Chapter 558: Chapter 557 Professor Kong
"Hey, Willie, you’re here early today."
Staring at the departing Bentley, the brown-haired, blue-eyed man heard a familiar voice coming from behind him.
He displayed a hint of surprise and turned his head to look at the middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses, saying joyfully, "Professor Kong, I didn’t expect to come across you here."
The middle-aged man with gold-rimmed glasses appeared to be in his forties. He had a refined and cultured look, and the glasses added an air of scholarly elegance. At a glance, he seemed like a cultivated academic researcher.
His name was Kong Yuren, born into a family of scholars, rumored to be a descendant of the thousand-year-old lineage of the Kong Family.
"Professor Kong, how’s that matter that I asked for your help with last time?" Willie asked expectantly.
Kong Yuren smiled slightly. Westerners were the most straightforward, their speech and actions never beating around the bush, which he quite appreciated.
"It’s in progress. With my status, bringing a Ph.D. student in won’t be a problem. The only issue is with your identity..." Kong Yuren trailed off, his brows expressing a touch of frustration.
Clearly, Willie’s matter which he had mentioned before had encountered complications.
But he quickly smoothed his brow and said with a smile, "Don’t worry about it. For the sake of your little aunt, I will definitely help you with this. Moreover, in my opinion, if the challenge they’re currently facing on that side could benefit from the support of the Cavendish family, it would definitely lead to a breakthrough. It’s a win-win situation."
"Divine Continent Country is still too closed off. There are no borders in academia, right? How can you make progress if you’re closed to the outside world? Collaboration and mutual benefit is the trend in this age of globalization," Willie said, chuckling.
Something seemed to occur to Kong Yuren, and he snorted coldly, "Indeed, some people just love to be autocratic and adopt a one-man rule. That’s clearly a step backward in history, which I am firmly against."
Willie, however, showed understanding for this situation and said to Kong Yuren, "You should not be upset, Professor Kong. Actually, it doesn’t matter to our family whether this cooperation is achieved or not. As you know, the Cavendish family’s business spans the globe and doesn’t care about adding one more project of this kind. It’s just that our family wishes to establish a certain level of cooperation with Divine Continent Country, to make friends, so to speak."
Kong Yuren nodded and said, "I’m aware. Rest assured, I will do my utmost to push this forward."
"That’s great, thank you, Professor Kong. Go about your business; I have a class this morning," Willie said.
Kong Yuren nodded and watched him leave.
The laboratory had encountered an insurmountable problem, and domestic experts in biology had been racking their brains for more than a year without any breakthrough.
Kong Yuren believed that seeking foreign assistance and collaborating with powerful overseas forces was the best choice under these circumstances.
Many senior scientists in the laboratory agreed with his view.
In fact, this matter was already on the agenda and about to be finalized.
However, for some unknown reason, the person in charge of the project changed, and the new girl who took over was too young to understand the intricacies involved, resulting in the postponement of the cooperative project.
This project couldn’t continue to be delayed.
It was crucial to achieve a significant breakthrough soon, which would greatly enhance his family’s prestige.
Moreover, once a major breakthrough was achieved, it would change the world.
This was a research project capable of altering human history.
Kong Yuren’s gaze firmed as he strode towards the campus.
Along the way, many students from the biology department looked at him with admiration, greeting him as he passed; Kong Yuren nodded silently in response but was preoccupied with his thoughts.
After checking in, Kong Yuren entered his private office. Inside the office, there was another door that led to an elevator.
After a short wait, the elevator doors opened to reveal an armed soldier standing inside.
Kong Yuren was no longer surprised by this and entered the elevator.
The elevator started, the sensation of weightlessness setting in as it continued to descend.
After a lengthy minute, the elevator came to a halt.
The doors opened to reveal a long corridor.
This place was deep underground, and when Kong Yuren first arrived, he was shocked by the vast expanse opened up within the Underworld, but by now he had grown numb.
The armed soldier escorting him all the way down the corridor, after which they came to a massive door made from a special metal. It was clearly very thick. After Kong Yuren walked up to it and scanned his face, retina, and fingerprints through a series of verifications, the soldier had to take out a magnetic card and insert it before the great door finally opened.
Once inside the door, it was as if he had entered another world altogether.
A huge biological laboratory appeared before his eyes.
Dozens of staff members, wearing white lab coats or isolation suits, were bustling about their tasks.
Upon seeing Kong Yuren, these people did not find it strange, and the majority continued working busily on their tasks, while those who were not as busy nodded at him as a form of greeting.
Kong Yuren passed through the large public Experimental Zone and entered a private office.
He changed his clothes and then headed towards the command center.
Two women stood at the entrance of the command center. They appeared quite young, but Kong Yuren looked at them with a sense of trepidation, feeling that the light in their eyes was unfriendly and intimidating.
"Where is Miss Qin?" asked Kong Yuren.
"Please wait a moment," one of the women said coldly before pressing the doorbell.
"What is it?"
The voice of Qin Yanyang came from inside.
"Minister, Professor Kong wishes to see you," the woman informed.
"Let him in."
Following the command, the woman opened the door.
Kong Yuren strode in.
The office was spacious and lavishly decorated, even to the point of being somewhat luxurious.
There were only two people in the vast office.
Kong Yuren’s eyes immediately landed on the young man he had never seen before, and his brows furrowed as he said, "Who is he?"
Qin Yanyang said with a smile, "Professor Kong, you’ve come at the right time. Let me introduce you. This is my spouse, Yang Fei, he is also..."
Kong Yuren interrupted Qin Yanyang before she could finish, showing a look of dissatisfaction, "Minister Qin, how can you bring an outsider here, regardless of his identity? This is a secret laboratory, it is..."
"Shut up!"
Qin Yanyang’s face darkened as she reprimanded him without giving him face, "I’ve not finished my introduction yet. What kind of attitude is this?"
Kong Yuren was startled, then his old face reddened with anger as he spluttered, "You... you..."
Qin Yanyang’s gaze turned icy as she exerted an overwhelming aura of authority, enunciating, "Who holds the highest authority here?"
"You..."
Kong Yuren replied instinctively.
Qin Yanyang’s expression softened quite a bit.
Ever since she became the Military Department Director and took full control of the research project, she had been tolerating Professor Kong. The research project was mainly led by the Kong Family, with Kong Yuren being a standout figure. Given the national interest at stake, even if she was quite displeased with him, she had no choice but to hold back.
But today the man had gone too far, interrupting her while she was making an introduction, showing a complete lack of respect.
If she did not assert her authority firmly, he might really think she was a woman to be trifled with.
Kong Yuren, overwhelmed by that unexplainable aura of authority, felt nervous for a long time before he finally came back to his senses, looked up at Qin Yanyang and said, "Even though you are in charge here, isn’t this research project under my leadership? I have said before that irrelevant personnel cannot enter. You... you... even if he’s your husband, you can’t just bring him here. This is a secret base. Do you really think it’s your Qin Family’s private property?"