The young Liboli researcher originally didn't want to pay attention to Seria's visit, but when she saw the two people standing behind Ms. Vaifan, she couldn't help but change her expression.
Helmer knew very little about Rhode Island. When she was working as an operator on a land carrier, she spent most of her time in the research center, and the rest of her trivial life was spent running between the canteen and the staff dormitory.
"It's the doctor. How come he got together with Ceria?"
Hemer turned off the communication video and couldn't help but panic. She was not good at communication, especially when facing old friends, she would appear particularly stiff.
"Hermer, what's wrong with you?"
The Sakaz girl, who was almost as tall as the researcher, walked in. She looked at Helmer in confusion, not understanding what made the usually stern Ms. Liboli become so reserved.
"Ah, Ifrit, are you here? I was just thinking about something else."
Hemer woke up in a panic and tidied up the somewhat messy desk. In fact, there were not many things, but she had to tidy it up twice.
"No, Hemo, you must be hiding something from me. Is Seria here?"
"no……"
Humer subconsciously denied it. She raised her head, and Ifrit's eyes looked over. The moment the two looked at each other, Humer couldn't help but turn her head: "It's her, and the doctor, I..."
"PhD?!"
Ifrit's eyes lit up and she said in surprise: "He's back?!"
The Sakaz girl took two steps back and forth and smiled happily: "Haha, let's go see him together. He has been missing for a long time. I thought he was captured by the Integration Movement. The white-faced owl also lied to me last time about Dr. He’s already dead, I’m going to file a complaint!”
"Oh, oh, well, since you miss the doctor so much, let's go see him together. It's been a long time since we last met."
Humer took off her glasses and wiped them, and even took out a small mirror from the desk drawer to look for it and tidy up her appearance. Her actions fell into Ifrit's eyes, and the Sakaz girl would only think that She is preening her feathers.
After a while, they finally met in the reception area of the Rhein Institute of Life Sciences, and no accidents occurred during the meeting.
Seria was sitting next to Zhou Jinru. Opposite her was the expressionless Hemo, while Ifrit was pestering Zhou Jinru without showing any signs of life.
While Zhou Jinru was fooling around with Ifrit, he secretly observed Hemo and the belatedly arrived White-faced Owl. The former still maintained the old-fashioned, weird and uninteresting attitude of a researcher, while the latter had a poker face. He looked back and forth between Helmer and Ceria.
"Try this. Let me declare in advance that this stuff is very spicy. Don't..."
Ifrit held a spicy candy in her hand, tore open the package and stuffed it into her mouth, even Zhou Jinru didn't have time to finish the explanation.
The Sakaz girl raised her thumb and said, "Doctor, there is always something weird about you. You were like this before."
"What was I like before?"
"Only aim at victory, don't care about minor losses, and obtain the maximum benefit at the minimum cost."
These words are not like those that Ifrit can say, because the Charmander Ifrit in the game can't even recognize the words, and Hemo doesn't look like a good enlightenment teacher. It's difficult for her to even take care of herself. .
Players are accustomed to calling Ifrit a Charmander. The main reason is the pair of CPs of Rhine Life. In fact, his race is Sakaz.
"Isn't that right? Who told you these words and actually commented on me like this?"
Zhou Jinru put on an expression of feigned anger, but Charmander didn't admit it: "Even if you say so, I won't tell you. Helmer said that the doctor is a person who is very good at holding grudges."
Zhou Jinru slowly turned to look at Helmer. It was difficult for him to say what he thought of this researcher who single-handedly led the Balrog Project.
On the one hand, she is loyal to research, and on the other hand, researchers are immersed in research all year round. The concept of moral bottom line has become very blurred in their overly rational thinking. In addition, Rhine Life itself is an arms dealer. Various reasons finally gave birth to There were... spin-offs like Charmander.
Regarding the results of the main experiment of the Balrog Project, Zhou Jinru only received a few words from Silver Fox. Combined with the information obtained by the informant in Rhode Island, he preliminarily deduced that the experiment was generally successful, and Ifrit was just an insignificant person. by-product.
Otherwise, waiting for Homer would not be as simple as being exiled, and her end would not be any better than Roberts who fed the penguins.
Zhou Jinru remembered the night when he first met Silver Fox, the little girl's hysterical performance in front of him. Even though there were many elements of performance in it, he could still feel the unwillingness and anger in her heart.
"Doctor, don't get me wrong. Hermer didn't mean to belittle you. There is a 40% chance that she is proving your principles of doing things, a 40% chance that she is trying to instill a correct view of right and wrong in Ifrit, and a 15% chance that she is trying to prove your principles of doing things. 5% may be praising Seria for being conservative, and 5% may be looking for excuses.”
Zhou Jinru closed his eyes. He really couldn't think of what kind of judgment the white-faced owl made when she said these words. She may not have figured out how to truly help others, rather than using a bunch of probabilities to poke the person's back.
Fortunately, he was not a small-minded person, so he laughed off this embarrassing explanation. He wanted to do one thing more than the conflict of words.
The doctor stood up, stretched out a finger, and lightly tapped the white-faced owl's forehead. Immediately, the white-faced owl's confused eyes were filled with shyness, her body stiffened for a moment, and she read: "An error occurred!"
Seria was still confronting Helmer, but when she saw the doctor touching the white-faced owl, she silently retracted her change in him. It turned out that the doctor was still the same doctor, and nothing had changed.
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"An error occurred!"
"An error occurred!"
"An error occurred!"
Zhou Jinru poked him several times, and even Li Li, who was sitting on the side, couldn't stand it any longer, and shouted: "Doctor, stop playing around. We are here to do business. If we delay any longer, it will get dark soon."
Zhou Jinru retracted his fingers angrily, looked at the rosy-cheeked white-faced owl, and said awkwardly: "I kind of miss the past."
Fortunately, several people here knew each other. If a strange man had poked the white-faced owl like this, Ceria would have thrown him out by his collar.
"Okay, everyone here, let's get down to business."
Zhou Jinru repeated what Seria said. In fact, he had no confidence in the Rhine Lifestyle family to go directly to the island. To put it bluntly, apart from being unable to solve the Originium Disease, they did not have any big needs.
Seria herself would not agree. She said that the biggest reason why she accompanied him to come to Hemo was that she could not meet anyone if she came alone.
"Doctor, the current environment in St. Aral is just right for ordinary people and infected people to coexist, with class equality and no mutual hostility. Although they are indifferent to each other, this is still a manifestation of peace."
Zhou Jinru shook his head: "The Integration Movement is here. As I just said, they must have another purpose in coming here. Looking at what they did in St. Martin and their previous actions, I think they came here collectively. Not for a vacation.”
Hemo was silent. She never spoke, bringing this silence to several people present, including Ifrit who asked Zhou Jinru to tell a story.
Zhou Jinru took a deep breath, and now that he had finished speaking, he could not force Hemo to make a choice, so he changed the subject: "The intelligence officers of Rhodes Island are monitoring the integration movement. There are some troubles that need your help. Se Leya, don’t look at me like this, I know you were once the director of the defense department of Rheinland Life, but you also have deep attainments in medicine."
Hemo glared at Seria and asked, "What kind of trouble is it?"
Although Rheinland Life and Rhode Island Pharmaceuticals are both medical companies, they have different focuses and therefore do not have much in common in the professional field.
Hermer's research on Originium Disease was not very good before she joined Rhode Island. However, after joining Rhode Island, she joined Dr. Kelsey's research and made great progress. In a place where the medical conditions are not very good, there is actually a scholar who is second to none.
Zhou Jinru quickly recounted what happened to Ansuo. A large part of the reason why Mei had been so helpless before was because she didn't know the Rhine Life family and didn't dare to reveal her identity easily, so she fell into a helpless situation.
But it was different now. Zhou Jinru could rely on his identity to ask Hermoselaya to lend a hand, and he also had the identity of a Rhine Life investigator, which really surprised Serea.
"It sounds like the symptoms are very similar to narcolepsy."
"No, it's completely different. She can't extricate herself in the dream. There is probably a problem with Ansuo's nervous system. Her infection level is already very high, and the spread of the disease is not impossible."
Zhou Jinru shook his head: "The medical team conducted a preliminary examination on Ansuo and found that her Originium disease has been well controlled and there is no spread of the disease. I must remind you that if there is no medical answer, even If there is no explanation, then there is no common ground between the two.”
"Doctor, what do you mean?"
Helmer originally wanted to refute, but when she remembered the doctor's former identity as a research scholar in Kazdaele and a first-class expert in the field of Originium disease, she put away the contempt in her heart. Although people like the doctor are sometimes very... Damn, but professionally sound.
"I can't say that this is definitely the case, so we need a few help. After all, we have limited manpower, and there are only a few operators who can come to Saint-Aral in a short time."
Before coming, Zhou Jinru tried to contact the ship on an off-road vehicle, but failed in the end. The signal could not be transmitted. No wonder Mei could not contact Rhode Island at all.
According to the original plan, five combat teams from Rhode Island's team stationed in Ternan State were advancing towards Saint-Aral, and the rest continued to guard the periphery to ensure a retreat for colleagues who went deep into the Rust Belt.
Theoretically, Amiya will be in charge of Tenan State.
But Zhou Jinru felt that Little Rabbit could not live idle. She had been excluded from several previous actions, which had caused her dissatisfaction. Everyone saw her growth. She was sixteen years old this year, and she needed to prove it. At his own age, Zhou Jinru would not refuse her needs, and would even help her stand in a higher position.
"Well, I happen to have time today. I'll sort out my things a little bit, and then I'll follow the doctor to the temporary base."
Helmer thought for a while and felt that he couldn't just sit back and watch. After all, he was once a companion.
Ifrit couldn't help but ask: "Hemo, it's already so late today, so we don't need to come back to rest, right?"
Helmer glanced at Charmander, said nothing, and returned to the office with White-faced Owl to sort out the equipment they needed to bring.
Zhou Jinru nodded slightly. It seemed that Hemo acquiesced to Ifrit's words. She was also a person who didn't know how to refuse. Coupled with her preference for Ifrit, she tried her best to agree to some requests that were not excessive. promise.
"Ifrit, you should listen to Helmer more."
After Hemo left, Ceria said something, but her words fell on deaf ears.
Ifrit didn't want to come back because it was dark. She saw the doctor again after more than a year. She really wanted to hear stories. What Hemer told was boring. Most of them were about medical knowledge. Charmander It sounds like a holy book, and I don't understand the beauty of it at all.
"It's really difficult for Hermer to tell interesting stories. Her entertainment field is still blank."
Zhou Jinru looked at Seria. This one didn't seem to have any entertainment methods. Half a pound to half a pound, it was really amazing that they could get together.
"Doctor, I..."
Zhou Jinru waved his hand: "Everyone has his own ambitions. I support your decision. I am not forcing anyone to make a choice."
In order to break the dilemma, he changed the subject again: "Can you tell me about the current situation of Saint Alar?"
Rhine Life's influence here is limited, and Seria is no longer an employee of Rhine Life, so when describing the situation, the content involved will not go beyond this land city.
"...That's all I know about the situation at the moment. Saint-Aral has always been in a state of gang governance. After the Archon was driven away, Colombia never sent a new Archon. I think it is on the alternative list. People must be very scared, what if they are killed by gangs on the first day they come here?"
Ceria made a rare joke that wasn't very funny. If she was talking about performance, she probably wanted to act like a good adult in front of Ifrit.
"I have learned before that Saint-Aral accommodates many workers from other places. Do you know anything about this?"
Seria thought for a while and shook her head: "I didn't come into contact with many people at No. 1 Middle School. If the doctor wants to know any strange things, I have heard a lot about the 'big ship' among the students. ’ rumors, they seem to be discussing when they can get on the big ship.”
