Wilderness Redemption Tour

Lin Yan and Arthur looked at each other. Even if Arthur didn't know that he was wandering around on a rainy day, especially on a rainy day with frequent lightning like now, the "static electric field" and "lightning rod" mentioned by Professor Dragic were enough to arouse his sense of crisis, not to mention Lin Yan, a modern young man who had received nine years of compulsory education since childhood and understood the relevant knowledge.

Professor Dragic didn't want them to help, he clearly wanted them to die.

"Uh...from your description, this seems to be very dangerous..." Lin Yan expressed his opinion tactfully.

"Dangerous? Oh, it is a little dangerous," Professor Dragic did not deny it and agreed with Lin Yan's statement. "But danger and opportunity coexist, don't they? I have tried this experiment several times myself. The most dangerous time was when lightning struck me five meters away. Even so, I tried it again and again without hesitation. This is the road of scientific exploration. How can you succeed without a spirit of sacrifice?"

Even after being fed with a lot of chicken soup, Lin Yan and Arthur still had no intention of going. Are you kidding me? You dare ask us to risk our lives without any benefit. Only a fool would do that.

Arthur returned the lightning rod and detector to Professor Dragic. "I'm sorry, I don't want to explore any science, nor do I have the spirit of sacrifice you mentioned."

Lin Yan followed Arthur and put the metal rod in his hand into his arms. "Actually, we don't really want to witness a miracle."

"Damn it! Since you are all so afraid of death, then I can go there myself! It's just one more step and a little more trouble." Seeing the guests' performance, Professor Dragic seemed a little exasperated.

Holding four lightning rods in one hand, he opened the side door he had just entered through, took a raincoat from the carriage and put it on, raised the detector, and walked into the rain without hesitation.

"Do you think he will come back safely?" Lin Yan was still thinking about working with him, so among the three of them he was the one who cared most about Professor Dragic's safety.

"He survived the previous experiments just fine, so there's no reason for him to be so unlucky this time." Sadie looked at the various strange props on the lab table curiously, hesitating whether to touch them.

Arthur casually picked up a pot lid-like object from the table, and said while playing with it, "I think he seems to be very familiar with this rhetoric. Could he have said this to other people?"

"Then we have to be careful." Sadie showed a vigilant look on her face. "Maybe he is an evil scientist, just like in the novels, living in a remote place, with all kinds of strange props placed in his house, and he specializes in tricking innocent passers-by into coming to his laboratory to conduct evil human experiments."

"...It's not that exaggerated. In my opinion, he is just a...scientist." Lin Yan felt ashamed of Sadie's rich imagination.

While the three were discussing whether Professor Dragic had brought them here for a conspiracy, they were curiously wandering among the various experimental tables, admiring all kinds of weird inventions whose uses were unknown.

As a modern person who has seen the world, Lin Yan does not know the purpose of most of the things in this laboratory. Even if all these things have been passed down to later generations, after many iterations, Lin Yan, an outsider, does not know what they originally looked like. If they were used, he could still distinguish one or two, but the key is that the three "country bumpkins" do not even know how to use these things.

"Cough! Cough cough..." As he watched, Arthur began to cough violently without any warning.

Although Arthur had coughed once or twice before, this time it was particularly severe. "Hey, are you okay?" Lin Yan asked with concern, and Sadie also cast a concerned look at him.

After Arthur finished coughing while holding his chest, he walked to the door and spat out, saying, "It's okay. Maybe it's because of the rain just now. I'm getting old, and I might follow in Hosea's footsteps."

Looking at his wet clothes, Lin Yan couldn't help but said, "Didn't you bring a change of clothes? Why don't you change into mine first? You'll get sick easily if you wear wet clothes like this."

Arthur took out a metal hip flask from his satchel and took a sip of wine, saying, "I know what you said. I have clothes here. I'll change now."

"Oh! I overestimated my body..." Arthur muttered softly in a voice that no one else could hear, then closed the door and walked towards his horse.

A few minutes later, the side door was pushed open again, and Arthur and Professor Dragic walked in one after another.

Arthur changed into dry clothes, and Professor Dragic returned to the laboratory safely, but Lin Yan found that his hairstyle had changed from short middle-parted hair to a hedgehog head.

Good thing Arthur and I didn't go, he almost got hit...

Professor Dragic's physical embarrassment could not conceal the joy in his heart. After placing the lightning rod himself and entering the laboratory again, he excitedly walked around several machines and fiddled with the equipment.

"Now I will prove to you that I am the second person in the world to create life after God." After debugging all the equipment, he turned off the power switches on these devices one by one.

"Just like... like this!" With these bold words, he confidently pulled down the last switch.

As the last switch fell, all the related machines made a short roar at the same time, and then stopped abruptly, and nothing happened.

"Is that it? Did we miss something?" Arthur, who had been craning his neck and waiting without blinking to watch the Tin Man's resurrection, turned to look at Professor Dragic.

Sensing something was wrong, Professor Dragic first knocked on the machine in front of him in confusion, then as if he had thought of something, he slapped his thigh and said, "Ah! It's that damn switch! You..." He wanted to ask Arthur or Lin Yanzhong to go out and debug the switches, but when he thought of the two people's "cowardly" behavior just now, he sighed and changed his words: "...Forget it, I'll go."

This time he didn't even bother to put on his raincoat. He pushed open the back door of the laboratory, trotted all the way in the rain to the wooden tower behind the laboratory, and then climbed up the ladder.

At this moment, a bolt of lightning hit the top of the tower squarely. With this bright light, Lin Yan and the other two were able to see the entire tower clearly.

At this time, Sadie pointed at the top of the tower and exclaimed: "Look! There is a large lightning rod on the top of this tower. It is the one that attracted the lightning."