After Director Li hung up the phone, Lu Zhou, who was on the other end of the call, also put down his phone. His face was covered with a look of confusion.
Chen Yushan watched Lu Zhou’s expression go from annoyed to being surprised and confused. She smirked and asked, “Who was it?”
“… An old man, I think he doesn’t know how to use a phone. Every time he calls me, he says something impossible to understand. We have to talk face to face just to understand each other.”
Lu Zhou knew it was nothing important. He shook his head and put his phone into his pocket.
These two were sitting in a uniquely decorated restaurant. Ten minutes ago they were talking about the high-tech eastern docks zone and Star Voyage One.
Less than two minutes after they finished discussing business matters, Director Li made a call and bombarded him.
Because the old man spoke so quickly, Lu Zhou didn’t understand what he was trying to say.
Based on his past experience, if this was anything important, the old man would definitely not use modern tools like email or phone. Instead, he would fly to Jinling in person. Or he would tell him that they had to talk face to face.
Thus, he knew it couldn’t be anything important.
In addition, Lu Zhou also learned something else, which was that when the old man spoke in a polite tone, the old man was asking for a favor.
This had happened ever since the lithium-sulfur batteries. Every time Director Li encountered any trouble, he would subconsciously speak in a polite time. So much so that this formed a conditioned reflex for Lu Zhou.
In fact, normally, Lu Zhou wouldn’t mind helping out, but the Control of Earth and Moon mission chain was near the end, the most important stage.
He wanted as few troublesome things on his plate as possible.
Even though Lu Zhou said that he didn’t care, he still had a worried look on his face. Chen Yushan chuckled and thought of something. She sighed and said, “As your long time friend, can I give you some advice?”
Lu Zhou said, “Go ahead.”
If it’s bad advice, I can just ignore it.
“I think you should really think about taking a break,” Chen Yushan said in a caring tone. She looked at Lu Zhou seriously and said, “I heard that after you came back from the meeting in Shanghai, you immediately rushed to the research institute. Even if the laboratory is interesting, I think you should—”
Lu Zhou coughed lightly and said, “That was a special situation.”
This wasn’t a lie. After receiving such an interesting thing from the system space, how could he close his eyes and go to sleep?
That was impossible.
Even if he closed his eyes, he wouldn’t be able to sleep.
Chen Yushan looked at Lu Zhou’s stubborn face and rolled her eyes.
“Every day is a special situation! Look at how hard you’re working, I think they owe you a Nobel Prize in Physics.”
Lu Zhou shook his head and said, “That doesn’t matter anymore.”
“Why?” Chen Yushan looked at Lu Zhou with a surprised face. She pinched the straw with her fingers and fiddled with the ice cubes in the cup. She said, “That’s the Nobel Prize. You don’t care at all?”
Lu Zhou sighed.
“They should consider giving it to younger people instead.”
If the Nobel Prize Committee considered giving him an award, he would definitely feel happy about it. But just like finding money on a street, it was nothing more than a small gratification.
After all, he had already obtained something more precious than a Nobel Prize. The kind of thing that couldn’t be measured with honors and awards. The significance of it surpassed all of the titles any country or organization could grant him.
And that was the honor of the human spirit.
Ever since then, Lu Zhou cared very little about awards.
Chen Yushan couldn’t help but roll her eyes.
“Can you not say that? Young people this, young people that… You’re making me feel old.”
Lu Zhou didn’t know what to say, so he just smiled slightly.
Even though Chen Yushan was sensitive about her age, to be honest, he didn’t feel like she was getting older. In fact, it was the contrary. Because of her increase in experience, she went from the “silly and stupid” girl to a mature and charming woman.
This kind of charm was beyond the reach of most young girls.
Of course, these evaluations came from the perspective of a friend. In Lu Zhou’s opinion, she was far from reaching the point of being sad over her age.
There were more things worth pursuing than the Nobel Prize.
It could be as large as the universe.
Or as small as personal enlightenment.
Caring about other people’s opinions was boring.
Lu Zhou realized that there was another reason why he invited her to lunch today, so he suddenly said, “Speaking of which, I have something for you.”
When Chen Yushan heard that Lu Zhou was planning to give her a present, she had a surprised look on her face. Her inner strong businesswoman disappeared, transforming into a curious little girl.
“Oh, really really? What?”
Lu Zhou: “Face mask.”
“Face… Face mask?”
Chen Yushan was taken aback by this reply. She looked at Lu Zhou and said, “When… When did you start researching this thing?”
“Not research…”
Ah, how should I explain this…
Lu Zhou couldn’t help but feel a headache.
This was just a by-product of the experiment. According to the clinical experiments, he found that the microbial group Dr-111 could not only decompose and swallow excess keratin and metabolites on the surface of human skin, but it could also effectively inhibit the exogenous skin from aging.
Of course, this anti-aging effect was only for the skin. It wouldn’t transform DNA telomeres to increase lifespan or anything like that.
“What brand?”
“Star Sky Technology.”
When Chen Yushan heard her company’s name, she had a cautious look on her face.
“You’re… not treating me like a lab rat, right?”
Lu Zhou rolled his eyes.
“How is that possible! Would I ever take it out of the laboratory without clinical trials? Besides, we are a world-renowned company. Shouldn’t you, the CEO, have more confidence in our brand?”
This is so hurtful!
Chen Yushan felt like she was being too harsh, and she quickly explained, “… But, the CEO never heard anything about skincare products? How could I not be worried?”
Lu Zhou said, “… Forget about it, I wanted to share something good with you, but if you don’t want it, it’s fine.”
“Wait, no, who said I didn’t want it! I want it!”
Chen Yushan began to panic. She nearly stood up from her chair.
Lu Zhou stopped playing around with her. He reached out and picked up the plastic bag beside the chair and put it on the table.
Chen Yushan was stunned when she saw the ugly plastic bag on the table.
“… This is it?”
Seeing how she was disgusted with the suspicious packaging, Lu Zhou reached out to take it back. However, Chen Yushan quickly grabbed it first.
He shrugged and said patiently, “Don’t worry, there won’t be any problems.”
“Okay, I trust you…” Chen Yushan made sure Lu Zhou couldn’t snatch the bag back. She said in an exaggerated tone, “If my skin gets ruined, I’m blaming you.”
Lu Zhou: “Don’t worry, it won’t. Enjoy it, you’ll feel great afterward.”
For some reason, the atmosphere suddenly became awkward. The young couple sitting beside them began to chatter.
Chen Yushan smirked as Lu Zhou began to think.
Did I say something wrong again?
He shook his head and left it alone.
Who cares…
He believed that, even though Chen Yushan might be unhappy at the moment, when she went home and put the mask on her face, she would instantly forget about all of her worries.
As for the reason…
Because he personally witnessed two girls, who were manlier than him, after they used the mask, it was like they were on another planet. The scientific researchers nearly wrote “might affect intelligence” on the experiment reports.
Out of interest, Lu Zhou also tried it on himself later. He found out that his face felt a little smoother. Other than that, nothing particularly magical happened. It didn’t make him more handsome.
Thus, he lost interest.
Even though he had no personal use for the mask, it was a good present to give to people.
Lu Zhou imagined that Chen Yushan would be so happy after using the mask, she would almost start crying. He had a grin on his face.
Ah, women.
So illogical.
