740: After Chapter 735, they became colleagues.

One week later.

93rd Floor, Global Financial Center, Pujiang City.

In a private club not open to the public.

Shen Yan and Wei Lizhou sat by the window, looking down at the spectacular city skyline.

Wei Lizhou seemed somewhat uneasy.

This past week felt like a dream to him.

The main entity of 'Yuanqi Life' had been officially registered, and An Ran's investment company's initial batch of two billion funds had arrived.

The headquarters in Lingnan High-Tech Park, spanning over three thousand square meters, had already begun the design and renovation phase.

The business representative from Germany's Zeiss had flown to Lingnan overnight the day before yesterday, respectfully discussing the details of customizing the production line.

All of this made him feel incredibly unreal.

And today, he was about to meet that legendary genius, Li Hua.

"Mr. Shen, this Li Hua... I hear he has quite a bad temper."

Wei Lizhou couldn't help but remind him.

"A genius, after all, always has a bit of a temper."

Shen Yan took a sip of tea, unconcerned.

Just then, the door to the private room was pushed open.

A young man wearing a black motorcycle jacket and sporting silver-gray dyed hair walked in.

He wore sunglasses, a hint of cynical amusement playing on his lips, radiating an aura of sharp aloofness that kept others at a distance.

This was Li Hua.

Li Hua took off his sunglasses and scanned the room.

When he saw Wei Lizhou, his brow furrowed almost imperceptibly.

"It's you?"

His tone carried a distinct, obvious disdain.

"Professor Wei? Oh, I remember now, the one doing 'Bio-Vibration,' wasn't he expelled from academia long ago?"

"What, you can't make it anymore and now you're coming out to stand up for capitalists?"

These words were sharp, mean, and utterly merciless.

Wei Lizhou's face instantly flushed crimson.

He hadn't expected the other person to immediately strike at his deepest wound upon opening his mouth.

"Professor Li, you..."

Shen Yan raised his hand, signaling Wei Lizhou not to say anything more.

He looked at Li Hua, a faint smile still on his face.

"Professor Li, please take a seat."

Li Hua pulled out a chair and sat down casually, crossing his legs in a posture of scrutiny.

"You are Shen Yan? The middleman told me you have something that can solve the bottleneck in my research."

"I'm very curious what a software guy knows about nano-neural interfaces."

"Speak. My time is precious. I only have fifteen minutes."

His arrogance was almost written all over his face.

Wei Lizhou watched from the side, his heart burning with anger, but Shen Yan remained calm.

"Professor Li, you are currently attempting to use 'Graphene-Gold' composite nano-sheets as electrodes for neural signal acquisition, correct?"

Li Hua's eyes showed a slight change for the first time.

This was an internal, unpublished core topic of his laboratory.

How did this person know about it?

"That's not much of a secret."

Li Hua's tone remained sharp.

"But you've hit a bottleneck."

Shen Yan continued speaking.

"After implantation into a living body for over 72 hours, the signal attenuation rate of your electrodes exceeds 6%."

"The reason is that the bioelectric field generates a subtle 'Frequency Resistance Effect' on the gold atoms within the composite material, causing disorder in the conductive lattice of the graphene."

Boom!

If the previous words only caused Li Hua some surprise, then this statement was like a bolt of lightning striking directly onto his crown!

Frequency Resistance Effect!

These four words were a vague hypothesis that he and his team had only just derived after three months of all-nighters and thousands of simulated experiments!

Even the term 'Frequency Resistance' was one he had only just coined in an internal meeting yesterday!

This person...

Who exactly was he?!

The cynicism on Li Hua's face vanished instantly without a trace.

He sat up straight, staring intently at Shen Yan, his eyes filled with shock and disbelief.

"You... How do you know that?!"

"I not only know, but I also have a solution."

Shen Yan gently pushed a tablet computer in front of Li Hua.

On the screen was the abstract of a paper.

The title read: 'On the Ultra-Stable Resonance Characteristics of Titanium-Rhodium Alloys in Biological Microelectric Fields.'

Li Hua's gaze was instantly captivated.

Titanium-Rhodium alloy?

This was an extremely obscure precious metal alloy, usually only used in certain sensors for Deep Space probes.

To use it for neural electrodes?

It was unheard of!

He looked further down.

The paper used a mathematical model he had never seen before to precisely derive how this alloy could perfectly circumvent the so-called 'Frequency Resistance Effect.'

Furthermore, it could create a peculiar 'resonance' with biological electrical signals, increasing signal acquisition efficiency by at least two orders of magnitude!

This...

This wasn't a paper!

It was the answer slapped directly onto his face!

Li Hua's breathing became rapid.

He looked up abruptly at Shen Yan.

"Who wrote this?!"

"I did,"

Shen Yan said calmly.

Wei Lizhou, standing nearby, was already stunned speechless.

He finally understood that the methods Shen Yan used to convince him could be replicated!

The feeling was akin to watching a deity casually display miracle after miracle before mortals.

Li Hua stared fixedly at Shen Yan, his eyes flickering intensely.

He didn't believe it.

Not one word of it.

The person who wrote such a paper should be an honored guest at the Nobel Prize ceremony, an existence on the level of Einstein.

How could it possibly be this very young businessman before him?

"Impossible!"

Li Hua blurted out, "Who exactly are you? Who is backing you?!"

"Who I am is not important."

Shen Yan took back the tablet.

"What's important is that I can give you everything you desire."

"A laboratory without any restrictions, a team you personally select, and funding with no upper limit."

"And..."

Shen Yan tapped the table lightly with his fingertip.

"A continuous stream of 'inspiration' just like this."

Li Hua fell silent.

He lowered his head, his silver-gray hair obscuring his eyes.

His pride, the talent he prided himself on, the foundation of his existence, had been utterly crushed before this man.

The knowledge the other possessed was already beyond his scope of understanding.

It was a suppression from a higher dimension.

After a long pause.

He raised his head. His eyes held no trace of arrogance anymore, only a complex mix of defeat, confusion, and intense longing.

"What do I need to do?"

His voice was somewhat hoarse.

"Join 'Yuanqi Life' and work with Professor Wei to turn a concept into reality."

As Shen Yan spoke, he handed over his mobile phone.

On the screen was the structural diagram of the 'Bio-Signal Resonance Module' that had captivated Wei Lizhou.

The moment Li Hua saw that diagram, his reaction was even more intense than Wei Lizhou's.

If Wei Lizhou saw the culmination of theory, then Li Hua, this top-tier micro-Engineer, saw the Holy Grail of engineering!

The exquisitely brilliant design, the ingeniously crafted structure—every detail seemed chiseled by the hand of a creator.

It perfectly integrated biology and microelectronics.

It was... a work of art!

"This... This is..."

Li Hua's fingers trembled wildly an inch above the screen, yet he dared not touch it, afraid of desecrating this sacred object.

"This is your future work."

Shen Yan's voice carried an unquestionable calmness.

Li Hua suddenly stood up.

He neither bowed nor spoke words requesting to join.

He simply walked around the table to Wei Lizhou and extended his hand.

"Professor Wei, I apologize for my ignorance just now."

"From today onward, I ask for your guidance."

For the first time, this untamable genius lowered his proud head to someone else.

Wei Lizhou was momentarily stunned, then quickly stood up and shook his hand.

"Professor Li, you are too kind. We... are colleagues from now on."