Chapter 37: Drones

“Hey, Su Shuhao?”

At that moment, Lin Xiaotong waved her manicured hand in front of Su Shuhao and said.

“What are you thinking about?”

Hearing her best friend’s words, Su Shuhao snapped back to reality and looked at Lin Xiaotong.

Su Shuhao certainly wouldn’t tell Lin Xiaotong that she was thinking about Gu Bai.

She just shook her head and said.

“No, nothing.”

Seeing Su Shuhao come back to her senses, Lin Xiaotong continued speaking with conviction.

“Men, not a single one of them can be trusted. No matter what they do, isn’t their whole motive just for women?”

“Mm.”

Su Shuhao only responded indifferently.

“So that’s why I didn’t agree to that guy so easily. I mean, he doesn’t even have genuine feelings. I’ve only known him for three months, right? How could I agree to him so quickly?”

Lin Xiaotong kept talking like this all the way, while Su Shuhao just listened.

The two soon arrived inside the library.

They needed to keep quiet inside, so Lin Xiaotong stopped her chatter, and Su Shuhao was able to enjoy a moment of peace.

She randomly found a seat and sat down, then took out her postgraduate exam prep materials from her bag and began slowly working through problems and reading.

At Nanjiang University, the difficulty of the postgraduate exam was not low.

Su Shuhao looked at the problems in her hands and grew more and more confused.

After looking for a long time, she finally couldn’t help muttering.

“These problems are all pretty hard…”

“Huh?”

Lin Xiaotong, sitting beside her, lifted her head in confusion.

“Are they? I think they’re fine.”

Lin Xiaotong’s words made the already competitive Su Shuhao fall silent.

She bit her lip, then shook her head and said.

“Maybe my brain hasn’t woken up yet today.”

Su Shuhao didn’t dare admit she really couldn’t understand.

In the past, her grades were always better than Lin Xiaotong’s.

If Lin Xiaotong could understand but she couldn’t…

Wouldn’t that make her look inferior?

Driven by her competitive spirit, Su Shuhao threw herself entirely into the problems.

She maintained a high level of concentration, trying to find a breakthrough in these questions.

However…

After a full three minutes, she found nothing.

Then, Su Shuhao subconsciously said.

“Gu…”

But as soon as the first word left her mouth, she froze.

Gu Bai wasn’t by her side.

If he were here, he would definitely be able to help her find the solutions to these problems and teach her everything.

But now…

Gu Bai wasn’t here.

At that moment, Su Shuhao was lost.

She stared at the sea of problems in her hands as if they were written in an alien language.

“Su Shuhao, what did you say?”

Lin Xiaotong must have heard that sound, but she didn’t think about Gu Bai.

Instead, she asked.

“Are you looking for something?”

“No… it’s nothing.”

Su Shuhao took a deep breath in frustration.

She tried to focus on the sea of problems, but no matter how she looked, she couldn’t understand them.

And her competitive personality prevented her from swallowing her pride and asking Lin Xiaotong, whom she usually outperformed, for the answers.

So after some deliberation, she could only pretend she had already solved them and continued flipping to the next questions.

After flipping for a while, she finally found a few relatively simple problems.

After solving them all, Su Shuhao regained a little confidence.

“See…”

She muttered softly to herself.

“It’s just a problem with my concentration.”

—

Meanwhile, Gu Bai, who had left the cafeteria, returned home.

He sat in front of his computer and opened a document.

This wasn’t the thesis he needed for graduation, but an invention he was going to patent.

After opening it, inside was a drone design that no one had ever seen before.

At this time, in this world, this kind of quadcopter drone had not yet appeared.

Using the military industrial blueprints provided by his family, Gu Bai had designed this new type of drone.

It looked only about the size of a laptop, but its performance was terrifying.

Both speed and payload capacity, based on Gu Bai’s calculations and tests, were extremely extraordinary.

A prototype had already been completed, and Gu Bai had test-flown it.

The results were as expected.

Looking at the black quadcopter drone in his hand, Gu Bai let out a sigh of relief.

After quitting all those odd jobs a few days ago, he had finally assembled this drone.

Now, he just needed to figure out how to turn this patent into money.

As Gu Bai was thinking, his phone rang.

He took out his phone and saw a very familiar number.

Seeing the number, Gu Bai took a deep breath, pressed the answer button, and said.

“Hey, Dad, what’s up?”

Gu Bai rarely called home, and his father also rarely called him.

Both father and son were relatively easygoing people.

“Gu Bai, are you short on money lately?”

Hearing his father’s sudden concern, Gu Bai’s heart skipped a beat.

As the saying goes, Gu Bai wasn’t afraid of his mother scolding him, but he was afraid of his father using this tone when looking for him.

Nine times out of ten, it meant trouble.

“No, no.”

Gu Bai wanted to decline, but his phone already rang with the sound of a transfer.

Now Gu Bai knew he couldn’t refuse.

“Gu Bai, your younger sister will be staying with you for a while. She’s younger than you, so take good care of her…”

After a rare long-winded nagging, his father finally got to the point of why he was calling Gu Bai.

“I heard you recently asked a military factory for rotorcraft design blueprints. What are you up to?”

Gu Bai’s father knew his son’s hands-on ability well.

If there were enough materials, he could even handcraft many outrageous things.

A typical example was when Gu Bai was 11 years old, using fireworks and steel pipes bought in the countryside, he personally made a makeshift mortar.

That incident nearly scared the entire Gu family to death.

And as he grew older, his talent and sharp mind became even more prominent.

So in his father’s view, when Gu Bai went to a military factory for rotorcraft design blueprints, he was definitely planning something big.

“Come on, what kind of trick are you pulling?”

“Sigh…”

Faced with his father’s interrogation, Gu Bai could only sigh helplessly, then said.

“I made a quadcopter drone. Just a little toy. Since you’re curious, Dad, I’ll show you.”

Gu Bai sent the documents and design drawings to his father’s phone.

Not long after sending them, the response from the other end was a very long silence.

Just as Gu Bai was about to ask, his father spoke on the phone with a heavy tone.

“Gu Bai, this drone is no small toy… Get in touch with Longteng Military Industry.”