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Chapter 452
The two returned and caught up with Liu Zikang's funeral.
Many people came, but few were familiar faces to Ni Yangzhou. Although there was no announcement in the newspaper, as the second daughter of the Guo family, the funeral ceremony was quite grand.
People treated this memorial service as an opportunity to socialize. They wore black and white clothes as if they were going to walk on the catwalk at the next moment. The eldest brother of the Guo family was busy dealing with the guests, but only Guo Xingyuan kept holding the portrait and keeping his head down without saying a word.
Liu Zikang in the portrait was still young, but her face was very serious. It was the photo on her doctoral diploma certificate in her early years.
Ni Yangzhou originally wanted to go to the inner room with Yan Congzhi, but the appearance of Lu Zheng made him change his mind.
The two people in the crowd looked at each other, their eyes expressionless.
Last night, the three of them gathered together. Ni Yangzhou and Lu Zheng were silent, just drinking and toasting. Yan Congzhi added water to Ni Yangzhou's wine with a righteous look on his face. Lu Zheng became so dizzy that he turned as red as an eggplant. Ni Yangzhou squinted his eyes and frowned as he looked at the wine that was becoming increasingly weaker.
Not only did Lu Zheng or Ni Yangzhou laugh first, but both of them laughed heartily and happily, and at the end only the sound of breath was left.
In the end, Lu Zheng laughed until tears came out. Ni Yangzhou looked at those hazy eyes and vaguely saw the high school student who used to fight when he was not convinced. Lu Zheng drank the last of the wine in one gulp. He gasped for breath because of the spiciness. He lowered his head to relax for a moment, and when he looked up, his face was full of tears.
Lu Zheng seemed to be in deep pain, his face was bitter and tears fell into the cup.
"How many more are there?"
Ni Yangzhou was so drunk that he was slow to react. Upon hearing this, he just stared blankly and tried hard to raise his eyelids to respond:
"How long for what?"
"I mean, we still have a few more sh..."
Before he finished saying the word "world", Ni Yangzhou shoved the bottle in his hand into Lu Zheng's mouth with a "click", hitting his front teeth. Lu Zheng's whole face wrinkled together, like a piece of waste paper that could not be unfolded.
He wasn't punished by the system. Ni Yangzhou himself vividly remembered the pain of the initial electric shock, and he quickly resolved the electric shock crisis for Lü Zheng.
Ni Yangzhou coughed twice, and Yan Congzhi patted his back. The young man then spoke with a hint of meaning:
"take care."
Lu Zheng recovered and nodded: "...Thank you, big brother."
Ni Yangzhou was frightened and came to his senses a little. He typed something to Lu Zheng on the system as a comfort.
Yan Congzhi looked at the two of them staring blankly into the air. After a while, Lu Zheng began to sob.
I cried and cried until I was tired and fell asleep.
Ni Yangzhou was left alone staring blankly into the air.
Yan Congzhi looked at Ni Yangzhou's flushed face and waited quietly for a long time. After a while, the man came over and found that although Ni Yangzhou was sitting steadily like a hunchback, his eyelids were already closed.
Yan Congzhi carried the person out of the door. When he hugged the person's legs with one hand, the person woke up for a moment, gave Yan Congzhi a silly smile, nodded, and fell asleep again.
After settling the sleeping people to bed late at night, Yan Congzhi went to the Military Research Institute. When he came back, it was already dawn.
When Ni Yangzhou and Lu Zheng met again at the funeral the next day, both had swollen eyes.
The whole cause and effect has been clearly understood, and they are now here to see Kang Kang off for the last time.
In fact, when System 937 informed Kang Kang of the news, she had just put on her shoes for going out. They were new shoes she bought with the money her brother-in-law had transferred to her. They were black, flat-soled shoes, comfortable and easy to wear, and she liked them very much.
Liu Zikang knew that ever since Team Leader Peng had a big fight with the military district after returning and almost fainted on the spot, endless meetings had been going on from morning to night.
Of course, Peng He didn't have the power to make decisions. He was already quite old, having devoted most of his life to scientific research. He couldn't get involved much in political matters, but he always held fast to his line and refused to back down. During the months Yan Congzhi and Ni Yangzhou had been away on a relaxing trip, the institute was in a state of near panic. Lü Zheng and Liu Zikang had been simply carrying out their tasks according to procedure. The military doesn't discriminate between capable and incompetent officers when they want to arrest someone. When they were handcuffed and pushed into a car, they didn't have time to lament their bad luck; a single glance earned them points.
When he sat in the interrogation room and faced the aggressive questions from someone whose face he couldn't see clearly, Liu Zikang finally understood what Old Man Peng was arguing with others about every day.
Peng He is promoting Alpha's secondary differentiation - using the residual structure of the degenerated reproductive cavity to reshape the function of the uterus so that Alpha can successfully conceive.
Liu Zikang opened his mouth so wide that the centrifuge in the laboratory, which was almost scrapped, could fit through it.
She was not surprised by this idea, as there was a related theoretical explanation in Lu Zheng's early book. She did not expect that this little old man would report this topic silently and mediate in the power struggle for a long time. He had been bearing the pressure alone until now, and no one knew about it.
When a stack of data and experimental videos landed on the table, Liu Zikang quickly scanned them and finally understood what had happened between these disconnected groups at the institute. It was as absurd as if A threw rocks, B kept the fire going, and C served tea and water, only to have a superconducting quantum computer emerge from the small workshop of ABC.
Liu Zikang finally understood that the reason why Peng He was admitted to the hospital was not because of his old age and lack of physical strength, but because he had to give orders from morning to night and do things without telling them, which drained his energy.
Liu Zikang also claimed that he was the mentor's confidant. From this perspective, every member was a confidant, but they were all marginal people. He thought he was the gate tower, but in the end they all pointed to the hip axis.
Just as Liu Zikang was shocked, the tightly closed door of the interrogation room clicked again. With the light behind him, another interrogator came in with a new list and read out in a slurred voice under the light:
"Peng He has pleaded guilty. His proposed method of extracting genes from Mullerian duct remains and then re-editing them is unfeasible. His proposed method of promoting the release of gonadal hormone GnRH has failed after repeated trials. As the project leader, Peng He, without ethical review, has caused significant economic losses and wasted resources for the nation. He must bear disciplinary action and..."
Liu Zikang opened his eyes, his head aching slightly. He had just redeemed his points, and his whole body was tense like a bow with a string. The woman with a resolute face spoke with unquestionable certainty:
"I can."
The person behind the light was stunned, and Liu Zikang repeated again:
"Let me do it. I can do it."