Eagle Sauce Is Powerful, but What Does That Have to Do with You? (Please Bookmark! Please Read On!)

After hanging up, a series of measures was announced at the same time.

None of them found this surprising.

After all, the mysterious person's contribution was simply too great.

Calling him Great Xia Aviation's benefactor would not have been an exaggeration at all. It was hardly strange for him to receive such treatment.

Zhang Yuli looked at Liu Zhixue. "Old Liu, can you contact that mysterious person now?"

Liu Zhixue shook his head. "He is unwilling to reveal any personal information. At present, we can only contact him through the Great Xia Academy of Sciences' email system."

"That makes things troublesome."

These instructions and orders from above had to be conveyed to the person concerned somehow, didn't they?

Zhang Yuli frowned. After pondering on the spot for a moment, he said, "Send another email to contact that mysterious person."

"Yes, Director. I'll contact him right away!"

Just as Liu Zhixue took out the laptop he had been holding in his arms—

"Right, did you take confidentiality measures when you contacted him before?"

Zhang Yuli asked uneasily. Matters involving secrecy were never trivial, much less this kind of crucial information that had broken through the heavens.

"Don't worry. I've re-encrypted and stored everything related to those emails," Liu Zhixue said with a solemn expression.

Even the laptop in his hands was a specially encrypted communications device used for military industry purposes.

"That still isn't enough. Whether it's completely sealing away all information in the Great Xia Academy of Sciences' email system or the computers previously used to receive the emails, everything needs to be destroyed." Zhang Yuli's eyes were grave. "Whether in reality or online, we cannot leave behind any traces!"

"Including your call records. You must ensure they are completely cleared every single time, eliminating any risk of them being obtained."

Hearing this, Liu Zhixue and Song Qinyi nodded solemnly.

Faced with information this important, no amount of caution was excessive. Not a single piece of information could be leaked!

At Duke University.

It was a little past five in the afternoon.

After loafing around in the Materials Science Laboratory for two hours, Lu Ze headed back to the dormitory.

His life had always been this simple: studying, the cafeteria, the laboratory where he loafed around every day, and the dormitory.

He normally never took part in social activities and rarely showed off his so-called personal charisma. That was why he had always been excluded from Duke University's circles.

After all, in the Western world, learning how to toast was the first step toward crossing their threshold. Even Stephen Hawking would have to stand up and make a trip to Lolita Island, much less an international student like Lu Ze in a foreign land.

Yet even if you obediently raised your glass, you could only be a bootlicker on the outskirts of their circle. Want to enter their core circle? Dream on!

After those thoughts flashed through his mind, Lu Ze pushed open the dorm room door.

Suddenly.

He discovered that the bed beside him, which was usually always empty, had actually made a sound for once.

"Lu Ze, you're back so early?" someone asked.

He had dyed blond hair, and his clothes and overall appearance were steeped in petty-bourgeois affectation. Even an exquisite brooch was pinned to his chest, glittering brightly.

If not for the flawless Chinese he spoke, people might have thought he was an Asian mixed-race person born and raised in Eagle Sauce.

"Mm." Lu Ze simply nodded in reply, offering no further words.

This strangely dressed man was his roommate, Li Yijie.

Lu Ze did not think highly of him. He had only been studying abroad in Eagle Sauce for seven or eight months, yet he had already completely Westernized every aspect of his lifestyle.

He had even started to think eating with chopsticks was a "bad habit."

If not for wanting to save some housing expenses, Lu Ze would not have wanted to share a dorm with him at all.

Fortunately, Li Yijie frequently attended so-called "social parties," and might not spend even one day a month in the dormitory.

Lu Ze was more than happy to have some peace and quiet.

Suddenly.

"By the way, Lu Ze, you'll be a second-year graduate student soon. What are your plans after getting your master's degree?" Li Yijie asked as he polished his shiny leather shoes, sounding rather casual.

"...What do you mean by that?" Lu Ze looked confused.

What else could he do if he did not return home? Did that even need asking?

"I mean, surely you aren't still planning to return home after graduating with your master's?" Li Yijie looked at Lu Ze, seemingly waiting for what he considered the most reasonable answer.

However.

Hearing that, Lu Ze was so irritated by Li Yijie's bizarre train of thought that he laughed. "Did you forget what my status is?!"

"I'm a government-sponsored international student. What else would I do after graduating if not return home?"

As a government-sponsored international student, all of his overseas expenses—housing, living costs, and everything else—were paid for by Great Xia.

His monthly living stipend of over a thousand US Dollars was more than the combined monthly income of most working families back home!

The round-trip airfare subsidy alone was more than many white-collar workers earned in a year.

Would it make any sense if he did not return after graduating? Would he even still be human?

"You're planning to go back home?" Li Yijie's smile faded.

With shock in his voice, he continued, "The opportunities in Eagle Sauce are so good. We're master's students in Duke University's Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. You could easily find a job in Eagle Sauce's Bay Area paying several thousand, even over ten thousand US Dollars a month. Higher-level engineers earn annual salaries of hundreds of thousands of US Dollars!"

"How much could you make back home? Five thousand or ten thousand RMB? Whether it's benefits or future prospects, Eagle Sauce is so much better than home. Are you crazy?"

He found Lu Ze's decision utterly unbelievable.

Great Xia's GDP was only barely over five trillion US Dollars now. Even Japan, an island nation, was still slightly ahead of Great Xia, while its per capita GDP was not even one-tenth of Eagle Sauce's.

What prospects could there be in Great Xia? How much money could he possibly make?

However.

"If you want to stay abroad, then stay!" Lu Ze glanced at him, then continued with undisguised contempt. "But if I remember correctly, you also came abroad to study using Great Xia's subsidy money, didn't you?"

"If you're willing to stay here and be a dog, then return every cent you've received and compensate Great Xia for all its losses."

"As for me? Sorry, but my bones are too hard. I simply can't kneel."

After saying that, Lu Ze went straight into the bathroom to wash up.

He could not be bothered to waste any more breath talking to such an ungrateful wretch.

He had gone abroad as a government-sponsored student using Great Xia's subsidies, only to want to stay here after graduating and refuse to return home to fulfill his obligations?

Which item on your body was not bought with Great Xia's subsidy funds? So you wanted to take all the benefits for yourself, huh?

Besides.

No matter how powerful Eagle Sauce was, what did that have to do with you? Did you really think capitalist society did not eat people alive?