Today's weather was pretty good. The sun was shining brightly, and the sea breeze was caressing one's face. The visibility was excellent, and it was neither too hot nor too cold. It was a good day for a spring outing.
On the way, Zhang Zian saw many parents or grandparents flying kites with their children. All kinds of kites were floating high in the air, which made people sigh. It was indeed spring!
There were also a few old men flying kites that were abnormally huge. Some of them were a few meters long, and some were even more than ten meters long. Their kites were linked together by many sections. They had a dragon's head and a centipede's body. They were like the overlords of the sky, overshadowing the other small kites.
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A flock of white pigeons flew overhead in a flock. The pigeon whistles tied to their claws were whistling melodiously. She could only hope that the owner of the pigeons did not keep them in the downtown area.
Zhang Zian drove along Huanhai Avenue all the way to the rugged and inaccessible beach.
On the way, his phone rang, but because he was driving, he didn't pick it up to check.
After parking the car, he turned off the engine and took out his phone.
It was a text from Professor Wei Kang.
Wei Kang: "Xiao Zhang, the academy just had a meeting, and the leaders of the academy have approved our application for the expedition, which also includes the plan for you to go to Egypt as a special consultant. However, as a non-staff member, you need to be responsible for your own safety and actions during this expedition. If anything happens to you during the expedition, the expedition team and the academy will not be responsible. Do you have any opinions on this?"
Zhang Zian thought about it for a while. The academy's condition was not too much. He was not an employee of the school. The fact that the leaders of the school had agreed to let him join the expedition team was already a special favor. If he was injured or caused trouble in Egypt, the school would definitely not be willing to take responsibility … Wei Kang must have done a lot of work behind the scenes to get the leaders of the school to agree.
In this way, he could also gain greater freedom of movement. The advantages outweighed the disadvantages, and it was better than going alone.
So he replied, "Professor Wei, I have no objections."
Wei Kang quickly sent another message: "That's good. The budget will be in place soon. Next, we need to enter the travel planning and material preparation period." I will send you a form. Fill in your exact height, weight, chest circumference, arm length, shoe size, and other data and send it to me. We will customize the clothes for the inspection.
Zhang Zian received the form but didn't rush to fill it in. Instead, he asked, "Professor Wei, I have another request. I don't know if you can agree to it."
Wei Kang: What request? As long as they did not violate the discipline of the expedition team, the leaders of the institute were not unreasonable people.
Zhang Zian: I want to bring a few pets with me. Of course, their travel and food expenses would be covered by me. There was no need for them to customize their clothes or anything, so they wouldn't cause any trouble for the expedition team.
Wei Kang: What's your reason?
Zhang Zian: In order to be more confident in completing the set goal of the expedition team, which is to find traces of the original Egyptian cats. All the pets in my shop have been specially trained by me and can become an important supplement for the expedition team. I believe that they will be of great help to the expedition team.
Needless to say, Zhang Zian had been famous for training cats in the past. Ever since Famous had won the Best Actor award at the Berlin Film Festival, there had been an endless stream of people who were willing to pay a high price to hire him to train dogs. Although Zhang Zian had declined all of them by pretending to be calm and collected, he couldn't help but feel his heart bleed. His dog training skills were really average and not presentable. If he accepted this job, he would definitely ruin his reputation, so he might as well pretend to be mysterious and not accept it.
Of course, Wei Kang had heard about these things. In fact, the leaders of the institute had more or less heard about it.
Most of the trip to Egypt would be spent on field trips. The dangers of the hot Sahara Desert did not need to be mentioned. Every official member of the expedition team had a high amount of insurance. The leaders of the institute did not intend to agree to Zhang Zian's application to accompany them. In case an accident happened to a non-staff member during the expedition, the institute would inevitably be under pressure from public opinion.
There were two things that made the leaders of the institute change their minds. One was that Wei Kang had brought up all of Zhang Zian's past achievements. The second was that they had unexpectedly seen the news of Zhang Zian and Director Chen of the Public Security Bureau being interviewed together on TV, and Director Chen's words had a lot of appreciation for Zhang Zian.
Just like that, in the meeting that had just ended in the morning, the institute's management had voted to approve the application for the expedition and Zhang Zian's application to accompany them.
Wei Kang replied, "Okay, I believe you. Since you said that, you must be confident. Then bring your pets. I'll take care of the institute's side."
Zhang Zian replied, "Okay, thank you, Professor Wei. I'll send you the form as soon as possible."
In fact, even if Wei Kang had not agreed, he would have secretly brought the elfins over, but it would not have been good for the elfins to show up in front of the expedition team. Wei Kang's agreement saved a lot of trouble.
After ending the conversation with Wei Kang, Zhang Zian got out of the car, picked up the underwater speaker, and was ready to start working.
A shadow flickered on his face.
Was it a bird?
He put his hand over his eyes to block the sun, looked up, and unexpectedly found a kite above his head.
It was a very common goldfish kite. It flew very high, becoming a small dot in the air. If it had not happened to fly over his head and cast a small shadow, it would have been difficult for him to notice its existence.
Very few people usually came to this beach, and he had almost never met anyone else. But today, there was actually someone flying a kite here?
He found a reef and stepped on it. He straightened his back, stretched his neck, narrowed his eyes, and looked in the direction where the kite was facing the wind. According to simple physics principles, the kite could only be flying in that direction.
At the end of his line of sight, he vaguely saw two figures, one big and one small, running happily on the beach. It looked like a father and son, or a grandfather and a grandson, but it was too far away to see clearly.
In fact, the beach was not a good place to fly a kite, because the airflow was more chaotic. They had probably chosen this place for peace and quiet. There were too many people in other popular places for kite flying, and the kite strings were often tangled together. When they ran, they might even hit others.
Zhang Zian remembered the time when his parents took him to fly a kite when he was a child. He stared at the two figures for a while, as if he saw himself in them.
It wasn't until a particularly large wave rushed to the shore and hit the reef heavily, splashing thousands of sparkling and fine water droplets. A few drops of salty seawater splashed on his face that he suddenly came back to his senses.
He laughed at himself, jumped off the reef, and waved away the thoughts of the past. He rolled up his trouser legs and walked to the beach. He placed the underwater speaker in the water and let the recording of Sihwa's song spread in all directions through the sea.
Of course, during this period, he did not wait foolishly. Instead, he lowered his head and wandered on the beach, using the stick that he had prepared with him to stir the puddles, pry open the small reef, and look for relatively rare marine life in the water and under the reef.
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