The golden sun rose slowly from the east, bringing a misty light to the city. Day and night alternated. Gradually, be it the eight-lane spacious road in the city center or the narrow roads in the suburbs between urban and rural areas, more and more people began to appear.
Seeing that Chengdu was slowly waking up, Zhang Lisheng rode on the clouds and slowly descended along with the sun. He dispersed the clouds and disguised it as the morning fog to shroud an old neighborhood with low houses in the suburbs before landing on the roof of a two-story cement building.
"Old Ge, why is there fog here? It's not autumn yet …" When the young man heard a rider cursing in a low voice on the tattered asphalt road, he chuckled and looked at the surrounding environment with a bird's eye view. The green scales on his body quickly faded away and were replaced by faint black scales that were almost colorless.
As he changed his transformation power from wyrmdragon to lizard, the fog that had already become a rootless tree and water without a source gradually dissipated under the sunlight that was getting hotter and hotter.
However, in this short period of time when the clouds and fog dissipated, Zhang Lisheng, who moved as fast as a ghost, had already concealed himself and openly took away hundreds of yuan of savings from a civilian's house without telling anyone. He also took two sets of dried clothes from the courtyard.
When the clouds and fog dissipated, he was already wearing a slightly oversized T-shirt and brown shorts that covered his knees. Walking on the ring road, he stretched out his hand to stop a taxi with a tired look on his face.
The suburbs were different from the city. Zhang Lisheng waited for a long time before a taxi with dust all over its face braked suddenly and stopped in front of him.
"Buddy, where are you going?" A young man in his twenties with a small nose and small eyes sitting in the driver's seat turned his head and asked Zhang Lisheng through the rolled down window.
"To the door of Sichuan University's Wangjiang Pavilion Hotel."
"Sichuan University? Sure, get in the car." When the young man heard that the journey was not short and that he was going to a bustling area, he replied with a smile.
When Zhang Lisheng heard this, he quickly opened the door and sat in the back seat of the taxi.
The car slowly started. After all, it was still early in the morning, and the traffic on the ring road was not very turbulent. Soon, the car drove into the main road of Chengdu.
When they entered the urban area, the number of red lights would naturally increase. The taxi would stop from time to time. When the taxi driver saw Zhang Lisheng, who had been silent ever since he got into the car and would close his eyes to rest for a while from time to time, he asked curiously, "Buddy, you don't sound like a student of Sichuan University so why are you so sleepy? Why are you still taking a taxi to rush there so early in the morning?
This trip will cost a lot of money. "
"It's just a small matter," Zhang Lisheng answered without even opening his eyes.
"It's nothing." When the driver saw that the passenger was obviously unwilling to talk much, he curled his lips and casually said, "You're just lucky. It's not easy to get a taxi in Daigou Village at that time." Then, he no longer asked anything and drove the car smoothly all the way to the west gate of Sichuan University.
More than half of the summer vacation had passed. Many students in the university had already returned to school in advance. In front of the school gate, stalls that sold soybean milk, fried dough sticks, steamed buns, and beef noodles, as well as some special ones that sold hot and sour noodles, fried dumplings, and moon pancakes had already been set up. Each of the stalls was bustling with activity, and there were many students and citizens patronizing them.
"Hot dumplings, crispy hot dumplings …" In front of a stall selling steaming hot dumplings and pickled vegetables, a young man with a face as round as a silver plate and skin as tender as a baby tossed 50 yuan to the boss. "I want five dumplings with more meat and pickled vegetables."
"Alright, five hot dumplings with a large portion of meat and pickled vegetables …" The slightly old and skinny boss who had been exposed to the sun and wind all year round called out habitually and began to cut the dumplings and pickled vegetables.
At this time, a young man who had small eyes but very pleasing to the eye suddenly said, "Lianbao, the size of this dumplings is not small. The three of us can't even finish five dumplings. It's not good to waste them."
"Brother Tianliang, even if we can't finish them, there's naturally someone else who can." The pink-skinned young man smiled innocently and reached out to pick up the two pancakes that the boss had just wrapped in a paper bag from the Guokui stall. Then, he strode towards two old beggars in ragged clothes who were walking back and forth in front of the school gate of Sichuan University. After sending the Guokui out, he walked back happily.
"Brother Tianliang, how is it? My eyes are sharp, right? This can be considered as doing a good deed every day," the young man in front of the dumplings stall said in satisfaction.
"Lianbao, you're still young! You're too naive!
Those two old men hang around the entrance of our university all day long asking for money. They're trying to deceive overly kind children like you. They already have a monthly income of more than 10,000 yuan, so why would they still care about your two dumplings? " When the young man saw the proud look on the young man's face, he reached out to pick up a dumplings with shredded meat and pickled vegetables from the stall and began to talk like an old man as he ate.
"Brother Tianliang, they're deceiving their own people while I'm doing my own good deed. What does it have to do with me if I don't care?" The young man smiled and said faintly.
"Tsk …" Upon hearing this question, the young man could not help but be stunned. After a moment of silence, he sighed and shook his head. "What a good 'they're deceiving their own people while I'm doing my own good deed. What does it have to do with me if I don't care?' This compassion is in line with the Heavenly Dao and human relations. I've learned something from it."
The two of them echoed each other in a genteel manner in front of the dumplings stall. If this were to happen in other places, it would undoubtedly be very strange. However, in front of the century-old Sichuan University that had a rich cultural atmosphere, even though it was strange, it was somewhat natural and not particularly eye-catching.
Upon hearing the young man's words, the young man became even more proud and said, "Well said! Well said …"
When he was feeling complacent, a basin of cold water was suddenly poured on his head. A girl with dashing eyebrows and starry eyes, who was wearing shorts and a sweatshirt with a curvy figure and handsome facial features, curled her lips and said, "Tianliang, don't listen to Lianbao's nonsense. He reads ancient books and talks about Zen all day long, but actually, he doesn't know anything about the ways of the world. He's just putting on an act."
"I don't know anything about the ways of the world, Li Xiangzhou. I really have nothing to say if other people talk about me, Duan Lianbao, like this, but what qualifications do you, Li Xiangzhou, have to talk about me like this? How much do you think you're …" The young man choked and said in exasperation.
When the young man saw the young man and the girl with dashing eyebrows arguing again early in the morning, he chuckled in his heart. When he was thinking about how he should persuade the two of them to leave this time, he saw a taxi parked on the street beside the school gate. The back door opened and a vaguely familiar figure walked out.
The gears in the young man's head spun quickly and his eyes widened. Without warning, he waved his arm and shouted in English, "Dr. Zhang, hello! I finally see you again!"
Zhang Lisheng, who had just come out of the car, was stunned when he heard the shout. Looking in the direction of the sound, he saw a man and a woman from the Sichuan University Student Union who had picked him up from Shuangliu Airport to Sichuan University more than a month ago waving at him with a smile. At once, he could not help but curse his bad luck.
"Mr. Zheng, good morning. Do you want to have breakfast?" However, since he had returned to the civilized world, he still needed to have basic manners. The young man strolled up to Zheng Tianliang and looked at the guokui in his hand before asking with a smile.
"Yes, Dr. Zhang. This is a guokui, a specialty of our Western Sichuan. It's a very delicious breakfast with meat and pickles. You can try it."
"Thank you, but I'm not used to eating too much salt in my food early in the morning."
"If you want to be healthy, you can try soy milk and vegetable buns. It's a very reasonable meal combination." Zheng Tianliang nodded in understanding.
"Thank you, I'll try it if there's a chance." Zhang Lisheng shrugged and no longer said anything. The scene became a little awkward at once. Zheng Tianliang hurriedly added, "It's like this, Dr. Zhang. The school has already arranged the lecture that Director Wang of the Academic Affairs Office mentioned to you before, but we couldn't find you at all. We couldn't get through to your phone either …"
"Oh, I've recently gone to the primeval forest in Western Sichuan and gained quite a lot. After summarizing and sorting out my thoughts, there's no problem with the lecture," Zhang Lisheng replied perfunctorily.
"That's great! Also, Dr., the school has specially made a credit card for you for your car allowance. It's placed in the Student Union. If you need to use it, you can contact Mingjin at any time. You can also contact her about the lecture …"
"Okay, next week! I'll definitely contact Miss Li next week!" Feeling that Zheng Tianliang was just too talkative, Zhang Lisheng interrupted him impatiently. "I won't disturb your breakfast anymore. Goodbye!" Then, he quickly walked into Sichuan University.
"Brother Tianliang, who is this person? Is he that amazing just because he speaks English? You're so polite to him but he's so cold?" Looking at Zhang Lisheng's gradually disappearing back, Duan Lianbao asked in a juvenile manner.
"He's indeed amazing. He graduated from Stanford University's Department of Biology at the age of 20. His papers have been published in Science and Bioscience. He even presided over Stanford's biology laboratory in the Shrimp World No. 2.
This time, he came to Sichuan University to do an academic visit under the instruction of the Ministry of Education … "Zheng Tianliang explained with a smile. As he was speaking, Li Xiangzhou, who had been frowning, suddenly shouted," I remember now! So it's him … "
"Li Xiangzhou, why are you so surprised?" Duan Lianbao was taken aback and asked in dissatisfaction.
"Tianliang, I've seen the person you mentioned before with Senior Sister Lu in the Qingyang Palace a few years ago. He's a wizard …" Li Xiangzhou ignored Duan Lianbao and looked at Zheng Tianliang as she whispered.
"Who?" Zheng Tianliang asked in astonishment.
"Of course, it's that Dr. Zhang."
"Xiangzhou, you're joking again. Even though I haven't fully opened my Divine Eye, I still have the Aura Observation Spell. If that Dr. Zhang is a wizard, how could I not see it?" Zheng Tianliang shook his head and smiled.
"That's right, Li Xiangzhou. Even though your Divine Eye is strong, my Spiritual Perception Method is not weak either. That person doesn't even have a hint of a wizard's gloomy aura, so how is he a wizard?" Duan Lianbao chimed in.
Staring at Zheng and Duan without blinking, Li Xiangzhou said solemnly with a solemn expression, "I didn't notice any trace of black aura lingering on that person's body either. However, when we were in the Qingyang Palace, he was indeed a wizard. Even though his wizard power was not high, it was extremely pure."
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