Pei Wen was almost mad at her.

Pei Jiaojiao? She actually called him that. He didn't even need to look to feel the surprised and amused gazes of the people around him, yet they couldn't laugh out loud for his own sake.

He gave her a look full of resentment.

At this moment, Zhu Yunya looked at the bowl in Pei Wen's hand and glanced at the two of them with mixed feelings.

After hearing Si Lan's words, she murmured, "It's not nice to call Professor Pei like that, right? ... After all, the professor is a man."

When Si Lan heard this, she glanced at her and said in an indescribable tone, "Women can be called 'jiaojiao', but men can't?"

Zhu Yunya was stunned.

Pei Wen was very dissatisfied and whispered in defense: "I'm not that delicate."

"Yeah?"

"At the critical moment, you should be able to run and carry things. If something happens to you, I can still carry you and run. How can I be so overwhelmed?"

Si Lan smiled and added some more meat to his bowl: "Okay, then I won't take special care of you. Eat and sleep as you please."

When Pei Wen heard this, his expression changed again. He looked at the pheasant meat that was casually torn off and thrown into the bowl: Isn't this the same as others?

He snorted and pushed the meat aside: "Then you should take care of it."

Si Lan: "Jiaojiao?"

Pei Wen: “…”

"Just be a spoiled child. There are people who take care of you and love you. Do you have any?"

Si Lan: “…”

Everyone really didn't expect that Professor Pei, who was dressed in a suit and had an elegant temperament, could be like this.

Is this cheating...?

I didn't expect that Si Lan and he were so familiar with each other.

Is this the...special aura between acquaintances?

At this moment, Tao Zhenzhen looked at the meat in Pei Wen's bowl, then at her own bowl, and asked Si Lan, "Sister, why is my fish not boned, but Uncle Pei's—Brother Pei's—is?"

Si Lan: "Aren't you going to tell me? The professor is very delicate and precious."

"Then am I not a delicate person?"

"You are a delicate person and I am not familiar with you."

Tao Zhenzhen's eyes widened in disbelief: "It's been so long and we're still not familiar with each other???"

Before Si Lan could speak, Pei Wen snorted, "I've known her for over twenty years, and I was just her neighbor. Anyone who wants to become an 'acquaintance' in her eyes will have at least one foot in the grave."

Tao Zhenzhen really said that doesn’t mean he is dead?

Looking at Si Lan who had no objection and Pei Wen who looked resentful, she obediently lowered her head to pick the fish: You’d better choose for yourself.

The meal ended with everyone talking about various topics.

After dinner, there is no need for capable people like Si Lan and Pei Wen who can bring significant benefits to the camp to wash the dishes. The time of important people is devoted to important matters.

Tao Zhenzhen and a group of children took care of these trivial matters.

So Si Lan and Pei Wen rested for a while, and when they had digested the information, they went to the communication station to study new problems.

When they were doing serious business, there was no sign of joking and playing around between the two of them.

Si Lan looked around the communication station and suggested, "How about adding a night light? If we use modern projection technology, people on the other side can see clearly even at night."

But what she said was simple to say, but the tools required were all delicate work, and it would take at least a day or two to do it. Pei Wen didn't want her to be busy all day long.

"It would be great if we had fluorescent powder. Just sprinkle it on and it will be fine. No need to go through so much trouble." He said casually.

Si Lan: "Then you might as well just say that there is a light. Where do we get the fluorescent powder now?"

The two looked at each other in silence.

After a while, Pei Wen thought of something and said, "Phosphorus powder is fine."

When Si Lan heard this, she asked, "White phosphorus?"

"Um."

"Where are you from?"

"Animal bones, sand and charcoal, these are what I need to make it."

Si Lan glanced at him and asked, "Did you move the lab here?"

"After all, it's my tool for eating."

But Si Lan thought about it and shook her head in disapproval: "It's extremely poisonous, big brother."

Pei Wen: "I don't eat."

"That's dangerous too. This isn't a real lab. The isolation conditions are poor, and there are no security facilities. If you're not careful, I'm not going to find anything to save you."

Pei Wen: "It's not that exaggerated..."

Si Lan firmly disagreed, but after thinking it over, she decided to make a night light.

Now it was Pei Wen's turn to be unhappy: "That thing takes time. You haven't had a good sleep in a few days. Can you stop working on it for a few days?"

Si Lan waved her hand: "It's a small matter."

“I don’t think it’s a small matter.”

"Why are you not only particular about it yourself, but you're also forcing me to be particular about it too?"

Pei Wen got angry when he said this: "You were in a coma for two years because you fell and hit your head due to working day and night, okay?"

"As long as you are safe and healthy, who would want to care about you? If you have the ability, don't bother me."

Si Lan rolled her eyes in annoyance, thought for a long time, and took a step back: "Then I'll do it tomorrow."

Pei Wen weighed it over and added, "I want to help too."

"Just you—"

"Help me choose between making nightlights and producing white phosphorus. Anyway, according to real time, the Infrastructure Corps should have a further response tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Do you want to stick to your own opinion or consider the overall situation?"

Si Lan was so angry at him that if it were someone else, she would have drawn her knife on the spot.

After thinking it over again and again, she nodded unhappily and turned to leave: "Get up at five in the morning. You still need to continue communicating with the infrastructure team when Yuan Kuo comes over at noon. Get ready."

Pei Wen had no objection. He watched Si Lan return to the house, extinguish the fire, and then lie down next door.

The two houses were just like in real life, next to each other and their windows were open facing each other.

With Si Lan nearby, Pei Wen slept soundly.

He slept until the next morning and woke up at five o'clock. When he walked to the next room, he saw Si Lan already working on it. Seeing that she already had a finished product in her hands, Pei Wen almost vomited blood in anger.

Si Lan patted the empty space beside her and said, "Sit down. I only woke up an hour earlier than you. Don't glare at me."

Pei Wen didn't believe a word she said. He walked over and sat down, then snatched the thing from her hand.

In order to prevent him from getting angry to death, Si Lan politely let him take action for ten minutes.

Later, unable to resist, he joined in again. The two of them worked tirelessly on carving and polishing until noon. Yuan Kuo arrived from the next camp, and Pei Wen joined him to continue communicating with the infrastructure team, while Si Lan single-handedly took on the polishing of all the custom night lights.

Since the Infrastructure Team learned about the chip's principle speculation from Pei Wen, they have started verification work. Now they are using all the information obtained during the work to further communicate with Pei Wen and exchange detailed information.

This workload is enormous.

The obscure professional terms alone require translators on both sides to spend a lot of effort to translate accurately.

There were some other people who were carrying out the mission with Pei Wen at that time. They were a secret group, and Pei Wen was the leader.

The situation is now serious, and Pei Wen no longer needs to hide it from Wang Teng and others, so he gave them a list and asked Wang Teng to send someone to contact everyone.

As a result, within a few hours, they only contacted two people, and two more were confirmed to be trapped in unknown locations in the game, while the rest were still being actively contacted.

This was enough to make Wang Teng and others anxious. The higher-ups then learned that this chip might have used the principle of hallucinogens, and that being able to apply this principle to the human body was definitely not something that could be achieved through ordinary mouse experiments.

The top leaders were furious. While arranging domestic research work, they also sent specialists to conduct secret investigations at the target companies in an attempt to find a solution at the source, taking a two-pronged approach.

The leadership of Country T is therefore very busy.

When everyone was overwhelmed, the people of Country T gradually realized that this accident was not something that could be resolved in a short period of time.

It has been more than a week since the players were trapped. If this incident was easy to resolve, with the speed at which Country T handles major events, the players should have been rescued long ago.

It turns out they didn't.

This behavior made people realize the difficulty of the situation.

Except for some extreme players' families who are always anxious, angry and determined to ask the country for an explanation and compensation, most people have begun to pay attention to the country's rescue operations.

People also want to provide help, but due to the danger and uncontrollability of the chips, the country has only retained the chips of senior players who have been screened and authorized by the special team, and the rest of the chips have been fully recovered by Country T.

There is no way for people to understand the player's situation through the chip, and there is no way to provide any help with the chip.

Everyone can only focus on building special wards for the trapped players.

Many domestic entrepreneurs went to the hospital to inquire about the construction of these wards.

At first, the hospital thought they had ulterior motives or wanted to gather inside information, but after a period of communication, the hospital discovered that they actually wanted to donate money.

"We have learned about the approximate scale of the trapped players, and recently we have seen countless medical teams running back and forth due to the transportation issues of trapped players."

Several entrepreneurs said so.

Currently, neither the task force nor higher authorities have any plans to raise funds, and the hospital is unable to respond to this.

Everyone said again: "Donations are not necessary. We can also provide manpower and supplies."

"We're all citizens of Country T. When one side is in trouble, all sides come to its aid. The hospital ambulances are running back and forth across the city every day, and it's heartbreaking to watch. Some patients who also need emergency care are also vulnerable. Why don't you share some of the work with us, the people? Otherwise, it's painful to watch our compatriots suffer day after day, helpless to do anything."

After listening to this, the hospital felt that it made sense.

However, no hospital can make the decision on such matters. They can only report it and let the top management decide.

During this period, other people somehow also learned about this matter.

Immediately, the nation took this matter very seriously. People who had never thought they could help, once they learned there were channels to lend a hand, began to feel a subtle desire to contribute.

People began to express their opinions through major official channels and platforms.

So in just a few days, the special task force that was still communicating with Pei Wen about chip issues was suddenly surrounded by overwhelming petition information.

Anyone who opens any platform for the general public can see requests for assistance from the people, which stunned the special task force and even the highest authorities.

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