Chapter 774 - 717: Gathering Talents to Support Professor Su
"When I was in Baijiang Province and needed support with forensic botanical techniques, I would invite some botanists to participate. But working with Master really feels different," Pang Jidong suddenly couldn’t help but sigh after spending a day with Jiang Yuan looking through microscopes.
"Is the way Master does things different?" Zhan Kan, who was learning the Skull Restoration Skill, practically spent all his time at work beside Jiang Yuan.
"It’s too different, so much more relaxed with Master. The botanists from outside are really impressive, but I feel that none of them reaches Master’s level," admitted Pang Jidong, who hadn’t mastered forensic botany himself, so his claim of Jiang Yuan being the strongest was somewhat tentative.
Zhan Kan took it as flattery and silently praised his elder apprentice brother before saying, "It’s good to invite plant scholars from outside. Unlike the Skull Restoration Skill, where we have to do everything ourselves."
"There are some good botanists outside, like the ones from the Botanical Institute I initially contacted. They paid out of their own pocket to participate. But some are only briefly interested, and others just come to learn a bit about it. You communicate with them, and before you know it, they’ve left after a few days. Plus, these experts have a lot of things on their plate, like projects and meetings cropping up..."
"That’s also true."
"It’s a pity I can’t learn botany anymore. It’s good to be young, with infinite possibilities," Pang Jidong truly lamented.
The difficulty of forensic botany was immense. While it might not have as many prerequisite skills as the Skull Restoration Skill, it required an even higher level of expertise.
Botany itself was becoming somewhat obscure, with fewer people taking the initiative to learn it. Typically, only students who reach university and take relevant courses get involved in the field, which means that in terms of basic numbers, it’s not much better off than sculpture.
Pang Jidong was already fifty that year. He had a comprehensive understanding of forensic botany and could communicate basic concepts to botanists who had some exposure to the field, but if you asked him to get hands-on, it simply wouldn’t be possible for him to continue.