"Hello, sir." The lady at the front desk was stunned, then frowned, "You want to see the president, do you have an appointment?"

She was polite and distant: "If you don't have an appointment, please make an appointment and I will help you arrange the time."

The implication is that the president is very busy and not everyone can see him.

Zuo Li stared at her and walked inside without saying anything.

The lady at the front desk was anxious: "Sir, you can't go in!"

But she couldn't stop Zuo Li at all, so she could only start calling in a hurry: "Security! Security!"

Before the security guards were dispatched, a voice sounded first.

"Professor Zuo, right?" It was a young man standing at the top of the stairs, "Please come up, the president is in the office."

upstairs.

In the president's office.

The current president of the International Physics Center is not a physicist.

Used to be a businessman.

But he was very popular, so he succeeded in becoming the president during the election.

When a layman becomes the president of the International Center of Physics, he is destined to suffer internal corruption.

"Professor Zuo, long time no see." The president smiled, "Come and sit down, I just bought some good tea from your country, please have a drink."

Zuo Li didn't sit down and went straight to the point: "Did you sell my student's thesis to the Laurent family?"

The president paused his hands and raised his eyes: "Yes, how is it?"

"How is it?" Zuo Li laughed angrily.

He suddenly stepped forward, grabbed the president's collar, and slapped him.

The president was shocked and angry: "Zuo Li, you are crazy! Do you still want to be in the physics world?!"

"How much did you sell it for?" Zuo Li was not relieved and sneered, "After you sold the paper, you deliberately published it in this month's scientific journal, right?"

"The purpose is to bump into my student and get her into a complete plagiarism scandal!"

"Professor Zuo, this is your problem." The president smiled slightly, "You insist on submitting your student's paper to the Astronomical Mechanism Center of Ozhou. What does this have to do with us? We are the ones who forced you to do so.

Did you vote for it?”

"It was your unnecessary actions that got your student into plagiarism trouble. I also want to ask you, why do you want to cut off your student's scientific research path so much?"

Zuo Li's fingers trembled: "You are really shameless."

He knew there was no need to talk any further, so he turned around and left.

"Professor Zuo, if you don't think about yourself, you also think about your students." Behind the back, the president's cold voice came, "You have to think carefully, the Laurent family, which force in the world can afford to offend

!”

Zuo Li left the president's office without saying a word.

The president was still sitting in his office chair, his eyes dim.

The door was pushed open again.

Is the vice president.

"President, this Chinese guy can't really do anything, can he?" The vice-president walked over and frowned, "If we let him cause trouble, we will also be in trouble."

Every circle has more or less default gray areas.

It doesn't matter if you don't say it.

If the incident really becomes public knowledge, the International Center of Physics will lose its face and lose its impartiality.

"I just told him to let him have some self-awareness." The president blew the tea and said calmly, "If things get serious, see if the Laurent family will let him and his students go."

"The Laurent family is the king of O continent. They have many methods. Can he compete with them?"

Elizabeth Laurent is one of the best among the upper-class aristocrats in continent O.

Once the Pazzi family fell, no other family could compete with the Laurent family.

Between Ying Zijin, the ISC champion who has just entered the scientific research world, and the young lady from the Laurent family, it is obvious who to choose.

"The president still has the foresight." The vice president finally smiled, "Giving a thesis of a new scientific researcher to Miss Elizabeth not only allowed us to obtain 300 million US dollars in funds, but also sold Miss Elizabeth a favor."

Elizabeth was just one paper away from being able to officially establish herself in academia.

They also helped search for it for a long time, but of course they couldn't bring those old professors.

By chance, Zuo Li sent Ying Zijin's paper.

"More than that." The president shook his head, "You don't know, this Miss Elizabeth was appointed by the man in charge of the Laurent family, and the man in power also specially contacted someone to let her enter Professor Helvin's experiment.

room."

"We are not only selling Miss Elizabeth's face, we are also selling the face of the Laurent family leader and Professor Helvin."

After all, Elizabeth is far from impressive compared to the latter two.

The vice president took a breath: "So that's it, this Miss Elizabeth is really amazing."

"But what you said makes sense." The president narrowed his eyes, "Zuo Li is a rising star in the world of physics. I can't guarantee that he knows someone."

"I heard that he and Helvin seem to know each other, so I'll detain him first."

As long as two scientific journals are published globally, even if Zuo Li can come up with evidence that Ying Zijin's paper was published earlier than Elizabeth, it will not be clear.

All they have to do is say it's fake.

Can Zuo Li and his students escape from the sky?

The president took a sip of tea and said: "Send someone to do it. After being locked up, he will be taken care of. He will be released after the journal is released."

**

AIRPORT.

Zuo Li was calling the celestial body center in Ozhou: "Yes, there are some problems. Please take down my student's paper first. I will bear all losses."

Zuo Li hung up the phone and then called Ying Zijin.

This matter was due to his carelessness and lack of thorough consideration, which led to Ying Zijin's paper being stolen.

But now he failed to protect his student and could only let her deal with it on her own, which made her feel very sorry.

In Zuo Li's teaching career, he has never encountered anything that made him feel so powerless.

However, before the number was pressed, his neck suddenly went numb.

Then the vision in front of him fell into darkness.

Two people sent by the International Center for Physics carefully carried Zuo Li out.

Others around the airport saw it, but they were not surprised and looked back indifferently.

**

Two days later.

O continent.

Country J.

The headquarters of Venus Group is here.

Ying Zijin and Fu Yunshen left the airport together and got into the car.

Ying Zijin glanced at the equipment in the car and raised his eyebrows: "Do you like collecting cars?"

When she and Xiu Yu participated in the Manson Family's racing competition, Fu Yunshen casually gave her a T family racing car that had retired from racing for 20 years.

This is not just something you can do with money.

"Huh?" Fu Yun raised his eyelids deeply, "As an old man, I still have hobbies."

He turned the wheel and went to the hotel downtown.

On the way, the car phone automatically connected.

It's a video call, and the person on the screen is Licinius.

"Report to the commander, the target of protection has not appeared yet, and we will continue to monitor him."

"Okay, got it."

The video flickered for a moment and then ended.

Ying Zijin turned around and said, "Who are you protecting?"

"Yes." Fu Yunshen tapped his fingers on the steering wheel with a deep look in his eyes, "Not long ago, all the top 50 hunters on the NOK forum received a private letter anonymously offering rewards."

"The target of the bounty is a six-year-old girl, but she didn't show her face. The hunters went out in large numbers. I asked the IBI to monitor them and not hurt the little girl."

This little girl may be their only way to get to that mysterious place.
To be continued...