"Ah Qing, don't scare me! Why would you climb mountains for no reason! The Qinling Mountains are a huge pit of fire right now."
Sitting in Mo Yiqing's car, Ansheng, after learning of Ah Qing's shopping trip purpose, had a face full of black lines and tried to persuade Ah Qing not to seek thrills for no reason. Right now, those Qinling Mountains are just not right, even Spirit Beasts are gathering there.
Going there to climb mountains is like a rat feeling bored and licking a cat's butt, what's the difference?
"Ah Qing, what is the little fox saying?" Mo Yiqing, who was driving, saw the little fox whining and couldn't help but curiously ask Ah Qing.
"The little fox says the mountains are dangerous and won't let me go."
Ah Qing showed a helpless expression, patted the little fox's head and said, "You! Just relax!"
"We're following the dean and others to the surrounding villages of Qinling to collect soil samples, which is part of our curriculum, not an adventure."
The education at Xinxing Agricultural Science College is obviously different from ordinary university courses, placing extraordinary emphasis on practical experience. Besides some specific ecological observation activities, the daily curriculum includes going to the fields at dawn for farming, measuring, and recording crop growth data with professional instruments.
The afternoon courses focus on theoretical lessons and some corresponding laboratory operations, using the instruments personally.
Typically, the first to third years struggle with theory lessons, and only in the fourth year are there practical courses with some thesis arrangements.
But at Xinxing Agricultural Science College, maybe yesterday you just finished a professional class, and the next day, the professor would pull out instruments and thrust them into the students' arms, letting them take off on their own.
Ah Qing and their courses are very compact, often having public agronomy classes in the evening.
Both theory and practice must be mastered proficiently.
Excelling in both arts and sciences can ensure a guaranteed research position.
And the reason Ah Qing and the others are buying sleeping bags is that in a couple of days, at the start of school, as per usual, the dean and professors will take groups out to familiarize students with the local climate and monitor soil acidity and alkalinity.
At the end of a week-long observation activity, students can all return home for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and classes officially start when they return.
Outstanding performance in the observation activities earns credits.
In previous years, the Agricultural Research Institute also hired a security company, carrying shotguns for escorting, making encounters with danger almost impossible.
For the little fox, there might be danger in the mountains.
But for humans, the possibility of danger is low.
Ansheng rolled his eyes: "......"
Yes, yes, there is danger for the little fox.
Your shotgun caliber is 152mm, right?
...
"Just drop us off here! We should have time to come over at noon and take you back."
Arriving at the vicinity of the Dayan District, Mo Yiqing and Tang You remained in the car, just lowering the window to confirm noon's meeting time with Ah Qing and Lingren.
"No need, the Ankang Town you're going to is tens of kilometers from here. After we're done shopping, we'll just take a taxi back."
"You guys hurry up and go! Otherwise, your professor for the professional course will have a dark face."
Ah Qing waved her hand, signaling that it wasn't necessary.
"Alright, if there's anything, message us. I don't know who was so useless and polluted the groundwater, causing us to work as laborers during summer vacation...." Mo Yiqing sighed with a face full of helplessness.
Just a few days before school starts, students of the environment and resources major were originally enthusiastically measuring farmland in preparation to dismantle the farmland irrigation system with small excavators at the start of school.
But then.
The professor of the environment and resources science major posted a notice in the small group.
He said that the Environmental Bureau had a project to remediate village and town groundwaters contaminated by chemical pollution and had invited him to be a technical advisor.
The professor thought about it and felt that his idle disciples should all come over to learn well.
The professor of the environment and resources science course carries the title of an academician of the Academy of Engineering. Normally, it would be impossible for someone like him to serve as a university professor—having an academician of the Academy of Engineering be a professor is indeed a waste of talent.
But the resources of Xinxing Agricultural Science College are very hardcore, with even more than one academician in the college.
Here, you can reach the core of Spirit Particle research.
Looking across Xia Country, various Spirit Particle research institutes are, essentially, extensions and supplements of the [Three Schools and Six Institutes].
"So, what are we buying now?" Ah Qing looked at Lingren to ask for her opinion.
"Let's go to the mall first? Previously, it was like special forces tourism when shopping, just checking in and having no time to slowly pick and choose." Lingren said.
"Alright." Ah Qing nodded, and with Lingren, selected some items in the shopping center that they would use next.
The little fox was originally looking around with its head held high.
But as they shopped, it gradually softened and eventually turned into a limp fox draped over Ah Qing's bag.
[Master Fox bless, I'll immediately send two million to honor your golden statue once I've done my big boss!——Before the action began, Chen Nian checked his firearm, closed the white trunk lid, and muttered in his heart. He then looked at the lawyer with a bit of confusion and asked: "Why are we driving a white Japanese car? Its bulletproof performance is not good!"]
[The sinister-faced lawyer, with an indifferent expression, adjusted the sleeve of his suit and said flatly: "Based on big data analysis, a white Japanese car with a yellow driver is practically invisible to the police." Saying that, he opened the trunk and squeezed into the pile of firearms, leaving a dumbfounded Chen Nian.]
[Wish fulfilled: Chicago Typewriter.]
"Snore snore..." Master Fox slept soundly, completely unaware of the refresh in the wish list.
...
Meanwhile, on the other side.
After setting up the bear demolition team and suppressing the rebellious cats of the two institutes, the fat cat called over the two larger pandas to head to the principal's office with him.
The black executive car covered with bird droppings was parked steadily in the administrative building's parking lot, with crows and ravens hovering in the nearby mountains, releasing white droppings containing plant seeds.
The fat cat kept its distance from that car and led its underlings directly to the principal's office.
"Old Deng!"
"It's requisition time, hand over all the car keys in your pocket....."
However.
After the fat cat barged into the principal's office, it saw guests inside, noticing the middle-aged man in a leather jacket on the sofa along with the principal making tea. The fat cat's body suddenly stiffened in place.
"Yo ho? Isn't this our cat bro? How come you've got time to visit this old man of mine?"
Seeing the fat cat stiffened like a statue in a pitiful state, the principal's face flashed with schadenfreude.
"Well...I walked into the wrong room."
The fat cat showed an embarrassed expression, greeted the middle-aged man in leather, and prepared to make a hasty exit.
"Where are you running off to, come sit down." Li Wenkang beckoned to the fat cat, pointed to the seat in front of him, and said.
The fat cat, with a dejected face, obediently curled into a ball and sat on the ground, showing an obedient expression:
"Good morning, Principal Li..."
"Good? I'm not good at all. I just drank a mouthful of tea dregs. I heard from the principal, you turned the quality Liu An Gua Pian he prepared for me into tea crumbs."
Li Wenkang glared with his eyes.
The fat cat shook its head like a rattle.
"Wrongly accused! I only poop in the office, steal the principal's antihypertensive medication, drink his mineral water, and secretly bite the pajamas in his closet, never touched the tea."
"Didn't touch it? Did it self-destruct?"