To set up a Research Group, they had to handle it on a self-service tablet computer in the Research Group Center’s lobby.
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce walked out of the meeting room together, and found a vacant seat to sit down. Yue Xingwen leaned into Jiang Pingce’s ear and asked softly, “If I pull a stranger into the group, will you be unhappy ah?”
Jiang Pingce glanced at him and replied in a gentle tone. “No, I trust your judgment.”
Because Jiang Pingce did not like to have a contact with strangers, Yue Xingwen was worried just now that he would reject Liu Zhaoqing, a stranger, from joining him, and when he heard this, Yue Xingwen breathed a sigh of relief and said softly, “Although I have only know senior brother Liu Zhaoqing for a short time, I can see that he has a bold and righteous personality. At that time, a monster jumped on a chemistry student during the night battle royale, and senior brother Liu took the risk and took the initiative to rescue him—— He’s even willing to save strangers, I’m sure he won’t leave his teammates behind at critical moments.”
Jiang Pingce nodded and agreed, “En, at a moment of crisis, you can indeed see a person’s nature. You can invite him, as long as he is willing to join, I have no opinion.” He would always give some face to those who were recognized by Yue Xingwen.
Yue Xingwen opened the tablet, clicked on the option ‘Set up a Research Group’, and a prompt box popped up on the screen—— Please select the research group tutor, you are not allowed to change the tutor unless the Research Group is disbanded, so please decide carefully.
Yue Xingwen looked over the features of the three tutors and asked, “Group A is a speed and cooldown reduction; Group B enhances physical fitness and gives the whole team members a life-saving shield; Group C gains more points, which tutor do you think is good?”
Jiang Pingce thought for a moment and said, “More points. Each time the clearance points will be multiplied by 1,5x, and the two of us are equivalent to 3x. The more team members of the Research Group, the greater the results, and the multiplier level is the most cost-effective.”
Points were spent on accommodation, food, and shopping in the library, as well as points for upgrading and exchanging the skill books and props. Sufficient points allowed them to quickly upgrade their favorite skill books to the full level, or exchange for new skill books, which would strengthen the abilities of the whole group.
Of course, the speed and survival flow also had their own advantages as well, but it was still unknown how many members of the Research Group would have in the future, and picking points was the safest course of action.
“Okay,” Yue Xingwen agreed, “Then, we’ll choose Professor Zhu of group C.”
He pressed the C option, and the operation prompt popped up on the screen: “Confirm the selection of the tutor Professor Zhu. Yue Xingwen, student number 18384016, 1,000 points are needed to set up a primary research group. How many points would you like to contribute?”
Yue Xingwen input 400. Jiang Pingce immediately placed his finger on the fingerprint recognition and added 600.
The option ‘Please confirm the team leader’ appeared on the screen.
Jiang Pingce said, “You’ll be the team leader.” He was not good at communicating with people, and Xingwen’s personality was more suitable for being a team leader. Yue Xingwen did not decline when he heard this, and simply pressed his finger to confirm——
[C-183 Research Group has been established, team leader Yue Xingwen, deputy leader Jiang Pingce]
[The maximum number of primary research group members is 4, and you can openly recruit team members or invite other students to join]
Yue Xingwen chose [Invite Students] and quickly entered the information according to the prompt.
[Invite Hua’an University Computer Department, AI major, Ke Shaobin to join the Research Group, please wait for the response…]
[Invite Hua’an University Medicine Department, Orthopedics Surgery major, Liu Zhaoqing to join the Research Group, please wait for the response…]
The current time was 8:30am.
Ke Shaobin responded quickly after receiving the message, and an alert [Student Ke Shaobin has agreed to the invitation] popped up on Yue Xingwen’s side. However, he did not know what senior brother Liu was doing, and there was still no response after waiting for a few minutes.
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Yue Xingwen casually scrolled through the recruitment area——
“A-89 primary research group, recruiting a student majoring in Architecture, please enter for details.”
“B-96 primary research group, recruiting science students who had strong numerical skills, 3 in 1, progress in the Faculty of Mathematics.”
“A-172 intermediate research group, recruiting students from clinical medicine, anesthesiology, radiology, preventive medicine, medical psychology, dentistry, laboratory medicine and other medical-related majors, we welcome all Faculty of Medicine students from all universities.”
The third recruitment message made Yue Xingwen wonder. He clicked in, only to see the recruitment panel wrote a detailed introduction: “Faculty of Medicine of Xingzhou University, this Research Group is led by a grad student majoring in surgery, there are still 3 slots left.”
Yue Xingwen mused, “There is also a temporary group that only clearing elective courses?”
Jiang Pingce leaned over to see the recruitment information and said, “You can’t set up an intermediate research group if the progress is still on the 1st floor. This captain should have gone to the 3rd floor, found that the courses at the Faculty of Architecture were not good, and then returned to the 1st floor to clear the elective courses, trying to earn some points to improve his abilities.”
Yue Xingwen was interested in this Research Group and said, “A temporary group of all medical majors, only clearing the Faculty of Medicine elective courses. It should be good enough to pass, right? They’re all medical students, and when it comes to puzzle-solving courses, they can analyze cases from scratch; When it comes to escape courses, the abilities of various medical majors are also quite powerful.”
This was really a good idea.
However, this group of medical related students was only good on the 1st floor, and it was estimated that they would die very miserably on the 2nd and 3rd floor. That was why the team leader set up a ‘temporary research group’ and he would disband it after finishing the Faculty of Medicine’s elective courses.
As Yue Xingwen was thinking about it, he saw a system prompt suddenly: [C-183 Research Group’s chat channel has been established, and it does not consume point to post messages in the Research Group’s chat channel for team members]
When Ke Shaobin saw the list of team members, he sent a message: “Xingwen, you’ve joined with Pingce ah?”
Yue Xingwen: “Yes. We are in the Research Group Center on the -2nd floor, row 17 seat 1. I also pulled senior brother Liu into the group, but he may have encountered some problems there and has not replied.”
Ke Shaobin soon came to the -2nd floor and found them.
When he saw Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce sitting side by side from afar, Yue Xingwen was whispering in Jiang Pingce’s ear. One was wearing light blue sportswear, and the other was wearing a dark blue one, and their shoes were the same black and white color. Obviously, they went to the shopping plaza to buy a new set of clothes together.
Jiang Pingce’s personality was notoriously indifferent. The most he could do was nod and say hello to his classmates. Because of this, someone in the Computer Department made a joke, “That Jiang Pingce in the Mathematics Department next door is like an emotionless intelligent AI.”
However, at this moment, Jiang Pingce was listening to Yue Xingwen patiently, his eyebrows were relaxed and he looked gentle. It was not known what amusing thing Yue Xingwen had said, and the corner of his lips were slightly raised, revealing a very shallow smile.
Yue Xingwen spoke eloquently with a vivid and abundant expression, and Jiang Pingce just listened to him with a smile.
Ke Shaobin always felt a little redundant when he was watching both of them chats.
It was not until Yue Xingwen cast his gaze to the side and waved enthusiastically when he saw Ke Shaobin, “Young Ke, here!”
Jiang Pingce also looked over, with an ordinary expression and gave a nod towards Ke Shaobin.
Ke Shaobin walked over and sat next to Yue Xingwen, adjusting his glasses and smiled shyly. “Xingwen, Pingce.”
Yue Xingwen smiled. “You came pretty fast ah, did you happen to be on the -2nd floor?”
“Yes.” Ke Shaobin explained, “I was too tired after the exam yesterday, so I chose a dormitory and went back to sleep first. I got up this morning for breakfast and then went to the Research Group Center to find a team, only to get an invitation from you just now.” He trusted Yue Xingwen very much, and after seeing the invitation sent by Yue Xingwen, he did not hesitate to press the ‘agree’ button.
“Where is your dormitory?” Yue Xingwen was concerned.
“F-930 Quadruple Room. I picked an empty dormitory room, and I don’t have any other roommates at the moment. What about you guys?”
Yue Xingwen said straightforwardly, “I’m staying with Pingce, in C-77 Double Room.”
Ke Shaobin only replied with ‘Oh’, not surprised by this result.
As they were chatting, a prompt [Student Liu Zhaoqing has agreed to the invitation] popped up in the screen, and Yue Xingwen immediately sent a message in the group channel: “Senior brother Liu, come to row 17 seat 1 in the Research Group Center, all three of us are here, just waiting for you.”
Within half a minute, Liu Zhaoqing came to their seat.
He wore a pair of jeans and a striped T-shirt, trotted all the way over. A layer of sweat oozed from his forehead, panting as he stopped in front of Yue Xingwen. After seeing the handsome male student next to Yue Xingwen, Liu Zhaoqing greeted him with a smile, “This is Xingwen’s best friend from the Mathematics Department, Jiang Pingce, right?”
Jiang Pingce nodded at him, “Hello senior brother.”
Liu Zhaoqing sat next to Ke Shaobin and took a breath before asking, “Is there only four of us in the Research Group?”
“Yes, only four people can be added for the primary Research Group.” Yue Xingwen looked back at him, “By the way, senior brother, why haven’t you responded just now?”
“I just joined a Research Group yesterday, and after I received your invitation I had to quit the Research Group before I could add the new one. There’s a 15 minute cooldown after you leave the Research Group for the first time.” Liu Zhaoqing’s breathing had calmed, and pointed to a nearby place, lowering his voice and saying, “Just now, they were still meeting over there, and I came to find you guys after I left their group.”
“Is it the team of all medical students?” Yue Xingwen was curious.
Liu Zhaoqing was a little surprised. “How do you know?”
Yue Xingwen explained, “I just saw the message in the recruitment area. They didn’t scold you for quitting the team, right?”
Liu Zhaoqing waved his hand briskly and said, “They won’t. I explained that my friends asked me to join the team, and they all expressed their understanding. They want to build a team of all-medical students, to clear on the elective courses of the Faculty of Medicine and there are still a lot of people who sign up. There was an anesthesia student who got into the team immediately after I left. The captain has a lot of ideas, but I’m not familiar with them. It’s better to team up with someone I know.”
Yue Xingwen stood up and smiled while saying, “Senior brother Zhuo and senior sister Lin are also here. Let’s go to the meeting room and get to know each other first, this is not the place to chat.” He took everyone to the meeting room and entered the password to open the door.
There were three people sitting in the room, two men and one woman.
Yue Xingwen introduced them to Liu Zhaoqing. “This is senior brother Zhuo Feng from the Physics Department, this is senior sister Lin Manluo from the Environmental Department, and this is senior brother Xu Yishen from the Biological Department… This is senior brother Liu Zhaoqing from Orthopedics Surgery Department that I told you before.”
Liu Zhaoqing had a bright personality and took the initiative to walk up with the two male students in turn, and smiled at the female student to say hello. Ke Shaobin also dutifully said hello to everyone.
Zhuo Feng asked, “Is this everyone? Let’s sit down.”
Liu Zhaoqing sat down, looked around and asked curiously, “Are you all from the Student Council?”
Xu Yishen smiled and waved his hand. “I’m not, but all five of them are—— the president, culture and recreation division, publicity division, secretary, network division, they are almost assembled, right?”
Zuo Feng sighed helplessly. “I don’t want to gather members of the Student Council here, don’t ever come here.”
Liu Zhaoqing looked at Xu Yishen, who was speaking, “Is junior brother a mixed-blood? Your hair is very characteristic ah!”
Xu Yishen casually stroked his chestnut curls and said, “I’m a mix of Chinese and European, the product of a fusion of Eastern and Western genes. I’m studying genetic engineering in the Faculty of Biological Sciences. I heard that senior brother is an Orthopedist, a grad student?”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “En, I’m in the second year. My undergraduate degree was also at Hua’an University…”
Although it was the first time they met, due to an ‘alumni’ relationship, they chatted a little and soon became familiar with each other.
Yue Xingwen briefly explained the next plan to his teammates, “Only four people can be added in the primary research group, so we’re going to split into two squads now and wait until we get to the 3rd floor to upgrade the Research Group into intermediate level before merging the two squads.”
“Okay, I’ll listen to your arrangements.” Liu Zhaoqing said quickly.
“I have no opinion either.” Ke Shaobin held up his glasses and asked Yue Xingwen seriously, “So, what’s next? Are we going to finish the compulsory courses for the Faculty of Mathematics and then wait for our senior brothers and senior sister on the 3rd floor?”
“That’s right. Everyone can’t skip the compulsory courses so we need to clear it. After clearing all of the compulsory courses, then we can see how many credits are still missing, pick some good elective courses, and make up 100 credits to graduate successfully,” said Yue Xingwen seriously.
“Xingwen has a point. If we rush to clear the elective courses now, the credits may overflow by the time we come to the upper floor, and we still can’t graduate since we don’t finish the compulsory courses.” Lin Manluo said calmly.
“Let’s do it like that!” Zhuo Feng simply made a decision, “Xingwen, you lead the team first, wait for the three of us to meet at the Faculty of Architecture on the 3rd floor. Since we’re retaking the courses from the Faculty of Medicine, it could take us a few days to climb back up to the 3rd floor.”
“Okay, we’ll see you on the 3rd floor.” Yue Xingwen said.
Lin Manluo suddenly said, “By the way, what kind of skills did everyone get? It’s time to upgrade first, and let’s get to know each of the teammates skills in the training room later, so we can have some ideas in our minds.”
Yue Xingwen was about to upgrade his dictionary, when he heard this, he asked, “Senior sister, where is the training room?”
Lin Manluo replied, “In the Research Group Center, you can spend points to open a separate Research Group meeting room, or training room. Our skill can only be used in the training room, we can’t use it in other public places.”
Yue Xingwen suddenly realized, “I see, then I’ll go upgrade my skills first, and see you later!”
Thanks for the chapter!
I’m so excited to see what they encounter in the Mathmatics courses, but I’m also content with the pacing of this buffing and convening stage. Ahh I wanna store up chapters but I have no self-control, seeing the update notifications always makes me twitchy😖😅
Same :((
IKR
Thank you for the chapter❤️
Thank you for the chapter!!
The person who created the group only from doctors is quite smart, but I don’t know how it will really work, because it turned out that not only knowledge of the subject is needed
Thank you very much for the translation 🤍
I’m so curious about the skills they have especially to Jiang Pingce.
Thanks for the chapter!
A mix of European and Chinese? Do you know how many countries there are in Europe?? That basically means as much as saying you’re from America! South or North, west side or east side, closer to the pole or to the equator? The difference is so big, it ends up only meaning “half Chinese half…” idk any “white” person?
Sorry for being a little snarky at this one little detail, but my parents studied geography and I’ve seen Chinese authors somehow struggling with European geography of all things. As if Europe is like, a really big country instead of a whole continent. 🙄