Super God-Level Top Student

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Li Jian Gao pulled Qiao Ze into the room he had previously stayed in.

He had sensed something off about Xu Dajiang's tone over the phone, not to mention the bizarre things he had been saying.

After arriving at the research group, he had also noticed several students' reactions were quite strange, as if there were spies about.

He was eager to find out what exactly had happened to Qiao Ze today.

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Twenty minutes later, Li Jian Gao kind of knew what had happened, but was even more confused. Experience new tales on empire

"Two academicians from the Opto-mechanical Institute came to see you personally?"

"Yeah."

"And they plan to apply for the lithography project based on your paper?"

"Yeah."

Li Jian Gao fell silent.

He had only briefly scanned Qiao Ze's paper on the high-speed train.

After all, it wasn't his field of research, and even with detailed data, he couldn't make much sense of it.

He had only a rough understanding of Qiao Ze's ideas and even thought them a bit fanciful.

But hearing the reaction of the big shots, Li Jian Gao realized that what Qiao Ze had supposedly fabricated must be highly reasonable, at least enough to pass the supercomputing verification.

Madness, this is madness.

"So what's next..."

"Next, we have a heavy task. There's no hope for this year, so we will have to wait for two more years. In these two years, we need to solve problems that would meet the standards for supplemental academicians. Academician Zhang Zhijian has already promised me that as long as we produce significant results, someone will nominate you.

Li, if you can become an academician at 36, you can start to contend for more resources, and more people will be willing to support you. Maybe by the time you're 38, we can solve the quality gap problem and begin to prepare research on physics beyond the smallest measurable scale."

"Ah?" Li Jian Gao was dumbfounded.

He finally understood why Xu Dajiang had used that tone on the phone. Just by attending a math conference in Lin Hai City and before he had even formally recruited students into his door, his path to becoming an academician had already been fully planned out?

An academician at the age of thirty-six...

This kid has some bold dreams!

Directly setting a new record for the youngest academician in Huaxia Science Academy by two years?

In that moment, Li Jian Gao suddenly felt a mountainous pressure crushing down on his shoulders.

What kind of joke was this?

Li Jian Gao always believed in a saying: those unworthy of their position will inevitably face disaster.

'Worthy' here refers to not only moral character but, in Li Jian Gao's understanding, competence as well.

Yes, Li Jian Gao felt he didn't have the competence!

"Qiao Ze, there's really no need to rush. And I'm not that fixated on becoming an academician, really. Not to mention at 36... you probably don't know this, but Huaxia has never had a 36-year-old academician! Forget about the Science Academy, even the Engineering Academy doesn't have one!

With your abilities, contending for resources in the future shouldn't be hard, trust me, many will be willing to help you out."

Qiao Ze tilted his head slightly, frowned and said, "Li, you lack confidence again."

"Uh..."

"The youngest Nobel Prize laureate was only 25 years old. So theoretically, being an academician at 36 isn't preposterous. And you are my mentor, why can't you be an academician?"

"It's not as simple as you think, sometimes..."

Qiao Ze interrupted Li Jian Gao, "I don't like to share any honor with others, except for you. They support me after assessing my work and capabilities, it's just an exchange in the end. Where I lack confidence, I am willing to compromise and engage in exchanges. But why should I exchange anything for a direction I am confident in?"

"Because..."

"Because of rules? Uncle Li, did you forget what I told you that day? Rules shouldn't be immutable. You taught me how to understand rules, and I've learned. 'Power' emphasizes the word 'strength'. I need to build up enough strength so that in the future I can conduct any research I like without limitations.

You are my mentor; if you become an academician, you can give me more substantial support."

After speaking, Qiao Ze paused for a moment, then said emphatically, "You are my mentor now and in the future, if even you don't qualify to be an academician, who does?"

This reasoning was overwhelmingly compelling, leaving Li Jian Gao speechless for a while.

It even made Li Jian Gao feel as if he would be letting down Qiao Ze if he didn't become an academician.

"So Uncle Li, you do your thing, I'll do mine. We have two years to achieve results, for each achievement I will ask if it's enough, and if it's not, then I'll do a second one, a third, until everyone thinks it's sufficient. If someone is not convinced, we'll silence them our way. That's all for today, think it over well."

Having finished, Qiao Ze stood up, walked out of the room, leaving Li Jian Gao there to fortify his resolve.

There was no choice, Qiao Ze really did not want to say so much.

If it were someone else, he wouldn't have said so much.

But it was because Li always lacked confidence.

From the academicians he met today, academicians are human too, so why did Li always see them as unattainable?

It was truly lunacy, Qiao Ze thought to himself.

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Qiao Ze left Li Jian Gao's room and returned to the office, where he saw Su Mu Cheng sitting together with Hanna, chatting in a particularly unique manner.

A sentence just spoken by Su Mu Cheng included Chinese words, English words, a mix of English-Chinese grammar and hand gestures.

Hanna's response was more or less the same...

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