Chapter 1413 Another world (128)(1/2)
As soon as she came back, she let go of her hand that pinched her nose and gasped heavily, "It's so smelly, ah, so smelly!"
"Professor Lima Oda, what is Teta Konjac?" Booktonlin couldn't help but inquire with Lima Oda. He wanted to figure out what the secret of this flower was that it could make people dizzy.
"Titan konjac flower, also known as corpse flower, has a more vivid name corpse stinky konjac. This flower grows in the primeval forest, with a flower age of about 150 years, and is expected to be about 1.8 meters tall, making it the largest flower in the world. It has a potato-like rhizome. When the crown spreads, the red-purple flowers will continue to bloom for a few days, and the corpse odor will increase dramatically. When the flowers fall behind, the plant will once again enter the dormant period. The smell of smell like stinky socks or rotten corpse is to attract flies and beetles that live by eating carrion to pollinate. I used to hear that it is very gorgeous and more beautiful than anything you can imagine, but this surprisingly beautiful flower does indeed grow on our planet and still exists in the world."
Lima Oda pointed at the Teta konjac: "This Teta konjac is much bigger than the rumored ones, and the smell is really too bad."
"It grows so big, don't there be animals to eat it?" Booktonlin still couldn't believe that a flower could grow so big, but was not eaten by poisonous snakes and beasts during its growth, or was harmed by some small animals. Seeing that the flower was so beautiful, there was no trace of being bitten at all.
"Captain, if you were asking you to eat it, would you have to mouth?" Pang Xiaonan added unexpectedly.
"Vomit..." When Booktonlin thought of the smell just now, he couldn't help but hold a tree trunk and retching.
"You are too cruel!" Buenoski gave Pang Xiaonan a thumbs up.
Lima Oda also frowned, her stomach was a little overturned.
Pang Xiaonan looked at Lima Oda and asked, "The captain fainted next to Teta Konjac just now. Will its odor make people dizzy?"
"According to the degree of tolerance of normal people, the smell of smell can only be uncomfortable and will not make people faint, but will be even more refreshing!" When he said this, Lima Oda couldn't help but surging in her stomach, "But if a person with a lot of mental stress approaches and smells this smell, it is very likely to have hallucinations, and then after the hallucination, he may faint."
"No wonder!" Pang Xiaonan looked at Booktonlin who was still holding the tree, "The captain must be under too much pressure, so he fainted by Teta Konjac."
Booktonlin finally suppressed his vomiting and slowly recovered his steady breathing. He walked to Pang Xiaonan and said viciously: "Boy, I am all caused by you. Don't take this flower in front of me in the future!"
"Hurry, I'm going to take a photo with Teta Konjac!" Lima Oda handed the camera to Pang Xiaonan, "Let's go, take a photo for me!"
After saying that, Lima Xiaotian covered her nose and ran towards Teta Konjac again. Pang Xiaonan walked closer with the camera. Lima Xiaotian had already stood beside Teta Konjac and set up pose. She just frowned. Pang Xiaonan quickly pressed the shutter and shouted: "Okay."
Oda Lima immediately had Taita konjac who fled like she was covering her nose.
Pang Xiaonan handed the camera to Lima Oda. Lima Oda opened the preview and frowned even more, "Can you take a photo? Will you take a photo! I'm so ugly!"
When Pang Xiaonan saw that Lima Xiaotian on the picture had a ferocious expression on her face, and she had no beauty's demeanor at all. "How can I blame me? You think that Teta konjac is smelly. I just recorded your expression in truth..."
Frightened by the power of Teta Konjac, although Bridge Morgan also took out the camera, he had no idea of taking a photo. He only recorded the beautiful figure of Teta Konjac flower in the distance.
"Okay, let's continue on the road." Booktonlin just wanted to escape from this annoying place, so the group embarked on a journey deep into the forest again.
Lima Oda continued to be with Totekchaski, and Pang Xiaonan accompanied Professor Li Sanming not far from them.
Totecchasky's pace was still agile and he didn't have much fatigue. He was able to sign up for this expedition because he was very confident in his physical strength.
He said to Lima Oda, "Do you know, besides being called corpse-stinky konjac, there is another name?"
Although Totecchasky is a marine biologist, because there are many ancient rumors about marine life, he has a good understanding of the legends of terrestrial animals and plants.
"What's the name?" Oda Lima was not sure, so her understanding of Teta Konjac was limited to books. This was the first time she had seen the true body of Teta Konjac, and this was much larger than what was described in the book.
"It also has a name called Corpse-Scented Konjac," Totecchaski half-squinted and picked a small wild flower on the roadside. "Because the Teta Konjac grows to a certain stage, the smell emitted will change from the stench of corpse to the scent of corpse."
"The fragrance of corpse?" Pang Xiaonan couldn't help but come over after hearing the discussion here, "Will there still be fragrance in the rotten corpse? How is this possible?"
"There is a possibility that the corpse can produce fragrance." Totecchasky smelled the flowers in his hand. "Didn't there be many ancient corpses that we unearthed? Some of the Taoist monks in Buddhism became flesh relics after their death, and they could also emit a faint fragrance. In addition, there were many stories about corpses emitting fragrance in ancient times. Have you never heard of them?"
"I haven't heard it before," Pang Xiaonan shook his head and approached Totekchasky with interest, "Tell me and listen." Although the scenery along the way is good, I'll get tired of it after watching it for a long time. It's better to listen to the story.
Totekchaski smiled, patted Pang Xiaonan on the shoulder, and said, "Okay, then I'll tell you a story, just pass the time. In ancient times, there was a child bride named Sun Xiugu, who was at home with her old mother-in-law because her husband and father-in-law were both far away. Because she was teased and bullied by a gangster bully, she was unable to bear the humiliation and was forced to commit suicide. After her death, no one dared to report to the government, and the mother-in-law was frightened and sick when she was old. The body was not dealt with, but it emitted a strange fragrance, which spread to the streets and alleys. Later, a police officer passed by and smelled the fragrance and asked his neighbors. When he knew the injustice, he would go to inform the county magistrate. As a result, the county magistrate punished the bully and erected a chastity arch for Sun Xiugu as a commendation. As a result, Li Xiugu's body no longer emits a strange fragrance. Her husband came back to put her in peace."
"Really or false?" Pang Xiaonan looked at Totekchasky suspiciously. "Your story is too casual. Where did you hear it? Is there any historical record?"
"Since it's a story, don't verify its authenticity," Totecchasky smelled the little flower in his hand again, "I'll tell you another one. There was a wealthy businessman who died early and left his six-year-old son and nineteen-year-old daughter to rely on each other. There was a bad-hearted relative in the clan who not only bullied his young brother, but also embezzled his family property, insulted his sister and sank his sister into the river, and sank another male servant in the family into the river, falsely accusing them of having an affair on weekdays, so the two made an appointment with each other.
He went to death. The county magistrate accepted bribes and ignored them. After examination, the body was buried. As a result, all the property in the family was embezzled by bad people. Later, the new prefect passed through the tomb of the woman who died unjustly, and suddenly smelled a strange fragrance. He ordered people to open a museum to find that the body was not corrupt and emitted a strange fragrance. The prefect was very surprised and found out the injustice, took down the bad guys, and personally prepared wine, food, paper money to pay for the tomb, and erected the tombstone. After the grave was so injustice that the female tomb never emitted a strange fragrance again."
"Hahaha," Pang Xiaonan laughed out loud, "Old man, do you also like this kind of nonsense story?"
Totecchaski also laughed and said, "I just like boring stories. Isn't it more suitable for boring stories to pass boring time?"
"Teacher, shouldn't you go and read books with in-depth time when you are bored?" Oda Lima interjected in an inappropriate way.
"No, no, no," Totecchi immediately denied her, "Since they are all bored, why do you have to use your brain? Sometimes your brain needs to take a break. When you are in a high-speed operation for a long time, you will age quickly."
"Ah? Really?" Lima Oda held her face with her hands, "No wonder I feel a little haggard recently. Maybe I am too imaginative."
"People sometimes want to do nothing, what do you want to do so much?" Totecchasky pointed to the depths of the jungle, "It's like we came to this unknown and terrifying forest. Can you hide if you want to? The beasts won't stop eating you just because your brain is good, and the plan cannot keep up with the changes."
"Old man, you have a good understanding of life," Pang Xiaonan gave Totekchasky a thumbs up. He didn't expect to tell stories and finally talk about life philosophy. "I guess your daily life is also boring."
"It's so boring." Totecchaski sighed, "Every day, I teach, in my own school, others ask me to teach, and then there are academic institutions ask me to talk, and some TV shows are also talked about. But if I don't talk, it's boring. In short, people live a very boring life."
"Since you're so boring, then you won't go..." Pang Xiaonan almost subconsciously accepted a bad sentence.
"I won't die, right?" Totecchasky took it without any mind. "I thought about whether I should leave this world early, but I don't seem to have reason to leave, without worrying about food and clothing, fame and fortune, and my children have grown up, and I can still use some remaining energy every day. You said if I go to another world, will I have such a good situation? Maybe I'll beggar, so I'll think about it and live."
"Well, as the saying goes, it's better to live than to die," Pang Xiaonan felt that Totecchaski was really insightful and worthy of being a representative of scientists. "I heard what you said today, it turns out that this is the truth. The fear of the unknown world is not as cruel as the real world is memorable."
"What a cruel thing, I'm so terrible." Totec Chasky didn't give Pang Xiaonan any face. "I'm not like you, living a life of licking blood on the tip of a knife and hanging my head on my waist. But you, I don't understand. How do you do this kind of business at such a young age? Isn't this tired of working?"
"Hehe," Pang Xiaonan scratched his head, but he didn't dare to say that he had lived a few times. He was tired of living. "Old man, everyone has a different understanding. Look at you, doing academic research is your hobby and your specialty, but fighting and killing is my hobby. Look at me, you can kill someone and play with it. How exciting, and you have money to take it. Are you more excited than you?"
After saying that, Pang Xiaonan shook his eyebrows at Totec Chasky, and he was just to make fun of him.
Totecchasky frowned and said, "You little brat, you treat killing as a pleasure. Sooner or later, you will get retribution."
"Haha, old man, you are doing research. Do you still believe that killing will be retribution?" Pang Xiaonan hugged Totecchasky's shoulder without hesitation. Totecchasky wanted to break free, but Pang Xiaonan's hand Kong Wu was powerful, "Then let me ask you, you are a marine biologist, will there be retribution for killing creatures in the sea? Oh, because marine creatures are not humans, kill them, right? I believe you must have killed creatures in the sea. If you do research, how can you not catch some samples?"
Pang Xiaonan's words are correct. Totec Chasky has studied thousands of organisms, and which one does not have one or two specimens? Totec Chasky remained silent and finally refuted: "I am for work needs and for humans to better understand the ocean world."
"So you will kill marine creatures unscrupulously. In your eyes, marine creatures are not as precious as humans." Pang Xiaonan twisted his neck, "But in the eyes of marine creatures, humans are nothing. Don't forget that we were in the Bros Disc Sea, but we were ruthlessly attacked by them."
Totecchasky had nothing to say. It was indeed as Pang Xiaonan said that everything has life and there is no distinction between high and low.
"What are you doing, Pang Xiaonan." Lima Oda saw the smell of gunpowder between Pang Xiaonan and Totecchasky, and touched Pang Xiaonan's waist with her elbow.
Pang Xiaonan let go of Totekchasky's shoulder and smiled again: "So, if people kill people, then people kill animals will also be retribution. We are all right. Besides, you have to know that you think I am ruthless, but without me, you all have been buried at the bottom of the sea before. Tell me, shouldn't I save you?"
The scene of Pang Xiaonan fighting with the ocean monster was deeply imprinted in the minds of every member of the scientific expedition team. He was the hero in everyone's mind. If it weren't for him, it would be possible that all the crew members of the "Bloss Flower" would be buried at the bottom of the sea. Therefore, no matter how hard Totecchasky argued, he could not deny that Pang Xiaonan was wrong in taking action.
"Haha, young man, your sophistry is pretty good, I like it!" Totecchaski pointed at Pang Xiaonan, his face full of smiles. He hadn't argued like this for a long time. "You said it well. Whether it's killing people or anything, even if it's a plant, there will be retribution. Therefore, what we should worry about now is to live well every day, regardless of his retribution."
"Teacher, don't be as good as him, he's a scoundrel." Lima Oda heard Pang Xiaonan and Totecchasky's debate on the side. Although she thought Pang Xiaonan's words were reasonable, she had to speak for her mentor if it was reasonable.
"It's good to be a scoundrel. Only a scoundrel can live for a hundred years, hahaha." Totecchaski completely fell in love with Pang Xiaonan and his character of aspiring and revenge.
"I think you will live a hundred years old." Pang Xiaonan took over the conversation.
"You are calling me a scoundrel." Although Totecchaski was old, his brain was not old and he quickly understood what Pang Xiaonan meant, "That's right, I will learn from you to be a scoundrel in the future."
"Teacher, don't learn bad things from him." Lima Oda was surprised. The two people who were still tense just now became two rogues who appreciated each other in a blink of an eye.
"Hey, men are not bad, women don't love them anymore." Totecchasky teased his apprentice again.
"Teacher..." Lima Xiaotian's face turned red, she glanced at Pang Xiaonan, and saw Pang Xiaonan looking at him with a smile.
"Lima Oda, you see that you have been a master for so long, and I have nothing to teach you, but," Totecchaski finally wanted to give some information to his beloved disciple, "I will teach you a way to slow you down your aging."
"Teacher, you didn't lie to me, is there such a good way?" Women are most afraid of aging, and even goddesses in the scientific world are no exception.
"This method is called the three-hour working method." Totecchaski made three fingers and looked at Lima Oda.
"Three-hour working method, what is the three-hour working method?" Oda Lima tilted her head and listened to Totekchasky's teachings.
"As the name suggests, the three-hour working method is to only work for three hours a day." Totecchasky walked leisurely in the primitive jungle with his hands behind his back.
"I get up at about seven o'clock every morning, and spend more than an hour reading in the bedroom, eating breakfast, smoking a pipe while reading newspapers. After washing, I go to the rooftop study room at nine o'clock and stay alone until twelve thirty noon. After work, I will go downstairs to have lunch, drink and chat with the guests. After taking a nap, I will start chatting with afternoon tea; then exercise with my friends, tennis, golf, swimming, etc.; after dinner, I will take my beloved Chinese pastoral dog for a walk; when I come back, smoke a cigar for a while, and then play a game of bridge with the guests for one or two games; go to bed at eleven o'clock to ensure a good working condition the next day. Working for three hours a day is not too much or too little, I set this rule for myself and strictly implement it. Even if I leave home and travel around other places, it is still an unstoppable output time from 9 o'clock to twelve o'clock every morning."
Totecchasky picked another wild flower on the roadside and placed it next to his nose and sniffed it.
Pang Xiaonan also picked a flower and placed it next to his nose. A fragrance penetrated into his heart, "Old man, your three-hour working method is to succeed after you become famous. How dare you be so arrogant before you become famous?"
Totecchasky put down the flowers, smiled slightly, and said, "Young man, I achieved success decades ago, but the three-hour work method has been done since I just became a university professor. I found that this method has at least three benefits, 1 is the ratio of input to output. Input is the main factor, and the output only accounts for three hours a day. It is very necessary to obtain input resources and information extensively. In other words, most of the knowledge I have obtained can be released in a very short time, in other words, it is called accumulation of strength, so
Only when I have high output and high output quality, 2 is the control of entertainment initiative. This daily schedule conforms to my biological clock habits, the types and time of entertainment, and is also arranged and selected by me, not letting it indulge or be influenced by others. 3 is to ensure output every day, focus on writing for three hours, and do not allow anything to be disturbed in the study. Even if the laboratory catches fire, it will not affect me. I am not a firefighter, and it is useless for me to worry about firefighting."
"It makes sense," Pang Xiaonan nodded, "How did you discover this rule?"
"I used to work day and night like many people who are determined to engage in scientific research, but then I found out," Totec Chasky moved his shoulders. "My health is getting worse and worse, but my scientific research progress is stagnant. I am busy every day, but it reflects my shortcomings such as having no plans, not clear enough goals, and doing too many meaningless things. So I reflected on it. It is the busyness of every day that covers up the fact that I am stupid. I am not busy, but mediocre. Most people in the world are like this. I run around every day but don't know what my life is, so I adjusted my state in time."
Totecchasky put the flower in his hand in front of his nose and took a deep breath, "Since my state was adjusted to the three-hour working method, I felt much more relaxed. From then on, I felt refreshed and scientific research results followed one after another. This is the most correct decision I have made in my life."
"No wonder at that time, you were not seen every morning." Lima Oda recalled the days she studied under Totec Chasky. She studied alone every morning and could not see Totec Chasky's shadow.
"Yes, I started working for three hours at that time," Totecchaski smiled and looked at Lima Oda. "No one of you can see me in the morning because it is my private time, and no one can disturb me, but after the morning, I am free, I relax, and I can happily guide you or do something else."
"Is this what you said to keep your youth forever, teacher?" This is the first time Oda Lima has heard that there is such a maintenance method. It does not require any cosmetics or medicines. It can prevent aging by reducing working hours.
"Why, you don't believe it yet, look at me," Totecchasky bent his right arm, "Do you think I'm not strong enough? Do you think I'm dragging you down? Do you think I'm overestimating my ability to participate in this deadly expedition?"
"Okay, old man, I believe you," Pang Xiaonan smiled and pressed Totekchasky's arm, and couldn't bear to see his withered muscles. "You are a good person, better than many young people."
While speaking, a man suddenly fell down without any prelude in the team.
It was Bridgemorgan's assistant, "Red Rolls, what's wrong with you?" Bridgemorgan squatted down and eagerly helped the assistant's upper body up.
"Boss, I'm weak all over, I feel chills, so cold..." Hong Luoss responded weakly when he had a fight between teeth.
"What's wrong?" Booktonlin found out the abnormality of the team behind and arrived at the scene in time.
"Major, my assistant may be sick, maybe he has a cold, his hands are cold." Bridgemorgen held the assistant's palm and felt a chill that invaded the bones.
"Nandegler!" Booktonlin shouted to the back of the team. "Nandegler, come here!"
Soon, Nandegrad appeared in front of Booktonlin.
To be continued...