Chapter 22: What the hell have you been researching all these years?

At the Jinggang Spirit Plant Research Institute, researcher Lu Nan was lying on the office sofa, slacking off.

It couldn't all be blamed on him; after all, from yesterday until now, he had almost been awake for 24 hours.

Since the values on the institute's instruments showed abnormalities, Professor Luo Wan had taken Lu Nan and several other researchers straight to the Blue Star Botanical Garden.

Defining the spirit power anomaly location, conducting long-term spirit power fluctuation detection, collecting plant specimens around the anomaly location, setting up spirit power detection devices, deploying cameras for long-term monitoring of the plot, analyzing water pattern geological conditions...

Half an hour ago, they had just finished the first stage of things.

Leaving two researchers to finish up, Professor Luo Wan returned to the institute first.

Lu Nan, this salted fish, followed hurriedly; only now could he lie down and catch his breath.

Being too tired made him unable to sleep; Lu Nan, lying on the sofa, took out his mobile terminal and swiped casually.

Just as he clicked on the China Spirit Plant Forum, a viral video post caught his eye.

"Look quickly! A Weeping Willow you've absolutely never seen before! The kind that swings Wind Blades!"

*Heh*.

Lu Nan was full of disdain; he himself was a Spirit Plant Master, and a rare contractor of all-auxiliary spirit plants.

Having followed Professor Luo to study spirit plants for many years, he could also be considered a well-known young scholar in the spirit plant world.

How come he hadn't heard that Weeping Willows could swing Wind Blades? AI synthesis, right?

Subconsciously, he still clicked on this post.

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

Did it lag???

Lu Nan sat up straight; he hadn't seen a post that could lag the China Spirit Plant Forum in a long time.

Not right.

Why was it a Weeping Willow again?

Continuous work made Lu Nan's brain a bit sluggish.

He remembered that the protagonist who forced him to work overtime continuously was exactly a wild Weeping Willow that had been contracted away.

"It wouldn't be such a coincidence, right?"

Lu Nan muttered in a low voice, clicking on this post persistently.

It didn't lag for long before he squeezed in.

It was exactly the video of Ge Bai and Jiang Yan's battle, filmed by some quick-handed student on the teaching building using a mobile terminal.

The handheld lens wasn't too steady, but the scene of Da Liu swinging Wind Blades multiple times could be clearly seen in the video.

Even the scene of the Wind Blades shattering the Luxury Pig Beast's thorns was recorded clearly.

Impossible! Are you kidding!

The entire Interstellar Alliance had only discovered a dozen or so spirit plants with offensive capabilities, and their offensive capabilities weren't high, which was why they were defined as auxiliary spirit plants.

The most powerful spirit plant skill was nothing more than the Devil Vine's strangulation.

What the hell was this Wind Blade?

What the hell have I been researching all these years?

A blurry video gave Lu Nan's worldview a violent impact.

At this time, he noticed that the forum had marked the video with a "True" sign in the top right corner.

This meant that after official verification, it was determined that no AI production was involved in the video, and it belonged to live-action display.

There would be no problem with this; the China Spirit Plant Forum wouldn't bet its own reputation to endorse a fake video.

Lu Nan pulled the video back to the beginning and watched it carefully again; he couldn't see any flaws or acting components either.

The video poster was very thoughtful; in the commentary column below the video, they detailed the time and place of the video shooting and the protagonists on both sides.

China, Jinggang City, Chongming District Public Junior High School, Weeping Willow, student Ge, Luxury Pig Beast, student Jiang...

Lu Nan keenly extracted key points from a long string of wordy information.

This city? Weeping Willow? Student Ge?!

Yesterday, Lu Nan also saw the information given by the Spirit Plant Garden and the Contract Registration Center.

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva. At this moment, he could basically conclude that this Weeping Willow swinging Wind Blades, and the girl standing beside the willow tree, were the research subjects they had been studying for these 24 hours!

"Professor Luo! Come and see quickly! Something big happened!"

Lu Nan shrieked and sprang up from the sofa, holding his mobile terminal, rushed out of the door, and ran toward Professor Luo's office.

It seemed that working continuously for 24 hours was definitely not his limit. — Professor Luo Wan held the mobile terminal to a height almost level with his eyes, frowning as he finished watching this video.

It wasn't that he had any emotions, it was just that for him, this phone screen was a bit too small.

But soon, he was also deeply shocked by the content of the video.

Having studied spirit plants for so many years, he knew better than anyone that this meant the appearance of a brand-new attack method for contracted spirit plants.

Regardless of whether it was for Spirit Plant Masters or spirit plant research, it was very important.

Putting down the mobile terminal, Professor Luo Wan took a deep breath.

He looked at Lu Nan seriously.

"Immediately find a way to contact Ge Bai and invite her to the institute; we can also go to her."

"Do it now; the priority of this matter is higher than everything else."

"Ask Little Li if Ge Bai's information and files have been retrieved."

"Tell him to be faster; if there's any problem in any link, come to me at any time, and I will solve it."

Actually, when the Spirit Plant Contract Center told Professor Luo yesterday that a wild spirit plant had been contracted, he had already arranged for someone to retrieve Ge Bai's information, but it was still in the process.

At this moment, he couldn't wait.

Lu Nan also understood the importance of the matter and ran out hurriedly.

Leaving only Professor Luo sitting in the office in deep thought.

Not two minutes later, the office door was pushed open violently again; it was still Lu Nan.

Professor Luo Wan looked at him with some surprise: "Contacted? So fast?"

Lu Nan didn't enter the door, hiding half his body behind the door, smiling foolishly: "That, Professor Luo, my mobile terminal is still in your hand."

Professor Luo Wan was speechless, throwing the mobile terminal he was holding to Lu Nan.

Lu Nan caught the phone with a cheeky smile and then closed the door and left.

Shaking his head.

Professor Luo Wan really couldn't understand what he saw in this kid back then.

Except for his research talent, which was passable, everything else was a problem.

Reaching out to rub his eyebrows.

Ge Bai, Ge Bai! He always felt this name was very familiar, not the first time he saw it yesterday.

He suddenly remembered, pulled open a drawer, and opened an envelope; it was exactly from the Blue Star Welfare Institute.

At this moment, Professor Luo Wan finally remembered; it was really fate.

An old friend's daughter specifically wrote a letter, asking him to take care of this girl.

Luo Wan looked at the envelope and smiled bitterly; this time, for public or private reasons, he really had to take care of her with all his might.

His old friend really had some luck; how did they raise such a magical little girl?

Luo Wan was now even more curious about Ge Bai and that Weeping Willow.

He always felt that the surprises they could give him were far more than these. — Returning to his office, Lu Nan directly called up the form sent by the Contract Center and easily found Ge Bai's mobile terminal number.

Taking a deep breath, he dialed it directly with his own mobile terminal.

*Beep... beep... beep... *

"The number you dialed is temporarily unanswered; please dial again later."

No matter how many years had passed, or how many time and spaces he had traveled through, the unanswered prompt tone was still so boring.

Lu Nan wasn't discouraged and dialed again.

*Beep... beep... *

He didn't know that on the other end of the mobile terminal, Ge Bai really wanted to curse the person calling her at this moment to death.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 23 =====