Qiao Nian walked in without any nonsense and went straight to Xu Yi and asked him: "Did anything happen today?"
Xu Yi was speechless for a moment.
She did not hide it: "When I arrived at the institute in the morning, I found that people turned around to look at me along the way. After seeing me, they were still talking about something."
"Xu Yi, what happened?" Qiao Nian's eyes were dark and bright, without any sign of fear.
The tension in Xu Yi's heart couldn't help but relax. He looked at her again, his whole back relaxed, and he looked into the girl's eyes and said concisely, "I just found out this morning. Ji Ziyin from Group 1 and several leaders of the institute reported you, saying that the 'super algorithm' we showed in the group assessment was plagiarized from a scientific giant. This matter has spread widely in the institute, and now almost everyone knows about it. The institute hasn't come to a conclusion yet, but the current situation is not favorable to you..."
Ji Zinyin has the support of the Ji family from Independent Continent.
Qiao Nian is just an outsider, not even a person from the Independent Continent. What can he use to fight against Ji Ziyan
Xu Yi clenched his hands hanging at his sides.
If this happened half a month ago, he might not have taken it to heart. That's how it is in the First Research Institute.
Stick together and be exclusive.
Members like Ji Ziyin who have strong backgrounds can run rampant in the First Research Institute, while those without backgrounds, such as him and Shen Qingfeng, will only be excluded and suppressed.
These are the norm at the First Institute.
Qiao Nian is not even considered a person from the Independent Continent, so he gets bullied whenever he is bullied.
He wouldn't be surprised at all.
But after they had been together for more than half a month, Xu Yi had already privately considered Qiao Nian as one of his own.
So when he came to the research institute this morning and heard people around him gossiping about Ji Zinyin reporting Qiao Nian for plagiarism, he felt a surge of anger in his heart and held his breath all morning.
Xu Yi exhaled a breath of foul air, looked at the girl in front of him with complicated eyes, raised his hand, and put it down halfway, feeling uneasy and not knowing how to comfort her: "Qiao Nian, you...you don't have to think too much, things may not be as bad as we think."
"yes."
Xue Zhu also joined in the conversation. She came over at some point, looking furious. She suppressed her anger and said, "We are all in the same group. I will always support you! We worked on the experiments late into the night to get those results. What right do they have to accuse us of plagiarism?"
"Qiao Nian, I have found all the tapes that record our experiments. If the research institute wants to investigate, I will hand them over to them."
Shen Qingfeng also stood aside, surrounding the girls and pointing at a pile of videotapes recording the experiments on the laboratory table.
"These tapes are enough to prove that the experimental data are the results of our own experiments, not plagiarism or theft as they claim!"
Qiao Nian never took Ji Zinyin seriously.
There were people watching her all the way this morning.
She thought something big had happened.
In the end, it was just Ji Zinyin who reported her.
After she heard what Xu Yi said, her eyes were filled with indifference, and it was obvious that she didn't take Ji Zinyin's sudden attack to heart.
It was not until Xu Yi, Xue Zhu and Shen Qingfeng stood up and surrounded her and chose to stand by her that she was somewhat touched.
After figuring out what was going on, she put her hands in her pockets, stood nonchalantly, raised the corners of her mouth in a perverse arc, and her eyebrows were full of wildness: "Don't worry, I will be fine."
(End of this chapter)