Lord of Mysteries 2: Circle of Inevitability

As Lumianʼs gaze moved, he noticed several mushrooms with brown caps and white stems growing where the wall met the floor. They looked fresh and plump, as if they had just been transplanted from a rain-soaked forest.

Bang! Lumian knocked on the iron door, and Grimm yielded the window position to him.

Hearing the knock, the figure stood up and dashed to the door, revealing a face with thick facial hair. It was indeed Li Keji, the biology teacher from Star Tutoring Classes, and the ”Legendary Druid” Frank Lee in reality.

Lumian could see that Mr. Foolʼs dream subconscious had localized the character of Li Keji to some extent, not setting him as a foreigner. Thus, his eyes were deep brown, and his facial features were softer.

”Finally, someoneʼs here!” Li Keji said excitedly. ”Go tell your dean and department head that I donʼt have mental problems. Itʼs just that many people canʼt accept my ideas.”

His eyes were pure and passionate.

I can only accept them to a limited extent… Lumian, who had read ”The Great Adventurer 6: Future”, muttered silently before asking seriously, ”What are your ideas?”

Li Keji was eager to share. ”For humans, the most important thing is food. There are still many people in this world suffering from hunger.

”To solve this problem, we need some new plants that meet the following conditions:

”First, theyʼre not picky about the environment. Second, they donʼt need meticulous care. Third, they have a high annual yield. Fourth, preferably they can be harvested frequently. Fifth, theyʼre nutritionally rich and can meet all human needs…

”I found that mushrooms meet most of my requirements, but theyʼre not enough. They have insufficient yield, monotonous nutrition, narrow taste range, and so on!

”Iʼve been thinking about how to make different types of mushrooms that have different tastes, different nutritional profiles, and different characteristics. For example, ones that are pest-resistant, disease-resistant, can grow and reproduce on their own, taste like beef, produce milk when bitten, and have flesh as delicate as fish…”

Hearing this, Lumianʼs eyelid twitched.

Some of these new varieties sound very similar to those mushrooms from the New City of Silver…

Could they all be Frank Leeʼs inventions?

Have I eaten new mushrooms created by Frank Lee?

No wonder I felt something was off at the time…

Lumian glanced at Grimm before saying to the talkative Li Keji, ”I can accept your explanation and your ideas.”

”See? Those people donʼt understand science, they even called the police to arrest me!” Li Kejiʼs eyes brightened. ”Iʼve been thinking for a long time, and finally came up with a way to realize my ideas.”

”What is it?” Lumian raised an eyebrow.

Li Keji said excitedly, ”Genetic modification technology!”

For a moment, both Lumian and Grimm fell silent.

After several seconds, Lumian finally grumbled to himself, ”So you transplanted all of a cowʼs genes into a mushroom?”

Li Keji continued, ”My research is progressing steadily, and I already have mature samples.

”Yes, they still have various problems, but that doesnʼt negate their epoch-making significance.

”Those mushrooms just happen to moo, or eat grass, or swim, or run, or drink their own milk. These arenʼt big problems! Yet they think Iʼm crazy, that Iʼm endangering public safety!”

I think so too… Lumian was momentarily speechless.

”…”

Grimm was shocked. After a few seconds, he remembered something. ”Did you give some dried mushrooms to…”

He stopped abruptly, not finishing the question.

At that time, monitoring Zhou Mingruiʼs workstation and having access to all surveillance cameras in the entire building, he had fully witnessed the mutation of those dried mushrooms, and knew their ultimate fate and the potential hidden dangers they had sown.

”I did give some to my colleagues at the tutoring center, but unfortunately there were too few to reward the students,” Li Keji said regretfully.

Lumian secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said to Li Keji, ”Geniuses are always lonely, misunderstood by others.”

”No, Iʼm not a genius. I just have an enthusiastic heart and the courage to put ideas into practice,” Li Keji said, not out of modesty but genuine belief.

”Either way, your original intention wasnʼt wrong,” Lumian could only say this.

He raised his right hand towards Li Keji.

Li Keji understood his intention and reached his own hand through the iron bars, giving him a high five.

”Iʼll report your situation, but I canʼt make the decision,” Lumian said sincerely.