Chapter 54
"Okay, do whatever you want, just don't disturb me. I have to start working."
After saying that, Professor Chen picked up the iron cage containing the deformed creature and walked out.
"Work?" Yan Hong frowned in confusion: "He still has a job? And didn't his apprentice get lost? How can he still be in the mood to work?"
"Chen Yunliang, do you know what he does?" Shaoxing Yang asked.
Chen Yunliang shook his head and said, "The confidentiality level of his department is very high. Unless you are an insider, you have no idea what they are doing."
"Tsk, if you want to know, just go up and you'll find out." Yan Hong raised her chin and motioned for others to follow.
"Ah, but didn't Professor Chen say not to disturb him?" Lu Shiyu was a little worried.
"Didn't he tell us to do whatever we want?" Yan Hong said logically, "Besides, we're just following him, not planning anything else, so how could we possibly disturb him?"
"Since you're not going, we'll go."
"All right……"
In the end, Yan Hong, Shao Xingyang and Chen Yunliang followed them out secretly, leaving Lu Shiyu and Tang Zeyu to look after the house in the Dongxue camp.
"Did Professor Chen make all of these himself?" Lu Shiyu said, picking up a bunch of seeds hanging on the wall. "He must have put a lot of thought into this."
The seeds of various unknown plants were tied with thin hay ropes, strung into a line and hung on the stone wall to dry. The outer flesh was processed very cleanly and the seeds were very complete. It was obvious that they were carefully selected. Some seeds could even make sounds when shaken like bells.
"These shouldn't have been made by Professor Chen himself. It seems more like they were made by his apprentice."
Lu Shiyu turned around and asked curiously, "Have you seen Professor Chen's apprentice?"
"No, but you can tell from the details," Tang Zeyu said, looking at the pot filled with food made from mutated creatures. "When we first came in, the pot was on the stove. Professor Chen just snatched it away and casually placed it on the table. The black dirt on the bottom of the pot rubbed against the tabletop, leaving a black trail. But there's a small wooden heat pad next to it. It's obvious that Professor Chen himself isn't that meticulous. If he were to take care of this place himself, it definitely wouldn't be as neat and tidy as it is now."
"Since Professor Chen himself isn't so particular, the person who did this could only be his apprentice."
Lu Shiyu looked up and scanned the interior decoration. If these warm decorations were usually made by Professor Chen's apprentices, then what kind of mentality did Professor Chen have when he returned here during the time he was away?
Lu Shiyu's eyes unconsciously fell on the bags of food. Lu Shiyu untied the ropes that tied the sacks. There was still plenty of food in the bags, and it could even be said that they had hardly been touched.
Lu Shiyu opened a few bags and looked through them. He found that the common ingredients grown in the base's greenhouses were all there, and their freshness was also very good.
"Got it!" Lu Shiyu turned around and said to Tang Zeyu excitedly, "I'll make a meal for Professor Chen! Maybe he'll feel much better after he's full!"
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The other side
Professor Chen, with a cloth bag slung across his shoulder and an iron cage in one hand, walked slowly towards an open space not far from the cave.
The open space was obviously cleared by humans. All the trees around it were cut down, the weeds were pulled out, and even the remaining tree stumps were dug out, leaving only a stump with a smooth cross-section. It was done to perfection, even the protruding stones on the ground were cleared away.
Professor Chen walked to the open space, slowly put down the cloth bag and iron cage, and began to search for something in the cloth bag.
"What does he want to do?" Shaoxing Yang asked in confusion.
Then Professor Chen took out a thick sketchbook and a roll of pencils of different sizes from his bag. Under the gaze of everyone, he untied the bound limbs of the deformed creature through the iron cage.
After the limbs of the deformed creature were loosened, it immediately jumped around in the cage. Unfortunately, the size of the iron cage was limited, and there was very little space for movement. Before it could jump twice, the horns on its head hit the top of the iron cage. The deformed creature struggled in the iron cage, making crackling sounds.
The amazing thing is that after the deformed creature's rampage, the iron cage didn't show any signs of damage. The actual material cost of this seemingly ordinary iron cage must be terrifyingly high. The deformed creature, which had made itself dizzy, finally stopped to rest, looking like it had accepted its fate.
When Professor Chen saw that it had stopped making noise, he sat down on the tree stump, opened his sketchbook, picked up a pencil, and began to draw the deformed creature.
"What is he doing?" Shao Xingyang scratched his head and asked in confusion: "Isn't he doing scientific research? Why is he painting?"
"I'm not sure about that. Let's wait and see." Chen Yunliang replied.
The three of them squatted behind the bushes and watched Professor Chen sitting on the tree stump and drawing a picture for more than half an hour. Yan Hong was so sleepy that she dozed off on Shao Xingyang's shoulder, but Professor Chen still showed no intention of moving.
"Ha~" Shao Xingyang yawned and said, "It's boring. Why don't we go back?"
Chen Yunliang remained silent. At this moment, Professor Chen suddenly put away his sketchbook, stood up from the tree stump and walked towards the deformed creature in the cage.
Seeing that there was finally progress, the two people who were still awake immediately opened their eyes wide and prepared to take a closer look.
Professor Chen walked to the side of the cage, squatted down and looked down at the deformed creature trapped in the cage. The deformed creature was only as big as a small dog, with a pair of sharp horns on its head, a very short tail, and dense and curly fur on its body, with long and short hairs interlaced.
The deformed creature's eyes with horizontal pupils looked at Professor Chen. At this time, it was kneeling on the ground with all four limbs, looking at Professor Chen with its head tilted in confusion.
"Hmm...what should I name you?"
Professor Chen picked up a small branch, reached into the cage and teased the deformed creature, talking to himself.
"Although it's a little small, it looks more like a sheep. How about calling you Yang Kui? Well, I feel like Yan Ning will complain about my bad naming skills if I call you that. But it's better than the big white mushroom, right?"
Professor Chen sighed worriedly, "Why do I have to do this? Why not just leave it to the people at the base? I don't know how to name things anyway."
"I don't know what's going on with Yan Ning now. He always lectures me about not considering the consequences, but he himself is still overestimating his own abilities."
Professor Chen kept muttering to the deformed creature he had just named "Yang Kui": "I will definitely teach him a good lesson when he comes back."
"Forget it, you little brat, you talk back every few words. Don't make me angry to death."
"What is he saying? I can't hear him clearly." Shao Xingyang pricked up his ears but couldn't hear what Professor Chen was saying. "Can't he speak louder?"
"Stop squeezing me," Chen Yunliang said, moving a few times. "You're about to squeeze me out."
"Wait a minute, let me move. My legs seem to be numb."
"Damn it, my legs are numb, Li Yuan...ah!"
As the two pushed each other, Chen Yunliang was accidentally knocked out by Shao Xingyang, who lost his balance due to numb legs. Yan Hong, who was originally asleep, was also awakened. Before she could make a sound, Shao Xingyang decisively covered her mouth and retreated, leaving Chen Yunliang, who was betrayed by his stupid teammate, to stagger in front of Professor Chen.
Chen Yunliang: “…”
Don't let him get the chance or he will...
"Why are you here?"
Professor Chen stood up, stared at him suspiciously, and asked, "When did you come?"
He wouldn't have overheard everything he said, would he?
Chen Yunliang calmed down instantly and smiled: "I just came here. I came out to look for you because you haven't been home for a long time."
"Are you alone?"
"Yeah, it's just me."
The other two are not human.
Professor Chen looked him up and down, but ultimately stopped asking questions and instead asked something else.
"Have you ever studied anatomy or anything like that?"
“I taught myself some.”
It was just a casual question, but Professor Chen Yunliang didn't expect that he had actually learned it. He was slightly surprised and turned around to pick up the iron cage on the ground.
"Come along if you can, you can help me."
Chen Yunliang followed Professor Chen to the wooden stake. Professor Chen took out a series of tools from his bag, handed Chen Yunliang a bundle of rope, put on three layers of thick gloves, opened the iron cage door and reached in.
Before Yang Kui could react, Professor Chen grabbed the back of his neck and pulled him out of the iron cage. Realizing that he was being held, he began to howl heartbreakingly, his howls so loud that it hurt people's eardrums.
"Hurry up and tie up its limbs with ropes!"
Chen Yunliang neatly tied one of Yang Kui's feet with a rope, found an iron ring hammered into the side of the tree stump, and fixed the other end of the rope tied to Yang Kui's feet to the iron ring. Only after all four limbs were fixed did Professor Chen release his hand that was holding Yang Kui.
Yang Kui had his limbs tied apart and no matter how hard he struggled, it was of no use. Professor Chen checked the rope and confirmed that it was tied very firmly. Only then did he feel sure that Chen Yunliang had really learned it.
"Next, I'm going to dissect this sheep," Professor Chen said as he opened the iron box, revealing a row of gleaming silver scalpels. "If you're scared, there's still time to leave."
Having said that, Chen Yunliang felt that if he really left now, Professor Chen would complain to Tang Zeyu when he returned.
"I'm not afraid of aberrant creatures. Let's get started."
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Shaoxingyang and Yanhong were walking on the way back, and Shaoxingyang suddenly felt a pang of conscience.
"Wouldn't it be a bad idea for us to leave Chen Yunliang there?"
Yan Hong corrected him, "It was you, not us. I didn't push him out."
"Hmm," Shao Xingyang scratched his head and asked, "How are we going to explain this to the captain when we get back? We can't just say we lost Chen Yunliang, right?"
After thinking it over, Yan Hong offered a suggestion: "Let's say Chen Yunliang was taken away by a wolf. Professor Chen just mentioned that there were some deformed creatures that looked like wolves nearby."
"Can you do it?"
"What do you think?"
The two walked back to the cave camp together, and as soon as they got closer, they could smell the fragrance of food.
"It smells so good! What's cooking?" Shaoxing Yang couldn't wait to lift the cover at the door and walked in.
"I cooked some food using the ingredients Professor Chen stored," Lu Shiyu said, still holding a spatula. Seeing only two people had returned, he couldn't help but wonder, "Why are you the only two back? Where are Chen Yunliang and Professor Chen?"
The two people, whose mouths were watering at the aroma, stopped in their tracks instantly, their eyes and limbs revealing their guilty conscience.
"Well, Professor Chen said that he and Chen Yunliang hit it off right away, so he took him away to talk, and we came back first." Yan Hong said hesitantly.
"Really?" Lu Shiyu was skeptical. "I didn't expect Professor Chen to like Chen Yunliang so much."
"Yeah yeah."
Yan Hong and Shao Xingyang were praying for Chen Yunliang in their hearts at the same time.
Good brother, hold on!
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