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Luca was in a stun and stared at her in disbelief.

Keira casually said, “I said, it was sent to your inbox last Friday.”

Luca swallowed. “Wasn’t that an empty email?”

Keira was bewildered.

Luca realized something and ran to his workstation. Looking at his email on the computer, he indeed saw the attachment!

But he still couldn’t believe it. He opened the attachment nervously!

The development of new energy is different from software coding.

Not only did they use computer simulators, but they also had to go into the lab for real experiments.

Keira had finished the task assigned to her last Friday, so Luca spent all morning in the lab assisting Jalen, and that’s why he didn’t notice.

Once the attachment was downloaded, Luca couldn’t

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wait to look at it.

As he read through it, he immersed himself in the

report.

The application of core technology was a bit complex. Some of it took him quite a while to understand.

Seeing his silence, Keira prepared to take the elevator to the 60th floor where the archives were located.

The elevator arrived, and she entered it just as a group

of members did.

The R&D Department and the laboratory were located on different floors of the tower, and they each had

their own tasks to do.

“Beep!”

The elevator alarm beeped, indicating that it was

overloaded.

Someone said, “Keira, you better get off.”

Their tone was tinged with displeasure.

Keira was taken aback and raised her head, “I wasn’t the last one to get on.”

The person scoffed. “Even though that’s the case, work

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is first come first served. We’re in a hurry, and you’re so idle. If you’re not busy, why don’t you get off first?”

The others immediately echoed.

to work;

go. Don’t waste our

Would you be responsible if we were

the hostility

on, she took a deep breath and got off the elevator.

argue about something like

a researcher, she understood the exasperation when a problem couldn’t be resolved promptly. Besides, there were eight elevators in total. It was just a

doors closed, someone in the group suddenly whispered.

we a bit too

so tactless… She doesn’t do any

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when we achieve results,

That’s

floor through another elevator and hastily looked

studied hard, she was sure she could solve old Mrs. Horton’s problem soon.

discovered her

Keira was dumbfounded.

around the bookshelf, but no matter how much she tried, she couldn’t find

seemed to be reading it…

the Horton

be taken

the book

she realized

the company who could get a book out of

top floor.

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with his own eyebrows drawn

the thick volume in his

book was about

with the subject due to

still found the book complex and difficult to understand. He was also curious to know why

report of Keira’s actions downstairs. He then added, “Boss, Keira is simply taking advantage of Mrs. Horton’s fondness for her and acting as she pleases! You

coldly replied, “She’s not

Tom was perplexed.

feel that the boss seemed to be speaking up

be his illusion!

then asked, “This book doesn’t seem to have

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Should we return

tapped on the book, thinking about the girl’s anticipation when she saw it today. He suddenly remembered the feeling of

a sudden, he felt

now.”

upstairs to get the book from Lewis, but when she remembered

back to the R&D

she spotted Jalen and team members drinking coffee

all had weary expressions on their

laid-back demeanor, someone couldn help but speak

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