Chapter 524: Chapter 524: Abnormal By the time Luo Yanqing left, Kang Li had lain down on her bed for a beautiful sleep. When she opened her eyes again, she discovered the sky had darkened outside her window. She couldn’t help but lightly tap her forehead and chuckled to herself, "I sure can sleep!" But even so, Kang Li didn’t get up from her bed. After all, the dormitory was heated, and compared to wandering outside, the feeling of lying in this cozy bed was just too good. "Professor Luo should have got off work, right?" Muttering to herself, Kang Li picked up the wristwatch by her pillow, "Half past six; he’s been off work for half an hour. Why hasn’t he come back yet?" Just as Kang Li muttered about Luo Yanqing, at the laboratory, Luo Yanqing glanced at the time on his wristwatch without thinking and immediately instructed his team to finish for the day. "Don’t you think Group Leader Luo has been acting strange lately?" He Wei, while organizing the experimental data in his hands, quietly moved closer to Wen Siyuan and whispered. "I haven’t noticed." Wen Siyuan shook his head. "Normally, the earliest we finish work is half past seven, and if it’s late, ten o’clock or even later isn’t uncommon. But today, at only half past six, Group Leader Luo dismissed us already. To be honest, it’s like a red rain from the sky." As He Wei rambled on, he had no idea that the very Group Leader he was talking about had finished tidying up his workbench and was standing right behind him. "A red rain from the sky?" Luo Yanqing spoke abruptly, startling He Wei so much that he stiffened up in an instant. He slowly turned around and revealed a smile uglier than crying, "Group Leader..." "Does Teacher He wish to do some overtime, hm?" Luo Yanqing’s expression was indifferent. He raised an eyebrow and quietly watched He Wei. "Group Leader, I just go with the flow, yes, I’m following the crowd!" With that, He Wei slipped away as if greased, vanishing from Luo Yanqing’s sight in a blink. When Luo Yanqing’s tall and straight figure left the laboratory, He Wei popped back from wherever he had disappeared to. He nudged Wen Siyuan with his elbow, "What are you looking at? Group Leader has left already. If you have matters to discuss, just go to the dormitory later and find him." Wen Siyuan: "Comrade Kang probably hasn’t returned to the compound." "What did you say?" He Wei was taken aback and after a moment, his curiosity was piqued, "I say, Old Wen, are you hiding something from me? Tell me, what does your comment that Comrade Kang probably hasn’t returned to the compound mean?" Wen Siyuan didn’t answer; he simply said, "Think about it yourself." As he walked out of the laboratory, He Wei followed closely, "Could it be that Comrade Kang came to our institute today and hasn’t gone back?" "I think you’re the one who should be arranged by Group Leader Luo to do some extra overtime!" Such a grown man and yet so fond of gossip? Wen Siyuan’s brows furrowed slightly, casting a disdainful glance at He Wei. "Teacher Wen, you’re no fun at all. Are you just trying to say that I’m idle? But it’s after work hours now. A bit of gossip between us two just spices up our dull lives; what’s wrong with that?" As he spoke, a lightbulb went off in He Wei’s head: "I’ve got it!" Wen Siyuan: "..." He Wei: "Comrade Kang came to visit Group Leader Luo today at the institute and happened to run into you, and our Group Leader didn’t extend the overtime likely because Comrade Kang is still around..." As he spoke, he grew more excited, but Wen Siyuan cut him off abruptly, "Alright, enough. Why are you so invested in analyzing other people’s affairs?" He Wei: "..." Wen Siyuan: "Teacher He, we are adults; being too frivolous isn’t good." "I’ve learned my lesson; I was wrong. I shouldn’t always be keen on discussing these needless matters."