When Fang Zheng returned to the dormitory, Julie and the others had already recovered from their injuries and were obediently staying in the room.
"Zheng!"
"Big brother!"
When they saw Fang Zheng enter, Julie and Katou Kirin stood up at the same time and called out in unison. Then they looked at each other... Well, some things needed no words.
"Looks like you're all doing pretty well. Good."
Fang Zheng chuckled and nodded at the girls. Nagakura Imari, meanwhile, asked curiously.
"So? Kasugano, did you find anything?"
"Oh, I wouldn't call it a lead. From what I can tell so far, Alicante Research Institute is probably behind this."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng told the girls about what had happened earlier. Sure enough, after hearing his account, most of them found it hard to understand as well.
"All this just for that?"
"A lot of things are like that. Most people might not care, but to some people, it's practically a matter of life and death."
As he said this, Fang Zheng's lips curled into a cold smile. This was actually a method of using public opinion to suppress technology. So-called truth was often held by the minority. Especially in scientific research, aside from experts in a particular field, most people thought what they were researching was useless.
Take people researching flies, spiders, or ants. Most people would hear that and think it was a waste of money. If you said you were researching Giant Pandas or finless porpoises, most people could at least understand that it was for protecting rare and endangered wildlife. But if you said you were researching mosquitoes, flies, or cockroaches, most people definitely wouldn't understand. In their minds, it would be best if those things went extinct. What was there to research...
So if someone