Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
After returning to Stanford campus, Zhang Lisheng did not go back to the lab but slipped back to his dormitory.
When he opened the door, his roommate heard the door open and woke up in a half-asleep state from the soft bed before asking ambiguously, “Who is that? Lisheng? Is it you?”
“Yes, it’s me. I’m sorry for disturbing your sweet dream, Jerry.” Zhang Lisheng tiptoed to his bed and lied down without changing his clothes. Not long after, he fell into a deep sleep.
The next morning, the sun peered into the window of the dormitory, making the room warm. The young man opened his eyes and sat up. Right away, he saw Jerry who had just finished rinsing his face and was walking out of the bathroom. He then waved his hand. “Good morning, roommate.”
“Hey. Good morning, Lisheng. Long time no see! What time did you come back last night?”
“About twelve o’clock, you even greeted me when I entered. didn’t you remember?”
“Is that so? I don’t remember at all.” Jerry scratched his head. “Your work-rest schedule is as irregular as a vampire! It’s really unhealthy!”
“It’s indeed so! It’s fortunate that I can always get a good sleep in the lab. Actually…” Zhang Lisheng shrugged and suddenly took out his phone that was ringing from his pocket. “I’m sorry, I have to pick this call first.”
After flashing an apologetic smile, he connected the phone and immediately heard his supervisor’s urgent voice. “Lisheng, get ready! Our plan has been brought forward! We’ll depart to Shrimp World No. 2 in twenty minutes time…”
“Oh, Professor! Why is it so rushed? I haven’t even prepared anything yet!”
When the young man first came to Stanford from New York, due to the reason that Stanford was far from the sea, and that it had no factory like the LS group to provide blood food, if he brought the two transformed wizard gus, wyrm dragon, and the nine-tailed lizard, with him, he would have to be the one providing the blood supply for them.
After some trial and error, Zhang Lisheng realized that even if he cultivated every day, one-third of his witchcraft progress would go in vain. On top of that, the wizard power in his flesh and blood might show a sign of degeneration if he did not work hard enough.
Such a result sent a great shock to him. After contemplating about it for a long time, he could only leave behind Island Dragon and his other wizard gu in the slaughterhouse’s underground trenches on the outskirts of New York. With no other choice, he could only keep Kyuuko, that had no hope of transforming and would usually require a minimum amount of blood essence, by his side.
Since their departure time to Shrimp World No. 2 was already predetermined, he first thought he could transit to New York and calmly bring two transformed wizard gus with him. However, now that the plan had suddenly changed, a lot of variables were changed abruptly as well.
“Shrimp B1 Island suddenly has a large-scale animal migration phenomenon of unknown cause. However, there’s not much change in the temperature and environment at all. This incident made the new immigrants on the island feel very uneasy, so they called on the government to give an explanation as soon as possible. Therefore, the government requested the scientists who have been seeking for approval to establish a scientific laboratory on the island to be put into place as soon as possible. The military plane will come and pick us up after a while. If you’re not ready yet, hurry up and make the best use of your time…”
“Oh, the hell? Alright, Professor! I’ll go to the lab immediately!” Zhang Lisheng hastily hung up and waved at Jerry. “See you, Jerry. I’m going to Shrimp World No. 2. Wish me luck!”
“What? Oh! B-Bye, Lisheng!” Dumbfounded, Jerry replied to his roommate and realized that he had already pushed the door open and hastily left the dorm.
“If the military plane would send us directly to Shrimp B1 Island, I can no longer bring lizard and wyrm dragon to the foreign world with me anymore. In that case, the most important thing now is the ’01 mixed reagent’…” As Zhang Lisheng muttered to himself, he walked through the hallway of the apartment building and went outside to rushed towards his bicycle. He straddled his bike and went straight to the laboratory building.
With surprising speed, he shuttled through the campus and soon reached his destination.
“Mr. Li Sheng, are you going back to the lab again? It’s not even 9 am yet! On top of that, today’s Saturday! You’re really diligent!” Upon seeing Zhang Lisheng climb up the steps and hastily walk up the stairs, the young fat guard who had not even finished his shift yet said in astonishment.
“Is it so early? I thought it was already 11 am!” The young man randomly came up with a reply and ran up to the third floor in one breath. He entered his glass room, opened the freezer, and took out the medical kit-sized metal box at the highest compartment.
After taking out the special box filled with compressed ’01 mixed reagents’, Zhang Lisheng opened it and saw that it was unbalanced inside. Out of the eight irregular oval-shape silver containers, only three of the indicators on the top showed a red color.
“Damn it! I’ve used too much of them these days. If I had known earlier that the effect would actually be so good and the time was actually this urgent, why did I even need to do so many improvement experiments…” Zhang Lisheng whispered irritably and began to mumble incantations of ‘pst shh…’, allowing his state of mind to enter an absolutely rational and calm state.
After that, he began to move a large number of single-agent chemicals out of the freezer. He then used a harmonizer to vibrate and heat it as he began mixing the ’01 mixed reagents’.
In fact, based on the young man’s current biological knowledge, it was an absolute coincidence for him to be able to successfully mix the ’01 mixed reagents’ that could magnify the effect of the Corpse Puppet’s self-explosion technique by more than ten times.
The reason he first researched this mixture was because of the inspiration he obtained from “The Illustrated Handbook of Bio-anatomy and Chemical Reaction”. He had a whimsical thought of adding a strong chemical agent that could act on the nerves of the human brain into the process of the Corpse Puppet Refining Method to enhance the brain activity of the corpse through intense stimulation. This would result in a similar effect of a living corpse.
As a result, through pure random luck, he accidentally realized that after injecting a sufficient amount of strong brain-stimulating chemicals, the body of the corpse would undergo rapid swelling changes when it was transforming into a Corpse Puppet. At the same time, the flesh and blood in the body would become inexplicably corrosive as well.
With this unexpected experimental result, a lightbulb went off in Zhang Lisheng’s mind as he suddenly had an idea to mix several types of different single-agent chemicals that had a strong reaction on human brain tissue to make a mixed reagent that could make the Corpse Puppet become strongly corrosive. Using this idea of making an explosive corpse that could produce a terrifying force, he finally developed the ’01 mixed reagent’.
Due to the reason that the original purpose of the mixed reagent was just to stimulate the brain activity of the corpse, all of the chemicals used did not have any high-risk characteristics. For this reason, the mixing speed was very fast too. However, due to the limited time given to Zhang Lisheng, he still could not completely fill the silver metal containers before they departed.
Just at that moment when he finished sealing the top of the seventh container, the young man saw Steven standing outside of the glass wall, that could be seen from within but not from the outside. He was silently knocking on the glass wall, with his lips clearly making the words “It’s time to go, Lisheng!”
“Damn it!” The young man cursed in annoyance before hurrying up to put the filled silver container into the metal box. Dexterously, he put away the odds and ends and lifted the box to stride out of the glass room. “Professor, are we leaving now?”
“Yes, Lisheng. I just received a call and the military helicopter is already parked outside of the laboratory building. We’ll leave immediately.” Steven, who was also carrying a heavy metal box, nodded and led Zhang Lisheng downstairs.
When the two of them walked out of the laboratory building, the young man saw an armed helicopter. Its propeller was constantly turning while making a loud “du du du du…” noise, parked at the open space in front of the building. There were more than ten students, who just so happened to pass by next to it. They stopped and watched in astonishment.
The helicopter was more than 17 meters long, with a rotor diameter that was about 15 meters, and a height of 4 meters. The head of the helicopter was topped with a large caliber gun, with two micro-missile launching systems with bombs on both sides of the fuselage, and four small missiles.
“Is it necessary to use an Apache main battle armed helicopter to pick us up from the university?” Zhang Lisheng, who deliberately acquired a profound understanding of America’s various military equipment after the clashes between his wizard gus and these weapons, could not help but ask. He curled his lips and ran downstairs beside Steven.
All of a sudden, he saw a black medieval Chevrolet car abruptly brake and park directly on the side of the road. The door opened and a familiar figure came running out, panting heavily to stop them. “Professor, I think you’d need an experienced assistant no matter where you go!”
“Dr. Shalin! Compared to an experienced assistant, I’m more interested in knowing who is the one who told you to give up on your early morning date and came rushing back to the campus to stop me?”
Steven looked at Shalin in front, who was wearing a beautiful azure dress. Her hair neatly brushed and she was wearing contact lenses. Some slight make-up was visibly seen on the outline of her face. This was completely different from her usual serious and old-fashioned style. She then asked with a sullen expression.
“Nobody purposely came to inform me, Professor. It’s Monica who saw the armed helicopter coming to fetch you, so she gave me a call to inform me about this news. I came right away after learning about it,” Shalin answered in an anxious but determined look.
Steven frowned and as he contemplated in silence for a moment. Just then, a medium-sized, thin, black officer, with badges showing his major military rank on his shoulders, jumped down from the helicopter while pressing a hand on his beret which the propeller almost blew off from his head. He ran towards them to urge them. “Are you Professor Steven? I’m Major Martin Lutton from the US Navy. I’m sorry, Professor, but is this the team you’re bringing with you? The matter is very urgent, so we don’t have any extra time to waste…”
Only then that Steven nodded and said to Shalin, “You have a strong initiative, Dr. Shalin. I’ll give you a chance for this ambition of yours. From now on, we’ll see if your perseverance and guts are as strong as your initiative. ”
Then, he shook his hand with the black military officer in front of him. “Mr. Martin, due to the reason that this is a last-minute call, and that the time given is only 20 minutes, only three people can depart now. All of us are here now.”
“Thank you for giving me this opportunity, Professor Steven, I will not let you down.” Upon hearing Steven’s words, Shalin clenched her fist with excitement.
Martin, who was by the side, shouted loudly, “Alright, Professor! Three people will do! Let us get on the helicopter right now!” Then, he turned around and led the three Stanford biologists to run against the strong wind before climbing up the armed helicopter.
