
The atmosphere was getting tense and I was getting nervous until not long after that professor Ling just kept looking at me and watching me intently he finally spoke up and began to decide to punish me.
"Well, since this is all your fault, you're gonna get the punishment, and do you know what punishment someone would get for faking his access card?" Professor Ling replied to me with her very serious face back then.
I shook my head because I didn't know about it, until professor Ling had senior Sisi tell me.
"Side please tell him what punishment he deserves." Professor Ling's words made me very tense and anxious.
"You need to get out of this lab." Senior Sisi replied with a sharp look at me and made me instantly feel even more limp.
I did not think it turned out that the punishment was worth this, I was flabbergasted and sculpted, swallowed my saliva with great difficulty and tried hard to accept all this harsh reality, alone.
"Huuhh.well, I don't care, if that's the punishment, I'll get out of this lab, I'll get out of this lab, once again I apologize for making such a fatal mistake and for possibly disappointing Professor Ling who had brought me into this laboratory before." I replied as I bowed respectfully and then immediately walked out of the room along with Senior Sisi who helped me open the door.
I actually wanted to cry at that moment but had to hold it firmly, I went to my desk and started to tidy up all of my belongings, put it in the box that I had brought to move some stuff from the dormitory here, but now I just have to take it home again.
Senior Anming looked at me in surprise and he started to approach me while asking me what I was doing, senior Sisi was sitting back in his chair at the time and he didn't care about me at all, but I was like this because I defended him and helped him not to be taken out of this, but even I am the one who must be removed, even though I did not make that mistake.
"Zhan Tao what are you doing, why take care of all your stuff, you want to move tables?" Senior Anming asked me.
"No, I'm just done." I replied to him with a small smile.
Quickly senior Anming instantly widened his eyes so wide he immediately grabbed onto both of my shoulders tightly and told me to explain what had really happened back then.
"Wait, Zhan Tao what do you mean you're done? Let's answer me Zhan Tao!" He kept urging me and was so serious.
"I'm going to get out of this lab, maybe get it out of Professor Ling." I replied to him with a face holding back the pain.
Although I was very hurt and wanted to scream loudly but in front of the seniors who were there I had to endure the intense emotions inside me, I should still look calm and relaxed, as if I am fine, even though my heart is breaking and falling apart.
"ahahahahah.. Zhan Tao you're just kidding, aren't you? Don't you joke around telling the truth?" Asked senior Anming who still did not believe my answer, even though I had told him the truth.
Because then I had to say everything that happened slowly to him in order to understand everything I said better.
"Senior Anming, please don't do this, I can be even sadder if you're like this, I was indeed expelled by professor Ling just now, but it all happened because of my own fault, so please don't get angry huh." My words explained to him.
Senior Anming's face immediately stared expressionlessly at me he immediately sat down limply and I didn't know what else to do to him, could only stand facing him and both bow their heads, I started to sit down and shift my chair to approach senior Anming.
"Senior Anming, come on, don't be like this, even if I'm not in the lab, we can't still meet, you have my phone contact, we can make a deal to meet anywhere, we can meet, I'll definitely come see you." I said while holding her hand and trying to persuade her at that moment.
"But Zhan Tao, what mistake could Ling make to get you out of this lab, all of a sudden?" Senior Anming asked which made me instantly glance towards senior Sisi.
"Let me explain to you if I'm really out of here." Reply to him.
He looks very unhappy but I can't keep persuading him, I need to get all my stuff done, and I have also contacted Jingmi to help me carry my belongings so that I can leave at once without leaving anything in this laboratory.
Until half I finished packing, I started to say goodbye to all of my seniors who were there, unfortunately there was no senior Feng today, he said, because he was going out of town to research his latest research directly.
"Zhan Tao can't you wait until Feng returns first, so you can say goodbye to him too." Senior Anming said to me.
"Can't senior Anming, I think it's time, me and we all know, that the academic grades I have are actually not qualified to enter and be a part of this laboratory, I only have access to the courses from professor Ling, so if he tells me to get out of here, then, then I must leave immediately right then and there, please convey my greetings to senior Feng yes, I am very grateful to him because he has always helped me a lot during this time." My reply to senior Anming.
"Zhan Tao why did you suddenly step out of that laboratory, isn't that a very pleasant place for you?" Jingmi asked me during the trip.
"That's a long time ago, not anymore, so I just want to go out, I want to focus on the lessons, besides my academic values are still a lot to improve, is not it better to put that first." Reply to him.
I don't want to upset Jingmi or worry about me if I say because I'm out of there the truth is, I think it's better that I just keep it to myself, and let senior Sisi continue like that, maybe with my loss he can become an outstanding senior Sisi again like before.
And there will be no more problems caused by me in the laboratory later, there will be no more people who misfortune and become their joke material, he said, I have to start forgetting everything about the lab and start a new beginning again.
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Day by day it started to go normal and better, I didn't think about the lab anymore even when I first got out of there, I cried all night until I made my three roommates unable to sleep well because of the sound of my crying that was so loud and echoed in the entire narrow room measuring 4x4 meters.
I'm getting excited about learning and having started getting into the final exams, everyone is busy preparing to fight the exam, which will determine whether we all pass or not, and besides preparing for the exam, I and Xinxin have also been busy looking for job openings for internships.
Because we will not continue our education to S2 and beyond, we choose to end our lives with many tasks that make our heads dizzy, while Xiuying and Yimin have their own goals, respectively, Yimin is already one of the cool and expert female gamers she is preparing to enter one of the company and professional e-sport team, while Mr. Xiuying of course he will continue to pursue a doctorate and achieve his dream of becoming a professor linguist and becoming a lecturer later.
On the other hand, professor Ling himself has been able to complete the largest and special research he has created, where he can make a new breakthrough creates a though that can provide extraordinary medical assistance in the process of therapy in stroke sufferers and the like, where the elderly who are unable to walk or move their bodies can return to their usual activities like they are without stroke or other things.
With the help of his artificial tools and has been tested with the best research, until it will be officially launched in the general public and a number of large hospitals in the city, he said, professor Ling had already earned many degrees and this time he had gotten a very big offer as well so profitable for him, he said, where he will be one of the representatives of the world, especially representatives from our country, to join a group of other intelligent scientists to create a sophisticated tool that can cure one of the rare diseases that until now there is still no cure.
But for now professor Ling still wants to focus on developing the laboratory that he has formed since childhood alone, including still waiting for the professor to release the machine created by himself and all the members in the laboratory for one year more he wrestled it.
News of the success of professor Ling's laboratory was heard everywhere, everyone was more flattering and his face was plastered on the campus wall as well as on the inter-campus bus that passed by on the streets, not a few also I often find posters of him that makes me have to recall the times where I pursued him mercilessly.
"Zhan Tao, hey..ayo quickly his job interview will begin, why do you daydream?" Shouted Xinxin waving her hands in front of me and kept shouting at me.
I immediately realized and immediately ran to him, while preparing to start a job interview at one of the companies per Advertisement not far from where my university is located.
I have applied for jobs to more than 10 companies around the area along with Xinxin but unfortunately I received rejections from five companies at once and four of them did not provide clarity at all, so there's only one company left that I and Xinxin can go to for a job interview.
We prepared the best thing we could for this interview, and I really hope that I can be accepted to work there no matter what job I will definitely accept all of that with the air, even though his job is not in accordance with the majors I took.
The most important thing for me and Xinxin is that I we can get a real job and can make money so as not to become unemployed when we graduate.
The first person to do the interview was me, so it was only natural that I was so nervous because this was the first time, she said, when I went inside I started in front of three men who were ready to interview me, all the questions I could answer confidently, he said, until my turn is over and now it's just waiting for Xinxin to be interviewed in there.
We were asked to wait for news of the interview for three working days, so Xinxin and I immediately returned to the dormitory as soon as possible.
As I was about to board the bus I accidentally passed by senior Feng whom we had not met for a long time since I left the Ling professor's laboratory.
He greeted me first, because he was the one who first saw me.
"Zhan Tao's? Is this really you?" His words greeted me, and made me turn to look straight at him.
I was very happy to meet senior Feng, after all this time we never met again, and when we met, there was no awkwardness at all between me and him back then, he said, he was indeed the friendliest senior and had always embraced everyone while in the laboratory even until now not forgetting me at all.
"Senior Feng? Ahhh... I didn't expect to see you here? How's it been all this time?" I asked him to instantly blend in very close and familiar.
Whereas Xinxin could only stare in astonishment and furrow both of his eyebrows firmly, as he did not recognize this senior Feng at all.