Chapter 1122 - 835: Mo Kai: Today, I Finally Enter the Inner Sect! (2)

A silence lingered for two breaths.

The first one to raise a hand was Shi Qianqian.

"Teacher, I always feel that... after all, our school has strict requirements, and Bi Yanling’s situation doesn’t seem like a big secret." Shi Qianqian hesitated a little, "Just relying on Mr. Chang’s words doesn’t seem quite enough."

"I mean, shouldn’t we consider other aspects? Like Bi Yanling’s teacher?"

She was worried about the bigger fish coming after catching the small one.

Although some things don’t weigh until they’re weighed—but not everyone has the qualification not to weigh them.

What if the bigwig sees something dirty and feels annoyed, and just cleans it up on a whim?

Taking a step back, most university teaching positions are tightly filled, and if a mediocre and unconnected person really took the spot, it wouldn’t be Bai Qinghua and others’ turn to intervene.

When Bai Qinghua heard this question, he felt very gratified.

"You’ve thought it through comprehensively." Bai Qinghua couldn’t help but praise her, "More comprehensively than your senior when she was doing her research."

Weng Pinting squinted her eyes slightly.

"You don’t need to worry about this." Bai Qinghua waved his hand, "I had already looked into this aspect."

Today during the day, Bai Qinghua didn’t just tidy up the eSports room and interrogate the resident consultant—it must be said, the former might have indeed taken a lot of effort.

In the past, Shi Qianqian might have double-checked with Weng Pinting after hearing such a reply; but today, Bai Qinghua exuded a convincing air.

"Okay." Shi Qianqian nodded obediently and put her hand down.

"Any other questions?" Bai Qinghua asked.

Another hand went up quickly.

The person raising their hand was surprisingly Mo Kai.

"Teacher, I have one thing."

Bai Qinghua looked at Mo Kai, his gaze somewhat surprised; just newly entering the Inner Sect and already having such ideas: "Go ahead."

Mo Kai took a deep breath, feeling inexplicably nervous: "It’s about Lan Daihui."

With this name, various shirts and colorful ties unavoidably appeared in everyone’s minds, with blue ties being the most prevalent.

In a sense, the blue tie was actually the first victim in the Bi Yanling incident.

"What, did Bi Yanling bully him again?" Bai Qinghua squinted his eyes, oh, it’s endless, isn’t it?

Mo Kai hurriedly waved his hands: "No, no, I haven’t heard him complain about that lately, and he seems much more spirited indeed."

Hearing this, Bai Qinghua’s expression eased slightly.

"But before, when Teacher Bi Yanling asked him to make a PPT presentation, didn’t she give him a bunch of academic papers to read and asked him to report on them?" Mo Kai said.

The bullying the blue tie once endured was no secret in the entire research group.

"I heard Lan Daihui mention that those academic papers weren’t given directly by Teacher Bi Yanling, but through their doctoral senior brothers and Lan Daihui."

"And those papers given by the doctoral senior brothers are all from the past three years, and quite a few are in foreign languages..."

Upon hearing Mo Kai say this, everyone’s eyes in the room lit up.

Being asked to read papers from the past three years is to understand the latest trends in the field; and understanding the latest trends is naturally to work on new projects and produce results.

In other words—

"I was thinking, by going through these papers, could we roughly estimate the recent projects and research directions of Teacher Bi Yanling’s research group?"

Mo Kai looked at Bai Qinghua: "I just heard you say, you can call a few journal editors you know and inquire about this."

"But I figured if we can roughly grasp the direction through these academic materials first, it should save some effort when inquiring, right?"

Indeed, different journals cover different professional fields. Given that Bai Qinghua wasn’t part of Bi Yanling’s research group, he didn’t know which journals Bi Yanling had submitted to.

If following the original plan, he would contact all the editors he knew; not only would it be time-consuming, but there’s a chance it might be in vain, wasting goodwill for nothing.

Mo Kai’s suggestion was quite timely.

"Young folks sure have sharp insights." Bai Qinghua couldn’t help but nod, this newly inducted Inner Sect student hadn’t even officially started working yet, and he was already bringing benefits to the research group, "Do you know which papers Xiaolan received?"

"I can ask him for them, just say I’m curious about the latest research directions in ’Developmental Psychology’." Mo Kai replied, "If it’s just exploring the research direction, I can go through all the papers tonight."

"Alright." Bai Qinghua decided, "Then you do this tonight, let me know the results tomorrow morning, and then report to Qian Qian."

...

The arrangements were more or less settled.

The people in the office were either calm, excited, nervous, or ready for battle.

In any case, it reached the final stage.

Bai Qinghua glanced at the time on his phone, just about to say one last thing.

A sudden knock came from the door outside.

Knock, knock, knock—

Bai Qinghua’s words halted in his mouth, he gestured to Mo Kai, who was stationed the closest to the door, to open it, and said loudly:

"Come in."

Appearing before everyone was Lan Daihui, who had just been the subject of discussion, wearing a deep blue tie today.

"Teacher... a senior came over to borrow the laboratory."

Shi Qianqian turned her head slightly, usually handling registration duties now: "Who came to borrow it, from which teacher’s research group?"

"...It’s Senior Jie Nianzhou." Blue Tie answered, "From Teacher Bi’s research group."

Everyone’s mindset changed, but they remained expressionless.

"He said he wants to conduct a behavioral experiment and use our group’s EEG laboratory. He said Teacher Bi sent him over to negotiate scheduling..."

"Alright, I know." Bai Qinghua nodded, gesturing to Shi Qianqian: "Qian Qian, go coordinate."

Shi Qianqian nodded, walked out of the study, but did not close the door. Even if the inner sect disciples didn’t leave, they could hear the conversation outside.

Nan Zhubin leaned half of his body out to look out, indeed seeing Jie Nianzhou. The last consultation was done online, so the details of his appearance weren’t very clear.

At this moment, Jie Nianzhou gave Nan Zhubin the impression of still being worried—after all, the real situation hadn’t fundamentally changed, and it’s normal for Jie Nianzhou to appear in this state.

However, his spirit had improved a lot compared to when Nan Zhubin first saw him in the office.

It was in an office, not a consultancy room. The state a person displays varies in different environments, so Nan Zhubin tried to compare similar situations.

Jie Nianzhou also saw Nan Zhubin, but both tacitly pretended not to know each other.

"Qian Qian." Jie Nianzhou’s voice was low, "I wanted to ask about your recent EEG lab schedules..."

Shi Qianqian sat down at the largest desk, logged in her account and password, speaking inadvertently: "After that lab, you didn’t ask again, I thought you didn’t need it anymore."

"I don’t know, mainly depends on the teacher..." Jie Nianzhou scratched his head.

This answer didn’t hold well, so Shi Qianqian checked the lab’s registration form: "This week is fully booked, if you want to borrow it, you’ll have to wait until next week..."

Initially, Shi Qianqian thought Jie Nianzhou would be troubled, but unexpectedly he agreed immediately: "Next week is fine, is registration convenient?"

"..." Shi Qianqian glanced at Jie Nianzhou.

"Is there no problem on Teacher Bi’s side?"

"Before I came out, the teacher told me that next week is also fine."

"...Okay. The system can’t register now, we can only reserve for the current week. But I can write it down for you first." Shi Qianqian took out a pen and paper, "How long do you need to borrow it?"

"Two hours." Jie Nianzhou said, "A simple emotion induction experiment, not requiring particularly complex parameter settings."