Back in 1978, I was admitted to Northwestern Polytechnical University.

Chapter 173 Repeated Tests

Night fell over the earth, and overhead, countless stars twinkled.

A two-door sports car pulled up in front of the Hyatt Hotel. Yang Duo'er, the driver, said expectantly, "Brother Liangzi, won't you invite me up for a bit?"

"Duoduo, have you ever thought that this might be a test from your father? We Easterners value etiquette and a sense of shame, which is different from the Westerners who eat raw meat and drink blood."

Yang Duo'er smiled and said, "Brother Liangzi, see you tomorrow?"

The West pursues freedom; if you like someone, you can sleep with them anytime. Although Yang Duo'er was born and raised here, she is not satisfied with this free-spirited way of life. The East is better! Once you've chosen someone, you'll be with them for life.

With this thought in mind, Yang Duo'er stepped on the gas and drove away, while Qin Liang walked back to the hotel with heavy steps, his mind in turmoil.

"Teacher!" Just then, a surprised voice rang out, startling Qin Liang. He looked up at the speaker: "Christian?"

Christian, no longer the arrogant man he once was, now wore a fawning expression: "Teacher, I have a few questions..."

"One thousand dollars per question!"

The other party was taken aback. In this day and age, a thousand dollars was no small sum. If he were to ask a dozen or so questions...

"What? No money? Trying to get something for free?"

"No, no, I have money!" Christian said with a pained expression, "It's just that I have a lot of problems..."

"More? Then you'll have to pay extra!"

Why? Isn't it supposed to be a discount for bulk orders?

"I'm exhausted and just want to sleep. You've taken up too much of my time, so you'll have to pay more. Two thousand dollars per question!"

Christian wanted to slap himself. He should have asked them separately, a few each night...

"What? You think it's too expensive? Never mind then, I'm going back to sleep!"

"Not expensive at all! Shall we go to your room?"

"Okay, come on."

A minivan on a street near the Hyatt Hotel.

A sharp-looking young man sat in front of the control panel, wearing headphones, listening intently to the sounds inside. One minute, two minutes…

Five minutes later, he reluctantly took off his headphones and watched the tape in front of him slowly turn.

"Damn it, what is he saying!"

A companion nearby asked curiously, "George, why aren't you listening?"

"Vans, listen to yourself!"

Vance put the headphones on his head and heard a series of loud noises coming from them.

“For an infinitely deployable angled wing with an angle of X, the wing surface pressure is only related to the airflow in the normal section perpendicular to the leading edge. According to the isentropic relationship, we can obtain…” Vance felt like his head was about to explode. They were intelligence experts, not engineers. This damn Christian had made him test Qin Liang’s abilities, and he had actually become addicted to it!

"Mr. Vance, how did today's probe go?" Just then, a man opened the car door and got in, asking the question at the same time.

"This Qin Liang is indeed very capable. Even the most outstanding talents in MIT's aerospace engineering program are humbled by him. Moreover, he is also very skilled in martial arts, just like Bruce Lee in the movies. Easterners are terrifying! In addition, he is not interested in women. If there is any flaw..."

Vance paused for a moment, then concluded: "He's too greedy!"

Christian's questions weren't confidential; they were just questions he hadn't learned in school and questions he wanted to answer for his thesis. Qin Liang dared to ask for an exorbitant price: two thousand dollars per question! He could earn at least thirty thousand dollars that night!
Ben Richie took a deep breath: "Yes, he is greedy, but... he won't pocket the money he gets; instead, he'll buy industrial goods that the East desperately needs... so even if we give him a lot of money, he won't keep it!"

"However, we've also found out that they're just an ordinary academic exchange delegation, with no one secretly protecting them. If we use special methods..."

Ben Richie's mind echoed Yang Tian's words: "Even if you keep his body, you can't keep his heart!" Thinking of this, he felt utterly disheartened.

Such talented people are being wasted staying in the East! Excellent people should come to America! Damn their beliefs, don't they think about themselves at all?
Many people are destined to be sleepless this night!

the next day.

When Qin Liang walked out of the room, he had dark circles under his eyes.

When they arrived at the restaurant, everyone was surprised to see him: "Qin Liang, what happened to you? Last night..."

Zhao Xiaoxia looked Qin Liang up and down, almost asking him if someone had stayed overnight.

Qin Liang yawned: "Ugh, that damn Christian, he kept asking me questions until the wee hours of the morning, each question taking ten minutes or even half an hour... Earning those thirty thousand dollars was such a struggle! Old Tang, you guys take this money, go to the bookstore today and buy all the useful books you saw at the library yesterday!"

More than 30,000 US dollars!
Tang Changhong accepted the money with a look of surprise. Qin Liang had earned more than 30,000 US dollars in just one night!
"Damn it, if I had known that guy was so rich, I should have asked for five thousand dollars a question!" Qin Liang yawned as he went to the restaurant.

After dinner, Yang Tian and Yang Duo'er came over to pick everyone up to go to MIT.

“Director Luo, since your students already toured the campus yesterday, we can skip this step today. We’ll go to the academic lecture hall this morning for academic exchange, and this afternoon…” Yang Tian paused for a moment, then said, “This afternoon we’ll visit the aerospace engineering laboratory.”

"Okay!" Director Luo nodded.

Going out here is all about broadening your horizons! And now, being able to visit a lab at MIT is a rare opportunity! Let's see what the equipment is like here; our fifth department should get a set too!
Qin Liang frowned. Could there be a trap here?

After getting off the car, Qin Liang deliberately lagged behind a few steps and walked with Yang Duo'er.

"Brother Liangzi, this afternoon when we visit the lab, someone will suggest that each of your Northwestern Polytechnical University and MIT send a group of people to build a model airplane using the materials in the lab... The MIT students build model airplanes every year, you guys..."

There was definitely a trap!

The students at Northwestern Polytechnical University have had virtually no experience with world-class model aircraft products. Even if they were provided with all the materials, they still wouldn't be able to build one! At least not in the short term. As a result, they would be outdone by MIT!

However... with me around, of course I have to bring glory to them!

Model airplanes? Model airplanes are nothing. Our multi-rotor drones in the future... cough cough, we can't reveal that. We need to find something else that can showcase our technological strength without letting the Americans acquire the technology, and ideally, we can even extract some technology from them...

These requirements are difficult to meet at the same time, but... Qin Liang is no ordinary person. Soon, he thought of something thick and big.

(End of this chapter)