o!" 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 me, you can’t afford that."
Lϋ Mingyi was stunned, and he waved at his staff member, 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 same as these..."
"Buy a few cats that look like them?" Wei Kang interrupted Lϋ 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 same? You can never buy them no matter how much money you have! "
"Really?" Lϋ Mingyi was surprised, and he re-examined these two cats that were ignored by him moments 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 her value; in fact, the values of all the people in this world could not match her value. Seeing that Fina was being praised so highly, Snowy Lionet felt so honored, and it straightened its chest proudly.
Lϋ 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 time Lϋ 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 extremely 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 merely a cat.
Wei Kang had known Lϋ Mingyi for a long time, and from the expression on his face, Wei Kang knew that Lϋ Mingyi wasn’t persuaded. "Mr. Lϋ, do you know what kind of cat this is?"
"I know nothing about cats." Lϋ 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 time. 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 time can be solved. Are they from ancient Egypt, or the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia, or somewhere else….?"
Zhang Zian was proud that his cat bore such significant meanings. But he was startled when hearing about gene extraction. This old man was thinking of using Fina for experiments! Though the reasons for experimenting sounded magnificent, he would never agree to use Fina for experiments.
On the other hand, Lϋ 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 media 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.
Chapter end
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