"Brother Ji Lun, what a coincidence, you are here too?"
A man with a camera squeezed out of the crowd and greeted Ji Lun.
In order to better adapt to human life, the giant octopus completely digested its original body and dug out the identity of the human man in front of it from those unimportant information.
They were both students of Professor Lewis, and they were brothers. However, Ji Lun was Professor Lewis's favorite student, while Wilder was just an ordinary student of Professor Lewis. He did not work in Professor Lewis's research institute, but was a teacher at the university. His biggest hobby was observing various marine creatures, so he appeared here.
"I saw a paper published by Senior Sister Qiao An on the forum a few days ago. I heard that she is currently working on a project with the teacher. Isn't Senior Brother involved?"
Wilder was also curious. Although Ji Lun was not very active in the past, he was a research fanatic like Professor Yis. He would publish relevant research progress and results on the forum from time to time. There has been no news about him in recent months. Not long ago, some of his junior high school classmates were worried that he might have encountered an accident.
Now he looked at the person in front of him, and he was clearly in good condition, radiant and more handsome than before. He was holding a woman's hand, his eyes full of tenderness - this was not an accident at all, it was obvious that he had fallen in love and had no interest in his career.
Senior Brother Ji Lun, with eyes full of tenderness, turned to look at him, and then suddenly changed back to his familiar cold expression, "Wilder, hello, long time no see."
It was a rare opportunity to meet him, so Wilder said a few more words, "Brother, are you in love?"
Ji Lun: “My wife.”
Wilder was shocked! After coming to his senses, he quickly said some words of blessing, and asked why he didn't tell everyone so that they could celebrate for him together, and other human interaction skills.
Ji Lun responded with a few simple words, and then left him on the pretext that he had something else to do. Having long been accustomed to his indifference, Wilder did not take it seriously, and waved his hand with a smile and left, not wanting to disturb their date.
Qin Minghuang looked at Wilder's back.
There are too many people here who know Ji Lun. Apart from going to the research institute once to confirm the status of his fellow tribesmen, Ji Lun never went there again no matter how they urged him. After refusing many times, he finally had some peace and quiet.
They all knew that with his identity, the more he came into contact with humans who knew Ji Lun in the past, the easier it would be to be discovered, and the more dangerous it would be. But staying away from him was not the safest way.
Thinking about this, Qin Minghuang poked Ji Lun's palm. Ji Lun lowered his head to her head and hummed with doubt.
"Will you prepare and leave here in a few days?"
"Why?" Ji Lun wondered.
"I miss the taste of seafood from the sea, but I can't eat it here." Qin Minghuang said, pushing away his head that was sniffing in front of him, and scolded with a smile: "You little dog, what are you sniffing? Your head is about to stick into my clothes."
Ji Lun: "But you like it here."
Qin Minghuang: "There are so many places I like. How do you know I don't want to go somewhere else?"
Ji Lun thought for a moment and said, "Then we can stay here for a while longer. When Kong Hai gets nearby, we'll leave."
At that time, it would be much easier for him to take her away.
"That's fine." Qin Minghuang still remembered one of the reasons why they came here. "If you have a chance before you leave, ask your friend who eats and drinks for free in the institute if he wants to leave."
Ji Lun held her shoulders to prevent her from being bumped by the crowd. "It's okay. At this distance, if anything happens, he will notify me."
It's great to have built-in radio encryption communication. Qin Minghuang thought, passing by a glass curtain wall, and suddenly found a galaxy-like light band in the sea next to her. She dragged Ji Lun away.
"How come your foot bath friend is here too... How many sea creatures have sneaked in? This is not an oceanarium, but a sky and sea aquarium."
Because of this episode, they quickly left the aquarium and began their happy foraging journey. This area is so big that Qin Ming Huanglian hadn't even walked through half of it, and hadn't tasted many things.
Qin Minghuang drank half of a bowl of local hot and sour soup and put the remaining half aside, then released the little jellyfish in the glass for them to taste.
The little jellyfish was like a pink butterfly perched on the edge of the bowl, stretching out a tiny leg to suck the soup. Qin Minghuang held his chin and nibbled on a popsicle, watching with great interest.
"Hmm? No, there are only eleven left. Where is the other one?" Qin Minghuang counted the number of pieces in the bowl and found that one was missing. He picked up the glass and looked inside. "Could it have fallen into the soup?"
Ji Lun, who was standing by, reached out to the popsicle she was biting and gently touched it. A familiar light pink color emerged from between his fingers.
There was also a little jellyfish that actually learned the skill of invisibility. It sneaked up on her popsicle and nibbled on it secretly.
Qin Minghuang: "... Hey, what if mom accidentally swallows you and the popsicle?"
As soon as Ji Lun let go, the little guy floated over and stuck to her face, making the patting sound, as if he was kissing her.
Qin Minghuang: "Let me tell you, I, your mother, have received professional training and my heart is as hard as iron. You know, it's useless to act like a spoiled child like this."
Three minutes later, she opened a new box of ice cream and gave the little jellyfish a taste of something new.
The little jellyfish smelled sweet like ice cream, and they all clung to her face, making it cold and sticky. Ji Lun put the little jellyfish in a glass, took out a tissue to wipe her face, and then gave her a kiss.
Qin Minghuang suspected that their entire race had skin hunger. No matter how old or small they were, they all wanted to rub against her and stick to her for no reason.
Wilder came out of the aquarium and saw that it was almost time, so he rushed to a nearby restaurant. Today, they had a dinner with several friends, mostly classmates and fellow students.
When he met Ji Lun at the aquarium, he was going to invite him, but when he saw his wife by his side, he didn't ask. Many people in the circle knew that Qiao An liked Brother Ji Lun. Qiao An was also there this time. What if Ji Lun brought his wife with him and created a Shura scene
With this in mind, when Wilder saw his friends in the restaurant, he only talked about the recent sea and some interesting marine creatures he had just seen in the aquarium, without mentioning Ji Lun at all.
“… This aquarium is worth a visit. I also saw a kind of plankton that I had never seen before. It was very beautiful, like the Milky Way in the sky… I also took pictures. You all can help me identify what this is.” He took out his camera and showed the others the pictures he had taken.
Joan was also quite interested and took Wilder's camera to look through it. Wilder was so excited about talking that he forgot something for a moment. By the time he realized it, it was too late. Joan was holding his camera and staring at a photo in it.
In that photo, Ji Lun and Qin Minghuang were sitting under a glass column. Ji Lun, who was always arrogant, had a satisfied and tender smile in his eyes. He opened a small snack and handed it to Qin Minghuang beside him. Behind them were twinkling lights, which was extremely dreamy and beautiful.
Qiao An, who was caught off guard by the impact, said: "..."
Wilder, who had forgotten that he had taken these two photos, laughed dryly, "Ahaha, I just ran into Senior Brother Ji Lun."
"Senior Brother Ji Lun? I heard that he no longer works in Professor Yis's research institute. Is that true?" a friend asked.
Qiao An gritted his teeth and said, "It's true. He rejected the teacher's kindness because of the woman next to him. Because of her, Senior Brother Ji Lun seemed to have become a different person! He even stopped doing his favorite research!"
Joan, who was already angry and irritable because of this matter recently, returned to the institute with a rage and the photos sent by Wilder - she promised to ask the teacher on behalf of Wilder what creatures those galaxy-like light spots were.
"It's quite strange, I haven't seen it before." Professor Yi Si said after looking at it for a long time. Although he has spent almost his entire life studying marine life, there are so many species of life in the ocean that even he is not familiar with all of them.
"Teacher, don't you know either?" Qiao An thought for a moment and said, "Brother Wilder went to ask the staff at the aquarium, and they said that the aquarium had no information about this kind of creature. He said that he had been observing nearby for a long time, but he didn't see those glowing creatures again... Could they also be invisible?"
The thing she had been dealing with the most recently were the invisible air and sea creatures in the research institute, and she immediately thought of this.
Professor Yis, who originally didn't care much about it, also became interested after hearing this. Recently, their research on the invisible sky and sea creature had reached a bottleneck, and he wanted to look at something else to change his mind.
"How about this, you take people over to negotiate, get some samples to the research institute, and we'll study them." Professor Yis made the decision.
When the aquarium heard about Professor Yis's name, they were willing to cooperate. However, they really had no idea what the "galactic light spot" that had attracted the attention of tourists before was, and they couldn't find it even if they were asked to look for it.
In the end, there was no other choice but for Joan to take some of the seawater from the cylindrical tank and transport it to the research institute.
"I don't know under what conditions those light spots appear. We can first use this seawater to do a test to see if there is any difference."
This project was assigned to Joan, and Professor Yis was not involved much. However, on the first day when the seawater was transported, Joan saw sporadic spots of light flashing in the originally empty seawater.
In order to explore the secret of this unprecedented biological luminescence, she studied it for several days and finally came to an astonishing conclusion - these spots of light would light up whenever the invisible air and sea creatures next door approached.
"Teacher, I suspect these light spots also come from the sky sea. They are chasing invisible sky sea creatures. I suggest putting them in a water tank and observing them!"
Professor Yi Si was also excited about this major discovery and agreed to her suggestion without much consideration. Then they saw a magical scene. After the empty seawater was poured into the water tank that was originally empty of sea creatures, a starlight lit up in a short while, and those starlights vaguely outlined a contour.
It’s the sea creature that hides itself except when eating!
"This... is amazing." Professor Yi Si murmured.
Professor Yi Si's mind was all on the magical sky and sea creature, but Joan, who had been studying this galaxy for several days, suddenly had an idea in his mind.
These plankton may also come from the sky sea. Will they only glow when they are close to these invisible sky sea creatures
She pulled out the photo of Ji Lun in the aquarium, and the stars were gathering and twinkling behind him - just like the light points gathered around the invisible creature at this moment.
Why did they have a glowing reaction when this photo was taken? Was there something else near the aquarium that stimulated them
Qiao An stared at the photo with a frown on her face, feeling that something was wrong.