What perfume are you using? (Seeking follow-up)

The people in the President's office remained silent after hearing the programmer's words.

They had to admit that Luo Yao's intelligence was far higher than they had imagined.

If they hadn't witnessed the testing process firsthand, no one would have believed it.

Now, these people had only one thought.

The Creator was truly unfair!

What was wrong with giving a little bit of intelligence to others? Why did it all go to one person?

"It seems there's a reason Luo Yao could develop Pangu EDA. His intelligence alone is almost twice that of an average person. It doesn't seem odd that he could create Pangu EDA," Lu Gao said with a sigh.

Zheng Houfei's eyes were filled with admiration for Luo Yao. "Excellent! With such talent assisting Huaji, no matter how difficult the road ahead, we have nothing to fear!"

Taking advantage of Zheng Houfei's good mood, Peng Xun reminded him, "President Zheng, we need to determine Luo Yao's job grade now."

"Generally, people in the 'Genius Program' are usually assigned grades P16 to P20."

Zheng Houfei waved his hand dismissively and said with a smile, "Assign him grade 23."

"President Zheng, grade 23 is equivalent to an executive level."

"He's going to manage his own company in the future anyway, so assigning him grade 23 is appropriate. For his annual salary, just give him the salary for grade 23."

"Do any of you have other opinions?"

The others in the President's office said nothing.

An intelligence quotient above 230, and a job grade of 23 was not excessive at all!

If not for his young age, his job grade could have been even higher!

Peng Xun quickly relayed the news to Luo Yao, who was still in the testing room.

"Luo Yao, your job grade has been determined. It's grade 23. Within Huaji, this is a grade only executives can achieve! Congratulations!"

Luo Yao didn't reply. He was still feeling frustrated about the test results, only measuring 230. There must be a mistake!

"Your current annual salary is set at 3 million. Are there any issues with that?"

"Will my salary increase with future promotions?"

3 million? That money was enough for his family's daily expenses.

Luo Yao was quite satisfied with the salary. He was young now and had the backing of Huaji.

He believed that since the authorities had already been alerted, his position at Huaji was just a temporary arrangement.

However, there was one thing he needed to clarify: "If I develop new technologies in the future, will I only receive a fixed salary?"

He had already mastered the system's rules. As long as he completed the learning tasks assigned by the system, he would acquire new technologies. This way, he would definitely be able to produce more new technologies later on.

If the rewards for these technologies were included in his salary, it wouldn't be worthwhile.

"You don't need to worry about that. We will purchase them at the normal price, but we will give them to you in the form of bonuses, just like the Pangu EDA software this time."

Just an annual salary and dividends would definitely not compare to the value of the technologies he would produce.

Since they were willing to pay extra, he was relieved.

Luo Yao said, "Then when can I start working?"

"We'll process it now."

Peng Xun led Luo Yao out of the testing room. As soon as they stepped out, they saw the group of geniuses waiting outside.

"Mr. Peng, I saw the intelligence ranking on the internal network has changed. The first place is someone named Luo Yao. Is that him?" The person who had been drawing the EDA architecture diagram outside was now staring wide-eyed at Luo Yao, disbelievingly.

"Since you're all here, let me introduce you. This is Luo Yao. You've all seen his intelligence test results. He will be joining us next."

"Next, Luo Yao will establish a separate chip laboratory to primarily research and develop chip-related products. He will select suitable individuals from among you to join his laboratory."

Peng Xun's words were like a powerful bomb, instantly igniting the excitement of these geniuses.

"He's establishing a separate laboratory? What kind of treatment is that!"

"Even Sergei didn't get his own laboratory. It looks like his intelligence is indeed real!"

"An intelligence quotient over 230, this person really has some skills!"

A young man with brown hair and blue eyes walked directly up to Luo Yao from the side.

"Sergei, what are you doing?" Peng Xun felt a headache coming on as soon as he saw the person.

Sergei, 20 years old, with an IQ of 165, was currently the most intelligent person in the "Genius Program" besides Luo Yao. He was simple-minded and skilled at programming, but he had a problem with alcohol addiction, often getting completely drunk when he had an episode.

This was also why Huaji had not established a separate laboratory for him.

"Nothing, I'm just studying. What's the difference between people with an IQ of over 200 and us?" Sergei tilted his head slightly as he looked at Luo Yao.

"It's not over 200, it's 300," Luo Yao corrected him.

"What?" Sergei frowned.

"Never mind, you wouldn't understand even if I told you," Luo Yao suddenly decided it wasn't worth correcting others who misstated his intelligence as only over 200. It was a waste of time.

From Sergei's perspective, Luo Yao's attitude was dismissive, as if he wasn't worth speaking to. Sergei had never been treated this way before, but upon remembering that Luo Yao could intellectually crush him, Sergei chuckled and said, "Are you researching chips? It's fortunate that I'm skilled in programming and can help you."

Hearing this, the others wore strange expressions. Good heavens, Sergei was actually recommending himself.

"If you wanted to join my lab, you could have just said so. There was no need to deliberately come over and get my attention," Luo Yao said coldly, looking at Sergei and not understanding why he wasn't being direct.

"Just say it? And you would have agreed?" Sergei suddenly felt that Luo Yao was different from the Chinese people he had encountered.

"If you have the ability, why wouldn't I agree?" Luo Yao genuinely needed people to help him. For the future updates and iterations of Pangu EDA, he didn't want to hand it over to ordinary people, nor could he.

Therefore, he had to build his own team.

A team composed solely of geniuses.

A team that could provide him with assistance.

"Then I want to participate too!" Edra, who looked like a spitting image of Christiane Jory, eagerly walked up to Luo Yao, displaying her astonishing beauty.

Ugh, why does this woman's perfume smell so strong.

Luo Yao took three steps back and asked, "What perfume are you using?"

Edra, not understanding, still answered honestly, "Black Crow."

"From now on, this perfume is banned in my lab."

"Also, you can send your resumes to my email. President Peng will give you my email address." Feeling like his brain was about to suffocate, Luo Yao didn't dare to stay a moment longer and practically fled out of the geniuses' workspace.

He vaguely heard Edra calling from behind, "What the heck, is he sick?!"

Peng Xun was there to comfort her, "Don't be angry, Luo Yao is just a bit too straightforward."

Sergei, on the other hand, burst into laughter, "This guy is too funny! His EQ is even lower than mine, he doesn't even put Edra in his eyes."

Edra was furious and took her anger out on Sergei, who then let out a scream.

Luo Yao walked away, gradually no longer hearing their voices.

Luo Yao didn't care about any of that; he had more important things to do.

Professor Xia Qing sent a text message, asking him to schedule an interview time for Wu Tianming and the other two.

Luo Yao felt that Professor Xia was one of the few intelligent people he had met, so he took Professor Xia's words to heart.

He stood outside waiting for Peng Xun to come out. When he saw Peng Xun, he didn't ask how the geniuses inside were doing. Peng Xun didn't dare to waste his time and took him to complete the onboarding procedures.

After receiving his work ID, employee email, and internal IM account, Luo Yao said, "President Peng, if I want to recruit people for the lab, what is the process?"

"Lab recruitment? This area is actually handled by HRBP, but your lab is currently a key project for Huaji, so I'll be in charge of this."

"Whatever you need, I'll push it through."

"Okay, this afternoon, I'm going to hold a recruitment."

An hour later, Wu Tianming, Wang Ye, and Tang Dong at East University of Technology received notification to attend an interview at Liu Shangpo that afternoon.

"Why do you two look not particularly happy? We're going to Huaji! Do you know? If we can go to Huaji, we might be able to learn key technologies!"

"When we come out later, no matter what we do, people will flock to us, believe it or not!" Tang Dong said to Wu Tianming and Wang Ye.

Wu Tianming and Wang Ye hadn't been able to contact Luo Yao, so they were in no mood to entertain Tang Dong.

Seeing that neither of them spoke, Tang Dong said sourly, "However, you probably look down on these things. You're the third son of a pharmaceutical group, and he's the young master of an antique dealer. You probably wouldn't care about this."

"Hey, what are you saying? My family is my family, what does that have to do with me! If I was really doing that well, why would I come here to study microelectronics? Am I crazy!"

Wang Ye had grown up with his father in the antique shop, dealing with all sorts of people, and his mouth was definitely not used to being appeased.

Trying to mock him?

Go ahead for the rest of your life!

"Wang Ye, don't be angry. I think the three of us will basically pass the interview this time."

"Professor Xia Qing personally selected us. Even if they don't look at the monk's face, they have to look at the Buddha's face. The afternoon exam is just a formality!"

"It's a pity about that Luo Yao, though."

"He skipped class several times, I don't know what's going on."

Wu Tianming knew that Tang Dong was unhappy that Luo Yao's strength surpassed his, so he seized the opportunity to kick him while he was down.

Now that Tang Dong brought this up, was he going to play some new trick?

"Luo Yao definitely took leave, why are you spreading rumors?" Wu Tianming frowned slightly, thinking that Tang Dong was just bored and spent all day worrying about Luo Yao.

"What rumors am I spreading? Am I not concerned about a fellow student?"

"Professor Xia is in his office now. I'll go ask Professor Xia, and then I'll know."

The reason Tang Dong went to ask Professor Xia wasn't out of concern for Luo Yao, but to remind Professor Xia that Luo Yao hadn't submitted his homework and had skipped class.

He didn't believe that Professor Xia, who was known for his strictness, wouldn't deal with Luo Yao.

What good was being good at your major if you didn't respect the teacher? It was still a dead end!

In the end, wasn't it students like him who received the most attention from the teacher?

Did people come to university to study?

That would be too foolish and naive!

For Tang Dong, one of the important tasks of attending university was to get to know all sorts of awesome professors, so that he could ensure he had connections later to help him smooth over any problems.