Zhuo Jingsi did not stay in the cold detention room. Instead, she was placed under house arrest in a five-star hotel in the center of Princeton.
There were a total of six groups of people guarding the door. They were the legal staff of the Princeton laboratory, the staff of the American Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the staff of the Princeton District Court and local law enforcement agencies.
The last group consisted of a total of four Asian people, one woman and three men.
The woman looked to be in her forties. She had fair skin, phoenix eyes, and willowy eyebrows. She wore a simple gray trench coat.
This middle-aged woman was very beautiful, but the strange thing was that there was a murderous aura in her eyes that could not be ignored.
The other three men all had clean, square faces. Their skin was tanned from the sun, and they looked very strong. Their bodies were filled with the aura of a soldier.
Apart from the four Huaxia people themselves, no one else knew who they were.
When they arrested Zhuo Jingsi the day before yesterday, the Princeton local law enforcement agents tried to get the four Chinese people to leave. They said that people who had nothing to do with the case should not be there.
The two sides almost had a conflict because of this.
However, the strange thing was that when the atmosphere was tense, the three Chinese men did not attack the Princeton agents. Instead, they desperately surrounded the middle-aged woman.
However, the three men did not seem to want to protect her at all. They seemed to want to stop her from doing something!
When the conflict broke out, the woman's expression did not change at all. She looked at the others as if they were dead.
The two sides did not really fight because the Princeton officials suddenly received a call from the Pentagon.
On the phone, a senior CIA official told them to exercise restraint and repeatedly stressed that this was not a simple intellectual property dispute. They could not let the suspects in the theft case be mistreated or mistreated. All trial procedures must strictly follow the rules and regulations. Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable.
The Princeton personnel tried to find out the origins of the four Chinese people and the suspects. They wanted to know if they were Chinese personnel working for foreign affairs.
They did not get an answer. They were only warned repeatedly not to try to provoke the other party.
Even Zhuo Jingsi, who secretly flew back to New Jersey with Chen Guang on her back, did not know who the four people were.
She clearly felt that she had left very discreetly and cautiously, and did not tell anyone about it.
But inexplicably, from the moment she boarded the plane, these four people had been sitting next to her.
At the time, she didn't notice, but after she got off the plane, the four of them followed her closely. The three men even took the initiative to help her carry her bag, and the woman came over to chat with her, exchanging some … women's skin care and maintenance tips?
Zhuo Jingsi immediately became vigilant. Those who were unaccountably solicitous were hiding evil intentions.
At that time, her attitude was very cold, and she immediately kept a distance from these people.
However, it was useless. The other party was unmoved.
Wherever he went, they followed him. The only difference was that they didn't use superglue to stick them together.
If it weren't for the fact that she was here to turn herself in, Zhuo Jingsi almost wanted to call 911.
But later, especially after she was controlled by Prince's laboratory, Zhuo Jingsi understood that they were here to protect her.
She could roughly guess that Chen Guang's status was not what it used to be, and her relationship with Chen Guang was not ordinary. Perhaps without his deliberate instructions, her personal safety must have been the focus of some people, especially after she went abroad.
Sitting in the room, Zhuo Jingsi sighed again. She wanted to help him, but she didn't expect that not only would she not be able to help him, but she also caused him trouble.
Prince's laboratory was too tough, and there was no room for negotiation.
If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have returned to America. I was too naive.
Zhuo Jingsi looked at the television blankly, which was playing news related to her.
She didn't know what the country thought of her matter.
Perhaps it was just a flash in the eyes of ordinary people, and it wouldn't cause too much of a stir. But obviously, since the special security had caught up, this matter must have caused a stir at a higher level.
She sighed again. It's all my fault.
I wanted to do this too much.
Although Chen Guang said he didn't care, he had already done so much preparatory work at the Tongshan factory. He even ruined the factory's reputation. How could he not care?
Zhuo Jingsi knew Chen Guang very well. Although he was leaving, he still couldn't give up.
That was why she sneaked back to the United States.
But now she realized that she thought things were too simple. She thought that with the knowledge in the field of photocatalysis that she learned from Chen Guang, as long as she threw a little bit of bait, she would be able to make Prince's academic director obediently give in and allow her to use the resources of Prince's laboratory to produce the five god-level formulas. They would also no longer hold her responsible for stealing the samples.
She never expected that as soon as she arrived in Princeton, she would be firmly controlled by the law enforcement agency that suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
Prince had no intention of communicating with her at all. They just wanted to send her to court and make an example out of her.
She couldn't even meet the higher-ups of the laboratory who understood technology and knowledge. She could only deal with the stern-faced legal department who didn't understand knowledge. How could she throw out the bait? Was she supposed to talk to these uniformed police detectives or lawyers about photocatalysis?
They only had one goal, and that was to send her to court. They wouldn't listen to her brag about the next era of photocatalysis.
After all, Prince was a big company. Although Zhuo Jingsi was a rare young scientist, she was still too small in front of the behemoth Prince Laboratory.
In addition, there was a deeper reason behind Prince's ruthless actions this time.
In recent years, there were many senior researchers who returned to China with foreign cutting-edge technology. The United States couldn't do anything about this.
They didn't use the Chinese, but the Chinese were indeed good at learning and were exceptionally useful.
As for the Huaxia people, their temperament would make it easy for them to abandon their accumulations here and return to the 9.6 million square kilometers of land after they had achieved success in their studies.
They didn't care about being despised by the mainstream scientific community in the future. They only wanted to use whatever they learned.
Because of this, the scientific community in Europe and the United States protested and sued, but basically all of them were useless.
In addition, as China continued to rise and become more and more powerful in the international arena, the returned talents were still secretively used in the military and other high-end industries that were separated from the people's livelihood.
In recent years, China had become more and more unscrupulous in this regard. There were also more and more technology leaks and outflows in the people's livelihood.
The European and American industries were angry but did not dare to say anything. However, they could not use the patent lawsuits that were common in the world to crush Chinese companies.
This was because China was getting stronger day by day. It was very strong in military, politics, economy, and other aspects. There was almost no bottom line for the protection of technology talents.
They couldn't deal with it by force, kidnapping, or even assassinating people like they did to other third world countries.
They could only go to court. Patent lawsuits were difficult, and transnational patent lawsuits were even more difficult. Patent lawsuits from Europe and the United States to China were the most difficult.
What Zhuo Jingsi did this time was actually not uncommon. It was just that her behavior was worse. Not only did she go back, but she also brought back samples.
Originally, Prince couldn't do anything to her, but he didn't expect her to walk right into the trap.
Because of this, as the leader of the European and American research institutions, Prince did not hesitate to use Zhuo Jingsi as a model. His purpose was to deter other Chinese researchers who were eager to make trouble, to prevent similar situations from happening one after another.
The morning news ended. Zhuo Jingsi looked back at the clock on the wall. It was already 8: 30 in the morning.
She squeezed the notebook in her hand, hesitating if she should write down a formula in the notebook and throw it out in court.
But she quickly shook her head and gave up on this idea.
Prince's higher-ups wouldn't appear in court. Even if she wrote down the formula, no one would be able to understand it. She couldn't prove her innocence, because she wasn't innocent to begin with.
Besides, even if Prince's technical backbone was present, they wouldn't be able to understand the formula without a long explanation.
Zhuo Jingsi wasn't worried about the formula leaking. Even if someone had the chemical formula in their hands and didn't know the synthesis method, it was impossible to synthesize the product by luck.
Others would only treat it as their own sophistry and imagination, thinking that it was nonsense.
No matter how talented a human was, there was a limit. An individual couldn't possibly be above a large scientific research institution like Prince.
At 9: 00 in the morning, there was a gentle knock on the door. Zhuo Jingsi sighed and stood up. It was time to go to court.
Forget it, it's my responsibility, and I have to admit it.
If I go to jail, so be it.
Right now, Chen Guang should still be busy with his Oscars in Los Angeles, right?
When he's done and hears that I'm in jail in America, he'll definitely be furious, right?
Thinking about it carefully, as a teacher, she really wasn't as mature as her student. She was too naive.
Zhuo Jingsi wasn't particularly afraid. She knew that Chen Guang definitely wouldn't ignore her.
All of her crimes seemed appalling, but at the end of the day, there was only one word that could solve it: compensation.
The research and development cost of the samples taken away was more than ten million US dollars. With Chen Guang's current financial resources, this wasn't a big problem.
Zhuo Jingsi knew that he would definitely take care of this matter. Whether or not he paid in the end, he would definitely have a way.
It was just that the more Chen Guang did, the more stupid and childish she seemed.
This made her feel extremely embarrassed.
In addition, she couldn't help but admire Chen Guang's "foresight". If it weren't for the four special Chinese escorts outside the door, she probably wouldn't be comfortably under house arrest in the hotel. Instead, she would be lying on a cold iron bed in a detention center.
"Micistria, please."
The staff of the Princeton District Court looked at Zhuo Jingsi with a smile as she opened the door. Then, he raised his hand to stop the hand of another agent next to him that was trying to reach out with the handcuffs, signaling him to put it away.
Zhuo Jingsi nodded and walked out first.
The remaining ten or twenty staff members were about to surround her, but the four Chinese people, three men and one woman, quietly stood behind Zhuo Jingsi and didn't let the rest of the people get close.
The lawyer from the Princeton Laboratory's legal department saw this and was a little unhappy.
However, the court staff next to him comforted him, "Micistria doesn't show any signs of escaping. This case itself is more related to commercial crimes. She doesn't pose a threat to others, so of course there's no need to wear handcuffs."
A little further in front, the official in charge of this matter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs whispered, "Miss Zhuo, are you sure you don't need to hire a lawyer? Then I'm afraid you'll have to hire a public lawyer. "
Zhuo Jingsi thought to herself, Ever since I arrived in Princeton, I've been under house arrest. My phone has been confiscated. How am I supposed to find a lawyer?
At this moment, a Chinese man standing behind Zhuo Jingsi interrupted, "The embassy has already hired a law firm for Miss Zhuo. The lawyer and the jury arrived in Princeton last night."
"Whatever."
Zhuo Jingsi didn't comment on this. The evidence of the case was conclusive, and Princeton also had surveillance cameras. The samples that she brought back were confiscated at the time, and her fingerprints were all on them.
With all the witnesses and material evidence, even if she found the legal team that defended Simpson, they wouldn't be able to prove her innocence.
It didn't matter whether she had a lawyer or not.
On the other hand, Chen Guang and Fang Tianyu, who had already arrived at the Princeton District Court in advance, instantly became extremely busy.
"Fang Tianyu, you just contacted a lawyer, right? Make it clear, I want the best lawyer in the United States! Fees are not a problem! "
"Ah? Boss, aren't we going to rob the execution ground? Isn't that right? "
"Then who were you talking to on the phone just now? Didn't you say that they would be here soon? "
"Uh, the boss of the Chinese mafia in New Jersey. I asked for a few gunmen."
Chen Guang: "…"
"Are you an idiot? If I really wanted to rob the execution ground, why would I need gunmen? I alone am equivalent to an army! Get a lawyer! Quick! "
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