"drop--"

The automatic door opened in response, and Xu Milu put the card back into her pocket.

The silver-white elevator doors slowly opened, and the researchers in white lab coats immediately stopped talking and nodded in greeting when they saw Xu Milu.

"Boss."

"BOSS".

"Boss."

Xu Milu smiled slightly and was about to step into the elevator when Xu Jianan stopped her.

She stepped into the elevator, separating herself from Xu Milu and the crowd, then placed her hands at her sides, calmly observing everyone in the elevator with her eyes.

Several researchers felt uneasy under her gaze, and as soon as the elevator stopped, they quickly walked out, as if someone was chasing them.

"Hurry up, hurry up..."

"I haven't heard that the boss hired bodyguards..."

Xu Jianan, seemingly afraid of upsetting Xu Milu, muttered an explanation:

"I'm sorry, sir, my mission is to protect your safety unconditionally. Please forgive me if this causes any inconvenience to your life."

After speaking, she stood to the side with her hands behind her back, silent like a statue.

Xu Milu couldn't help but glance sideways.

One is aloof and taciturn, the other is lively and passionate. Could it be that they were specially chosen?

But she didn't ask, she just nodded slightly: "Then I'll leave it to you."

...

...

The research institute upgraded its security system a month ago. Xu Milu's card has the highest level of access, allowing her to take the elevator directly to the basement level and then directly from there to the experimental field on the ground.

When the group arrived, Ding Shan was recording experimental data with a professor from the Agricultural University. Seeing her in the experimental field, his face lit up with joy.

"Boss, you're back?"

Xu Milu nodded, casually took the experimental data from his hand and flipped through it: "How is the seedling cultivation of this batch of fried dandelions going? When is the expected harvest time?"

"We can harvest on the 15th of next month. We are currently adjusting the experimental data. The results of the previous batch of fried dandelion breeding were not ideal. We hope that this batch will meet the target."

Ding Shan recognized Qin Haitao and smiled, extending his hand: "Professor Qin, we meet again. And these two are—"

"My bodyguard."

Xu Milu interrupted the conversation and said bluntly:

"Zhang Cang said that there was an acre of fried dandelions that were ripe and ready to be picked, and he took me to see them."

"Great, that's exactly what I was looking for, boss. The experimental data for this batch of fried dandelions is significantly better than the first batch. I was just about to bring people to inspect it."

Ding Shan took off his gloves, gave a few instructions, and then led a few people to one of the greenhouse experimental fields. These greenhouses are patrolled and guarded 48 hours a day. In addition to surveillance cameras with no blind spots, drones also patrol every once in a while. It can be said that if a mouse runs in, it will be caught within a minute.

The first impression upon entering the greenhouse was its dryness; the humidity in the air seemed to have dropped considerably. Patches of enlarged "dandelions" grew in the field, with slender and resilient leaves. Right in the center of the green leaves, a thick stem protruded, and at the end of the stem grew a large, fluffy ball about ten centimeters in diameter.

Researchers in protective suits were already recording data on the horizon, carefully measuring each point with a ruler and meticulously recording it with utmost care.

"This is deep-fried dandelion?"

Qin Haitao was a little confused, he couldn't connect "deep-fried food" with "dandelion" at all.

Ding Shan smiled but didn't say anything, handing Xu Milu a pair of scissors:

"Boss, this area is a hybrid of fried pork dandelion and fried chicken dandelion. Our research found that this hybrid has the best harvest and can shorten the maturity period on a small scale."

Xu Milu nodded. Fried dandelions were a special variety she had long planned to transplant to Earth, but she was afraid that it was too shocking, so she had delayed the transplantation until now.

She bent down, holding the dandelion stem with one hand and aiming the scissors at the stem with the other. With a "snap," the handful of white fluffy seeds fell into her hand.

"Professor Qin, please try it. It tastes best when it's hot."

Xu Milu plucked one of the hairs, but what came out with it was not a seed, but a meatball similar to a fried chicken nugget, covered in a golden-yellow batter, and you could even see a thin layer of breadcrumbs.

"This, this is unbelievable—"

Qin Haitao's breath hitched for a moment. He couldn't help but reach out and take it, gently squeezing it. The fried chicken nugget was still warm and felt a bit hard. After tearing it open, he could see the pale white chicken meat inside.

Without hesitation, he put it in his mouth, frowned, chewed it a few times, and his face was full of disbelief:

"Fried chicken grown from the ground?! How is that possible?! How is that possible?! How is that possible?!"

He repeated this three times in a row, which shows how devastated he is.

Meat growing out of the ground is illogical in itself, let alone fried chicken growing out of the ground. Where does the heat come from? How is plant protein converted into meat protein?

Forget logic, the dignity of natural science has been thrown to the ground and rubbed raw.

"Is it really fried chicken? Fried chicken can grow in the ground? Why bother raising chickens then? Why not just plant dandelions?"

Li Rui, quick to speak, took a bite and confirmed it was real fried chicken, then looked utterly bewildered.

Even Xu Jianan looked completely bewildered; clearly, her common sense and scientific views were being challenged like never before.

Giant vegetables and fruits can be said to be cultivated, but this fried chicken dandelion clearly doesn't belong on Earth!

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