Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 885: 458

"Now everyone knows that you have a unique eye for investment..."

"Blah blah blah~~~"

Zhao Yi could only listen with a smile, and eventually, even the smile disappeared.

What the heck!

If you have a good investment project, just say it? Why should I tell you? Are you sick!

Zhao Yi also understood that the other party just wanted to meet him and casually brought up recent events as a topic for conversation, not really asking him about investment, but still, he felt somewhat annoyed.

The main point... it wasn’t just one person!

Several others came over to talk about the same thing, even admiring him as "the richest academician," mentioning how valuable the shares of Yutu Robot Company are, and so on.

Zhao Yi eventually started avoiding these conversations and sat down with a few acquaintances, but even the ones he knew seemed to like talking about it.

Qiu Chengwen was also one of the attendees.

He said to Zhao Yi, "Your investment was very successful, generating returns many times over. I’ve been following Yutu Robot, and their R-os base is quite good; I estimate it will have great development potential in the future."

"Oh~~"

Zhao Yi replied indifferently, "Just lucky!"

Qiu Chengwen noticed Zhao Yi seemed not interested in the topic and frankly stopped bringing it up, then started talking about the conference. He had only attended once the year before last; he wasn’t even invited last year, "My attendance is useless; I’m just an audience member."

Zhao Yi asked with interest, "What’s being discussed at the conference?"

Qiu Chengwen replied, "Mainly setting the tone and discussing the broad direction of technological investment. I was invited this time because there’s a related topic on the agenda."

"What topic?"

"The collider!"

Qiu Chengwen shook his head, "The authorities asked for my opinion, and I agreed with Professor Yang; we both opposed it. This time, I think a decision will be made. As you know, many in the Physics Division of the Science Academy support it, and there’s also high demand from some related institutions."

"Mm-hmm."

Zhao Yi considered for a moment and nodded.

The construction of a large collider had been discussed for several years; the authorities were likely considering upgrading the High Energy Institute’s electron-positron collider, which no longer met the demands of the times. European large particle colliders, with their discriminatory practices toward domestic research teams, always imposed various restrictions, preventing fairness and equity. For this reason, it was considered to build our own collider domestically.

But...

The project is just too expensive!

There was a chorus of support and opposition in the domestic academic community. Unable to make a direct decision, the authorities simply moved the discussion to the year-end scientific and technological strategy conference.

"Probably, you were invited for this reason," Qiu Chengwen, unaware of Zhao Yi’s involvement with the Aviation Group’s project, thought his invitation was due to the collider topic. The science and technology strategy conference touched on many military topics related to national defense and technology development strategies. For ordinary scholars with high research achievements, there was not much relation to such a conference.

Zhao Yi was invited, but not due to any topic; rather, as the head of the "Warhawk Group," his team’s research was directly involved in national defense strategy, which qualified him for attendance.

Besides, Zhao Yi was among the most renowned scientists in the country with a personal technological research capability at the world’s top level.

On certain key topics, his opinion was highly valued.

However...

At the conference, the vast majority of topics involved national defense, military development, and technology strategy, most of which had no direct, or even indirect, connection to Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi felt his eyelids fighting as he listened.

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Unwittingly succumbing to drowsiness, he rested his chin on his hands, closed his eyes, and fell asleep. A few old academicians, including Qiu Chengwen, sitting beside him wanted to laugh at the sight but could understand Zhao Yi’s feelings, as the topics under discussion were irrelevant to them as well.

Suddenly.

Zhao Yi awoke!

He abruptly opened his eyes, his expression turning stern.

"What’s wrong?"

"What happened? Did you have a nightmare..."

"Could be!" those who noticed Zhao Yi mused with an amused glint in their eyes. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

In truth, Zhao Yi was startled awake by the system.

Several notifications appeared on the system panel—

[Extra rest gained, Study Coin +2.]

[Study Coins: 54001.]

[Special Reminder: With Study Coin balance exceeding 54000, a new ability can be activated.]

Zhao Yi immediately chose to activate it upon waking.

[Activating new ability!]

[Study Coins -56000!]

[You have acquired the new ability "Derivation Law"!]

["Derivation Law": The Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two give birth to three. You can now rely on real-life entities to deduce higher-tiered entities or laws from the fundamental ones.]