Chapter 229 Deep Virtual Reality 56
It was quite late when I got back to the apartment. As I walked to the apartment door, I saw Annika getting out of a flashy silver sports car. She was wearing a red velvet dress and looked very elegant and glamorous.
"Xie Ning!"
"You went out today?" Annika asked, noticing that Xie Ning's clothes didn't look like he was going to a ball.
"I went out to help a friend repair a mechanical prosthetic limb," Xie Ning said, holding up the metal box in his hand.
Annika walked alongside Shening and whispered, "Guess who I saw at the ball today?"
"who?"
"Professor Lillian! She lost one hand and one leg and was fitted with state-of-the-art prosthetics. Because the previous disturbance originated from Professor Lillian's laboratory, we all thought she would be punished."
You didn't come, so you don't know how exciting the scene was. Several department heads probably had conflicts with Professor Lillian before, so seeing her so badly injured, they openly and secretly mocked her.
And guess what happened?
Professor Lillian immediately ordered security to throw the person out.
As she spoke, Annika couldn't help but laugh. "Professor Lillian is one of the top professors. As long as the higher-ups don't make a clear statement, who can touch her?"
And she's notoriously ruthless; just look at Director Crete—didn't he have the guts to kick her when she was down? Hahaha!
"Should I buy you some hangover medicine?" Xie Ning suggested.
"No need, I only get flushed a little when I drink, but I can actually drink a lot without getting drunk!"
Xie Ning silently reached out a hand to support Anika's somewhat weak body and helped her sit on a seat in the elevator.
Because of the high floors and large number of residents, the elevators here are very large and have seats for resting.
"Did Director Crete and Dr. Ji both go?" Dr. Ji said he was going on a business trip before leaving get off work today.
"Director Crete went, but Dr. Ji didn't. It seems that Assistant Jiang went on his behalf. This was supposed to be an internal social dance, but several senior executives from the company's management team came. I don't know what they were talking about, but they were far away, so I couldn't hear them."
However, Director Crete didn't look too good, and I guessed it might be related to our project.
With the air conditioning in the elevator, Annika became much more awake and asked Xie Ning, "When you were following up on the experiment, didn't you hear what Dr. Ji and Director Crete were saying?"
Xie Ning shook her head; she didn't notice anything wrong.
Annika brushed a stray hair from her forehead, her light-colored eyeshadow shimmering under the light, making her look somewhat worried. "Professor Lillian was there too. She seemed to be in a good mood. I can't think of anything else. I just hope that Professor Lillian isn't trying to take Director Crete's job."
Director Crete is really going to cause trouble, and Dr. Ji has a good relationship with Director Crete. If they replace him halfway through, the project will probably be canceled, and all their efforts will be in vain.
She had worked very hard to get under Dr. Ji's wing and participate in what seemed like a promising experimental project.
"It's not that bad."
Xie Ning had a vague idea of what Professor Lillian was in charge of, so she didn't think that Lillian would get involved in the android experiment project.
“Although our project looks promising, Professor Lillian doesn’t think much of it. After all, her projects are more valuable and receive more attention. Besides, I remember that although Professor Lillian is a bioengineer, her previous research wasn’t in the field of androids, was it?”
The Federation has been suppressing alien creatures for so long, and they've all been studied by Professor Lillian. Why would she be interested in this immature android experiment?
Moreover, although they had previously competed with Director Crete for a test subject, that test subject did not seem to be a cyborg.
"That's true."
Annika felt her future had brightened again. "Perhaps there's another one. The person in charge of android production is another senior professor, whose position is similar to Professor Lillian's. The test subjects we need to use all require his approval, which means he's a level below us, especially since they're both from Norton..."
Annika gave Xie Ning a knowing look.
Two tigers cannot share one mountain. Even if this experimental project is independent, Lillian used to be in charge of all the experiments. If she wants to get involved in this experiment, she will have to squeeze out that senior professor's position.
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