Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 445 - 445 440 Unable to Enter the Laboratory

Chapter 445: Chapter 440 Unable to Enter the Laboratory Chapter 445: Chapter 440 Unable to Enter the Laboratory “Don’t get too happy too soon, we need to investigate to know the true nature of the facts.”

“Absolutely, go ahead and investigate, the more thorough, the better.”

Hearing Mu Miao’s words and seeing the expression on her face, Mu Jiawen had a good idea that she was probably telling the truth.

“What’s your brother’s name?”

“Mu Jun.”

Mu Jiawen didn’t ask what Mu Jun’s senior brother was called, she just simply informed Yu Yue about the situation over a phone call.

“Who found you?”

Yu Yue thought this matter had already ended, since the involved personnel had been removed from the lab and would never be able to enter again. As for whether other labs related to Beijing University would take him, that was beyond their control.

But he didn’t expect that there would be more to this trivial matter.

The experiment itself was not very important—it was the physics department of Beijing University that suggested their involvement, and they reluctantly undertook it. Not taking it seriously, they let a few previous assistants and some newcomers tinker with it.

Yet, they never expected such a simple experiment would be botched.

The matter was dealt with by Yu Ci’s assistant Ceng Tianbao.

After returning to Beijing, Yu Ci had taken on an assistant named Fei Shen, who had been with him overseas for quite some time. Fei Shen was the first assistant responsible for the lab’s major experiment confidentiality and international communications.

But, as there was an abundance of miscellaneous issues at Beijing University, Fei Shen had neither the time nor the inclination to deal with them, and locally recruited a second assistant from Beijing University.

This Ceng Tianbao was the second assistant.

Yu Yue had only heard about it before and had not paid any attention to the matter. If it weren’t for his sister’s words, he would have forgotten all about it.

Mu Jiawen glanced at Mu Miao beside her and spoke the truth, “A high school classmate of a buddy of Jiang Yan saw me at dinner last night. Remembering your lab, she spoke to me but wasn’t very hopeful—it was more like a last ditch effort, considering her brother was ready to take the blame. But she’s not willing to give in, so she came to me again today.”

Although he hadn’t known Xiaosi for a particularly long time, Yu Yue understood his little sister quite well. If she truly didn’t want to deal with something, you could approach her eight hundred times and she still wouldn’t care. Now that she had called him, it meant she wanted him to investigate.

Conveniently, Yu Yue also wanted to investigate.

It would have been a different story if he hadn’t known about it, but now that he was aware, he couldn’t just let this malignant tumor continue in the lab.

Failing a non-critical experiment was one thing, but to risk the reputation of their lab while engaging in such shady dealings behind the scenes was quite sickening.

“I will have someone look into it now. Tell your friend to have her brother come to the lab and find me this afternoon.”

“Okay.”

After hanging up the phone, Mu Jiawen conveyed Yu Yue’s intentions, and Mu Miao was thrilled.

“Xia… no, that’s not right, thank you, Mu Jiawen,” Mu Miao faltered.

Watching Mu Miao struggle to find the words, Mu Jiawen fell silent.

Mu Miao’s father and her mother, Mu Chenyan, were cousins. With such a close relationship, they should have directly sought help from her mother. Even asking her mother to request her third brother to take special care of Mu Jun wouldn’t have been too unreasonable.

But their family hadn’t done that.

Could this mean that her mother’s cousin was very measured in his conduct and affairs?

“Here, take down my cell phone number. You can call me if there’s anything.”

They exchanged phone numbers, and Mu Miao wanted to invite Mu Jiawen to lunch, but she declined.

At three o’clock in the afternoon, after Liang Yujun and her colleagues arrived at the dormitory, they called Mu Jiawen, who was at her eldest brother’s house playing with her little nephew. Hearing that they had arrived, she handed Little Yu Ang over to his grandmother, then left the family area and returned to the university.

But just as she reached the university’s gate, she received a call from Mu Miao, “Junior, I’m sorry to bother you again, but my brother has gone to the lab and has been stopped outside; he can’t get in.”

Mu Jiawen had a bit of a headache from the three different titles Mu Miao had used to address her that day.

“Just call me Xiaosi. Where’s your brother now?”

“Outside the lab.”

“Okay, I’m on my way.”

Just then, Tian Xiaohui passed by her, cheerfully riding a brand-new mountain bike, and greeted her, “Sister Jiawen, what’s up?”

Mu Jiawen’s gaze lingered on the mountain bike for two seconds, and then she grabbed the back of the seat, “Get off, I need to borrow your bike for a bit.”

After saying that, she pulled Tian Xiaohui off the bike in one swift motion, then elegantly swung her leg over the seat, mounted the bike, and rode away.

By the time Tian Xiaohui realized what had happened, Mu Jiawen and his new bike had already disappeared into the crowd, leaving no trace.

“Damn! I had plans to take a girl out for a ride…”

…

Outside Yu Ci’s laboratory stood Mu Miao and a young man who was around 178 cm tall and slightly thin. This was Mu Jun, her twin brother.

Mu Jun had arrived there at two o’clock, but when he tried to walk in through the main entrance, he was stopped at the reception desk.

Pan Jian, the senior who had set him up as the scapegoat, watched him with malicious glee, “Mu Jun? Wasn’t it said that you were expelled? Why are you still here? You know the rules of the lab, no unauthorized personnel allowed.”

Mu Jun tried to be patient as he explained, “I’m here to see Professor Yu, I had an appointment with him.”

Seeing Professor Yu?

Pan Jian and the others were taken aback. There were two Professor Yus in this lab. One was the head, Yu Ci, but he was away on a business trip; the other was his cousin, Yu Yue, who normally focused solely on experiments and rarely managed other matters.

So they assumed Mu Jun was there to see Yu Ci and started to shoo him out, “Who do you think you are to see Professor Yu? Does he even know who you are?”

“Exactly, you don’t even know whether Professor Yu is in or not, and yet you talk so boldly…”

“Did you lose your mind after making a mistake?”

The new semester was about to start, and they weren’t too busy that day, so they couldn’t resist mocking Mu Jun. After all, the guy wasn’t too sharp; when he joined, apart from working hard, he never bothered to buy them coffee or anything, showing no understanding of interpersonal relationships.

So who else should they kick out if not him?

With that, Mu Jun was driven out of the lab building by the others, and without Yu Yue’s phone number, he could only contact his sister again to ask for her help in finding Mu Jiawen.

“Brother, don’t worry, Xiaosi called her cousin this morning in front of me. With someone as capable as that, how could they go back on their word to look into your matter?”

The investigation into Mu Jun’s case was actually quite simple. He was just an assistant who didn’t directly participate in the experiments. His usual duties were to assist them, preparing the materials needed for experiments and organizing the data they obtained.

It was true that he had organized the batch of data that turned out to be incorrect, but he only compiled and printed it out. Moreover, he had questioned the data when he saw it, but his opinions were ignored—perhaps because he was of little consequence or perhaps because the others were too arrogant. Ultimately, no one took his words seriously.

When the experiment failed based on that data, they all shifted the blame onto him without any guilt.