kingnovel Chapter 1239 Yun Rui's sincerity: Young man
Chapter 1239 Yun Rui's sincerity: Young man
The late autumn rain came unexpectedly. Gu Yunxi walked quickly through the corridor of the Chemistry Building holding the experiment report, and his canvas shoes splashed through the puddles.
Suddenly, there was a sound of flying papers at the corner. When she looked up, she bumped into a shadow with the scent of soapberry - a boy in a gray sweatshirt was kneeling on one knee, and the scattered notebooks were soaked with ink in the rain.
"Be careful, classmate!" She instinctively squatted down to help, and her fingertips touched the slightly cool back of the other person's hand when he took the notebook.
The moment the boy raised his head, a pair of amber eyes appeared under his wet bangs, and the teardrop mole at the corner of his right eye trembled with a smile: "Professor Gu's first aid response is more sensitive than the catalyst I designed."
This sentence made Gu Yunxi pause. The water drops from the hair of the boy in front of him slid across his angular jaw. There were mud spots on the knees of his black sweatpants, but he was carrying a professional waterproof lab bag.
She noticed that on the cover of the notebook he had retrieved, there was a highlighter saying “Exploration of Unconventional Catalytic Pathways.”
"Will you choose my class?" When she stood up, the boy had neatly sorted out the scattered materials, revealing the journal "Frontiers in Applied Chemistry" tucked inside. The cover page of the latest issue also had her lecture poster pasted on it.
"I would like to take the class taught by a beautiful professor who can teach quantum catalysis like a sci-fi movie, but the conditions do not allow it."
He shook the notebook, and a hand-drawn molecular structure diagram slipped out from between the pages.
"I wonder if you still remember the speech I gave at the academic forum last week. It overturned my understanding of reaction kinetics."
Gu Yunxi took the drawing and scanned the parameters marked on it.
Raindrops formed a beaded curtain along the eaves of the corridor. The muffled sound of the school bell came from afar, but she was attracted by the bold idea in the picture: "You use sound wave vibration instead of thermal activation? But this will lead to molecular chains..."
"It produces a chaotic effect." The boy rushed to answer, his eyes gleaming with excitement. "Conventional theory believes that this is a defect, but if we can control the frequency of oscillation, we may be able to create unprecedented reaction conditions!"
This idea coincided with her shelved plan to improve Reactor No. 3.
Gu Yunxi's breathing quickened. He remembered what Qi Ruixiang always said: "Dangerous ideas should be eliminated in time." At this moment, a strange warmth surged in his heart.
She noticed that the sides of the boy's sneakers were stained with the laboratory's unique non-slip rubber crumbs, and half of the laser rangefinder was exposed from the side pocket of his backpack.
"Which department are you from?" She took out a tissue and handed it to him. When the boy took it, he showed the burn scar on the inside of his wrist, the shape of which matched the circular outline of the high-temperature reactor.
"Sophomore in Materials Science, Lin Xu." He casually brushed his wet hair back, revealing his smooth forehead. "What are the requirements for joining your research team? I have already taught myself Advanced Quantum Chemistry, and last week I modified a spectrometer in the lab using discarded parts."
Gu Yunxi couldn't help but chuckle. This way of recommending himself was just like a reckless intruder.
She thought of the carefully designed "encounters" that Qi Ruixiang planned every time he approached her. The calculations hidden behind the coffee and access card formed a stark contrast with the straightforwardness of the boy in front of her.
“Enthusiasm alone is not enough.” She deliberately put on a stern face, but her pupils shrank slightly when Lin Xu took out a USB flash drive - the densely packed experimental data inside was exactly the direction of optimizing catalytic efficiency that she had been thinking about recently.
The rain stopped at some point, and the setting sun shone through the clouds onto the two of them.
Lin Xu's shadow was a whole head taller than her, but he bent down slightly to keep his eyes level. This detail reminded her of the countless moments when Qi Ruixiang "protected" her from a high position.
When the boy said, "Scientific research should not be like dancing in shackles," she suddenly felt the oppression in her chest eased a little.
When they parted, Lin Xu took out a sealed can from his lab bag and said, "This is a homemade anhydrous copper sulfate desiccant for you to keep your lab notes."
There was a note crookedly stuck on the jar: "Dedicated to the light that always pursues truth."
Gu Yun looked at his back as he ran towards the teaching building against the light. The words “Break Boundaries” printed on the back of his sweatshirt were particularly eye-catching in the afterglow.
That night, she opened Lin Xu's experimental data in the study. The moonlight outside the window and the cold light of the computer screen intertwined.
The phone vibrated at this time, and Qi Ruixiang's message came through the anonymous number: [The weather is getting colder, please keep warm. ]
She stared at the unchanging greeting, and suddenly remembered Lin Xu's reckless look when he found out that she was wet and immediately took off his sweatshirt to put it on her.
Two completely different temperatures collided in his mind. Gu Yunxi closed his notebook and placed the copper sulfate jar in the most conspicuous position on the desk.
The crystal-like blue crystals flickered in the moonlight, just like the desire for knowledge in Lin Xu's eyes - that was the pure light that had never been seen in Qi Ruixiang's deep gaze.
As dusk drifted into the laboratory, Gu Yunxi was sorting out spectral data when his cell phone suddenly vibrated.
Another unfamiliar number sent a message: "Professor Gu, I have done a preview of the experiment using sound waves. The data is attached."
In the accompanying picture, the modified instrument is flashing a faint blue light, and the scattered draft papers on the operating table are filled with formulas.
She kept her fingertips hovering above the screen for a long time, and finally asked the question that had been lingering in her mind: "How did you know my number?"
The reply came quickly: "The Academic Affairs Office website has teachers' public contact information, but..." Three seconds later, a new message popped up with a naughty emoticon, "I was indeed waiting at the door of the office, waiting for the number watermark to appear on the coffee cup you threw away."
Gu Yun looked at the sky getting darker outside the window. Thinking of the figure of the young man carrying the lab bag that day, the corners of his mouth rose unconsciously.
She called up a professional database and quickly compiled three cutting-edge industry problems: "Assuming a vacuum environment, how to solve the energy loss caused by the quantum tunneling effect?"
As soon as the message was sent, the incandescent light in the laboratory suddenly crackled. The moment Gu Yunxi looked up, his phone vibrated three times in a row.
Lin Xu's reply not only included the calculation process, but also a hand-drawn diagram of the improved device, with a red pen annotation on the edge: "Perhaps we can learn from the principle of superconducting magnetic levitation."
"What if the experimental subject is an extremely active unstable molecule?" she asked, her heart starting to beat faster as her eyes scanned the message that the other party replied to in seconds.
Lin Xu not only pointed out the loopholes in conventional protection, but also proposed the innovative idea of using biological enzyme coating for isolation - this direction was exactly the core difficulty of her interrupted No. 3 reactor project.
The night wind slapped against the blinds, and Gu Yunxi took off his glasses and rubbed his sore eyes.
On the screen, the latest message from Lin Xu was still flashing: "Professor, I know these ideas are naive, but..."
"Come to my office tomorrow." She interrupted the other party's self-deprecation, and her fingertips trembled slightly when she typed this sentence, "Would you like to officially join my research group?"
The moment the send button was pressed, the laboratory fell into an eerie silence. Gu Yunxi stared at the dialog box and listened to his own violent heartbeat.
Three minutes later, the phone vibrated wildly, and dozens of messages popped up one after another, mixed with several excited emoticons.
Finally, Lin Xu sent a voice message, his voice trembling with obvious trembling: "I, I do! I swear I will not let you down!"
Gu Yunxi leaned back in the swivel chair, looking at the bright city lights outside the window.
She remembered that every time Qi Ruixiang discussed scientific research with her, he would always analyze the risks and pros and cons first, but in Lin Xu's eyes, there was only a burning desire for the unknown.
On the desk, copper sulfate crystals glowed in the moonlight, like the eternal stars in the boy's eyes.
This unexpected encounter may become a new turning point in her life.
And that figure with the scent of soapberry, with the courage to break through, broke into her world trapped by heavy shackles.