Pleased to Start Over

End of the World: The Doctor 7.7

Pleasing Start-Over Chapter 85: Arc 7 Part 7

Author: 橘子

T/N: I forgot to thank people! Thank you Snowy Angel, McJohnston, Anon, and Yude! My brain just stopped and I completely forgot about the ko-fis!

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Qiao Chen was busier than before ever since he found the solution to the soldiers' bone spur growths. He immersed himself into lab work nearly every day and failed to return home. Long Ao would personally urge him to rest and eat when he was at the base. If Long Ao wasn't there, then the assistants would be the ones who reminded Qiao Chen for him. Unfortunately, Qiao Chen's assistants weren't as insistent as Long Ao. They couldn't be as persistent as him either. Therefore, Qiao Chen would often promise to take his break and quickly forget about it moments later.

It was nearly ten o'clock in the evening when Long Ao finally returned to the base. Once he realized that Qiao Chen hadn't eaten yet, he forcibly dragged Qiao Chen out of the lab to eat. Qiao Chen transferred some food from the plate to his bowl as he thought about the formula. The system calculated the formula required to create the cure, but it was still quite difficult to make this cure into a reality.

"Eat properly." Long Ao knocked on the table with his knuckles and said.

Qiao Chen came back to his senses. He looked up at Long Ao and then focused on finishing his meal.

On the way back to the dorm area, Qiao Chen remembered that someone mentioned something about the 03 Base joining the East One base in cooperation, so he asked, "I heard that the people from 03 Base are coming over. Is this true?"

"En. The commander is still considering whether or not we'll agree. Nothing's been set in stone yet." Long Ao asked, "Do you not want them to come over?"

"I don't really care. It doesn't matter if they're here or not to me." Qiao Chen smiled indifferently and then continued, "However, if they really do have aerospace incubators, then I would hope for them to come."

Qiao Chen's thought about it. 03 Base should be overseeing their own base in their own territory. If there was something important they had such as the aerospace incubator, then they should be running research on their own. However, what if they didn't know or have the capabilities to do it? This should mean that they needed to merge with a base that could. And since they had the equipment, then they should have a good enough condition to negotiate for cooperation instead of assimilation with the other bases.

Furthermore, they should have chosen to cooperate with the East One Base because it both was the strongest base in the country as well as having Dr. Lu in their research team. Dr. Lu was a very well known scientist throughout the country. His research progressed the quickest among all the other bases.

The aerospace incubator wasn't just a simple small box. The incubator alone was as big as a house with an area of roughly 40-50 square meters. It would take at least a dozen trucks to load the various controllers, databases, and operators for a move. The aerospace incubator would play a key role in helping progress the experimental stage of most, if not all, research projects. This should be the main reason why 03 Base wanted to visit the East One Base to negotiate for their demands and conditions.

Qiao Chen said, "I lived there for a period of time. If I wanted to describe the people from 03 Base, then I could only say one thing: birds of a feather flock together. It can't be helped there are bad people no matter where you go. There will also be good people too. 03 Base seems to be a magnet for the bad ones. The people there, especially the higher ups, are some of the worst black-hearted and white-eyed wolves around. However, I think that it's worth the risk to temporarily invite these wolves into our homes for the aerospace incubator."