Chapter 270 - Chapter 270: Chapter 270: It’s a Blessing to Be Your Friend (1/2)
Chapter 270: Chapter 270: It’s a Blessing to Be Your Friend
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After setting up communication with “Mr. Liang,” Fang Pingfang asked Dr. Yang to leave the conference room.
Dr. Yang didn’t have any objections and cooperated, conscientiously leaving the conference room and closing the door behind him.
However, he didn’t go far, leaning against the wall and browsing on his phone, waiting for Fang Pingfang and Mr. Liang’s conversation to finish. He believed that regardless of what happened in “The Ninth Laboratory” last night, given his security clearance, Mr. Liang should allow him to participate in the resolution or investigation. Otherwise, if a tangible solution or follow-up research plan existed, Fang Pingfang alone wouldn’t be able to handle it at the research center in An Tie Town.
In the conference room, Fang Pingfang detailed her experiences in different D2 Laboratories for “Mr. Liang” from last night.
After listening, “Mr. Liang” didn’t respond for some time. Fang Pingfang remained patient and calmly waited for his response.
She knew that comparing her and other researchers hired by Divine Technology’s secret section for a high salary, “Mr. Liang” undoubtedly had more profound knowledge about the rabbit wood carving they brought back from Qinling Uninhabited Area.
Or it could be said that he already presumed the person or other beings who lived in the mountain cave at the cliffs in the Qinling Uninhabited Area, killed those flying creatures, carved this crude woodcarving, and left those footprints. Otherwise, there was no explanation for that tortuous journey they undertook.
Within the time after her return to the country to work for Divine Technology, although she had never met Mr. Liang in person, through plenty of exchanges and calls, she distinctly felt that “Mr. Liang” in fact knew quite well about what they were researching and pursuing. However, for reasons unknown, his dialogues with the researchers seemed restrained and incomplete, with various guidances instead.
It was like someone was paying them a lot of money to answer questions to which he already knew the answers.
It seemed like a deliberate exercise in their “problem-solving ability.”
“What’s your opinion?” Mr. Liang’s distinct voice echoed once again.
When faced with this question,Fang Pingfang didn’t feel surprised. He had always asked this question before, whether they were observing peculiar phenomena during lab experiments, or discovering strange objects or creatures during fieldwork.
Fang Pingfang had also prepared the answer for this question. Since encountering those strange events last night, she had been contemplating this question.
“After the first strange dreams in the Qinling Uninhabited Area that were affected, my guess was that the wood carving was causing these effects.
“It might have been influenced by some energy, carrying a magnetic field with specific characteristics.
“However, after coming here and carrying out numerous tests on the wood carving, regardless of its material composition or energy radiation, none showed any abnormality. Even dream tests were unsuccessful. I guess its certain characteristics ceased to function after departing from Qinling Uninhabited Area, or maybe they dissipated over time.
“Last night, it suddenly ‘awakened’ and directly inflicted illusory impacts on me. It might be that its characteristics had been restored after a period.
“But today, I have another hypothesis. The reason why Team Leader Li and I believed our strange dreams were related to the wooden carving back in Qinling was because in our dreams, elements related to ‘rabbit meat’ and ‘rabbits’ were displayed, and the wood carving happened to depict a rabbit, making it the most peculiar and unique object we carried. The fact that the strange dreams didn’t reappear after distancing ourselves from it strengthened this notion.
“But what if the real influence inducing our strange dreams wasn’t the rabbit wood carving in the first place?”
On the other side, Mr. Liang who was in the Qinling Uninhabited Area, after hearing these words, responded with approval: “You’re suggesting that the person who carved the wood, not the carving itself, was the one that influenced you? That person broke into our research center last night, causing your illusion?”
But Fang Pingfang said, “This is one possibility, but I’m actually inclined to another possibility: the ‘person’ who left the footprints and made that strange woodcarving in the cave of the cliff might have also been influenced like us, experienced similar dreams or hallucinations. They carved this rabbit-shaped woodcarving, perhaps out of a sense of worship, or thinking that the ‘rabbit meat’ in the dream or hallucination is a form of existence, making demands of him, and thus he created the rabbit wood carving as a response.
“The bird carcasses in the cave could likely be from that ‘person’, used as temporary substitutes for rabbit meat when they couldn’t find any.”
“It might have been existing in a way unknown to us within the other objects we brought back from the Qinling uninhabited area.”
Regarding Fang Pingfang’s hypothesis, Mr. Liang still encouraged, “Interesting thinking.”
“Do you agree with this guess?” Fang Pingfang pressed further.
Mr. Liang did not directly answer, but instead said, “Your handling is also very correct, last night’s situation was indeed very dangerous, since it can make you see rabbit meat, naturally it could make you see other things as well. Not everyone possesses your cool judgment, if they were influenced, it might lead to unpredictable consequences. You did right to temporarily block D1 and D2. I’ll handle the situation there myself; you all don’t need to worry about it anymore.”
Fang Pingfang was stunned, she initially thought that Mr. Liang would have subsequent handling suggestions, even if he was to handle it personally, they should act as his assistants. But from his words, it seems that they won’t be involved in what follows?
As expected, Mr. Liang continued, “I will have a formal notice sent out, the researchers will all be relocated to QiCheng City.”
“But…” Fang Pingfang frowned, wanting to say something.
But as soon as she started speaking, she was interrupted by Mr. Liang, “You’re not going to QiCheng City, you’re going to West Sea Province. There’s an unusual situation, it’s a good time for you to go and understand it.”
“Only me? Dr. Yang…”
“He will lead the team to QiCheng City, don’t worry, you’re not alone, other team members will join you, and you will meet some familiar faces.”
After Mr. Liang finished speaking, he asked Fang Pingfang to call Dr. Yang over and personally explained to him the plan to relocate the research team from An Tie Town to QiCheng City.
After ending the call with Dr. Yang and Fang Pingfang, Mr. Liang made a light wave of his hand, and the drone’s power system started working again, flying into the air accompanied by a faint noise.
If anyone saw Mr. Liang at this moment, they would surely be stunned by his appearance.
After all, the special material with spider web patterns adhering to his body was too strange, completely covering every inch of his body from head to toe, making him look not as if he were wearing a tight-fitting suit of unique characteristics, but as if it were his “skin”.
His facial features were also different from ordinary people. His two eyes had no eyelids, like two big eye-balls embedded on his face. His big pupils had very little white, and his nostrils were flat and wide, quite different from normal people.
Mr. Liang surveyed the traces around him. His eyes were markedly different from ordinary people’s, having multiple detection imaging modes, capable of detecting electromagnetic waves of different frequencies and wavelengths. Some of these abilities were his own, while most were acquired through the “invisible glasses” replacing his corneas.
Through these “invisible glasses,” he could even receive more recorded images and other detection information through the drones flying around, as well as browse past record information, such as the footage shot by drones when Fang Pingfang, Team Leader Li, and others were exploring this area.
After comparison and analysis, he preliminarily judged that “blood-eating creatures” did indeed appear here, and it’s very likely that there is more than one.