Chapter 241: Academic Significance
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The mont he recognized Zhang Zian, Wei Kang instinctively looked at the two cats beside Zhang Zian. His heartbeat suddenly beca extrely violent, and his fingers, which remained very still when producing specins, began to slightly tremble. He ignored the cat that was obviously a Linqing Chausie, but kept staring at the golden one, comparing it with modern Egyptian cats and the cats he had seen in ancient Egyptian murals.
It was real! He was very sure that he was looking at an original Egyptian cat that was believed to have gone extinct a long ti ago!
This cat’s size, fur, color, the fascinating lines in the shape of a scarab beetle on its forehead, and its squatting posture like it was looking down upon every creature from top of the world, made it very much the sa as an original Egyptian cat. This original Egyptian cat must have been worshipped by nurous people in the past, and it must had traveled through two or three thousand years to be in the present ti!
He didn’t care that others were looking at him surprisingly, and he threw away his deanor as a professor. He trotted towards the cat, and couldn’t wait to closely observe this living fossil of biological history.
Boom!
He just ran a few steps and crashed right into Zhang Zian.
“Professor Wei, long ti no see. I never expected that we would et here.” Zhang Zian greeted Wei Kang very politely, while using his body to block Fina. No matter how hard Wei Kang tried to get closer to Fina, he couldn’t pass Zhang Zian.
“Yes, long ti no see. Can we catch up later? I want to see your cat first.” Wei Kang’s mind was completely occupied by the original Egyptian cat.
“No, no, let’s talk first, because your friend wants to drive my cat out.” Zhang Zian pointed to L? Mingyi. Zhang Zian saw that Wei Kang and L? Mingyi had co out together, so he figured that the guest the staff mber ntioned earlier was Wei Kang.
“What? Drive the cat out? No way, absolutely not!” Wei Kang was so nervous and excited that the veins on his head beca visible.
“Excuse .” L? Mingyi was completely confused, and did not understand Professor Wei’s sudden gaffe, so he made a dry cough. “Professor Wei, what’s going on? You two know each other? Can you introduce this young man to ?”
L? Mingyi looked at Zhang Zian curiously and guessed the relationship between Professor Wei and this young man—it was unlikely they were teacher and student. From their interaction, it seed that Zhang Zian’s status was higher…
“My na is Zhang Zian, and I run a pet shop in Binhai City.” Zhang Zian introduced himself briefly.
“Oh. I am L? Mingyi, the boss here. Mr. Zhang, may I ask the purpose of your visit today?” said L? Mingyi. He glanced at Guo Dongyue, who was beside Zhang Zian, but Guo Dongyue did not intend to introduce himself.
“Your staff mber told you, we are here to buy birds.” Zhang Zian was still blocking Wei Kang, “But he said we can’t go in with our cats, and that we have to leave our cats outside.”
L? Mingyi apologized, “Mr. Zhang, I believe you know that cats eat birds. It’s in their nature. If you bring the cats inside and any accident occurs, you and I will both look bad and it will be hard to deal with the consequences. I guess your cats are rare and precious. How about this? I will ask my staff mber to look after them outside, and I assure you of their safety…”
L? Mingyi waved at the staff mber who had inford him about Zhang Zian. In his opinion, how expensive could a cat really be? At most, one cat would cost no more than tens of thousands of Yuan. And he had assigned a person to look after the cats, so nothing bad would happen. Considering that Zhang Zian was an acquaintance of Professor Wei, L? Mingyi generously offered this option, otherwise, he would have never made such an arrangent.
Wei Kang chid in first before Zhang Zian expressed his dissent.
“No!” Wei Kang shouted excitedly, waving his arms to strengthen his imposing manner, “The cats cannot be left outside! You will be held accountable if they are lost! Trust , you can’t afford that.”
L? Mingyi was stunned, and he waved at his staff mber, instructing him to stop. “Professor Wei, they are just two cats. Why do you care about them so much? If you want, I can buy you a few cats that look the sa as these…”
“Buy a few cats that look like them?” Wei Kang interrupted L? Mingyi. His chest rose and fell vigorously, and he roared almost hysterically, “Do you know how precious these cats are? Buy a few that look the sa? You can never buy them no matter how much money you have! ”
“Really?” L? Mingyi was surprised, and he re-examined these two cats that were ignored by him monts ago. He ran a bird breeding base, and was a bird enthusiast himself, so since birds and cats were incompatible, he did not like cats, and did not know the breeds of cats. He could see that the two cats in front of him were very beautiful, but he still couldn’t understand why Professor Wei treasured them so much.
“Yes!” Wei Kang replied loudly, “The values of all your birds together can’t compare with the value of this cat!” He pointed to Fina, “I’m not talking about price, I’m talking about value!”
Fina happily accepted Wei Kang’s appraisal. In Fina’s eyes, Wei Kang was stating the truth. The aggregated values of all the birds in the world could not rival with its value; in fact, the values of all the people in this world could not match its value. Seeing that Fina was being praised so highly, Snowy Lionet felt so honored, and it straightened its chest proudly.
L? Mingyi was dubious. He knew that Wei Kang was a square-toed person who never joked and would not expose his feelings easily. It was the first ti L? Mingyi saw Wei Kang lose his self-control. So, perceptually, he tended to believe Wei Kang’s words.
But rationally, he still held a skeptical attitude. Could a cat’s value really triumph the total value of the tens of thousands of birds he had here? Many of his birds here were extrely rare and precious, and he got them for very high prices through a variety of legitimate or illegitimate channels. No matter how precious the cat was, it was rely a cat.
Wei Kang had known L? Mingyi for a long ti, and from the expression on his face, Wei Kang knew that L? Mingyi wasn’t persuaded. “Mr. L?, do you know what kind of cat this is?”
“I know nothing about cats.” L? Mingyi answered frankly.
“Even if you know about cats, you would not recognize this one.” Wei Kang sighed, “This cat is an original Egyptian cat. In the academic community, the opinion is that it is a species that has been extinct for a long ti. Do you see its significance now? As long as its genes are extracted, and compared with the genes of modern house cats and stray cats, a major question—where house cats originate from—that has troubled the academic community for a long ti can be solved. Are they from ancient Egypt, or the Fertile Crescent of sopotamia, or sowhere else….?”
Zhang Zian was proud that his cat bore such significant anings. But he was startled when hearing about gene extraction. This old man was thinking of using Fina for experints! Though the reasons for experinting sounded magnificent, he would never agree to use Fina for experints.
On the other hand, L? Mingyi was stunned hearing Wei Kang’s solemn explanation. It didn’t seem like Wei Kang was lying. Was the cat really so precious? He decided to be cautious and believed Wei Kang’s word. Nowadays, the online dia tended to adopt sensational headlines in their reports to attract more readers. What if they made such a title as “Shocking! A Living Fossil with a Significance Comparable to the Peking Man’s Skull was Lost in Front of the Gate of a Bird Breeding Base”? He would be miserable and would not be able to defend himself if that really happened.
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