Consumables and Lou Yu
Just as Lou Yu was halfway through his al, a child skipped over to his side.
"Big Brother Lou Yu! I'm on vacation. When are you going on vacation?"
Lou Yu put down the pickled mustard greens in his hand and smiled bitterly, rubbing the child's head. "Little Six, Big Brother isn't a student in school. I don't have winter or sumr vacations."
"But my mom and the others all have vacations..."
"Well... Auntie Xu's job is different from mine. I'm... considered a scientist. Scientists have to do scientific research, so we don't have vacations."
"Big Brother Lou Yu, teach . I want to be a scientist when I grow up too!" Little Six's eyes were bright. "I told my classmates and teachers at school that I know a big brother who's a scientist at the research institute, and they were all so envious!"
Lou Yu was stunned. Just as he was helplessly about to say sothing, a phone ringtone suddenly rang out.
"Hello, Dean?"
"Lou Yu, I have so good news. Your paper can be published in the 'Science News'! That's one of the most authoritative publications in the country...
But you know, all the articles published in the 'Science News' are 'solely authored,' aning only the first author's na can be listed... So this ti, I'll have to ask you to bear with it for a bit and temporarily remove your na.
But regardless, the fact that your paper can be published in the 'Science News' is already incredibly impressive. You are contributing to the progress of human civilization! Compared to the significance of the matter itself, a re title isn't that important.
Next ti. I'll definitely put your na on it next ti..."
Lou Yu was no longer in the mood to listen to whatever the Dean said next.
He silently hung up the phone, shoveled a few mouthfuls of pickled mustard greens into his mouth, and suddenly looked at Little Six beside him... For so reason, when Little Six saw Lou Yu's gaze, his heart trembled slightly.
"Little Six, does your family have any connections in academia?"
"Ah... My mom cooks at your research institute, does that count?"
"It doesn't." Lou Yu said slowly. "If you don't have connections, don't enter academia. Otherwise, no matter how talented you are, you'll just be a high-end consumable... This circle isn't as glamorous as you think, and this world has never been fair."
Little Six couldn't understand Lou Yu's words, and Lou Yu didn't say anything more. He silently finished the lunch on his plate, then got up and headed back to the lab.
Walking to the cafeteria entrance, he hesitated for a mont before taking out his phone and sending a ssage to the Dean:
— Understood, Dean.
Just as the Dean had said, surviving in academia required more than just the ability to write papers and conduct experints... He had navigated through it like this all these years. No matter how unwilling he was, he still had to swallow his pride...
Just like always.
Just as he was about to reach the entrance of his lab, his phone suddenly received a ssage.
Lou Yu initially thought it was from the Dean, but upon opening it, he saw the sender was Qi Muyun.
— Dr. Yang called you too, right? How are you getting to Shennongjia? If you're taking the high-speed rail, we could probably take the sa train?
Seeing this baffling ssage, Lou Yu was slightly stunned.
Qi Muyun was a friend he had t two years ago. He was also a scientist and lived in the sa city. However, since they had exchanged contact information last ti, they hadn't really chatted much and weren't familiar with each other at all.
Why would he suddenly send him a ssage? What was this about going to Shennongjia?
Did he send it to the wrong person?
Lou Yu didn't know anything about Shennongjia. His phone had been stolen a while ago, and he had just recovered his number a couple of days prior. During this ti, he had been peacefully conducting experints in the research institute and hadn't gone out at all.
After a mont of thought, Lou Yu didn't reply. He put his phone back in his pocket and pushed open the lab door.
But the next second, he froze in place...
Inside the empty lab sat a person.
Although Lou Yu had worked on many projects, he had absolutely no assistants to help him. For the past few years, he had been working here alone day and night conducting experints. No one else from the research institute would usually co here... Even the only key was in Lou Yu's own hands.
"Hello, is there sothing you need?" Lou Yu asked in confusion.
The person was wearing a loose black cloak, sitting at the experintal bench with his back to the door. His gaze swept over the familiar equipnt, the rustling branches outside the window, and the ticking clock on the wall, as if reminiscing about sothing...
Looking at his back, Lou Yu felt a vague sense of familiarity, but he couldn't rember where he had seen him before.
"Hello...?"
Lou Yu hesitantly stepped forward.
The figure in the black cloak slowly stood up from the seat. A gentle breeze blew into the lab from the window, and he pulled back the hood over his head.
It was a face almost identical to Lou Yu's.
"You..." Seeing this scene, Lou Yu was completely dumbfounded.
The next mont, six scarlet gems slowly surfaced on the person's forehead. He looked at the youth before him, whose eyes still held traces of greenness and cowardice, a hint of complexity flashing in his own eyes.
"Long ti no see, Lou Yu."
...
"Damn it..."
"Where exactly did that guy hide?"
High above the clouds, the Lord of Hanging Jade looked down at the city below, his eyes narrowing slightly.
Ever since leaving Shennongjia, he had been relentlessly hounding the Lord of Wuji. Fortunately, the Lord of Wuji didn't seem to want to fight him within the city, so he had been speeding along the equator, trying to shake off his pursuit.
They fought from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, tangling with each other all the way from Indonesia to Singapore. They had clashed at least seven or eight tis, but the immortal Lord of Wuji's combat power was truly astonishing. The Lord of Hanging Jade couldn't keep him pinned down each ti. Once the global nuclear war broke out, the Lord of Wuji turned around without hesitation and headed toward the holand.
The Lord of Hanging Jade didn't have the Philosopher's Stone, and his Spiritual Power was limited. Therefore, he couldn't maintain a lock on the Lord of Wuji's figure at all tis. Half an hour ago, he had lost track of him and could only roughly pinpoint his destination—sowhere within the city below.
"What exactly are you planning?" The Lord of Hanging Jade closed his eyes, carefully sensing the fluctuations of aura within the city.
Suddenly, he keenly caught a trace of an anomalous fluctuation.
The Lord of Hanging Jade snapped his eyes open, instantly locking onto a certain direction. His body transford into a streak of lightning and vanished into thin air.
By the ti he reappeared, he had already arrived in the airspace above a research institute.
"He's here!"
His speed was too fast, and since it was dayti, hardly anyone noticed his presence. He flashed to the entrance of a certain lab and forcefully pushed open the doors...
The aura fluctuation from just now had co from here.
But the next mont, he froze in place.
"This is..."
The Lord of Hanging Jade's pupils contracted in disbelief.
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