Despite what he had said, Ji Yanzhi still replied, "I don't like owing people favors. Especially you."
The moment he finished speaking, Qin Zaiye stepped forward, tossing back one last remark as he left. "Even if someone owes me, it won't be you."
Ji Yanzhi abruptly gritted his teeth. If Qin Zaiye hadn't hit the gas and driven off so quickly, he would have dragged him out of the car and made him explain himself.
After that day, the two of them never met again.
Ji Yanzhi asked around and learned only that Qin Zaiye had later been transferred to G City. His contact didn't disclose whether that incident had played any part in it.
"If Qin Zaiye comes back to Jing City, please let me know."
"All right."
Ji Yanzhi lowered the phone from his ear and stared coldly at the screen. Whatever happened, he would make sure Qin Zaiye never had the chance to go to Ji Ting and call in that favor.
On March 16, the Circular Main Experimental Zone lay under a nerve-racking silence.
Ji Ting removed his radiation-protection face shield, the blue light from the quantum well monitoring screen making his pale face look almost translucent.
The twelve academicians behind him had long since lost their usual composure. Academician Zhang from the Energy Institute had checked the time more times than anyone could count, his brow tightening with every glance.
"Quantum tunneling effect fluctuations have exceeded the threshold." The artificial intelligence's announcement made Academician Li Wanning from the Materials Institute clench her hands, her eyes fixed on the gray-blue crystal the size of a grain of rice inside the pressure chamber.
Ji Ting's slender fingers swept across the holographic keyboard, bringing up the Topological Structure Simulation Diagram. "Prepare for the seventh parameter adjustment." His