Elena had been lurking in the chat for a while.
She only stayed quiet because those kids were arguing like a bunch of hormonally charged teenagers.
As a married woman, she had zero interest in their petty romantic bickering.
However, one detail caught her eye: her daughter seed to have a crush on this boy?
If it was just that, she wouldn't care. In her youth, she was a fierce advocate for romantic freedom.
She had even defied her parents to marry a Chinese man ten years her senior in a heartbeat.
He was a fairly average-looking man, while Elena was the peak of her generation—stunningly beautiful and a genius who had made a na for herself in research at a young age.
Why did such a genius girl fall for a plain, older man?
The reason was simple: Elena was "brain-sexual."
She was only attracted to intelligence. She desperately wanted to possess anyone smarter than her.
And her late husband was the greatest mind in research at the ti.
His perspective on scientific problems was decades ahead of his era.
After just a few conversations, she was completely conquered by his intellect, leading to her moving across the world to be with him.
Sadly, genius is often short-lived. Her husband eventually collapsed in his lab, taken by the incurable "KXK Syndro."
She only had enough ti to scientifically collect his genetic material to conceive Anna Lee.
Anyway, she was drifting off topic.
The point was: Elena was a serious, responsible academic who despised people who used "pop science" to farm for research grants.
And now, looking at Lorze's claim of "90% certainty," she saw it as total bullshit.
Her lab was also researching Eevee evolutions.
It wasn't their primary project, but they had been at it for years with zero significant breakthroughs.
They were certain the Moon Stone and Sun Stone evolutions existed, but they could never trigger the transformation.
Elena refused to believe their lab was the only one that knew about these forms.
Yet, globally, has anyone published anything? No.
If the world's greatest minds couldn't solve it, and so high schooler claims he's 90% sure, then he's either a god or a liar.
If you're more of a genius than my husband, should I marry you too?
Elena could accept a teenage genius if the results were backed by rigorous experintation.
But she and Mother Xue had vetted Lorze's background.
He was a commoner. No secret funding, no corporate backing.
How the fuck did you afford the research costs?
Even if he could afford it, research requires the subject.
Where is your Eevee?
Your only Pokémon is a Ralts, isn't it?
You don't even own an Eevee, yet you're claiming to be ahead of the world's top labs?
Are you taking the piss?
She was baffled that Mother Xue (Xue Xu) fell for his lies.
Xu, you're a sharp businesswoman. How did a boy's fairy tales trick you?
Normally, she wouldn't care if Mother Xue wasted ten million; the Xue family was drowning in cash.
The problem was her daughter.
Elena had watched the tournant footage and saw how her daughter and Lorze were making "fuck-" eyes at each other.
And just now in the chat, Anna was clearly jealous of his attention toward Xue Tong.
If you don't like him, why do you care who he's hitting on?
Elena supported her daughter's freedom, but she would not let her marry a fraud who used lies to get attention!
Granted, Lorze wasn't "useless"—his performance in the arena was terrifyingly good. He was a combat prodigy.
But that made it worse.
A man who could succeed through hard work and talent but chose the "short-cut" of lying for fa? That suggested a rotten character.
To save the Xue family's money and to show her daughter the boy's true colors, Elena had to challenge him.
She chid in with a voice ssage: "There's a massive problem with that."
Seeing her mother appear, Anna Lee quickly tried to warn Lorze: "Mom? You're here too?"
Elena cut her off instantly: "Be quiet. I am focusing on the Umbreon situation."
Anna Lee: "Uh... okay."
Anna shut up. She knew that when her mother entered "Academic Mode," she stopped caring about family ties.
Little Lorze, I can't help you now. Good luck, babe~.
Lorze replied with his own voice ssage: "May I ask what Auntie's specific concerns are?"
Elena: "I'll get straight to the point. Your proposed thod is physically impossible."
Lorze: "Why?"
Elena: "We have already conducted these experints. An Eevee simply cannot directly absorb 'Lunar Power' from a stone."
Lorze: "Was Auntie using a Moon Stone?"
Elena: "Yes. The highest quality Moon Stones available."
Lorze: "Well, there's your problem. You could use a god-tier Moon Stone and it would still fail."
Elena: "What do you an?"
Lorze: "Because when I say 'Lunar Power,' I am not referring exclusively to a Moon Stone. And a Moon Stone contains more than just Lunar Power."
Elena: "Oh? Elaborate."
Elena was genuinely surprised. It was a known fact among elite researchers that Moon Stones were complex.
But how did he know?
With his family's inco, he shouldn't even be able to afford a low-grade Moon Stone.
Even if he bought a cheap one, where did he get the million-dollar equipnt to analyze it?
Everything in research burns money. How did a peasant boy bypass the paywall?
Lorze continued: "We all know that most Ghost and Dark-type Pokémon have a special affinity for the night. Why is that? Isn't it because the moonlight contains energy that attracts them?"
Elena: "Is this a conclusion from your 'research'?"
Lorze: "It doesn't even require research. A Moon Stone is the physical result of absorbed lunar essence over eons. I believe it is composed of three primary energy types rged together."
Elena: "?!!"
Mother Xue: "Well, things just got interesting."
Even Mother Xue couldn't help but chi in.
While the public was clueless, Elena and Mother Xue knew the secret composition of Moon Stones intimately.
Low-grade stones were ssy, but the higher the quality, the more the energy converged into three main components.
Two of them were exactly what Lorze ntioned: Dark and Ghost energy.
They were surprised he guessed those two, but it was logically sound since those types love the night.
But the third component... how the fuck did Lorze know about that?
Without having a laboratory dedicated to the spectral analysis of lunar energy, it was physically impossible to identify it.
Even if you held a high-grade stone in your hand, you couldn't "see" the breakdown without specialized tech.
Yet Lorze stated the existence of the third energy with absolute confidence.
How did he reach this conclusion?
Logically, his social status made this knowledge impossible to obtain...
It wasn't that they looked down on the poor, but they knew the brutal reality of the cost of science.
This little Lorze... he really is a master at defying expectations...
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