After Wang Liansheng left, he and another orderly quickly sent two dinners and a large piece of bloody pork wrapped in plastic wrap to Zhang Lisheng's tent.
The raw meat was unexpectedly huge. It seemed to weigh at least 20 to 30 pounds. It was a little cold to the touch, so it must have just thawed not long ago.
From the regretful expression of the two orderlies, one could tell that fresh meat produced on Earth was very precious in the Oasis World. From this, it could be seen that the order of the camp commander to fully guarantee the needs of the Gate of Witchcraft's people was not a lie.
"Now that they know the value of a donkey, they can start to feed it with refined fodder when they want it to push the mill. This world is really realistic …" After the orderlies left, Zhang Lisheng finished his dinner and grabbed the raw meat in his hand before muttering to himself as he walked out of the tent.
It was not too late, but the campsite was already quiet and devoid of light. There was only a single lamppost in the center surrounded by a circle of tents. The lamppost was supported by an electric net that covered the entire sky above the campsite, emitting a soft flame-like light.
This lamppost would be bright all night until the next morning, playing a similar role to a bonfire that could deter wild beasts when they stayed in the forest on Earth at night.
Zhang Lisheng looked from afar and immediately guessed the function of this huge lamppost that had just been lit. At once, he could not help but praise, "What a good idea!" With light footsteps, he quietly bypassed the row of tents where the wizards lived and walked to the edge of the campsite.
The entire campsite was wrapped in the electric fence. When he approached the edge, he could see that the mesh of the electric fence was as big as the mouth of a bowl. Outside was a deep ditch and further away was the endless lush forest of the foreign world.
The young man looked around indifferently. With his eyesight that could see the flapping wings of mosquitoes 100 meters away in the dark, he could not see the shadow of the surveillance camera at all. Such negligence was obviously unimaginable, so there must be some other unknown peculiarities.
However, now that the relationship between the Gate of Witchcraft and the army had been made clear, Zhang Lisheng no longer had any scruples. He tore off the plastic wrap on the raw meat and threw it on the ground before casting the 'assemble' spell in his mind.
In an instant, a faint black smoke drifted out of his body and drilled into the fresh meat on the ground. After coming into contact with the blood, it turned into a black and red mist that drifted out and dispersed in the air.
After a while, a heart-palpitating buzzing sound came from the surroundings. Hundreds of thumb-sized flying insects gathered into a mottled, multicolored insect mist from the jungle overgrown with giant trees and flew toward the piece of meat.
Looking at the swarm that was no more than two to three cubic meters at most, Zhang Lisheng recalled the horrifying scene where he could attract millions of insects to cover the sky when he used living creatures to cast the spell. He sighed and muttered, "Looks like it's not easy to cast the spell using raw meat. I'll need living creatures …"
While he was talking to himself, the flying insects had already approached the camp's electric fence.
By right, it should be easy for thumb-sized insects to pass through the bowl-like mesh. However, when he saw a flash of green electric light on the electric fence, the flying insects were bounced away like rain and fell into the ditch outside the camp.
"T-This is …" Zhang Lisheng was stunned. With his mouth agape, he watched the flying insects that fell into the ditch struggle for a while before flying up again to crash into the electric fence. However, when their bodies were about to pass through the mesh, a small cross electric current flashed out of the mesh and hit the insects. Some of them were bounced away while some of them lost their lives and even turned into charred corpses.
The insects that were bewitched by witchcraft had long lost their instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm. After failing, they would only continue to crash into the fence again and again. The burnt smell at the tip of the young man's nose was getting stronger and stronger. He snapped back to reality and pondered for a while before carefully stretching out his arm and raising a finger to touch the mesh on the electric fence.
Just when his finger was about to pass through the mesh, several wires around him flashed with a fleeting dark brilliance. Then, electric arcs surged out of the mesh and blocked Zhang Lisheng's finger.
The numbing feeling of the electric current came from the tip of his finger, but the young man did not move his finger away. Instead, he forcefully increased the strength of the breakthrough. As his strength increased, the intensity of the electric arc in the mesh of the electric fence began to increase as well. It was only until the scales on Zhang Lisheng's palm were forced to disappear that the electric current gradually weakened again, but it did not stop.
"A power grid that can automatically control the intensity of the electric shock according to the impact force and can even partially suppress the omniscient power of my transformed lizard. The trump card of the Chinese government is also very powerful …" Retracting his finger, the young man sighed with emotion and picked up the piece of meat on the ground before silently returning to his tent.
After sitting on the bed and pondering for a while, he suddenly stood up and walked to the bed of Pei Youliang, who was sharing the same room with him. Looking at the human figure wrapped in a thin quilt that was constantly trembling, he curled his lips and clenched the five fingers of his right hand. Like a chisel, he struck the temple of the human figure's head.
With just one strike, the human figure no longer trembled. His entire body could clearly be seen stretching out as he had completely fainted.
Zhang Lisheng smiled in satisfaction and strode into the bathroom. He took off all his clothes and his body was suddenly pulled to a height of about two meters. Faint black, almost colorless scales rapidly grew on his body as a few scorpion tails pierced through his skin and extended out from his back. After a faint brilliance flashed, his figure disappeared without a trace.
At the same time when Zhang Lisheng turned into nothingness in the bathroom, Guo Caiying, who was wearing cool pajamas and slippers, strolled out of the bathroom with a troubled look on her face in a two-person tent under the magnificent lamppost of the campsite.
"What's wrong with you, Caiying? You've been busy for the whole day, and now that you're finally free, you've been looking troubled since dinner. What exactly is bothering you? If you don't confess now, I'm going to use torture on you!" On the two steel wire beds next to each other, a beautiful girl wearing a thin T-shirt with her long wet hair draped over her shoulders could not help but ask when she saw her best friend frowning.
"What's bothering me?
You accompany Old Wang to sort out data every day, so of course, you're busy. I'm a lazy person who has nothing to do all day, so of course, I'm worried! "Guo Caiying sat beside Ai Chuhe, whose long hair was draped over her shoulders, and replied listlessly.
"Comrade Guo Caiying, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. Be careful, you'll be arrested and sent to prison for slander. Right now, I'm just an ordinary comrade with Old Wang. He's a researcher who was transferred from the Yellow Sand World's research group to the Oasis World's research group to support the project.
As for me, I'm a research assistant who's studying in a famous foreign university and is about to graduate soon to enter the research institute to serve the country temporarily … "
"Stop it, Comrade Ai Chuhe. I'm going to throw up if you continue."
"Hah! I'm telling the truth! It's up to you whether you believe it or not! Besides, don't you also have Battalion Commander Liu's concern? Other patients only have two river shrimps in their meals at most, but what about you? You have a plate full of seafood, with the only thing missing is the Alaskan king crab. Don't tell me that this trick has worked on you and has moved our Miss Guo, causing you to have something on your mind …"
"Stop making wild guesses, Chuhe. I-I can't help it anymore. You may see him at any time anyway. Lisheng is also in our camp," Guo Caiying suddenly interrupted her best friend's words and said in an extremely low voice.
"How is this possible?" Upon hearing this, Ai Chuhe cried out, "He's a US citizen! Besides, with his status, if he really comes to the camp, he'll have to preside over an independent scientific research project no matter what! I must have seen him long ago …"
"Stop shouting! Lower your voice! He didn't come to the camp as a biologist, but he came with the group of people from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences this morning."
"Aren't those fellows from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences people with superpowers? W-Why would Zhang Lisheng mix with them? D-Don't tell me …" Ai Chuhe was stunned for a moment before stuttering.
"No, he won't …" Guo Caiying shook her head like a rattle drum and said anxiously.
"Caiying, I haven't even said anything yet and you already know what I'm thinking. How dare you say that he won't?" Ai Chuhe looked at her best friend with a complicated expression. "This is not a joke. The biggest possibility for Zhang Lisheng to come to our camp is to be a spy.
When I was with Old Wang last time, I've heard him talk about the intelligence war between the Soviet Union and the US before. Many scholars have worked part-time as spies before. This is not nonsense, it's confirmed by the official leaked information.
Scholars are smart, have good memory, and know the ropes. If an ordinary intelligence agent wants to steal data and information, they can just take a glance and grasp the key point … "
"But Lisheng was born in China and has a net worth of hundreds of millions. Why would he come to his own country to be a spy if he's crazy?"
"Perhaps he agrees with the values of the US more. Besides, the government can't represent the country. Have you forgotten how cold-blooded and radical Zhang Lisheng is? He just casually killed a few people. Such a person can do whatever he wants …"
"Ai Chuhe, he killed them to save you. He's afraid that you'll be bullied. Besides, those people are all criminals so they should be shot and sent to the electric chair!"
Ai Chuhe was stunned and smiled wryly. "Caiying, why are you getting angry at me? I'm just explaining the biggest possibility to you.
Of course, it was also possible that Lisheng had inadvertently heard the news about the Oasis World, and in the heat of the moment, he tried to find a way to sneak in to satisfy his curiosity. This foreign world's mainland that had not been destroyed by intelligent creatures at all was more attractive to a biologist than drugs to a drug addict. In the end, he just got lucky and managed to sneak in.
That's right, isn't he doing an academic exchange at Sichuan University this summer? He knows about the Oasis World in that kind of environment … "
"Stop talking, Chuhe. I've decided. I'll go look for him now."
"What?"
"Unless we ask him personally, we won't be able to find the answer by guessing at all." Guo Caiying bit her lips hard and made up her mind. "I've secretly seen which tent he's staying in during the day. I'll go look for him and ask him now."
Ai Chuhe opened her mouth and looked at her best friend who had already made up her mind. Sighing, she said, "Alright, I'll go with you."
The two girls did not know that the person they were looking for was currently in the primitive jungle of the Oasis World. He was being bitten by millions of poisonous insects but was shouting in ecstasy amidst an unimaginable pain, "I've found him! I've finally found him! This idea is really feasible …"
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