After confirming the speculation about the jump plan, Xia Xu was very excited, but he quickly calmed down.
After all, even if he knew it, it would be useless. He couldn't rush to America to destroy the Andra Group's experimental base. He didn't have that ability.
In Xia Country, the Andra Group is still subject to many restrictions, but in a capitalist country like America, where the Andra Group truly made its fortune, one can imagine the extent of its secret influence.
Regardless of all this, guns, modified organisms, and various advanced technologies are all problems that must be faced if a conflict with Andra really occurs. With the combat power he has now, it is completely futile for him to truly engage in a head-on conflict with Andra.
In fact, maybe now is the time for him to worry about Andra causing trouble for him.
The other plots he participated in before, even the super brain plot, were easy to deal with, but regarding Uncle Luo and Louise's "Night Owl" plot, he now has a very bad guess.
The most likely target of Louise is not a branch of Andra, but the parent company that actually implements the jump plan.
Only the organization that implemented the Jump Plan would focus on the extraordinary talent that Louise showed in the physical examination, and only Andra's parent company could comprehensively coordinate the project results of various branches to create something like Gleipnir Werewolf.
They might have gone after Uncle Luo and Louise, but since he was deeply involved from beginning to end, he was obviously inevitably dragged into it.
He did not feel any regret or fear about this, but he had to re-examine and consider the risks involved.
Although it is also a conflict with the Andhra Group, the conflict with its subsidiaries and the conflict with the group headquarters are obviously not the same concept. The projects involved are different and the degree of importance will also be different.
Just like crimes committed in one country, pickpocketing, robbery, armed riots and other cases are obviously not on the same scale, and the degree of attention and the manpower and resources mobilized will also be the same.
Andela is huge, but it has to take care of many aspects, so small fights, even if Grant and his team are jumping around, will not attract much attention. However, if core projects such as the Super Brain Project and the Jump Project are blocked...
"I always feel like I'm going further and further down the road to death, alas."
Xia Xu sighed silently, and in the end, he could only try to be more vigilant in the future.
Then, after Grant had settled down in his bedroom, Xia Xu acted as a middleman and introduced him to Zhang Meng and Lu Dong.
There was nothing much to say afterwards. In the evening, the head teacher and the counselor organized a class meeting, but everyone was basically strangers to each other. They gathered in groups of three or five based on acquaintances or dormitories, and there was not much communication.
Of course, after the class meeting was over, he did not forget to run to the School of Information Engineering to treat Song Yu, Luo Lin and other roommates of Tang Youxin for a midnight snack amid Grant and Zhang Meng's complaints about the inhumanity of the opposite sex.
The following week was also uneventful. The University of Science and Technology of China meaningfully arranged a week-long military training for freshmen.
Although Xia Xu's physical fitness was enough to attract people's attention, because it was just ordinary queue training, unfortunately there were no scenes of showing off or getting slapped in the face.
The beginning of the school year passed by uneventfully, with no difference from an ordinary university. It was not until school officially started that Xia Xu finally felt the slight difference from a normal university.
In terms of the most basic courses and teachers, the University of Science and Technology of China is naturally full, but it is actually not too surprising.
The subjects are the same as those of a normal university. In addition to the major courses of each major, you can also sign up for various electives, such as flower arranging, cooking, tai chi, etc.
Lecturers for both major and elective courses are basically well-known teachers, and many well-known professors from around the world have their names on this international cooperative education program and will take turns giving lectures in the future.
But in fact, many famous universities have these, the only difference is that the quality and quantity of their teachers are higher.
There was actually only one thing that truly impressed Xia Xu about USTC—the atmosphere!
It is difficult to feel this in the freshmen, but looking at the seniors, almost every one of them is filled with a clear goal and high morale, and the academic atmosphere on campus is very rich.
"Dear students, this is the first lesson the academy will teach you!"
Along with these words, a special welcome party kicked off on the first day after the military training.
On this day, all the freshmen of the entire college were gathered in a huge venue that was shaped like a bird's nest and was exaggeratedly large.
This is not a gymnasium, but an incredibly large exhibition hall and museum divided into countless areas.
High precision robotic arm.
3D projection device.
Automated sorting device.
Simulation robot.
These are the simplest exhibits.
In addition, there are specific scene exhibition halls arranged for various industries, including unmanned supermarkets, smart logistics warehouses, holographic cinemas, etc.
Then there are more professional or technical displays of not-so-mature products, including novel materials like graphene, various polymer materials, nanotechnology, computing models, communication technologies, and so on.
Stepping into it is like stepping into a dazzling technology expo.
Perhaps many of these are immature products and concepts, and many of them only exist in the experimental stage due to various restrictions, but for all the students who are currently in it, it is tantamount to stepping into the future ahead of time.
"What the hell, what the hell, it's a lifelike robot. I don't know if the skin is realistic or not."
"This robotic arm can be used to build an excavator. Damn, this should be used to build a mecha!"
"It's really cool that naked-eye 3D modeling can actually be done through light projection."
"Unmanned supermarket, does anyone really pay for this thing? I'm afraid it will be snatched up by grandpas and grandmas as soon as it opens."
Inside the expo hall, there were cries of surprise and excitement everywhere.
No words or deeds could make them more excited and fanatical than having the future laid out before them right now.
People have a long-term vision, but they are also short-sighted.
If you ask him to study mathematics, most people will think, can I use the calculus I learned to buy groceries
But you put all kinds of amazing and novel results in front of them one by one, and tell them that they can also create all these things through hard work and study.
For people, especially for those talented students who already think highly of themselves, this provides them with a perfect goal that seems within reach and is far more useful than ten thousand words of encouragement to study.
"Brother Xu, you are too calm. Why do you seem not excited at all?"
After walking around with a group of roommates and classmates for a long time, Zhang Meng and others finally noticed something unusual after the initial excitement and novelty faded away.
Xia Xu seemed to be quite indifferent from the beginning to the end, as if he had a feeling of "that's it?" when he looked at everything. After thinking about it, they seemed to be just like bumpkins.
"Oh, I have facial paralysis."
Xia Xu shrugged.
To be honest, the exhibits in the exhibition hall are indeed very advanced. Many of them are high-tech that have not yet been popularized on Earth, but they cannot be called really black technology.
This is obviously not shocking to him, as he has been dealing with various black technologies for a long time and has two ready-made high-tech companies under his control, let alone the extent that it can move him.