(Late August 2026, Cambridge, UK / XX Group Headquarters, remote collaboration)
When Alex Shen, an elegant, British-Chinese "tech veteran" with a stellar resume, first stepped into the PSD office located at the edge of the Cambridge University Science Park—a space so rudimentary and cluttered it felt more like a "mad scientist’s lair" overflowing with bizarre experimental apparatuses and whiteboards covered in complex formulas—even he, accustomed to the "relaxed" nature of Silicon Valley startups, couldn't help but arch an eyebrow at the raw, untamed scene of scientific inquiry.
"Mr... Mr. Shen, welcome... welcome to the PSD 'Idea Lab'," muttered Arthur Pendragon, a theoretical architect whose hair looked like a bird's nest, as he pushed up the thick black-rimmed glasses on his nose. Beside him, Alan Turing, the taciturn chip architect whose fingers flew like butterflies across a portable terminal, merely glanced up at Shen before diving back into his world of code.
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