Chapter 58 (1/2)
Zhou Wen and Shen Xue strolled around the underground shopping mall for a while, and they soon got bored. Coincidentally, Zuo Mengmeng got off work early, so the three of them discussed and agreed to visit the Pingtan art gallery.
Zhou Wen had been attending university in Jiangzhou for four years, but he had never experienced anything fun or had any good meals all this time until he was close to graduating. Lately, he managed to visit the Chinese garden, Zhouzhuang town, Humble Administrator’s Garden, Tiger Hill, attending the Kunqu opera, savoring the Aozao noodles and more.
He felt as if he had wasted the previous years that he spent in Jiangzhou.
They followed the experienced Zuo Mengmeng and arrived at a rather famous Pingan art gallery located on South Seacalm Street and found empty seats.
The three of them took a seat, and Zuo Mengmeng paid 38 RMB per person for beverages for them.
The waitress sent over the tea soon.
The three of them sipped tea while they listened to the actors and actresses sing with the gentle Suzhou dialect on the stage.
The actress sang, ‘Master, your words are too harsh. Your wife, her heart can’t be hushed. The husband and wife are supposed to be a whole, why do you part my beau and me… I hope that your intention is just like mine; our hearts will forever be intertwined…”
They sat through half of the song when Zuo Mengmeng explained softly, “This is a very popular song in Pingtan known as ‘Legend of the White Snake: Mid Autumn’. The female actress is taking the role of Bai Suzhen while the male is taking the role of Xu Xian.”
Zhou Wen and Shen Xue nodded.
The actor and actress on stage could sing really well. It was a blissful experience to listen to their unique and outstanding opera voices.
…
They listened to the show in the Pingtan art gallery until seven o’clock when the place closed down for dinner. It was then that Zhou Wen reluctantly stood up.
Zuo Mengmeng giggled and said, “It was really good, right? I was utterly obsessed with the singing when a local colleague from our department brought me here previously.”
“Mmhmm, it sounded really pleasant.”
Zuo Mengmeng asked, “Should you be treating me to dinner in order to show your appreciation to me for taking you to listen to this pleasant Pingtan performance?”
Zhou Wen laughed and said, “That’s for sure. Feel free to let me know what you would like to have for dinner…”
Zhou Wen had never been a stingy person… Or, one should say that the vast majority of men were not stingy, only that they were not permitted to be generous most of the time due to their financial constraints.
The three of them headed to the street nearby. They ate and strolled around until they eventually left the place at ten.
Zhou Wen sipped tea and smoked cigarettes on the balcony when he got home and took a shower to think about the issue with his pharmaceutical tasks.
The missions assigned to him in the laboratory department for the week had been busier than usual. He carried out three small missions during this period of time in addition to preparing the reserve DNA for the few days that he was going to be away for the conference. He did not manage to make time for pharmaceutical tasks all this time.
He was planning to officially begin when he was back from the conference.
He brought up the system and took a glance. Course Experience: [2900]
Points: [4250]
Soon afterward, he brought up the inventory list and took a glance to find that he had a wooden loot box and two black metal loot boxes.
He predicted that he would not be receiving any impressive items due to those simple missions. As a result, he had not opened them all this time.
Nevertheless, now that he had the time, he opened the first black metal loot box.
[Congratulations, you have received 500 RMB.]
“Hah-hah-hah…”
He opened the second wooden loot box.
[Congratulations, you have received 100 RMB.]
“Heh-heh…”
He opened the third black metal loot box.
[Congratulations, you have received Biotype Disinfectant Spray X4.]
“Huh, disinfectant spray?” Zhou Wen voiced out his puzzlement and took a glance at the description. [Effective disinfection that lasts 24 hours.]
Zhou Wen was under the assumption that he would not be receiving any useful items from conducting simple experiments like the PCR test. He did not expect that he would be given a good item.
He took out the disinfectant spray from the inventory list and took a look. A bottle of the spray contained 250ml of fluid, so four bottles would make a total of 1,000ml.
He turned around and looked around the room. Then, he picked up his phone from the table and aimed the disinfectant spray at the phone in his right hand. He sprayed both.
“Hiss… hiss…”
Soon afterward, he used his Truevision to see the bacteria on his hand and phone that could only be completely killed by boiling them in the high-pressure autoclave machine for two hours until they were dissolved into nothingness, akin to snowflakes illuminated by the scorching sun.
He used his hand to touch the handle of the chair and found that every bacteria that came into contact with his hand was eradicated completely without exception. It felt as if his hand was coated with a layer of invisible protective film such that no other bacteria could invade it.
Zhou Wen was gratified and overjoyed.
It was an impressive item. Even though he had the Biotype gloves that could shield against bacteria, the bacteria could still be found everywhere. On the other hand, the small laboratory that he carried out his experiments frequently in was not a sterile laboratory, so it would reduce the success rate of his experiments substantially.
There was no doubt that having this disinfectant spray would make his act of carrying out experiments way easier.
What a waste that it came in such a small amount. He hoped that he could at least have 10 or 20 bottles.