Chapter 23: Exploration, Mysterious Laboratory
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The boy wearing a hat didn't stop, this time Gu Nuan called out his name."Chu Minghan, wait a minute!"Chu Minghan stopped in his tracks and turned to see Gu Nuan walking towards him, smiling with his white teeth showing."Teacher Gu, isn't today a weekend? Why are you here?""This should be my question. It's the weekend, why aren't you resting at home? What are you doing sneaking around the laboratory entrance?"Gu Nuan wanted to see through Chu Minghan's handsome face, but he wasn't as cunning as she imagined. He honestly told her."Teacher Gu, I actually wanted to see the human specimens.""You want to see human specimens? Have you seen them before? Aren't you afraid?"Chu Minghan was actually afraid too, but as a man, he would never show his weak side in front of a woman.He patted his chest and assured her, "Teacher Gu, I am a man. It's just human specimens, what am I afraid of?"
"Are you afraid of the first human anatomy lab tomorrow, afraid that you will be scared and faint on the spot, afraid of embarrassing yourself? Why not exercise your courage first?" Gu Nuan guessed Chu Minghan's thoughts, which made Chu Minghan look at Teacher Gu in a new light. He blinked his peach blossom eyes at Gu Nuan, clasped his hands together, and begged, "Teacher Gu, I am a good man who never lies, but I lied in front of your mother. I feel guilty and have nightmares all the time. Since you asked me to be your boyfriend and lie for you, can you make an exception and let me come in and see the lab?" Gu Nuan knew that Chu Minghan's words were half true and half false, but since she had asked him for a favor before, she owed him a favor. So she made an exception and opened the lab on the weekend for Chu Minghan to visit. Gu Nuan pushed open the door, turned on the lights in the lab, and it was bright and clean inside, not as dark and scary as Chu Minghan had imagined. He looked up and saw a human skeleton on the wall to his right. Although it was a white skeleton, it didn't look as terrifying under the bright lights. "Teacher Gu, I heard that human organ specimens are all soaked in formalin-filled glass containers. Where are they all placed?" "Over there..." Gu Nuan pointed to a row of covered glass containers on a table near the window. Inside were human organ specimens soaked in formalin. Chu Minghan wasn't afraid, on the contrary, he was very interested and walked to the table near the window to carefully examine each glass container and the human specimens inside.
"Are you really not afraid?""Not afraid, I find it very interesting!"Chu Minghan had looked at all the human specimens in these glass vessels, and turned to see three dissection tables in the center of the laboratory, all covered with a layer of white cloth.Gu Nuan walked to the leftmost dissection table, pinched a corner of the white cloth, and looked at Chu Minghan sideways: "Don't you want to see the corpses? Look!"Chu Minghan widened his eyes, but when Gu Nuan lifted the white cloth, he suddenly took a cold breath, pursed his lips, closed his eyes, and dared not look at the corpses on the dissection table.Gu Nuan couldn't help but laugh: "Open your eyes! There are no corpses in the laboratory yet. They will only be moved from the morgue in the basement tomorrow when you have class. Look at how small your courage is."He slowly opened his eyes and saw that the dissection table was indeed empty."Who said I was scared? I was... disappointed because I didn't see a complete human specimen, that's why I made that expression."Chu Minghan didn't admit that he was really scared just now, but even his voice was trembling now.Gu Nuan knew that it wouldn't be easy for students to see human specimens for the first time, they needed a gradual process of adaptation and easing of fear.
So she didn't insist on Chu Minghan being braver, and on the first day he faced these corpses.She thought about it, her lab class should be delayed for a few days, first explaining the human skeletal joints to her classmates in the lab, so they could get familiar with the environment. Then, on the second class, she would bring them into the atmosphere of anatomy and contact with corpses, so as to ease their tension and pressure."Chu Minghan, if you want to see the complete human specimens, I can take you to the basement.""No need, Teacher Gu! I suddenly have a headache today and don't want to see it!"Chu Minghan held his forehead and frowned, obviously not wanting to see the complete human specimens.Gu Nuan didn't force him either, after all, this was his first time dealing with anatomy. When he had been in the lab for a while, he would naturally become familiar with the environment and the tension would disappear."Since you don't want to see it, then you can leave!""I can't leave now, Teacher Gu. Can I ask for one thing? As long as you agree, I will do something for you, okay?"
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