The person standing behind Duan Hengye was wearing a black double-breasted suit. The bronze buttons reflected a warm glow under the sunlight. In front of his chest was a brooch made of ruby. It was also illuminated by the sunlight, and the light red light reflected by the brooch happened to fall on Duan Hangye's chin, adding a touch of brightness to his somewhat pale skin.
When Duan Hengye turned around and saw who it was, he was stunned. If he remembered correctly, Meng Jinhuai didn't have any plans to work on Planet Duguang recently. But why would he suddenly appear here at an award ceremony that had nothing to do with the military?
Duan Hengye opened his mouth, but before he could think of what to say, the man standing behind him gently put his hand on his shoulder and smiled. "I happened to pass by Planet Duguang today, so I came to take a look." After that, the two were led by the staff in front of them and sat side by side in the middle of the first row of the guest seats.
Although it was true that Meng Jinhuai would often appear in places that had nothing to do with work recently, the doubts in Duan Hangye's heart still hadn't been eliminated.
However, there were tens of thousands of people in the venue, so Duan Hengye couldn't ask any more questions. He sat down with Meng Jinhuai, and it was time for the event to officially begin.
The arrival of Meng Jinhuai and Duan Hengye was so sudden that the people in the audience didn't even react until the two sat down. After the host came back on stage and expressed his gratitude on behalf of Amro, the audience finally erupted into a round of applause.
The main purpose of today's award ceremony was to honor the researchers who had made achievements in the field of pharmaceutics in the past three years. Therefore, after the event officially began, the host first introduced all of the nominated researchers in order. The researchers that were introduced walked in through the door Duan Hengye came in and sat on the other side of the VIP seats.
Most of the audience at this event were pharmaceutical related workers, as well as Amro's students. Every time a guest entered the venue after the introduction, there would be a round of applause.
After Duan Hengye secretly glanced at the reactions of the people around him, he realized … Maybe he and Meng Jinhuai were the only outsiders in the entire venue.
Unlike the audience whose eyes were filled with excitement, Duan Hangye felt that he and the Marshal were purely here to join in the fun. They were simply incompatible with the atmosphere of the event. Wait a second, Duan Hengye looked at the person next to him … Why does Meng Jinhuai look like he fits in with the atmosphere?
Duan Hengye and Meng Jinhuai had been seeing each other a lot more often, so the interaction between the two gradually became more and more natural.
For example, taking advantage of the gap between the first few guests entering the venue, Duan Hangye couldn't help but turn his head slightly to ask Meng Jinhuai, who was clapping with a smile, "Does Marshal know these researchers?"
When Meng Jinhuai heard Duan Hengye's question, he put down his hand and turned around. He smiled and said, "I don't know them."
"…" Duan Hengye knew it.
The awards ceremony was divided into six categories according to the pharmaceutical field, and each of them was very valuable. Even though it was difficult to tell people's age from their appearance in the interstellar era, Duan Hengye still saw a few white-haired old professors. From the reactions of the attendees, it could be seen that these people were all highly respected seniors in the industry.
Lan Jingchi was indeed worthy of being a genius in the field of pharmaceutics that was specially written about in the book to be able to participate in this conference with them as a student of the university.
After waiting for a while, the host finally read out the names of the last group of award candidates. Along with this, the identity of each person was introduced, as well as their achievements in the field.
When the host read out the third name, he paused for a second before continuing, "… The next candidate is Lan Jingchi, from Amro University's pharmaceutics major, undergraduate."
Even though Lan Jingchi couldn't help but tell Duan Hengye about this, in reality, the list of nominees for the awards ceremony would not be announced in advance.
After hearing the host's words, the originally extremely quiet award ceremony venue suddenly had a lot of whispers. "Amro University's pharmaceutics major, undergraduate." These few words would definitely be a dazzling title in the outside world. Unfortunately, they were currently in Anluo University. At a glance, this was the worst and most insignificant identity in the entire hall.
Why would the organizers of the awards ceremony give a student a nomination? What's more, it was a little-known student in school. Even though Lan Jingchi's grades were ranked at the top of his major, Amro was still a university. Students rarely cared about rankings like they did in high school.
There were many pharmaceutics students, but most of them had never heard of the name "Lan Jingchi". The few that had heard of it would connect him to the "school bullying" incident a long time ago, and Duan Hengye's name.
Before this year's awards ceremony, there had never been a case of an undergraduate student being nominated. Everyone sitting in the venue was blessed by the heavens, so when they suddenly heard that someone of the same level as them was nominated, they naturally felt a bit unbalanced.
In other words, it was very unbalanced.
After Lan Jingchi's name, there was a long list of thesis titles. Different professions were like different mountains. Although Duan Hangye had put in the effort to understand pharmaceutical terms, he still didn't understand what this paper was about. After all, the original owner's education didn't have any related content, so no matter how good Duan Hengye was in his major, it didn't change the fact that he was very biased in his major …
Duan Hengye, who was carefully listening to the keywords, didn't notice that Meng Jinhuai, who was sitting next to him, suddenly raised his eyebrows when he heard the long list of thesis titles.
As the owner of a pharmaceutics research institute, a good student who had never been biased in his major, even though Meng Jinhuai wasn't proficient in this field, he at least understood what the thesis title was about.
He couldn't help but shift his gaze from the stage to the door for the first time, and he revealed a meaningful expression.
Lan Jingchi's achievements couldn't be compared to the other nominees, so the introduction time was naturally much shorter. After the host finished speaking, the door from before slowly opened again. Compared to before, the applause that greeted him was a bit sparse.
However, the youth standing at the door didn't care about what others thought of him. Duan Hengye saw that Lan Jingchi was wearing a white suit today. He seemed to have grown a lot taller recently, and his lean body also made him look thinner. Compared to the group of industry bigwigs wearing black formal suits, Lan Jingchi indeed had an invincible youthful appearance.
But seeing his youthful appearance, and then thinking about how Lan Jingchi was nominated at such a young age, his peers felt that it was hard to accept.
As the future popular supporting male lead, Lan Jingchi's body exuded an aura of "not caring about ordinary people". After the door opened, he slightly bowed to the host on the stage, and then walked to his seat, unaffected by the applause and discussion.
Although Duan Hengye himself and Lan Jingchi were about the same age, probably because of the influence of Lan Jingchi's youthful aura, or because the first time they met, Lan Jingchi's bullied appearance left a deep impression on him.
Every time Duan Hengye saw Lan Jingchi, he couldn't help but forget the dark future in his novel, and have the illusion that he was looking at his own junior.
So when the other person appeared at the door, Duan Hengye's gaze couldn't help but carry a bit of gratification.
Because he knew that Duan Hengye was coming, after walking out of the door, Lan Jingchi couldn't help but cast his gaze to the first row of the guest seats, and then began to look for that familiar figure. Duan Hengye and Meng Jinhuai sat side by side, but his seat was more towards the entrance.
Lan Jingchi's gaze swept across the side seat, and he immediately saw Duan Hengye sitting there, slowly clapping for him. But before he could reveal a surprised expression, he saw the person sitting next to Duan Hengye … Meng Jinhuai?
The nominator's seat was at the other end of the first row of the guest seats, because he didn't know that Duan Hengye and Meng Jinhuai would be here. Before Lan Jingchi, every time someone passed by here and saw them, they would reveal an extremely surprised expression, and then slow down to greet the two.
But Lan Jingchi was different …
As a supporting male lead who didn't get along with the Marshal in the original novel, when he saw that Meng Jinhuai was here today, Lan Jingchi's eyes suddenly became cold. His footsteps didn't even pause, he just casually nodded at the other person, and then quickly walked back to his seat.
Meng Jinhuai's status was very high, and Lan Jingchi's actions were obviously not giving him face.
The people in the back didn't see Lan Jingchi's expression, and gradually quieted down, but the Amro pharmacy professors sitting in the front all saw his "excellent performance". Did Lan Jingchi, who was always reassuring, go crazy today? When his experimental professor saw this scene, he almost couldn't sit still and stood up to question him.
But as the person who was ignored, Meng Jinhuai's performance was very calm. He withdrew his gaze from the front, and then his finger tapped on the wooden armrest, and lightly tapped a few times. This was originally an unconscious action, but it made the school leaders behind him break out in a cold sweat.
"Is this the student that A Heng met at Amro last time?" Meng Jinhuai suddenly asked.
When Duan Hengye heard this, he was subconsciously shocked. Then he remembered that when he helped Lan Jingchi out of trouble, he was still a suspected spy from the royal family, so of course the Marshal had to pay attention to "abnormal movements" at all times. It wasn't strange that Meng Jinhuai knew about this, but his tone was very strange.
In his heart, Duan Hengye often ridiculed Meng Jinhuai as "Great Movie King Meng". Meng Jinhuai was very good at disguising his emotions. When he was working, he always had a business-like appearance, but in private, he always had a polite smile on his face. It was very difficult for others to read any special emotions from Meng Jinhuai's face or tone.
But … Duan Hengye just heard a bit of disdain in his words, and this feeling was completely undisguised.
What exactly was going on today? Why were both Meng Jinhuai and Lan Jingchi acting so strangely? If Meng Jinhuai's disdain for Duan Hengye was understandable, then why was Lan Jingchi showing hostility towards Meng Jinhuai?
Duan Hengye couldn't understand no matter how hard he thought about it.
But when he thought about how the Marshal knew everything, he nodded at him. Seeing this, Meng Jinhuai suddenly asked again, "Then, did you come to this conference today for him as well?"
Although this was the truth, when these words came out of Meng Jinhuai's mouth, it sounded very strange. Duan Hengye's alarm went off again. Why did the Marshal suddenly ask this question?
At this time, the next segment of the awards ceremony was about to begin. Seeing that Duan Hengye was still hesitant to answer, Meng Jinhuai didn't ask any more questions. He turned around and faced the podium again. Judging from his expression, Meng Jinhuai still looked gentle and polite, but Duan Hengye felt that the pressure on him was gradually decreasing.
The film industry in the Interstellar Era developed very quickly. Even in a scientific award ceremony like this, every time an award was about to be given out, the holographic screen on the stage would start projecting. Then, it would use a documentary to briefly introduce the results of the research.
In his previous life, other than reading novels, Duan Hengye also liked documentaries and movies. Just now, he was a little worried that he wouldn't be able to understand the content of the ceremony and would feel bored. Now that he saw the well-edited documentary on the holographic screen, Duan Hengye's interest was piqued once again.
There were many nominees today, so naturally, not everyone had a documentary to go with them. The holographic screen mainly showed the winners and the results of some famous interstellar researchers.
As the videos played, the time gradually approached noon. The award for Lan Jingchi's subject was finally going to be given out.
Standing on the stage was the president of the Interstellar Pharmaceutical Research Association. Every time an award was about to be given out, he would go on stage and give a brief introduction.
No matter how interesting the documentary footage was, Duan Hengye was still a little tired after watching it for an entire morning. However, after hearing the president's words, he finally perked up again.
This time, after the president's summary of the work of the past three years was different from before. After the president's summary, he obviously started to praise specifically.
If Duan Hengye's understanding was correct, then the president was talking about Lan Jingchi.
"… During the last award ceremony, I never thought that one of the nominees three years later would be such a young researcher." In the interstellar era, it was hard to tell which of the nominees was the youngest just by looking at appearance. However, because of the "student" introduction just now, everyone put the president's words on Lan Jingchi.
Now that everyone was looking at him, the popular supporting actor Lan Jingchi didn't show any strange expressions. His calm demeanor was already very different from his peers around him.
The president glanced at Lan Jingchi and said, "His research direction also surprised me. This is a field that very few people are involved in."
The length of the award ceremony was fixed. After saying this, the president walked off the stage. Then, according to the usual process of the award ceremony, after the names of the winners were read out again, the guest in charge of giving out the awards walked on stage.
The person who came was an extremely senior professor of Anluo. His steps were no longer steady, and the hair on his temples was already dyed with frost. Duan Hengye saw the old professor pick up a traditional envelope from the side and slowly open it.
Even though Duan Hengye could roughly guess whose name was written on the envelope, when the professor opened the envelope, he couldn't help but feel nervous.
The professor was stunned when he saw the name on the envelope. He slowly said, "… Congratulations, Lan Jingchi! We welcome the youngest award winner in history! "
After he finished speaking, the screen lit up again. The documentary about Lan Jingchi's successful research began to play.
After the award ceremony, the documentary would be uploaded to the interstellar network. Therefore, this content was prepared for the general public, so Duan Hengye could obviously understand it.
In the middle of the first row of the VIP seats, Duan Hengye looked up at the screen. As the documentary played, Duan Hengye's heart started to beat faster.
Even though Duan Hengye still couldn't understand some of the more in-depth content, he could tell from the rest that Lan Jingchi's research direction was related to the poison in his body!
A long time ago, when Duan Hengye came to Amro for a class, Lan Jingchi came to his lounge to look for him. At that time, Duan Hengye had already received a detailed medical report, and remembered some of the abnormal values and residual toxins. Because of his doubts about the data, Duan Hengye vaguely mentioned it to Lan Jingchi while they were chatting.
He didn't expect that a few months later, Lan Jingchi would actually write an award-winning thesis based on the problem he casually mentioned.
Duan Hengye's hand slowly moved to the wooden armrest of the chair. Because he gripped the armrest so tightly, his knuckles started to turn white. Duan Hengye stared closely at the image on the screen, and even his breathing became cautious.
At this moment, Duan Hangye suddenly felt Meng Jinhuai, who was sitting at the side, gently place his palm on the back of his hand. Unlike Duan Hengye's cold hand, Meng Jinhuai's palm was still so warm, and his heartbeat immediately stabilized.
"If he's willing, he can come to the LDK-300 Research Institute during the holidays," Meng Jinhuai suddenly said in a low voice. While speaking, the marshal's eyes were still focused on the screen in front of him. His expression was very relaxed. Duan Hengye almost thought that he was hallucinating.
During this period of time, he already knew that the LDK-300 Research Institute's strength was definitely not inferior to the Yetian Empire's Royal Research Institute. If Lan Jingchi could really study and work at the LDK-300, it would be beneficial for his own studies and his progress in detoxification.
However, Meng Jinhuai clearly looked down on him a few seconds ago, so why was he inviting Lan Jingchi to the LDK-300 Research Institute?
Not long after the marshal finished his sentence, the video ended.
Lan Jingchi's thesis was published not long ago, and because the research direction was very unpopular, not many people in the room read it carefully. However, after watching this video, everyone finally had a new understanding of his research.
The scientific world was the same as the battlefield, it was a world where strength was respected. In just a few minutes, the students in the back row looked at Lan Jingchi with disdain, and now, they looked at him with admiration. However, as a slightly chuunibyou male supporting character, Lan Jingchi was still so calm.
After the short video ended, Lan Jingchi, who was wearing a white suit, walked on stage. He received the trophy in his hand and used a few seconds to thank his professional teacher. Then, he nodded at the audience and walked off the stage.
Is this … the end?
At the age of twenty, he became the youngest winner of this award, and he received a trophy that was difficult for his peers to touch. That's all Lan Jingchi said?
Under the shocked gaze of the crowd, Lan Jingchi walked off the stage in an unusually cool manner. However, he did not return to his seat. Instead, he turned around and walked towards where Duan Hengye was sitting.
After seeing Duan Hengye, Lan Jingchi, who was very calm, suddenly became a different person. When he smiled, his eyes would involuntarily squint. At this time, he smiled and shouted, "Professor Duan!" He looked very young.
Lan Jingchi, who was walking towards Duan Hengye, opened his arms, obviously wanting to hug him. Although Duan Hengye was not used to physical contact, after seeing Lan Jingchi's expression, he did not want to be embarrassed. Therefore, when Lan Jingchi walked over, Duan Hengye also stood up from his seat.
Then, Duan Hangye discovered that Meng Jinhuai's palm was still on the back of his hand that was next to the other party's.
Therefore, the crowd saw that when Duan Hengye stood up, Meng Jinhuai also stood up. If one looked down, they would discover that the two of them had been holding each other's hands tightly the whole time!
The General and Professor Duan's relationship was really good.
Lan Jingchi, who also saw this, subconsciously slowed down his steps. At this time, Meng Jinhuai took a step forward and then extended his empty hand towards Lan Jingchi.
"Congratulations." Meng Jinhuai smiled and said to him.
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