disturbed
[You don't understand what love is at all! You don't understand what love is at all! ...]
"Alright, alright, I admit it. Can you answer my question now?" The system has been like it crashed since last night. No matter what I ask, the screen only shows this one sentence. Lin Yehuan doesn't even recognize the words anymore. "I just want to know the reward for completing this task."
[You don't understand what love is at all! You don't understand what love is at all! ...]
"That issue is in the past, okay?"
[The system will never change the plot according to your wishes! The system will never change the plot according to your wishes! The system will never change the plot according to your wishes!]
...Who asked you?
It now seems that the system is in a state of stress, switching back and forth between these two lines of text no matter what is asked. Lin Yehuan had no choice but to mute it and let it go crazy on its own.
"Shall we go to the lab together this afternoon?" Lu Xingzhi asked after hesitating for a while, seeing that she hadn't moved at all after the bell rang and was sitting quietly in the back.
"Of course," Lin Yehuan replied after a few seconds of processing before realizing the question was directed at him, as he packed his bag. "What are we having for lunch?"
"hamburger."
"Okay." Lin Yehuan's lips twitched almost imperceptibly a few times. They didn't eat together very often at school, and whenever he asked for directions and what to eat, he would always choose a hamburger.
The system's explanation for this is also "reasonable": Mary Sue male protagonists all love to eat Western food.
Thinking of this, Lin Yehuan couldn't help but laugh. The fact that the cafeteria's burger shop was called "Chinese Burger" made him laugh even harder.
Lu Xingzhi had no idea what she was thinking. He simply slung his bag over his shoulder and stood behind her, waiting, and gave her a kind and innocent smile in return.
"So, I'm the only one here who doesn't know anything?" Gu Ye stared blankly at the stack of instrument manuals that his senior sister had kindly given him.
Zhao Lei looked at the key focus in front of him and let out a long sigh: "It's not that exaggerated. You only need a few of the instruments and experimental methods."
After listening to the explanation, Gu Ye was taken downstairs to report his learning results to Professor Cheng. He repeatedly assured that he would not tamper with the instruments on his own. After receiving another spiritual baptism, when he returned to the laboratory, the other three people had already completed the pretreatment and were waiting for the reaction.
"Are you really going to watch me do the experiment like this?" Although Xu Pengpeng had tried her best to give him a crash course on all the precautions and some theoretical knowledge in the past two days, he was still a little flustered because it was his first time doing it himself.
Lu Xingzhi watched as the man's hands, which were trembling like leaves, held the dropper, and silently took a few steps back.
"Where are you two?"
"Hurry up, we won't wait for you to eat later."
"No matter what happens, you're not allowed to laugh." Gu Ye silently turned his gaze back to the clean bench.
"If you keep dawdling like this, he'll see it on the security camera and you're done for." Lin Yehuan was getting tired of standing, so he leaned his head on Xu Pengpeng's shoulder.
"If the teacher sees you idly standing next to him, you're in big trouble too," Yang Cheng whispered as he passed by, finishing his work in the fume hood with his back to them.
"Fifth floor, elevator doors open..." The sound of the elevator echoed through the corridor, followed by familiar footsteps in the stairwell. The three of them followed Yang Cheng toward their workstations in perfect unison.
"You guys hurry up and clean up, don't follow me." Yang Cheng took three steps at a time, opening the PowerPoint presentation he had just created for the group meeting four hours later before the other person stepped into the lab's back door.
Gu Ye sat alone in the last row, frantically dealing with the situation, when suddenly he felt a chill down his spine. He knew he was really doomed.
The footsteps grew closer. Gu Ye pinched his leg to calm himself down. It took a lot of effort to steadily remove the solution. The footsteps paused for two seconds behind him before moving around to the front.
Lin Yehuan was still stunned by Yang Cheng's ability to create a ten-page PPT in just half a minute. While staring blankly at the literature, he was writing something in his experimental notebook, completely unaware that his eyes were still inadvertently glancing at Yang Cheng's computer screen, where he was frantically taking screenshots and copying and pasting.
"The group meeting has been postponed to next week." Cheng Xiao stood in the center of the first row, his right hand resting on Yang Cheng's chair. "Young man, you're pretty quick."
"So, it's like you didn't do anything this week."
Yang Chengren chuckled twice, knowing he was in trouble the moment he heard the address.
"You will present five papers next week."
Lin Yehuan seemed to vaguely hear something break, but before he could look away, he was locked onto as the next target.
"Xiaolin, what are you looking at? You're not concentrating at all."
"I... I'll learn from my senior brother." Lin Yehuan was a little at a loss, desperately trying to think of a more reasonable second half to his sentence, but was interrupted by the other party.
"Oh~" Cheng Xiao flashed that same kind smile that usually comes with 60% of his students failing, keeping his legs still while twisting his upper body at a 45-degree angle to look at Lu Xingzhi beside him. "What are you looking at now?"
"Teacher, I..."
"Why don't you learn from her?"
Lu Xingzhi felt that this was not a question but a statement, and nodded as if possessed: "Yes."
"Hmm! You still have a 'hmm'?!" Cheng Xiao withdrew his smile and put on an even more enigmatic one. "Go clean up that clothes rack and wardrobe outside. Who threw that old straw hat there? Throw away any unwanted ones."
“You guys are so oblivious to everything, you really think this is your own home?”
While he was cursing with his eyes closed, Lu Xingzhi put on his gloves and slipped out from behind him.
Lin Yehuan followed him out, and took the opportunity to open the system to check if those two sentences had knocked his confidence level back to square one.
[You don't understand what love is at all! You don't understand what love is at all! ...]
Lin Yehuan closed the system page again, wondering when this bug would be fixed.
Cheng Xiao's loud voice was extremely penetrating. Three minutes later, he was still rambling on and on, calling out names and insults one by one. The two of them hid in a corner next to the wardrobe, looked at each other, and neither of them said anything. They found a place and posture where they could make their presence known but not too conspicuous, and began to tidy up very carefully, bit by bit.
When Xu Pengpeng came out of the restroom, she finally heard that there was no sound outside and thought it was finally over. Before she could complain to them about the lingering smell of smoke in the women's restroom and Fatty Cheng's sonic attack, she bumped into the angry-looking Sonic Superman coming out of the laboratory. She quickly lowered her head, frowned, and covered her stomach with her left hand, pretending to be a patient. With her superb acting skills, she barely escaped the ordeal.
Hearing the noise, Lin Yehuan glanced over worriedly, but seeing her perfect disguise, he quickly looked back at the rag, successfully avoiding Cheng Xiao's sharp glare.
"Fifth floor arrived, elevator doors open, elevator descending, elevator doors closing," a mechanical female voice announced before Cheng Xiao walked over.
When the elevator doors closed, Lin Yehuan quickly scurried into the closet and corner to clean diligently, occasionally peeking out to observe his movements.
The entire fifth floor was silent. About half a minute later, the two adjacent laboratories tacitly sent out two scouts to investigate the situation.
Two heads appeared on the door frame almost simultaneously, and Cheng Xiao's expression darkened further.
"Hello, Teacher Cheng," Wang Feng had been preparing ever since he heard his voice, but he still couldn't help feeling a little awkward when he saw his face.
"Hello, teacher..." A girl from another lab quickly greeted her, but before they could get a response, the two of them dashed down the stairs directly opposite each other as if their lives depended on it.
The chaotic footsteps of the two as they went downstairs made the entire corridor even quieter. When the elevator came up again, Lin Yehuan felt that she might be hallucinating from holding her breath for too long. It's no exaggeration to say that she could hear everyone breathing a sigh of relief.
Gu Ye dawdled around in the clean bench for ages before finally completing the first step, while a few people were having team building in the corridor, trying to avoid the ubiquitous cameras in the lab.
"You haven't thrown this little straw hat away yet?" Gu Ye took the straw hat off Xu Pengpeng's head and realized that the brim had been worn out by them. "It's actually quite artistic."
Lin Yehuan raised the corners of his mouth slightly, snorted twice, and continued to stare at the cradle.
Seeing that no one responded, Gu Ye stopped talking and just stared at the instrument on the ground that everyone had placed their hopes on. But he was silent for only two minutes before exclaiming, "Holy crap!"
Xu Pengpeng used the base of her right hand, which was supporting her chin, to exert a little force and slowly turned her head to look at him.
In contrast, Lin Yehuan almost immediately straightened up and turned his head away. Realizing that he had overreacted, he turned his gaze back to Lu Xingzhi, trying to appear frightened and at a loss. His heart was pounding. No way, no way, could he have learned everything someone else had learned in just two minutes of watching a rocking bed?
Gu Ye sensed the gazes of the three men but didn't rush to say anything more. He simply tidied his hair slowly and said, "This lousy hat has covered me in dust."
The group closed their eyes again.
"Is this why Zhuge Liang didn't like Liu Bei's straw hat back then?" Gu Ye couldn't stand the awkward atmosphere that was about to return, so he tried to ease the tension by making a witty remark.
"..." Lin Yehuan opened his mouth, but then felt there was no need to explain anything, so he yawned and chose to remain silent.
"Liu Bei was a straw sandal weaver, wasn't he?" Xu Pengpeng managed to come up with a sentence using her limited memory.
"oh."
The atmosphere fell silent again, then was broken by the sound of an alarm clock.
“We’re moving on to the next step,” Lu Xingzhi said, taking the initiative to transport the goods. Out of humanitarian considerations, he asked, “Would you like to come and learn with us?”
Gu Ye regretted agreeing too quickly. He leaned against the lab bench and changed positions seven times. Compared to the quietness inside the lab, the noise of the machines outside was at least conducive to sleep.
The post-processing and testing took very little time. By the time Gu Ye finished his reaction, the three of them had already started washing up. Without exception, all of these experiments failed.
After a year of honing his skills in the laboratory, Lin Yehuan had become the best dishwasher, tidying up the equipment early and standing aside to stalk the scientific star who had been given the "power of love".
Although Gu Ye acted like a hyperactive child just now, it wasn't all for naught. The whole process went very smoothly, except that he seemed to freeze during the test.
At the same time, Lin Yehuan, who was standing to the side, became uneasy.
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