Ch. 66

Qin Chengtai smiled and said, "Don't worry about him. He has been suffering from a sore throat these days and can't enjoy such good tea. If you think it tastes good, drink more." As he said that, he asked Lou Ai to put down the disposable paper cup and poured her another cup of tea.

"Who said I can't drink it? Senior, you saw that my tea was good, so you took it for yourself. You didn't want to give it to me, so you planned to keep it for yourself." Guo Qicheng smiled, drank the water in the cup in one gulp, and put the thermos cup in front of Qin Chengtai, "Pour me some."

Lou Ai saw from the corner of his eye that Guo Qicheng naturally took a sip of tea, and the look in his eyes that inadvertently revealed was full of appreciation for the tea.

Could it be that she was wrong?

Lou Ai came out under the pretext of going to the restroom and stood at the door. She suddenly remembered the fortunes Song Yi had predicted for Qin Chengtai and the others. The only ones who looked dead in the laboratory were Qin Chengtai and Guo Qicheng.

Thinking about this, Lou Ai went downstairs to find Xia Lu and Song Yi. The two of them did fortune-telling and treatment at the fork in the road downstairs of the laboratory in the morning, and went to Chen Youbo's army in the afternoon for fortune-telling and treatment. At the fork in the road, Song Yi and Xia Lu spread a bright red cloth with a Bagua diagram on it and the two big words "fortune-telling" written in brush. It was very simple, but from time to time there would be researchers in white coats asking questions, and the business was surprisingly good.

"Sister Lou Ai? Why did you come down?" Xia Lu saw Lou Ai and ran over to ask, "Is Professor Qin Chengtai okay?"

"It's okay. Wait for me when you go back home in the evening. I'll be back to the dormitory tonight." Lou Ai said.

"Also, I need your help with something, so please stay for the night."

Xia Lu naturally had no objection and nodded in agreement: "Okay, it just so happens that the Taoist priest's business is particularly good today, we can make a little more money. Sister, you are familiar with those soldiers, so tell them not to chase us away this afternoon."

"Okay." Lou Ai said as she gave Xia Lu a first-level zombie crystal core, "It shouldn't be dangerous, so the reward won't be much."

"There's pocket money!" Xia Lu happily accepted it, "I just want to buy some bacon but I don't have enough money."

Lou Ai also laughed and briefly told Xia Lu about Qin Chengtai's situation to make sure that Xia Lu knew what he and Song Yi needed to do tonight.

"Okay, then you guys go ahead and get busy. See you in the evening." After Lou Ai finished explaining things, she said hello to the soldiers at the door and walked back to the laboratory.

As she approached the laboratory, she could hear noisy chatting.

Qin Chengtai and Guo Qicheng had already come out of the lounge. Many researchers gathered together. Lou Ai was surprised: "What happened?"

"Reagent bottle number three is broken, and the ability rejection reaction has failed."

Lou Ai nodded, and stopped talking as she looked at the people in the laboratory with varying degrees of annoyance and different expressions.

In the afternoon, the reagent bottle of reagent No. 2 produced a precipitation reaction, and the special power dissipated to a minimum.

At night, reagent bottle No. 6 exploded, and the supernatural power was no longer stable, and it could not maintain a stable state.

There were a total of eight experimental reagents. By nine o'clock in the evening, only one was left that showed a stable reaction. The wind-type ability in reagent No. 1 had been rotating steadily and slowly. Judging from the instrument, the power of the wind-type ability displayed in the reagent was ten times that of a first-level wind-type ability user.

The value resulting from the stable energy fusion remained stable for more than twenty-four hours and was a safe value.

"Did we... succeed?" The small timepiece ticked away for a long time, and someone asked in a low voice.

"It's a success. There is no rejection reaction to the special ability." Qin Chengtai's voice was still a little flat, but the young researchers below couldn't bear it. They were afraid that the loud cheers would scare the reagents. Their happy voices were filled with excitement, but not loud. The excitement in their eyes made Lou Ai full of expectations for the reagent.

Once this reagent is debugged onto the instrument, it will be much more convenient for the special-ability team to carry out missions in the future. It can change the existing situation.

"Click." There was a slight sound of the door lock closing.

Lou Ai turned her head and saw Guo Qicheng carrying a thermos cup into the laboratory. Guo Qicheng looked unhappy, but when he saw Lou Ai looking at him, he forced a smile and praised the happy researchers, "Well done!"

"Okay, immediately arrange for the reconfiguration of Reagent No. 1 to investigate its compatibility, as well as the data analysis report. We will try to allow the psychics in the base to wear the psychic amplifiers we produce as early as possible. Everyone please work harder." After giving the praise, he immediately arranged the next task for the still excited young researchers.

The researchers were very excited and did not resist the tasks assigned by Guo Qicheng at all. Everyone cooperated and got busy immediately.

"Qicheng, just let them be happy for a while. It's not easy to make such great progress. Don't be so rigid." Qin Chengtai smiled and studied the basic information of Reagent No. 1, saying kindly, "When I did my first experiment, the moment that fascinated me the most was the moment when my research was successful. The sense of accomplishment I got was the reason why I indulged in scientific research."

Lou Ai took over the forms and filled in the data. The busy researchers had no sense of time at all.

The sky outside was getting darker and darker. During this time, no researcher opened the door to go to the toilet. It was just like every night after she moved into the laboratory. Everyone was busy with a purpose. No one was impatient and there was nothing unusual.

Lou Ai stood up and said to the lady from the research institute next to her with a smile: "I'm going to the bathroom. Can you help me record for a while?"

"Okay, go ahead." The young lady's work at hand happened to wait, so she took over Lou Ai's notebook.

Lou Ai walked to the door, grasped the door handle and opened the door.

"Click, click, click." The door was locked. What on earth did Guo Qicheng want to do? Lou Ai had some ideas in her mind, but she couldn't convince herself. After all, who would be willing to sacrifice their own life to assassinate someone else? Even if they were soft-hearted and didn't want to hurt innocent people, it would be just like killing that second-level zombie before. Wouldn't it be better to just kill that person? Why would they commit suicide together with themselves?

The sound of Lou Ai opening the door attracted some free researchers nearby.

Lou Ai paid attention to Guo Qicheng's actions from beginning to end. Guo Qicheng took reagent No. 1 and walked towards the data book recording the experiment.

"Ouch." Qin Chengtai suddenly felt dizzy and sat on the ground. Professor Qin's fall to the ground scared more than a dozen researchers in the laboratory.

"Professor Qin, Professor Qin?" Fortunately, Qin Chengtai was still conscious.

"Professor Qin, what's wrong with you? Are you dizzy?" someone asked anxiously, "Try it, can you still speak?"

"It's not a serious problem. I also had headaches before..." Qin Chengtai said a few words, and then he couldn't speak because of the pain. Beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and his lips turned pale in an instant.

"You boys, why don't you go and break the door open?" a girl anxiously asked a few boys.

Lou Ai was the only one who did not go to see Professor Qin Chengtai. She and Guo Qicheng were the most conspicuous in the messy laboratory.

Lou Ai walked in and asked, "Professor Guo, are you doing all this for the results of this experiment?"

"I've studied it. As long as I take all these away and my senior dies, it will take at least one to two years for those researchers at Jinping to replicate this amplifier. The reagents may be made in advance, but this instrument was made by another professor. No one except my senior remembers the structure inside. They have to start from scratch, which will take at least one to two years." Guo Qicheng said, his expression was cold, only occasionally showing a hint of tenderness, and said, "Don't blame me, I was also threatened, but what can I say to a dead person?"

"Is there really something wrong with the tea?" Lou Ai frowned.

"You are very smart. There is something wrong with the tea. In addition to the cup this morning, there is also the tea before that. The cup this morning is just a trigger. It needs to be paired with the previous tea to cause toxicity." Guo Qicheng explained, "Everyone has drunk the tea I brewed these days. I added something in it."

Lou Ai asked in surprise: "You didn't drink the tea yourself after making it?"

"I'm old, and I've only drunk wolfberry soaked in water." Guo Qicheng nodded. His thermos cup was black, tightly covering the inside, so no one could see from the outside what Guo Qicheng took in. Only when he was making tea this morning did Lou Ai see the appearance of the water in his cup.

"Professor Guo, Lou Ai?" A researcher came over. "Professor Guo, Professor Qin said you have medicine for migraines?"

"I'm sorry I didn't bring it with me either. Let's call the orderly." Professor Guo changed his expression and put the results of the experiment into the pocket of his white coat. "The orderly should be outside and will be here soon. Is this door really closed?"

Lou Ai narrowed her eyes as she looked at Guo Qicheng's back. This made sense. The orderly outside was probably knocked unconscious by Guo Qicheng a long time ago. Only Qin Chengtai and her, a small relative, died. The research data disappeared again. All the prerequisites were similar to the case of the second-level zombie. So many witnesses could prove Guo Qicheng's innocence. After her and Qin Chengtai died, Guo Qicheng naturally became a higher-level scientific researcher.

Unfortunately, he miscalculated his own variable.

Lou Ai walked forward quickly and approached the gate before Guo Qicheng. The door of the laboratory was an advanced door with pupil and fingerprint tests. When the wrong password was entered, the door would automatically lock and could not be opened from the outside or the inside. However, after the end of the world, due to the lack of power supply, this advanced door was rarely used and was mostly used for simple opening and closing of the door. Guo Qicheng did not have any special abilities, so he should have connected the door of the laboratory to the power supply, which directly caused the password lock to fail to unlock and the door to be locked.

Although Qin Chengtai's laboratory is researching the amplification of superpowers, most of the researchers are ordinary people. The only one with a superpower has the ability to strengthen her brain.

The laboratory was on the third floor, and Guo Qicheng was certain that by the time this group of researchers came up with a solution, Qin Chengtai's treatment period would have long been over.

"Huh." Qin Chengtai's fingertips turned white from the pain. He closed his eyes, folded his hands over his abdomen, and held his own hands tightly.

"It's useless. Do you think you are a psychic? Even if you are, this door can only be opened by high-level psychics. In order to protect the secrets of the laboratory, this door was opened with the best technology." Guo Qicheng said softly. Because his true identity was discovered by Lou Ai, Lou Ai's death was not far away. Guo Qicheng did not hesitate to tell her one thing after another that was not in line with his image.

"What a coincidence, I am a high-level psychic." Lou Ai smiled and took down the door in front of her with a bang. The aluminum alloy door was as soft as tofu in her hands.

Several male researchers in the laboratory twisted the door and knocked on it with hammers, table sticks and sulfur powder for nearly ten minutes. Their white coats were already soaked with sweat, but they did not cause any damage to the door. Seeing Lou Ai's actions, several of them hesitated and looked at their palms, doubting their own strength.

"No, Lou Ai is a superpower, don't just stand there, go take Professor Qin down and find a doctor to treat him."

"Lou Ai, a person with special abilities, is actually interested in our laboratory. Does that mean that those questions she asked before were really what she wanted to learn?!" someone exclaimed, and this exclamation was strongly agreed by several researchers around.

Guo Qicheng was faster than these researchers. He took big strides and came to Qin Chengtai.

The expression on his face was stern and cold, completely different from the calm and kind person he had imagined.

He had never anticipated that Lou Ai was a supernatural being. After all, in today's world, it was not a good choice for a supernatural being to give up the opportunity to be praised by everyone outside and become a small researcher in a dark laboratory. He also didn't know whether Lou Ai's supernatural power could neutralize the toxicity of the poison.

He could only take the initiative to kill Qin Chengtai, and then escape in the chaos.

Guo Qicheng's face was replaced with an anxious expression, which completely deceived the female researchers and made Guo Qicheng pick up Qin Chengtai.

Qin Chengtai's white coat was soaked with dripping cold sweat, and his consciousness became vague. If he could delay for about ten more minutes, he would be completely dead.

Guo Qicheng picked up Qin Chengtai and secretly took out a dagger from his hand.

"Guo Qicheng, I'm a psychic, so let me carry him. I'm faster. There's a friend with healing abilities waiting for me outside. This is a good opportunity for my friend to heal Professor Qin. Sister Huan, you guys support Professor Guo. Can't you see that he's been frightened by what happened to Professor Qin and is sweating coldly? His legs must be weak too." Lou Ai gave an instruction and quickly picked up Qin Chengtai and led them downstairs.

The knife that Guo Qicheng inserted into Professor Qin's chest was blocked by Lou Ai. Guo Qicheng was kidnapped by Lou Ai. When he secretly looked at the dagger again, he found that the tip of his sharp dagger had become blunt, as if it had been inserted into a sharp iron plate, and the tip was even deflated.

Xia Lu was already waiting in the lobby of the laboratory building. When he saw Lou Ai carrying someone down, he quickly ran up and said, "He is Professor Qin Chengtai. Put him down quickly and go to the city to find a doctor. I don't know if my special ability can completely cure Professor Qin."

"I'll go." When Lou Ai carried the old professor down, the guards in the hall saw the situation and surrounded them. They realized the seriousness of the matter, so they picked a few people out to call for doctors as soon as possible, and then reported the matter to the person in charge of the Maple City base.

"The poison has spread from here to here." Xia Lu gestured to the position of the heart and the head, "If we delay any longer, it won't work." A light green light emanated from Xia Lu's hands, and the warm green light calmed the people around him.

In the yellow-green light, Qin Chengtai's body, which had been shaking in pain, finally stopped shaking, and his brows relaxed.

Ten minutes later, Xia Lu had a light sweat stain on his forehead, and then he stopped the treatment and said, "I will first remove all the well-known viruses in the professor's body, and divide the rest into a few days and treat them slowly. If I do it, he should be able to recover completely."

"That's great." Lou Ai felt relieved. The only thing she was unsure about was the treatment of the toxin.

What we need to wait for now is the arrest of Guo Qicheng.

"Oh no! Professor Guo ran off with our experimental materials." The female researcher named Sister Huan, who Lou Ai had called over, ran down the stairs with messy hair tied up. "He jumped out of the window on the second floor and ran away. Go and chase him."

"Professor Guo, is that true?" Questioning voices arose among the researchers.

"Could the professor's illness, no, the professor's poison be related to Professor Guo? He took the results of our research over so many days." This sentence was like stirring up a hornet's nest. All the researchers, both male and female, subconsciously swarmed towards the door and chased after him.

Then, the leading researcher suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?"

"Is that Professor Guo?"

Lou Ai looked at Chen Youbo escorting Guo Qicheng not far away. Song Yi, who was standing beside him, took a whisk and shook it, then kicked Guo Qicheng with an impatient look on his face.

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