Gu Zhilin was somewhat startled by Professor Leng's excited actions and subconsciously took a step back.
Then he realized that his behavior was impolite.
Just as I was about to apologize, I saw Professor Leng looking at me with a nervous expression, as if he were dealing with something fragile.
“Gu Zhilin is an ancient person, from more than 1,500 years ago,” Lu Jin’an said again.
Professor Leng circled around Gu Zhilin but found nothing different. He looked at Lu Jin'an with some suspicion: "You're not lying to me, are you?"
Lu Jin'an said helplessly, "Why would I lie to you? If you don't believe me, go to the Life Research Center and check. He is an ancient person who was awakened more than half a year ago."
Professor Leng frowned slightly upon hearing this: "But he is an Oemga. People in ancient times before the apocalypse did not have a second gender; they were more like betas in our time."
It is obvious that Professor Leng, as a history professor, is also very knowledgeable about the history before the apocalypse.
"He differentiated after being infected by cosmic radiation; a month ago he was still a beta."
Gu Zhilin felt a little embarrassed when people discussed his gender.
I happened to see what was on Professor Leng's desk.
There was a paper book on it.
These days, it's good to be able to read physical books.
It is clear that this book is an ancient text.
When he took a closer look at the book title, "A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality," Gu Zhilin almost burst out laughing.
"Professor Leng, what book are you looking at?"
Professor Leng glanced at Gu Zhilin upon hearing this and sneered, "You're from ancient times and you don't know? This is a record of a kind of cultivation practice by ancient people, which many modern people with some knowledge of history know."
Gu Zhilin was unaware of this matter. He turned to look at Lu Jin'an.
Lu Jin'an looked away, a little embarrassed.
I remember that this person had read a bunch of ancient novels and then asked me about flying on a sword.
He laughed and said, "Professor Leng, you misunderstand. This book is not a true record, but a novel written by a literary creator of our time. The content in it is not true."
I thought I would be reprimanded by Professor Leng for saying that.
To everyone's surprise, Professor Leng's eyes lit up upon hearing this: "Are you telling the truth?"
Gu Zhilin was somewhat surprised. How could he believe it so easily?
"No one has ever mentioned this before, but... I've always had this idea because although everything in the book is written very realistically, we've never found any related artifacts to verify it, so I've always had doubts about the book's authenticity." Professor Leng's gaze towards Gu Zhilin had changed at this moment.
Gu Zhilin smiled slightly upon hearing this: "This book is indeed a novel and not based on reality. Perhaps many of the books you are studying are novels."
Because Gu Zhilin had already seen many books on the bookshelf behind the old professor who liked paper books.
Most of them are novels.
Professor Leng's eyes widened upon hearing this: "Are you saying that all of our research is fake?"
Professor Leng was not calm at this moment, after all, someone had suddenly told them that their research direction was wrong.
This is a revolutionary event for the entire historical community.
Gu Zhilin nodded with some regret: "At least most of the bookshelves behind you are fake."
Professor Leng nearly fainted on the spot. He gripped Gu Zhilin's hand tightly: "Do you have any evidence? What evidence do you have to prove that what you're saying is true?"
“I am the evidence, because I really am an ancient person, and you have no evidence to prove that the contents of these books are true, right?” Gu Zhilin explained calmly.
Professor Leng slumped back, then looked at Lu Jin'an: "Is he really from ancient times?"
Lu Jin'an nodded and said, "What we said is true. You can ask him directly about things from ancient times."
Professor Leng slowly returned to his seat and sat down. After a while, as if he had made up his mind, he pointed to the bookshelf behind him and said to Gu Zhilin, "Find all the novels on this shelf for me."
Lu Jin'an frowned slightly upon hearing this; this was no small task.
He was about to speak up to stop him, but Gu Zhilin confidently stepped forward and began selecting books.
While selecting books, he commented, "Professor Leng, where did you find all these books? Why are there pirated copies among them?"
Professor Leng, who was already deeply affected, almost fainted on the spot upon hearing this.
He no longer wanted to talk to Gu Zhilin.
Instead, she looked at Lu Jin'an and said, "Tell me, why did you come to see me today? You didn't come here just to send someone to humiliate me, did you?"
Lu Jin'an touched his nose: "This attack on you was really not part of my plan."
"I just want to know if there's anyone in our archaeology field who knows anything about ancient battle formations?"
Upon hearing this question, Professor Leng's expression darkened further.
He looked at the people taking a pile of books off the shelf, which indicated that the books were all novels and had no basis in reality.
“Professor Leng, some of these Taoist-related books here are authentic. Do you know anything about them?” Gu Zhilin asked.
Professor Leng's face turned almost black. He didn't answer Gu Zhilin's question and continued to look at Lu Jin'an: "As far as I know, our modern understanding of formations mostly comes from... novels. As for the Taoist books that Gu Zhilin just mentioned, we actually don't understand a large part of them."
It's a bit embarrassing to say, but it's the truth.
"Aren't there any experts who specialize in this area?" Lu Jin'an asked, still not giving up.
Professor Leng shook his head: "Do you think that if someone actually researched those things, we would still treat these novels as historical facts?"
Lu Jin'an frowned. If there really was no one else on Earth who understood these things, and Gu Zhilin guessed that the Martians also knew about formations...
So... Gu Zhilin's current situation is not very good.
"We've spent most of our lives studying this, and we never imagined we'd be studying the imagination of the ancients. I have to say, their imaginations were incredibly rich and amazing," Professor Leng exclaimed.
"We even had pharmaceutical companies research some of the elixirs recorded in the book. Unfortunately, the ingredients for those elixirs were too difficult to find, and many plants had disappeared in the apocalypse, so we were unsuccessful."
Upon hearing this, Gu Zhilin stopped what he was doing.
He looked at Lu Jin'an with a somewhat solemn expression.
Lu Jin'an noticed his unusual behavior: "Zhi Lin, what's wrong?"
Gu Zhilin then looked at him with some concern and asked, "You mean... are the drugs at the Combat Academy now one of the drugs that the pharmaceutical company was researching back then?"
"You mean? They might have actually developed it?" Lu Jin'an narrowed his eyes. He had finally found a clue, and he felt much more at ease.
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