CHAPTER 107: CHAPTER 66: QIN MANMAN’S PRICE FOR NOT ADMITTING DEFEAT [REQUEST MONTHLY TICKETS]_3

At this moment, there was no need for Elder Lin to say anything more, the host smilingly announced that the overall scores would be revealed during the afternoon group presentation.

Once everything was ready, Elder Lin led Yu Lian and the others away.

Qin Manman stood there, her hands and feet chilly—she finally realized that she seemed to have messed something up.

The words from Lu Ran, who followed closely behind, made her already cold heart completely plunge into an ice pit.

"Manman, stop talking, it’s too embarrassing."

Wang Yiran and Lv An also felt somewhat unable to lift their heads.

Facing Qin Manman’s incredulous gaze, Lu Ran felt a surge of absurdity and helplessness—

He didn’t know how things had turned out this way.

But seeing Qin Manman in this state, he still needed to explain things clearly.

He smiled bitterly, "Even with our capabilities, another 200,000 or 2 million in funding, the results would not be on the same level as theirs."

"This time we’ve lost, and we acknowledge our defeat openly and willingly."

As for whether to register, that’s a personal choice. Everyone involved in research and development won’t deny the other party’s strength because of this.

...

Pinghu Bay Villa.

Chu River looked at Qin Manman’s face on the screen, feeling satisfied.

Her continuous days of sending messages to Yu Lian’s phone, leaving a subconscious impression to attend the exhibition, weren’t in vain.

However, she was directly confronting them head-on!

Chu Fa Da shook his feet with pride—

After all, she had brought the people there, but Yu Lian was not impressed by the drone result Qin Manman had painstakingly managed for a long time, so this...

Chu Fa Da expressed that she didn’t know anything, it mainly was that the other side was too mediocre.

...

At this moment, the excessively mediocre Qin Manman was indeed ignored by everyone.

Moreover, she was panic-stricken.

Instinctively, Lu Ran also started to panic.

But fortunately, his mind remained clear, still attempting to persuade:

"Manman, if you don’t understand, don’t speak randomly. So many people heard those words just now, they might think you’re an amateur."

While speaking, he grew increasingly worried: "You were originally added temporarily for material science, now your name is on the paper..."

Things became difficult to handle.

His panic was genuine and sincere.

Although Lu Ran liked Qin Manman and was willing to sacrifice for her, that was limited to his personal actions.

If such false name issues arose, causing various consequences within the group and school, he would be extremely unwilling to see them.

At this moment, the little flame of passion in the young man’s heart flickered weakly like a small fire on ashes, just a single professional’s doubt instantly extinguishing it, leaving only a messy black smoke.

Qin Manman, with tears in her eyes, looked at Lu Ran incredulously. However, inexplicably, Lu Ran only felt his mind much clearer, reflecting on the foolish things he’d done in recent days, unable to help feeling a headache.

"The morning presentation has ended, we should return and think of a solution."

As he uttered these words, he had already decided to go back and directly acknowledge his mistakes...

Fortunately, according to usual paper procedures, submission goes through 3 or 4 rounds of revision. And just last night, the paper happened to be sent back.

Lu Ran mentally slapped himself hard.

——What the hell did I do?

Not only had he hurt the feelings within the group, but if the academy was further tainted because of him...

With a gloomy face, he had already planned his quick response——putting everything else aside, he should proactively confess his mistakes first.

At this hurried moment on the road, despite his poor mood, Lv An and Wang Yiran walking silently behind thought that, after the leader once again acted foolish, there was unexpectedly a glimmer of initial vitality and clarity from when the group was first established showing in his expression.

...

Meanwhile, back in the office, only a few professors and Yu Lian, who was bewildered and acting as a mere tool, remained in the room.

Surrounded by industry bigwigs, Yu Lian was seized by the academic atmosphere, this poor corporate slave cautiously figuring out ways to save herself.

"Do you need me to project on TV?"

...

Certainly, you must project!

While Yu Lian was researching how to project, the metallic dragonfly had already been quickly grabbed by Elder Lin to the side, being scrutinized by a group.

——The metallic dragonfly’s shell was merely a thin alloy layer, its joints haphazardly welded and fastened, had already been shaken loose in the delivery box, now upon examination——the edges were lifting!

Elder Lin and the others were both pained seeing such a good item falter at the details and eager, wishing for a toolbox to immediately dismantle and inspect.