Within two days, several research teams from other districts also arrived here.
So many districts are basically independent of each other. Everyone seems friendly on the surface, but competition is inevitable in private. Moreover, some districts have good relations, while others have tense relations. It is really complicated.
Qin Minghuang, a bystander, didn't know the details of the negotiations. She only knew that there were many more researchers around the fish's body. Hundreds of people were climbing up and down around the huge body, like a group of ants disassembling food.
Qin Minghuang had nothing to do, so she always sat there lazily watching them work, just like watching ants moving when she was a child. When people have nothing to do, they like to think about all sorts of things. Ji Lun stayed beside her, and occasionally showed a confused and worried look.
"Honey, are you sad because you can't eat this big fish?" he asked.
He found that Qin Minghuang seemed a little sad when looking at the big fish. Based on past habits, he guessed that his female cared about food, so he thought that she might want to eat this big fish.
Qin Minghuang crossed his legs, laughed twice, and said casually: "Yes, I am very sad because I can't eat this fish."
Ji Lun moved closer to her, sniffed her, and was a little uncertain, "Honey, you don't seem to be sad because of this."
He can distinguish emotions through smell, but human emotions are too complex. Countless emotions may arise in an instant, and the smells secreted are also different.
Ji Lun seemed to be analyzing the various ingredients in a complex spice. This smell belongs to happiness, that smell belongs to sadness, this smell represents comfort, that smell represents pain...
Like this, when Qin Minghuang exuded many complex smells in an instant, he only knew that she had such emotions at the moment, but he could not guess why all these complex emotions of hers came into being at this moment.
Qin Minghuang saw that his face was full of thought and chuckled.
What? Do you really know a woman by her scent
Ji Lun quietly extended a foot to Qin Minghuang's skin and wrapped it around her wrist. His simulated human sense of smell was still inferior to the original body's perception system. His foot had the most sensitive information capture ability. The larger the contact area, the more detailed and in-depth he could interpret all her secrets.
Qin Minghuang let him wrap around his hand and study it. He pulled the soft bracelet on his wrist and thought, OK, here comes another Chinese medicine doctor to take my pulse.
Her homesickness and rare melancholy were all disrupted by Ji Lun's series of actions.
It's amazing to think about it, humans treat him as a rare research object, but he is studying her, analyzing her smell, behavior, hobbies every day... and he never gets tired of it.
"Brother, the teacher is calling, please answer it." Qiao An came over with a phone in her hand, looking indifferent. She was indifferent to the two of them holding hands.
Compared to the difficulty in accepting the past two days, Qiao An now seems to have given up a little because Ji Lun has changed so much. She has restrained some of her previous exaggerated behavior and is only committed to urging Ji Lun to go back and continue his research. She doesn't even want to look at Qin Minghuang.
Qin Minghuang did not take the initiative to tease her, his eyes fixed on her phone. Ji Lun reached out to take the phone and handed it to Qin Minghuang for a closer look.
This communication phone has a very small screen and is full of buttons, and doesn't seem to have any entertainment functions.
Qin Minghuang had discovered in Inle before that the level of technological development in this world was different from that of her original world.
Take this cell phone for example. She originally wanted to find a cell phone in the city to play touch-screen games, but all she found were those bulky button phones, which were large in size. Rather than cell phones, they were more suitable for use as weapons to hit people or walnuts.
Computers are rarely seen, most of them look like laptops, but they are thick and heavy, and the appearance is hard to describe. The most common household is a TV, and the Internet does not seem to be well developed.
After discovering that he could no longer play games, Qin Minghuang felt that a lot of fun in his life had been lost.
The mobile phone that Joan sent over was already the smallest mobile phone she had ever seen in the world. An old man's image was displayed on the small screen, and it was actually a video call.
This old man is the legendary Professor Yis. According to Joan, he loves his student Ji Lun very much, but looking at his unhappy face, it really doesn't seem like he loves him that much.
When the camera showed Ji Lun's face, Professor Yi Si said in a tough attitude that would not tolerate rejection: "Ji Lun, I have something to do for you. Come back immediately."
Qin Minghuang was worried that Ji Lun's brain couldn't handle it, and wondered whether she should answer for him to avoid being exposed so quickly. But before she could say anything, she saw Ji Lun calmly say to the old man over there: "Teacher, it's not possible now. I will go back with the others after the research sampling work here is finished."
Qin Minghuang was stunned. He looked nothing like the "gentle and virtuous giant octopus" she was familiar with. He might be more like the human Ji Lun.
She gave him an ambiguous look.
The brief communication ended quickly, ending with Professor Yi Si's rather dissatisfied remark: "It's up to you. As a teacher, I can't control you now."
Before, both Professor Kang Ji and Qiao An were prepared to stay here for a long time. Now the situation has changed, not only because of Qin Minghuang and Ji Lun, but also because too many research teams have arrived from other districts, which is beyond their previous imagination.
There were several districts known for being gangsters that had bad relations with them, and after coming here, several quarrels broke out with their researchers.
This happened because of the strange hole on the big fish's head. The teams thought that the first group of people who arrived had secretly kept the most important research samples, and asked them to share them.
Not to mention that Professor Kang Ji and his team had no idea how the hole was made, even if they had hidden it privately, they couldn't share it. Seeing the tense situation, the three leaders discussed it for a while and decided to set off back to the city immediately. Anyway, the purpose of their trip had basically been achieved.
If you stay any longer, you might suffer.
Qin Minghuang and Ji Lun naturally followed their team back to Area 102.
Qin Minghuang had been in the fallen area for a long time and had not seen many living people. This was the first time he had seen so many living people. It really felt like the end of the world. The roadside was full of people driving cars and fleeing with luggage. The road was jammed, and even the wasteland or fields next to it had been turned into a smooth road by the passing cars.
In the area covered by the sky sea, the crowd still looked a little solemn and nervous, but the further away from the sky sea and closer to Area 106 that had not yet been covered, people's emotions generally became much calmer.
At night, their convoy stopped at an open space to camp and rest. Qin Minghuang also saw several RVs parked together nearby. The strangers who were fleeing in the cars leaned against the windows, chatting loudly, laughing, complaining about their homes being occupied by those strange monsters, complaining about the recent bad road conditions, and talking about where they were going, all very excited.
Once we passed Area 106 and were completely out of the air and sea range, we no longer saw large-scale evacuations of people.
Seeing the long-lost sky and returning to their safe home, everyone in the team was in a good mood, except Qin Minghuang. She sat next to Professor Kang Ji, and on the other side sat Ji Lun, who was inseparable from her.
Ji Lun didn't look abnormal, but Qin Minghuang knew that the further he was from the sea, the weaker he would become. There was little moisture around him, so even if he wanted to maintain his current state, he needed to constantly replenish water, so Qin Minghuang would give him water every once in a while.
There were two boxes of water prepared in the car, and Ji Lun drank almost all of them by himself.
This made Professor Kang Ji stare at Ji Lun with great suspicion. Even though he didn't say anything, his eyes clearly showed his suspicion of "Is there something wrong with this young man's body?"
Unable to drink water all the time, Ji Lun had to quietly go to the bathroom every once in a while, turn on the faucet and soak his body in water to avoid getting too dry and dehydrated.
He came out of the toilet after staying there for a long time and met Professor Kang Ji who had come over to observe the situation. Professor Kang Ji looked at him deeply and focused his attention on his body.
"If you are sick, you must seek treatment early."
Qin Minghuang happened to see this scene and was almost laughed to death by the two of them.
At the entrance to Area 102, they went through a strict entry inspection. Because too many people were running to other areas, Area 102 had banned people from other areas from entering. Qin Minghuang was originally a resident of Area 120, but now as a family member of Professor Kang Ji, he had to apply for an ID card to enter Area 102.
As for Ji Lun, he was originally a resident of District 102. The system had his information, so they simply checked it and then let him pass after giving him a replacement for his lost ID card.
The most rigorously inspected items were the samples of air and sea creatures they brought with them.
As the inspector was checking, he joked: "It would be bad if we accidentally put some dangerous air and sea creatures in there."
Ji Lun walked by with his newly issued ID card and got in the car.
After spending almost half a day at the entrance of Area 102, Qin Minghuang felt like he had returned to modern society when he entered the area. However, the buildings here were generally not very tall, and the population density did not seem to be high. Looking up, he saw that almost everywhere was urgently building a sky dome, which looked like a transparent cover, spread over the head piece by piece, and would probably be connected into one piece in the future.
The group reached an intersection and were about to go their separate ways.
"Minmin, Dad has to go to school first. How about I give you the address and you go home first?" Professor Kang Ji said.
"Brother, the teacher is waiting for you. It's time for us to go to the research institute. Please get in my car." Qiao An knocked on the car window from outside.
Qin Minghuang and Ji Lun looked at each other, and Ji Lun reached out and held Qin Minghuang's hand, "I'll take him home first."
Then he pulled Qin Minghuang out of the car and quickly hailed a taxi on the side of the road.
Professor Kangji and Qiao An had no time to stop them. They could only watch them walk away, shouting something behind them.
Qin Minghuang sat in the taxi and asked the man next to him, "Do you know where Ji Lun's home is? Are you going to take me to his home?"
Ji Lun looked at her with a calm look: "Of course not, didn't we agree that we should register for marriage as soon as we get here? So let's go to the marriage registration office first."
Qin Minghuang silent, the smile on her face slowly disappeared, she looked at the closed windows and locked car doors, and for a moment she wanted to jump out of the car.
What's going on? Aren't you here to rescue your own kind? Why are you thinking about this first? You're not human, why are you so obsessed with the human form of marriage!
Qin Minghuang thought sadly in his heart that this guy was becoming more and more like a qualified human being. When he was silent, he must have secretly digested a lot of knowledge about humans.
You have to know that just a month ago, he couldn't even speak fluently. Every day he just repeated a few repetitive sentences of love confession over and over again, like a broken tape recorder.
What about now? He had already communicated the destination with the driver skillfully, and took her straight to the marriage registration office, and he also skillfully made an appointment and lined up. Because there were few people, it was their turn soon.
Qin Minghuang secretly thought that it would be best if the process was a little complicated so that he could not figure it out and wait for a few days. As a result, he was stunned for a while, signed his name, and when he came to his senses, he had a marriage certificate in his hand.
Is it so casual, convenient and quick to get married here
Ji Lun stared at her heavy face and suddenly whispered in her ear: "To celebrate, let's go to have a big meal. What do you want to eat first?"
Qin Minghuang immediately put aside the sudden heavy mood and cheered up. Isn't it just a marriage? It's no big deal. If she admits it, they are still in this relationship without this piece of paper. If she doesn't want to admit it, the marriage certificate is just a piece of paper.
Qin Minghuang: "Let's go and eat something!"