Inside the office.
Tu Lishan looked at Zhang Yu, whose hair had already turned completely white, and could not help frowning. "Are you sure you're alright?"
"If you suddenly drop dead from overwork during the job and delay the project, you'll have to pay compensation."
Zhang Yu's hair had turned white from excessive fatigue and weakness. Hearing Tu Lishan's reminder, he said calmly, "It's fine, Earth Teacher. I know my own constitution very well."
"And for a First Layer Student like me, opportunities are rare. When one comes along, I have to seize it with everything I have and fight like hell. Otherwise, how will I ever rise above the rest?"
"My recovery is strong. I believe my constitution can hold on!"
Feeling the resolve in Zhang Yu's gaze, Tu Lishan sighed inwardly. Over his many years of teaching, he had seen far too many people who dared to fight and struggle, but Zhang Yu's attitude... made him feel a will that cast life and death aside!
At that moment, he came to a judgment about Zhang Yu. "This child's determination to pursue the Dao is among the strongest I have ever seen!"
"If this were ancient times several hundred years ago... he would probably have died long ago!"
"It is only because the Immortal Dao is flourishing today..."
"In the future, he will either lose everything and be damned beyond salvation, or rise step by step, go on to Graduate School and Doctorate, and climb layer after layer!"
"With this child's temperament, there are only these two outcomes. There can be no third possibility!"
But Tu Lishan understood that the latter outcome was far too remote, while the former was much more likely. And that would make it difficult for the Civil Engineering Department to recover the investment it