After parting ways with Grant, Xia Xu did not return to his dorm. Instead, he went to the Mechanical Engineering Department's laboratory building and headed to the Star Sea Research Group's activity room.
"Xu, you're back."
"Xia, welcome back."
"Leader Xia, that was quite a long vacation you took."
He pushed the door open and entered. Almost everyone was there: his two roommates, Zhang Meng and Lü Dong, the couple Zhou Ji and Jiang Yuanyuan, and Walker Houseman, the protagonist of the "Mechanic" plot.
Yang Xiaoshuang was there too-the senior with four-star talent in proteomics and three-star talent in genetic engineering.
However, she actually belonged to the Super Spider Silk Protein Research Group, not the Star Sea Research Group. She was coordinating technical work with Zhou Ji and the others now because Xia Xu had become their investor.
"Seriously, can't you guys tidy up a little more? It's always a complete mess in here."
Xia Xu carefully skirted one "trap" after another before finally making it into the room, complaining helplessly.
The International Scientific Research University certainly spared no expense when it came to space. With four rooms and a living area, their activity room was anything but cramped or narrow. There was more than enough room to set up a workshop or laboratory.
Yet they had somehow managed to make their activity room feel as though there was nowhere to put a foot down.
Hammers, wrenches, lubricating oil, screws, motors, sensors, all sorts of tangled wires, circuit boards, instruments, and open books piled carelessly about-the place was a complete mess everywhere he looked.
Zhou Ji and Walker Houseman certainly both had top-tier talent, but their sloppy working habits seemed to have been cast from the same mold.
Zhang Meng and Lü Dong were slightly better, but only in the