Qin Siyang walked straight into the house and said to Quan Taibin, "It's urgent, so I didn't have time to let you know. Teacher Quan, hurry up and pack. You're coming back to the Safe Zone with me."
Then he looked around Quan Taibin's underground home.
"If you can move this place beneath the Safe Zone, that would work too... no, actually, it wouldn't. You'd still be better off moving back inside the Safe Zone."
Quan Taibin looked at Qin Siyang in confusion, not understanding what he was talking about.
Li Tianming, meanwhile, followed Qin Siyang inside and began looking around. He spotted the laboratory at once and asked, "Teacher Quan, your laboratory is truly impressive. May I take a look at the experiments you're working on?"
Having a titan of scientific research like Li Tianming, whom everyone looked up to, take an interest in their work was something any researcher would be proud of.
Quan Taibin immediately said, "No need to ask, Professor Li. Please, go ahead."
"I'm worried I might see some of your proprietary techniques."
Quan Taibin waved a hand. "In front of you, Professor Li, what techniques could I possibly have worth keeping secret?"
Li Tianming nodded. "All right. Thank you."
Li Tianming did not give it much thought. After all, Quan Taibin had been working alone outside the Safe Zone, cut off from everyone else. Research conducted in isolation rarely held up in the wider world, so he probably had little of value.
He simply wanted to look for inspiration out of a researcher's straightforward curiosity.
After Li Tianming entered the laboratory alone, Quan Taibin turned back to Qin Siyang and asked what had happened and why they had to leave in such a hurry.
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