Scheming White lotus (21): The president of Gu Group is a buried scientific research genius!

February 18, the ninth day of the first lunar month.

Today was the first day back to work after the Spring Festival holiday.

Mr. Gu had been running a promotion where you buy gold and get diamonds for free since February 1st. Excluding today, it had already been 17 full days.

Gu’s employees had just started work when they began discussing this matter: “Where did our company get so many diamonds?” 

“I have a relative who bought a big diamond ring when she got married. I didn’t buy one, so she kept mocking me. This New Year, I went to buy 50,000 yuan worth of gold jewelry in the old city and received a one-carat diamond as a gift. That diamond is even brighter than the one she wears, and her face turned extremely ugly.”

“Our Gu group synthetic diamonds have very high purity, and they are definitely beautiful.”

“This New Year, our company really became popular. When I attended a family gathering during the New Year, everyone was asking me about Gu’s, wanting to know if MrGu really couldn’t manage the company and if Gu’s was going to go bankrupt, hahahaha…”

“I was also questioned during the New Year, and my parents are worried that I might lose my job.”

“They’re really overthinking it. Isn’t our company doing fine right now? Sure, some people were poached, but Mr Gu bought back some shares from certain shareholders.”

“Insider news: In the new year, our company will be adding some benefits. I heard it’s because we made too much money during the New Year period!” 

“Looking forward to it!”

“The Holy Emperor is releasing jewelry made from synthetic diamonds. Have you seen it?”

“I’ve seen it, it’s really beautiful. I heard it was designed by Mr. Gu’s boyfriend. I really want to buy it.”

……

When the Gu Group was the subject of much discussion, Gu Juntian received a call from the authorities, saying they wanted to conduct a survey on the diamond production of the Gu group.

Gu Juntian had always adhered to the rules, so he naturally wouldn’t disagree. He immediately stated that he welcomed any official investigations at any time.

After some discussion, the national side decided to visit Gu’s diamond production base tomorrow morning to assess Gu’s diamond output.

If Gu’s diamond production was particularly high, some manufacturers that needed diamonds as industrial raw materials could place orders with Gu to purchase Gu’s diamonds.

Using such a fine diamond just for making jewelry was a bit of a waste.

After both parties reached an agreement, Gu Juntian continued with his work.

At this moment, those who disapproved of the Gu group finally couldn’t sit still.

The decline in diamond prices was a major trend, but Gu group directly giving away diamonds was still a bit excessive!

They even gave so much, making such a big fuss, this was clearly undermining the diamond industry!

The Gu group was doing this, how could others sell diamonds?

In the past, some people praised natural diamonds for being so much better, but now there were so many people who had obtained synthetic diamonds. These people had taken their synthetic diamonds for testing and found that ordinary appraisal institutions couldn’t even tell whether their diamonds were synthetic or natural, leading to doubts about natural diamonds.

There were comments all over the internet claiming that there was no difference between lab-grown diamonds and natural diamonds, which had significantly impacted the business of natural diamonds.

There were some people who had taken a dislike to Gu Juntian. They hired someone to cause trouble at an Old Town Gold store, claiming that the diamonds they received as gifts after purchasing gold were fake.

At the same time, they asked someone to film a video and blow it out of proportion.

“The diamond that Gu gave is fake; it’s not a diamond at all, it’s moissanite.”

“A diamond cultivation machine can only cultivate one diamond at a time, and larger diamonds take several days to cultivate… Now, the production of synthetic diamonds is indeed very high, but without externally purchasing diamonds, it is impossible for Gu to take out that many diamonds at once!”

“From the data I’ve collected, Gu’s has already sent out a massive number of diamonds. There’s no way they could have that many diamonds unless the ones they sent were fake.”

“I went to Old Town Gold to buy something, and the diamond they gave me from Old Town Gold was shown to a professional. He said it wasn’t even a diamond!”

……

The incident at the store in the Old Town Gold occurred during the day on the ninth day of the lunar month. That night, the video spread rapidly online, and the whole matter began to escalate.

By the tenth day of the lunar month, more and more people knew about this matter.

Those who went to Old Town Gold to buy a large amount of gold jewelry and received diamonds as a result were all in a panic.

Ordinary people, without experience, find it very difficult to distinguish between diamonds and moissanite with the naked eye. In other words, if they received a fake diamond, they wouldn’t be able to tell at all.

Was Gu’s family trying to deceive them?

You should know that selling moissanite as diamond has always been a common occurrence. On the internet, some people even refer to moissanite as “synthetic diamond.”

The Gu group didn’t even provide a certificate proving that what they sent was indeed diamonds!

Moreover, the “diamond” given by Gu was a gift, which meant that even if they reported Gu for deceiving consumers, they might not succeed.

It’s like going to some jewelry stores to buy jewelry, and in the end, the store gives them a piece of jade, saying it’s worth eight thousand, but when they have it appraised, they find out it’s worth at most two hundred… In this situation, they have no way to protect their rights.

That’s just a freebie!

The diamonds that Gu group was sending now were in the same situation.

Some ordinary people who received diamonds after buying gold from Gu’s were anxious and wanted to get to the bottom of the matter.

At this time, more and more people were attacking the Gu group online, including hired trolls and those who simply disliked the Gu group.

Back then, many people spent tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands on diamonds. Now that diamond prices had plummeted, some of them were feeling quite upset and were taking it out on Gu.

This matter was actually quite similar to buying a house.

Some people bought houses at high prices earlier, and even though housing prices have been falling ever since, some real estate developers are actually giving away houses… People who bought houses at high prices are definitely not happy.

For a time, the Gu group had a very bad reputation online, and Gu Juntian was once again dragged out and criticized.

“When the Gu group was managed by Old man Gu, everything was fine. Ever since Young Gu took over, a whole bunch of problems have arisen!”

“He only resorted to a big clearance sale out of desperation. Can he really give away genuine items? The stuff he gives away must be fake!”

“Those who take the diamonds for appraisal and find out they are real diamonds, they are all their accomplices!”

“The Gu group is really going to be finished!”

……

Of course, some people attacked Gu, while others believed in Gu, thinking that Gu had no reason to lie about this matter.

After all, lab-grown diamonds were really cheap now.

Moreover, not everyone couldn’t tell the difference between diamonds and moissanite. Diamonds are much more beautiful than moissanite, and experienced people could still distinguish between them.

They thought the Gu group was hacked.

But after they spoke up for Gu, they would be attacked by the water army¹, which would repeatedly throw out data, saying that based on domestic production, Gu couldn’t possibly have that many diamonds to give away.

When both sides were arguing online, the officials arrived at the Gu group’s diamond cultivation base.

They saw online that Gu group sent fake diamonds, but they didn’t believe it.

Yesterday, they conducted a more detailed investigation into the matter of the Gu group’s diamond delivery and also examined some of the diamonds sent by the Gu group. All those diamonds were genuine, not at all fake moissanite, and the quality of the diamonds was excellent!

However, under normal circumstances, the Gu group indeed couldn’t produce that many diamonds…

“This Gu group, could it be that they have improved the diamond production technology? The technology for cultivating diamonds abroad is indeed more advanced than ours” a middle-aged man in the official team spoke up.

Synthetic diamond technology, their country had been researching it, but because they were a step behind at the beginning, their country’s current diamond cultivation technology could not keep up with foreign countries.

Another person said, “Improving diamond production technology isn’t that easy. They might have secretly bought some diamond cultivation machines and hoarded them for a long time before finally taking out so many diamonds at once.”

“I think so too, but in any case, the Gu group’s diamond production is definitely not low!”

Everyone chimed in, and together they arrived at the Gu group research base.

As soon as they arrived, they saw a few young people standing at the door, looking around.

Seeing them, these young people greeted them with beaming smiles.

“Welcome, welcome!”

“Mr. Gu was originally here waiting, but he ran into some issues at his lab and hurried over there. We apologize for the inconvenience.”

“Let us first take you on a tour of our Gu group diamond cultivation facility!”

“This place is very big, very advanced!”

……

These young people included Gu Juntian’s secretary and three young men from this training base who were responsible for assisting Gu Juntian in researching alloys.

Everyone else was busy, but these three guys were relatively free because Gu Juntian hadn’t been researching alloys for the past few days. They looked decent, so they were brought in to make up the numbers.

These three people were the senior interns that Gu Juntian recruited some time ago, and the first one to come to Gu’s was named Yu Zixing.

He studied materials, and this major didn’t make it easy to find a job. It was also not easy to find an internship.

Unfortunately, his family didn’t have much money, and he didn’t plan to pursue further studies; he wanted to start working as soon as possible…

Just when he was worried about his job, he saw that the Gu group was hiring, and the salary offered was quite high.

For the sake of money, he came to the Gu group without a second thought and even brought two of his own classmates along.

Then once he came in, he couldn’t go out.

The Gu group was too busy, there were too many things to do!

He and his classmates not only lived in this research base but also didn’t go home for the New Year. His parents once suspected that he had been deceived and sold to Southeast Asia.

He actually wanted to go back for the New Year, but Gu’s offer was just too good!

At first, when Gu said that the internship salary was 10,000 a month, he thought it was excessively high. It was not easy for them in this field to find a job that matched their expertise. Initially, he actually chose this dead-end major because his family didn’t understand.

He was already prepared to do a job unrelated to his major in the future, but he didn’t expect that a company would be willing to offer him a monthly internship salary of 10,000… He and the two classmates he brought along were very excited. After they entered the research base, even though they had to work overtime every day, they still endured it.

The dormitory was right in the base, saving them the time of commuting back and forth!

They knew that the capitalists arranged dormitories for them in order to better exploit them, but saving on rent was still a good thing.

He and his classmates stayed at the company for a month, with all meals and accommodation covered. When payday came, they joked with each other, saying that since they had no expenses at the company, they could save their entire salary. After a few years, they could have hundreds of thousands saved up, which was quite good.

In short, they happily went to collect their wages, only to find out that the company didn’t give them the ten thousand they had initially agreed upon.

It was not that they gave less, but that they gave more.

Their internship salary was indeed 10,000 a month, but overtime was calculated separately.

So, Gu gave each of them thirty thousand.

The three of them were worried that the internship unit would give them a bad evaluation, and since they didn’t have partners and their families were not here, they worked overtime every day for various reasons. So, they ended up working a lot of overtime!

Although there were many overtime hours, Gu’s company provided meals and accommodation, and Mr. Gu had a very good temper. Their work was also very interesting, as they could conduct all sorts of strange and unusual experiments.

When they thought they could only earn ten thousand a month, they had no complaints about the company.

As a result, they earned thirty thousand in a month.

They thought that Gu was offering them a salary of ten thousand for the internship just to make them work overtime for free. Who would have thought that besides the ten thousand for the internship, they could actually earn twenty thousand in overtime pay?

Yu Zixing and his classmates were all excited.

The moment they received the money, they felt they could fight for the Gu group for a lifetime.

So during the New Year, they didn’t want to go home at all.

Overtime was really good; with the salary and bonus for February combined, they might be able to earn fifty thousand.

This was fifty thousand! Fifty thousand!

If the company didn’t prohibit it, Yu Zixing felt he could work a few extra hours every day.

You have to understand, his family was not well-off, so he had never seen so much money before.

His parents suspected he had been trafficked because the wages he received were simply too high.

In short, he loved the Gu group, he loved work!

The research base had been very busy, but today there was nothing for Yu Zixing and the others to do. They were the most free people in the entire base, so they were brought in to host the officials.

Yu Zixing felt a bit uncomfortable.

He had grown up this much, and it was still the first time he was done something like this.

However, the officials had a very good attitude. After chatting with the officials for a bit, Yu Zixing and the other inexperienced students quickly opened up and spoke freely.

Then, the officials learned that Gu’s company had indeed improved diamond cultivation technology. Nowadays, the diamond production at Gu’s diamond cultivation base was astonishingly high, and the cost was very low.

They had studied for so many years but couldn’t increase the diamond cultivation speed this much or reduce the cultivation cost this low. Gu’s research base was just too impressive!

Running a private enterprise was not easy these days!

They didn’t know if the Gu group was willing to sell this technology to them…

Thinking this, they followed Yu Zixing and the others inside and saw the machine that the Gu group used to cultivate diamonds.

The machine had indeed been modified, and theoretically, this was feasible. However, the existing metal could not withstand such great pressure. Normally, Gu’s machine would break down after making diamonds like this a few times.

After examining the machine, the officials couldn’t help but frown, and one of them even voiced their doubts.

Yu Zixing said, “The metal used in the machines we just bought indeed doesn’t have enough hardness and is prone to breaking, so we switched to a different alloy!”

“What alloy did you switch to?” the official asked.

Yu Zixing said, “We switched to Alloy No. 1, this alloy is very useful…”

Yu Zixing excitedly introduced Alloy No. 1 and said, “This alloy can’t be used to make jewelry. When we first researched it, we thought it was useless. We never expected it could be used to modify machines!”

Yu Zixing’s classmate said, “This alloy isn’t useless either! Didn’t Mr. Gu say from the start? It can be used to make safes. The safe Mr. Gu ordered for his home, made from Alloy No. 1, is already finished.”

“We also made some safes to send to the Holy Emperor, specifically for storing precious gems. These safes cannot be broken by violence, and their security is excellent!”

“Mr. Gu plans to make some diamond-encrusted safes in the future and sell them at a high price.”

“This idea is good!”

Yu Zixing and the others were chatting happily, each taking turns to speak.

The official listening to them speak already felt short of breath.

The parameters of this alloy could completely be used to make airplanes, warships, rockets, and all sorts of high-tech items. How could Gu group even consider using it to make safes?

What was called wasteful extravagance? This was wasteful extravagance!

Wait, among the people who came today, although there were experts, they all specialized in synthetic diamonds. Given the current situation, they needed someone to “support” them.

The officials discussed it for a moment and asked Yu Zixing, “Could you provide us with the data on this alloy you have researched?”

Before meeting with the official representatives, Gu Juntian had already informed Yu Zixing and the others, saying that no matter what the officials wanted to know, they could tell them.

Therefore, Yu Zixing immediately handed over a copy of the Alloy No. 1 data to the official.

Then the officials immediately started making calls to recruit people.

Gu’s not only had diamonds, but also rare alloys. Hurry, everyone!

After making several phone calls and reporting the matter, the officials let out a long sigh of relief, looked at each other, and were a bit puzzled about the current situation.

“How did Gu manage to develop such an alloy?” the team leader curiously asked one of the researchers under his command.

Not long ago, after years of research, their country finally mastered a method for producing an alloy.

That was a type of aluminum alloy. With this aluminum alloy, their country could make better weapons!

As a result, that type of aluminum alloy was simply no match for the one developed by Gu.

This was just ridiculous.

“Perhaps it was a twist of fate?” the researcher pondered, utterly baffled.

Another person disagreed: “Such alloys cannot be made simply by putting a few metals together. It often requires some special techniques to thoroughly fuse those metals together. Gu might have talents in this area.”

“No matter what, this alloy definitely can’t be used to make a safe!”

“Yeah, using it to make a safe is such a waste of this metal!”

After they talked, they finally calmed down and continued chatting with Yu Zixing and the others.

At this point, Yu Zixing also realized something was off: “Is Alloy No. 1 very precious?”

“You study materials, and yet you don’t know how precious this alloy is?” The official was quite helpless.

“I don’t know. We also used Alloy No. 1 to make some tools for making jewelry. At that time, Mr. Gu was quite pleased and said that this alloy was quite useful, more so than Alloy No. 2, No. 3, and No. 6, but not as good as Alloy No. 4 and No. 5. Alloys No. 4 and No. 5 can be used to make jewelry.”

The official looked completely bewildered and said, “You guys have developed several types of alloys? What are the parameters of those alloys?”

Yu Zixing took out the parameters of those alloys to show to the officials and briefly introduced these alloys.

The official, after reading it, gasped.

What was going on with this Gu group?

Such an alloy, they just made it casually?!

Their country was developing rapidly, but in certain areas, they still faced bottlenecks.

Like the 7050 aluminum alloy, their country studied it for a long time before finally being able to produce it.

And now, the parameters of the No. 1 alloy presented by Gu are astonishing, far surpassing the 7050 aluminum alloy. They even brought out several other special alloys!

If the parameters of these alloys were accurate, some could be used in the medical field, some in the aerospace field, and some they didn’t even know where they could be used, but they would definitely have some use.

Such an alloy was actually being used to make jewelry… Had the Gu group gone mad?

“I’ll contact the higher-ups again!”

“Simply calling people over isn’t enough! We need to call in the army!”

“If what they say is true, this place must be protected, and nothing inside can be leaked out!”

“This place should be upgraded to a secure unit.”

“Call quickly! Call quickly!”

……

The officials started to recruit people again.

Yu Zixing: “……” This situation was getting more and more suspicious!

The officials spent quite a bit of time looking for people before finally getting the job done.

Then, they looked at Yu Zixing with serious expressions: “Your company has developed something like this, why didn’t you report it?”

Yu Zixing looked at them in confusion: “Are these alloys really that precious?”

“That must be very valuable!” the official said, “You seem to know a lot about these alloys. Have you been involved in the research?”

“I participated, but I was just following orders and helping the boss…”

“What did you even study for your PhD? You’ve been involved in research and still don’t know its value.” The official was speechless.

Yu Zixing said, “I haven’t done a PhD, I haven’t even done a master’s degree. I’m in my fourth year and I’m interning here.”

Official: “!!!” They thought that to be involved in such research, Yu Zixing must at least be a PhD, but he was only a senior?

“I think the parameters of this alloy are a bit good, but everyone around me seems to think it’s perfectly normal…” Yu Zixing was conflicted.

One of Yu Zixing’s classmates said, “We’ve seen you not react to anything you see, so we thought these were all normal.”

Another classmate of Yu Zixing said, “Actually, I think there are many things about the Gu group that are not normal, but I’m too busy to think about it much.”

The three of them exchanged glances, all feeling quite helpless.

The place they worked at, was it really a jewelry company?

Speaking of which, their manager Gu even wanted to synthesize a new metal before, that is, the element K.

This metal was synthetic; their country still couldn’t produce it.

Because this metal was a cancer killer, its production was low, and its price was astonishing. It used to be 30 million dollars per gram, but now it was a bit cheaper, still costing 10 million dollars per gram.

When he was short on money before, Mr. Gu was already thinking about making a move.

However, now that they didn’t lack money anymore, Mr. Gu didn’t bring it up.

They were somewhat familiar with this metal, after all, it could be found online. When they first heard Mr. Gu mention it, they thought he was joking, but now looking at it, perhaps Mr. Gu wasn’t joking after all?

Mr. Gu might really want to make a difference.

Thinking this, Yu Zixing said, “These alloys were all researched by President Gu. We’re just helping him out a bit; we really don’t understand anything.”

“Yeah, we’re just helping out Mr. Gu.”

“My grades are average; I almost ended up interning at a cleaning company before.”

……

Official: “……This Gu group was really getting more and more outrageous!”

Taking a deep breath, the official leading the team asked, “Where is your President Gu?”

Yu Zixing said, “Mr. Gu has been trying to cultivate hexagonal diamonds lately. He’s in the lab right now.”

“Hexagonal diamonds? He wants to cultivate hexagonal diamonds?!” The officials were dumbfounded.

They came for the synthetic diamonds, and since they knew a lot about diamonds, they naturally knew what hexagonal diamonds were.

This type of diamond had already been cultivated by research institutes abroad, but the hexagonal diamonds produced were either extremely small or could only exist for a very short period of time.

Even so, those research institutes had discovered through their studies that hexagonal diamonds possessed many peculiar characteristics.

If this type of diamond was really developed, it could not only be used to make the most expensive jewelry but also have significant industrial applications!

The most crucial part was that the machine capable of cultivating hexagonal diamonds itself represented cutting-edge technology!

“Growing this type of diamond is very troublesome. Mr. Gu said he can’t grow it in a short time,” Yu Zixing said.

The official person, upon hearing this, breathed a sigh of relief.

Yu Zixing followed closely, saying, “Mr. Gu thinks he will be able to cultivate the hexagonal diamond by next month.”

Official: “…” They didn’t want to say anything anymore; now they just hoped that the Gu group wasn’t bluffing.

If Yu Zixing and the others were not boasting, then their country’s technology level could see a significant improvement after visiting a jewelry company for research.

When the officials arrived at the Gu group research base, it was ten in the morning; now, it was already noon.

The officials, in shock, had already forgotten about lunch, but Yu Zixing and the others were young and got hungry quickly, so they couldn’t stand it.

Yu Zixing said, “How about we go eat first? The food here is really good!”

The official noticed Yu Zixing’s bright, sparkling eyes and followed him to the cafeteria.

The food here was indeed quite good. They took a tray and then could go around picking up food one item at a time. There were a lot of food options available.

Yu Zixing and the others each took a lot, but the officials had something on their minds and took very little.

Then, before they could even take a few bites, the person who started shaking first arrived.

These people brought a lot of equipment over and immediately asked, “Where’s the alloy? Where’s the alloy? How can you still think about eating? Where’s the alloy you mentioned?”

Official: “…” Actually, they weren’t in the mood to eat either.

These people quickly saw the metal they were thinking about. Of course, they didn’t just see Alloy No. 1; they also saw Alloys No. 2, 3, and 4.

Using the tools brought along, they conducted a simple test and took a look at the modified machines used by Gu to cultivate diamonds. These people also started making phone calls to recruit others.

“Arrange for some people to come over and escort us back! I want to use the lab’s equipment to conduct more detailed tests on these metals!”

“Our research institute’s equipment isn’t good enough; it would be best to send some to the capital!”

“Get more people to come pick us up, carrying these metals, I don’t dare go out.”

“Make sure to protect this place!”

“Gu Juntian is a genius, we must protect him well!”

“The Gu group’s research base is a treasure!”

“Can I apply to work at the Gu’s Research Base?”

……

The people above were all stunned and asked, “What about Gu Juntian? We want to talk to him.” This Gu Juntian was a bit beyond their expectations…

Now that the Gu group could produce so many good things, they needed to cooperate with the Gu group, which meant they needed to have a good talk with Gu Juntian.

“We haven’t seen him yet.”

“He’s doing research, let’s not disturb him for now.”

“I heard he isn’t very good at managing a company? Letting him manage a company is such a waste of talent; he should be doing research!”

“We just chatted with someone from Gu’s company, and we heard that Gu’s company got hacked. You guys should handle it quickly. Gu’s company sent real diamonds; it’s such bad luck to get hacked!”

“Yes, we must definitely help the Gu group resolve this matter. We can’t let someone like Gu Juntian feel disheartened!”

……

As time went by, those scientific big shots in this city, one by one, all entered Gu’s diamond cultivation base.

The higher-ups were also paying more and more attention to the Gu group.

Right now, there were people online slandering Gu’s company. They must resolve this issue immediately so they could better cooperate with Gu’s company!

At this point, it was already the afternoon of the 10th.

Online, the incident of Gu group using moissanite to impersonate diamonds as gifts had been getting more and more attention.

Many people had posted evidence claiming that Gu’s gift was a real diamond, but there were still those who didn’t believe it: “It’s all Gu’s hired trolls.”

“The Gu group could never have given moissanite to everyone. Some people were lucky enough to get real diamonds, but others received moissanite.”

“Blackening Gu’s name for life, if you don’t want to give a gift, you don’t have to, but deceiving people is just wrong!”

“Can I return the gold jewelry I bought from Old Town Gold? I don’t want it anymore!”

……

The online uproar was intense, and Gu’s employees couldn’t help but mention it: “Someone must have deliberately smeared us!”

“The diamond we gave you is a genuine one.”

“Exactly, how can moissanite compare to diamonds? I can tell the difference at a glance!”

“What are we going to do now? A lot of people are clamoring for refunds.”

……

Gu’s employees were a bit worried, and Zhou Qinghao was no exception.

Seeing Gu group being wronged, seeing someone cursing Gu Juntian online, he was furious, absolutely livid.

He thought of many solutions, wrote them on the computer, and sent them to Gu Juntian, but Gu Juntian didn’t reply. He also called Gu Juntian, but no one answered.

He asked Gu Juntian’s secretary and found out that Gu Juntian had gone off to do research again.

So what should they do now? The Gu group couldn’t just do nothing, right?

Zhou Qinghao felt that he couldn’t just sit and wait for his doom, so he steeled himself and went straight to the public relations department of the Gu group, asking them to issue a statement saying that the Gu group definitely sent diamonds and not moissanite, with a tenfold compensation for any fakes.

Immediately after, he had the Gu group legal department send out a lawyer’s letter, preparing to sue those who slandered the Gu group.

If Zhou Qinghao were just a designer, no one at Gu Group would listen to him, but he was Gu Juntian’s boyfriend, a senior executive at Gu Group, and they were well aware of Gu Juntian’s regard for him.

They were already planning to do something, and now that Zhou Qinghao had stepped up, they might as well handle it according to what Zhou Qinghao said.

After Gu did this, the voices questioning Gu online indeed decreased a lot, but many people did not see Gu’s statement, and with the addition of internet trolls, the online uproar continued.

However, the situation was gradually improving, and the Gu group members breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, they also looked at Zhou Qinghao with new eyes.

Previously, in the eyes of many, Zhou Qinghao was just a decent-looking, somewhat talented young designer. Being noticed by Mr. Gu was just a stroke of luck.

In addition, Cheng Mingyan, Huo Pinghai, and others had spread bad rumors about Zhou Qinghao everywhere… and some people thought Zhou Qinghao was a two-faced hypocrite.

But now looking back… Zhou Qinghao was decisive in his actions, and he didn’t seem simple.

No wonder President Gu liked him.

Gu’s handling of the situation was still very decisive, but calming the online uproar was not so easy.

It was at this moment that the authorities took action.

First, Gu’s statement was pushed on various platforms, then news unfavorable to Gu was suppressed and banned from being pushed. Following that, the police quickly arrested the people who falsely accused Gu of sending fake diamonds and issued an announcement stating that Li and Wang, after receiving money from Zhang, filmed a video to frame Old Town Gold. They had now been arrested and brought to justice.

Afterwards, official agencies also stated that Gu’s diamond cultivation base had developed new technology for producing diamonds, increasing diamond production by more than tenfold.

That evening, everything was already settled, and the efficiency was astonishing.

The netizens were all shocked.

“The official response is so quick!”

“Is the Gu group producing diamonds this quickly? Is it for real?”

“The officials have said so, can it still be fake?”

“So the diamond that Gu gave is real?”

“I suspect the Gu group has connections; their speed in handling this is truly remarkable.”

“The blogger I follow analyzed this matter. He said that Gu’s diamond production is quite impressive, and Gu might have reached a cooperation with the authorities, which is why they could resolve this issue in such a short time.”

“Gu’s technology is pretty impressive; it can actually increase diamond production by this much!”

“No matter what it is, once our country produces it, the price drops immediately. The day when diamonds are worthless is probably coming soon.”

……

These things online hadn’t really affected those big shots in research.

Gu Juntian had instructed before that no matter what the officials wanted to see, they should be shown. These scientific research bigwigs took a good tour of the Gu group’s diamond cultivation base and had a good chat with the Gu group members.

They firmly believed that the president of Gu’s was an overlooked scientific genius!

They had no other plans right now; they just wanted to take Gu Juntian to their research institute to do scientific research.

Unfortunately, Gu Juntian had been staying in the lab and hadn’t come out.

A group of people had been waiting by the laboratory door for a long time, and finally, the laboratory door opened.

Right after that, Gu Juntian came out from the door.

“Mr. Gu, you’re finally out!” The people from the Gu group all came forward.

They were all a bit flustered.

The officials had surrounded them here, and now they couldn’t get out. When they reported their safety to their families, they couldn’t say this or that.

They only entered a jewelry company, so how did it suddenly become a secret unit?

“Yes, I’m out.” Gu Juntian said.

He didn’t want to stay in the lab for so long either, but there was no choice. The experiment that had been stalled for so long suddenly made progress today.

Just now, he cultivated the hexagonal diamond!

When cultivating octahedral diamonds, they could not be left unattended, so he had been continuously monitoring them.

Today, he actually had a lot of things to do.

Now he had been stuck in the lab all day and didn’t know what was going on outside.

Gu Juntian thought this and looked around at the people in front of him.

Among these people, there were many he didn’t know, who should belong to the official side.

He was not stupid; on the contrary, he was very smart. He knew very early on that what he had researched was very valuable.

The people who worked with Yu Zixing on the alloy were asked to work overtime during the New Year, actually for the sake of confidentiality.

He had always wanted to collaborate with the authorities, but he had only been here for a few months, and there were still quite a few things he needed to take care of, so he hadn’t started working on this matter yet.

“Hello, President Gu! I am from the XX Research Institute, specializing in alloy research…”

“Hello, Mr. Gu, I am engaged in mineral research…”

“Mr. Gu…”

A group of people surrounded Gu Juntian, eagerly introducing themselves.

These researchers, who usually didn’t pay much attention to online news, turned the internet upside down today for Gu Juntian.

They heard that Mr Gu was not good at management… Why not come to their research institute then!

Gu Juntian chatted with them with a smile, his long sleeves dancing gracefully, handling everything with ease.

He would be at a loss when it came to Zhou Qinghao, who would flirt with him at every turn, but he could always handle any situation with others.

“Everyone, I’m sorry, but I’ve been busy cultivating hexagonal diamonds today and couldn’t entertain you” Gu Juntian said, opening his hand to show them the small hexagonal diamond he was holding.

Those researchers gasped in shock the moment they saw the hexagonal diamond emitting a bright glow.

This was a gem harder than diamonds, and there were hardly any of these gems in the world!

Such a precious and priceless treasure, and Gu Juntian was just casually holding it?

They didn’t agree with using Alloy No. 1 to make safes, but this diamond should be kept in a safe made of Alloy No. 1!

Notes

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