Chapter 307 Her God
After the conversation with Yiyuan, Zheng Xun went to wash up, change clothes, and return to his room.
He was the only one in the room. He hadn't lived here for a while, but it was still as clean as new.
It should be because Yiyuan cleaned it frequently.
Zheng Xun threw his slippers on the ground with a clatter, turned over and sank into the quilt.
He raised his arms high, holding a book in his hands.
——"Postpartum Care for Horse Monkeys"
No matter how many times he read it, the title of this book is still outrageous.
The book was published in the same year that Ying Siming died.
As the last work in his life, this book seems a bit sloppy.
It neither summarizes Ying Siming's life nor has anything to do with her previous research field.
Zheng Xun remembered that Ying Siming's major in her student days was physics.
Now it suddenly became veterinary medicine.
...Isn't the career change a bit outrageous?
Zheng Xun flipped through the book casually. It was not very thick, more than a hundred pages.
He returned to the first page, the first paragraph.
...
I was so sleepy that Zheng Xun almost fell asleep after reading the first sentence.
After sleeping for a while, it was dawn.
Zheng Xun got up in a daze. He didn't feel anything yesterday, but today he felt sore all over. Every time he moved, he felt like he was hitting himself.
He almost bit the floor when he got out of bed.
Zheng Xun sat on the floor, confused for a while, and then slowly got up.
He didn't plan to go anywhere in the morning, so he just rested in the mansion.
By the way, he took a look at the strange book written by Ying Siming.
Yiyuan had prepared breakfast long ago. Nanqiang was not there. It seemed that her habit was to hide during the day and go out at night.
After breakfast, Zheng Xun talked to Yiyuan for a few words and went back to his room.
He accidentally stuffed the book into the quilt last night.
There was a lazy sofa in the room. Zheng Xun lay in it and opened the book.
He must not fall asleep this time.
...
An hour later, Zheng Xun found that this was too difficult.
It's better to let him download a few copies.
This book is not a rigorous academic monograph, but rather similar to a popular science book. The first chapter talks about the morphological characteristics of the horse monkey, the second chapter talks about the living habits, and the third chapter talks about the reproduction method... It really teaches everyone about the horse monkey in an orderly manner.
There are many illustrations in the book, which take up a lot of space and compress the text to be smaller.
It looks like a hundred pages, but the content is not much.
Zheng Xun read the book over and over again. The image of the horse monkey family has been deeply imprinted in his mind, but there is no progress in the clues.
I have been studying for too long and need to replenish my energy.
Zheng Xun plans to go out for food.
As soon as he opened the door, Yiyuan happened to be standing outside the door, with his right hand raised, preparing to knock on the door.
"Yiyuan?"
Yiyuan responded.
"I saw that you have locked yourself in the room for a long time, so I brought you some food."
Yiyuan handed him the tray.
Zheng Xun took it, and it was full of snacks, desserts, fruit plates, and Yiyuan's own drinks.
"Thank you, I'm just hungry."
"How's the progress?"
Even if Zheng Xun didn't tell Yiyuan what he was doing in the room, Yiyuan seemed to know all his little moves.
"It's not going well. That book looks useless."
"It's not that it's useless," Yiyuan said slowly, "It's just that you haven't found the right way to read."
"Reading method? Aren't all books like that? Read with your eyes."
Yiyuan laughed and didn't continue.
His warm reminder only went so far.
After Yiyuan bowed slightly and left, and the door was closed again, Zheng Xun was still thinking about what Yiyuan meant.
"What did I do wrong? Do you want me to tear the book apart... or physically digest it?"
If he was left alone to think, he would think more and more biased.
Zheng Xun returned to the lazy sofa with a cookie in his mouth.
He spread the book and held it in his arms, still thinking about the "reading method" Yiyuan said.
The crumbs of the cookie accidentally fell on the book, staining it with a small oil stain.
Zheng Xun tried to rub it with his hands. Well, it seems that the area of the stain is larger.
Coincidentally, the two words that were contaminated were "horse monkey".
Zheng Xun pressed his fingertips on it, and when he was about to move away, he glanced at the words next to it.
This glance directly changed his fate.
"When you start observing horse monkeys, you will interfere with horse monkeys."
The first "horse monkey" was stained by oil, and this half of the sentence became "When you start observing".
Zheng Xun extended his right thumb to cover the two words "horse monkey" in the second half of the sentence.
"When you start observing, you will interfere with."
There is a flaw, and then cover the word "to".
This time, it is a complete sentence.
——When you start observing, interference will occur.
What does it mean?
This sentence is at the end of the first paragraph of the book.
The beginning of the whole book is often presented to the readers after repeated consideration and choice by the author.
Its importance is self-evident.
Ying Siming put this confusing sentence in the first paragraph, which must be to attract people's attention.
This sentence reminds people of a series of experiments Ying Siming did before. She was observing, and the results she observed seemed to be beyond her tolerance, so she went to a dead end.
...Is this how it should be understood?
With the foreshadowing in the front, the decoding of the following content is quite smooth.
Zheng Xun used a pencil to cover up all the "horse monkeys", read through it twice, and slightly modified all the incoherent parts.
Not all words and sentences are useful. In order to cover up the truly useful content, Ying Siming really introduced a lot of knowledge about horse monkeys. Of course, these are also to be deleted.
Until the whole book is revised in this way.
This time he read very carefully, reading the content while revising it, and two hours later, he read the last page.
The back of the book was facing up again. Zheng Xun finished flipping through the whole book and couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.
He thought of something and immediately took out his mobile phone to search.
After the book was first published, it was never reprinted and became an out-of-print book.
There is no electronic version, and no one can find second-hand sellers on the Internet.
It seems that someone was afraid that the real content on it would be discovered and deliberately destroyed it.
If it weren't for the reward given by the copy, Zheng Xun might not have been able to get it.
Ying Siming wrote this book at the cost of her life.
It also shows that she was not crazy before her death. She was always a sober and rational researcher Ying.
As for this book that embodies all her efforts, all the contents on it revolve around the world that Zheng Xun is currently in.
According to Ying Siming's own account, she was communicating with her "god" in the last moments of her life.