Chapter 432: The Sleepless Night of More Than Half the Scientific World

Chapter 432: Chapter 367: The Sleepless Night of More Than Half the Scientific World

“…Lao Zhao, is this the surprise you prepared for me?” Chu Bamboo glanced at the half-smiling Zhao Shao, then looked at the other people in the CEO’s office, the corner of his mouth twitching slightly.

Zhao Shao didn’t speak. However, a familiar face was the first to stand up and let out a long sigh. His voice was tinged with a bitter laugh, joy, bewilderment, and a hint of incoherence…

“Mr. Chu, you’ve really kept me in the dark!”

The speaker was none other than Li Quanyuan.

He was holding two books—one was the freshly printed first volume of *Star Sea*, and the other was the corresponding *Star Sea Detailed Explanation*.

As the principal of Jinling University and a member of the Academy of Sciences, Li Quanyuan’s field of research was aerodynamics.

Last night, he received the txt file sent online by Lin Xia. Not long after, he received the books that Zhao Shao had urgently printed…

Originally, when Li Quanyuan learned that the author was Chu Bamboo, he had only planned to give it a casual glance, purely to support this good student of his. However, with that one glance… he was completely hooked, unable to pull himself away!

The poor man, at his age, stayed up all night to finish it! Then, red-eyed, he used his connections and started frantically calling people… sending the two txt documents everywhere.

Last night, you could say that more than half of the Divine Continent’s scientific community didn’t sleep a wink—

First thing in the morning, he rushed over, only to find out that Chu Bamboo was still fast asleep.

Heaven knows what Li Quanyuan was feeling at that moment.

“…You!” Li Quanyuan opened his mouth. ‘I actually wanted to take him as my disciple, but when I think about the contents of that book… Just the parts related to my own specialty already feel beyond me… What’s the point of taking him on, then?’ For some reason, he felt a wave of sadness, and then, just as randomly, he was reminded of the dean of the neighboring music university!

“…” Li Quanyuan felt like that boomerang had come back to hit him far too quickly.

“…Forget it!” Principal Li didn’t say much more in the end. He felt a bit disheartened, waved his hand, and finally said, “Get yourself ready for tonight!”

“?” Confusion appeared on Chu Bamboo’s face.

“A few people… have rushed over from Yanjing!” Li Quanyuan took a deep breath. He then discreetly glanced at Hodges. While Chu Bamboo had been sleeping, he had taken the opportunity to chat with Mr. Huo.

He had to admit, the man’s reputation was well-deserved.

“Those few people, they want to talk to you… and!” Li Quanyuan pursed his lips. “It will be a… huge help to you!”

“A very, very big one…”

Li Quanyuan was still in a bit of a daze. The main thing was… many of the findings in the *Star Sea Detailed Explanation* had already been verified… The breakthroughs in mathematical theory, the appearance of all those formulas, those were still manageable! You could just say they would be a massive boost for the future of humanity… But… who the hell knew it would also just drop a whole pile of formulas for new materials! And even some strategic-level scientific technologies— There were even applied results worthy of a Nobel Prize! What does that even mean? It scared the living daylights out of me!

Li Quanyuan’s phone hadn’t stopped ringing all night… He’d received three calls from the military alone… and they were calls that came through to his personal phone in the middle of the night! The identity of the callers was self-evident.

For a moment, Li Quanyuan even suspected Chu Bamboo had stolen ten years’ worth of research from the great power across the Sea… but then he gave himself a couple of mental slaps… At the end of the day, it was just a book and its detailed explanation— Even if a spy really had stolen tons of classified data, they’d never just write it all up in a book and dump it on the internet! Besides… why would the nation across the Sea do that? Even if the formulas for materials and whatnot had to be kept secret, how could they possibly not publish the mathematical theories?!

So, no matter how incredible, how utterly inconceivable it seemed… the only logical explanation was that Chu Bamboo had, in fact, created all of it by himself!

It was just like…

Li Quanyuan took a deep look at Chu Bamboo, recalling a think-tank meeting he had attended just after midnight. In it, they had analyzed all the available intelligence on Chu Bamboo’s past displays of talent and reached a terrifying conclusion.

“…The essence of this matter! It’s actually the same as when Mr. Chu produced countless top-charting songs from various countries—”

“It’s one person achieving… something that, by all normal logic, should be impossible. And yet, somehow… by some unknown method, he just did it all by himself!”

“It’s just that… because songs don’t affect a nation’s strength, no country-level powers questioned it… But now! These two books are like a bomb… they’ve blown a hole right through us! You could even say they’ve blasted us awake!”

“It was only after being blasted awake that we went back and reviewed this man’s intelligence over and over, and only then did we realize… the fundamental nature of these books… is the same as the songs!”

And in the end, after all the think tank’s repeated analyses, the final conclusion they reached was…

Li Quanyuan pushed all these thoughts from his mind and stared intently into Chu Bamboo’s eyes. “So, what do you say?”

“I understand.” Chu Bamboo thought for a moment. ‘The visitors are probably big shots,’ he realized. ‘And not just some academicians… it might even involve…’

His expression remained unchanged as he said, “Just call me directly when it’s time.”

Li Quanyuan gave Chu Bamboo a deep look, his eyes filled with approval. ‘As the saying goes,’ he thought, ‘one who can face the sky’s collapse with the calm of a placid lake is fit to be a great general!’

…

After exchanging a few more words, Chu Bamboo saw Li Quanyuan out.

“What, not going to chat a little longer?” Zhao Shao’s expression was odd, as if he were trying his hardest not to laugh. He ended up with a strained, flexing face. “Isn’t that a bit rude? The principal waited for you all morning!”

“If *this* is the only surprise you had for me…” Chu Bamboo grabbed Zhao Shao, lifted him up, gave him a gentle push, and sat down in the CEO’s chair himself. He shot Zhao Shao a sidelong glance, then spared another for Lin Xia, who was now sitting bolt upright…

He was expressionless, but his voice carried a hint of menace. “Then don’t blame me for the ‘surprise’ I have for *you*.”

A brief silence followed.

“AHEM!” Zhao Shao quickly raised his hands in surrender with a wry smile. Then his expression turned serious. He took a deep breath. “It’s not just about the principal… Right now, you’ve… across the entire world… kicked up a massive storm!”

Chu Bamboo wasn’t surprised. His profile was just too high right now. First, he was a global superstar. Second, he was being hunted by the White-headed Eagle, with a bounty on his head. Most importantly, the hype from all that hadn’t even died down yet…

And now, he goes and does something like this!

Releasing *Star Sea* and *Star Sea Detailed Explanation* online…

…was no different from adding fuel to the fire!

After a moment’s thought, Chu Bamboo took out his phone. “Z! Pull up the info…”

Z, which hadn’t officially begun its update process, immediately pulled up a large amount of trending data.

And there, at number one on the blog charts—

*”A Flight of Fancy from One of the Divine Continent’s ‘Amateur Scientists’?”*

Beyond that, there were three other items related to Chu Bamboo in the top ten… The second one was ranked third on the blog, with the title…

*”Wait, What? Wasn’t Chu Bamboo Arrested? When Did He Come Back? Is This Someone with the Same Name?”*

The one after that was: *”What Happened Now? What Did Chu Bamboo Do This Time?”*

“…” For a moment, Chu Bamboo couldn’t keep a straight face.

He subconsciously glanced at Zhao Shao!

“It’s just like you think!” Zhao Shao shrugged. “We were actually preparing to start a promotional push… but it blew up before we could even start! All I can say is, the hype around you is just ridiculous…”