Chapter 242 Ark
After Wang Xiaohai was expelled, he was targeted by various forces just as Rong Yuan expected. The agreement between Rong Yuan and Jin Nan was secret. From the perspective of the top leaders of the Sugar Country, they naturally did not want any information leaks to occur. The cause and effect of the change in the institute could not be hidden from their eyes and ears. Naturally, they knew that they could not convince Rong Yuan to put him back. Therefore, as soon as Wang Xiaohai left the institute, he entered a state of compulsory protection.
In any system, the more people involved, the greater the possibility of mistakes. The same is true for Wang Xiaohai's imprisonment protection. After several parties' game, a foreign force successfully infiltrated the protection circle and contacted Wang Xiaohai. Wang Xiaohai agreed to the other party's conditions without much persuasion because he had almost no future in Tangguo and he hated Rongyuan and Tangguo because of his expulsion. But he knew why the other party was willing to rebel at all costs, so he held on to the intelligence he knew and refused to say a word, insisting that he would not let go until the other party smuggled him safely abroad and fulfilled all the conditions regarding money, power and treatment.
After careful planning, mobilizing a large amount of resources, and several hard battles, Wang Xiaohai finally left the Sugar Country smoothly, leaving his family behind. Unexpectedly, when he just set foot on foreign land, he died in a short time after drinking a glass of water because of thirst. All the people who escorted him were also killed at the same time, and all the belongings they carried with them were destroyed.
After this incident, the spies lurking in the Sugar Country, especially the personnel of a certain country who successfully captured Wang Xiaohai, were almost uprooted. The step-by-step and "cunning" of the Sugar Country also left a deep impression on various countries. As for the "cunning" Sugar Country itself, it was actually doing its best to prevent the infiltration of foreign spies at first. It was because they all believed in the mission and tried their best that the enemy did not suspect. In addition to Rong Yuan, only one or two people in the upper echelons knew about Jin Nan's back-up plan. After this, Jin Nan's ability was once again proven and recognized by the upper echelons.
As for Rong Yuan, he had not paid attention to anything except taking a look at the message from Jin Nan when everything was over. Expelling Wang Xiaohai from the institute was his most important goal, and the other added value was just a side job. Even if Wang Xiaohai did successfully leak the information, he didn't care. Because in his eyes, compared to what he was about to do, everything in the institute was just dregs that could be discarded at any time.
What everyone saw was that the several projects that the institute had focused on in the past were all assigned to Rong Yuan, even if handing them over to other people would extend the research time several times. He is currently busy setting up a new laboratory branch, and all matters in it are highly confidential. All everyone knows is that Dr. Rong has once again abandoned his familiar profession and set foot in a new field. For this new research, he not only transferred one-fifth of the original personnel of the institute, but also admitted more than 100 people at one time in the latest assessment, and directly recruited more than 70 new people from the public, bypassing the examination and recommendations of other colleges and universities. It can be said that this is the largest recruitment since the establishment of the institute... No, perhaps it should be said that in the history of Sugar Country, no institute has ever admitted new people like this.
But because it was Rong Yuan, this unreasonable recruitment was finally completed smoothly, and people's expectations for what results he would eventually produce were unprecedentedly high.
In this large-scale admission, Aimiruda and Xiao A successfully changed their identities and joined the research with new identities. After two failures, Zhou Yuan finally succeeded in obtaining the qualification to enter the institute in the third assessment.
However, compared with the number of students admitted each year, surprisingly, year after year, the glory of the institute where new creative inventions would come out every one or two months at most has become a thing of the past. The once famous 907 Institute has now become sluggish and inefficient. Although there are still results, they are all some patchwork scraps, and no invention is named after Rong Yuan.
——In fact, compared to other research centers that usually need several years or even decades to produce results, the 907 Institute is still efficient and productive. But compared to its own history, it seems to be declining, and rumors that Rong Yuan has run out of ideas are rampant. In addition, its output does not match the huge investment of the Sugar Government, and many people have complaints about this. In the parliamentary vote, the institute almost lost its original almost unlimited funding supply. In fact, the proposal to limit the funding supply of the 907 Institute was not passed in the end only because the number of people against it exceeded the number of people in favor.
That crucial vote was cast by the Speaker of the Sugar Country Parliament.
"Rong Yuan, do we need to come up with one or two heavyweight achievements to shut those people up?"
When the conflict was at its most intense, Wandou had asked this question. The almost completely closed environment of the research institute made the experimenters unaware of the criticism from the outside world, but with Noah around, Rongyuan and Wandou knew it all. In the past few years, they have sorted out the scientific and technological information that Rongyuan brought back from Biqiu Star and have thoroughly understood a small part of it. There is a lot of knowledge that can completely subvert the existing basic scientific theories on Earth, and there are even more epoch-making inventions - or should I say all of them. It is easy to throw out one or two "research results" to slap them in the face.
"No hurry." Rong Yuan said calmly, "Although we have neglected these things because we are focusing on the 'Ark', this is a good opportunity to see some things clearly."
"What do you see clearly?" Pea asked in confusion. By the way, the code name of Rongyuan's new project is "Ark", which just happens to match Noah's name. The intelligent computer was so happy about this that it almost messed up the program.
"Before I launched the project, I submitted a report according to the rules, and I also said that it would take a long time - any research is boring and lengthy. Now the pressure from public opinion has suddenly increased to the extent that it can affect the resolution of the Sugar Country Parliament. Of course, it is due to my silence in recent years, but it is also inevitably due to the instigation of some people with ulterior motives." Rong Yuan's eyes were sharp and deep, his slightly raised eyebrows were like crow wings, and his words were also cold: "If the chairman of the parliament can stand firm this time, it will be fine. If he can't bear it or chooses to compromise, then..."
He did not say what came after "then", but it was not difficult to guess the implication.
Wandou thought for a long time and couldn't help asking, "Rongyuan, is it true that no matter what happens, it will become an opportunity that you can take advantage of?"
Rong Yuan was stunned for a moment, then chuckled and said, "Of course not... Have you forgotten? There have been times when I have fallen into danger because of miscalculations. In this situation now, I can only say that since things have developed to this point, I am just taking advantage of the situation."
Fortunately, in the end, things still developed in the most ideal way. In fact, Rong Yuan also knew that behind that narrow victory, there were many persuasions, negotiations, and interest exchanges by Jin Nan and others, but he did not pay attention to the efforts made by those people during the period, and only judged success or failure by the results. Seeing the satisfactory results, Rong Yuan would not deliberately make things difficult for those who supported him. He soon launched a new plant that could control soil desertification within a few months. In order to avoid biological invasion, there was also a matching inhibitor. After the trial, it triggered a wave of discussion around the world in a very short time. Some people even used exaggerated words such as "the return of the king" to describe Rong Yuan's new product.
In each subsequent season, under Rong Yuan's leadership, a new invention related to people's livelihood would be introduced, which not only pushed the reputation of the institute to an unparalleled height, but also hinted to everyone that he could actually do more.
From then on, there was no more questioning voice.
The outside world thinks that Dr. Rong, who has endless new inventions, must be very complacent, but in fact, Rong Yuan treats it as a daily task that he doesn't like but has to do. After all, no matter how good the technology of alien planets is, it can't be tailor-made for the earth. Rong Yuan always has to make great improvements and reorganizations, and even change it into a different form due to the limitation of earth's resources and in order to adapt to the environment here. This is naturally not easy, and it also prevents him from investing all his energy into the research of "Ark".
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In the sixth year after returning to the institute, the "Ark" project had been mostly completed. Rong Yuan was reviewing the latest progress when he suddenly heard Noah say, "Rong Yuan, Wu Xi is behaving unusually."
"Wu Xi?" Rong Yuan's mind was still on the project, and he didn't remember who Wu Xi was for a moment.
"Yes." Noah now knew Rong Yuan very well. He knew what he was asking just by hearing the tone of his voice. He did not foolishly ask Rong Yuan if he had forgotten what he had said. Instead, he reminded him, "Six years ago, you asked me to keep a close eye on him. But for the past six years, this man has been working diligently as an actor. Apart from becoming more famous, there has been no abnormality. But from three days ago to now, his behavior pattern has changed significantly."
"Tell me more specifically." Rong Yuan also remembered it, and at the same time he also remembered the strange string sound he heard from Wu Xi at that time.
Noah didn't dare to be long-winded and said briefly: "A month ago, Wu Xi took on a new movie script that everyone was looking forward to. Two weeks ago, the filming started. Three days ago, the director of the film was exposed for having a secret relationship with a female star and causing her death. The filming of the film was put on hold indefinitely. But according to my investigation, the mastermind behind the scandal was Wu Xi, the male lead."
"Did he do it on purpose? What's his purpose? Is there a conflict with the crew?" Rong Yuan asked, but even he himself did not quite believe this possibility, nor did he think that Wu Xi intended to act as a messenger of justice - in that circle, this must not be the first time he has seen such a thing.
"The purpose is still unclear." Noah said, "But on the third day after he left the crew after the filming was stopped, he suddenly accepted a watch endorsement from Juniper Country and secretly went to L City in that country with only a few people."
"Juniper Country?" Rong Yuan frowned. That country was also a long-established power, but as Nut Country and Sugar Country became increasingly powerful, that country became more and more low-key. The most news about it was actually about climate change, so he asked, "Is there any news from that place recently?"
Noah had obviously done the preliminary investigation work long ago. Hearing this, he immediately said, "The biggest news right now is the sudden outbreak of influenza centered in L City."
