"Really!?"
"No matter how serious you are, it will take a few years. If you are really interested in learning these things..."
"I do! I quite do!"
The young nurse immediately rubbed her thighs vigorously.
"From today on, I am a student of the doctor!"
"Assistant and student!"
“…Can I get a raise?”
"We'll talk about the salary later." Xixus didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and nudged her a little harder.
"stand up."
"And go get something out of the fridge."
“This time I’ll explain as I go.”
"I follow my own pace. I don't care what your level is..."
Despite saying what he considered to be rather harsh words, Sixus' assistant and student seemed very happy.
She was indeed very serious. During the experiment, not only did she perform every auxiliary movement in a standard way, but she also had time to record the key points she mentioned casually.
Dreyerman...
Staring at the assistant's profile, Xixus was dazed for a rare moment.
That's true, even among all the assistants I've used, she's special. Her mood swings are much greater than normal people, but it doesn't seem to be innate. I remember that she was quite introverted when she first came.
"..."
She is not a fool, she can see some things.
Although she still hadn't made up her mind about certain things, if Sixus had to fantasize about those possibilities, she would say that at least she didn't feel repulsed.
The experiment gradually came to an end, and the two began to enter into the rhythm of their daily chat.
"The Doctor didn't seem too happy when he came in?"
"Well, after all, the establishment of the Pollution Inspection Department is still retained. They have recruited a lot of new people to fill the gap. That scene... you should go out and see more."
"A sight that would amaze the Doctor."
"I was notified that a group of children would be recruited. I thought I would get a group of idiots, slow but useful after a few weeks of polishing...but what did they do? I even saw that some of them were accompanied by their parents!"
At this point, Sixus couldn't suppress his anger again: "Some people seem to think that seriousness is useless without evil disasters. If this is how they educate the next generation, then I really recommend that these people go to Mermaid Avenue more often."
"This... Your Majesties will be unhappy to hear this..."
"No, they are too happy to be around. The longer they live and the higher they are, the more they crave to be treated roughly. To put it bluntly, humans are creatures with a masochistic desire. I have seen this clearly over the years..."
The female doctors and female doctors who have lived a very long life and are indeed very high and mighty start talking nonstop, but they don't realize that the eyes of the female assistants and female students next to them are getting brighter and brighter as they listen.
So that's what happened?
Doctor, does she...long to be treated roughly?
"bell--"
Just then, the phone rang.
"This is a private laboratory under the Nano-Asia Engineering Society Pollution Inspection Division."
Sixus picked up the microphone directly.
"You have five seconds to state your request."
"Looking for my help? Haha... Isn't Dr. Fermi here full-time? Whoever is the director is responsible. It's nothing for you to call me."
"I'm very busy. Please find someone else."
Bang!
She hung up the phone.
"bell--"
"in spite of."
Sixus ordered the red-haired nurse not to answer the call.
"I want to compete with them in patience."
Lu Xier didn't take it seriously at first, because this kind of thing, if not a daily occurrence, would at least happen 1-2 times a week.
She just sighed in her heart: It turns out that the Doctor still cares a lot.
Although he told me privately at the beginning that "Dr. Fermi is very capable, and he has a limited life span, so it's better for him to be the first director" ... but when the candidate was announced and I found out it was not me, I still felt underestimated.
She was willing to give way to Dr. Fermi, but not in this way.
Hmm... so hurt does make people remember it more deeply?
"bell--"
The phone kept ringing and ringing.
Lu Xier looked up at the wall clock and felt that it had been ringing for at least ten minutes.
"Go pick it up."
Sixus finally couldn't stand it anymore.
“It has nothing to do with winning or losing.”
"I just want to know what it is."
……
Ceres time, 2 .
"We've already contacted them."
Ashley opened her eyes from the bunk, frowned and fiddled with the robot helmet on her head while speaking.
"so fast?"
The agent sitting next to the machine was stunned for a moment. This was much earlier than he expected!
"Is there anything wrong?"
Ashley frowned, fearing that she had done something wrong.
"Let me ask... is the person you contacted Dr. 'Conte-Sixus'?"
"It's her."
"…How did you do that? I mean how did you get her to answer the phone?"
"I just keep calling." Ashley looked puzzled. "If you keep calling, the other party will eventually answer the phone."
“…” The agent reached out and touched his face, then quietly hid the knight novel he had prepared.
"What did the Doctor say?"
"The doctor was very interested in our description." Ashley nodded. "She said she needed some time to prepare. She should go look up information to find the right treatment. She agreed to contact us again in 40 minutes."
"Only 40 minutes? That's a tight time." The agent raised his eyebrows. "We need to sort out all the current intelligence data on the Gray Algae Fungus within half an hour. When the time is up, you will read it to her."
"Isn't this a matter of course?" Ashley frowned, "Don't tell me such a simple thing hasn't been done yet."
"..." The agent was helpless. He couldn't say that they had prepared in advance many times before but were fooled by the doctor every time. Over time, they got used to accepting the "lag".
"I'll go inform them." He stood up and ran out.
"Stay here. Call the control room if anything happens."
Then ten minutes later Ashley got the information.
Sixus didn't really let her wait that long. After a few minutes, he tried to connect to the "Dream Shadow Technique" channel and communicated with her about the issues in the information.
“The current number of infections is 22?”
"Correct."
"In batches? How long has each batch been isolated?"
“一共分三个批次。第一个批次8人，隔离已经8小时了。第二个批次13人，隔离5个半小时。第三个批次1人，隔离应该才只有50分钟。”
"This data is very good." Sixus commented, "You didn't let the number of infected people increase in a multiplicative way, not even in a step-by-step manner. You made a good decision."
She is not the kind of person who only stays in the laboratory. She knows how difficult it is to make correct decisions in time during exploration and investigation.
Especially since this kind of decision will definitely not be understood at the beginning, then every time you hesitate, every second you spend on hesitation may lead to ten times the loss in the future.
"Let me think about it..."
The voice on the other end became disembodied. "A kind of fungus that exists in every corner and even fills the air... You said it looks like moss in a miasma environment?"
"If it's just the materials we collected, it's like this."
"That's strange... Gray fog is not water vapor. It does block sunlight, but if there is only gray fog in the area covered by gray fog, it is impossible for such a thing to grow."
"Ah, that's what Moore said."
Ashley nodded vigorously, as if the other party could see it.
"He said that this might be because the ruins were close to the sea. Maybe there are no ruins deeper inland."
"Then he is talking in his sleep." Sixus sneered, "Anyone with a little common sense in biology should know that salt water is fatal to this type of algae."
Is that the case?
Ashley's face was filled with confusion.
Sixus started talking at length again, talking about "cycle" and "exponent" one after another. He asked Ashley all kinds of questions that made her dizzy. She almost repeated the way she stayed up all night for the math test and flipped through the materials on hand before she was able to complete the connection.
“It’s something like this…”
The murmurs started again.
"So, Doc," Ashley was curious, "can you help us with this?"
"Hard to say."
Sixus was frowning here, with the phone clamped around her neck. She was holding an open book in her left hand and turning the pages quickly and awkwardly with her fingers, while her right hand was writing something on the notebook at an even faster speed.
Lu Xier was beside her, helping her hold the bench - she was standing on the bench, and the place where she got the book was much higher than her.
"I still need to look at the clinical symptoms... Did you just hear you say that none of these three groups of people died?"
"Yes, he's not dead."
"Why didn't he die? Didn't his lungs get eaten away and he vomited blood? His lungs should have been shredded. How could he not die if he couldn't even breathe?"
"Uh... I don't know! Even the worst ones didn't die. I think Mr. Darent must have used some tricks."
"The carnivorous plant hyphae that has eroded the lungs is too bad to be saved." Sixus pronounced the death sentence. "It takes time to cultivate specialized phagocytic bacteria, and the patient can't wait. The only drastic measure is lung washing. Although it can wash away the foreign matter, the lungs cannot be saved."
"What should we do?" Ashley panicked a little, "Are they going to die? Oh no... I mean, why aren't they dead yet?"
She was also a somewhat experienced Flintstone Knight, and she knew that sometimes, cases where someone should have died but didn't were more terrifying.
"Let them check it out now."
Sixus gave the death order.
"Right now, right now...how long can you hold on here?"
"I feel fine. Half an hour will be fine!"
"Then let's have them check every 5 minutes... no! 3 minutes, and then record the data and tell me."
Ashley did as she was told.
Every three minutes, a new clinical report was sent to Shadow City's private laboratory. Sixus's brows furrowed deeper and deeper as the data was updated, and his expression was extremely ugly.
"What's up, Doc?"
Ashley wiped the sweat from her head.
"I feel like... I feel like I can't hold on any longer... I might need to go to sleep for a while. Do you have any new ideas?"
"I have good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?"
