In the evening, the office building of the School of Life Sciences of Jijing University.

After reading the students' experimental reports for the day, Hu Haibo hastily closed the computer, took off his glasses, leaned back on the chair and pinched the root of his nose.

If he could start his life over again, he would definitely not choose biology again.

It’s not just biology. It’s best to stay away from the word “scientific research” whenever you see it.

When he was an undergraduate, he already knew that the so-called success can be achieved through hard work is pure nonsense.

He just didn't expect that in the scientific research circle, this sentence could be so far-fetched.

Only in the field of biology that he is familiar with, the world's top talents are like a bunch of blindly expanding fungi, but no fungus knows what kind of environment they are in, so they can only expand in all directions, thus extending countless colonies.

.

Some bacterial colonies hit a dead end, and they are doomed, and they don't have time to turn around in the short time of their lives.

Some bacterial colonies think they have arrived at a fertile place, but they don't know that it is poisonous nutrients. The more you absorb them, the faster they will die.

Some bacterial colonies fell into the water.

Some colonies were burned to death by fire.

Some bacterial colonies fell into madness, pretending to be gods, and wanted to fly into the sky. In the end, they inevitably drifted away in the wind and fell into the bottomless abyss.

But there are always lucky colonies, and they can really discover a rich new continent, and thus develop and prosper, and have a glorious life.

This is scientific research, a gamble that exhausts a lifetime of energy, and working hard is just a ticket to this casino.

The funny thing is that people who are qualified to engage in scientific research are not gamblers at all. On the contrary, they are almost the smartest and most averse to gambling.

They often discover that they are not in a laboratory until they have been in the industry for 5 or 10 years.

But in a casino.

Looking around blankly.

The exit is long gone.

If he could start his life over again, he would never become a gambler again.

Smart people should choose things with higher yields and more stability. From this pragmatic perspective, the dream of scientific research is not much better than the dream of stardom.

Hu Haibo has wanted to say to his students many times, "Don't wait until you can't escape before you think about changing careers."

But he couldn't speak.

In this moment of hesitation, he finally understood the familiar hesitation his teacher showed at a certain moment seven or eight years ago.

If he could start his life over again, he would never embrace his dream again.

Boom, boom, boom.

A knock on the door with an unfamiliar rhythm interrupted Hu Haibo's sigh. He quickly put on his glasses, moved his chair forward, and unfolded the documents he had just sorted out in front of the table.

"Enter."

Click!

Turn the handle and the door opens.

The scariest, most vigorous, and most handsome super colony.

That man is here!

With a arrogant face, he is basically a creature that punches, overturns casinos, and crushes dreams.

"You..." Hu Haibo swallowed hard, "Is there anything else?"

"Yes." Li Zheng closed the door, walked all the way to the table, and looked at the chair, "Can I sit down, Teacher Hu?"

"Please..." After Hu Haibo made a gesture, he rubbed his temples and had to forcibly refresh himself.

After Li Zheng sat down, he was about to speak, but hesitated again: "Teacher Hu, after all, I am just an ordinary student. I should be polite when talking to you, but I think you are also very tired, so it is better to be in a hurry.

Say. I respect you very much. If you find it offensive that I am straight to the point, then I would like to apologize in advance."

"It doesn't matter." Hu Haibo said, pushing the bottled water on the table to Li Zheng, "The meeting in the morning was indeed a bit chaotic. I didn't have time to say a lot. How about I say it first?"

"Please."

"I mainly want to explain the motivation and intention." Hu Haibo gestured, "Your subject does have room for differentiated research, and I have never thought about rushing to publish it. On the contrary, if I really take over the project, I will definitely

I will communicate with you, including Dean Zhou, as soon as possible, and focus on directions beyond your focus. To be more pragmatic, I am not crazy enough to steal Dean Zhou's achievements."

"Of course." Li Zheng nodded immediately.

"In addition, just think that I am sharing some experience and industry rules with you - ideas themselves are not protected, and the industry does not believe that you cannot be someone else's idea. On the contrary, many great scientific researches are made by scientists.

They borrowed ideas from each other. Regarding the return to electron microscopy, since you publicly submitted this topic at Yingpei, and Yingpei found me to share this topic, all this is reasonable. The above is my self-refutation,

It’s also informing you of the industry rules.”

"Completely understand." Li Zheng nodded again.

"Finally, I personally appreciate your research very much, and I have also sent a letter to congratulate Dean Zhou Yi. I admit here that in my expectation, your paper will indeed have a long publication cycle, and I hope to use the same professor at Ji University to

With the advantage of information, you can dig out some content that you have not paid attention to before your peers. To put it bluntly, it means picking up the scraps of meat you have dropped and fighting for it. There is indeed an element of selfishness here. If you mind, I am willing to apologize.

"

"I don't mind at all."

"Then let me apologize for the potential offense. I'm sorry." After Hu Haibo finished speaking, he breathed a long sigh of relief and then relaxed slightly. He raised his hand calmly and said, "I'm done, please."

"Mr. Hu, thank you very much for your explanations, but I have never had any opinions on the above issues from beginning to end. You should also remember that I only cared about one thing at the meeting -" Li Zheng paused and said

He said word by word, "Have you read our paper?"

Bang!

Hu Haibo's relaxed mind suddenly became tense again, and his body became visibly stiffer.

"Absolutely not. Unless someone very close to me asks me for guidance, I will not read such unpublished papers. This is absolutely! Yes! No! There is!" Hu Haibo seemed to be suffering from inexplicable pain.

As if he was being bullied, he waved his hand vigorously and said, "If you insist on thinking so, then go to the Academic Affairs Department and report it. If you say no, it means no."

"I understand your anger." Li Zheng calmly spread his hands, "But don't you think this is difficult to explain? If you haven't seen it, why can you easily explain the focus of our research?"

"I heard it, Li Zheng, I heard it." Hu Haibo raised his hand and pressed hard, "There are many people in your group, and there are also many people in the Huayuan. I accidentally heard some fragments of things. Do you want to be like this?

Do all the prisoners under interrogation have to explain themselves one by one?"

"Yes." Li Zheng raised his hand and tapped the table, looking at Hu Haibo seriously, "You need to tell me one by one about this matter."

"It makes no sense, I refuse." Hu Haibo stood up and raised his hand towards the door, "I have explained all my motives and psychological activities to you. If you still insist that I have stains, go to the Academic Affairs Department.

No need to talk to me anymore."

"Teacher Hu, if it can be solved by going to the Academic Affairs Department, why am I still here?" Out of respect, Li Zheng had to stand up and lowered his hands in a soft voice, "Teacher Hu, please sit down first."

"Li Zheng, I know you have a bright future, and I don't want to use my status as a professor to pressure you, but I am also a human being, and I don't want to hear anything you say that affects my mood anymore." Hu Haibo said, raising his hand to the door again,

"Be decent, you too, and so do I."

"No, no, no, I won't be dignified after I go out. Coming here is the last way to be dignified." Li Zheng pursed his lips and shook his head slightly, "Without any substantive evidence, the Academic Affairs Department will not handle it. I can do it.

I asked my tutor, dean, and even my family for help, but I didn’t want to cause trouble to others, so I had to choose to do it myself.”

As Li Zheng spoke, he slowly leaned forward and gradually slowed down his speaking speed.

"Tomorrow, I have two media interviews."

"So far, four media have asked me to register for my column, two of which are international academic media that you will also visit frequently."

"Of course, the most influential one is actually a website in China that answers questions."

"You also know that it has just begun, and this kind of exposure will only increase in the future."

"If you can't give me an explanation now."

"Then I can only tell the media what I know."

"Take the trouble, one time at a time."

"Wherever Li Zheng's name appears, Hu Haibo's name will appear."

"As for what other labels are attached to your head, that is a matter of online public opinion."

"Before, I was disgusted with this kind of interviews and exposure."

"In the future, I might fall in love with this."

"So." Li Zheng said, and once again asked for the seat behind Hu Haibo, "Teacher Hu, can you sit down first?"

"..."

Hu Haibo's complexion was visibly getting tighter and tighter, and he even had a tendency to cramp.

"Li Zheng, are you sure you want to use your celebrity halo to fan the flames?"

"If you insist, I will."

"What am I holding on to?"

"Teacher Hu..." Li Zheng sighed, "I really can't stand smart people pretending to be stupid. Didn't we agree to get straight to the point? Are you really going to force me to ask the same question a third time?"

"..."

flutter!

Hu Haibo finally sat back in his chair.

Only then did Li Zheng sit down.

"Does it make sense..." Hu Haibo lowered his head and shook in a daze, "You have to get to the bottom of it. It won't do any good. No one will be fine... I won't, that person won't, and neither will you."

"So this is the reason why no one picks up the trash and it is left to pile up and stink?"

"what are you saying?"

"Oh...it's okay, I'm talking to myself." Li Zheng shook his head and smiled, "I'm not like you, Teacher Hu. I don't know how to calculate and have no intention of explaining things. I either don't do it or I don't do it. You don't need to understand me.

No one needs to understand."

Hu Haibo smiled dejectedly: "This is probably just relying on one's talents and being arrogant."

"It's not a compliment, but I accept it."

After Li Zheng finished speaking, he spread his hands and said no more, just waiting for the answer.

"Alas." Hu Haibo sighed, "Liu Yuwei."

Li Zheng still maintains his status quo.

Of course Hu Haibo knew that the fungus king could not be easily coaxed away, so he told what happened after the meeting that day.

According to his description, after Zhang Shandong and Wu Yue left, Liu Yuwei insisted on asking a few biological questions alone. But in fact, the questions he asked were all professional questions that were highly related to Li Zheng's group's project, as if he had personally operated an electron microscope.

, Hu Haibo was also moved by his professionalism.

So Hu Haibo tentatively asked some simpler biological questions, but Liu Yuwei still didn't understand.

Hu Haibo was inevitably suspicious, so he asked Liu Yuwei how she came up with these questions. Liu Yuwei replied that the information came from her roommate. That girl was also a member of Li Zheng's group. She would talk about experimental progress every day, and it was all public content.

Thinking that this was a group of freshmen after all, and they would inevitably flaunt their achievements when they first started, Hu Haibo didn't have any more doubts at the time. He was just thinking about how to make a difference and piece together the fallen scraps of meat.

Hu Haibo said this, but the sun is already declining.

"That's it." Hu Haibo sighed again and relaxed again, "I think it's because one of your team members was lax, so there's no need to dig deeper."

"Wait a moment." Li Zheng immediately slapped the phone on the table and dialed.

"Hey, hey, hey~~~" a little girl's voice floated out quickly, "Have you thought about how the reward money was spent~~"

"Where are you?" Li Zheng asked in a deep voice.

"Eating meat skewers with sister Keqing."

"Okay, let me ask you, have you ever confided the contents of the experiment to anyone other than us?"

"No, didn't I tell you earlier?"

"Liu Yuwei said you have."

"?!?!?! She lied!!!"

"Mo Ming, it's okay to make mistakes. Just learn a lesson and correct yourself. At most, you will be rubbed a few times. But you have to know that what we are doing now is related to a person's future. Tell me the facts, no matter what

Okay, I just want the facts."

"Li Zheng!!!!" The girl on the phone became angry, "Would you rather believe that...that...that Bichi than me?!!! Okay!! I know, you just want to squeeze me

Let’s go!! You don’t need to squeeze me!! I’ll go by myself!!!!”

As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly started to moan again.

It seemed like he was being raped by someone.

Then, Chang Keqing's voice came.

"What's wrong? You made the child cry."

"It's okay... Apologize on my behalf." Li Zheng's aura suddenly weakened a lot. After a few words of confusion, he hung up the phone in a hurry.

The originally extremely serious atmosphere became awkward.

Although Hu Haibo knew what was happening intellectually, he still couldn't help but ask intuitively: "Is that your...child...of your family?"

"Ahem..." Li Zheng coughed heavily, "This is our team member Lin Moming, who is Liu Yuwei's roommate."

"I know, but she seems like your child..."

"Thanks."

"Then... why don't you go back and coax the child quickly?" Hu Haibo asked.

"Yes." Li Zheng could feel that he could never regain his momentum, so he stood up awkwardly and said, "If there is an official investigation by the school about the above, I hope you can explain it truthfully."

"Give me time to think about it." Hu Haibo stood up and said goodbye, "As you said, it is related to a person's future. I need time to carefully review and analyze it, and I will give you an answer tomorrow."

"Um……"

I don’t know why, but after the scene just now, everything changed, and it turned into a cordial conversation between two men.

After leaving the office, Li Zheng did not dare to stop, and rode all the way to the restaurant where he usually eats ramen.

Lin Moming was still shrinking in place, but fortunately Chang Keqing was holding her in her arms to comfort her.

The expressions of the people around me were very strange.

Because judging from the expression...the demeanor...the way he cried...

This little girl looks like she is lovelorn...

Who can be ruthlessly dumped...

no no.

Who on earth could commit such a heinous crime!!

It's a pity that I don't know the name, otherwise I would definitely have called the police.

It was in this atmosphere that Li Zheng approached timidly.

"Moming...my fault..."

"Get up!!" When Lin Moming saw Li Zheng, she cried even harder. She cried loudly and beat Chang Keqing's chest while crying. "He would rather believe that Bichi than me... wuwuwu

…”

"I...I..." Li Zheng felt very unreasonable. He scratched his head and tried his best to explain, "We have only known each other for such a long time... we don't know each other very well..."

"Wow!!!" Lin Moming burst into tears, wishing she could roll in Chang Keqing's arms, "Sister, listen, do you think this is human language? I also contribute money and work... for one day

More than ten hours... in the end... I don't really know much? Wuwuwu..."

"..."

Inside the restaurant.

The crowd has already been excited.

Is this guy still a human?!

Such a heinous and shameless person!

I don’t even know what charges to use when calling the police.

Fortunately, before they dialed the phone, Li Zheng shook his head and turned around.

"It's related to the paper. I'm just asking to confirm the situation. I don't mean to blame you at all. I won't coax you if you keep making trouble like this."

"!!!" Lin Moming was anxious and hurried forward to catch her, "Just coax her a little more and it'll be fine!!"

"Just a moment."

"Uh-huh!"

"Then..." Li Zheng, a tough man, lowered his head, "I shouldn't doubt you... I don't have enough trust... I'm not worthy of being your partner..."

"Ugh..." Chang Keqing vomited for a while.

Li Zheng was about to vomit.

Damn, I’ve never been so coaxing to Jingjing...

"Humph!" Lin Moming quickly wiped the corners of her eyes, glanced at the ramen shop, put her hands on her hips and closed her eyes, "That's it? You don't even have a big waist?"

"Ugh..." Li Zheng cursed with a crooked mouth, "If you have a big waist, let's forget about it."

"I made a mistake...two strings!!"

"Have you eaten?"

"I can eat all five."

"Okay, okay, okay, five, right?" Li Zheng showed the QR code and walked towards the store, "Give me a show. If you leak a drop of oil, you will eat again."

"Ah this..." Lin Moming panicked.

Anyway, after this night.
Chapter completed!