When they walked out of the Chongqing eatery, a line had already formed outside.
Han Luyi offered to drive Academician Zhuang back to the university, but Academician Zhuang waved him off. "The academy arranged a driver for me. He'll be here soon. No need to give those materials back. Take them with you and look them over."
Academician Zhuang meant the itinerary for the Artificial Intelligence Conference in Singapore. He had only taken it out of his bag after Han Luyi agreed to attend.
Flights, accommodation, and the itinerary had all been arranged.
It looked rather like a package tour, except the destination was an international academic conference.
After saying goodbye to Academician Zhuang, the two walked back into the government compound.
The elderly parking attendant "politely" expressed his displeasure at how long they had left their car there.
Han Luyi smiled and apologized.
Well, the old Beijing boys had pretty much the same attitude as their Shanghai counterparts.
"Boss Han, shall I take you back to the hotel?" Zhao Wenyuan asked once they got into the car.
"Let's go to the office," Han Luyi said. "Liu Yu went over this morning. I might stay a couple of extra days this time and see if I can go through everything at the company."
Zhao Wenyuan was delighted. The research institute actually had quite a few projects running simultaneously:
Shen Zhonghe's Interconnect team had already moved over. That was one.
The implementation of the power project Zhao Wenyuan was personally leading was another.
There was also Jiang Jiusi, whom they had met earlier and who was launching a medical startup. Zhao Wenyuan had assigned a team to coordinate with them and whitelisted them for access to the enterprise API.
The newly hired Zhang Wenduo had requested some computing resources of his