When Ye Mingyue and Chen Xing walked into Professor Ye's office, they found that he was already waiting on the reception sofa. In fact, when he was downstairs just now, Chen Xing had already felt Professor Ye's gaze with his heavenly eyes, and also felt the kind smile on his face, which had already indicated his attitude and calmed Chen Xing's worried heart a lot.

When Chen Xing sincerely proposed to Professor Ye that he hoped to become boyfriend and girlfriend with Ye Mingyue, Professor Ye smiled and looked at the two sitting side by side, and then said to Mingyue: "Girl, do you agree?"

Mingyue grabbed Chen Xing's hand, raised it to her father as if confirmed, nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Professor Ye snorted and continued to say to Chen Xing: "Mingyue is the only child in our family, I was not by her side when I was young, and I suffered a lot with her mother. Later, in order to accompany me, my mother and I returned to China to study in Kyoto, and our grades have always been excellent. Her mother and I are very busy at work and don't take much care of her, but this child has taken on a lot of housework since junior high school, which saves us a lot of worry, and now she has become my right-hand man at work.

It's not that I'm boasting, there are really not many girls like Mingyue who are smart and sensible, and have a strong sense of self-motivation. And her heart has always been very high, so many boys chased her during school, and she didn't look at her. But fate is really strange, far away from thousands of mountains and rivers, you actually met here, although it is not a long time, but I feel Mingyue's liking for you. Since she also agrees to associate with you, I will not object.

However, you are still very young, and I hope that you will get to know each other more deeply in the process of dating, after all, you are for the purpose of marriage, and you will live together for the rest of your life. Therefore, you must take each other seriously in your interactions and do not leave regrets for the future.

And now that you are all working, and your consideration of the problem is gradually becoming comprehensive and mature, I won't say much more. The last sentence, Xiao Chen, treat my daughter well, if you dare to bully her, see if I don't clean you up. ”

Chen Xing let out a sigh of relief, held Mingyue's hand tightly, and said solemnly to Professor Ye: "Don't worry, I will treat Mingyue well, and I will not let you down." ”

Professor Ye nodded, and then continued: "You are always at sea, I want you to do me a favor." He picked up a file bag from the side of the sofa, handed it to Chen Xing to open, and continued: "We have been studying a topic for the past few years, and the creatures in the photos were discovered by our country in the South China Sea 10 years ago, and they are the main research objects of this topic, because there is only one individual, and there are not enough experimental individuals during the study. Although we have been looking for the same creature, there has been no new discovery, so you should keep an eye out for it at sea, and if you find this creature, or something similar, I hope you will provide it to us, and the state will pay you accordingly. ”

After a pause, he still instructed: "Of course, this creature is extremely rare, and it still takes luck to get it, it is a real needle in a haystack for you, so you just keep an eye on it, but you must keep it secret, the state does not want to leak this research before the results are obtained." ”

Chen Xing opened the file bag and saw the multi-angle photo of the futon-shaped, gray shelled creature, as well as a series of text introductions that could be made public, and nodded solemnly. After looking at it carefully for a while, remembering the photos and words deeply in his mind, he returned the file bag to Professor Ye.

Professor Ye nodded again, admiring in his heart: "He is a child who understands the rules, is thoughtful and pays attention to details." ”

After saying goodbye to Mingyue and Professor Ye in the afternoon, Chen Xing took the round-the-island bus to downtown Victoria, and first went to the post office to call his mother. At that time, it was already 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and it was 8 o'clock in the evening at home, and I chatted with my mother about the trivial things that happened at home in the past month, and told some interesting things about the sea, and finally told my mother that he had a girlfriend in Seychelles, and briefly introduced the situation of Mingyue.

Mom was very happy to hear this, and hoped that if Chen Xing could really go home to visit relatives at the end of the year, she would definitely take Mingyue home to show her grandmother, in fact, she herself was the one who wanted to see her daughter-in-law the most. When talking on the phone, my mother turned on the speakerphone, and my father and grandmother were listening at the same time, Chen Xing asked my father and grandmother about their bodies, and I heard that the three old people were in a good mental state, and now there was no burden at home, and what the three of them were most looking forward to was Chen Xing's safety.

This is the longest phone call Chen Xing has talked to at home, a full 20 minutes of international calls, costing Seychelles rupees equivalent to 200 US dollars, who said that telecommunications companies are not the most profitable enterprises, telecommunications companies all over the world are so dark.

After leaving the post office, Chen Xing bought some fresh fruits in the free market: bananas, apples, star fruit, grapes, oranges, pears...... On board, fresh fruit is the most needed thing, and the crew is in great need of vitamins. After returning to the ship, he gave them to the Russian captain Vasily, his brother Ivan, the Taiwanese captain Lao Pan, and the little ghost, and he regarded these people as his real friends on the ship.

The next few days were the happiest days for Chen Xing and Mingyue. Since the laboratory is in its early stages, there is not a lot of work involving Ye Mingyue, and Professor Ye has also opened the back door to his precious daughter, so Chen Xing will come to pick up Mingyue every morning, and when Mingyue will simply handle the work in hand, the two of them will play around on Mahe Island.

On November 4, they went to the gymnasium to visit Coach Luo Guohui, and happily shared the joys, sorrows and sorrows of each other's lives with Han Dan and Tao Hua, and practiced mixed doubles. Chen Xing had to admit that Han Dan and Tao Hua really have badminton talent, with his current speed, strength and agility, these two children can barely keep up, and with the average level of Mingyue, the two pairs of young people are on a par, which makes the four young people very excited, after all, sports full of competition will increase interest, and young people who will not have a competitive heart.

With the permission of Coach Luo, the four young people visited the Mahe National Forest Park in the Seychelles together, they were all coming to this park for the first time, because of the scarcity of tourists, it maintains the most primitive and simple scenery, strange peaks and valleys, majestic and colorful. On the peaks of the cloud and fog barrier, the forest is sparse, verdant and transparent, thousands of vines, all over the sky, the scenery is quiet and gorgeous. Strange shores and rocks all over the seashore, hillsides, and highlands, some like sleeping lions, some like flower eagles, some like galloping horses, and some like cranes. What an ingenious natural sculpture field!

They picked wild star fruit, bananas and mangoes, tasting the natural taste of tropical fruits, and picked up ripe and fallen acacia beans under the acacia tree.

They saw 8 giant tortoises over 200 years old, the huge turtle body length is more than 1 meter, the carapace on the back is very large, thick and vicissitudes, the limbs are covered with scales, and the thick ones are really like elephant legs.

Each tortoise is said to weigh more than 200 kilograms, this is the world-famous protozoa of the Seychelles, the largest known dry turtle, it can be seen on the coat of arms of the Seychelles, and there are only two places on the earth where they can still be seen today, the other is in the Galapagos Islands in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and their history is said to be even earlier than humans.

Chen Xing observed the turtle with the eye of the sky, and was shocked to find that the turtle's cell growth, metabolism, and blood flow rate had reached a relatively reasonable balance, and the only creature with this perfect balance was the old turtle he found at sea.

Of course, his own balance is not in comparison, it is another level of physiological circulatory system.

At the same time, the blood filtered out of the tortoise's heart actually contained a substance as fine as the one filtered out of his own heavenly eye, although it was extremely rare, but it was real. What does this mean? Could it be that the longevity of the tortoise has something to do with the balance of this physiological system and the mysterious substances secreted by the heart? It seems that this creature is worth studying.

Mingyue, Han Dan, and Tao Hua all felt very strange when they saw Chen Xing staring straight at the tortoise, as if flowers had grown on the turtle's body, and they didn't see anything special.

Mingyue patted Chen Xing's shoulder and asked teasingly, "Brother Xingxing, what's wrong? Look at me, your eyes have never been so straight, and the object turtle fell in love at first sight?"

Chen Xing woke up from his contemplation and said to everyone apologetically: "Oh, no, I just heard that these tortoises are more than 200 years old, thinking of the ancient saying that has been circulated in Huaxia, the thousand-year-old king is eighty-thousand-year-old tortoises, do you say that if these tortoises live like this, can they really live for ten thousand years?"

Mingyue's heart was also moved when she heard these words, the ancient sayings handed down in China since ancient times have always had a source, even if they are exaggerated, they must have relative authenticity, are they really related to each other? This may be a new discovery.

After passing through a tortoise farm, a tea factory and the ruins of a monastery, the four young men reached the highest point in the Seychelles, at the top of the mountain at an altitude of 900 meters. Although the mountain roads are narrow and rugged along the way, the scenery is continuous along the way, and the good scenery is one after another. First of all, the abundant plants, the dense rainforest, then the misty mountain peaks, and the panoramic view of the sea and the sky, make everyone feel relaxed and happy, like in a dream.

At this time, standing on the top of the mountain, overlooking the entire Mahe Island, I feel open-minded, smooth, although the peak is less than a kilometer, but from the sea level rising from the ground, it looks extremely majestic, even with the young people standing on the commanding heights of this island are proud, Top Gun. They shouted loudly to the sea, and the voices of their youths were heard on the top of the mountain.

The moist sea breeze blows to the top of the mountain, gently brushing the cheeks of young people, like the hand of Mother Earth gently caressing her own child, at this moment, the perfect combination of man and nature, this picture, forever engraved in the hearts of young people.