That night
The huge tree roots were twisted and tangled on the ground, as if showing its vigorous vitality to passers-by. After expressing her admiration for the big tree a few times, Li Rongrong hid herself behind the roots and looked at Jiang Zhizhi and Qingtian Guang who were sitting on a bench not far ahead.
Lu Xiye leaned not far behind her with an impatient look on his face, "You asked me to come here just to see this?"
"Aren't you curious? Zhizhi might be getting a boyfriend." Li Rongrong asked tentatively in a low voice.
"I'm not curious." Lu Xiye raised his leg and was about to leave. "It's boring. I'm leaving."
"Hey? Don't leave!" Li Rongrong hurried over to hold him back. "Why are you in such a hurry? I bet you that boy will definitely confess to Jiang Zhizhi today."
"Oh." Lu Xiye said disdainfully: "So what if he confesses? Jiang Zhizhi won't agree."
"How do you know she won't agree?"
"She even rejected Xu Qingbo. Could she be interested in someone like this? She..." Lu Xiye thought of the conversation between Jiang Zhizhi and his father that he heard outside the study that day, and his heart was filled with mixed feelings. "She is a cold-blooded person. No one can soften her... Hiss! What are you doing?"
Before Lu Xiye could finish his words, Li Rongrong kicked him.
"Who are you calling cold-blooded? If Zhizhi were cold-blooded, there wouldn't even be a senior year! She's just too sentimental, that's why..." Li Rongrong was angry and felt sorry for Jiang Zhizhi, "You don't understand her at all!"
Lu Xiye fell silent after being scolded by Li Rongrong.
Every time, he really didn't understand Jiang Zhizhi. Jiang Zhizhi had too many secrets, just like between her and Shen Li, he still didn't know what was going on.
How could he understand her? She never showed him her true self...
As Li Rongrong expected, Qingtian Guang confessed his love to Jiang Zhizhi, but as Lu Xiye expected, Jiang Zhizhi rejected him without hesitation.
But the content of her refusal stunned both Li Rongrong and Lu Xiye.
"I'm sorry, I already have someone I like and can't be with you." Jiang Zhizhi's voice was very soft, as if she was afraid of irritating him.
"You have someone you like?" Qing Tianguang's calm expression seemed to crack. He couldn't believe that he came all the way here, but couldn't get the result he wanted. "Who is he?"
Jiang Zhizhi smiled and said, "You don't know him."
Qing Tianguang felt as if a stone was pressing on his throat, and he couldn't breathe. "I'm really curious, what kind of person would you like? Is he very good?"
"He's not outstanding, is he?" Jiang Zhizhi said with a relieved smile, "But he does have his strengths. You don't need someone to be outstanding to like him. As long as there's something about him that impresses you, that's enough."
Her words touched Qingtian Guang's heart, and he didn't know how to respond for a moment.
He was silent for a long time before he finally said helplessly: "Okay, I wish you the best."
"Thanks."
"But I'm curious, why has he never looked for you during the time we've been reunited?"
Jiang Zhizhi smiled and said, "He goes to another school, so we only see each other once in a long time."
"If it were me, even if we were in different schools, I would often visit the person I like. Have you ever thought that maybe he doesn't like you that much?" Qing Tianguang asked tentatively.
"He likes me..." Jiang Zhizhi's expression dimmed for a moment, but soon she raised her eyes to look at Qing Tianguang, "It's almost noon. I'll treat you to a meal. Let's call it a day. I have to prepare for the experimental test with my classmates later..."
…
After they left, Li Rongrong, who had been eavesdropping on the entire conversation from behind, turned around and looked at Lu Xiye beside her. "Did you hear that just now? Zhizhi said she has someone she likes..."
"I heard it." Lu Xiye's tone was impatient and a bit lonely.
"Do you know who she is talking about?" Li Rongrong asked.
"Heh." Lu Xiye sneered, "Xu Qingbo, right?"
"..." Li Rongrong's mouth twitched, but she still kindly reminded, "But she said that person isn't that outstanding. Isn't Xu Qingbo very outstanding?"
Lu Xiye rolled his eyes and said disdainfully, "Compared to Jiang Zhizhi, how can Xu Qingbo be considered outstanding? Before he skipped a grade, wasn't he always ranked second?"
"Are you a pig?" Li Rongrong was furious. "I mean, could the person she's talking about be you?"
"You are the pig! How could Jiang Zhizhi like me?"
If Jiang Zhizhi had any feelings for him, she would not have rejected him so bluntly in the study that day.
Lu Xiye felt that Li Rongrong was just trying to annoy him. He was already feeling bad enough, and now he was being humiliated by this idiot Li Rongrong in this way.
"You are really hopeless. Don't you think Xu Qingbo is excellent? Not only is he excellent in his studies, but he can also express his feelings clearly. Unlike you, you don't even dare to fart!" Li Rongrong scolded him angrily.
"Why am I too afraid to even fart? I... I..."
"What do you mean by 'you'? Don't you like Zhizhi? You grew up with her, and Xu Qingbo confessed his love to her, and this handsome guy from the art school who came out of nowhere also confessed his love to her. Look at you, you're such a loser!"
"When did I say I like Jiang Zhizhi?" Lu Xiye's face flushed.
"You didn't say it, but I'm not blind, am I? Only a fool can't see that you like her?" Li Rongrong said speechlessly.
Lu Xiye couldn't help but be choked. He was silent for a long time, then sneered at himself, "So, even you can see it. Jiang Zhizhi is so smart, how could she not see it?"
Li Rongrong sighed helplessly, "Lu Xiye, let me be frank with you. As an outsider, I can tell you with certainty that Zhizhi likes you, but it's not easy for her to accept this relationship, so she needs a little stimulation."
"Why can't she accept it?"
"That's easy to understand. Zhizhi is so outstanding and smart. It's so embarrassing to think that I would fall in love with a fool. Of course I can't accept it!"
“…”
Looking at Li Rongrong who was analyzing seriously in front of him, Lu Xiye felt like hitting someone.
"But I've thought of a good way to stimulate her." Li Rongrong said suddenly.
"What method?"
"Lu Xiye, let's go out!" Li Rongrong stretched out her hand to Lu Xiye and said with a smile.
Lu Xiye took a step back with a look of horror on his face, and said with disgust: "You are really very sick, I won't play with you."
"Don't you want to confirm Jiang Zhizhi's true feelings for you?"
Li Rongrong's words made Lu Xiye, who was about to leave, stop.
*
News of Jiang Zhizhi and Qiu Han's nighttime experiment window test at EAST had spread throughout the campus. On test night, the hall was practically packed with students watching. Many doubted that two freshmen could pull off the experiment, even dismissing their idea as unrealistic. They believed controlling a plasma explosion with magnetic fields alone was practically impossible.
People in the hall were talking about it, and almost everyone thought that Jiang Zhizhi was able to get this opportunity only because of Professor Yang Fuyuan's favoritism. They just got in through the back door and had no real ability at all.
But when Yang Fuyuan and several authoritative physics professors from Shuimu University showed up, everyone present fell silent. So many big names showed up here to watch the experiments of these two freshmen. Was it really just to give face to Yang Fuyuan?
To be honest, that's unlikely.
Inside the experimental window, Qiu Han's hands couldn't help but tremble. She took a deep breath and adjusted herself, "Zhizhi, I'm so nervous."
"Don't worry, our experiment is perfect in theory and the test will be successful." Jiang Zhizhi comforted her lightly, looking calm.
Looking at Jiang Zhizhi like this, Qiu Han secretly admired her in her heart, but because of Jiang Zhizhi's state, she also felt at ease and was no longer so nervous.
The experiment begins.
The plasma exploded as expected, and countless particles burst out. The control system they set up in advance also accurately captured the moment of discharge, and the local magnetic field was quickly activated. But strangely, the highest peak value at the predicted point did not drop much, and the temperature of the surrounding area was hardly affected.
The first test failed.
Qiu Han couldn't believe it. Everything was adjusted perfectly. When the prediction was made on the computer, the particles were indeed affected by the local magnetic field and scattered onto the target plate.
A sneer came from somewhere in the hall, and soon after, many people began to whisper, and many of them were gloating.
"Zhizhi..." Qiu Han was covered in cold sweat, and his brain went blank.
"Don't be nervous, let's do it again."
Jiang Zhizhi knew that the experiment they conducted was absolutely correct, but when the computer made predictions, everything was in the most perfect state, while when it was observed in reality, it would inevitably be affected by the environment.
It was their first experiment and they had no experience, so failure was normal.
Jiang Zhizhi repeatedly readjusted the control system and the timing of the local magnetic field activation, and finally discovered that due to the influence of certain factors in reality, the timing of the local magnetic field activation was several milliseconds slower than predicted.
A slight error can lead to a huge mistake. The local magnetic field expanded too slowly. By the time it was fully expanded, the particle streams had already passed through the magnetic field and burst onto the target plate, making it impossible to produce any effect.
She readjusted again, and based on her judgment of the previous data and her own intuition, she advanced the triggering time of the local magnetic field by 5 milliseconds.
Start the experiment again.
Many people in the hall had already lost hope in this experiment and were watching it with a completely mocking attitude.
But this time, when the plasma exploded and the particle flow burst out, the data from the thermal imager on the target board showed that the highest temperature peak at the predicted point was actually nearly 70% lower than the previous data of the same scale of explosion energy.
Everyone present was stunned until several professors, led by Yang Fuyuan, stood up and applauded excitedly. Only then did they realize that the experiment of the two freshmen had actually succeeded!
The applause in the hall gradually grew louder and louder, and finally turned into thunderous applause.
Qiu Han was so excited that tears welled up in his eyes. He stood up and hugged Jiang Zhizhi, "Zhizhi, we succeeded!"
"Well, we succeeded." She happily hugged Qiu Han back with a smile on her face.
However, after a brief moment of excitement, they returned to their positions and continued testing several times. Without exception, these tests all showed perfect resistance to the local magnetic field.
The night ended perfectly, and Jiang Zhizhi and Qiu Han's experiment quickly spread throughout the academic community, setting off a new academic storm. However, Jiang Zhizhi and Qiu Han had already stepped outside of it and began writing their paper on the experiment.
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