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Someone immediately spoke up and asked the first question, “May I ask what led you to this new concept?”

For the majority of pharmacists, the most basic principle in the creation of body potions was to suppress the animal features on the body so that they would disappear in a short period of time.

An Yan’s new concept on the other hand, greatly conflicted with this foundational principle, and it could even be said to be the exact opposite.

An Yan thought for a moment and replied: “That’s probably because I had not been exposed to systematic studies on the production of body potions before, so I did not have the inertia of making potions to suppress.”

“I didn’t come up with a clear concept at first, it was only during the process of experimentation that I discovered the potions produced by this method were much more effective. That was how I gradually became convinced of the existence and validity of the new concept.”

After hearing the answer to the first question, a second question was asked: “I have seen the results of the potions you made through the new concept, and they were obviously much more refined than the potions we made in the course of our experiments, and could even be said to be very rare. Did you already have such results when you first made potions using this new concept, or did you improve your skills to the present level through constant practice?”

It was not advisable to ask a pharmacist about his potion-making skills, but there was nothing wrong with asking about his talent.

An Yan raised his hand and touched his nose, “I think it has something to do with talent. The potion I made the first time was not as good as what I make now, but it wasn’t too bad, I guess.”

Someone pressed on, “Can you tell us the approximate effectiveness of the first potion you made through your new concept?”

“Let’s see,” An Yan carefully thought back and quickly gave a precise answer, “The duration of effectiveness was sixty days, and the side effect was thirty seconds of mild dizziness.”

Gasps immediately went up in the conference room. The first potion made using the new concept had such unbelievable figures? Wasn’t that too frightening!

However, This data was more acceptable compared to that test results from the potions An Yan had produced in the practical classroom.

It was true that people with talent were different; casually creating a potion could crush decades of their efforts.

They might have felt envious and sour about the gap between themselves and the other party if It was talent.ry talent

But the other party’s talent had reached a level they couldn’t even envy.

After the shock and emotion, the conversation quickly returned to the theme of the seminar.

Many questions were then asked with great enthusiasm and An Yan patiently answered them all. The time soon slipped to noon.

Although there were still many people who had many questions they wanted to ask, it was getting late and the necessary questions had almost been exhausted. The president of the institute took the initiative to speak up, “It’s getting late, this seminar will be ……”

But before he could finish his words, he was interrupted. The person who interrupted him was surprisingly not his subordinates, but An Yan.

An Yan seriously asked, “Can we wait a little longer?”

The president immediately retracted his unfinished sentence, “Of course you can.”

An Yan’s eyes scanned the hall, and then spoke with a serious attitude, “Actually, I have a problem that I don’t understand. Can I ask everyone for advice?”

He had answered many questions for and everyone was grateful in their hearts. Those who participated in the seminar immediately nodded their heads and said that they would definitely answer it seriously.

“I actually want to know why humans are so averse to the animal features on their bodies, and even implicate real animals because of this.” An Yan slowly voiced his doubts.

He had thought about this question for a long time, but had never found an answer.

Everyone thought that An Yan was going to ask a question about potion making, so a number of people froze slightly when they heard this question.

“In my opinion, it was humans themselves who took the initiative to research evolutionary potions and chose to take them in the first place, it doesn’t have anything to do with the animals themselves, does it?” Fearing that he had not expressed himself clearly enough, An Yan added in detail, “Moreover, the evolutionary potion did have the effects that humans wanted in the first place, and I believe that these effects were precisely because the potion stimulated certain characteristics in the human body, producing such a great effects. In this case, animal traits should not have become a disgusting and self-condemning existence, but a manifestation of human evolution.”

The group remained silent on hearing An Yan’s  words.

They were a little surprised by the question at first, and by the time they had reacted, they had fallen into contemplation.

In fact, just like they believed that making body potions needed the suppression of animal features, they were also instinctively in a state of rejection, or even disgust, towards the animal features on their bodies.

And as for real animals, they didn’t see any problem with before since hating them had slowly become a trend through the years.

But they were indeed confused when An Yan asked this question, because what An Yan said did make sense.

It was indeed the humans' choice to research and take evolutionary potions, and it had absolutely nothing to do with animals.

And as An Yan had just said, if one considered the issue from another angle, the animal traits carried by humans were indeed not necessarily a stigma, but rather a manifestation of human evolution.

In this case, why would humans be so disgusted by the animal features on their bodies, and even let this disgust spill over to real animals?

A silence fell over the hall as everyone pondered the answer to this question, but it was clear that they would have a hard time finding an answer.

Something things are so deeply rooted that you can’t even remember exactly when they entered your brain, but by the time you realize it, they taken root so deep that it is hard to remove.

Everyone was silent and An Yan couldn’t help but sigh. It seemed that they didn’t know the answer to this question either.

Just as he was about to take the initiative to end the discussion on this issue, the president suddenly spoke up at this time, “It’s probably a kind of obsession.”

An Yan couldn’t help looking at him.

The president slightly lowered his head and stared at the conference table in front of him, “Perhaps what humans really hate is not the animal traits they carry, but the fact that they have lost the most basic and complete form of humanity due to their choices.”

Some things don’t feel precious when you have them, and it is only after you’ve lost them that you realize how important they were.

It can even transform into an obsession that is so deeply rooted in your heart that you keep feeling bitter about it and cannot break free.

And when this obsession is painful, or even unbearable, humans spontaneously transfer it to something else.

The reason why we became like this is not that we made a wrong choice at the beginning, but the animal characteristics we carry make it easy to have such thoughts. Generally speaking, this is not just an obvious anger, but also a transfer of anger for self comfort.

This obsession gradually turned into disgust and rejection, even hatred, of the animal features on the body.

“Maybe it’s not just obsession,” another older academic sighed, “there is also human cowardice, resentment, and self-deception because one doesn’t have the courage to face the consequences of their choices, so they blames it on the truly innocent animals. It was probably like that at first, but as mankind developed, this idea was gradually taken for granted, and no one would probably look deeper into how such an idea actually came about.”

The others could not help but be even more silent at the words of that academic and the president of the Institute.

Anyone can distinguish the right and wrong of imposing one’s mistakes on an innocent third party, even if it’s taken for granted.

But when it is not just one person, but all of mankind who has made this mistake, it was difficult to say something.

An Yan sighed lightly, “It was because of this that humanity chose the wrong direction for the research on body potions from the very beginning, right?”

His words made everyone even more silent, because they all knew that what he said was the truth.

If, humans had been able to be honest about the consequences of their choices from the very beginning, instead of blaming everything on the animal features on their bodies, it wouldn’t have led to almost everyone being so disgusted with the animal features they carried.

It was true that some humans carried animal features that were an inconvenience to their lives, but more often than not, humans carried a little bit of something like a decorative animal feature that actually didn’t have any negative impact on them.

However, because of certain deep-rooted thinking, they instinctively disliked and rejected these animal features even if they did not affect their lives.

In this case, the first reaction to eliminate these animal traits would not be to appease them. With this false start, the human race could only go further and further down the wrong path.

Had it not been for the appearance of An Yan, who came up with a new and effective concept, mankind would still be wasting time on this wrong path.