Chapter 66 66【Surrender】
Priya then drove into Xiang Nan's car, went to the Huntington Restaurant, and picked Peggy over.
"Raj, what happened? Why did the school search your office for no reason?" After arriving, Peggy was puzzled.
She really didn't understand what Xiang Nan could do to make the school treat him like this. Simply unimaginable.
Xiang Nan looked at Howard and Leslie, and said, "I don't think there is any need to keep it secret now. This matter will be made public soon, and the patent will be applied for soon, so there is no need to keep it secret." .”
Howard and Leslie nodded.
Once they negotiate with the school, the quantum navigation system will be registered as a patent, and the world will know about it. If they can't negotiate with the school and the whole project is scrapped, then there's no need for secrecy.
"What's going on?" Peggy couldn't help asking when she saw that they were speaking strangely.
"It's like this. Howard, Leslie, I and I have successfully developed a quantum navigation system." Xiang Nan looked at Peggy and solemnly announced.
"What?! Really?" Peggy was equally surprised when she heard that.
After the concept of the quantum navigation system was launched in 2001, many countries and scientific research institutions began to invest heavily in research and development.
A lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources have been invested in this, costing more than tens of billions of dollars.
Even so, not to mention the creation of a prototype, even the theory has not been perfected. Until now, it is still just a concept.
She really didn't expect that Xiang Nan and the three of them would actually make it happen. It sounds like a myth.
"Really." Xiang Nan nodded confidently.
"Oh, that's the project you kept secret from me before?" Peggy suddenly asked.
When she saw Xiang Nan and Howard talking about the "project" mysteriously before, she asked Xiang Nan curiously. At that time, he refused her on the pretext of keeping secret.
At the time, I thought he was playing tricks, but I didn't expect it to be such a big project.
"Not bad." Xiang Nan nodded.
"Then since you have developed such an advanced technology, the school should attach great importance to it. Why did you search your office?" Peggy asked again, puzzled.
Xiang Nan then recounted the cause and effect.
After hearing this, Peggy suddenly realized.
"So that's the case. In that case, the school is really hateful." She nodded and said, "Then what should we do now?"
"Now we are waiting for the school to negotiate with us." Xiang Nan explained, "I gave it a day to think about it, and there should be a reply tomorrow. Let's live here first and act together."
Peggy nodded.
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Everyone stayed in the room until the next day, even ordering room service for meals.
During the period, there were still people calling. Or inquire about news, or persuade to soften, or threaten intimidation, and so on.
Leonard also called to express his concern and expressed his desire to visit everyone.
But Xiang Nan didn't let him come. This matter is still unclear, and he has nothing to do with this matter from beginning to end, so there is no point in involving him again.
Turning around, Xiang Nan and others received calls more frequently.
Almost as soon as this call was hung up, the next call came in immediately.
Moreover, the proportion of persuading them to be soft and threatening them has increased a lot.
"That's right, so the more we get to this point, the less we can panic." Xiang Nan nodded and said, "We have to prepare for the worst and hope for the best."
Hearing what he said, everyone nodded.
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At eleven o'clock in the morning, Xiang Nan received a call from Gablehouse.
"Hi, doctor." He answered the phone and greeted with a smile.
"Hey, Raj, where are you now?" Gablehouse asked with a smile.
"I'm eating out." Xiang Nan said with a smile, "Doctor, what's the matter?"
"Raj, don't be self-willed anymore, come back, let's have a good talk." Gablehouse laughed.
"Why, is the school willing to talk to us?" Xiang Nan asked with a smile when he heard it.
"Actually, the school has always wanted to talk to you, and the door to negotiation is always open to you." Gablehouse laughed.
"Is that true? Then who sent the people who searched my office yesterday? This is not an attitude of negotiating." Xiang Nan laughed.
"It was all a misunderstanding. Now, everything has been returned to the original owner. If you have any losses, you can still ask the school for compensation." Gablehouse laughed, "Raj, you are a smart person, I have always I like you very much. Come back and let's have a good talk."
"Okay, Doctor, since you invited me, I can talk." Xiang Nan nodded.
"OK, I'll wait for you at school." Gablehouse said happily when he saw that Xiang Nan agreed to talk.
After Principal Seibert rejected Xiang Nan's cooperation conditions, he immediately sent people from the Internal Affairs Office to search the offices and laboratories of Xiang Nan, Howard, Leslie and others, hoping to find the research and development materials and prototypes of the quantum navigation system machine.
In this way, the school can take the technology as its own and kick Xiang Nan and others out.
But I didn't expect him to act fast. Xiang Nan and others acted faster, transferring the materials and prototypes in advance.
Although the Internal Affairs Department found a lot of things, none of them were related to the quantum navigation system.
Seeing that the plan to forcibly pick the fruits of victory fell through, Principal Seibert could only choose to back down.
Otherwise, if Xiang Nan really destroys the quantum navigation system, then the school will suffer the most.
After all, the school owns 75% of the patent rights, and the patent fees are also the bulk of it.
The annual loss is at least 30 to 40 billion U.S. dollars, which is not a small amount.
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After Xiang Nan hung up the phone, he immediately took everyone back to school.
Dean Gable House greeted him personally.
He is the one who has the closest relationship with Xiang Nan among the school's top management, so with just a little friendship, he became the middleman.
"These are..." Gablehouse looked at the three behind Xiang Nan and said.
"These three are the lawyers we invited." Xiang Nan explained with a smile, "We respect this negotiation very much, so we specially invited lawyers to witness it."
When Gablehouse heard this, his face froze.
At first, I thought that Xiang Nan, Howard, and Leslie were all nerds and geeks, who only knew how to do scientific research and didn't know how to deal with the world.
When negotiating, it is likely to be played around by the school.
But they didn't expect them to be so well prepared, they even hired a lawyer in advance.
In this way, it is not so easy for the school to take advantage of it.
(end of this chapter)