Chapter 21: CH 11.1

Li Qingzhou almost failed to leave the laboratory building at the end.

–Shock, disbelief, enthusiasm and a surge of inquisitiveness due to intense confusion nearly overwhelmed him ……

It was a good thing Professor Yan was so reliable at crucial moments.

What’s more, today wasn’t the end, but just the beginning, as there was still a lot more research and development to be done on the car’s artificial intelligence control system.

As Li Qingzhou was leaving the laboratory building, Zheng Jiang caught up with him, calling out to him.

His face was a mixture of embarrassment and shame.

So much so that as he now stood in front of Li Qingzhou, his face was red and he didn’t know where to put his hands and feet, at a loss for words.

It was only after Li Qingzhou asked him what was wrong that Zheng Jiang finally said, “I’m sorry…. I was so prejudiced against you before.”

“I thought…..”

Zheng Jiang paused then said, “When teacher set up the lab in the early days, you left without hesitation and easily gave up on continuing research on automotive AI….”

“I thought you were indifferent to the mentor who taught you and treated science as if you could just throw it away….”

“In hindsight, I was the one who took it for granted.”

“You’ve done so much better research on artificial intelligence than any of us.”

He felt inadequate and doubly ashamed at the same time.

Zheng Jiang apologized once more: “I’m sorry….”

Li Qingzhou responded, “It’s okay, I don’t really care.”

“But I accept your apology. Is there anything else?”

Zheng Jiang said hurriedly, “No, there’s nothing else….”

Li Qingzhou then said goodbye to him with an indifferent expression before being pushed by Fang Xiyan out of the laboratory building.

Qiao Huanming waited until they were out of the confines of the computer science faculty before he said goodbye to Li Qingzhou.

His earlier emotions, which he had been too excited to contain, had long since calmed down, but he still wore an expression of having been impressed when he looked at Li Qingzhou.

He exclaimed, “Mr. Li. I still can’t believe that I have just seen another leap forward within the field of automotive artificial intelligence at Yan University.”

“It’s almost like a dream.”

He then smiled and said, “I need to go back and talk to my teacher about this as soon as possible.”

Li Qingzhou said, “Mr. Qiao. if you have time, could you introduce me to your professor?”

“I wasn’t kidding about my decision to set up a company and a research team.”

“You saw it during the trials of the car AI– although as a whole, there is no doubt about the intelligence of the car control system I have developed, it’s still lacking in some minor issues….”

“I hope that more people will be involved in the research on car AI so that in the future we can surpass M Country and develop and produce our first artificially intelligent car.”

“Mr. Qiao, what do you think?”

Qiao Huanming naturally thought it was very feasible!

Besides — it was too exciting to be able to be personally involved in the development of the first AI car of the future.

He couldn’t say no and definitely wouldn’t say no!

…………

After watching Qiao Huanming leave,

Li Qingzhou looked at the time and said, “Xiyan, at this hour, the medical department should be finished with classes soon, right?”

Fang Xiyan nodded: “Indeed.”

Li Qingzhou opened his mouth, “Then let’s go to the medical department.”

–He was hungry and the food at Yanjing University was good. He should let the female protagonist treat him!

Fang Xiyan turned the wheelchair in a different direction obediently and pushed Li Qingzhou towards the medical department.

He had previously felt that President Li treated Miss Xu inexplicably colder in the time since the car accident ……

But now it seemed that it might have been an illusion.

…………

In the original book, the female protagonist Xu Mengning was haunted by the fact that ‘Li Qingzhou’ was injured by a heavy object in order to save her, which left him disabled.

So, when filling out her application for the college entrance examination, she chose the medical faculty of Yanjing University.

Today, a medical lecture was being held in the medical department of Yanjing University.

And Li Qingzhou and Fang Xiyan got there just when the class ended.

He had expected to have a hot meal shortly afterwards, but sometimes….. things always turned out to be the opposite of what one expected.

What was going on now?

Xu Mengning was blocked in the open space outside the medical department with a number of students gathered in twos and threes around her.

Some were pointing and some were watching the excitement.

There were also a number of people who simply wanted to go to the cafeteria and so simply ducked to avoid the trouble spilling over onto them, sidling by the sides to leave.

As a result, a large area was left empty near the ‘site of the incident’.

Seeing the female protagonist tangled up in trouble, Li Qingzhou instantly tried to turn around, but his wheelchair was being pushed by Fang Xiyan….

Stop, hurry up and stop.

Cat crying face.

Would he still be able to eat….

‘Reverse’, was always the most conspicuous.

It wasn’t long before Xu Mengning’s friend Zhao Jingjing noticed Li Qingzhou and Fang Xiyan.

‘Li Qingzhou’ had come to Yanjing University’s medical department to look for the female protagonist before, hence Zhao Jingjing was no stranger to him — she shouted again after Fang Xiyan took a determined step.

All of a sudden, all eyes converged on him and he became the ‘center of attention’.

“……”

Li Qingzhou’s eyes, expression unchanged swept somberly over the male protagonist Liu Xiahui who was also present at the medical department as well as over a young man and several girls he didn’t know.