My Students Are All So Cocky

At 301 Hospital.

This time, the curtains in the private room had been drawn halfway open.

The elderly man lay in the hospital bed with his eyes closed.

Madam Zhou walked to the bedside, bent down close to her father's ear, and said,

"Dad, Academician Li has come to see you."

Several seconds passed before the old man's eyes opened slightly and looked toward Li Dong.

Li Dong hurried over and took the old man's hand.

"Hello, sir."

The old man's lips moved slightly before he spoke in a faint voice.

"Good."

After saying that, he took a few more breaths.

"Sunfire... very good."

After those words, the old man said nothing more, and his eyes slowly closed again.

Yet from his even breathing, Li Dong knew that he was still awake.

"Sir, Sunfire is only the beginning."

"We're working on Fusion Batteries now. I've more or less completed the theoretical framework. The rest is only a matter of time."

"So, do you want to see it with your own eyes?"

After he said that, the old man's eyelids twitched, but he never opened his eyes again.

Still, Li Dong could feel the withered hand in his own tremble ever so slightly.

He understood what the old man meant.

He wanted to see it.

At that moment, the door to the private room opened. A nurse walked in and gestured to Madam Zhou. Madam Zhou nodded, then looked at Li Dong.

"Academician Li, Father needs to rest."

Li Dong nodded, gently released the old man's hand, rose to his feet, and walked out of the room.

The corridor was quiet. Aside from the occasional sound of writing from the nurses' station, there was only... the incessant vibration of Li Dong's phone.

It had not stopped vibrating since Li Dong met