By the time everyone woke up and untied the heavy ropes, more than half an hour had passed.
Even Zeng Pei was confused: "Why on earth did you tie up the life bladder?"
Jiang Ran said nothing, simply poking the outer shell of the life-saving bladder. As his finger moved, a small dent sank into the slightly transparent white shell.
"Don't you think this material is interesting?" Jiang Ran pointed to the pile of ropes scattered nearby. "The way they sink in circles is so well-arranged and beautiful."
Zeng Pei walked forward and took a look at the life-saving bag.
After a while, she agreed with Jiang Ran's statement: "It is indeed a very interesting material. I wonder if it can be used in the construction of mechas."
Jiang Ran nodded seriously.
The others behind were speechless.
These two people are obviously not talking about the same thing.
Only after they had collected and stacked all the life-saving bags did they have the energy to talk about the current situation.
When everyone learned that Xu Yang had prepared the starship early and was ready to evacuate at any time, they all looked at him with accusations in their eyes.
Xu Yang only raised his eyes slightly and said preemptively, "It seems like you two agreed to open the life sac together, right? I don't know when you came up with this idea, and I had no idea at all."
Fu Bo immediately began to feel guilty, but he was too embarrassed to admit that he had forgotten about his financial sponsor. He rubbed his nose and laughed, "Mr. Xu, you are so wise and decisive. If there was really an inescapable danger, you would definitely deploy the life bag in time. Why would you need us to remind you?"
Upon hearing this, Xu Yang was about to say something else when he suddenly felt an itch in his throat. He tried to hold it back but couldn't control it, so he covered his mouth and coughed twice.
It would have been fine if he hadn't started this, but when he started coughing, everyone else immediately felt uncomfortable and started coughing too.
Only Jiang Ran seemed fine.
She looked left and right, not knowing who to pat on the back first.
Fu Bo endured the itch in his throat and the dull pain in his chest and tried to stand up straight.
He looked at Jiang Ran in confusion: "Did you poison us? Why are you the only one who is fine?"
"What are you thinking?" Jiang Ran said with a smile, "Poisoning you is fine, but how could I possibly poison Mr. Xu as well?"
Fu Bo: “…”
Okay, it's okay if I poison him, right?
Although the coughing issue had nothing to do with Jiang Ran, everyone else had this problem, but she was the only one who was fine, which more or less explained something.
Jiang Ran thought carefully and came up with the answer: "It should be that when you were at the crater, you inhaled the poisonous smoke formed by the volcanic ash, and now you are suffering from sequelae. Only I am fine because I wore a homemade gas mask in advance."
This statement made sense, and the others immediately understood it.
Upon hearing this, Xu Yang went back to the cockpit. When he came out again, he was holding something that looked like a gun barrel.
Jiang Ran was a little curious: "What is that?"
Xu Yang said, "This is a small portable therapeutic device. Let's use it to relieve the symptoms for now. Who will go first?"
Everyone smiled apologetically, coughing and saying, "You first, you first."
"I've already used it," Xu Yang's voice was a little hoarse, but he had indeed stopped coughing. "I feel much better now."
After he said this, the others looked at each other, no longer hesitated, and lined up to walk up the mountain.
After using the treatment device to relieve the symptoms, everyone's continuous coughing symptoms improved a lot, but one could still see some discomfort on their faces.
Xu Yang put away the treatment device and said to them, "The small treatment device was designed with convenience in mind. Its capabilities are limited. Deeper and more comprehensive treatments can only be performed after the response team arrives."
As he spoke, he looked down at his watch. "I've already contacted the contact in advance. They should be here in a few hours. There will be a professional doctor on the team, and we'll do a thorough examination then."
Fu Bo's reaction was huge: "Reception team? What reception team?"
Ren Xiayang was also very nervous: "Is this the end of this test? But it's not even a week away..."
If you are deported before the deadline...
So is there really any hope for their long-awaited investment?
Everyone's face was filled with worry, and they looked at Xu Yang cautiously.
"Don't worry."
Xu Yang waved his hand and said, "Only the four of you will be deported."
Four people: “???”
Jiang Ran gave them a funny look.
She knew that she was not included in those four people.
Sure enough, she heard Xu Yang continue:
"Don't the rules clearly state that anyone who opens the life bladder will automatically be considered to have given up the competition due to excessive difficulty. Have you forgotten that?"
Everyone looked at each other and no one spoke for a long time.
Of course, they couldn't say that they didn't even know the rules of the game. After a long silence, they finally admitted it with tears in their eyes.
Fu Bo was the one who regretted the most.
If he had not forgotten to inform his financial sponsor beforehand, the four of them would have opened the life bags and left first, and things would not have turned out like this.
Either the sponsor would have left with them in a life bag, or they and the sponsor would have evacuated on a spaceship. There was no way they would have ended up in such a situation.
But now, regret is of no use.
Everyone looked at Jiang Ran with tears in their eyes: "You can only walk the rest of the way alone!"
Jiang Ran: “…”
Xu Yang's face also turned dark.
How come I'm alone?
Isn't he a human being?
Within two hours, the receiving spaceship and personnel arrived.
Xu Yang connected the small starship to the large starship through the docking port. After the fitter operated for a few minutes, the two starships were completely connected together.
Everyone passed through the connecting channel and transferred to the large starship that came to pick them up, and Xu Yang was no exception.
The sooner the sequelae caused by inhaling volcanic ash are treated, the better, so Xu Yang was not in a hurry to repatriate them, but first asked professional doctors to examine everyone and provide corresponding treatment.
However, at this time, a strange thing happened. After professional treatment, everyone's sequelae were almost cured, but Bai Zhiyong's condition did not improve and he kept coughing.
Even the doctor was confused: "Is this really tracheitis caused by volcanic ash?"
Bai Zhiyong was even more confused: "I don't know either." After all, he was a biologist, not a medical scientist.
Targeted treatment was ineffective, so the doctor could only give him a comprehensive examination, hoping to successfully find the real cause of the disease.
You don’t know until you check, and you’ll be shocked when you do.
Bai Zhiyong not only had acute inflammation in his trachea, but his lungs were also in very bad condition, appearing as a hazy shadow under the examination instrument.
The doctor held up the medical records and sighed, "With your condition, I wouldn't believe you if you told me you'd been breathing volcanic ash for a year, let alone just one day."
"But we only inhaled a little bit and then left." Ren Xiayang and Bai Zhiyong had known each other for a long time and had a good relationship. At this time, he was even more worried than him. "Can this be cured?"
"Of course it can be cured," the doctor said, "but if the cause isn't identified, the problem can't be fundamentally solved. Even if it's cured now, it might recur in the future. And if the lungs and trachea are repeatedly and chronically damaged, even if it's cured, there will be long-term sequelae, which can have a significant impact."
The doctor sounded serious and everyone was nervous.
Everyone looked at Bai Zhiyong worriedly, fearing that he might have emotional problems.
At this moment, Jiang Ran proposed an idea: "Could it be mushroom lung? I heard that mushrooms produce a large number of fungal spores during their growth process, and these spores can easily cause a series of respiratory system diseases. If not treated in time, it may gradually develop into chronic dyspnea and directly lead to loss of working ability."
"Mushroom lung?" The doctor pondered for a moment. "It's unlikely. Plants haven't been grown on the capital planet for years. What idiot would actually grow mushrooms? Let alone get sick?"
Everyone else looked at Bai Zhiyong cautiously.
Bai Zhiyong: “…”
The doctor was shocked when he saw their reaction: "No way? You really grow mushrooms?"
"It's a straw mushroom," Jiang Ran said, "it can barely be considered a kind of mushroom."
"It has a name, it's called Little Orchid!" Bai Zhiyong finally retorted, "Don't call it Straw Mushroom!"
Doctor: "Is it an orchid or a straw mushroom?"
Jiang Ran: "Straw mushroom."
Bai Zhiyong: "Little Orchid!"
doctor:"……"
Before the doctor could say anything else, Jiang Ran and Bai Zhiyong started arguing about what to address him.
Ren Xiayang glanced at them both, then leaned over to the doctor's ear and whispered, "He's growing straw mushrooms, named them Little Orchids... In short, they're just mushrooms. He used to carry them with him all day, but he just woke up from the lifeboat and hasn't brought them with him since. If you need them, I'll steal them now—no, bring them to you."
After hearing this, the doctor finally understood.
He waved his hand and said, "No, I basically understand."
When he spoke, he did not lower his voice like Ren Xiayang did. Jiang Ran and Bai Zhiyong also heard it, stopped arguing, and turned to look at him.
"This girl's guess is correct. According to your test results, the symptoms do match those of 'mushroom lung.' The incubation period for this disease varies, and can be quite long, so you never realized you were ill. This time, you happened to inhale volcanic ash, which triggered your latent 'mushroom lung.'"
Bai Zhiyong was a little worried, his eyes filled with anxiety: "Is this disease serious?"
The doctor had previously seen that he was very obsessed with the mushrooms and thought that he would have to work hard to convince him to give up cultivating them. However, he did not expect that this man still valued his life very much and he was the first to waver.
This is certainly the best.
However, just as the doctor smiled, before he could say anything, Bai Zhiyong continued, "If it's not life-threatening... can I continue to keep Xiao Lanhua? Since it's a curable disease, is it okay for me to go to the hospital regularly for checkups and prevention?"
doctor:"……"
It was he who underestimated the enthusiasm of mushroom lovers.
The doctor thought for a moment and said, "I'm afraid it won't work."
"When the disease develops into an acute phase, in addition to coughing, it can also cause headaches, chest pain, palpitations, vomiting, shortness of breath and other symptoms."
"You're only coughing now because the disease has just occurred and is still in the early stages of chronicity. If it's not controlled, it will develop into the later stages and you may even cough up blood."
Bai Zhiyong was anxious: "But..."
"But you're a nobody," Ren Xiayang refused at first and slapped Bai Zhiyong on the head. "If you're sick, you have to treat it. I put your little orchid in the laboratory, separated by a protective shield. I won't stop you from looking at it any way you want."
Bai Zhiyong touched the back of his head and stopped talking.
It is always a good thing to find the cause of the disease, but whether to put the little orchid back into the laboratory is a matter for the future. The important thing right now is to cure the disease first.
The various treatment equipment in the interstellar age are very advanced. Bai Zhiyong lay in the treatment cabin for an hour. When he came out, the continuous coughing had stopped.
The doctor warned him, "This is only temporary. After returning to the capital planet, you must come back for a checkup every other day. You will need to be observed for at least a month."
Bai Zhi responded with a muffled "Oh".
So far, everyone's problems have been almost cured.
Logically speaking, the receiving starship and team should have taken everyone back immediately, but Xu Yang later changed his mind and temporarily agreed to let them stay for another night.
That night, after everyone's persuasion, Bai Zhiyong finally agreed to send Xiao Lanhua back to the laboratory.
He looked at the little orchid that was placed four or five meters away by everyone, and thought painfully: The next time I see you, I will have to see you through a thick protective shield.
This is so sad!
Bai Zhiyong finally gave in, which was really not easy.
Everyone was so happy that they held a grand farewell party for him and Xiao Lanhua.
The starship was fully equipped. Although there were no ready-made fireworks, there were abundant materials. Jiang Ran and Zeng Pei worked together for a while and made a few fireworks.
Late at night, the starship descended below the troposphere and sailed over the Earth.
Looking out through the transparent partition, everyone could see the dark earth and sky, with a few stars twinkling in it.
The fireworks exploded outwards, and when they exploded in the night, even the crew members on the starship were attracted to walk out of the room and look outside.
The protective shield covering the entire planet is always open on the capital star, blocking the night sky. Fireworks of objects containing sparks are not allowed in the urban area. They have not seen such a beautiful scene for a long time and could not help but sigh in admiration.
However, when they learned that this was a farewell to a pot of mushrooms...
Crew members: “?”
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【Small Theater】
Bai Zhiyong: Woohoo, we are about to part ways.
Little Orchid: Finally, I don’t have to follow this stinky man around in the wind and rain anymore!
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