Chapter 314: Which Wheeze and Cillin, Exactly? Part 2 (2/2)
The worst part was that their mysterious “backer” watched them, but didn’t provide them with the research conditions and environment he really needed to conduct his research. This meant that they didn’t really value him, and that the “help” was more like charity than anything. Oh, your research looks pretty interesting. I suppose I can toss you a bone or two.
The atmosphere in the house turned gloomy instantly. Shi Tang didn’t fully trust Cillin either. It was because he thought that he was the same as those slavers who discriminated against aliens.
Wheeze flicked its ears before yawning in boredom. Suddenly, it looked at the shabby microcomputer Shi Tang used and asked, “Hey Shi… Shi… well whatever. I’m bored, so let me play on your microcomputer for a bit, okay? Don’t worry about me and just enjoy your conversation.”
Shi Tang’s head was a mess right now, so he paid the gray cat no heed. Wheeze took his silence as affirmation and jumped off Cillin’s shoulder, climbing up the table and sitting in front of the shabby microcomputer. It then pressed a couple of keys and entered the login page to “Return”. It was an act; it could obviously manipulate the machine data without physical contact, but it didn’t want to show it off in front of outsiders.
Wheeze grew angry when it saw what was going on in its category.
“Meow dammit! I’m only gone for a couple of days, and these bastards are already threatening to overthrow me!?” Wheeze shook its tail in annoyance.
Shi Tang finally looked at Wheeze because it was worried that the cat would damage its one and only microcomputer. However, he was astonished when he saw the screen.
“You frequent ‘Return’ too?” Shi Tang stared at Wheeze curiously before walking over for a closer look. The second he saw the login ID and the blinking image on the screen, he froze like a statue.
“Whebeze?” Shi Tang almost stuttered out the syllables. He could hardly believe his own eyes.
If there could only be one famous person in the free style debate category, then Whebeze had to be it. There was no one hadn’t heard of “Whebeze” because they were the legendary figure who “argued” with a couple of legendary academicians until they fainted from sheer frustration since the foundation of the forum. A lot of people guessed that Whebeze was a member of the RAS, but no one in the RAS confirmed nor denied the suspicions. It was because they would be dragging their own reputation through the mud if they admitted that Whebeze wasn’t an affiliate of theirs, and contributing to the cases of civilian experts scoring one over a well known researcher. Therefore, a lot of people mistakenly thought silence as tacit admission.
But now, Shi Tang felt like someone had nailed a hammer to his head? Was this cat really the legendary “Whebeze”? The legendary figure who had hordes of fans cheering them from behind every time they entered a debate? Really?!
Shi Tang’s face scrunched together in disbelief again and again.
The person—or rather the cat in question itself paid Shi Tang’s reaction no heed because it was busy arguing with the “dissenters”. Its appearance caused the already lively free style debate area to explode in population in an instant, and countless people were still pouring in from other categories.
Shi Tang had no choice but to believe that Whebeze really was a cat after seeing this.
However, his attention was quickly pulled toward the ongoing debate. Every time he was engaged in a purely academic argument, he could literally feel the adrenaline in his body pumping into his vein. It was just such an exciting atmosphere! Severely underpriced medicine? Mysterious mastermind? None of it mattered to Shi Tang anymore as he immersed himself completely in the debate.
“Oh my meow, this old fool is still denying his mistake! His matrix equation is wrong, dammit! Cillin, we need to punish him severely! Senior professor my ass, more like incompetent con artist!” Wheeze complained while typing the correct matrix equation with its paws.
Cillin?
Cillin!!?
Out of all the names in Shi Tang’s dictionary, the name “Cillin” was absolutely among the top. It was to the point where his mind went boom the second he heard it from the gray cat.
“Wh… which Cillin?” Shi Tang’s contorted features loosened. His words were rapid and brimming with excitement.
No footage of the presentation at the twenty third star region had been transmitted, or more accurately no existing footage had survived the clean up. As a result, no one—not even in Return—had ever seen a photo or video of Cillin. It became a legendary name that many insiders heard of, but no one had ever seen before.
However, those who attended the San Calombo academic presentation in person and listened to the whole thing would sometimes speak of the content that was deleted from public eyes. To many people—especially those oppressed young researchers who were stuck at the bottom and dreaming impossible dreams—Cillin was a living myth of the academia.
Shi Tang’s breathing grew more and more rapid. Even before Return was founded, Shi Tang had already heard of Cillin. At the time, his name was only spread in localized areas and specific industries, especially those that dabbled in the research of virus. But after the latter half of the presentation was spread by mouth, more and more people started to hear about the man named Cillin. Then, Return entered the world and caused another storm in the academia and made Cillin into the idol of countless aspiring youngsters. Even Sha Rou, an outsider in regards to the academia had heard of Cillin from Shi Tang; a man who achieved many great things despite being only a couple of years older than them.
While Shi Tang was pumping with excitement, Cillin suddenly look to the entrance and asked, “Why are you skulking behind the dorr? Come in already.”
A round, mechanical head poked through the gap. Then, Moon walked in with a body language that oozed embarrassment.
“Hello, I heard that it’s customary to bring gifts when visiting someone’s home the first time, so, please accept this,” Moon said “politely”.