"An academician?!"
Everyone froze at Huang Tian's words. Bao Baiqi, the slightly plump young man, looked a little strange. "My country has an academy of sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering too. Every academician is practically the foremost expert in some field—"
He left the rest unsaid, but his meaning was clear. Huang Tian looked barely twenty, handsome and spirited. How could someone like him be an academician? Weren't academicians all deeply experienced and white-haired?
Huang Tian smiled faintly. "Rules and restrictions have only ever held back mediocrities. When you can accomplish, in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee, what an excellent scientist spends a lifetime achieving, you can break free of convention too."
The others were still doubtful. It wasn't that they completely disbelieved Huang Tian; if he had been a little older, had a few more wrinkles, and been rather uglier, they would undoubtedly have found him much easier to believe—
This man... Ma Zhang, the mercenary, frowned at Huang Tian. Just then, Huang Tian looked up. Their eyes met, and Ma Zhang's heart jolted. He could not help looking away. Once he recovered, he was secretly startled. He stole another glance and found Huang Tian wearing a half smile. Ordinary people have weak vitality. They don't dare meet my eyes at all, but this man makes me uneasy. He's definitely no ordinary person. Even if he isn't the academician he claims to be, I'd better handle him carefully...
Thoughts flashed through his mind. He turned to Liu Yuanying. "I want to know: what's the least and the most we can get for carrying out this main mission to change the world?"
Liu Yuanying drew her gaze away from Huang Tian's face. "In the worst case, you'll have no impact on this world