The beautiful woman in the quick transmigration novel has been targeted by the male lead again.

With the immediate threat of extinction gone, Changning is full of fighting spirit.

Undoubtedly, the hottest research topics right now revolve around mental strength and bipolar disorder, with several major research directions:

The mechanisms of mania and its onset

Suppression and eradication of mania

The damage and repair of the body caused by bipolar disorder

In addition to this, there is the research on mental power, which has a larger market. Besides the generation mechanism of mental power and how to improve the level of mental power, there is also how to awaken mental power in ordinary people.

This is a strong demand from ordinary people who make up more than 90% of the total population of the entire interstellar space.

It is said that Dr. Lin from the Chinese Academy of Sciences is currently researching this area. At the last exchange meeting, some information was vaguely revealed that he had already achieved some results.

Chang Ning was trying to figure out what research direction she should take. She had read a lot of materials and papers but still had no clue. She had hardly ever been in contact with awakened people since she was a child and knew nothing about bipolar disorder.

No, it's not fair to say I know nothing, after all, I was almost strangled to death by someone who had a manic episode last time.

Chang Ning had a flash of inspiration and thought of a research topic: she wanted to develop a drug that could quickly render an awakened person with a manic episode incapable of moving!

Currently, the main treatments for manic episodes include: slow-release medications, but these are not very effective for those with high-grade mania; secondly, isolating oneself in a space and enduring the episode; and finally, using coercive measures, such as electronic shackles, in addition to the second method.

Tranquilizers are useless because awakened individuals already possess more active mental energy, and during a manic episode, the activity level of their mental energy increases exponentially.

In situations like the last one, where ordinary people could break into the space where awakened individuals reside without electronic shackles, such a drug would be very necessary to quickly render them incapacitated!

After deciding on her research topic, Chang Ning began to study the relevant theories and conduct corresponding biological experiments. She dared to say that she had never been so serious in her life!

Thanks to technological advancements in the interstellar era, scientists can shorten experimental time when observing the long-term reactions of samples through small-scale space cloning and time accelerators.

For example, in the past, a drug had to undergo clinical trials that took several years before it could be marketed. Through simulation acceleration, this time can be compressed into a few months.

Even so, it took Chang Ning a full four months and countless failures to finally produce the first version of the finished product.

Overjoyed, she took it to the testing department for ingredient and efficacy testing, only to leave disappointed.

Although she herself believes that she is researching a drug that can render manic individuals incapable of movement, it is not fundamentally different from existing manic sustained-release drugs on the market.

The ingredients are slightly different, but the effects are the same.

The people in the testing department thought she had improved the sustained-release agent and praised her, saying, "Wow, that's impressive! You've achieved results in such a short time. You really have a talent for research!"

Chang Ning: "..."

Happy for nothing.

She returned to her lab dejectedly. Now, her progress was back to zero, and she had to start all over again.

Scientific research is so difficult!

She opened her personal computer aimlessly. For the past few months, she had devoted herself to the laboratory, almost to the point of neglecting to eat and sleep. She had no social life and at first glance, she had begun to show some of the temperament of a scientific researcher.

But everyone knows she's just there to fill a spot, sigh.

Chang Ning saw that someone had just sent her a message. It was from her college classmate, whose family was said to be quite wealthy. He had once pursued her, but Chang Ning rejected him because he wasn't from Central Star.

This classmate said he planned to go back to his hometown to develop his career and invited Changning to have a meal together.

Chang Ning thought about it and agreed, not wanting to stay in this place of heartbreak any longer.

Once back in the bustling downtown area, Chang Ning felt as if she had been transported to another world. She had arranged to meet her male classmate at a high-end restaurant. Now that she had savings, she felt no guilt about going to such a place.

The male classmate was above average in appearance, a sunny and cheerful young man who wasn't greasy at all. He hinted in his words that he liked her, and that if she was willing, she could go back to his home galaxy with him.

His eyes were very sincere, and Chang Ning couldn't deny that she was a little tempted. If she had to settle for second best, he would actually be a good choice.

After the setback in the laboratory, Chang Ning's desire to take shortcuts began to stir again.

She was just about to speak when she saw someone walking towards her, and she froze.

The person who came in was Chu Xian, the boss whom she hadn't seen in a long time. He clearly saw her too. Still dressed in casual clothes, he walked over and glanced at her and the male classmate suspiciously, asking, "Are you skipping work?"

Today is a workday, and it's not time to leave work yet. Although the lab doesn't have any attendance requirements, since the boss said so, Chang Ning could only laugh it off: "So being out of the lab means skipping work, huh? Haha."

Chu Xian looked at her with a complicated expression: "Who is this?"

Chang Ning said he was her college classmate and he was going back to his hometown, so he came to see her off.

She added quietly, "I didn't skip work on purpose."

Chu Xian didn't know whether he believed it or not, but said, "Since you're not in the lab, that's perfect. There's a press conference this afternoon, you should go too."

Chang Ning: "..."

You really are very casual.

Because the boss showed up halfway through, Chang Ning's little scheme vanished, and the meal truly became a farewell banquet.

Chu Xian figured the person he was supposed to meet hadn't arrived yet. After getting to his seat, he turned on his personal computer, opened a chat window, and sent a photo he had just taken of Chang Ning sitting opposite a male classmate, with the caption: "A chance encounter."

The name displayed in the dialog box is Gu Yanzhou.

Having received no reply, he scoffed, "What a hypocrite."

A secretary is always present at a press conference. Chang Ning met up with her and went to the venue. The organizer was the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and it looked very grand.

The press conference officially began shortly afterward, and the speaker turned out to be Dr. Lin, whom we had met before. She dropped a bombshell right at the start!

"...We have conducted extensive clinical trials and have proven that this drug can stimulate ordinary people to awaken their mental power. We have named it Helix 1."

The crowd erupted in uproar. This press conference was being broadcast live across the entire internet, so you can imagine how much of a stir it would cause!

Mental power turns ordinary people with no power or influence into second-class citizens. If mental power could be awakened through human means, it would be something that countless people dream of!

As for the awakened ones, they were originally a privileged class, and having this thing would undoubtedly break their class advantage.

Dr. Lin continued, "However, Spiral 1 is currently unstable, and the mental power awakened through it can only be maintained for about 6 hours."

"Our next research direction is to develop a drug that can fully awaken the spiritual power of ordinary people, based on Spiral 1!"

After Dr. Lin finished speaking, he stepped down from the stage, and the people below surrounded him, making the entire venue bustling with noise.

Chang Ning was a little lost. Perhaps because she had suffered too much in her childhood, she didn't have much of a pursuit of spiritual strength and only wanted to live a good life.

She was pushed to the side, and suddenly a voice rang in her ear: "What are your thoughts?"