Duan Hengye's appearance made the audience silent. Although all the people who came to participate in this meeting were some of the top figures in the mecha research community, this did not mean that everyone would not be curious about Professor Duan's private life.
Duan Hengye quickly reacted after realizing that he had been thrown by Wen Mujia. Now, as long as he makes some "special actions", he is considered to be in the right place for the other party. Duan Hengye chuckled silently in his heart, and then nodded very politely to Wen Mujia. Before everyone could react, he turned around and quickly walked towards the hall under the guidance of the robot.
His movements were smooth, and it only took two seconds for him to disappear in front of the opponent.
This pillarless banquet hall has a huge interior area. Unlike the lively scene at the entrance, there are already many people sitting in their seats inside the hall, waiting quietly for the opening ceremony for a while. Seeing Duan Hengye entering the hall just now, the people who were already seated also stood up. After seeing them, Duan Hengye nodded politely, and was then led by the robot to the seat reserved for him in the afternoon.
An Luo has been preparing for this mecha conference for a long time, and the seats for the opening ceremony dinner have been allocated according to the status of the guests in the academic world. But because of Duan Hengye's sudden arrival, the staff took the time to adjust the seats of the first few tables.
This was the first time for Duan Hengye, the dean, to attend the meeting, but many people from Yetian Empire Mecha Research Institute were regular visitors to this meeting. After Duan Hengye sat down, he found that there were many familiar faces around him. After seeing themselves coming, everyone was secretly looking towards this side.
The average life expectancy of people in the interstellar era is much higher than that of Earth, and aging is naturally delayed indefinitely. Some of the senior researchers in the hospital, although they look young, are actually much older than Duan Hengye. When he didn't come, all the staff were sitting there with a serious look. But when Duan Hengye came over, everyone became nervous as if they had seen the head teacher.
Seeing how nervous they were, and thinking about everyone's age, Duan Hengye suddenly felt a pressure or two...
Duan Hengye was actually a little helpless when he realized that his presence had destroyed the harmonious atmosphere here... After thinking about it, he simply picked up the retro paper process sheet on the table and pretended to look at it. Seeing Duan Hengye bowing his head, the atmosphere of the surrounding tables finally became a little more harmonious.
These researchers are afraid of Duan Hengye, but there are people who are not afraid of him.
When the conference was about to be held, the chair beside Duan Hengye was finally slowly pulled away. Su Mingge, the vice president of Yetian Empire Mecha Research Institute, the most important guest at this conference, finally returned to his position with a glass of wine.
It stands to reason that Su Mingge, who was squeezed out of the first place, should be angry. But the amazing thing is that after he came, he just politely greeted Duan Hengye, then put down the wine glass and turned his eyes to the front. As if the two were just ordinary colleagues, they couldn't see the tit-for-tat confrontation they used to be in the courtyard.
The host of the opening ceremony is the vice president of An Luo University, and his research is also somewhat related to the mecha. However, he is obviously a leader in another industry, and he has already seen all kinds of big scenes. But when he actually stood on the stage and saw Duan Hengye facing him ten meters away, he suddenly became nervous.
After clearing his throat, Vice Principal An Luo walked up to the stage and began to speak according to the script written in advance. Although he was trying his best to relax, as soon as he glanced at Duan Hengye from the corner of his eye, he couldn't help but start stumbling. Although the meeting was not broadcast live, the media was still gathering footage to prepare for the evening news.
You may not be able to see it if you are far away, but if you look a little closer or look through the monitor, you can find that his state is wrong at this time.
Standing on the side of the stage, Wen Mujia folded her arms and looked at the people on the stage, and after a while, she turned around and glanced at Duan Hengye.
To be precise, Wen Mujia knew Duan Hengye too well because he once regarded the other party as a rival in love. When we met at the military last time, Wen Mujia vaguely felt that Duan Hengye had changed, but now after seeing the other party's relationship with his colleague Su Mingge, Wen Mujia finally confirmed his feelings.
Taking a certain time as a node, Duan Hengye's body underwent earth-shaking changes.
Dean An Luo's speech was not long. After he finished speaking, he hurriedly walked off the stage. Then, as the sponsor of this event, Wen Mujia took the stage. Duan Hengye glanced at the paper process sheet just placed on the table with some doubts... This sheet did not say that Wen Mujia was going to take the stage.
Then Duan Hengye slowly turned his gaze back to the stage, he intuitioned that the other party's coming on stage had something to do with him. Sure enough, Wen Mujia's gaze fell on Duan Hengye from the moment he stood up.
Not only Duan Hengye himself, but everyone around him noticed this. And Su Mingge turned his head more directly, and began to observe Duan Hengye's reaction in an open and honest manner.
Under the watchful eyes of the people around, Duan Hengye looked directly at Wen Mujia's eyes, and neither of them had any intention of avoiding them.
"...Good evening everyone." Seeing Duan Hengye looking at him, Wen Mujia finally said, "Today is the day of the annual Interstellar Mecha Conference. As the organizer of this event, I am very grateful to all the guests. And everyone must have discovered that this time, there is also Professor Duan Hengye, the dean of our Yetian Mecha Research Institute, who is here to attend the meeting."
After saying this, Wen Mujia smiled and stretched out her hand to gesture to Duan Hengye, who was sitting right in front of him, and then continued: "As we all know, Professor Duan has made great contributions to the current mecha research. Contribution. Today, I am honored to invite him to participate in the opening ceremony. The organizers of the conference and... I am very much looking forward to Professor Duan being able to take the stage and share with you his views on the future development of the industry.”
Sure enough, Wen Mujia was waiting for him here.
The atmosphere in the venue became extremely tense for a while. Everyone present knew that Duan Hengye appeared in An Luo temporarily today, and there was no speech or speech on the procedure sheet.
After all, those present were all members of the upper class of the empire. Even if they were not curious about the scandal, many people had heard of the black-faced gossip about Duan Hengye and Wen Mujia. Seeing this scene, although sitting in the back could not see Duan Hengye's reaction, everyone couldn't help but get nervous.
Wen Mujia's voice had already fallen, but Duan Hengye still sat there steadily, and didn't seem to want to move at all.
Time passed by, and Wen Mujia's smiling face on the stage slowly retracted. He stared at each other, ready to speak again. However, at this moment, Duan Hengye finally stood up. He tidied up his collar and walked slowly into the corridor.
Maybe there is only one person left at the scene who is not too serious to watch the fun... That is Su Mingge.
After Duan Hengye stood in the corridor, the sound of a stool rubbing against the floor came from the extremely silent hall again. Following the reputation, it turned out that it was Su Mingge who turned to look at Duan Hengye with his neck crooked.
According to Su Mingge's understanding of his colleague, Duan Hengye had two possible reactions when he heard Wen Mujia's words - one was to speak on stage, and the other was to turn around and leave.
In fact, if the person standing in the corridor now is the original owner, he may indeed walk out of the hall without giving Wen Mujia any face. But the person standing here at this time was indeed Duan Hengye, and under everyone's attention, he finally turned around and walked onto the stage.
Seeing that Duan Hengye was really coming, Wen Mujia raised her eyebrows in surprise, then gave up the center of the stage, and clapped sideways to the other side.
An Luo's banquet hall looks very "retro", but there is a little bit of technological content in the details. Now the hall was already silent, and after Wen Mujia's abrupt applause sounded, it was caught by the amplifier and dispersed to the corners of the hall.
Immediately after him, bursts of applause finally pierced the silence - the scene at this time inexplicably reminded Duan Hengye of the first day he entered this book.
Duan Hengye walked onto the stage, he bowed gently to everyone, and then stood up straight. In fact, at this moment, compared to Duan Hengye on stage, the people offstage were more nervous.
No matter whether he works in Yetian Empire Mecha Research Institute, at least everyone is a peer. In people's impression, Duan Hengye has never made a speech in public. It's not that he has no confidence in Duan Hengye's eloquence, but no matter how he looks at it, he doesn't seem like a person who is good at speaking in public.
The people in the audience waited nervously, but Duan Hengye on the stage was not affected at all. He glanced down and said, "First of all, thank you very much for the invitation of the conference..." Wen Mujia on the side raised her eyebrows very obviously, obviously he did not expect that Duan Hengye would take the initiative to mention this matter.
It is undeniable that Wen Mujia called Duan Hengye on stage today, but he didn't actually have any expectations for his speech, and even just watched it with the mentality of "watching a good show". But he didn't expect that Duan Hengye gave him a surprise as soon as he opened his mouth.
Professor Duan, who usually looks alienated, was surprisingly calm after standing on the stage.
"For a long time before, the interstellar mecha research was in a stagnant state." Duan Hengye threw out such a lethal sentence as soon as he opened his mouth. Just when everyone was thinking in silence, he continued: "Although we have made a staged progress on the surface, in fact, everyone must be able to feel that this generation of mechas is not much compared to the previous generation. improvement."
Although he hadn't prepared before, Duan Hengye's speech rate did not slow down. It could be seen that he had already thought about this issue carefully. However, after saying this sentence, no one present cared about the state of his speech, but all held their breath to pay attention to the next content.
Although some are reluctant to admit it, everyone in the mecha world knows that the upgrade of this generation of mechas is almost entirely done by Duan Hengye alone. And what he just said, from a certain point of view, is not only hitting his own face, but also hitting the face of the entire industry.
... It turns out that Professor Duan usually doesn't open his mouth, so is he so ruthless when he opens his mouth
Duan Hengye, who didn't understand, looked surprised, while Su Mingge, who had twisted the stool just now, slowly turned around. He never imagined that Duan Hengye would tear this fig leaf off today, in front of almost all of his peers in the industry who could be named. Don't leave the slightest sympathy.
Su Mingge couldn't help but look forward to his colleague's next speech.
Without giving everyone too much time to think about it, Duan Hengye continued: "There are many reasons for this result. From the perspective of the entire industry, the biggest problem is the poor exchange of information..."
After hearing this sentence, Su Mingge suddenly couldn't help laughing out loud. As the vice president of the research institute, he knew that Duan Hengye himself had a lot of credit for the "poor communication of information". I didn't expect that this person would really give Chi a problem like this today. Naked out.
Seeing Su Mingge suddenly burst out laughing, a colleague from the research institute next to him couldn't help but glance at him, and then whispered to him, "Su Yuan?"
"It's okay" Su Mingge smiled and waved his hand and said, "I'm laughing at how handsome our dean is today."
"..." Hearing his words, the staff member even forgot to continue listening to Duan Hengye's speech. He couldn't help but turn around and stare at Su Mingge. If I heard correctly just now, Su Mingge is... complimenting Duan Hengye
Wait, what Su Mingge said is true or ironic!