Chapter 345 Furious Out of Shame
"I..." Saskia pressed her lips together, not knowing what to say.
She felt her experimental procedure was fine.
But why was everyone's data wrong?
What exactly went wrong?
"What's there to say? In this situation, it's obviously the experimental procedure that's wrong."
Isolde directly and decisively pointed out the truth.
The fact that Saskia didn't want to admit, she said it for her.
If only Isabella's experimental data was wrong, then it would be Isabella's problem alone.
But if everyone's experimental data was wrong, then it was Saskia's problem.
This was obvious.
Brad and Delmar also understood this fact well.
"Looks like what Isabella said earlier was right," Delmar said. "We should have trusted her."
Saskia bit her lip, turned her head to glance at Delmar, her tone soft and a bit aggrieved, "Delmar, are you blaming me for giving you all the wrong experimental procedure?"
Delmar looked at her and smiled generously and gently, "Of course not, Saskia. I'm not blaming you. Who doesn't make mistakes? Besides, your part is the most complicated. It's understandable that there were errors."
As he spoke, Delmar comfortingly ruffled Saskia's hair.
A blush appeared on Saskia's face.
Delmar was really so gentle.
She really liked Delmar.
Actually, ever since she met Delmar, he had always been gentle with her. The only time he wasn't gentle was just now when he sided with Isabella.
Thinking of this, Saskia pinched her palm.
If Delmar hadn't met Isabella, maybe she and Delmar would have had a chance.
Now that they'd discovered Saskia's experimental procedure was wrong, they needed to solve this problem quickly.
"Let's not blame Saskia now. She didn't do it on purpose," Brad said. "Let's all think it through again and figure out how this experimental procedure should actually be done."
So they all started thinking.
But as they thought more deeply, everyone's expressions became somewhat worried.
Because none of them had any ideas.
Isolde, Brad, and Delmar hadn't expected the third part of the experiment to be this difficult. They had no idea how to do it, so no matter how much they looked, they couldn't figure out what was wrong with Saskia's experimental procedure.
"What do we do? I feel like this is a bit beyond my abilities..." Brad frowned, looking worried.
"I didn't expect a 3-point experiment to be this hard. We're not even halfway through the experiment and we're already stuck," Isolde also sighed.
Now she understood why Saskia said it took her all night to write out this experimental procedure.
Because it was really difficult.
Just like that, the four of them thought for over an hour without any breakthrough.
The sky was getting dark, and they still hadn't eaten.
The atmosphere in the lab became somewhat oppressive.
Just then, Brad spoke up, "Didn't Isabella notice earlier that the experimental procedure was wrong? She might know how to do it."
Isolde and Delmar's eyebrows moved slightly at his words.
"That's right. Since Isabella could find the problem with the experimental procedure, she might know the reason."
Isolde suggested, "Let's have Isabella come over."
She took out her phone, planning to contact Isabella.
Seeing this, Saskia bit her lip and spoke up, "If we don't know, how would Isabella know? Her level isn't that much higher than ours."
She didn't think Isabella would know the correct experimental procedure.
At most, Isabella had just worked backward from the wrong experimental data to figure out that her experimental procedure was wrong.
And Saskia didn't want Isabella to come over.
Because if Isabella came, not only wouldn't she solve the problem, she would also take away all of Delmar's attention. That way, Delmar would only see Isabella and not see her, and wouldn't be gentle with her.
Hearing Saskia say this, and remembering the unpleasantness between Saskia and Isabella earlier, Isolde suddenly realized that calling Isabella over now didn't seem appropriate. It would be like slapping Saskia in the face.
After all, Saskia had personally denied what Isabella said earlier.
Isolde had to give up the idea of calling Isabella over. "Saskia's right. Isabella might not know the correct procedure. Let's focus on solving the problem ourselves. Maybe if we think about it more, we'll have an answer."
So they put their attention back on the experiment itself.
Time passed minute by minute.
Another two hours went by like this, but they still had no ideas.
Brad was the first to lose patience.
They simply didn't have the ability to solve this problem.
At this point, if they still didn't seek help from others, they would really be wasting time.
"I'm still going to ask Isabella," Brad said. "I feel like before Isabella left, she wanted to tell us the correct experimental procedure."
Otherwise, Isabella wouldn't have been so certain that Saskia was wrong.
"I also think we can ask Isabella," Delmar said. "Whether Isabella knows how to do it or not, we'll only know if we ask."
Saskia bit her lip, a flash of dimness crossed her eyes, but she quickly recovered her normal expression.
Brad decisively took out his phone and directly called Isabella.
The others, seeing this, all looked at the phone in Brad's hand.
It was already 8 PM, and it was completely dark outside.
"Hello, Brad. What's up?"
Isabella wasn't surprised at all to receive this call.
Brad put it on speaker and placed the phone on the table so everyone present could hear Isabella's voice.
"Isabella, all four of our experimental data came out, and like yours, they're all wrong. So Saskia's experimental procedure is indeed wrong. I'm calling to ask if you know what the correct experimental procedure should be?"
Isabella held the phone in one hand while the other hand was busily writing on scratch paper.
What she was writing on the scratch paper was the experimental procedure, and she was almost done.
Isabella didn't speak but first finished writing the last formula, then said, "I know what the correct experimental procedure is."
Hearing this, Brad's face lit up with joy.
Isabella did know.
He was about to say something, but in the next second, the phone on the table was snatched away by a hand that suddenly reached over.
Saskia, seemingly triggered by something, grabbed the phone and asked sharply with embarrassment and anger, "Isabella, what do you mean? Since you clearly know the correct experimental procedure, why didn't you contact us to tell us how to do it? Were you just waiting for me to come to you? Did you want to see me make a fool of myself?"
Saskia was really provoked by Isabella.
She hadn't expected Isabella to actually know how to do it.
They had been thinking hard without any ideas, but Isabella could figure it out. To say she wasn't jealous would be a lie. Along with jealousy, she felt more of a strong sense of defeat, as if she had lost to Isabella in everything.