Achievements

The laboratory was quiet.

Through the office window, Gu Jinlai watched the busy personnel coming and going outside.

Compared with three months ago, when he had just taken over the laboratory, its staff had now expanded considerably.

Not only had two high-level scholars, Zhang Chaoyang and Shao Fuyou, joined, but six more scholars had come afterward.

Compared with Blue Star, these people were basically figures on the level of associate professors and professors at top universities.

They simply could not reach the level of first- and second-rank professors among the bachelors.

Apart from these scholars, dozens of mid- and high-level students were also rushing about, busy with their work.

As the top academy in Tianxiang Prefecture, every student at the Energy Academy had been selected through countless trials, having fought their way through thorns and brambles.

The entire Tianxiang Prefecture had a population of tens of billions. Each year, four or five hundred million candidates took the examinations, yet those able to enter the First Energy Academy, First Mech Master Academy, and First Cultivation Academy of Tianxiang Prefecture probably numbered no more than tens of thousands combined.

It was no exaggeration to describe students admitted to these top academies as one in ten thousand.

Moreover, most ordinary students would never receive the opportunity to advance into the ranks of mid-level students, and mid-level students might not necessarily become high-level students.

Even so, once an ordinary student graduated, countless major corporations and powerful forces would scramble to invite them to join. Perhaps they would never become upper-class figures like mid- or high-level mech masters, but without exception, they could all become members of society's elite.

If ordinary students were already like this, there was even less need to mention the weight carried by mid- and high-level students.

But now...

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