Investigating the mysterious organization? Lucy: Is this Great Xia Kung Fu?

These schools were his way of giving back to his hometown.

As for whether specifying the construction of schools in Northwest Province would lead people there to guess he was from Northwest Province?

Lu Ze didn't give it much thought. It would be a miracle if they could figure it out. Northwest Province had tens of millions of people, and the number of overseas Chinese and those of Chinese descent was countless.

Who would be foolish enough to suspect that he, a public-funded master's student who had only been abroad for less than a year, could acquire technology of this caliber?

On the contrary, this could also lead them in the wrong direction, which was one of Lu Ze's secondary goals.

"With the construction of a thousand schools now, the urgent need should be greatly alleviated."

Lu Ze sighed with a touch of melancholy and helplessness. "The educational environment in my hometown is still too barren."

His hometown was not only in Northwest Province, which was relatively underdeveloped in Great Xia, but it was also a typical impoverished county within the province.

When he was in elementary and middle school, it was still the 1990s. At that time, there were only a few schools in the entire town. Lu Ze had been boarding at the town's school since middle school, only able to go home once every two weeks.

One reason was the scarcity of schools; there wasn't even a primary school in several nearby villages. Since boarding wasn't an option in primary school, they had to brave the severe cold and scorching heat, trekking for one to two hours to get to school.

With these thousand schools, this phenomenon should be greatly eased.

He thought about the second issue. "As for the teaching staff, the Great Xia Academy of Sciences should handle that, right?"

Since Great Xia had promised to build a thousand schools, they would definitely not just build them without assigning teachers. This was not in line with Great Xia's usual practices.

"My hometown's development should be much better now than when I was there. The last time I went back, I saw they had even built roads in the village," Lu Ze's eyes flickered with memories.

He hadn't been home for more than half a year in a flash. For the past two to three months, he hadn't even spoken to his family on the phone.

The last contact he remembered was at the end of January, during the Lunar New Year.

After all, he was now studying abroad in Eagle Country. Unlike when he was in university and could occasionally visit home during the Lunar New Year, or even stay home for a month or two during summer break if he couldn't find a suitable part-time job, he used to call his family frequently.

But here in Eagle Country, international calls from Great Xia cost several RMB per second, which was outrageously expensive.

So, his family tried to call him only after a considerable interval, and they had to be mindful of the time when they hung up.

Lu Ze took a deep breath. "I should go back home during the summer break."

"Otherwise, the dog at home will have forgotten me."

As a public-funded international student, Great Xia generally only covered his round-trip airfare. If he wanted to return to China during his studies, he had to bear the airfare himself.

Fortunately, he had saved quite a bit of money, so returning home during the summer break was not a problem.

After he was hired by the LLNL Laboratory, although the usual two to three-month summer break had been drastically shortened to about two weeks, it was still barely enough.

He glanced at the system information on the light screen.

[Achievement Points: 8500 points!]

"Should I do some draws?" Looking at the Achievement Points, which were less than ten thousand, Lu Ze frowned in thought.

"Never mind, I'll wait until Monday when the replication count refreshes."

By then, he would have over ten thousand Achievement Points and could directly perform a ten-thousand-point Blue Draw.

After all, a Blue Draw had a chance to yield purple items, and even a very small chance to get gold.

Then, a White Draw would probably have an extremely small chance of yielding purple. He didn't think he had such good luck every time.

After replicating next week, he would spend all his Achievement Points in one go.

Meanwhile, at the Great Xia Academy of Sciences.

Watching the email on the screen, the two men remained stunned and blank-minded, unable to reply for a long time.

After a few minutes.

Zhang Yuli seemed to snap back to reality, wondering if he had misread something. "He used his ten billion US dollar reward entirely to build schools in Northwest Province?"

"What is he trying to do?"

Even now, he was still one hundred percent shocked by the mysterious person's decision.

That was a full seven billion RMB, and it was all being used to build schools? What kind of magnanimity was this?

Last year, Northwest Province's entire fiscal revenue was only a little over twenty billion, and its total education funding was just over three billion.

This seven billion was equivalent to one-third of Northwest Province's fiscal revenue and double its education funding.

"Why Northwest Province? Why not other places or the entire Great Xia?"

Zheng Lixing looked at Zhang Yuli and asked, "Could it be that this mysterious person is from Northwest Province?"

If his hometown was in Northwest Province, then it would be logical for him to make such a decision. Otherwise, it made no sense.

"Old Zhang, do we need to investigate this in detail?"

Hearing this, Zhang Yuli waved his hand decisively. "No need to investigate anything. How can you investigate among so many people in Northwest Province?"

"Besides, does it matter to us where he's from?"

The mysterious person using his ten billion US dollar reward to build schools in Great Xia, what harm could that do to Great Xia? There was no need to go out of his way to investigate.

Besides, could they investigate everything? What would they do if they actually found something?

Why would they do something that yielded no benefit at all?

"I was too focused on one way of thinking, got stuck in a mental rut," Zheng Lixing said, slapping his forehead in annoyance. "No matter where they're from or who they are, as long as they're beneficial to Great Xia, that's all that matters."

For Zheng Lixing, an elder immersed in scientific research for decades, his ingrained habit of digging deep and understanding every detail of a matter still hadn't changed. This was precisely why he had previously refused the position of President of the Great Xia Academy of Sciences.

Research required understanding every point, but politics demanded learning to feign ignorance.

Zhang Yuli's eyes revealed a bright sharpness. "Moreover, there's an even more critical issue that we need to investigate."

"What critical issue?"

"Have you noticed that this mysterious person has consistently been saying 'we'!" Zhang Yuli stared at the email content on the screen, emphasizing those two words heavily.

"'We'?? Doesn't that mean..."

Before Zheng Lixing could voice his guess, Zhang Yuli decisively concluded, "This mysterious person is definitely not alone; they might even be an organization."

"That's why they kept using the word 'we'!"

One person versus an organization – these were entirely different levels of concept.

Being able to nonchalantly obtain top-tier technology like the F-22 repeatedly from Eagle Country was something no single individual could achieve.

"Hiss," Zheng Lixing gasped, taking in a sharp breath. "So, the person who contacted us might not even be from Great Xia."

The more he thought about it, the more it seemed plausible.

The ones who truly wanted to build a thousand schools in Northwest Province might have been hiding behind the scenes all along, without contacting them directly.

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