Traveling Together
"Damn it... Luo Zhong... after decades of searching... is launching a counterattack... against this mess!"
The audio content provided by Zuo Teng was indeed terrible.
Besides the content provided by Zuo Teng, Zhang Xuezhou only received a few extra words.
It wasn't that Zuo Teng and the others hadn't heard clearly, but rather that compared to the names of people who might provide clues, this information wasn't that important.
"This tells us something," Zhang Xuezhou concluded.
"What is it?"
"Don't talk to yourself or ramble on unnecessarily. Not only will it cause you to leak secrets, but it will also put the person eavesdropping in a very difficult position!"
Zhang Xuezhou shrugged, indicating that he also couldn't gain anything from this content.
The only definite warning he received was that if he were to go to Dongshan to practice his cultivation techniques, Zhang Xuezhou would inevitably ask Zuo Teng about Zuo Quan's whereabouts beforehand.
His technique was extremely strange; he clearly didn't want to cause conflict, and even less did he want to be discovered.
That's how it is. Zuo Teng didn't get any feedback, but Zhang Xuezhou learned what he needed to pay attention to.
"It's quite a coincidence, actually. I just need to go to Luo'an Province. Which of you two is interested in coming along?" Zhang Xuezhou thought for a moment and said, "But I can't guarantee we'll find anything there!"
"You want to use the committee to investigate Zhang Qiaoen?" Zuo Teng asked with interest.
"Zhang Qiaoen definitely deserves to be investigated," Zuo Denggao nodded in agreement.
"I'm not investigating Zhang Qiaoen. I'm just going to Pan'an for an adventure livestream and to check some ancient books and documents along the way," Zhang Xuezhou waved his hand and said, "This is a boring thing. You can go if you're interested, or you won't be forced to if you're not!"
"Our Zuo Household is in dire straits, and you're still doing live streaming?" Zuo Denggao complained.
"I'm in a real bind right now. If I don't go to Pan'an soon, my mom will start using me for live streaming," Zhang Xuezhou said.
"Then you're in a worse situation than us," Zuo Teng said.
"Don't add the word 'them,' my dad's dead, no one can be more miserable than me!"
Zuo Denggao strongly disagreed with Zhang Xuezhou's "fire-and-eyebrows" incident. He rushed to the B13 Research Institute in North Rehe after hearing Zuo Teng's words, but what he found Zuo Denggao was extremely disappointing.
"Zhang Xuezhou and I are going to Pan'an. You stay behind and keep watch!"
Zuo Teng ignored Zuo Denggao's petty emotions. For someone like Zhang Xuezhou, who would occasionally fall into a vegetative state and go into shock for a period of time, to rise to the top, he could only stand out by using his time more efficiently than them.
Zuo Teng felt that Zhang Xuezhou's time was indeed very efficient, given his continuous upward mobility over the years.
Therefore, he did not believe that Zhang Xuezhou would do something worthless.
Even if you're just going to Pan'an to do a live stream, there will inevitably be other things involved.
Zuo Teng was absolutely certain of his premonition.
But when Zhang Xuezhou asked him for help, Zuo Teng couldn't help but doubt his own existence.
"You're going to take two strange beasts to Pan'an to do a live stream?"
Zhou Tianhao learned that Zhang Xuezhou didn't have time and didn't press the issue, while Zuo Denggao didn't want to do live streaming with Zhang Xuezhou, so in the end, Zuo Teng stayed.
When it came time to help, Zuo Teng couldn't help but question the meaning of life.
"I was only going to bring one," Zhang Xuezhou said. "Since you're coming too, I'll bring one more. I'll need your help with the shipping procedures!"
"Don't blame me if the strange beast dies on the way!"
"Fine, I won't ask you for compensation!"
Zhang Xuezhou glanced at the terrifying viper-like creature he had encountered during his cave exploration, and then at another hyena-like creature.
The viper was a strange beast that lacked buyers after being tamed, while the hyena was a domestic dog that Zhang Xuezhou used to guard the black-spotted chickens.
These two kinds of exotic beasts are also the smaller ones in his research institute, making them much easier to carry than exotic beasts such as reindeer and goats.
The tamed beasts not only obeyed Zhang Xuezhou's commands, but also had a high degree of adaptability to the environment, exhibiting little of the restlessness and agitation characteristic of wild animals, resulting in a higher survival rate when transported by air.
He asked Zuo Teng for help, and Zuo Teng had no choice but to agree.
These things weren't difficult for Zuo Teng. He looked at the lazy vipers and hyenas and just couldn't understand why these short-tempered beasts were so obedient.
"Zhang Xuezhou, could you teach me about the psychology of alien beasts?" Zuo Teng asked casually.
"The paper is already written, so if you want to learn it, go ahead and learn it yourself!"
"Who can actually replicate their skills with a paper?"
Zuo Teng shrugged.
If a single paper could explain all the details clearly, and then have others repeat it, no one would be willing to reveal such secrets to the public.
The purpose of the paper was merely to verify the feasibility of this method and, when appropriate, to announce that their lab possessed this capability, but not to teach others how to do it.
Zuo Teng had read Zhang Xuezhou's paper and watched videos of the relevant argumentation process, but he didn't understand the key point.
The steps can be learned, but it's difficult for him to tame a domestic dog like Wang Haoran and others.
"I've been completely open about it. What can I do if I can't learn it?" Zhang Xuezhou spread his hands and said, "I still haven't learned Crane Form Fist, and I haven't complained about the lack of materials!"
"That's because you've learned it wrong!"
Zuo Teng replied sullenly.
Knowing that Zhang Xuezhou was unwilling to say more, he didn't press the matter further.
"There are rumors that you're going to become an honorary professor. Is that true?" Zuo Teng asked while lifting the cage.
"I think it's true," Zhang Xuezhou said earnestly. "I'll send you a little red envelope the day I become the president!"
"You think it's true? Do you need to think about something like this? What paper did you just publish?" Zuo Teng Tenglian asked.
"That's a long time ago, but I know you're not interested, so I won't go into it!"
"No way, I'm interested!"
"Legend has it that in the 47th year of the Taisho era, flames swept across the southwestern sky, bringing countless changes to the Luofu Dynasty at that time..."
Following the Zhang Qiaoen riot incident, the progress of the longevity drug development has slowed down somewhat.
But Zhang Xuezhou wasn't in a hurry at all, after all, there were many people who were more anxious than him.
Although he didn't know who had leaked the information, Zhang Xuezhou didn't care. He now had powerful connections, and as long as those connections remained intact, even without using the longevity drug, his promotion speed within the Scarlet Alliance State wouldn't be slow.
Zhang Xuezhou and Zuo Teng chattered on and on, and after Zuo Teng Zuo Teng listened patiently for nearly an hour, he realized that he really had no interest in listening to them.
If he were to study history, he would study the history of the Luofu Dynasty in Western Capital City, not the history of those regional officials in other provinces and cities.
The person who was considered a great figure by some locals was someone who couldn't even enter the court of the Louvre Dynasty and was not particularly outstanding.
This is heartbreaking, but it's the truth.
The writings of literati and poets mostly converged in Western Capital City, with the most significant chapters unfolding in this important capital.
Zuo Teng was completely unfamiliar with what Zhang Xuezhou was saying, and he couldn't understand what was so important about Pan'an in the southwest in the 47th year of the Taisho era.
Even if there are flames in the sky in the southwest, that's something from over a hundred years ago, and it has absolutely nothing to do with today's development.
"You don't actually think those purple gladioli came from a shooting star, do you?"
Zuo Teng thought for a long time before jokingly asking a question. When Zhang Xuezhou chuckled in return, it made Zuo Teng a little more suspicious.
If Zhang Xuezhou's worldview wasn't flawed, then Zuo Teng felt that his own worldview was likely flawed.
Just as those at the bottom are unaware of the Gene Fighting Technique of those at the top, Zuo Teng feels that he himself may also be unaware of the truth of the other side of the world.