Chapter 689: Fell into the hands of this young man again

In the conference room on the second floor of the EU headquarters in Brussels.

Simson's eyes were fixed tightly on the screen, his expression grim and terrifying, as if he were confirming the authenticity of the news.

His appearance made the others in the conference room even more confused.

"Mr. Simson..."

Becker cursed in his heart. Fuck, why is everyone like this? Could it be that an accident really occurred?

He wanted to ask what happened, but his phone rang—it was a call from his subordinates.

"Fine, I want to see what exactly is going on!"

Becker was no fool; at this moment, he guessed that the matter his subordinate was calling about was very likely related to the reason Simson and the others had lost their composure.

After he answered the phone.

And so, this 55-year-old French gentleman instantly revealed the same expression as Simson, standing stiffly in place with wide eyes, as if struck by lightning.

The others in the conference room also seemed to have received the news one after another at this time.

"The Xia Nation people solved both lithium dendrites and the shuttle effect in batteries at the same time?!"

"This is impossible!"

"Damn it, it's this Kyoto Institute of Materials again!"

"This is unscientific!"

Cries of disbelief rang out in the conference room.

The German representative had a complex expression and sighed to himself. Fortunately, they hadn't had too much friction with the Xia Nation over car companies in recent years.

"Could this news be fake? Brooks, we are all engaged in scientific research; you should know how difficult it is to solve both of these things at the same time."

"The Xia Nation official forwarded it personally; what do you think?"

"..."

The German representative put down his phone and scanned the people present. "Everyone, if we are to continue the meeting, I'm afraid we'll have to change the topic."

Anti-dumping investigation?

Now, I'm afraid we have to beg the Xia Nation to share the technology.

Lithium dendrites and the shuttle effect...

Although he had received clear news, he still found it hard to believe.

Without a doubt, the future battery field will definitely be the world of the Xia Nation.

And their meeting right now seemed incomparably ridiculous.

"Meeting adjourned."

Simson waved his hand bitterly, suddenly feeling a sense of powerlessness. At this time, it was too late for everyone to beg the Xia Nation, let alone go looking for trouble with them.

Fell into the hands of this young man from the Xia Nation again.

The representatives didn't linger any longer and immediately stood up to leave. Even Becker didn't stay; as an official of the French Ministry of Energy, he would certainly have endless meetings ahead.

Inside the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics.

Thomas Klinger, the director who had purchased superconducting thin films from Xu Qingzhou last time, was having afternoon tea with a friend.

After obtaining the authorization for Xu Qingzhou's superconducting thin films, the stellarator W7-X was undergoing technical upgrades and would be operational in 3 months, at which time it would break records again.

"Well, Professor Harvey's lithium dendrite project is completely ruined."

Klinger sighed helplessly.

With the announcement from Xu Qingzhou and his team, the ones hit hardest, besides battery manufacturers, were the research groups focusing on lithium dendrites and the shuttle effect.

Years of hard work had instantly vanished into thin air, becoming worthless.

"That's right, I heard the project team is doing emergency patent applications, and the committee plans to withdraw funding. I guess... it can't go on. The most depressed one might be Fleck, who used to work on superconducting thin films." Friend Scott said.

"Oh?"

Scott showed a sympathetic look: "He worked on superconducting thin films and met Xu Qingzhou; he collaborated with Professor Harvey to study lithium dendrites, and met Xu Qingzhou again."

"Well, his luck is bad."

Klinger laughed dumbly.

"No, it's that this young man is too dazzling."

Scott couldn't help but sigh.

"We all estimated wrong." ===== CHAPTER 690 =====