Chapter 9 (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation
Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Xu Shuangyu limped her way to the clinic.
The more she thought about it, the angrier she grew. She had to endure the undeserved misfortune so early in the morning.
“You call yourself a man, yet you didn’t even try to send a fragile young woman you injured to the clinic. You still tried to make her walk to the clinic all alone! How can you even consider yourself a human being?”
“What? Did I say that I didn’t want to send you to the clinic?”
“So, you’re not going to send me to the clinic just because I said so?”
“This is simply baffling!”
Xu Shuangyu shared her situation with the doctor in the clinic with a chest full of pent up anger.
The doctor examined her closely before he pondered and said, “It’s nothing serious. I think that you have soft tissue injury. Go back and apply heat compression to your leg. Don’t perform any strenuous exercise for a week.”
“If you’re still worried about your condition, you can get an x-ray too.”
Xu Shuangyu answered, “Oh.” Then, she added, “Ah…”
Why did she find the doctor’s instruction so familiar? It felt as if she heard it someplace else before.
Oh right. She remembered. It was the man that knocked her down earlier. It seemed as though he said so too.
“He had actually gotten it right, surprisingly.”
Xu Shuangyu was still under the assumption that Zhou Wen made a blind conjecture earlier. Nevertheless, even with evidence, she cursed, “He’s such a foolish person. I’m certain that he made it up.”
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Zhou Wen gazed at Xu Shuangyu’s departing silhouette and then headed to the cafeteria.
While having his breakfast, he suddenly remembered that he did not seem to have taken his dinner last. However, he found that he did not feel the slightest bit of hunger until now.
Moreover, he recalled waking up filled with vigor! He was certainly energized and refreshed this morning. It was then that he remembered the sour apple.
He brought up the individual property panel; then, he shifted his gaze to the half apple in the third box of the first row in the inventory list.
“This is some impressive item,” Zhou Wen praised in his heart. “What a waste that it is way too sour.”
After breakfast, Zhou Wen headed back to the hostel room to grab his portable charger and earphones. Then, he walked into the library as soon as it opened.
He had actually wanted to gain experience in the laboratory. After all, it felt like the act of spending downtime in the library was too slow for him.
What a waste that he could not keep doing what he did without justification.
Shi Lei and Lin Jiayi were both official employees with salaries. It was fine for him to help them out occasionally, but they could not possibly hand over work to him all the time.
In addition, the laboratory was genuinely a leisurely environment too. If they kept shoving all their work to him, what would they have left to do then?
So, he went to the third floor of the library and leaned against the side of a book rack before he brought up the panel. Then, he selected ‘Mission 3’ from the taskbar.
According to the mission’s requirements, he pulled out a book titled ‘Paediatric Clinical Pharmacology’ from the book rack.
At the same time, a dialogue box popped out from the taskbar. [Mission in process. Time remaining: 23:59:53. Literary value: 50]
“There’s actually a literary value prompt,” Zhou Wen noted in bewilderment when he saw the explanation in the dialogue box. Soon afterward, he switched to a few other books in succession.
[Paediatric Clinical Pharmacology, literary value: 60]
[Molecules & Cells, literary value: 80]
[Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, literary value: 100]
[Medical Immunology, literary value: 100]
[Cancer Biology, literary value: 0]
[The Selfish Gene, literary value: 0]
Zhou Wen discovered some of the popular science readings by famous authors had a rather low literary value. On the contrary, the books related to the basics subjects of biology had very high literary value.
For example, the title ‘Molecules and Cells’ was used as the teaching material for junior year in public schools. Its literary value was as high as 80. “Why is that so?”
Zhou Wen pondered for a moment and figured that it was possibly due to the fact that basic subjects were the foundation that allowed one to search for the essence of life and played a driving role in the development of biological sciences. As a result, its literary value was higher.
On the other hand, those popular science readings were only focused on the subjective opinion of a professional in a specific field. Perhaps, the opinion was in direct contravention to reality. Hence, the system gave it a low literary score.
Zhou Wen chose the two books titled ‘Biochemistry & Molecular Biology’ and ‘Medical Immunology’.
Then, he found a seat, and soon afterward, he started reading the Biochemistry & Molecular Biology book according to the mission’s requirement.
He realized that his arms grew sore after holding the book for some time. Moreover, it was not a convenient position for him either.
He brought up the taskbar interface and clicked on the mission. [Mission in process. Time remaining: 23:51:14. Literary value: 100]
After that, Zhou Wen placed the book in his hand on the table, and the countdown timer stopped at once.
It began ticking when he picked up the book with one hand and stopped again as soon as he let go.
He then touched it with a finger; it ticked.
He removed his finger; it stopped.
He discovered after multiple attempts that the mission was considered active as long as his hand touched the book.
Zhou Wen placed his left hand on the book while his right hand began rifling through the pages casually.
Frankly, it was truly boring and dull beyond imagination to sit in the library alone and read a biochemistry book as compared to carrying out experiments in the laboratory. The majority of the content was on molecular structures and data diagrams, making him feel like dozing off from reading it.
In addition, a warm breeze was blowing slowly in the library. It was quiet and tranquil. So, in the end, he fell asleep.
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