early morning.
The sun rises from the east, casting light onto the earth.
With a creak, the doors of the laboratory and main laboratory opened, and Richard walked out.
Pandora, who had been bored in the yard all night, immediately looked at Richard, and then was stunned.
At this time, Richard was wearing a mask and didn't look very good. Although after Bailang Duoxi and many other treatments, the pneumonia has been contained and the symptoms of pneumonia have been alleviated, but he has not fully recovered and still needs long-term treatment. Due to the influence of pneumonia and not sleeping all night, Richard was very tired at this time, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked a little scary.
Of course, this is not the most important thing.
The most important thing is that Richard changed his skin color after not seeing him overnight.
Yeah, changed the skin color.
Before, Richard's skin was pure white, but now it was red, with bright orange in it, like carefully cooked boiled shrimp.
This is exactly the side effect of using Bailangduoxi - dyeing.
The azo bond in Bailangduoxi is a chromophore, which allows Bailangduoxi to turn the human body into orange-red. Fortunately, the azo bond is very reducible and will be attacked by a series of oxidases in the human body, so the staining will not last a lifetime, but it will not fade in a short time.
Pandora didn't know what Bailang Duoxi was, let alone what the color group was. She stood there and looked at Richard with wide eyes, almost not daring to recognize it.
Until Richard spoke up and said: "Isn't it scaring you? This is some effect of the potion, and it will slowly change back. Don't be afraid, come here."
"Uh..." Pandora then realized that the Richard in front of her was Richard, and she walked to Richard's side.
Richard stretched out his hand and rubbed Pandora's hair. Pandora looked at Richard's arm with wide eyes, feeling an urge to eat.
"Richard."
"Um?"
"Can I bite you?"
"Huh? Why?"
"You look delicious now."
“…”
"May I?"
"Of course... no!" Richard refused righteously. He was just thinking about how to quickly get rid of the orange-red color all over his body. Suddenly, there was a dragon who wanted to taste him. It really was impossible not to open the pot. Which pot. Although Rao was weak due to pneumonia, he still increased the strength of his hands and patted Pandora on the head.
"Ouch!"
Pandora screamed, with a dissatisfied look on her face, and pursed her lips: "If you don't let me bite you, why don't you let me bite you? You're stingy..."
Suddenly thinking of something, Pandora took out something from her arms and handed it to Richard. This was something she had carefully crafted over a night.
"This is my gift to you." Pandora said, "Doesn't it look good?"
Richard grabbed Pandora's so-called gift and raised it up. Looking carefully, he saw that it was an irregular long stone. It felt like it had been ravaged a thousand or ten thousand times. The surface was pitted and miserable. I looked at it for a long time but couldn't figure out what it was.
"Stone dagger?" Richard guessed.
"you!"
"mud?"
"You!" Pandora shouted, "I carved you out of stone!"
"..." Silence, a long silence.
After a long time, Richard put the stone into the space iron ring, nodded and said: "Well, not bad, not bad, pretty good, the carvings are very similar... Well, very similar..."
Pandora tilted her head and looked at Richard with a look of distrust.
…
Many days passed in the blink of an eye.
After various treatments, Richard's pneumonia has almost recovered, but two problems caused by pneumonia are still ongoing.
One is the orange-red skin caused by taking Bailang Duoxi. Even though it has faded a lot, it still makes Richard look like a boiled shrimp. Pandora's desire to take a bite has become more and more serious recently, and she doesn't hide it at all.
The other is fatigue, which is caused by the body over-exerting itself to fight off pneumonia and becoming weak, which requires a long period of recovery. However, Richard didn't have so much time to waste, so he could only force himself to keep doing things.
During the day, Richard was busy operating a lot of petri dishes in the laboratory.
In the corner, Pandora was shaking the handle of a strange machine. As she shook, a "squeaking" friction sound came from inside the machine, and then a faint "crackling" sound of electric current sounded. On one side of the machine, there are two wires connected to a heavy gray box. After Pandora shakes for a while, it will replace it with a new gray box and continue shaking it. It has been replaced several times so far.
This is Pandora's new job recently assigned by Richard. Compared with brushing test tubes, she doesn't have to worry about breaking it with too much force. However, Pandora found it boring to keep shaking the handle, which was not as interesting as brushing the test tubes. For this reason, she expressed to Richard very seriously that she still wanted to brush the test tube or other things.
Richard said that several batches of test tubes had been broken into pieces by her, and she could only do this before a new batch of test tubes arrived.
Pandora was very unhappy, and she couldn't help pouting as she looked at Richard who was busy on the side. Huh, there are obviously so many test tubes, but she is not allowed to use them. How stingy! It looked so delicious, but he couldn't even let her take a bite. It was extremely stingy!
Thinking of this, Pandora increased the strength in her hands and started turning the rocker crazily.
"Zhikaka..."
"Crackling..."
"Bang bang bang!"
At this moment, there was a knock on the door suddenly. Pandora's ears perked up and she heard a familiar voice: "My dearest friend, Mr. Richard, I'm here!"
Who else could it be if it wasn't Alex
Pandora knew very well that the other party was here to deliver test tubes. She immediately stopped turning the handle and stood up. She looked at Richard and said loudly: "Here we come! Richard, the glass test tubes are here. I want to clean the test tubes!"
Richard put down what he was talking about, turned around, glanced at Pandora angrily, and said: "Be good! Complete your power generation tasks today first. Otherwise, when the new test tube comes, I won't let you brush."
"Why?!" Pandora shouted.
"Why do you tell me!" Richard said, "I've been practicing for so long and I haven't made any progress at all."
"How could it be!" Pandora said, "The last time I brushed, I only broke a few."
"That's because, in the end, there are only so many extra test tubes left when I ask you to do it." Richard said, "So, you continue to shake it obediently here, and I will go out and hand over the things that were delivered."
Richard said and walked out. Pandora stuck out her tongue at Richard's back to express her dissatisfaction.
Huh, stingy, just stingy. If you don't want her to brush the test tube, just say so. What does it have to do with how many test tubes she breaks when brushing? Besides, if it were someone else, it wouldn't necessarily be better than him.
Yes, that must be the case.