"Is he your boyfriend?" Watching Ji Liangchuan walk away, Shen Qiang directly asked.

The sexy and glamorous teacher Ju Yang bent her eyes into a smile and pondered for a moment before saying, "Not officially yet. When I was doing my master's, he was an undergraduate; when I did my Ph.D., he was a graduate student; now that I'm a lecturer, he's doing his Ph.D."

"We've known each other for a long time. I can feel that he cares about me a lot, and I really like him. But for some reason, our relationship always seems to be just a little off," Ju Yang, the beautiful teacher, said with a sigh of helplessness, "Do you understand what I'm saying?"

Shen Qiang laughed, "Higher than ordinary friendship, yet not reaching the point of lovers? Is that what you mean?"

"Yes," Ms. Ju Yang, the beautiful lecturer, sighed and said, "It feels like we've been in this state for a long time, and it just hasn't progressed."

"Ambiguous," Shen Qiang chuckled. "That's the accurate adjective for your relationship. However, if it's really like what you said, I feel that perhaps you know each other for too long, and it's quite possible that your relationship will stay like this in the future."

Upon hearing this, the beautiful teacher Ju Yang was startled, "How could that be? I think, once he finishes his Ph.D., he will definitely confess to me."

Shen Qiang laughed, "What does finishing a Ph.D. have to do with confessing? Maybe you don't truly understand him."

Ms. Ju Yang, the beautiful teacher, frowned, "I do understand him. I know he doesn't like any social activities other than basketball, he doesn't like any research groups outside of his coursework, he doesn't like being a teaching assistant, doesn't like coffee, hates fatty meat, and also…"

Looking at the very serious Ms. Ju Yang, she earnestly spoke of her understanding of him.

A smile appeared at the corners of Shen Qiang's mouth.

Women in love can be foolish.

Ji Liangchuan was a cultivator, and from what he said, it seemed his status in the Cultivation World was not low. His dislike for any social activities outside of basketball was because he essentially looked down on ordinary people.

His disinterest in research groups outside of his studies was possibly because he came from a family in the medical field.

This was not hard to understand.

Just like Shen Qiang, if someone dragged him into researching tuberculosis prevention, Shen Qiang would rather stay at home watching TV than go.

Because it would be meaningless.

"Let's talk about using Thermophilic Streptococcus for lactose intolerance treatment," Shen Qiang said with a smile. "Here, this is the sample of the strain. It's different from the ordinary Thermophilic Streptococcus; it's relatively stable and won't reproduce massively in the intestines."

Hearing this, the beautiful teacher's eyes lit up, "You've kept the sample all this time?"

Shen Qiang laughed. In Plague Source, there were now dozens of versions of Thermophilic Streptococcus with varying details. Whenever Shen Qiang needed it, he could simply release it.

"Here, I think you can start your research right now." He handed the vessel containing the strain to the beautiful teacher Ju Yang.

Her eyes immediately sparkled as she looked at Shen Qiang and exhaled coquettishly, "I suddenly feel a bit nervous. If it really works, you'll become a big shot because the incidence of lactose intolerance is higher among adults than in infants."

"Globally, apart from Swedes at 2%, white Australians at 4%, and white Americans at 12% experiencing lactose intolerance, the ratio for us Chinese is as high as 93%, and among the Indigenous peoples, it's even 100%."

"Besides, 98% of Thais, 85% of Australian Aboriginals..." looking at Shen Qiang, the beautiful teacher said, "If the bacteria are as stable as you say, your research is going to cause a sensation worldwide."

Watching the lovely and glamorous Ju Yang, Shen Qiang laughed.

"That might indeed be something to look forward to…"

Around noon, not yet 11 o'clock, the research Shen Qiang was doing with the beautiful teacher Ju Yang stopped.

Because in fact, there was nothing much to research. The beautiful teacher, Ju Yang, was merely testing the bacteria species, which had evolved through Plague Source, and the selected species were definitely resilient enough to withstand scrutiny.

So Shen Qiang didn't really do anything.

It was the beautiful teacher, Ju Yang, who was extremely excited about the test results of the bacteria species.

After all, for her, the evolved Thermophilic Streptococcus was an entirely new species, and there was still much to explore.

After leaving the lab, the two went off-campus and grabbed something simple to eat. The beautiful teacher, Ju Yang, even made a special call to Ji Liangchuan, asking if he wanted to join them for a meal.

He declined.

He just said that there was a game at noon and he hoped both Ju Yang and Shen Qiang could attend.

Shen Qiang didn't want to go, because through the phone, he had already sensed Ji Liangchuan's desire to show off on the basketball court.

But Ju Yang was excited and, naturally after eating, chatted with Shen Qiang about the Thermophilic Streptococcus while heading towards the basketball gym.

This left Shen Qiang feeling somewhat helpless.

But after thinking it over, he felt it didn't matter much; no matter what Ji Liangchuan was up to, after all, for the time being, Ju Yang was Shen Qiang's partner and some face had to be given to her, however little.

Besides, with Ji Liangchuan always acting so high and mighty in front of Shen Qiang, Shen Qiang also wanted to see what exactly made him so impressive.

Therefore, Shen Qiang didn't refuse and simply followed the beautiful teacher to the basketball gym.

Just as Shen Qiang had anticipated.

At this time of day, the basketball gym should have been almost empty.

However, upon arriving at the basketball gym, Shen Qiang was astonished to find that it was exceptionally crowded and the atmosphere seemed rather tense and confrontational.

On the south side of the court, with Ji Liangchuan leading, were five players wearing white jerseys.

At that moment, Ji Liangchuan, tall and well-built with fair skin and handsome features, was wearing a white basketball uniform with the number 9, a cold smile on his lips, looking both charismatic and arrogant, living up to the name of the school's heartthrob.

Confronting his team were five individuals in red jerseys.

With just one glance, Shen Qiang's brows furrowed.

Because by this time, Shen Qiang had entered the Golden Core Stage and could identify cultivators by sensing nature's spiritual energy.

Ji Liangchuan was a cultivator, with spiritual energy coiling around him, but the other four members of his team were merely ordinary people.

However, among the five people he was facing, two had spiritual energy wrapping around them.

The leader was probably over two meters tall, with very dark skin and a buzz cut, resembling an iron tower, and one of those with him was around one meter eighty, not particularly imposing, but one could still say he was muscular.

Shen Qiang looked at them in surprise, just when a man at the edge of the court angrily exclaimed,

"Fuck, our Medical University's basketball gym isn't a place for you guys from the polytechnic to strut around!"

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