After the public notice of Gongsun Xiaoli and Professor Barton's proposed appointments, the Dean's Office of Edge Academy received none of the reactions Zheng Qing had expected. The knot in his chest gradually loosened, though he privately wondered whether he had been overly sensitive.
But he soon learned that he had relaxed too soon.
Less than a week later, a document arrived at the Dean's Office of Edge Academy from the Applied Magic Institute. Its contents were simple—following the school's decision, the Two-Dimensional Evolution Laboratory and the Giant God Soldier Management Laboratory of the Dimensional Evolution Research Institute were being transferred into Edge Academy's direct administrative structure. The personnel appointments of Su Shijun, head of the Two-Dimensional Evolution Laboratory, and Lin Guo, head of the Giant God Soldier Management Laboratory, would likewise fall under Edge Academy's administration.
At the bottom of the document, three bright red official seals—from the Professor Joint Conference, the School Labor Committee, and the Applied Magic Institute—were neatly arranged together, like three enormous smiling faces mocking someone.
"When did the Giant Soldier Project establish a management laboratory?"
In the Dean's Office of Edge Academy, Zheng Qing sat behind his broad desk, staring speechlessly at the refined-looking young wizard opposite him. After a pause, he added, "And they even put you in charge... Are there no one else in the project team? What about Dr. Duzem?"
The first time Zheng Qing met Lin Guo, he had only been twelve years old.
Four years had passed, and he was still only sixteen—a minor even by the standards of the mundane world. Zheng Qing was therefore deeply dissatisfied that the school had handed a laboratory over to Lin Guo.
But he had forgotten that sixteen was precisely the age when boys were full of rebellion.
They hated it most