In August, there are yellow leaves everywhere and a golden moon.
Many days have passed since the last battle with Solmen and Mu Keni, two people from the mysterious organization. During this period of time, Richard has been repairing his body's internal injuries, recuperating his body, and researching various contents in the main laboratory. At the same time, he has suffered "disruptions" that he has never experienced before.
The disturbance does not come from Pandora who is out of sleep, but from...
Main laboratory, laboratory.
In the afternoon, the soft autumn sunshine shines in, making it bright.
Richard sat at the experimental table and looked at the contents on the papyrus scroll. While thinking, he subconsciously tapped the table.
"Crack, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap..."
The sound made by Richard's tapping is a melody that has been echoing in his mind for many days, commonly known as earworm.
Ear worms are nothing strange. According to research on modern earth, almost everyone on earth has the experience of having a fragment of a song or other musical composition reverberate in their ears involuntarily and repeatedly.
From a scientific point of view, "ear worms" do not actually appear in the ears, but in the brain. It is a pure neural activity of the brain. When the "earworm" phenomenon occurs, the auditory cortex in the brain, which is responsible for auditory information processing, becomes active and behaves like hearing music, making people feel as if there is really music playing in their ears.
There are many mechanisms for this situation. One theory is that it is related to "the brain sets passwords for music in many ways", one is related to "involuntary memory retrieval", and another is related to "information in "Relevant storage in the brain based on information correlation," and so on.
In fact, if a person is under greater pressure or in a special mental state, the probability of developing "ear worms" will increase.
And if we look into the root cause of Richard's "ear worm", it is a bit worth pondering, because the reason why Richard suffered from "ear worm" is precisely because of the text deciphered from the Black Spirit Empire book - Keguli Linggu , Duriel Monwu.
Ke Guoli Linggu, Du Lier Mengwu.
It seems like this is just an ordinary sentence, but many days ago, when Richard deciphered this sentence completely from the Black Spirit Empire book, an indescribable "cognitive itching" and strange melody appeared in his brain. , eventually developing into an "ear worm."
Although the "ear worm" is not too harmful, Richard is still a little miserable after being entangled for so many days. Richard also knows that the best solution to things like "earworms" is to let them happen naturally. Otherwise, the more you resist, the harder it will be to get rid of them.
Richard looked away from the papyrus scroll, stopped tapping his fingers on the table, breathed out lightly, and couldn't help but think: I don't know how long the "ear worm" will last, and I don't know what the "earworm" in the Black Spirit Empire books is. What does the sentence "Ke Guoli Linggu, Du Lier Meng Wu" mean.
Thinking of this, Richard felt someone's gaze coming towards him. He turned around subconsciously and saw Pandora sitting on the bed looking up secretly. Seeing him turn his head, Pandora looked away in panic, lowered her head and played with her fingers seriously.
Richard turned his head and Pandora immediately looked up again.
Richard turned his head, and Pandora lowered her head again.
Richard turned his head again, and Pandora looked up for the third time.
Feeling being watched, Richard let out another breath, knowing that Pandora was purely bored. This was also the disadvantage of Pandora getting out of her deep sleep: before she slept, she naturally had nothing to do, but now she doesn't sleep and has nothing to do every day. After a long time, it will naturally become boring.
Richard thought about it and turned to look at Pandora. Pandora quickly lowered her head. After waiting for a long time, she couldn't help but raised her head and met Richard's unmoving eyes.
Pandora's eyes blinked and widened, as if she was a little annoyed, dissatisfied with Richard for breaking the rules of the game "whoever sees the eyes first, is the puppy". But after a while, Pandora said: "Richard, I... want to learn something from you."
"Um?"
"I don't want to sit on the bed and play by myself all the time. I want to... help you and do something for you." Pandora said with a serious face, as if she had thought deeply about it.
After hearing Pandora's words, Richard moved his eyebrows, but without rejecting, he said, "Okay."
"Snapped!"
After hearing this, Pandora immediately jumped out of bed, ran quickly to Richard with her bare feet, and asked, "Then what should I do?"
"Well... let's start with the simplest thing." Richard said, "For example... brushing test tubes."
"Brush the test tube?"
"Well, can you brush test tubes?"
"I... don't know." Pandora shook her head, "But I can try."
"Okay, follow me." Richard said, leading Pandora to the side, walked to the corner of the main laboratory, and stopped in front of a basin of used test tubes.
Taking the clean water bucket, waste liquid bucket, test tube rack and brush, Richard showed Pandora the process of brushing the test tubes.
"The first step is to pour out the waste liquid in the test tube, then pour half of the test tube with water, shake it for a while, then pour the water out, add water again, shake it and pour it out again, and wash it three times in a row."
"If there is still dirt in the test tube after washing three times, use a test tube brush to brush it off. When brushing, rotate it up, down, left and right, but don't use too much force, otherwise the test tube will be damaged."
"After brushing with a test tube, wash with water for three times with vibration, and finally remove the water. The standard is that the water attached to the inner wall neither gathers into water droplets nor flows down in strands."
"When everything is finished, you can put the test tubes on this test tube rack. Do you understand?"
Richard washed a test tube, put it on the test tube rack on the table, looked at Pandora and asked.
Pandora's eyes widened and her lips opened and closed: "Uh... I understand... I understand..."
"As long as you understand, come and give it a try." Richard said, putting a test tube and test tube brush into Pandora's hands.
Pandora looked at the test tube first, and then at the test tube brush. She tilted her head and carefully recalled Richard's steps before starting to move her hands.
First pour away the remaining liquid in the test tube, then pour in water and shake.
As a result, as soon as Pandora poured half of the test tube of water into it, she followed Richard's example and shook it vigorously. With a "click", the slender and pitiful test tube shattered in her hands.
Pandora was stunned, then looked up at Richard, full of innocence: "This... this... I didn't mean it..."
"It's okay." Richard was very understanding and said, "The test tube broke. It's normal. As long as it doesn't hurt yourself, let's continue."
After speaking, Richard helped Pandora collect the glass fragments of the test tube and throw them away, and put a new test tube into Pandora's hands.
Pandora result test tube, repeat the operation: pour off the liquid, add water, shake...
"Wow!"
The second test tube shattered again.
Pandora once again opened her big innocent eyes: "This... this... I really didn't mean it..."
"I know." Richard said calmly and put the third test tube into Pandora's hand. "I know you didn't mean it. Just notice it this time and make sure not to shake it too hard..."
Before Richard could finish speaking, a familiar voice sounded from Pandora's palm again - the washing hadn't even started yet!
Pandora muttered in a low voice: "I... am too nervous..."
"Huh, it doesn't matter..." Richard said expressionlessly as he picked up the fourth test tube, "There are still many more test tubes, and we still have many opportunities."
Pandora nodded vigorously: "Yes."
Then…
"Wow!"
"Wow!"
"Wow!"
The fifth root, the sixth root, the seventh root...
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