Chapter 2404: Graduation, High-Level Permission

————I made up the previous chapter, this one is too late, I will make it up tomorrow~~

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Time flies like a shuttle, years pass like a stream.

Xia Duo never expected that a single Mythic Lock Node Transformation Project could take several years to work on; the Alliance's Second Mythic Lock Maze Defense Competition was almost here, yet their project still showed no signs of completion.

Fortunately, the School's support remained, otherwise, relying solely on Xia Duo's dwindling patent income would have been completely insufficient to support the high-frequency experiments required in the later stages of the project.

Currently, thanks to the existence of the Spirit Thought Network, Class 4—and of course not just Class 4, but many classes in the same grade—had completed their professional courses ahead of schedule, and the remaining time before graduation was entirely for independent projects.

However, the Mythallar Design Class 4 of the 1503 cohort, where Xia Duo was, was not on the same track as other classes; the project they were currently working on had not only received the attention and support of the School but also the support of the Alliance Technical Committee.

As long as they could finish it before graduation, it would be no problem for every student in the class to be guaranteed the status of Official Researcher.

But that was exactly where the problem lay: the project was progressing slowly, and even Xia Duo, who had the most confidence, was unsure if it could be completed before graduation; he was not even sure if a universal law for Mythallar node transformation (transformation with or without Material Nodes) even existed.

And as far as he knew, the Alliance Technical Committee was simultaneously supporting several other professional teams to engage in research in this area, but unfortunately, those teams had not yet reported any results either.

One could imagine the difficulty of the research; perhaps other teams could find a different path and directly discover the transformation laws for Mythallar without Material Nodes.

But the other students could not; perhaps this project had very significant meaning for the development of Alliance Magic, but for these students themselves, it was truly a not-so-small burden.

"Yes, the project itself is indeed very meaningful, and it has received the attention and support of the School and the Alliance, but for you Primary School students who are still in the learning stage, being exposed to such a project early on can easily strike a blow to your confidence, and it is also not conducive to your future development."

Generally speaking, the end of a project is either the completion of the expected goals, the proof that the goals are impossible to achieve, or it is terminated midway for various reasons.

Burdened with worries, Xia Duo did not eat his lunch with much appetite; the other students thought he was in a bad mood due to the morning's experimental results, so they comforted and encouraged him one after another, and proposed to fight again in the afternoon.

Thinking of Mentor Tuto's research direction—variable control of Mythallar communication rules—I suddenly developed a strong curiosity about Mentor Tuto's Laboratory.

"If the nerves are stretched too tight, they will break sooner or later!"

Walking out of the practice base, everyone felt relatively dejected; although none of them mentioned giving up, Xia Duo himself had some thoughts of wanting to retreat.

In reality, Xia Duo understood that he had entered the Projection Plane twice without any rest in between; his spirit might have long been unable to support it, but in order to obtain the Wisdom of the Red Heart Alliance as much as possible, he still had to persist.

Seeing those junior students, Xia Duo suddenly realized that he had been at the Red Heart Primary School for so many years, yet he seemed not to have walked through every part of the school.

That noon, Xia Duo and his team members spent the whole afternoon experimenting at the practice base, but the results were 108,000 miles away from expectations; this afternoon's experiment basically declared that the previous period's deductions were wrong.

Currently, the approach adopted by Xia Duo's team should be considered the most orthodox: starting from the formation and evolution laws of Mythallar nodes, exploring the essence of the nodes, and then deriving the transformation laws with or without Material Nodes.

After lunch, Xia Duo did not return to the practice base with his classmates, but instead strolled around the campus; on the way, he encountered four or five groups of freshmen, each of them scurrying around the campus with excitement on their faces.

However, since Mentor Tuto had already brought it up, Xia Duo no longer hesitated and said directly: "Does the Mentor mean that it is very difficult to see the end of the project we are currently conducting?"

A moment later, the two met in the Reception Room of the Laboratory.

For Xia Duo, this was actually not a bad thing; at the very least, he could directly utilize this part of the conclusion and then continue to study the essence of Mythallar nodes.

Unknowingly, he walked to Mentor Tuto's private Laboratory; ever since Class 4 finished all professional courses, he had never seen Mentor Tuto's real body, usually only answering students' questions "online."

Because he wanted to retreat, with the words on the tip of his tongue, Xia Duo still found it somewhat hard to say, so he just used Mentor Tuto's matter to ease his emotions.

It was just that if things went this way, their dream of the whole class becoming Official Researchers upon graduation would likely be shattered, and because they had delayed too much time on this project, it might also affect the progress of others in obtaining Research Sequence Points, thereby affecting their subsequent employment destinations.

As for striking a blow to confidence, Xia Duo had already experienced it; as for it not being conducive to future development, it was more about the other students—if they were dragged down by this bottomless pit of a project, it might truly change their development trajectory after graduation.

Why hadn't I thought of coming to visit before?

"Maruente, you came just in time, I happen to have something I want to tell you!"

As long as it is not an unfinished project, giving a decent end to a project that is difficult to complete or impossible to complete is, in a sense, also a test for students. This made me more determined to end this project quickly.

Xia Duo was now the latter—terminating midway.

However, considering that Mentor Tuto's private Laboratory actually had other members, it was not good to disturb them, so Xia Duo temporarily dismissed the idea of visiting and instead contacted the Mentor directly.

Even the train of thought was not made public.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo finally stated his intention, "Mentor, I have also discovered this problem; I actually came here this time to seek your opinion, I want to end this project early."

Mentor Tuto did not beat around the bush and directly stated his concerns.

There are too many projects that end midway, and as long as the summary is in place, except for a discount on Research Sequence Points, it will not affect the application for subsequent new projects.

But Xia Duo was sensitive at the moment; he subconsciously felt that Mentor Tuto might be talking about his project, and he really did not know what Mentor Tuto's meaning was.

Having spent so many years with these classmates, although he was under the identity of Maruente, they had all started from zero, their Perception was real and not fake, and their emotions were naturally real and not fake.

This was, of course, allowed; although the Red Heart Primary School was a top-tier Primary School, the school would not think that its students could perfectly meet expectations regardless of what project they were working on.

Appropriately recognizing reality is actually a fact that the school hopes students will understand.

"What is it?"

In fact, the laws of the latter, relative to the essence of Mythallar nodes, can only be considered a very small part.

"This matter has to do with you, and it also has to do with the other students in Class 4." Mentor Tuto said so.

He himself did not care about employment destinations, because he had already obtained the qualification of Official Researcher, and only needed to join an official research institution after graduation to activate the corresponding Permission Level.

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