CHAPTER 88: CHAPTER 60: DAVID LIKE THE SUN GOD [REQUESTING MONTHLY TICKETS]_3

Bamboo Dragonfly.

The difference is, this is a metal dragonfly.

As the young lad peeked around, Chu River gently rubbed the metal dragonfly in his palm—

The next second, her phone vibrated lightly, emitting a series of consecutive prompts. The metal dragonfly, set in motion by her rubbing, was propelled into the air, momentarily hovering before swiftly spinning its blades and circling around the room.

Chu River thought for a moment, then pointed to the dining table beside her, "Go under there."

The young lad was taken aback but promptly dove under the dining table without a word.

In less than three seconds, the top of the metal dragonfly, still flying and spinning above, suddenly flashed with a rapid red light, emitting a slight buzzing sound.

"Beep beep beep..."

It hovered revolving non-stop above the table, while Chu River’s phone displayed a red dot which rapidly expanded over a map, showing clearly that beneath the thin tabletop was an adult man with knees drawn tightly together in a slight curl.

Clear as if a thermal imaging system was right in front of your eyes, enhanced by low-resolution images.

"Not bad for my handiwork, huh."

Chu River clapped her hands, then slightly raised her arm with her palm flat, allowing the metal dragonfly to naturally descend back into her palm.

The young lad crawled out from under the table, a bit bewildered:

"Sis, what exactly is this thing of yours for?"

Children’s toy? Hide-and-seek magic tool?

Chu River replied nonchalantly, "Nothing much, just a high-precision rescue dragonfly that can scan and image through straight-line obstructions up to 50 meters."

With current technology, a low-cost version has already appeared. However, in certain complex or large scenarios, it is still not as adept.

"I thought about it, and tomorrow is a good day; how about I start a live stream and raffle off three rescue dragonflies? It’ll also help test the performance more specifically."

The name was too straightforward, and the meaning in the words too shocking, causing the young lad to take a deep breath.

Looking again at the metal dragonfly lying flat on the table, his expression became particularly cautious.

"Sis, are you for real? Is it really that powerful?"

No matter how bad a student he was, he knew it wasn’t just a matter of giving it away in a live stream.

"—Shouldn’t this be given to the country?"

Chu River looked at him for a moment, surprisingly praising him:

"Not bad, not bad, you have potential to be a main character."

"Of course, it should be given to the country; I need to continuously build renown officially... but before giving it, I have to let it demonstrate a bit of its function at least."

"Besides, I will participate in major projects in the future. Something offered on a platter isn’t quickly recognized; better wait for people to come to me."

...

Meanwhile.

In an empty classroom at the White Bird Academy.

A crude-looking drone was continuously flying up and down in the small space, either rapidly or slowly.

Below it, various sizes of cardboard boxes were randomly stacked with layers, containing little white mice borrowed from the medical school inside.

A group of young men and women were gathered in front of a computer, staring intently at the fuzzy imaging color blocks displayed inside until finally, someone let out a cheer:

"Great, it worked!"

"Finally succeeded!"

"Haha, made it in time!"

...

Amidst the cheers, a happy girl also raised her voice.

"Brother Lu, our drone rescue system is considered successful now, right? So next, should we publish a paper and send it to the technology competition?"

"This year’s technology competition has a prize of 100,000 yuan; at that time, as a team, we can certainly get exposure and land our dream offers!"

Hearing this, the atmosphere stiffened somewhat.

One of the girls, with a firm face, stated harshly:

"Who’s in a team with you? Aren’t you a material student? What does that have to do with our mechanical programming?"

One of the boys also muttered:

"Yeah, didn’t you say you were just here to take a look? How come we’re suddenly a team now?"

Only Brother Lu, the leader, still grinning amicably at this moment.

"It’s okay, it’s okay; Manman is also quite knowledgeable about this field. She even picked this topic for a paper before, which I think was well-written."

"Besides, when we publish the paper, we’ll surely all have our names on it. One more person can’t hurt; on the contrary, it can brighten Manman’s resume, making it easier for her to find a better job."

"Manman is right, this year’s technology competition will surely earn us a good spot with this."

He said as he looked at Qin Manman with affection, his smile full of gentleness.

The girl who spoke first curled her lips, outright refusing rudely:

"Lu Ran, according to what you say, why not add the whole department’s names, wouldn’t that give more people a chance?"

Seeing Lu Ran tongue-tied, the girl straightforwardly continued.

"You want to please your girlfriend, fine, but you shouldn’t use everyone’s achievement to please her."

Lu Ran couldn’t help but feel anxious.

"That’s not what I meant, and Manman isn’t my girlfriend; she indeed has helped us. When we were doing research, she brought us water, got us meals, even brought drinks."

With this said, the two silent boys couldn’t help but turn their heads.

Lu Ran: "..."

The boy speaking also showed a hint of impatience.

"Leader, get it straight; we originally had someone for that kind of task. It was you who insisted that Qin Manman had nothing to do and wanted to help us..."

"Now that there’s a result, why must a material student be added?"

Qin Manman stood to the side, her face pale at the moment, her eyes slightly red.

"Forget it, Lu Ran."

"I thought that during this period, I had become part of the team. Unexpectedly, you only accept people from your own department..."

She bravely smiled through her discomfort.

"I’m okay, I won’t fight for the paper’s authorship against everyone. You are right; I study materials—liking drones, so what? Ultimately, I don’t know as much as you do."

"Manman!"

Lu Ran felt extremely anxious from the sidelines.

Subsequently, with a surge of zeal to protect his admired girl, he bit his lip and looked painfully at his team members, saying:

"I didn’t expect, with Manman’s good intentions to help, you really see her as just a gofer."

"Isn’t it just thinking there’s unfairness with adding one more person? Fine, I will quit, and add Manman’s name, will that satisfy you?"

The girls in the team were even angrier.

"Lu Ran, what do you think our research is?"

"Without true interest or aiming for results, who’s got nothing better to do hanging around here all day and night?!"

"Being a team member, you have your own responsibilities to bear; now you talk about opting out to let your girlfriend take over... is research such a replaceable thing?"

"Do you even respect everyone’s research achievements?"

"Every step of the programming was completed with our collective effort. The technology competition registration ends in 5 days— you say quitting, just quitting? Yet all the late nights and hard work before were for catching this competition!"

"Quit, and let your girlfriend, who knows nothing, lead us to the competition to run errands?"

Moreover...

The girl glaring fiercely at Qin Manman.

"You claim you are part of our team?"

"Don’t make me laugh, Qin Manman; you’ve only helped to bring meals twice and drinks twice, and now you feel you’ve contributed to the team?"

"When you accidentally deleted all the code Brother Chen pulled an all-nighter to write, why didn’t you talk about your contribution then?"

"Or when you spilled drinks over the drawings before, why didn’t you mention your contribution?"

"Talking about contributions now... I spit!"