Chapter 2 Reports from New Guinea (Part One)

  Heaving a sigh, Zhang Fan interrupted Professor Elans' words: "What does this have to do with you wanting me to protect Helena? And what's the deal with that new human?"

  Professor Yilan stopped his gloomy expression and said, "You know Helena is a researcher at LAOSHA Group, specializing in pharmacological research and new drug development."

  LAOSHA Group's Zhang Fan knew that it was a fairly powerful multinational group, operating various types of medicines. But what does Helena's safety have to do with the company? Although Zhang Fan could come up with a hundred guesses in his mind at this point, listening to Professor Ilans' narrative was the most real event. So Zhang Fan gestured for Professor Ilans to continue speaking, and he listened very seriously.

  "Helen came back two days ago and told me that the company is sending her to Papua New Guinea for research. You know, Papua New Guinea has savages and whatnot, I just don't get it, what kind of research requires going all the way to Papua New Guinea, and that little girl was even extremely excited about it, it really annoyed me."

  Zhang Fan rubbed his forehead. This old man, why is it that when he talks and chats, he's not as quick, accurate, and sharp as when he does research? He speaks for half a day without getting to the point.

  "What about afterwards? How did you know her research was related to the new human?" Zhang Fan continued to ask, if he didn't steer the conversation back on track, who knows where he would be led astray.

  Upon hearing Zhang Fan's question, Professor Yilans was surprised: "I didn't even tell you that Helena went to study the new human this time, how did you know? I only knew because I secretly took a look at the materials she brought back, where did you find out?"

  Zhang Fan buried his head in the sofa, unable to hold back his urge to burst out, "God, please clear this old man's mind!" After calming himself down, Zhang Fan lifted his face and said to Professor Elans: "Didn't you say it yourself? You started asking me if I knew about the new humans. Then you mentioned the research in New Guinea. Naturally, I thought Helena went to New Guinea for research. But what I don't understand is, since their company sent them on a research mission, why did you come to me to protect Helena's safety? Are they not going there to do research, but instead planning to catch two new humans to play with?"

  "It's very likely to be the case." Professor Yilans replied, his words left Zhang Fan stunned. What was originally just a joke had unexpectedly hit the nail on the head. New humans? What are new humans? This topic piqued Zhang Fan's interest, and anything that was novel, interesting, or thrilling was what he pursued.

  "I put a sleeping pill in Helena's milk, the dosage was light enough to make her just doze off for a bit and think she had only nodded off. At that moment, I secretly took a look at the materials Helena brought back. And it let me discover something strange, which is also what Helena and others were going to study - the new human."

  "New Humanity?" Zhang Fan became curious about these three words again. What kind of content was recorded in the data? And what exactly is this so-called "new humanity"?

  "Yes, new human, I was surprised when I saw the title of the material, just like you. What is a new human? Is it saying that apart from us, there are other races of humans called new humans? Or did someone discover another race living on Earth with us, which is the new human? But what does this have to do with Helena's work? It wasn't until I finished reading the material inside that I realized they had actually found evidence of a new species surviving in New Guinea, and they are the new humans."

  "This ethnic group is very different from ordinary people, for example, as mentioned in the report, their lifespan can reach around 300 years old, which is impossible in today's world. People can only delay cell aging to some extent, but it's not possible to live up to 300 years old. And those people have incredible physical strength, according to the records, they rarely use tools for hunting and construction, everything is done bare-handed. Bare-handed! Do you know what that means? Think about it, those people can uproot a tree with one hand or lift stones that are two or three times their own body weight with just one arm, isn't that terrifying?"

  "And what's more, they didn't have a written language, no words at all. Do you understand what I'm saying? The traces left behind by these new humans show that they used thought connections, or brain wave connections." Professor Yilans finally finished speaking, and his words had a huge impact on Zhang Fan.

  "Where did this news come from? How reliable is it?" Are there still people living in the human world like that? Zhang Fan was a bit unbelievable, but thinking about it, the world is so big and strange things happen, and his own superpowers can't be explained by common sense either. However, thinking again, many fake news on this earth have caused many people to busy themselves in vain, is this news really reliable?

  I saw the origin of the message on the materials I got from Helena, which was circulated among the indigenous people on the outskirts of a small island in New Guinea. The original owner of this material was a self-organized archaeological team, who ventured into the primeval forest of New Guinea, but only one person came out alive, and he didn't even make it out of the primeval forest, eventually dying in an indigenous tribe on the outskirts of the forest. And that's where the material was obtained from the hands of the indigenous people.

  "You mean Helena is also going to go deep into the primeval forest of New Guinea with those archaeological team members to study the new human?"

  "You guessed it, Helena's company is a very wealthy pharmaceutical company. For methods that can delay aging, they naturally won't let go. This time, they want Helena to go together, which means when they find the new humans, Helena wants me to be responsible for researching their longevity mechanism and developing new anti-aging drugs. Think about it, if this company owns such a drug, what kind of storm will it bring to humanity? And think again, in the Papua New Guinea jungle, those archaeological teams ended up with only one person surviving to leave a message to the indigenous tribe, Helena is just a girl, can I let her go to such a far and dangerous place?"