Watching Ding Anbai's departing figure, Shen Qian felt completely bewildered.

What nonsense is he talking about?

Shen Qian reviewed Ding Anbai's words again. He was quite certain that he recognized each word, but he didn't know what they meant when put together.

Did he know that I wanted to collaborate with him?

But Shen Qian immediately rejected the idea. If the other party really knew, then he couldn't refuse, and besides, the other party had no reason to know.

At this moment, an elderly man with white hair led several young men in white robes out of the inner courtyard. When Shen Qian saw everyone in the courtyard, including Ding Anbai, he smiled and went to greet them.

Faintly, Shen Qian heard words like "Professor Cheng".

Before sinking, I had already seen the other people's work IDs. Most of them were entrepreneurs from the pharmaceutical industry. It seems that the old man called Professor Cheng is the pharmaceutical expert from Beidu.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, a square-faced young man behind the old man suddenly said something. Then, he looked up and saw the white-haired old man frowning and scolding the young man. The square-faced young man retorted defiantly, then turned and went back to the inner courtyard.

Then, Ding Anbai and the others escorted the white-haired old man, whose face looked grim, into the hall.

Seeing that the summit seemed to have officially started, Shen Qian could only give up the idea of ​​trying to find Ding Anbai again. Just as he was about to leave, a notification popped up in his mind.

Shen Qian, who already had a stress response, suddenly changed his expression.

"A valuable resource target has been detected. The system will automatically start the idle mode."

"Generating map information, area 3 km²..."

"Locating target location, generating optimal route..."

"Target resource locked, system is automatically navigating..."

"bite!"

Holy crap, I'm in the Martial Arts Bureau right now, a Martial Arts Bureau teeming with experts!

System, what kind of trouble are you trying to cause now?

These thoughts flashed by in an instant, and soon everything went black before my eyes, and I completely lost consciousness.

...

When Shen Qian opened his eyes, his first reaction was to look around warily.

There seemed to be no danger... and it was unusually quiet.

He was in a room filled with books, like a small library. Through the gap in front of him, he could see about three or four rows of bookshelves, and Shen Qian was standing at the doorway.

He picked up a book with a white cover at random.

"The Nine Needles Medicine Outline"...a medical book?

Before sinking in, he glanced at the bookshelf in front of him again: "Cheng's Pharmacology," "From Alchemy to Pill Refining—The Importance of Monster Materials"...

This small library appears to be filled with books related to medicine.

So, Shen Qian felt that he was probably still in the medical research institute.

"Ding, target location reached. System is automatically acquiring resource array..."

"Resource array has been generated. System knowledge base expansion in progress: 1%, 2%..."

Hearing the two prompts in his mind, Shen Qian understood somewhat.

So the target resource the system refers to is these medical books?

So how did I get in here?

He glanced at the log of his previous AFK session; it was very simple, containing only one line:

“You followed Wei Sijian into the laboratory of the Martial Arts Medicine and Pharmacy Research Institute and came to the library (15:23).

Who is Wei Sijian?

He felt somewhat lost before sinking.

At the same time, another question came to his mind: was the system stopping the AFK mode because it needed to expand its so-called knowledge base?

Squeak!

As Shen Qian was pondering, the door behind him was suddenly pushed open.

Shen Qian's body stiffened, and the person behind him also stopped walking.

Shen Qian slowly turned around and saw a confused face staring at him.

It's him!

Standing in front of Shen was a young man wearing a long white robe and white gloves. His hair was messy, and his small eyes, combined with his square face, gave him a rather comical appearance...

If I remember correctly, he is the young man who argued with Professor Cheng at the entrance of the auditorium just now.

How embarrassing...

Does this count as being caught red-handed?

As Shen Qian was pondering how to explain, the square-faced youth spoke first.

He looked at Shen Qian with a start, "Oh, there's still someone here. That's perfect. Can you find me a book? I need it right now. It's called 'Encyclopedia of Spiritual Herbs,' and it should be on the second to last bookshelf!"

The square-faced young man finished speaking very quickly, then turned and left.

Shen Qian was a little confused, but then he realized something and subconsciously asked, "Wei Sijian?"

"What?" The square-faced youth turned around.

"……fine."

"oh."

Wei Sijian nodded, then turned and hurriedly left.

...It really is him, Wei Sijian!

But why does he seem a bit dim-witted?

After pondering for a moment, while the system was still loading, Chen went to the second to last bookshelf and quickly found the "Encyclopedia of Spiritual Herbs" that Wei Sijian had mentioned.

After lingering for a while, and waiting for the system to announce "Knowledge base expansion complete," he finally left the library.

Outside the library is a huge space of over 200 square meters, filled with rows of experimental tables and various instruments, and the air is filled with a medicinal smell that is hard to describe as pleasant or unpleasant.

In the vast laboratory, only Wei Sijian, dressed in white, was engrossed in tinkering with something at an experimental table.

"Here, the book you wanted." Shen Qian glanced at it, and after confirming that the other person was just fiddling with some herbs, he approached and handed over the book.

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