“Even if you act recklessly, how can you speak about Ru Xin like that, she’s a girl!”
No, he had to check the school.
Li Shu rushed over with his phone, excited. “Half an hour ago, there was a fire in the capital.”
“What nonsense! How can you be happy about something like this?” Wang Chengde scolded with a frown.
“No, just look at Weibo!”
News of the fire quickly spread across the country. Unlike usual disaster reports, this fire was a bit odd.
Past fires had always showcased various horrific scenes.
But today’s scene… how to put it… was strangely… exhilarating?
It was undoubtedly terrible, but why did it look so much like an amusement park?
Although they already knew from the online drama that our country had pioneered floating technology before the beautiful country, did anyone consider the feelings of the public as they jumped up and down outside the building like it was bungee jumping?
The most widely circulated video online was shot by a passerby on the ground.
At the start of the video, the passerby recorded the massive fire engulfing the building, surrounded by the sound of people’s desperate screams. Images of cruelty filled his mind, and he could hardly bear to continue watching.
The camera shifted to firefighters in protective gear, jumping down from several stories high while carrying or supporting residents.
“Ahhh! I’m afraid of heights!”
“Mom, help! I’m too young to die!”
“Mom, Ultraman is here to save us!”
Soon after, a journalist nearby learned from the rescue team.
“That’s a floating flying device, developed by the Capital Research Institute. Apparently, it allows for flight in the air. We just received it two days ago and are still in training, but we didn’t expect to use it today.”
“Rumor has it only our rescue team possesses this technology.”
After answering the reporter’s questions, the rescue team members returned to their rescue efforts.
The news sparked heated discussions online, with everyone who saw the video questioning the reality of what was happening.
[My eyes must be dilated; is the requirement to be a firefighter to know acrobatics?]
[You aren’t alone! I’m an international student from the beautiful country; when I saw the video, I was so shocked that a few foreign classmates came over to ask if all Chinese people know how to fly, and they asked me to teach them, hahaha.]
[This is exaggerated. I woke up in an interstellar era, but just a few months ago, the beautiful country reported on this, and today we’ve figured it out? Am I still dreaming?]
[China is amazing! I’m studying abroad too, and when I came here, I found it was nothing like the friendly image they promote. The teachers despise Chinese international students, charging the highest tuition fees, often scolding us for coming to steal knowledge. Today, one of my professors kept questioning this issue, so it’s quite a relief.]
[Stand tall +1.]
……
[The discussion got off-topic; weren’t we talking about when the flying devices came out?]
[Am I the only one who finds this familiar?]
[Familiar +1, two months ago, a child accidentally fell from the seventh floor near the Capital University, and I went to the police station to give a statement, haha. I’ll share the video.]
[Isn’t that person Ye Qiu? Didn’t he join the Capital Research Institute two months ago? Hiss, had he already developed the floating technology by then?]
[Just a junior at Capital University, I remember Professor Wang Chengde came to give a seminar on the floating technology, but during the Q&A, Ye Qiu remarked that the current research direction was wrong and was scorned on the forums.]
Upon seeing this, Xiao Weicai in the laboratory felt a wave of disbelief. He had smeared the Capital Research Institute’s reputation just to leverage the application of floating technology ahead of time, thinking he had a 100% grip on it. Now, he was told that Ye Qiu had completed the invention?
At that moment, his assistant received a call, looking horrified. “Doctor, Yu Bu was taken away by the police!”
“What?”
Xiao Weicai turned pale; this was bad.
Although he was Yu Bu’s teacher, he lacked the clout to guarantee Yu Bu’s safety.
He was likely the next to be caught; no, he couldn’t just wait.
“What is the name?”
“Yu Bu.”
“Gender?”
…
“It’s impossible! Clearly, it was Ye Qiu who stole my mentor Xiao Weicai’s research results!”
Yu Bu knew he could only grit his teeth and insist that it was Ye Qiu’s issue; otherwise, Xiao Weicai would never let him go.
The person sent to question him was none other than Officer Wang, who had confiscated Ye Qiu’s tools last time.
“You didn’t watch the news, did you? The Capital Research Institute has developed the floating flying device. Are they crazy enough to steal your theory?”
“And you might not know this, but Ye Qiu produced a rough floating flying device before he even joined the institute.”
“From all of this, we have plenty of reasons to suspect that you premeditatedly stole the research results of the Capital Research Institute and, for some ulterior motive, framed Ye Qiu.”
The facts were leaning more toward Officer Wang’s speculations, and Yu Bu was getting increasingly anxious upon hearing his words.
Anxious?
Noticing Officer Wang’s piercing gaze, Yu Bu momentarily froze and swallowed hard, but such small gestures couldn’t escape Wang’s sharp eyes.
“Spill it, who instructed you to do this? You should know you’re the main culprit now, but if you reveal who orchestrated this, you can be considered an accomplice, and your sentence will be much lighter.”
“No… It wasn’t like that.”
“Your records show you came from a rural area, yet looking at your shoes and watch, combined, they’re worth about 30,000. Where did you get that money?”
Yu Bu desperately tried to calm himself down.
“Tell me, who instructed you to do this?”
“There’s no one; it was all my mentor’s research…”
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