The Lost City of Alien Beasts

Chapter 1152 Ending

"Friend?" Dr. Jia frowned: "No, Mung Bean is not my friend, he is my assistant, or student."

"No, he is your friend." Gregor hit the nail on the head: "You just didn't realize it."

Dr. Jia thought for a while and took another sip of wine: "It doesn't matter, I'll keep talking."

Sometimes, Dr. Jia also wonders, Mung Bean has no talent at all for research, and talent has no bonus to intelligence. Why should he work as a nanny for Dr. Jia here and still be angry with Dr. Jia? Isn't this asking for abuse?

Once Dr. Jia had a severe cold and was bedridden for three days, with Mung Bean waiting for him.

Dr. Jia was confused by fever and asked Mung Bean: "You are stupid, why don't you leave?"

Mung Bean was wiping out the towel for Dr. Jia and said cheerfully: "Because I admire the teacher very much. The teacher is a genius and knows a lot of things."

"I understand, but you don't understand. What does it have to do with you?" Dr. Jia said.

Mung Bean put the wet towel on Dr. Jia's forehead: "Hey, it doesn't matter, but as long as I think that the teacher is doing very powerful research and I happened to witness it, I am very happy."

Dr. Jia didn't understand Mung Bean's thoughts at all and didn't bother to care.

After recovering from the illness, Dr. Jia continued to indulge in research, while Mung Bean continued to work as an assistant, nanny and doormat.

Just like this, a year passed. Although Mung Bean's qualifications were mediocre and his progress was slow, he made progress after all. One day, Mung Bean had an idea and wanted to try a small experiment.

Dr. Jia thought it was interesting and approved it.

Mung Bean was inspired and full of energy, and he immersed himself in doing experiments. During that short half month, Dr. Jia obviously felt that his quality of life had declined, because Mung Bean spent most of his time in his own experiments.

"Did it succeed in the end?" Gregor asked.

"No, it failed." Dr. Jia said, "I helped him improve it a little bit, and then it succeeded."

"It makes me even sadder." Gregor's expression was complicated.

"Hey, it's just a gadget. Although it's interesting, it's useless. It doesn't matter whether it succeeds or not." Dr. Jia paused for a few seconds and said uncertainly: "I realize now that that incident may have had a big impact on him. "

After that experiment, Mung Bean continued to work as both an assistant and a nanny, but he rarely asked questions or brought up creative ideas - even though most of them seemed stupid to Dr. Jia.

Dr. Jia was immersed in his various studies and did not notice the changes in mung beans.

Later, Mung Bean made a mistake in a research project, which led to the failure of the experiment and wasted almost two months of Dr. Jia's hard work.

Dr. Jia was furious and scolded Mung Bean.

"I scolded Mung Bean: Why are you so stupid? It's better for me to raise you than a parrot. At least the parrot won't cause trouble and can give me death. But you, you just want to piss me off to death and give me death now."

Dr. Jia looked at the beer bottle in his hand: "I scolded him a bit harshly, but I was really angry at the time, and I am still angry when I think about it now. Two months, how precious my time is."

"The second thing is that it's unpleasant to listen to. The main thing is that it's heartbreaking." Gregor said.

"Is there any?" Dr. Jia looked up at Gregor.

"Yes," said Gregor.

"Hey." Dr. Jia was a little worried and touched his sparse hair.

In the next few days, Dr. Jia stopped caring about Mung Bean. Even if Mung Bean turned into an animal and came to annoy him, he refused to speak and locked himself in the laboratory all day long.

Mung Bean will still deliver food to him on time every day.

This continued for a week. Dr. Jia summarized the lessons from the failed experiment, improved a better method, and greatly shortened the time of the next experiment. He suddenly felt refreshed and relieved.

When he came to his senses, he realized that Mung Bean hadn't brought him food for two days. He walked out of the laboratory and searched his house, only to find that the mung beans were missing.

"I also felt a little guilty at the time." Dr. Jia said: "Of course, the main responsibility still lies with him."

Gregor said nothing, knowing that there was more to come.

"I went out to look for him for two days, but couldn't find him, so I gave up." Dr. Jia took another sip of beer:

"I think he may have become a Sanren, or joined the three major organizations, or he may have been eaten by a beast, who knows."

"After that, I continued my research and found a nanny. Although it was not as considerate as Mung Bean, it was okay. But in my heart, I was always a little disappointed. Sometimes I would be suddenly distracted, have auditory hallucinations, and hear some animals. Shout.”

"You are thinking about mung beans," said Gregor.

"Well, I miss him a little bit." Dr. Jia was unexpectedly honest this time: "Maybe, you are right. In fact, I regard Mung Bean as a friend, but I have a flawed personality and am not suitable for making friends."

Gregor's mood was complicated: he was indeed a genius, and his self-understanding was clear and accurate.

Dr. Jia continued: "After that, I changed assistants twice, and one of them you all know is the hyena in the tail team."

"Hyena is a good assistant. He is quite smart and learns quickly, which makes me worry-free. As a result, he worked for me for two years, learned a lot from me, and stole a lot of my research materials and ran away."

"I was quite angry at the time, but not sad at all, and I never thought about going to him to find out what happened." Dr. Jia shrugged: "After that, I never asked for an assistant."

Dr. Jia glanced at Gregor: "Are you off topic?"

"Not really." Gregor said: "This is a common technique in literary creation. It highlights the special characteristics of the protagonist through horizontal contrast."

"I see. I take back what I said before. Literary creation seems to be of some use." Dr. Jia said.

"Go on, otherwise we will really go off topic." Gregor smiled.

"Well, half a year passed after that. One morning I woke up and found a gray parrot parked outside the window."

"Mung beans?" Gregor's eyes lit up: This is quite dramatic.

"Yeah, I thought so too. I thought it was Mung Bean who came back to see me, but I was embarrassed, so I turned into an animal to say hello to me."

Dr. Jia rubbed his nose and said, "The result is not true. When I talk to a parrot, it can only imitate my words and cannot communicate. It has never turned back into a human. I measured it with an instrument used to measure awakened people, but there was no response. .”

"So it's really just a parrot?" Gregor was confused.

Dr. Jia was silent for two seconds, "[Animal] gifted people, if they become animals for too long, they will never come back. They will become real animals until they die."

"So I don't know whether it is a mung bean or a parrot." Dr. Jia shrugged again: "But it didn't seem to want to leave. It cheated on me by eating and drinking, so I kept it."

Gregor was still unsatisfied: "Is this the end of the story?"

Dr. Jia nodded: "Yes."

"Aren't you curious whether parrots are mung beans?" Gregor asked.

"It was a little bit at first, but not anymore," Dr. Jia said.

"why?"

"There is no reason, it just doesn't matter." Dr. Jia smiled hoarsely: "Anyway, one of us has to die for the other."

(End of this chapter)