For a moment, Liu Ji thought he had traveled through time. He rubbed his eyes and looked again, and saw the same scene of people coming and going. Some people even raised their hands and greeted him with a smile when they saw him.
"I'm not going to die suddenly, am I?" He muttered in a daze. He turned around and went back to the laboratory in disbelief. He opened the door again and came out. The scene in front of him remained unchanged.
He slapped his face violently, the stinging pain making him a little dazed.
"Old Liu? What are you doing here? The teacher is waiting for you." A square-faced man in his thirties walked over and patted him with a smile.
Liu Ji looked at him in confusion, "Lao Xu?"
"Let's go, let's eat first." Lao Xu pulled him to the living room. Everyone who met them along the way who was carrying food greeted them.
Basically, everyone worked at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Even if he had never met them, he had at least heard of them. What's more, he was now living in their laboratory. Therefore, they were all very enthusiastic. On the contrary, Liu Ji was made a little uncomfortable by their enthusiasm. He walked all the way to the living room with a stiff smile on his face, because he didn't know many of them at all.
He has always been devoted to research and has never had the mind to socialize. Those he had only met a few times have long been forgotten by him. Now that he saw this person, he really didn't know what to do except smile awkwardly.
Fortunately, he soon arrived at the living room, and Academician Zhang saw him and hurriedly greeted him, "Xiao Liu, come quickly."
There was a seat reserved for him next to Academician Zhang, so Liu Ji sat there directly. Academician Zhang looked him up and down for a moment and said with a smile, "You really haven't changed at all, you're still so unkempt."
Liu Ji's hair was past his shoulders and had become tangled as he hadn't washed it for a long time. Although it was tied up, it still looked extremely greasy. His face was also untidy. Although he didn't have a full beard, his face full of stubble made him look very haggard and slovenly. His eyes were lifeless and he looked as if he had been with a female ghost for three days.
Liu Ji didn't feel embarrassed at all when being teased by the teacher. He scratched his head and smiled, "Teacher, you don't look any better."
Academician Zhang pointed at him and smiled helplessly, "You! What are you researching now?"
Liu Ji thought about it but didn't say it clearly. He just said, "It's about the method of humans gaining superpowers through immune mutation."
When talking about this, Academician Zhang recalled the time at the Winter Base and couldn't help but sigh deeply with a sad expression.
The commander of the Winter Base does not take human life seriously. In order to study ways to obtain superpowers, he tried every means to capture all kinds of people for experiments. Even if he tried to stop them, it would be of no avail. The commander even threatened him that if he saved these people's lives, he would use the lives of his students for experiments.
People are all made of flesh and blood. How could he bear to harm his own students?
So he could only research as much as he could, but the technology was there, and even if he put in a lot of effort, he could only come up with an awakening potion with a success rate of less than 30%. Not only was the mortality rate extremely high, but the distortion was also extremely serious.
But the base commander doesn't care about these at all. If the success rate is low, then he will win by numbers. As long as there are enough people, there will always be a few who succeed. Once the number of people with special abilities increases, the Winter Base will become more powerful!
He had seen countless ordinary survivors die from the potion, and he felt extremely guilty.
He wanted to research a way to gain superpowers by being immune to deformation more than anyone else, but what a pity...
"How is it going? Any progress?" Academician Zhang looked at Liu Ji. Even though he didn't think that Liu Ji could figure it out by himself, he still had some expectations for this talented student.
What if, what if?
"I have some ideas, but they still need to be experimented with," Liu Ji said vaguely.
After all, the main ingredients of the perfect potion were provided by the Jiang brother and sister, and they looked very precious. Although Mr. Zhang was his teacher, they were someone else's things after all. He couldn't tell anyone about them without the owner's consent.
Academician Zhang was a little curious when he saw this, but he was already several decades old, and he could tell at a glance that Liu Ji didn't want to talk more about this topic, so he didn't ask any more questions. He smiled and said, "Okay, it's time to eat, let's not talk about that. I didn't expect that I could still eat white rice and stir-fried dishes in my lifetime. I have to try them. Besides, this is Xiao Xing's cooking. I really miss it after not having it for a long time."
Before the end of the world, Xing Shaoan would bring meals to Academician Zhang from time to time, which he cooked himself. Academician Zhang praised Xing Shaoan's cooking skills very much.
Liu Ji breathed a sigh of relief and quickly picked up his chopsticks to start eating.
The meal was lively, everyone was talking and laughing, and no one mentioned anything that made them unhappy.
On the other side, Jiang Mi and Jiang Xun did not join them in the fun. Instead, they were discussing what to do next.
Should we temporarily settle these people here for a period of time, or open up a new place to establish the Dawn Base in City D?
Jiang Xun sat on the sofa and lowered his eyes in thought, "We need a suitable place to set up our base."
The perfect awakening potion is about to succeed, and when Jiang Mi also gains superpowers, what needs to be considered then is how to have a pure land in this doomsday.
As for going back to see their parents and continuing to live in that air-raid shelter, Jiang Mi and Jiang Xun no longer planned to consider it.
The longer the apocalypse lasts, the stronger the mutants become. It is simply impossible for two people to fight against the entire apocalypse.
People cannot always live in the present, they have to plan ahead.
"What's the address? Which place should I choose?" Jiang Mi sucked the milk tea pearls vigorously, then curled up on the sofa, completely relaxed.
"The city isn't an option." Jiang Xun was the first to rule out the first type of place.
The urban area is not only crowded and chaotic, but also has complicated roads, and most of the mutants are hiding in it. It is very dangerous and not conducive to the development of a base, unless they have hundreds or thousands of psychics and a large number of combat-capable survivors to sweep across the city and directly capture an entire city.
But that is something to consider later, so let’s forget it now.
In fact, in Jiang Xun's mind, the best choice should be some military bases or military fortresses, but firstly, such places are difficult to find, and secondly, he is not sure whether the military and the country's people are really unprepared for this sudden disaster and have no ability to resist risks.
Furthermore, if the country really has no ability to resist risks, then it is impossible for those military bases to be wiped out. Controlling such a large arsenal is already a kind of strength in itself. It would be difficult to occupy it without paying something.
"Let's try to stay in D City. I think this suburban area is good. I've asked around. This used to be a tourist development zone, and a large number of homestays have been planned. There are definitely enough houses, and the location is also pretty good. It's not too close to the city, nor too far away. But I haven't been there. I can go check it out when the time comes. If it's really possible, we can set up our first official Dawn Base there." Jiang Mi took out a map of D City and pointed to a place in the southeast. (End of this chapter)
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