Chapter 465: Technological Gap (1/2)

Chapter 465: Technological Gap

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The next day at the canteen, Luo Yuan and Chen Xinjie sat across each other in absolute silence. They had not seen each other for quite some time; she seemed to have lost weight. He could see pain plastered across her face, the cheerfulness was no longer there.

”I’m so sorry…” Luo Yuan broke the silence after a while.

He did not know that her mother had passed away a few days ago. It was too sudden, and he was lost for words. If he had visited her earlier and treated her mother, this would not have happened!

”You don’t have to feel sorry, I knew this was coming; it was destined!” Chen Xinjie said softly, as she looked away. Her eyes were red.

There was a pin-drop silence between them again!

It was lunch hour, where many people were walking in and out of the City Hall’s canteen. Most of the seats were taken but the seats near them were empty. Nobody dared to come close.

Sensing judgmental eyes looking at them, Luo Yuan asked, ”Will you work at my secretariat? I will assign Cheng Guanghui to be in charge of something more practical.”

”I don’t think that’s a good idea, Mayor. I’m doing good right now!” Chen Xinjie bit her lips and said with her head hanging low, ”You already know that I was here for what I was assigned to do by the superior. So now, there’s no need anymore.”

”But everything has passed, we should move on…” Luo Yuan said more seriously.

”Mayor, I’m done eating, I’m making a move!” Chen Xinjie immediately took her leave and adjourned.

Looking at her running away from him, Luo Yuan, with his jaw hanging open, let out a sigh. Their relationship was never normal. It was like a white cloth stained with dirt, they could never turn back time and erase what they had done.

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Luo Yuan returned to his office. After reading more than ten documents, he had nothing to do. Now that Hope City was back on track, there was nothing much to be done by him. As the heating system was completed and the expansion of the vegetable supply, more factories were running and lives were better.

Although it was nothing as compared to before, people did not have to live in hunger. The biggest credit was the nuclear fusion furnace from the Glassian’s spacecraft. It provided endless energy which allowed mankind to survive in the cold.

There was more than one nuclear fusion furnace in Hope City now. For safety purposes and to prevent any emergency situations, Luo Yuan dismantled one of the nuclear fusion furnaces from a spacecraft that was floating in space for energy backup. Even if one of the nuclear fusion furnaces went wrong, it would not affect the lives of the people.

Luo Yuan tapped on the table repeatedly while thinking. Soon, he picked up the internal phone and called his secretary Cheng Guanghui.

”Get the institute director to see me!”

He hung up right away.

Now that the majority of the researchers had been sent on the spacecraft, the biological institute was the only laboratory that remained on earth.

This would mean that many genuine researchers were in the institute. Besides a couple of authoritative ones, most of them were lab technicians who were newly hired as talent reserves, as well as operating the assembly line of the human clones.