear the profits and losses of the laboratory, you can choose 'bankruptcy liquidation', at which point the laboratory in that dungeon will be destroyed, and you will not be able to establish a laboratory in that dungeon again.]
[Additional comment: Please do not feed dragon hunters to carnivorous dragons~]
Alright~
Cheng Tian pouted, looking at the item description, his expression noncommittal.
The Hammond Innovation Institute, which was highly compatible with this current 'Adventurer's Dinosaur New World' dungeon, integrated like a drop of water into a river, without causing any ripples... Well, not exactly without ripples.
With the official establishment of the institute, Irene, who possessed observation skills comparable to an eagle's eye, saw that the faces of those intermediaries who handled recycling and consignment, which were originally somewhat human-like, had already turned into expressions of profound grief.
What they earned was essentially the price difference from most dragon hunters being too lazy to handle their own business. But this laboratory, it just opened right in the faces of the Swamp Forest dragon hunters!
This was no longer just taking meat out of their mouths; it was directly disemboweling them and pulling out the meat they had already swallowed!
Although dragon hunting had become a legitimate industry, as a business with a strong murderous intent, those who could occupy a place here were at least considered a boss of some sort.
Especially since the name of the Hammond Innovation Laboratory had not yet been established, they clearly had other ideas.
Cheng Tian, this 'over-the-river dragon', didn't notice the rudeness of the locals at the moment, but instead directly entered the institute.
This entire newly built 'Hammond Innovation Laboratory Dinosaur New World Branch', in addition to including all laboratory functional buildings, also came with a not-small, fenced ancient creature activity area. All incubated adult units would be automatically sent into this area.
However, this area was currently a swamp jungle, and outside it, a considerable number of wild super-powered dinosaurs genuinely resided, so security was actually not guaranteed.
The main reason Cheng Tian set up the laboratory here was for his own convenience.
Whether it was for acquisitions or for him to go out hunting and recycling himself, having a nearby research institute would save a lot of time.
And even if it was destroyed, it didn't matter. He could just rebuild it~
...Saying he was stealing business was not an exaggeration at all.
When Cheng Tian reappeared at the entrance, a research ape had already appeared beside him.
It was clear that Comrade Utan, the ancient creature research ape, was extremely satisfied. The entire ape was in a state of considerable excitement, grinning broadly and happily making 'woo woo woo' sounds.
For a biological research ape, a research institute was a place where he could thrive, like an ape entering a forest. And the research environment here was much better than the research environment of the Modern Army.
Cheng Tian also unhesitatingly bestowed the position of the highest person in charge of the entire research institute directly upon Utan. In the institute, apart from Cheng Tian himself, Utan's word was law!
Of course, with no additional employees hired at the moment, Utan could only manage himself.
However, it was at this moment that Cheng Tian noticed that a considerable number of people had already gathered at the main entrance of the institute. They were the thugs gathered by the intermediaries who felt their business was being stolen... as well as dragon hunters who were simply curious and watching the show.
Perhaps because human social order was still well-maintained, although it looked very much like Mad Max, they had not yet forcibly stormed the institute.
Or from another perspective, they hadn't quite figured out what their demands actually were.
Was it to forbid the Hammond Innovation Laboratory from collecting materials themselves and to outsource everything to them?
Or was it to simply drive the institute away, out of sight, out of mind?
However, Cheng Tian did not give them much chance to overthink, because accompanied by a powerful dragon roar that made countless people tremble with fear, the faces of this group of people gathered outside the laboratory, whether they were genuinely looking for trouble or simply watching the show, instantly turned incredibly pale!
Immediately after, heavy thumping footsteps drilled into their ears.
At the same time, in the spacious passage deliberately reserved for large dragon beasts, the crimson Tyrannosaurus Rex, its figure hidden behind the main body of the institute, appeared right behind Cheng Tian and in front of everyone.
It must be said that some of these people were indeed quick-reacting dragon hunters who had already picked up their firearms and wanted to shoot at the crimson Tyrannosaurus Rex, but the crimson had already opened its mouth first, letting out a dragon roar while displaying the terrifying aura of a top predator—
He even summoned his Lava Dragon Claws, with a hint of showing off!
The dragon roar that caused panic in the outpost ended, and a large number of dragon hunters foamed at the mouth, rolled their eyes, and wet their pants, collapsing in groups in front of the laboratory gate.
10 minutes later, the news that the 'Hammond Innovation Laboratory' possessed the ability to cultivate and control top predator Tyrannosaurus Rex with deep bloodline mutations instantly spread through various channels throughout the dragon hunting industry—
And among them, naturally, was the Fessenden Institute, whose research on 'two-headed Tyrannosaurus Rex' and 'dual bloodline mutation' had hit a bottleneck!