She Was the Treasure All Along novel Chapter 227

At that moment, the plainly dressed girl hesitated before raising her hand. “Hallie,” she said timidly, “I… I didn’t understand a lot of that. Could you explain it to me again?”

Hallie frowned. “That means you didn’t prepare properly or you weren’t listening. I taught it using the simplest method possible. How could you not understand?”

She then turned to Cyrilla. “What about you? Did you understand what I was saying?”

In truth, Cyrilla hadn’t fully grasped it either, but she knew how to play the game. “Of course,” she said with a flattering smile. “I thought it was quite simple. I understood everything.”

The other two girls quickly agreed, assuming their own lack of preparation was to blame. The plainly dressed girl lowered her head, too ashamed to say another word.

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Meanwhile, Loyce returned to the lab Lucian had set up for her. She had spent the entire day dismantling the emergency medical system and discovered it was protected by advanced encryption. Forcibly extracting the core data would cause the entire system to self-destruct. Deciphering the core technology had taken her a considerable amount of time.

Now, with the newly decrypted technical data before her, Loyce scanned through it from top to bottom and began the work of documenting and patching all the vulnerabilities on her computer.

After a while, she felt a pang of hunger and opened the jar of herbal pudding. As the dark, jelly-like substance entered her mouth, she tasted it, swallowed, and then froze. Her eyes widened as she stared at the jar in her hand.

To confirm her senses weren’t deceiving her, Loyce took another spoonful, this time savoring it slowly. Beneath the bitterness of the herbs was a barely perceptible spiciness that transformed into a cooling sensation as it went down her throat. The coolness seemed to travel directly to her brain, providing an instant jolt of mental clarity.

Loyce was certain it contained an extract from ‘Frost Peppermint.’

But Frost Peppermint was exceedingly rare, growing only in jungles filled with poisonous plants. Extracting its properties from the leaves and stems was an even more difficult process.

To think something so valuable was casually added to a simple herbal pudding and given out as a snack… Loyce thought of the girl’s simple attire and became deeply intrigued by her family.

Logically, a family capable of creating such an extract shouldn’t be living so modestly, let alone having their daughter sit in on another student’s tutoring sessions.

Loyce filed the thought away for later and continued her work on the medical system.

By 10 p.m., she was hungry again. The empty pudding jar sat on her desk. Stretching, she opened the lab door to find something to eat.

The butler was waiting outside, a polite smile on his face. “Mr. Shapiro said we were not to disturb you under any circumstances. You’ve been in the lab all day. Is there anything you’d like to eat?”

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