The Unveiling of Secret Queen

Chapter 679: Seeking Nathalie Quinlan’s Help_1

Nathalie Quinlan glanced at the incoming call display, squinted her eyes, rested one hand on the back of the chair, and with the other hand plugged in the earpiece, put it in her ear, stood up, and walked aside to answer the phone.

"Hello."

*

At this moment on the 8th floor of McKinney City Hospital, Alfred Garland stepped out to make a phone call.

There were still four or five people in the VIP ward.

Phoebe Hoffman was the first to lose patience, clutching her fists, looking toward the man on the hospital bed, furrowing her brows, and said, "Amadeus, the autonomous driving system is one of the core technologies we at The Ninth Institute are researching. Is it really appropriate to ask an outsider for help?"

Besides, from what she heard from Wallace Radcliff, the person was a girl and quite young, seemingly still a high school student.

For The Ninth Institute, with so many top talents, to seek the help of a high school student for a problem they couldn’t solve was utterly ridiculous.

What could a high school student possibly know? It’s laughable!

"If we must find someone to assist us, I can call my uncle to see if he has time to come over."

Everyone at The Ninth Institute knew that Phoebe Hoffman’s third uncle, Lincoln Hoffman, was a renowned hacker within C Country, and the Hoffman family had produced numerous talents in IT.

Phoebe herself was a high-achieving student from the computer science department at Southern University.

Selected for the youth class at 14, she was smoothly admitted to The Ninth Institute and now at 24, she had reached the same rank as Wallace Radcliff, who was in his forties.

Both were team leaders in IT research and development.

It was just that Radcliff managed one team while she managed the other.

"She’s not an outsider," Amadeus Yancey said indifferently, his face slightly pale but not affecting his extremely attractive appearance, quite eye-catching.

It made Phoebe blink.

She realized a second later and fiercely scrunched up her eyebrows, disagreeing, "Even if she isn’t an outsider but Mr. Zachmann’s sister, she’s still just a high school student. What could a high school student possibly know? She might not even understand what source code is!"

Wallace Radcliff had quite the authority to speak on this. Not waiting for Amadeus Yancey to say anything, he awkwardly touched his nose, coughed, and said, "Well... I think Ms. Quinlan knows what source code is, and she’s quite good at it."

Because what Phoebe was saying now, he had asserted with confidence not long before, and then... his face had been metaphorically slapped hard. Very painful!

Even now, recalling it made him feel a bit embarrassed.

Earlier at noon when he went to the team, several technicians had jokingly asked him when he would perform the feat of swallowing a laptop whole.

Motivated by not wanting to see his colleague suffer a face slap again, Wallace Radcliff kindly advised her, "Ms. Quinlan is not like an ordinary high school student, uh, how to put it, I can’t quite describe it, but she’s incredibly talented, very strong in the computer and programming areas."

Remembering what Alfred Garland had said before, he added, "Also, she’s not just a regular high school student—she already took the Tsinghua Joint Entrance Exam. Once the college entrance exam is over, she’ll be a Tsinghua student."

Tsinghua University and Southern University were always at odds, competing against each other.

This led to a bit of rivalry between the students of the two schools.

The moment Phoebe heard ’Tsinghua University,’ her beautiful brows instinctively knitted, and with a casual, lovely face, she glanced at Wallace Radcliff and dismissively said, "She got admitted to the computer science department at Tsinghua?"

Tsinghua University ranked above Southern University among national colleges, but everyone knew that the computer science department at Southern University was the best in the country.

As for Tsinghua’s... it was just making up the numbers!

With a jewel placed before them, there was no comparison!

She had heard from Wallace Radcliff that Nathalie Quinlan was good with computers, so she subconsciously assumed that Quinlan’s major in college would be computer science.

However, the man awkwardly shook his head, denying her assumption, "No, she didn’t apply for the computer science major."