I thought I was a jerk

The first meeting is over.

Obviously they didn't receive much serious reprimand, but the young researchers always felt that their bodies were unbearably heavy, and some kind of shame that had been stripped away for a long time returned to their bodies and weighed heavily on them, making it difficult for them to raise their heads and face Xue Xue again. Kindness.

Shame, guilt, annoyance...or some other messy emotions.

Xue Ci was unexpectedly calm. After the meeting, he helped pack up the documents and materials, and was going to take them back to study the perfect method again.Looking as cold as usual, it doesn't seem like he is angry... But the calmness at this time, as usual, is the most weird.

The researchers who were ready to meet Xue Ci's ridicule and anger were a little dazed.

they thought hesitantly.

Is that all?Does Xue Ci not want to vent something to them?

It's because these idiots are too angry to talk, let alone care about——

Sikong Yi suffered a lot during these short breaths.

He thought it had been a long time, but when he raised his head, and Bobo's cold sweat spread across the corners of his eyes along with his movements, making his vision blurry, he realized that time hadn't passed too fast, at least now that Xue Cigang was tidying up. After finishing the materials, step out of the meeting room door.

The young man's figure is slim and his complexion is fair. The white shirt is attached to his slender and flexible body, and it bends slightly at the waist.Very thin waist and long legs, no one can tell you wrong.

When the very recognizable figure disappeared at the door, Si Kong Yi's expression changed slightly, and he didn't even care about entanglement, he ran up and chased him out.

The speed that erupted in that instant made people see his potential as a sprinter.

The muscles seemed to be stretched to make some kind of silent sound, Si Kong Yi's strides were too big, and he almost failed to stop them.

Xue Ci felt the sound of the wind chasing after her ears, she was slightly alert, subconsciously stepped aside, and looked sideways.

Fortunately, Sikong Yi finally stopped and did not bump into Xue Ci's body.But facing Xue Ci's black eyes as cold as cold jade, he was slightly startled, staggered again, and rushed towards Xue Ci.

Young Master Xue almost suspected that he had touched himself.However, out of colleagues, he kindly extended his hand to help him—his wrist looked so slender, and it was whiter and tenderer than a cub's skin. It seemed that he had no strength, and even looked weak.But once he got up, he found that the strength of Xue Ci's wrist was not only not weak, but also very flexible, and it was also trained by holding heavy materials in his usual experiments.This time, he firmly supported Si Kongyi.

But the touch of the fingertips was very soft and delicate, which made Si Kong Yi slightly startled, and finally stood still, but the heat from the fingertips spread to the internal organs.He blushed and forgot for a moment what he was talking about.Just blushing, he withdrew his hand and took a step back.

Xue Ci: "..."

That strength and reaction almost made Xue Ci suspect that he was a girl.

——No, the girl did not accidentally give her a hand, and the reaction was just like this.

Xue Ci glanced at him.

Si Kong Yi also looked back with red ears, but didn't speak.

Xue Ci was about to leave again, but Si Kong Yi followed behind him step by step.

Young Master Xue never had a character that would hide his words, so he simply opened his mouth and asked directly: "Excuse me, what's the matter?"

Si Kong Yi no longer stared at him closely.

He bit his lip slightly, eyes only on the ground.After a long while, he suddenly bowed to Xue Ci——

"sorry."

The sound was very slight.Xue Ci didn't hear it very clearly, and could only hear two words whispered, "What?"

he asked in bewilderment.

Sikong Yi pursed his lips again, blushing strangely, the same as what Xue Ci said to him just now.This time the voice was louder: "I said, yes, I'm sorry!"

The pitch of the last three words rose a little, and the sound was loud and deafening.Not only Xue Ci heard it clearly, even the others were shocked by these three words, and looked over quietly.After discovering that it was Si Kongyi, that gaze was mixed with the disbelief after being betrayed——

They were still thinking about whether to apologize, how to apologize, and how to deal with Si Kongyi after the apology.In the end, Sikong Yi didn't say anything, and ran over to sell Xue Ci first. Have you ever thought about what they should do? ?

The guilt in Sikong Yi's words was firstly an apology for implicating Xue Ci and punishing them, but secondly... it came from the previous bullying and exclusion.

That's what he really wanted to apologize for.

Xue Ci's ability is stronger than that of any researcher in the Tushen Project. It is undoubtedly an insult to speculate on him with such malicious thoughts.

If Xue Ci is not qualified to join this team, I am afraid that there should not be a few people left in this team.

Xue Ci understood the first meaning of Sikong Yi's words, but didn't realize the second meaning (after all, he didn't know the existence of the second meaning), and only thought that he was apologizing for it.So I feel that Sikong Yi is too cautious and takes all the flaws on himself, which is the characteristic of a flattering personality.

"No need to apologize." Xue Ci said calmly and objectively, "This is the teacher's decision, and it has nothing to do with you."

Si Kongyi only thought that he was unwilling to accept the late guilt... That's right, this kind of apology was really long overdue after being excluded, and no one has ever stipulated that an apology must be forgiven.So he just lowered his head lower, and his gaze fell blankly into the void.

Seeing the mournful look on his face, Xue Ci was also slightly silent, and then revealed a little bit of her own thoughts.

"And I think..." Xue Ci said, "The teacher's 'punishment' is not necessarily a punishment."

After Xue Ci finished speaking, she prepared to leave indifferently, but was stopped by her colleagues again.

"sorry."

"Xue Ci, I'm sorry."

"...Sorry about what happened before."

The sound of apology was like a gust of wind, hitting Xue Ci's face crazily.

Xue Ci: "??"

This scene was seen by the professors who had not left for a long time.

"Teacher." Professor Mo yelled after catching up with the old professor who was walking away slowly.

The old professor's qualifications are indeed too old, even if Professor Mo was one of his students before.It is very common to call each other "Teacher X" in Qianlong Base, but those who just call "Teacher" are mostly respectful titles for old professors.

"Have you thought about it?" Professor Mo caught up with him and asked curiously, "If you only praise a person, although it can arouse their desire to compete, it is also easy to arouse hostility towards a specific candidate. You Once arranged, it will turn hostility into guilt, which will make the team more harmonious and reduce conflicts."

It even faintly melted away the obvious estrangement and contradiction that even Professor Mo could see.

As for whether to punish or not, it was a group task anyway, and those researchers who had a little bit of conscience would be ashamed to let Xue Ci work.

After he finished speaking, Cautious Rainbow farted: "Ginger is still old and spicy, your sword is not old, so tall."

The old professor glanced at him quietly.

He sneered and said, "What does the mental health of those kids have to do with me? I'm not that free yet, the old ones can only care about whether a group of kids are friends or not."

Professor Mo: "..."

"You really think I'm punishing them?"

Before Professor Mo could reply, the old professor's knuckles had already knocked on his forehead tremblingly: "Forget it, don't answer."

"Maybe he's not as smart as that kid from Xue's family."

·

The punishment assigned by the old professor is heavy, and the time is also very urgent.There is only one month to organize the e-library materials for the past year, check for gaps and make up for omissions-sounds like a fantasy.

Although the task is quite heavy, a group of talented people are really ashamed to let Xue Ci participate in it and help them take the blame. I would rather everyone bear more and divide the workload.

As a result, when they were redoing the experimental tasks assigned by Professor Mo, Xue Ci became the first one to enter the electronic library and start consulting because he didn't have to redo the tasks.

When they had just sorted out the correct database, in the temporary communication group, Xue Ci said that he had read the e-book materials in Area A1, and matched them one by one to confirm that there were no data errors.

Everyone: "..."

outrageous.

The burden on the shoulders seems to be heavier.

The laboratory is brightly lit.

Xue Ci is similar, equivalent to resting in the electronic library.

Most areas of Qianlong Base are open to them, including the electronic library.However, there are "closed" hours every day, which will interrupt the data connection.There is also a small amount of confidential chip information that will not appear in their browsing permissions.

But with the old professor's punishment, the researchers had to take on the task of proofreading. At least last year's chip data records were completely open to them, and their time was quite free, and they didn't care that they were soaking in it 24 hours a day.

Xue Ci didn't intend to stay up late at first, but as he was sorting out the materials, it was late at night before he knew it, and the sky outside was covered with a layer of curtain-like, impenetrable darkness.

He was a little sleepy, but he was only two volumes away from proofreading Area A2——Xue Ci's intermittent obsessive-compulsive disorder happened again, and he insisted on finishing the recording.

Even under the condition of extreme fatigue, the data obtained by Xue Ci are extremely accurate, and the experiments rarely make mistakes, as if there is no "fatigue to make mistakes" innate ability.

Xue Ci checked again before blocking the information in Area A2.

He was already very sleepy, too lazy to go back to the bedroom, and lay down on the desktop in the library to sleep for a while.

The camera in the corner seemed to fluctuate slightly.

The next moment it returned to normal, and the monitoring screen also showed a very normal scene of Xue Ci resting.

In the hazy state of half-dream and half-awake, Xue Ci felt that the cold air seemed to be isolated from the outside world, and something warm embraced him.It's like a warm quilt in the cold winter, which is full of sunshine, and the limbs and bones are stretched out comfortably when covered.

Xue Ci babbled in a daze.

"...Thank you Wenhan."