Marrying My Bestie's Ferocious Brother - He Calls Me His Baby!-Chapter 160 - 159: Withdraw from School and Apologize? The Golden Finger Hatches a Golden Legion!
Gu Lan was still angrily stomping her feet.
"Sister-in-law, look at what he drew, it’s a mess! My blueprints are all ruined!"
"What a person, like a stone in a pit, smelly and hard!"
Lin Wan Yi didn’t speak.
Her fingers gently brushed over the "messy" blueprint.
Her gaze lingered on the re-sketched circuit structure.
Gu Lan saw her ignoring and got even more anxious.
"Sister-in-law? Do you think this is still useful? Should I go again and find a proper craftsman to look at it?"
Lin Wan Yi raised her head.
Her expression was one Gu Lan had never seen before, serious.
"Gu Lan."
"Uh-huh?"
"You’ve encountered a master."
Gu Lan was dumbfounded.
"A master? Who? That Rubbish King covered in engine oil?"
"Yes."
Lin Wan Yi laid the blueprint flat on the table, pointing at a few seemingly random lines.
"This circuit diagram is more than ten times more exquisite than the original design."
Gu Lan’s mouth fell slightly open.
Lin Wan Yi’s finger pointed at a node.
"Look here, he used the simplest series structure to perfectly solve the original’s most prone to overload burnout issue."
Her finger slid to another spot.
"And here, the calculation of energy conversion... he reduced energy consumption by at least half."
"This person..."
Lin Wan Yi concluded.
"Is a genius without equal."
Gu Lan was completely stupefied.
The Rubbish King who had stomped on things and had a terrible attitude... was a genius?
Just then.
"Bang!"
The greenhouse door was kicked open from outside.
A student from the agricultural department stumbled in, face covered in sweat and dirt.
"Professor Wang! Classmate Lin! Something’s wrong!"
Professor Wang’s heart skipped a beat.
"What’s happened? Speak slowly!"
The student gasped for breath, words coming out jumbled.
"The cotton field! The experimental plot’s cotton..."
"Cotton bollworms... a massive outbreak!"
"The new batch of tender buds, overnight, all devoured!"
Northern experimental field.
The air was thick with a desperate deadness.
Just yesterday, it was merely yellowed and dry. Today, the entire cotton field looked like it had been ravaged by locusts, hardly any green left in sight.
Only bare stalks remained, with chewed-up, battered cotton bolls hanging on them.
Professor Wang squatted at the edge, his hands buried in his hair, lips blistering in nervousness.
His hands trembled.
It was over.
Three years of effort, all gone.
Several school leaders stood behind him, faces pale as iron.
"Old Wang! We can’t wait any longer!"
Dean Li from the Agricultural College spoke first, his voice full of distress.
"Organize a team immediately, spray the pesticides!"
"If we wait any longer, even the roots of these cotton plants won’t be saved!"
Another leader in charge of logistics chimed in.
"Yes! We must spray immediately! This isn’t just a scientific failure now, it’s a major teaching accident!"
Professor Wang said nothing.
He had promised Lin Wan Yi.
To give him three days.
But now this situation...
"Professor!"
A cry of grief and indignation came from behind the crowd.
Chen Zhiyuan pushed through the crowd and walked over.
Following him were more than a dozen members of the student council.
Each holding up a white sheet of paper.
With large words written in black ink.
"Stop the nonsense, save the cotton fields!"
"Respect science, reject superstition!"
Chen Zhiyuan stood before Professor Wang, holding a stalk of cotton stripped down to the stalk.
He raised it high, his voice laced with a sob, echoing along the field ridges.
"Professor! Leaders! Fellow students!"
"Is this the result of our wait?"
His gaze swept across everyone present, finally landing like a knife directly on the newly arrived Lin Wan Yi.
"Biological control? Using bugs to control bugs?"
"That’s all empty talk found in books!"
"Because of a wild idea of some capitalist’s daughter, are we to watch three years of your hard work be destroyed?"
He stepped forward, voice rising.
"This is criminal!"
"She’s ruining the future of our Agricultural College! She’s playing with state assets!"
The student council members behind him echoed loudly in unison.
"Spray the——pesticide!"
"Spray the——pesticide!"
"Expel Lin Wan Yi from the Agricultural College!"
Their voices converged into a torrent.
Professor Wang was forced to retreat repeatedly, his face turning pale.
Dean Li, too, frowned tightly, his gaze towards Lin Wan Yi filled with scrutiny and displeasure.
All eyes focused on Lin Wan Yi.
Anger.
Accusation.
Contempt.
Lin Wan Yi stood right at the center of the storm.
She pushed aside Gu Lan, who was blocking her way, and walked forward, step by step.
Chen Zhiyuan saw her and a hint of a smug, cold smile appeared on his face.
He thrust the withered cotton plant forcefully in front of Lin Wan Yi.
"Lin Wan Yi! You still have the face to come here?"
"Look! This is the result of your brilliant work!"
"Because of your arrogance and ignorance, this experimental field is completely ruined! You are the historical criminal of our Agricultural College!"
Lin Wan Yi didn’t look at the cotton plant.
She only looked at Chen Zhiyuan calmly.
That gaze held no anger, nor panic.
It was as calm as an ancient well of unfathomable depth.
"Are you done?"
Three words.
Very light.
Yet, they abruptly stopped Chen Zhiyuan’s clamor.
Lin Wan Yi no longer paid attention to him.
She turned to Professor Wang, to Dean Li, to all the leaders and classmates present.
She neither argued nor explained a single word.
She just raised her hand, pointing far towards that shabby greenhouse.
"Give me three more days."
The voice wasn’t loud.
Yet it was clear to everyone’s ears.
Everyone present was stunned.
Chen Zhiyuan seemed to hear the greatest joke.
"Three days? You still want three days?"
"Give you three more days, and the soil in this field will be eaten up by insects!"
Lin Wan Yi ignored him.
Her gaze firmly rested on Dean Li.
"Three days later."
"If the cotton bollworm is still devouring the cotton fields."
"I, Lin Wan Yi."
She spoke each word, her voice not loud, but weighing like a thousand pounds.
"Will voluntarily withdraw and apologize to all the teachers and students in the school."
Boom!
The entire place went dead silent.
Withdrawal and apology!
Everyone was shocked by these four words.
This was no joke.
It was betting her future and lifelong reputation!
Chen Zhiyuan’s face instantly turned as red as liver.
He intended to nail Lin Wan Yi to the pillar of shame, but unexpectedly, she used this method to challenge everyone!
Professor Wang looked into Lin Wan Yi’s clear and resolute eyes, his whole body trembled.
He remembered what she had said that day, "ten percent certainty."
Remembered her saying "want every Chinese person to have enough to eat."
This girl, she was either crazy.
Or, someone who could create miracles!
Professor Wang gritted his teeth hard.
He took a step forward, blocking in front of Lin Wan Yi, and shouted at everyone.
"Alright!"
"I believe her!"
"Just three days! If anyone dares to touch a single blade of grass in the experimental field, I, Wang Jian Country, will fight them!"
Late at night.
The light in the standalone building was still on.
But Lin Wan Yi was not inside the building.
She was alone, in that shabby greenhouse.
Gu Lan had already found someone to fix the thermostat according to that genius design.
At this moment, the greenhouse was warm as spring, maintained at an ideal 25 degrees.
Lin Wan Yi stood in front of rows of shelves.
On the shelves, were thousands of egg cards carrying all the hope.
Outside was the world’s skepticism and pressure.
Here, was her only battlefield.
She reached out her hand and gently touched one of the egg cards.
It was warm to the touch.
Under the light, those golden eggs flowed with an exotic glow.
She could feel it.
Inside, an unimaginably vast life force was contained.
That was the power of the Spiritual Spring.
The power of evolution.
Suddenly.
"Crack."
An extremely faint sound of an eggshell breaking.
In the quiet greenhouse, it was like a thunderclap.
Lin Wan Yi held her breath.
Immediately following.
"Crack, crack, crack..."
Sounds rose and fell.
Tens of thousands of golden eggs began to show fine cracks on their surfaces.
They were slightly trembling.
As if a vast army was about to break out of the shells.
Lin Wan Yi’s heart was in her throat.
Suddenly!
On the egg card in the very center, the largest and brightest golden insect egg.
With a crisp sound.
Split open.
A golden head emerged from within.
