As he was about to get out of the car, Wu Zunliang was still puzzled. "Her family? There shouldn't be anyone left in her family. Back then, Lao Luo asked Pan De—my family's Pan's younger brother, who was working in Spring City at the time... Lao Luo wanted him to recruit a few capable graduate students nearby. I thought Wu Jun would have a hard time pursuing her studies alone in Spring City, so I put in a word for her."
"Yes, yes, Professor Pan De. Little Wu and I were recruited in the same batch. She was the youngest among us."
Doctor Wang was the first to get out of the vehicle. Breathing in the slightly dry, hot air of the Wilderness, he felt some of the pressure lift. Even his movements became much livelier, and he nodded repeatedly.
When it was Wu Zunliang's turn, he refused Tang Yi's support. When Ronan reached out afterward, he did not refuse, but he still made a show of being spry and even finished with a little hop.
At the same time, his mouth did not stop moving. "...I was thinking then that Wu Jun was rather meek. She wouldn't get much done in independent research, so she might as well ride Lao Luo's coattails and get some experience. But she really plunged right into it. You Luo Family people infected her with that mysterious air of yours.
"As for that project of hers, she would not say a word about it herself. It was only because Lao Luo mentioned it once before that I learned it was aimed at Aberrant Species, some kind of gene-level ecological network..."
"Distributed Aberrant Gene Network Ecology research." Doctor Wang blurted it out. It was a tongue-twisting, lengthy name, yet he said it remarkably smoothly.
Ronan