Lin Qi gave the professor a job he could not handle. Just as he was about to refuse, Lin Qi waved his hand, stopping him from speaking further.
"I won't set a deadline for this commission. As long as there are results at each stage, I'll continue providing funding."
"That's also why I hope you'll come out. You can work independently or work for me. And once you succeed, have you thought about what comes next?"
Lin Qi looked at him. His gaze was calm, but there seemed to be a glimmer hidden deep in his eyes. "You'll gain considerable wealth, tremendous prestige, and a social status ordinary people can hardly hope to reach!"
"Everything you say and do will have an important guiding influence on the cutting edge of science. You'll be written into textbooks and become an idol worshiped by countless young scholars!"
"No matter what you want, you can get it here!"
His tone was calm, without the slightest ripple, yet it made the professor's blood boil! He shifted his buttocks and changed his sitting position. When he picked up his cup and lowered his head to drink, he concealed the radiance blooming in his eyes.
After quite some time, he raised his head, put down the cup in his hand, and asked Lin Qi a question. "Why me?"
"There are many experts better and more famous than I am. Why me in particular?"
This was also what puzzled him most at the moment. If the commission had been several hundred thousand or a million, he would have thought nothing of it.
He was, after all, doing quite well in this field. He was also a university professor and could exchange academic ideas with other experts and professors whenever he had the chance. He could not be