"You..." Ruan Chen pressed the enter key, gritting her teeth, her eyes filled with anger, "What do you want?"
With the crisp sound of the Enter key being pressed, lines of data flashed on the screen.
"I want you." It was Cao De's voice again on the other end.
The data tracking was very fast; the results were displayed on the screen before Ruan Chen could speak for the second time.
Virtual signal.
The other party was just a pre-programmed virtual program that, at the right time, infiltrated Ruan Chen's phone and initiated the following communication.
Ruan Chen still felt something was off, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
“Don’t use his voice, it’s disgusting,” Ruan Chen said, pinching her palm. “How can I expect to see you when you’re so disgusting?”
"My dear daughter, do you like this voice?" the virtual program readily complied.
This time it was Rao's voice.
Ruan Chen stared at the darkened computer screen, and saw her own reflection in it, giving a pale smile.
"If your goal after planning for over a decade is solely that patent, you have already succeeded."
From Rao's voice—or rather, nobody's voice—came, "Far from enough. I haven't even seen you yet, how can it be considered a success?"
Is it necessary?
"Of course, I'd like to sit down with you and discuss some details of this patent face-to-face."
Should we sit down and discuss this face-to-face?
Ruan Chen stood by the window, clearly bathed in fresh air, yet she still felt a slight dizziness from lack of oxygen.
She moved her lips, about to utter the word "okay".
But she felt that she couldn't easily make any promises to this unseen person.
She felt as if, as soon as she uttered the word "good," she would inevitably meet nobody in a way that she absolutely did not want to see.
"Let's meet, okay?" The voice on the other end changed again; it was a gentle female voice, soft and gentle, a kind and earnest plea.
Ruan Chen rubbed her temples with her index finger knuckles until they ached. She thought to herself, what difference would a meeting make? She would tell Xu Xiaolan and the others that this was a perfect opportunity to catch the murderer who killed Principal Feng.
As long as the city bureau's people are lying in wait in advance, there shouldn't be any problem; they might even be able to retrieve that patent application.
A signal abruptly cut into Ruan Chen's phone, and the overload of information caused her phone to overheat and the screen to flicker erratically.
"Fuck you." The boy's deep voice suddenly rang out, "Stop playing the devil and get lost!"
Fu Jianzhi's voice was filled with anger and murderous intent, and Ruan Chen's consciousness suddenly cleared.
At that moment, she felt a sharp burning pain in her palm. Ruan Chen subconsciously let go, and the phone fell. It emitted a foul, burnt smell due to overheating, and finally exploded with a "bang," shattering into pieces.
At this moment, the acting principal is giving a detailed introduction to Duan Jingfu and Nan Jing.
A student from the Rocket Class whispered, "The director of that research institute right in the middle looks so much like that relative who came to pick up Ruan Chen from school not long ago."
"What are you thinking? People this age probably all look like this, right?"
The speaker was from National Taiwan University, and Nan Jing and his colleagues were seated quite far from the audience. The students could only get a general view and then discussed enviously which academic giants would choose as their students.
According to the rules of the National Biochemistry Operation Grand Prix in previous years, only the first place winner would receive 50 extra points on the college entrance examination and be eligible for an academic summer camp at either the National Medical College or Shanhe University—essentially equivalent to guaranteed admission.
The top ten will participate in the second round of competition, and five more will be selected to receive a 30-point bonus on the college entrance examination, or be recommended to some designated less popular majors in the four major colleges.
However, the rules have changed this year. The first-place prize remains the same, but there is now an additional guaranteed admission to a top-tier hospital.
The remaining fourteen students, regardless of their ranking, will participate in the mentor selection process of the four major colleges. Students who are selected by a mentor and are willing to study under that mentor will receive a 30-point bonus on their college entrance examination. If they pass the college entrance examination, they will directly enter the mentor's tutelage.
For many students, the extra 30 points mean they might be able to take the college entrance exam in their second or even first year of high school, saving time and entering university earlier.
To these students, it was an unexpected delight, driving them wild with excitement—something they thought was hopeless had fallen into their laps like a pie from the sky.
But there was even more regret among those who didn't participate in the competition, especially those students who had previously hesitated about whether to participate, or even those who had registered but then withdrew.
Previously, everyone thought that only the top ten would have a chance, and only five people would be able to pass through the selection process. But now there are fifteen!
However, only a very few people can connect this matter with the rounds of talent selection carried out in junior and senior high schools across the country over the past year, and realize that China is now facing a certain danger, to the point that the four major colleges are on edge and urgently need to replenish a large number of talents.
The specific selection process will not begin openly. This meeting is mainly to introduce the new competition rules, introduce the outstanding mentors from the four colleges, give a boost to confused students, and bring the top fifteen to the stage to set an example for these students.
Starting from the fifteenth place, the acting principal called students up one by one according to their ranking, introduced them, and shook hands with a row of serious professors one by one.
The students put in their best effort to showcase themselves in those few dozen seconds.
However, Nan Jing and Duan Jingfu gradually became very uncomfortable.
The two sat down next to each other, and Nan Jing asked in a low voice, "Didn't Fu Jianzhi find her?"
"Jian Zhi only had time to plug in the signal before Ruan Chen's phone was damaged due to signal overload."
"Ruan Chen didn't promise Him anything, did he?"
Fortunately, Fu Jianzhi was quick enough not to say anything.
The acting principal called out names at a slower and slower pace, and the students spent more and more time introducing themselves on stage. It wasn't until the third-place winner had been talking for a full ten minutes that he reluctantly called out the second-place winner, "Please come up to the stage, Feng Shuang."
Nobody's here.
He called out a second time, "Please invite Feng Shuang to the stage!"
There was still no movement, and there was some commotion in the audience. The students in the top class were the first to notice that Feng Shuang and Ruan Chen were not there, and soon all the students knew.
The acting principal panicked and glanced back at Nan Jing and Duan Jingfu, only to find that the two of them were also gone!
In the empty classroom, Ruan Chen stared at the information scrolling across the screen in front of her, her eyes filled with an unusually turbulent and furious rage.
While Ruan Chen was tracking down that virtual signal, nobody also hacked into her computer.
“Ms. Ruan, your computer is truly watertight. We can only hack into your phone through He Liren’s cell phone signal, and then into your computer while you are tracking me—before you try to expel me, I have something to show you.”
"This is a top-secret document. We've given it a name: 'The Erased Geniuses'."
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