As Xia Sanghuan opened the door, more rust flaked off.
She pushed the door open without a care and walked in.
The room was filled with all kinds of discarded equipment, most of which had been damaged deliberately.
The girl's face darkened as she made a beeline for the central console in the middle of the laboratory.
She tentatively pressed a few buttons and pulled a few levers.
There was no response.
She sighed with a headache and stopped obsessing over restarting the console.
"What's this?"
Just as she was about to see if she could find anything else, an assistant's voice came from the other side of the laboratory.
"It's the mark left by a corpse after staying in one place for too long," Xia Sanghuan explained as she walked over and saw where the assistant was pointing.
Hearing her words, the assistant couldn't help but shiver.
How could she say such terrifying things with a straight face?
"Judging from the size and shape, it should be a lab mouse," Li Ran said as he walked over after hearing the commotion.
"Isn't this experimental cabinet a bit too big?"
The girl reached out and touched the cold glass cabinet through her gloves.
"It doesn't feel like an experimental cabinet anymore..."
"It's a place specifically for piling up the corpses of discarded experimental mice," she whispered, finishing his unspoken words.
Unlike the outside, the laboratory was cluttered with a large number of things.
Most of them were discarded manuscripts, and some experimental procedures were only half - written.
"I want to take them back."
"What?"
"I want to take all these things back." Xia Sanghuan put her hands on her hips and looked at the white papers at her feet, which were almost like a pile of hay.
"Where do you want to put them after taking them back?"
"Is there really no empty room in such a big school?" She looked at the principal in confusion.
Li Ran felt a lump in his throat when he saw her look.
"... Okay." Knowing he couldn't persuade her, he had no choice but to compromise.
The assistants flattened and stacked all the papers as the girl instructed, then put them into a sealed bag.
Fortunately, she didn't ask them to sort them out, or they would never finish.
Although there seemed to be a lot, after a simple arrangement, it was found that these manuscripts only filled one sealed bag.
Xia Sanghuan took the bag with satisfaction.
"Let's go."
Before leaving, she stood in front of the experimental cabinet for a while before following the others.
Two assistants couldn't help but worry after seeing her actions.
"She doesn't want to take back that heavy - looking cabinet, does she?"
Actually, the girl really had this idea.
But she knew it was unrealistic, so she decided to come back later to extract the dried - up components on the cabinet wall.
...
"Just put it here," Li Ran took out a card and swiped it on the password lock on the door.
The password lock beeped and opened. Behind the door was a not - very - large room.
"Is there such a place in the school?" The girl poked her head in half in surprise.
"This is the student dormitory." Li Ran stepped aside to let Xia Sanghuan in.
"If there's nothing else, I'll leave first." He rubbed the bridge of his nose wearily.
On closer inspection, it could be seen that the wrinkles on his face were deeper.
"Nothing else. Thank you, Principal."
After getting the girl's reply, he turned around and left.
Watching the principal's gradually disappearing back, she couldn't help but feel a bit guilty.
Thinking about it carefully, the principal should be about the same age as her master. To be precise, he was only a few years younger than her master.
The high - quality search during this period must have taken a toll on his body.
And today he accompanied her on the investigation for a whole day.
She raised her wrist and looked at her watch.
It was almost time for school to end.
She took out all the manuscripts from the sealed bag and put them in the disinfection cabinet for disinfection together with her master's diary.
By the time the disinfection was completely finished, it was time for her to leave the school.
Before falling in love with Leng Chuanjin, she never thought this man had such a strong sense of protectiveness.
Sometimes when she was a little late because of her research, he would ask if Professor He was exploiting her.
Although it sometimes caused her some minor and harmless troubles, she was willing to call it a "sweet burden".
"I've made an appointment with those two people for you," Leng Chuanjin brought her the best news at the moment as soon as she got in the car.
She couldn't help but clutch the backpack in her hand, in which her master's diary was still placed.
"So, when are you free?"
"This Saturday," the girl pursed her lips to make herself look less excited.
"I'll meet them this Saturday."
...
Xia Sanghuan had been reading this diary for three consecutive days.
It almost recorded every important moment of her master in that factory, and occasionally there was information related to that secret experiment.
"Human genetic modification project..." She frowned and whispered these words.
Although genetic modification had become quite common in recent years, it was only applied to plants and animals. Not to mention humans, there were only a few successful cases even on primates.
"Sanghuan, what are you looking at so intently?" Just as the girl was about to continue reading, Shu Man's voice suddenly came from beside her ear.
She almost instantly closed the diary and then calmly stuffed it into her bag.
By the time Shu Man bounced up to her, the diary had already been put away.
"It's a professional textbook," the girl smiled at her friend and took out a medical book she had prepared in advance, showing a corner of it.
"Do you still need to read this?" Shu Man couldn't help but be surprised.
"I read it when I'm bored to consolidate the basic knowledge." Actually, she didn't need to at all. She had already memorized the content on it backwards.
Following Shu Man was the "campus heartthrob of the School of Engineering" she had mentioned some time ago.
But Xia Sanghuan just couldn't remember his name.
"Hello, senior," Although she didn't know his name, she still had to be polite, especially since he was Shu Man's current boyfriend.
"Hello," the man smiled gently, which was completely different from his joking with Shu Man on normal days.
If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes that day, Xia Sanghuan would never have believed his real personality was like that.
"Is there anything?" She turned to Shu Man.
"Well, it's like this," the friend took out a flyer from her pocket.
"Look, there's a plant exhibition in Yuntan next week."
"I remember you like flowers and plants. What do you think? Do you want to go for a stroll with your boyfriend?" Hearing her words, the girl took the flyer.