Chapter 628 Unable to Offend the Laurent Family, Aunt and Nephew Meet Again [1 Update]
"Hello, sir." The receptionist paused, then frowned. "You want to see the chairman? Do you have an appointment?"
She was polite but distant: "If you don't have an appointment, please make one and I'll arrange a time for you."
The implication is that the president is very busy and cannot meet with just anyone.
Zuo Li stared at her for a moment, said nothing, and walked inside.
The receptionist panicked: "Sir, you can't go in!"
But she couldn't stop Zuo Li at all, and could only frantically start making phone calls: "Security! Security!"
Before the security guards could even move, a voice rang out.
"Professor Zuo, is that right?" It was a young man standing at the top of the stairs. "Please come up. The chairman is in his office."
upstairs.
In the president's office.
The current president of the International Centre for Physics is not a physicist by training.
He used to be a businessman.
However, he was very popular, so he successfully became the president during the leadership transition.
When an outsider becomes the president of the International Physics Center, internal corruption is inevitable.
"Professor Zuo, it's been a long time." The president smiled. "Come, sit down. I just brought some fine tea from China. Have a cup."
Zuo Li didn't sit down, and went straight to the point: "You sold my student's thesis to the Laurent family?"
The president paused, raised his eyes, and asked, "Yes, what do you think?"
"How about that?" Zuo Li laughed angrily.
He suddenly stepped forward, grabbed the chairman by the collar, and slapped him across the face.
The president was both shocked and furious: "Zuo Li, are you crazy! Do you even want to stay in the physics community?!"
"How much did you sell it for?" Zuo Li was still not satisfied and sneered, "You sold the paper and then deliberately put it in this month's scientific journal, didn't you?"
"I wanted to run into my student and embroil her in a plagiarism scandal!"
"Professor Zuo, this is your problem." The president smiled slightly. "You insist on submitting your student's paper to the Astronomical Institution Center in O Continent again. What does this have to do with us? Did we force you to submit it?"
"It was your unnecessary action to embroil your student in a plagiarism scandal. I'd also like to ask you, why are you so eager to ruin your student's research career?"
Zuo Li's fingers trembled: "You guys are really shameless."
He knew there was no point in continuing the conversation, so he turned and left.
"Professor Zuo, if you don't think about yourself, at least think about your students." The president's cold voice came from behind. "You'd better think this through. The Laurent family—which power in this world can afford to offend them!"
Zuo Li left the president's office without saying a word.
The president was still sitting in his office chair, his eyes gloomy.
The door was pushed open again.
He is the vice president.
"President, is this Chinese guy really capable of doing anything?" The vice president walked over, frowning. "If he causes trouble, we'll be in trouble too."
Every circle has some unspoken gray areas to some extent.
It's okay if you don't say it.
If it really escalates to the point where everyone knows about it, the International Physics Center will lose face and its impartiality will be compromised.
"I just told him to have some self-awareness." The president blew on his tea and said calmly, "If things get out of hand, see if the Laurent family will let him and his students off the hook."
"The Laurent family are the rulers of O Continent, they have countless methods at their disposal. Do you think they can stand against them?"
Elizabeth Laurent was one of the most prominent figures in the upper-class aristocratic circles of O continent.
With the Pazzi family gone, no other family could rival the Laurent family.
Between Ying Zijin, the ISC champion who has just entered the scientific research field, and a young lady from the Laurent family, it is obvious who to choose.
"The president is truly visionary." The vice president finally smiled. "By giving a paper by a new researcher to Miss Elizabeth, we not only secured three hundred million US dollars in funding but also gained Miss Elizabeth's favor."
Elizabeth only needs one more paper to officially establish herself in academia.
They also helped search for a long time, but of course they couldn't bring over those old professors' materials.
Just then, Zuo Li delivered Ying Zijin's thesis.
“Not only that.” The president shook his head. “You don’t know, this Miss Elizabeth was handpicked by the head of the Laurent family. This head even made a special contact to get her into Professor Herwin’s laboratory.”
“We are not only giving face to Miss Elizabeth, but also to the head of the Laurent family and Professor Herwin.”
After all, Elizabeth is far inferior to the latter two.
The vice president gasped, "I see. This Miss Elizabeth is truly remarkable."
“But you have a point.” The president narrowed his eyes. “This Zuo Li is a rising star in the field of physics. Who knows if he knows anyone?”
“I heard he seems to know Herwin as well, so let’s detain him first.”
Even if Zuo Li can produce evidence that Ying Zijin's paper was published earlier than Elizabeth's, once the two scientific journals publish the paper globally, he still won't be able to clear his name.
All they have to do is say it's fake.
Can Zuo Li and his students really turn things upside down?
The president took a sip of tea: "Send someone to handle it. After locking him up, take good care of him and release him after the journal is published."
**
AIRPORT.
Zuo Li called the astronomical institution in O continent: "Yes, there have been some problems. Please withdraw my student's paper first, and I will bear all the losses."
Zuo Li hung up the phone and then went to call Ying Zijin.
It was his carelessness and lack of foresight that led to Ying Zijing's thesis being stolen.
But now he couldn't protect his student and had to let her solve the problem herself, which made him feel very guilty.
In Zuo Li's teaching career, he had never encountered anything that made him feel so powerless.
However, before he could even dial the number, he suddenly felt a numbness in his neck.
Then all vision went dark.
Two people sent by the International Physics Center carefully carried Zuo Li out.
Others around the airport saw it, but they weren't surprised and simply looked away indifferently.
**
Two days later.
O Continent.
J country.
The Venus Group headquarters is located here.
Ying Zijing and Fu Yunshen exited the airport together and got into a car.
Ying Zijing glanced at the equipment inside the vehicle and raised an eyebrow: "Do you like collecting vehicles?"
When she and Xiu Yu participated in the Manson Family's racing competition, Fu Yunshen casually gave her a T-family racing car that had been retired from racing for twenty years.
This is not something that can be achieved simply by having money.
"Hmm?" Fu Yunshen lifted his eyelids slightly. "Even an old man like me has hobbies."
He turned the steering wheel and headed to the hotel in the city center.
On the way, the car phone connected automatically.
It was a video call, and the person on the screen was Licinius.
"Reporting to the superior, the person under protection has not yet appeared. We are continuing to monitor them."
"Okay, I understand."
The video flickered briefly and then ended.
Ying Zijing turned her head: "The person under protection?"
“Yes.” Fu Yunshen tapped his fingers on the steering wheel, his eyes deep. “Just recently, all the top fifty hunters on the NOK forum received an anonymous bounty via private message.”
"The bounty target is a six-year-old girl, but we haven't seen her face. Hunters are coming out in droves, and I've had the IBI monitor them to make sure this little girl isn't hurt."
This little girl may be their only way to reach that mysterious place.
But so far, there has been no news of any little girl dying or being injured.
It can only be that the hunters haven't found it yet.
Ying Zijing raised her eyes: "A six-year-old girl?"
"Hmm," Fu Yunshen said, "Yaoyao, you don't have a hunter account, do you?"
Ying Zijing shook her head slightly: "No."
The account of the fortune teller is not on the hunter rankings.
After the rules for the trading area were changed that day, she never logged into the NOK forum again.
"I'm also quite curious, who exactly did she offend?" Fu Yunshen said calmly, "Someone who deserves a billion-dollar bounty."
Ying Zijing frowned: "I'll have someone take a look too."
She forwarded the message to the vice-chancellor, prompting Norton University to begin testing as well.
A short while later, the car stopped in front of the hotel.
Fu Yunshen didn't get out of the car, his arm resting on the window: "Yaoyao, the room is booked. I have something to do and need to go to the Presidential Palace of J Country."
"Okay." Ying Zijin nodded. "I'm going out to play."
Fu Yunshen understood: "Take it easy."
The two parted ways at the hotel.
After changing her clothes, Ying Zijing went to the commercial street in the city center.
Country J is also an international power, and with the Venus Group headquarters located here, the streets are bustling and full of traffic.
Ying Zijing went to the coffee shop and bought a cup of hot chocolate.
As soon as she came out, her ears twitched and she looked to her right.
A little girl dressed in black is running towards us.
A few seconds later, a gunshot rang out in the air, startling everyone around.
This is an international metropolis, although J country has gun licenses.
But it's unlikely that a gunfight would break out on the streets of the capital.
Passersby screamed and began to flee desperately.
The cars on the road were also somewhat out of control.
But strangely, those bullets were very accurate.
It wasn't aimed at any other passersby; the target was only the little girl, and there wasn't even a slight deviation.
Sharpshooter.
In an instant, Ying Zijing realized that this little girl was the one whose popularity had surpassed that of her and Fu Yunshen's bounty target.
Two hundred hunters were dispatched, causing an unprecedented sensation on the NOK forum.
"Quick! Get out of the way!" the little girl shouted as she ran, "Lie down, lie down! I won't hit you!"
As she spoke, she nimbly dodged the bullets.
She was so agile that she didn't seem like a six-year-old girl at all.
Even the most specially trained IBI agents could never dodge every bullet with such precision as she did.
Ying Zijin did not avoid it.
But those bullets couldn't hit her.
Her eyelashes drooped, and she clenched her fists.
Memories from a very distant past are gradually breaking free from their slumber.
Until a huge explosion came from afar.
"Bang!"
Just 500 meters away, a sharpshooter was stationed on a 100-story building, shooting at the little girl with a sniper rifle.
"Good heavens, there's more!" The little girl jumped up, glanced back, and exclaimed, "I've really dug up your ancestors' graves!"
Although she said this, she remained calm and then raised her hand.
The little girl didn't have a gun in her hand, only a watch.
The watch has a gold-trimmed letter—
Leangle
She turned a button on her watch.
Instantly, the watch projected a blue laser net.
"Buzz!"
The blue laser net firmly imprisoned the bullet.
Soon, the bullet, capable of blasting a building, landed on the ground.
The little girl muttered, "Luckily I had a lot of equipment on me, otherwise you crazy people would have really killed me. Anyway, bye-bye."
She continued running forward, and when she passed Ying Zijin, she specifically greeted her: "Kid, you're amazing! Everyone else has run away, but you're still so calm."
“We must be destined to meet. Once I get rid of these people, we can get to know each other better. Today is not the right time. Wow, they are so fierce. I’m running away again.”
But the little girl couldn't take a step before Ying Zijing lifted her up.
She was a little confused, but she quickly came to her senses.
"Hey, hey, hey, even though I'm only six years old, I'm definitely older than you. How could you lift me up like that? You don't know how to respect your elders, kid... Hey!"
The little girl suddenly fell to the ground and let out a scream.
She rubbed her bottom and realized she had been thrown onto a chair in front of a convenience store.
She didn't know why, but when she tried to get up, her legs felt numb and she couldn't move them.
The little girl paused for a moment, then raised her hand.
It was as if my hand had touched some kind of barrier.
The bullets that followed her were all blocked by this barrier.
It floated in mid-air.
Internal strength manifested externally, forming a protective barrier!
Ying Zijing rolled up her sleeves and said calmly, "Wait until you're ready."
Good morning
(End of this chapter)
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