Not only students, but also teachers from various related majors stepped forward.
Some of these people inevitably recognized Jiang Wan and couldn't help but wonder, "Are you Jiang Wan?"
Although her expulsion was not made public at the time, many people in their small circle knew about her conflict with Professor Qin. They also knew that she was expelled because she failed to frame Professor Qin and was discovered by the school.
Unexpectedly, now that Professor Qin is dead, she has reappeared, and she's here to steal Professor Qin's most beloved and precious experimental equipment.
Those who knew the inside story were even more indignant, pointing at her and angrily rebuking her:
"Jiang Wan, do you even understand what it means to respect teachers and value education? You didn't respect Professor Qin's research and hard work when he was alive, and now that he's dead, you still want to take away the equipment he used!"
"Let me tell you, as long as we are still at Xiangcheng University, we will absolutely not tolerate you betraying your teacher and ancestors like this!"
"Professor Qin's equipment belongs to all of us, and we absolutely will not allow you to take it away!"
Jiang Wan had no recollection of how she was fired, so she had no way to defend herself.
But she has never been one to let others smear her or point fingers at her and hurl insults and slander.
She immediately pointed to the withered stems of the dodder that hadn't been disposed of outside and said sarcastically, "You respect teachers and value education, so you create this kind of mutated thing to harm the entire human society?"
Upon hearing this, the teachers and students immediately objected: "What do you mean by that? This is a mutated plant, what does it have to do with us!"
"Exactly, could this mutated plant be man-made?"
Jiang Wan looked at Principal Tang with a half-smile. Principal Tang was so embarrassed that he wanted to bury his face, but he had nothing to say. He couldn't very well admit in public that a student was harming society, could he?
Does he still want to be the principal?
The students immediately understood. After a few seconds of silence, they quickly started shouting again, "Don't let them take Professor Qin's equipment away!"
Yu Fen was completely confused and couldn't help but whisper, "They don't even care about researching mutated plants anymore? Hey, does this equipment really belong to that dead guy?"
He spoke softly, and only Jiang Wan and Cheng Zhen heard the word "dead devil".
Jiang Wan kept her eyes half-closed and remained silent, lost in thought.
Cheng Zhen glared at him warningly: Watch your words!
Yu Fen shut his mouth in embarrassment, but they did not expect that the city guards and the teachers and students facing off had not heard it, but the two little ones who were not even as tall as their thighs had heard it all.
Jiang Xiaoxin only half understood what he meant, so she asked, "Brother, what does 'dead ghost' mean?"
As soon as the little voice fell silent, the crowd fell silent.
Jiang Xiaoshu held his little sister's hand and sighed inwardly, but in front of outsiders, he would never refuse to answer his sister's question and embarrass her.
Then everyone heard him say in a serious tone, "I'm talking about people who are already dead."
Jiang Xiaoxin nodded and said "Oh" to indicate that she understood, then asked, "Aren't these things the school's? Why are they his?"
The crowd fell silent once more.
Jiang Xiaoshu had a rare conflicted expression, his brows furrowed as he pondered how to answer his sister, because he himself didn't quite understand why these students and teachers insisted that the equipment their mother wanted belonged to the deceased Professor Qin.
Besides, it wasn't their mother who wanted them; it was the city guards who came here to requisition these instruments!
As it turned out, they weren't willing to give it to me at all, and I was even blocked here in public. It was so embarrassing!
Thinking this, he couldn't help but give Cheng Zhen a look: You're really useless!
Cheng Zhen's skin tightened instinctively, and she turned to look at him, her mind full of questions: What's wrong?
Jiang Xiaoxin waited a long time for her brother's reply, and her face became very unhappy. She frowned and said, "Brother is so stupid!"
"Because these people are stingy! They are stingy themselves, and they put that bad reputation on people who are already dead! They are really bad! Terribly bad!"
As he spoke, the little boy racked his brains to come up with words and sentences. After much effort, he finally came up with one: "These people are slandering and spreading rumors. Aren't they afraid that Professor Qin will turn his coffin lid upside down and rush out to beat them up?!"
Her little expression was full of righteous indignation. If anyone said she was stingy, not a good friend, or not loyal, she would definitely hit them!
Waaah, she's such a good friend, waaah, why did Xiao Xuanxuan scold her? Waaah!
Jiang Xiaoxin grew increasingly heartbroken and angry as she spoke, tears streaming down her round eyes. She glared accusingly at Cheng Zhen, demanding, "Aren't you the city guards? They're bad guys! Why don't you fight them?!"
His seemingly simple words, however, were remarkably accurate and to the point.
Cheng Zhen's team had been feeling frustrated for a long time; they hadn't come to borrow the equipment in the first place!
He only held back because the brigade leader in Pingjiang hadn't made a move!
He immediately revealed his identities: "Cheng Zhen, the company commander of the first battalion of the city's outer city guards, and Ping Jiang, the battalion commander of our first team, are here to requisition your school's equipment! Please move aside!"
"Courtesy first, then force," he said, raising his hand in a gesture. Half of Yu Fen and the others held their guns horizontally and pushed the crowd back, while the other half went inside to load the already packed equipment onto the vehicle.
Everything was packed very carefully according to Jiang Wan's requirements, and it was moved with utmost care.
The students instantly erupted in chaos, pushing and shoving each other against Cheng Zhen's men. They even tested whether the city guards dared to actually fire at the students, pushing their luck and starting to punch and kick them.
Yu Fen was hit countless times, and his face turned purple with anger. When had he ever suffered such humiliation!
Suddenly, two gunshots rang out from the ground.
Cheng Zhen and Ping Jiang fired their guns into the air together.
Cheng Zhen maintained his gun-pointing stance, waiting for the crowd to quiet down before arrogantly shouting, "Requisition! Do you even know what those two words mean? If not, go back to elementary school and stop embarrassing yourself here, ruining the reputation of Xiangcheng University!"
In the apocalypse, no one is unafraid of the city's guards. Most of these people are just acting on impulse, and after being frightened like this, they all backed down.
With a single sentence, Cheng Zhen quelled a riot that was about to erupt. He subconsciously glanced triumphantly at Jiang Wan and the twins, but Jiang Wan clearly ignored him; her mind and eyes were only on those precious machines.
So, when no one was looking, he could only raise his eyebrows triumphantly at the twins: See? Aren't I amazing!
Jiang Xiaoxin was still heartbroken because her best friend ignored her and even scolded her. Jiang Xiaoshu saw this, looked away expressionlessly, and gently patted her sister to comfort her, silently thinking: Idiot.
Pingjiang, who watched the whole thing from the sidelines, found it even more cringe-worthy; the expressionless face was blank, yet the person kept blinking.
But the silence among the students lasted only a moment before someone in the crowd began to incite them: "These people are tyrannical and unreasonable. Even if it's requisitioning, they still distinguish between paid and unpaid use! We can't back down, we can't give them the equipment!"
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