coobybook Chapter 1247 Yun Rui's sincerity: Two similar people
Chapter 1247 Yun Rui's sincerity: Two similar people
The crystal chandelier on the library's dome cast a cold white light, and Lin Xu's fingers, which were flipping through Frontiers in Catalytic Dynamics, suddenly stopped.
Wang Lei and Li Wen stood between the bookshelves, their shadows stretched out by the ceiling light, like two scars cutting through the air.
"Lin Xu, Professor Zhou said that as long as you come back..." Li Wen's deliberately low voice was interrupted by the sound of flipping books. Lin Xu didn't even raise his head: "Let him do it himself."
Wang Lei clenched the experimental report in his hand, and the corners of the paper were wrinkled by cold sweat.
He thought of the seventh beaker that Zhou Zhengming had smashed in the lab last night, and the phone call from the school leader.
The ultimatum of "must be resolved within three days" was given, and he squeezed out a sentence with his Adam's apple rolling: "This seminar is related to the rating of the entire team."
"So you're using me as a firefighter?" Lin Xu finally raised his head, his eyes behind the glasses like ice. "When the rumors were at their worst, why didn't you stand up and say something? Why didn't you say anything when you silently told me to withdraw? Now that you're short of people, you think of me?"
His voice was not loud, but it froze the air instantly. Li Wen stared at the mosaic tiles on the floor, remembering how she had followed everyone else to avoid Lin Xu's gaze, and her nails dug deep into her palms.
A gust of wind suddenly blew outside the window, making the half-open window sash clang.
Wang Lei looked at Lin Xu's stubborn jawline and suddenly remembered the day when Gu Yunxi was suspended. The boy also stuck his neck out and refused to explain.
"We were wrong." He suddenly spoke in a hoarse voice, "We shouldn't have treated you with cold violence. It was us..."
"That's enough." Lin Xu closed the book, and the metal bookmark made a crisp sound. "This is not something that can be solved by an apology."
When he stood up, he knocked over a chair, and the wooden legs of the chair made a harsh sound as they scratched the ground. The administrator who was originally sitting in front of the computer immediately heard the news and moved, looking ready to take action.
"Go back and tell Professor Zhou that I have written a self-review and admitted my mistakes. In order to atone for my sins to you two, I have voluntarily withdrawn! Don't come to me again. I don't owe anyone anything!"
Although Lin Xu lowered his voice, every word he spoke was sonorous. Not only did it make Wang Lei and Li Wen so embarrassed that they couldn't even raise their heads, it also caused quite a commotion among the people around them!
Some even took out their cell phones to capture everything in front of them...
As dusk deepened, the fluorescent lights in the laboratory cast hazy circles of light in the rain.
Zhou Zhengming cursed at the latest version of the experimental data, spitting on Li Wen's face: "You can't even do a calibration! Are you hoping that the project will fail?"
He grabbed the thermos and smashed it against the wall. The moment the ceramic fragments flew, his cell phone vibrated on the desk - the accountability text message from the school leader was like a sharp blade, cutting his temple and making it throb.
"Professor Zhou, the school recommends that you retire early due to your health condition." The voice of the school office director came from the other end of the phone. Zhou Zhengming was about to defend himself but the phone did not ring. The cold voice of the school leader continued to come from the other end!
"We originally gave the project to him in the hope of suppressing Gu Yunxi's momentum, but we ended up raising a useless person!" The sound of shuffling documents came from the receiver, "Notify Gu Yunxi that she must return to her post tomorrow. She can't escape the consequences!"
Zhou Zhengming's lips trembled. He never expected that he had fallen out of favor in just a few days. He tried to calm his breathing, but at the moment his lips moved, he heard the cold hang-up sound from the other end!
At this moment, all his strength was drained away. Not only did his whole body become limp, but the color on his face quickly faded!
The person on the other side did it on purpose, on purpose...
At this moment, Gu Yunxi was sitting in the corner of a coffee shop in the west of the city, staring at the rain outside the window in a daze.
The phone screen lit up, and it was a message from Gu Yunqian: The school is putting pressure on me and requires you to return to your post tomorrow.
She turned the coffee cup in her hand, and the brown liquid drew winding lines on the wall of the cup, which looked very much like the intricate power struggles on campus.
Ever since she was suspended, she had seen through this farce - it was just that some people were wary of her background and wanted to support their direct descendants to take the position, and the appearance of Lin Xu was just an excuse for them to suppress them.
Late at night in the laboratory, Wang Lei and Li Wen were still working overtime. The blue light of the oscilloscope reflected their tired faces. Li Wen suddenly smiled bitterly: "What did we do wrong? Why do we have to bear all their struggles in the end?"
Wang Lei pursed his lips, and it was obvious that he was filled with emotion. No matter which side they were on, they had become victims of the power struggle among the school leaders!
The funny thing is that they really fell for it at the beginning...
There were footsteps in the corridor, and Zhou Zhengming, drunk, pushed open the door of the laboratory. "Have you found Lin Xu?!" His tie was hanging crookedly around his neck. "If this project fails, none of you will have a good life!"
Wang Lei clenched his fists and then unclenched them. He knew that in this game of power, students would always be the most powerless pawns.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, hitting the glass windows like a dense drumbeat.
Lin Xu looked at the few windows of the Chemistry Building in the distance that were still lit, and vaguely saw Gu Yunxi working at his desk.
His fingertips unconsciously stroked the cold metal handle of the windowsill, and the scientific research ideas that were destroyed by rumors surged in his mind again.
He remembered what Gu Yunxi said, "Scientific research does not allow for any compromise," and his throat tightened - how could he bow to this absurd farce?
At the same time, the clock on the wall of the cafe showed ten o'clock.
Gu Yunxi pushed the cold coffee aside and the screen of his mobile phone lit up again. It was the third message from the school office urging him to resume his job.
Her eyes swept across the distorted light and shadows of the neon signs outside the window in the rain, and she thought of Lin Xu concentrating on debugging the instruments in the laboratory, and a bitter smile appeared at the corner of her lips.
Those people thought they could use power to make her surrender, but they forgot that true persistence will never be easily broken.
In the laboratory, Zhou Zhengming's roar penetrated the tightly closed door: "Unless you can find Lin Xu, none of you can leave!"
Wang Lei stared at the messy waveform on the oscilloscope and suddenly took off his lab gloves. "It's useless! He has made up his mind to ask you to go to him in person. Professor Zhou, if you really want to do this for the good of the project, just give in."
Li Wen silently wiped the residue of the beaker that was broken by Zhou Zhengming, and her eyes fell on the draft book left by Lin Xu in the corner. Those unfinished formulas seemed to be silently accusing her.
Only Zhou Zhengming stubbornly insisted on his position. The school leaders had made a decision, but he did not leave as decisively as Gu Yunxi did at that time...
On the other side, Lin Xu turned and walked to the desk, opened the drawer, and took out the crumpled and smoothed seminar invitation.
In the warm yellow light of the desk lamp, he picked up a red pen and made a heavy mark in the "Reporter" column - this was his attitude and also his resistance.
The rain outside the window was getting heavier, hitting the anti-theft net with dense noise, but it could not cover the sound of him typing on the keyboard. New research ideas were gradually taking shape in the document.
Gu Yunxi pushed open the door of the cafe, and the autumn rain, carrying a chill, blew in his face.
She looked up at the dark night sky and let the rain wet her face.
Her cell phone kept vibrating in her bag, but she walked straight towards the subway station.
As the train roared through the tunnel, she closed her eyes in the darkness, and the copper sulfate crystals placed in the laboratory appeared in her mind. At this moment, they should have been covered with a thin layer of dust. It was not until the ringing of her cell phone mixed with the train announcement that her thoughts were brought back to reality.
"Professor! Please persuade Lin Xu!" Li Wen cried on the phone, "Professor Zhou was dismissed. The school leaders said that if the project fails again, the entire team will be disbanded!"
Gu Yunxi clenched her phone tightly, her knuckles turning white. She remembered Lin Xu's stubborn eyes, and the boy's red eyes when she was suspended.
"Let's just break up. We can't go against God's will." She took a deep breath. "Besides, what right do I have to persuade him?"