And wasn't the trip already happening, and he only stepped in for another professor? The way he brought it up last episode was quite suspicious – it seemed like he'd at the very least altered all the details to suit, even if a research trip might've been happening – and his explanation was basically "we're here to do archaeology" when both he and Teacher Zhang were from Bioengineering (or adjacent fields, of which archaeology is not one). We also don't see him drive a car, despite us seeing them swap drivers a lot, so I guess he doesn't have a driver's licence.
How Shen Wei knows when and where to appear is a very good question! I don't have a definitive answer either. Maybe he has limited mind-reading powers and can know when Chu Shuzhi is in excessive amounts of distress? *g*
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The way he brought it up last episode was quite suspicious – it seemed like he'd at the very least altered all the details to suit, even if a research trip might've been happening – and his explanation was basically "we're here to do archaeology" when both he and Teacher Zhang were from Bioengineering (or adjacent fields, of which archaeology is not one). We also don't see him drive a car, despite us seeing them swap drivers a lot, so I guess he doesn't have a driver's licence.
Maybe he has limited mind-reading powers and can know when Chu Shuzhi is in excessive amounts of distress? *g*