"Yo? You don't have to go to the state capital for a meeting today?"
"I said I had something to do and took leave directly. Annual Leave."
It seemed that the people on the other side were getting more and more addicted to this game. They really wanted to recruit Lu PingAn, this high-tier combatant who was so easy to deal with, into the system and have him play bureaucratic games with them.
So Lu PingAn went through the proper procedures and filed a leave request, stating that he "needed to work away from home for a year."
"A year of leave counts as Annual Leave too. Uh, close enough."
But now that Lu PingAn had finished most of the trivial matters, he had no interest in continuing to play along with them.
He had said what needed to be said and left behind all the contact information. It was time to come back and do some real work.
"Chris, how is it? Is it possible?"
After settling on the research direction, Lu PingAn had handed a preliminary proposal to Big Cat and asked her to conduct a feasibility study.
In a sense, high-tier Life-type professionals also moonlighted as researchers. Once they settled on a research direction, they had to consider whether it could actually be achieved.
Lu PingAn felt like a graduate student who had handed his graduation project proposal to his advisor for review. He was hopeful and uneasy, but what he feared most was having it tossed back with a single sentence.
"Wishful thinking. Complete nonsense."
Well, Big Cat was very straightforward.
".If it were anyone else, that's what I would say. But you seem to have already gathered quite a few components. It might be possible."
At last, Lu PingAn breathed a sigh of relief.
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