Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1381: Chapter 521: Sera’s Struggle (Part 3)

Then her gaze shifted again, and in the middle of the array of three hundred people, she saw Vittel Haddon.

Of course, it was just a seemingly casual glance, sweeping past without stopping on Vittel’s silhouette.

Unexpectedly, her casual glance seemed to meet a gaze that was intently watching her.

Immediately, Sera frowned, turned her face away, stood back on her toes, and disappeared back into the crowd.

The one who looked back at her from the front was an advanced research director named De Guke Augustus, a life peerage baron.

In terms of blood relations, De Guke is a distant cousin to Sera, but there was no familial affection between them, only an irreconcilable rift.

Many years ago, who knows what nerve De Guke struck in his head, or what twisted habit he developed from isolating himself in the lab all day, but he happened to take a fancy to Sera Augustus, his distant cousin, from the crowd, and then began a relentless campaign of harassment, intimidation, and coercion.

If it wasn’t for Sera also having the Augustus surname, she might have been forcibly subjugated by his power long ago.

To avoid De Guke’s relentless pestering, Sera had to often put down her work and enter cold stasis to avoid his activation period.

Because of this, the once-talented Sera was unable to become a project leader or establish her own team within the Augustus Academy.

Sera once had a slight chance to break this person’s blockade.

But the real cause of the intensification of their conflict lay in this.

At that time, Sera Augustus unexpectedly met another male grassroots researcher who was frustrated in the Academy; they often exchanged academic ideas and were pleasantly surprised to find that their specialties complemented each other perfectly.

So, apart from their official duties, the two of them got together, funded a side project out of their pockets.

After spanning twenty years of absolute time and expending nearly three years of physiological effort, their private side project was just one step away from completion.

Once successful, according to the rules of Augustus Academy, this achievement would be enough for both of them to advance, gain resource support, and establish their own bases.

But no one expected De Guke the lunatic to come with a dimensional attack after discovering Sera was too close to the other man. He forcibly dragged Sera’s partner into his small group and engineered a not-so-serious experiment accident, causing the man to die instantly from a toxic infectious disease, leaving Sera heartbroken.

Afterward, according to the Academy’s rules, De Guke searched Sera’s project from the information database of his unjustly deceased subordinate, then usurped it and completely crushed Sera’s hope of resurgence.

After this, Sera Augustus stopped struggling until she returned to the embrace of the Red Blade Clan.

In the past few months, to successfully establish her project team, Sera broke her pattern of entering stasis to avoid harassment and with Ou Youning secretly assisting her, using the Source Star Science Academy project team that Sun Ai transferred over as her backing, finally broke through De Guke’s blockade under harassment, just barely making it to become a project leader, obtaining the qualifications to appear here.

Yet during this period, Sera was also harassed to the point of extreme annoyance, arduously enduring until today.

Watching the staff operating automatic machinery to one by one unload cargo boxes from the transport ship, Sera Augustus quietly clenched her fists.

She knew her moment to shine was finally arriving.

Two months later, just one day apart, Vittel Haddon and Sera Augustus’s teams respectively presented the three-dimensional structural molecular formula for an invisible coating.

This molecular formula was not a simple permutation of elemental symbols but involved subtle differences in fundamental interactions at a deeper level.

In the mechanical empire’s technology tree, substances have never been merely simple chemical element combinations.

For example, ferric oxide with the same atomic composition and arrangement may have different strong nuclear force characteristics internally, resulting in vastly different material properties externally. Some ferric oxide manifests as rust, others as superalloy, and others as a superconductor.

Delving even deeper, the Royal Academy of Sciences has already clearly pointed out that even with identical strong nuclear forces, on the level of protons and neutrons, more specifically to quarks, the fundamental forces linking quarks also differ, changing the angle of quark arrangement and ultimately resulting in vastly different material properties.

The precision of the instruments Grune purchased happens to measure precisely at the level of quark forces.

The three-dimensional structural molecular formulas presented by Vittel and Sera comprised a large three-dimensional diagram, with numerous details clearly marked.

At this time, the fastest progress among other project groups was only at 70%.

Grune was once immensely frustrated.

Their respective project groups immediately stood out in the Academy, heralding the rise of genius.