Withdraw from the competition!
Having reached the final stage, Lin Fengzi casually uttered the words "withdraw from the competition."
On the podium, the expressions on the faces of the judges from the organizing committee became quite interesting.
This is a world-class competition, a gathering place for geniuses from all over the world, and there has never been a case of someone voluntarily withdrawing from the competition before.
What's more, it was done in a way that put the organizing committee in an awkward position, and what's more, it directly and mercilessly pointed out in public that the organizing committee was protecting cheaters and demanded a public apology!
This is clearly a blatant slap in the face to the organizing committee!
The control room staff rushed to turn off the stereo, but found that all the control buttons seemed to have lost control. No matter how they adjusted them, the screen remained lit and even started playing videos.
Everyone's attention was drawn to the content of the video.
That was the video that wasn't finished playing this morning.
In the video, Ruan Yunhan tore up Ruan Chen's calculation paper and put it in her bag. Before she could leave, Ruan Chen appeared in the surveillance footage.
Then came Ruan Chen's sarcasm, directly pointing out that Ruan Yunhan had stolen her things, but Ruan Yunhan stubbornly refused to admit it.
The video abruptly ended with Ruan Chen's words, "It's just trash, take it if you like."
Ruan Yunhan's face was ashen. She took the microphone, looked in Ruan Chen's direction, and tried her best to keep her tone calm. "Ruan Chen, I understand your sadness at having all your hard work go to waste, but everything is settled now. The organizing committee ultimately chose my design. So what if our first parts were the same? Our designs ultimately took completely different directions, and mine is better than yours!"
This same argument was what Ruan Yunhan used to persuade the organizing committee.
Even if Ruan Chen insists that Ruan Yunhan plagiarized, based on the current competition situation, the two only have the first part in common. This is why the organizing committee dared to give the gold medal to Ruan Yunhan despite the pressure.
But from all directions, Ruan Chen's cool and indifferent laughter echoed, "Better? Do you want to guess why I said the first draft you stole from me was a pile of garbage? Haven't you ever thought about why I didn't want such a complete design and just let you take it and plagiarize it?"
On the big screen, the video was turned off, and the organizing committee's competition simulation system popped up.
The staff in the control room were as anxious as ants on a hot plate. The other party had used some unknown technical means to hack into their system and cut off the control room's control over the venue. Now the control room was just a decoration.
Ruan Chen calmly operated the system, found Ruan Yunhan's demonstration model from this morning, clicked, and ran it.
“If I’m not mistaken, this model only ran for ten seconds after you successfully built it this morning—why not let everyone see your design a little longer? What are you worried about?”
Ruan Yunhan threw down the microphone and ran backstage.
She knew what Ruan Chen was going to do: she was going to show everyone the fatal flaw in her design!
She ran towards the control room; she wanted to cut off the power to the entire venue—this was the only way to stop Ruan Chen!
Ruan Yunhan ran to the door of the control room and slammed it open. Her hair was disheveled from running, and she lost one of her high heels. The remaining one caused her to lose her balance and twist violently.
Ignoring her swollen ankle, she screamed at the control room, "Where's the main switch?! Cut off the power to the venue! Cut off the power now! We can't let her do this!"
Nobody paid any attention to her.
All eyes were on the screen in the control room—the screen displayed the same image as the meeting room.
The screen was split into two—one screen played a video that looked like it came from a hotel, in which Ruan Yunhan was slapping Bai Jiaojiao. Of course, Ruan Chen had thoughtfully blurred Bai Jiaojiao's face.
The other screen showed a model from Ruan Yunhan's group. At the fifteenth second, the model suddenly collapsed on the screen, exploding in a radial pattern and leaving only spiderweb-like fragments.
All of this was also captured by the media invited to the scene by the organizing committee.
Everyone realized this was a scandal with explosive potential, and reporters' phones were ringing non-stop.
The organizing committee didn't care how Ruan Yunhan slandered and humiliated another girl; they were just staring intently at another screen.
The design they bought for fifty million dollars fell apart before their very eyes.
Ruan Yunhan deceived everyone.
As Ruan Chen said, this design is rubbish.
Despite its exquisite exterior, it has no practical value and could never be put into real civilian use.
Ruan Chen's voice rang out calmly, "I told you this is garbage, Yunhan, but you wouldn't listen. And you're not unaware of the design's flaws, so what did you do?"
The video angle shifted to the hotel conference room, where Ruan Yunhan was rubbing against Lin Fengzi's arm and acting coquettishly.
"The professors at the National University said that our two groups' initial models were very similar and the design ideas were the same. Although the final products were very different, I think we can learn from each other. The professors also said that your model has a fatal flaw, which Mr. Lin must be aware of himself, right?"
"Mr. Lin, if you don't mind, I can take a look at the data and model for you, and perhaps I can still help you correct the errors."
"If we can learn something from your data, we might be able to refine our final step."
......
Everything is crystal clear.
Ruan Chen asked casually, "Yunhan, you copied a wrong answer. It's a pity you can't even correct it. You even tried to copy it from the original author? You're really something."
His tone was utterly merciless.
The staff in the control room, finally snapping out of their daze, saw Ruan Yunhan standing disheveled at the door. Recognizing her, they all said with sneers, "Why did you cut off the power? To help you continue deceiving everyone?"
The awards ceremony was forced to a halt amidst this farce, and the winners would be announced at a later date. Ruan Chen and his group headed towards the door when someone chased after them and called out to them.
"Lin Fengzi! Ruan Chen! Please wait!"
"We're from the organizing committee, and we'd like to discuss the issue of patent buyout with you..."
Lin Fengzi smiled politely, "I'm sorry, I don't need the money."
Ruan Chen, who was looking down at her phone, chuckled.
This was actually the result of a joint discussion among them.
A new energy company in China has approached Lin Fengzi and her team, proposing a patent buyout, but not a fixed-price deal; it's an acquisition plus shares.
It's equivalent to a long-term investment.
While Lin Fengzi and her group were publicly humiliated in the US, Du Lengxi's hundreds of accounts, large and small, also began to exert their influence simultaneously, with scandals about the eldest daughter of the Ruan family emerging one after another. For a time, Ruan Yunhan occupied five trending topics!
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