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nBack in Baymard, while Landon had been away... Baymard's industries had been extremely busy within these past few days as well.

nIn short, within this past week... all industries within Baymard had been painstakingly brainstorming their minds off non-stop.

nFor over 2 years now, the industries had chosen 2 particular weeks within the years..... and had called them the weeks of 'Research Mania'!

nTo put it simply, this was the time where all product suggestions that had been placed within the ballot boxes around the industries..... would be looked over diligently.

nWithin the first week of Research mania..... people could still put in their suggestions.

nBut they would have to send them directly to the offices.... and not within the ballot boxes, as all suggestions put there would be accounted for, within next year's Research mania only.

n.

nAnyway, within this 1st week..... all suggestions that had been collected throughout the year, would be organized neatly.

nAnd within the 2nd week of Research Mania, the suggestions would be brought over to the board of directors and leaders of each industry..... where they would vote on the top 2 best ones and set their goals in creating them.

nLandon had come up with this idea, so as to help the workers come up with their own unique products instead.

nAnd the catch was that no matter how much they asked for his help, he would never intervene or give them suggestions.... except it was something that might kill or injure them.

nThey would have to do several trials and errors and come up with an ideal product on their own.

n.

nWithin the first year that Landon came up with this plan, many of the industries had burned through all their research money with no end product.

nAnd even within their second year, many of them had only successfully produced 1 out of 2 products as agreed.

nAnd after the products were made, they would be screened by a group of special screeners.

nOf course, it didn't end there, because after the screeners did their job..... the products would then pass through Landon, who would be the ultimate screener.

nNothing that could harm or pill people was to ever be released.

nSo Landon would take time off his schedule and do his own tests on whatever products that they had made.

nIn short, the research center and labs, were busy all year round with their plates full... as they tried their best to make these suggestions become a reality.

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nCynthia Drew woke up very early in the morning, got ready, made sure that her youngest daughter got on the school bus.... and quickly rushed over to work.

nShe was a 32-year-old woman, who was currently the head of the research department within the FOOD industry.

nThis was already the second week of Research Mania, so she was very familiar with the drill already.

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"Good boss!

" Said a young girl with a chipper tone.

nThe young lady, who was her secretary... quickly brought in some documents, placed it before Cynthia, and stood still and attentive while waiting for her boss's next orders.

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"Morning Nikita....

nAre these the R.M files?

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"Yes boss, those are the Research Mania files.

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"Good!....

nWe're short on time now, so please prepare everything we need for the meeting at 11 P.M.

nDismissed.

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"Yes, boss!

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nWith that, the young lady retreated and went back to her secretary's desk outside Cynthia's office and began preparing for the meeting.

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nTime flew by speedily, and soon.... it was already 10:30 A.M.

nCynthia immediately left her office with one of the secretaries stationed in the room just before her office.

nIt only took her 20 minutes for her to leave her office and drive to one of the other buildings within the food industry.

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"Morning head researcher Cynthia!

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"Morning Overseer Lyore!

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"Morning!

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"Morning!

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"Morning!

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"Morning!

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nWithin the next few minutes, everyone simmered down and the meeting had finally started.

nAll right..... chief accountant Destrian..... how much have we budgeted in total for research this year?

nAnd how does it compare with last year's?

" Lyore asked.

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"Even though our industry was making a ton of money previously..... we only had public exposure last year around July.

nAnd since then, we have been exporting canned food and other items throughout the entire Pyno continent.

nSo, of course, this year.... the money budgeted for research, was significantly higher than those of the previous years.

nIn essence for research alone, this year... we were able to allocate 700,000 BAYS for the chosen projects... compared to last year's 150,000 Bays.

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n(**1 Bay=1 copper coin... so the amount is equivalent to 700,000 copper coins.

nAnd is also equal to 7,000 Silver coins, or 70 gold coins)

nHearing the amount, everyone clapped excitedly as they were truly blown away by the amount.

nChief Lyore clapped and laughed out sheepishly as he usually did, as this meant that he could make more food.

nOne should know that Lyore was a food fanatic.

nSo how could he not be pleased?

nEven at this moment, he had been thinking about building his house of food with any of the new products brought in as well.

nAs for the rest, their minds were also focused on the aspects of jew food items as well... but, the amount assigned for research was still something that really shocked them to their core.

nWaaah!... that was somewhat close to 1 million BAYS.

nOf course, the money would be allocated towards both chosen research projects depending on which one needed more investments assigned to them.

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n'Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap!'

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"Thank you Chief Accountant Destrian.

nAlright..... moving on to the list at hand, let's begin with last year's suggestions that came after the deadline.

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nAnd just like that, everyone went through their entire week buying and picking the best choices.

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"Flying hit air balloon drink?

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"No!

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"Yes!

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"Powdered drink?

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"That's impossible!

nHow can a drink be powder?

nNo!

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"I agree with him, it might be a waste of our resources to invest in that!

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nAnd just like the food industry was brainstorming, others also did the same as well.

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"Flying cooker?

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"No!

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"Talking watch!

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"Impossible No!

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"Battery-operated Fridge?

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"No!

nToo costly for ordinary folks... as the battery would probably drain out by the end of the day!

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"Strings to floss the teeth with?

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"Genius!

nApproved!

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nFlying hot air balloon Car

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"Yes..... if it can carry people in a basket, if we do the math, maybe we could make it work?

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"Erm... let's just keep it at a maybe for now.

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