Chapter 277: The Price of Being Late

Luo Ning and Alice were having lunch with their backs to the door, and Ma Shuo sneaked in through the door.

"Coming back?"

Luo Ning swallowed a mouthful of bread and greeted in a voice that was not salty or light.

Ma Shuo, who was already a little weak-hearted, immediately stopped, turned around slowly like a puppet, and nodded with his eyes dodging: "Master, Ms. Riddle, good afternoon." ”

Alice nodded in response, but Luo Ning wiped her mouth and got up and approached Ma Shuo, condescendingly looking at him.

His eyes were calm and unwavering, without any emotional fluctuations, as if he was looking at not a person, but a cloud of air.

It wasn't until Ma Shuo had completely lowered his head that Luo Ning asked, "Set a rule for you in the future, you have your own things to do, but you can't delay my business because of this!"

Ma Shuo nodded heavily when he heard this, and responded with shame.

Luo Ning let out a light "um", turned to go upstairs and added: "Men are talking, Alice, today you come to teach Xiaobai to know the potions commonly used by living people!"

As soon as the words fell, the person had disappeared around the corner of the second floor. Alice softly beckoned to Ma Shuo: "Let's eat first, Xiaobai." ”

Ma Shuo came to the table with a slight bow, and his stomach was full in three minutes. Wiping her mouth and looking at Alice, who was surprised, "Let's go, Miss Riddle, because I wasted the morning, let's hurry as quickly as I can in the afternoon." ”

Alice nodded slightly, making a gesture of please, and walked first towards the double door at the bottom of the stairs.

Ma Shuo followed, his mind thinking about what he had seen this morning.

At the headwind on the east side of the dock security team, Ma Shuo hid in an alley after delivering the letter of questioning, a hundred meters away from Sophia's detention place, and waited intently at the wooden door.

How much of a letter of question can it make? Ma Shuo didn't have any bottom in his heart. But it's nothing more than two situations, attention-grabbing or not being noticeable.

Fortunately, the identity of the "Tomato Knight" was quite effective, although it did not lead the other party to divide his troops, giving him the opportunity to rescue Sophia directly, but it also made the other party send someone for help in a hurry.

It's just that at the last moment, when Sophia was taken away by the dock security team, the figure wearing the captain's uniform next to him made his heart ache violently.

Ding San! Sure enough, it's you!

The remaining two squads are self-evident, and ninety percent may be Wang Fang and Du Datong.

Ma Shuo, who was following Alice, unconsciously smiled wryly when he thought of this. If Old Man Liu knew about this situation, how would he feel in his heart?

"What's the matter, Xiaobai?" Alice said in greeting, pulling Ma Shuo out of the memory. Smiled and shook his head: "It's nothing, I thought of some unpleasant past." ”

Looking around, surrounded by all kinds of fresh plants and dried specimens, he took the initiative to divert the topic about him and said: "My business is not important, time is more urgent, let's start!"

Alice was not good at communication in the first place, although she was a little curious about the reason for Ma Shuo's wry smile, but since Ma Shuo didn't want to mention it, she could only nod her head in agreement.

Raising his hand to signal for a week, Ma Shuo followed Alice's hand to look around again, only to find that this huge space with an area of nearly 1,000 square meters had almost no walls on three sides.

All have floor-to-ceiling windows that go down to the ground level.

Except for the twelve load-bearing columns, there are hardly any shading objects here.

Ma Shuo immediately looked back at the door, where there was an indoor corridor five or six meters long. At this width, the morgue should be located behind the south wall.

He looked at Alice again, causing her cheeks to flush, but then she coughed lightly to hide it. His face suddenly became serious, as if he had changed someone, and he gave a clear and accurate introduction to the environment here.

Where is the shyness just now, which made Ma Shuo sigh in his heart: This heart-eating girl is very special, and her work and daily life are like two people.

Alice gave a brief introduction, and Ma Shuo listened carefully and pondered.

It turned out that there were hundreds of plants planted in this space, as well as dozens of mineral specimens, which were only 30% of all common basic medicines.

The remaining seven CDs are underground, and the entrance is at the easternmost end of the room.

When Alice opened the wooden door on the third floor of the basement, a damp cold wind blew in her face. Alice immediately closed the wooden door and explained, "You don't have to go underground today, because everything there is highly poisonous and corpse medicine." ”

Then he lowered his head and recalled for a moment before continuing: "There are a total of 159 species of plants and 47 minerals to know on the ground. It's difficult!"

Ma Shuo was also taken aback when he heard this number, and while helping to close the last door, he scanned his surroundings again.

The approximate amount that Alice introduced just now doesn't sound too much. But now after counting accurately, Ma Shuo suddenly felt a huge pressure in his heart.

When he came into contact with Greenland last year, he was deeply touched by the nuances of plant species.

It is possible that just two or three branches of the leaf vein pattern represent two completely different plant species.

Taking a deep breath and nodding heavily, he finally knew why Shi Niang was so atmospheric. Under normal circumstances, it would be nice to be able to remember all the names in a day.

And now he is about to reach the level of "understanding", is Luo Ning's expectations for him too high?

No.

After all, it only took half a day to master the amount of learning that others learned in a week or even two weeks.

Again, they only need visual memory and brain memory, and they don't need to understand, analyze, and deepen innovation.

In Luo Ning's eyes, Ma Shuo's instantaneous memory is very strong. She has surpassed most of her previous students, reaching an extraordinary level.

That's why I arranged such a seemingly extreme task, just to explore the bottom of Ma Shuo. Of course, if she can stimulate a stronger memory, it will be extremely beneficial for her and Ma Shuo.

The limit she estimated was 10-12 hours a day, excluding eating and drinking. But Ma Shuo didn't come back until noon, and he shortened the time by more than 3 percent.

For a research-oriented scholar like Luo Ning, variables and failures are commonplace, but that doesn't mean she doesn't strive for perfection.

Especially Ma Shuo's completely unpredictable behavior variables today, how can she not be angry in her heart?

But Ma Shuo is a human being after all, with his own thoughts and behaviors. Even if you do experiments, you have to take the risk of failure, let alone a child with a heart?

But just like Luo Ning said to Ma Shuo yesterday: "I don't want to worry about your business, but don't delay my business." ”

Since he promised her in person, whether the time is tight or generous is not up to Luo Ning alone. If Ma Shuo can't learn the skills well for this reason, the responsibility will only be borne by himself.

Trying his best to suppress his fear of studying next, Ma Shuo tried his best to calm himself down. How far we can learn is completely unknown.

But if he doesn't give it a try, who knows if he'll succeed?

Thinking of this, Ma Shuo took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, looking at Alice's eyes full of tranquility: "Miss Riddle, let's not waste time, let's start officially!"

Alice and Ma Shuo looked at each other, and there was no other emotion except firmness in their eyes, and their hearts were extremely shocked.

It took her two weeks to master these at the beginning, but today the principal only gave Ma Shuo one day, and even because Ma Shuo was not there in the morning, even before going to bed, it was only half a day.

Alice nodded absentmindedly, but a great question arose in her head.

Can he really do it? Or rather, how much can he remember?