Chapter 159 A meaningful journey

Mu Zhengguang and Xu Ying originally planned to take the high-speed train back to Qichuan City, but there was no high-speed train to Qichuan City today. The two discussed it and bought hard sleeper tickets.

"I can go back to the city as soon as I wake up, so I don't have to make up for the sleep tomorrow."

"Ah."

"I plan to change my workplace, otherwise I'm afraid that one day I will do the same thing as Zhao Yuxi."

Even if Ying hadn't mentioned this, Mu Zhengguang would have found a chance to bring it up. Now that his classmate had taken the initiative to bring it up, he would of course fully support her: "Let me choose a place with you. The new workplace can't be too far from school. No, the county town is so small, and at our speed, it's not too far to go anywhere."

"Yes, so we have many options. The biggest problem is the venue. One building per person is definitely not enough, and I don't know where there is a whole building for rent. It seems a bit troublesome to follow the rules."

Mu Zhengguang comforted him: "Although it is troublesome, it makes people feel at ease. If everything goes very smoothly, it would be terrible, wouldn't it?"

"After we have the asymptote, the unpleasant things we encountered..." Xu Ying stopped here. If he continued, it would be self-contradictory.

With the asymptote, the number of unpleasant things we encounter has indeed decreased a lot. Is this situation terrible? For now, not only is it not terrible, but it is also "cute".

Maybe in the future, it will become terrible. But that is a matter for the future. We cannot decide what will happen in the future. We cannot decide what is happening now. We can decide more things than before, but still very few.

She whispered, "Can we not talk about this for now?"

Mu Zhengguang noticed his classmate's depression. He couldn't bear it and quickly replied, "Yes. Let's talk about something else. What do you want to hear me say?"

"No need to talk, just let me look at you for a while."

Xu Ying stared at him for a long time. She was not fully focused at every moment. She would be distracted sometimes, but even when she was distracted, in that blurry world, that unclear face also exuded a familiar and beautiful "light".

After getting on the bus, they were both in the middle bunk and could see the person opposite them by turning over.

That night, Mu Zhengguang fell asleep early.

Xu Ying tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep, not because the space was too small, nor because she wanted to see more of her classmates sleeping. She was wondering, if she stayed at Zhao Yuxi's house tonight, how would everything be different?
She knew that it was inappropriate to live in Zhao Yuxi's house. If she were asked to choose again, she would make the same choice, but she couldn't help but imagine this possibility. Maybe if she lived in her house, she would fall asleep earlier tonight. Maybe she still couldn't fall asleep.

She thought about it, but couldn't come up with a definite answer.

Xu Ying slept very late, and when she woke up, she suddenly felt that this journey was very meaningful: getting up in the morning, no, not even getting up yet, and seeing the person you like as soon as you open your eyes is a very happy thing.

Xu Ying stretched her hand out from under the quilt and greeted him happily: "Good morning, little classmate."

"Well, you too. We'll be arriving soon, what would you like to eat?"

“Preserved egg and lean meat porridge, egg tarts and French fries.”

"it is good."

That morning, Mu Zhengguang and Xu Ying ran around the county town, looking for a suitable house as their workplace.

In Youlong City, Zhao Yuxi came to the dean's office again.

"Dean, I apologize to you for what happened yesterday. I'm sorry. I don't know if my apology is late."

Zhou Xutong carefully looked at Zhao Yuxi: This person looks exactly like Zhao Yuxi, but what he says is completely different. Zhao Yuxi is such a strong person, has she ever apologized to others? This is really rare, and I just happened to encounter it? Zhao Yuxi would never do good things for no reason. If she were Zhao Yuxi, she would definitely...

"President Zhao, there's nothing to apologize for yesterday. Did you come to me just to apologize?"

"No. I want to know how much success the six projects that the Academy of Sciences is about to launch can achieve."

It was Zhao Yuxi's style to ask such an outrageous question. Zhou Xutong stopped looking at her and picked up his pen to continue marking documents: "The project has not yet started, and no one knows how many results there are. Don't you have relevant information?" Zhao Yuxi said confidently: "I don't have that much time to read the information. There is too much knowledge in this world, and I can't learn it all anyway."

"Six projects. Two projects are led by the Institute, the Abnormal Law Project and the Star Law Project. Two projects are led by the Academy of Sciences, the Structural Law Project and the Correlation Law Project. There are also two projects that are jointly conducted by both parties, the Life Law Project and the Asymptotic Law Project. Which part of the information have you read? Or which project are you interested in?"

"The laws of life. I'm interested in the laws of life."

Zhou Xutong heard Zhao Yuxi say "laws of life" twice. This way of answering questions had never been used by her before. It seemed that she really liked "laws of life".

"What I know is very limited. If you have time, you can be the person in charge. You can finish the work over there, and other people will help you with the work in the institute."

"What? Then who holds my power?"

Zhou Xutong was a little speechless: What you like most is still power.

"It's still in your hands. I haven't taken back your seal, so your power is definitely still in your hands. The working hours in the research institute and the academy are interchangeable. You are the person in charge in the academy, and during this time, I will find someone else to help you with your work in the research institute."

"No, I'm not going to the Academy of Sciences. My work at the institute doesn't require help from anyone else."

"Whatever. Are you going back to school after the summer?"

"No. When Xu Yingze is admitted to university next year, I might stay in school for a while."

"Xu Yingze is going back to school after the summer vacation?"

"She put her job location on campus, so she will definitely go back to school."

"Have they thought about going to the Academy of Sciences? I'm afraid high school students won't have enough time to do specific work after school starts. It would be good for them to go to the Academy of Sciences during the summer vacation and quickly accumulate working hours."

"Maybe. I'll go ask them this afternoon. Can the institute's regulations constrain them? Even if their working hours are not enough, it should be okay, right?"

"Don't always think about challenging the rules of the institute. If these rules can't even restrain the Medievalists, then what's the point of establishing and joining the institute?"

"Don't be too harsh on them."

"This sentence is worth your apology."

Zhao Yuxi had no intention of apologizing. She responded casually, "Okay, I know you won't be too harsh on them. After Xu Yingze and Mu Zhengguang went to the Academy of Sciences, who holds their power?"

She is an ancient being and a spokesperson. The dean probably won't compete with her for power. However, will the dean take the opportunity to take back the power of the medieval people?

"It must be in their own hands. I'm just finding them a helper to do their work. Don't think too much about it."

"That's true. If you don't have power, what's the point of joining the institute?"

"You yearn for power so much, but you don't want Ye Lianshi's six cities at all."

"You didn't call him back, so it's useless for me to want him."

Zhou Xutong said seriously: "President Zhao, call Ye Lianshi back. We need evidence."

"I don't want to take any more risks. I think nine cities are enough."

Zhou Xutong finally felt a little relieved: "You are right to think so."

(End of this chapter)