748 Rise of Space Exploration (1/2)

Layria, Chelly, and the other students stood outside of the small laboratory and watched the portal as well as the magic patterns that had dimmed. They were too reluctant to leave. They felt that a cat was scratching their hearts with its paw, and they could barely contain their curiosity.

After a long time, Alfalia finally said, ”There's nothing we can do by standing here, and there's no telling when they will be back. Let's focus on our own business for now. After all, they will certainly tell us what they have experienced after they are back.”

Heidi had always been willing to share as long as it was not anything confidential.

”Yes. There are a lot of scheduled experiments that we need to work on, a lot of data to be analyzed, new experiments to be designed, and new spells to be analyzed…” Layria only meant to agree with Alfalia at the beginning, but the more she talked, the more ”hopeless” she felt her life was.

Lazar nodded his head and clapped his hands. After everybody's attention was attracted by him, he said with a brilliant smile, ”Let's not stick here waiting. Nobody knows where Evans and the rest of them went, and how long will it take before they come back. Go back and finish your experiments first.”

When he talked to Lucien and the friends they were familiar with, he mostly called him ”Lucien” directly. However, in the Atom Institution, to show respect for the manager of the institution, he always called him ”Evans” when he talked to the apprentice-level assistants.

”Yes, Mr. Lazar.” Lowi and the other assistants looked back at the small laboratory, reluctant to leave. But they managed to hold back their curiosity and went back to their respective laboratory.

”I wonder where our teacher has been teleported to,” Chelly said to Layria in confusion.

Layria thought for a moment and said, ”It must be related to the studies in the microscopic domain, or our teacher wouldn't have put it inside the institution at all instead of applying for a new magic research program.”

They talked and turned around as they enthusiastically speculated the destination of their teacher's magic circle. Although they would certainly learn the answer after Heidi was back, wasn't the greatest fun in such a curious thing all about guessing?

Layria and Chelly had taken only a few steps when they suddenly felt the outburst of magic waves behind them. Under the perception of their spiritual powers, the magic patterns inside the small laboratory glowed one after another, extracting energy from the Allyn magic tower and emanating silver and pure brilliance.

In the dreamy, brilliant view, the dimmed portal glowed transparently and dazzlingly again.

”They're back?”

”Has Mr. Evans come back?”

In their exclamations of confusion and excitement, Alfalia, Lowi, and the rest of them who were slowly pacing back to their laboratories jumped back like rabbits. They reacted so agilely and quickly that they seemed to have been waiting for this moment.

The gate of light suddenly burst out, and the pure, flawless light drowned the whole laboratory.

When it was gone, the portal also disappeared, but five new figures showed up at the center of the magic circle. They were Lucien and his students.

”Heidi, where did you go?”

”Heidi, what did you see?”

Layria and Chelly blurted out, asking Heidi at the same time, as if she had been a blabbermouth all the time!

Heidi heard her friends' questions before she recovered from the dizziness. She rubbed her head and chuckled. ”You have absolutely no idea where we went. It was such a 'romantic' place.”

”Romantic?” Lazar couldn't help but repeat. That was not the keyword he had in mind.

”Romantic…” Layria and Chelly found it impossible to imagine. They guessed many places, but none of them was even remotely associated with ”romantic”. This was the Atom Institution!

Heidi smiled gloatingly. ”Yes, it's a very romantic place, more romantic than any romantic scene that I've ever seen!”

Seeing the surprise and confusion on her friends' faces, she felt a lot better.

”Well… Did you go to space?” Alfalia asked, not very confident about her guess.

After a brief daze, Heidi asked in surprise, ”How did you know?”

”Did you really go to space?” Layria asked in shock.