Chapter 66: Brain Hole
Gu Xu didn't stay long after all. They said goodbye at the gates of University A. Gu Xu's taillights merged into the city's traffic and disappeared. Chu Yan stood there for a few seconds, watching, before turning and slowly wandering back to the dormitory.
The boys' dormitory at night is even more vibrant than during the day. The sound effects of various games, movie dialogues, the howling of ghosts and wolves, and the sounds of "friendly greetings" between roommates intertwine to form a unique symphony of youth.
Dormitory 404 is no exception.
When Chu Yan pushed the door open, Sun Miao and Zhao Jian were sitting side by side at the desk, their heads almost touching their phone screens, their expressions grim, their fingers operating frantically on the screens, and they were muttering to themselves:
"Control him, control him, oh my god, this is empty?!"
"Heal, heal, give me a sip of milk, ah, it's gone again"
The huge word "Failure" popped up on the screen again.
"Ahhh, I lost again, this is the tenth round, I just don't believe this!" Zhao Jian wailed, holding his head.
"It's all your fault. You flashed and moved the grave. Are you a spy sent by the other side?" Sun Miao angrily hit Zhao Jian's arm.
"Bullshit, it was you who was clearly moving to connect with the skill, the opposing mage could have hit you."
The two men instantly turned from comrades into enemies, began to blame each other and quarreled happily.
On the other side, Li Sizhe was wearing noise-canceling headphones and typing data on the computer screen with an expressionless face, as if he was in another dimension, completely undisturbed.
Chu Yan was no longer surprised by this. He walked over to his desk, sat down, opened his laptop, plugged it in, skillfully put on his Bluetooth headset, and clicked on a WeChat video call.
Almost instantly.
Gu Ye's face appeared on the other side of the screen. The background was the living room, which looked simple and clean.
Gu Ye didn't choose to live on campus. The atmosphere in the Gu family's old house was depressing, while the school dormitories were crowded and crowded. He often had to work on projects that Chu Yan was supervising remotely at night, or review his own studies. He was afraid of disturbing others and being too exposed. So he rented a quiet, small, two-bedroom apartment near the school.
Gu Ye seemed to have just taken a shower, with his hair still wet and draped over his forehead. He was wearing a loose white T-shirt, and he looked refreshed and a little homely.
"Hello? Are you done?" Gu Ye's voice came through the headphones, with a hint of laziness as if he had just come out of the bath.
"Yeah, I just got back to the dormitory." Chu Yan smiled and glanced at the documents spread out on the desk behind Gu Ye on the screen. "Are you still reading the project book?"
"Just looking around." Gu Ye rubbed his brows, a trace of fatigue on his face, but when he saw Chu Yan, his eyes brightened up. He naturally began to complain to Chu Yan: "Let me tell you, our S University cafeteria is really outrageous. The potatoes and chicken stew at noon today were hard, the chicken was fishy, and the soup tasted like washing water. It was terrible."
Chu Yan chuckled softly as he listened to Gu Ye complain about the cafeteria while his fingers quickly tapped away on his laptop, processing the details of a proposal sent by Chu Yu that needed urgent confirmation. Multitasking was no pressure for him.
"And our military training instructor!" Gu Ye became more and more excited as he spoke. "He's a double standard dog. If a girl makes a mistake in standing, she's told to adjust. But if a boy makes a mistake, he's told to prepare for 20 push-ups. Why is that?"
Chu Yan occasionally said "hmm" to indicate that he was listening, but his eyes were mostly fixed on his computer screen.
[Tsk, tsk, tsk] The system switched perspectives idly, glancing at the dismal performance dashboards of Sun Miao and Zhao Jian nearby, then at Chu Yan, the master of time management, working while video chatting. It couldn't help but sway its head and chant within the space, "Some people fall in love, some watch the ocean at night, and some people lose games in a row and refuse to repent. Alas, the joys and sorrows of humankind are not shared."
At this moment, Li Sizhe, who had been concentrating on typing data, took off his headphones. He seemed to be interrupted by the noise of Sun Miao and Zhao Jian. He frowned and rubbed his temples, his eyes casually sweeping across Chu Yan's computer screen.
Chu Yan was revising a PowerPoint presentation on an optimization plan for a submodule of cloud-based intelligent control, which involved numerous diagrams and charts illustrating algorithmic logic and business models. Although it was just a fleeting glimpse, Li Sizhe, a top student in the finance department with an exceptional eye for data and charts, immediately sensed the extraordinary nature of this proposal—its clear thinking and rigorous structure. Its integration of market insight and technology far surpassed the scope of ordinary student work, even surpassing some of the business cases he had encountered.
Li Sizhe's gaze shifted from the computer screen to Chu Yan's face. Chu Yan was wearing headphones, talking to the person on the video while quickly revising the plan with his fingers. He looked focused and calm, as if he was doing something very ordinary.
A freshman in paleontology?
Li Sizhe's brow furrowed deeper and deeper, his eyes behind the lenses filled with immense confusion and a kind of sudden enlightenment. The nerve of a top student in his brain was suddenly touched.
The scheming frog keeps touching your belly!
He stood up suddenly and walked to Chu Yan with a serious expression, interrupting the video of Chu Yan and Gu Ye: "Chu Yan."
Chu Yan and Gu Ye on the other end of the video were both stunned for a moment. Chu Yan paused typing, took off one of his headphones, and looked at Li Sizhe, who had a look on his face that said, "I've discovered a shocking secret," with a puzzled look: "What's wrong?"
Sun Miao and Zhao Jian were also attracted by the sudden serious atmosphere. They stopped fighting temporarily and looked over curiously.
Li Sizhe took a deep breath, pointed at Chu Yan's computer screen, and asked bluntly in an extremely serious tone that even had a hint of "I have seen through everything": "Chu Yan, tell me the truth, do you have an extremely powerful enemy who is forcing you not to study finance? But on the surface, you were forced to give up finance, but in fact, the Dragon King has returned and has been dormant for a long time. You can only secretly accumulate strength under the guise of paleontology, waiting for the day when you will make a big splash and take back everything that belongs to you!"
Chu Yan: “???”
Gu Ye: “???”
system:【? ? ? 】
Sun Miao and Zhao Jian: “???”
When I type a question mark, it’s not that I have a problem, but that I think you have a problem.
The entire dormitory fell into an eerie silence.
Chu Yan took a full three seconds to process Li Sizhe's earth-shattering idea. He opened his mouth, but for a moment he didn't know where to begin.
"No, brother," Zhao Jianxian couldn't help but said in confusion, "What's the train of thought behind this? Have you read too many novels?"
Li Sizhe's brows furrowed even more, as if he felt his reasoning was reasonable. "Otherwise, there's no way to explain how a paleontologist like him could come up with a business plan of this caliber. This is clearly the kind of thinking that can only come from a lot of practical experience. Unless he has someone behind him guiding him, or he's a hidden business genius with a deep vengeance on his shoulders, he's currently just trying to figure things out."
Sun Miao also came over to take a look at Chu Yan's screen. Although he didn't quite understand it, he thought it looked very impressive. He immediately looked at Chu Yan with an "so that's it" look.
Chu Yan held his forehead helplessly, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "You really think too much. I have no enemies, and I am not a Dragon King. I am simply interested in paleontology. I am just more exposed to finance and am more familiar with it." He tried to explain it more reasonably.
I don't have any enemies.
However, Li Sizhe looked at him, the suspicion in his eyes did not diminish at all, but instead there was a bit more pity and understanding in his eyes, "I understand, you are hiding it, don't worry, I won't tell anyone." He nodded solemnly: "Yes, I understand."
Chu Yan: “…” Okay, he didn’t listen at all. This guy was already immersed in the script he had imagined in his head and couldn’t extricate himself.
The system rolled around in laughter in its space: [Hahahahahahahaha, the Dragon King bears a deep blood feud, and a business genius is forced to dig for fossils. Li Sizhe is really wasting his talent if he doesn't write a novel.]
Chu Yan couldn't explain anything to Li Sizhe, who was immersed in his own world. He put his headphones back on and said to Gu Ye, who was laughing like crazy on the other end of the video, "It's okay, my roommate has a big imagination," and then hung up the video.
He picked up his phone and waved it at Sun Miao and Zhao Jian, who were still struggling. "Stop arguing. Want to play with friends? I'll help you win a couple of games."
"Come on!!" Sun Miao and Zhao Jian instantly threw all their ideas to the back of their minds and picked up their phones while howling.
After a few games, Chu Yan proved himself not only as a "business wizard," but also a true "carry-the-game" force. He earned MVP honors every time, showcasing his ultimate skills. He rescued Sun Miao and Zhao Jian from their losing streak, experiencing the thrill of winning without a second thought.
"Fuck! Brother Yan is awesome!!"
"From today on, you are my real brother."
"Brother, please take us with you next time!!"
Chu Yan's image in the two people's minds has been upgraded from "good-looking fossil guy" to "awesome Brother Yan", and it seems that he is only one step away from the status of "father".
The dormitory was once again plunged into a chaotic gaming frenzy, mixed with Li Sizhe's helpless sighs. He stubbornly believed that Chu Yan was using the game to numb himself.
At the same time, in the business circle of City A, another invisible "war" was also unfolding in another form.
Chu Yu and Gu Xu seemed to have reached some kind of tacit understanding and did not openly attack each other's companies. After all, killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of their own was not in the interests of businessmen. But they were obviously not idle either.
At a high-end cocktail party, Chu Yu casually mentioned to a partner that Gu Xu's methods were radical, too focused on short-term interests, and lacked a long-term perspective.
Behind the scenes of a financial interview, Gu Xu helplessly told a familiar reporter that Chu Yu was too idealistic and did not know how to adapt, and it would be difficult for him to adapt to the complex ecological environment of the domestic market.
The two of them spared no effort to discredit each other's character and management style, trying to plant mines for each other in public opinion and the hearts of people in the circle. Their methods were as childish as a quarrel between elementary school students, but they accurately hit the points that the other party cared about most.
While these two business tycoons were trying to trip each other up, no one noticed that the Gu family in City S, a silent little fish, was cautiously expanding its territory in the murky water. Gu Ye, taking advantage of the internal chaos and Chu Yan's remote guidance, actually secretly won a small project that was ignored by others but had great potential, which was considered a successful "stealing of the home."
The military training finally ended with wailing and cheers of liberation, and the students welcomed a short three-day vacation.
Chu Yan looked at the messages on his phone that were sent almost simultaneously by Chu Yu and Gu Xu, with similar content: "What are your plans for the holidays? Let's have dinner together?" and decisively chose to refuse.
He didn't want to spend his rare vacation being sandwiched between these two childish guys who were obviously busy as hell but still wanted to compete with each other, and be the innocent "sandwich".
So, he quickly booked a flight back to City S and sent a message to Gu Ye:
"I'll be there tomorrow. Be ready to receive you."
Instead of dealing with the Shura field in City A, it's better to go back to City S and tease that little wolf cub who's trying to grow up and complaining. At least it's quiet over there.
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