wavenovel Chapter 21 Why is someone so withdrawn again?
Chapter 21 Why is someone so withdrawn again?
Backstage, Li Hongde and Zhou Mingyuan also arrived.
Zhou Mingyuan grabbed Lu Feng's neck and shook him hard, his face showing a mixture of love and hate.
"Junior brother, that's not fair of you! You kept it so well hidden!"
Lu Feng was amused by his shaking.
"I just wanted to give you a surprise."
Li Hongde walked up to him, looked him up and down, and finally patted him heavily on the shoulder.
"Good lad! So that's why you were so confident you'd win the award—you had this killer weapon hidden away!"
His words were filled with an irrepressible excitement.
"Lu Feng, how did you come up with this plan?"
Lu Feng smiled and naturally brought out the speech he had prepared long ago.
"I have to thank my roommate for this. He was watching Iron Man, which was released in May, and that gave me an idea."
After listening, Li Hongde nodded approvingly.
"That's right. Finding inspiration in life is a great direction. Many great inventions originated from a casual idea."
Zhou Mingyuan didn't care about that; he was more curious about something else. He released Lu Feng and pointed to the pile of parts that gleamed with metallic luster.
"Junior, how do you know how to operate those mechanical devices in the lab? I remember you just finished your Engineering Drawing course, right?"
Lu Feng scratched his cheek, looking somewhat shy.
"My dad works in CNC machining, so I grew up surrounded by it and had a lot of knowledge about it, which is why I was able to pick it up right away."
This excuse is flawless.
Zhou Mingyuan froze on the spot, holding his forehead and letting out a long sigh, a sigh filled with a sense of powerlessness crushed by reality.
"It took me at least half a year to learn before I dared to operate that milling machine independently. At that time, I was quite pleased with myself, thinking I had a special talent..."
Zhao Pengfei added insult to injury from the sidelines.
"Brother Zhou, stop talking, or I'll start crying for you."
As the group was chatting, Lu Feng suddenly remembered something and turned to Li Hongde.
"Teacher, my thesis is almost finished."
One sentence instantly froze the previously relaxed atmosphere.
Li Hongde stopped what he was about to say.
"So fast?"
He originally thought that Lu Feng would need at least one or two months to produce a first draft after saying he was going to write a paper, but how long has it been?
"Yes, I should be able to finish the conclusion in the next couple of days, and I'll show it to you then."
Lu Feng answered casually.
Sun Hao, who was standing next to him, couldn't hold back any longer. He leaned over, his face full of disbelief.
"Junior, you've already written your thesis? So fast! Where are you planning to submit it?"
Lu Feng answered naturally.
"SCI, right?"
Sun Hao opened his mouth but couldn't utter a single word. He silently took two steps back, found a corner to squat down, and began to question the meaning of life.
He published an SCI paper in his freshman year, while he was still looking for clubs and organizations to join during his freshman year.
Zhou Mingyuan and Zhao Pengfei exchanged a glance, both seeing the same numbness in each other's reactions.
Another one becoming withdrawn.
Li Hongde remained silent this time, simply gazing at Lu Feng for a long time, as if trying to get to know this student he had personally recruited.
The game continues.
Lu Feng's performance completely changed the course of the entire competition.
The teams that came on next were clearly hit hard.
A second-year student team that was supposed to demonstrate a "smart line-following obstacle-avoiding car" had their leader speaking listlessly on stage, and even pressing the remote control was done absentmindedly. The car wobbled around twice on the ground before hitting a table leg and stopping.
On the judging panel, the experts didn't even bother to lift their heads.
"Next."
The other team was even more straightforward; they simply gave up.
"Good morning/afternoon, esteemed judges. Our project is... well, it's a conceptual design, currently still in the blueprint stage. Thank you."
The presenter read from the PowerPoint presentation for two minutes, then bowed and left the stage. The entire presentation lasted less than three minutes, setting a record for the shortest presentation in this competition.
Of course, some were unwilling to accept it.
A team of graduate students from another key engineering university in the province gritted their teeth and launched their "high-precision parallel robotic arm".
"Our robotic arm can achieve a repeatability accuracy of 0.05 millimeters, thanks to the latest inverse kinematics algorithm..."
The speaker diligently highlighted the key features of his project.
If Lu Feng had appeared before, he would definitely have been a strong contender for the first prize.
But now, the students in the stands only gave a polite round of applause, with little reaction.
One of the experts on the judging panel asked two trivial questions and then waved them off the stage.
Without comparison, there is no harm.
Compared to the exoskeleton system in Lufeng, these conventional "high-precision" projects seem so...simple and unadorned.
Time ticked by, and when the last participating team finished their presentation, the entire stadium fell silent once more. Everyone knew that the most exciting moment was about to begin.
The host, holding an envelope, returned to the stage, his face radiating an excitement he had never shown before in his career.
"Ladies and gentlemen, after a period of intense calculation and careful discussion by the judging panel, the final list of winners for the first Provincial Mechanical Innovation Competition is now in my hands!"
He paused, deliberately drawing out his words to whet everyone's appetite.
"Now, I announce that the third prize winner of this competition is..."
Several names were read out, and the winners were mostly those conventional junior and senior teams.
"The second prize winners are the 'High-Precision Parallel Robotic Arm' team from Gangcheng Polytechnic University and the 'Omnidirectional Mobile Chassis' team from our own Gangcheng University!"
The two teams whose names were called did not show much joy on their faces; they simply stood up calmly and went on stage to receive their awards.
They knew that this second prize was the best result they could achieve.
The host cleared his throat, and at that moment the lights in the entire stadium seemed to dim a little, with only a spotlight shining on him.
"Now, I will announce the highest honor of this competition!"
"The winner of the first prize in the first Provincial Mechanical Innovation Competition is..."
He opened the envelope, pulled out the card inside, and read out the unsurprising name in an almost shouting voice.
"From Lu Feng, a freshman in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Gangcheng University!"
"boom!"
The moment the words were spoken, the entire stadium was completely engulfed by a deafening roar of cheers.
In the stands, Zhang Wei and his roommates jumped up and shouted at the top of their lungs.
"Old Lu! Awesome!!!"
Zhou Mingyuan and the others clapped their hands vigorously until they were red.
Li Hongde sat in the chair, a relieved smile on his face.
Under the gaze of thousands of people in the audience, Lu Feng calmly stood up, straightened his clothes, and strode towards the stage that was lit up for him.