Chapter 343 The Experimental Procedure Has Problems
When Isolde heard this, she wasn't very surprised.
"Isolde, you..."
"Actually, I figured it out a long time ago."
Delmar often stole glances at Isabella, and his looks were way too obvious.
Plus, from day one, Delmar had been finding excuses to talk to Isabella.
Saskia's face turned even paler. She clenched her fingers and spoke with a bitter tone, "After all, Isabella is so beautiful. Any guy would find it impossible to resist a girl like her."
Compared to Isabella, her own looks were just so plain and ordinary.
Thinking about this made Saskia feel even more down.
Isolde naturally knew that Saskia liked Delmar. Seeing Saskia looking so lost, Isolde pulled her hand, "Saskia, don't be sad. Just find someone else to like."
"But..."
Saskia hesitated, feeling bitter inside.
Find someone else to like?
How could it be that easy?
She just liked Delmar.
"Alright, don't be sad. Let's go back to the lab."
Saskia could only follow Isolde back to the lab.
——
The lab fell silent, the atmosphere awkward.
After Saskia entered, she quickly glanced at Isabella, pressed her lips together, and silently walked to her own lab bench, lowering her head to start her experiment.
Saskia absentmindedly fiddled with the lab equipment, but her mind was wondering whether Isabella had accepted Delmar's confession earlier.
Isabella glanced in Saskia's direction. Thinking about Saskia's pale face when she'd walked in on Delmar's confession, she guessed that Saskia probably liked Delmar...
Isabella sighed inwardly.
What kind of ridiculous situation was this?
She just wanted to finish the last two data sets quickly and leave this embarrassing place.
But after completing the last two data sets, Isabella discovered that the final calculated average was wrong.
There were only two possible reasons for this.
Either she hadn't been careful enough during the experiment and made a mistake.
Or there was a problem with the experimental procedure itself.
Isabella frowned and pulled out a thick stack of experimental materials to quickly review.
After spending over an hour, she found the problem.
There really was an issue with the experimental procedure itself!
This was serious. If the experimental procedure had problems, and all five of them had followed this procedure, then everyone's data would be wrong, and they definitely wouldn't be able to complete this experiment.
Isabella's expression became slightly serious. She looked around at the other four people busy in the lab and spoke up: "Everyone, stop for a moment."
Isolde looked up, puzzled. "What's wrong?"
The others also looked at Isabella in confusion.
"There's a problem with the experimental procedure." Isabella took her draft paper to the blackboard and wrote the data results she'd obtained in chalk.
She pointed at the blackboard. "This is the data I just got. I'm sure everyone can see at a glance that the average of this data set doesn't match the previous averages, so the current experimental procedure is wrong. We can't follow this procedure."
"How is that possible?" As Saskia spoke, she pulled out the experimental procedure she'd personally written and looked it over, finding no problems.
She glanced at Isabella's data set and naturally noticed that the average didn't match the previous ones. She frowned. "Isabella, could it be that you weren't careful enough during your experiment and made a mistake, which caused your data to be wrong?"
After all, getting one data set required several hours of experimental work, and during this process, being even slightly careless could cause errors.
"That's not the reason." Isabella shook her head. "There's nothing wrong with my experimental process. The root of the problem is in the experimental procedure you wrote."
Everyone present knew that the current experimental procedure was written by Saskia.
Because this experiment was quite complex overall, when they first received it, they divided the experiment into five parts.
Each person was responsible for writing one part of the experimental procedure.
The first two experimental procedures were written by Isolde and Brad respectively, and the third part they were currently working on was written by Saskia.
When Saskia heard this, her expression changed.
Being told in front of so many people that there was a problem with the experimental procedure she wrote made Saskia's face flush with embarrassment.
She clenched her palms. "I stayed up all night to write this experimental procedure. How could there be a problem? It must be that you weren't careful enough and made a mistake. You should just do it again—maybe the average will match then."
"Do it again?" Isabella first frowned, then shook her head. "Redoing it would take a whole day."
There was simply no need for that.
Besides, she'd already confirmed that the experimental procedure was wrong.
Hearing Saskia tell Isabella to redo the experiment, Delmar also spoke up with some disapproval: "Saskia, Isabella is unlikely to have made a mistake. Maybe there really is a problem with the experimental procedure you wrote. Check it against the experimental materials again."
To Saskia's ears, this clearly sounded like Delmar taking Isabella's side.
Saskia pressed her lips together, a trace of dimness flashing in her eyes.
She hadn't expected Delmar to favor Isabella regardless of who was right or wrong.
His attitude... did this mean Isabella had already accepted Delmar's confession earlier?
Were they already together?
Of course—Delmar was so handsome and his family was so wealthy. Isabella definitely wouldn't refuse his confession.
Saskia looked at Isabella again. Even compared to the four great beauties of the nobility, Isabella's face was in no way inferior. Her features were strikingly beautiful, and her skin didn't have a single flaw...
Too bad she didn't have a face like Isabella's.
Isabella noticed Saskia staring at her. Not knowing what she was looking at, she simply said calmly: "Saskia, the procedure you wrote is definitely wrong."
Being so bluntly contradicted by Isabella again, Saskia's face fell uncontrollably.
"Isabella, you keep saying I'm wrong, but do you even know what the core theory of this part of the experiment is?"
"I know." Isabella replied. "I just went through the materials for this part of the experiment."
Saskia was taken aback. She paused, then said unhappily: "Isabella, aren't you being way too full of yourself? I spent an entire night searching through various materials to find the core theory for this part of the experiment and write out the current procedure. You just briefly flipped through the experimental materials—what gives you the right to say I'm wrong?"
She couldn't help adding another line, her tone sarcastic: "If you want to show off, this isn't the way to do it. What's so great about stepping on me to make yourself look good?"
Hearing Saskia's aggressive words, everyone's expressions changed.
Luo Wei tugged at Saskia's sleeve. "Saskia, what are you doing?"
She knew Saskia was taking out her romantic frustration on Isabella, which was why she was saying these harsh things.
But after all, they were all in the same group. There was really no need to be so confrontational.