Brother Wang sent a message to Xing Chen, but it wasn't about some expert getting inspired.
“Jie jie jie… *cough cough*!!!”
Seeing Xing Chen suddenly burst into wild laughter, Theresa also ran over curiously to see what his friend, Brother Wang, had sent him.
“*Cough! Tsk!*” Xing Chen recovered, holding his phone in front of Theresa. “I really don’t know how these professors got their positions; they can’t even plagiarize properly.”
Theresa took the phone, and after reading the message, she didn't understand why Xing Chen had almost laughed himself to death.
The situation was actually quite simple: several university professors wanted to get promoted but lacked the research capability, so they paid students for articles.
One student plagiarized Xing Chen’s article and gave it to those professors. The professors didn't bother to read it carefully; they didn't even change the charts and graphs, simply translated it and submitted it to a top journal on the international web.
The article was quite valuable, as it directly broke through a bottleneck in technical theoretical research. The journal reviewed and published it online at an extremely fast pace.
Dramatically, several professors who were at odds with them had seen Xing Chen's original article. They discovered that a top journal article and an academic garbage article had identical figures, with no changes in order, and immediately reported it.
“I really don’t understand why these people don’t keep good things in the country; they insist on spending a lot of money to get them abroad.”
“Could it be that they received a lot of money? Or can they exchange it for something very valuable?” Theresa asked, puzzled.
“How would I know that?” Xing Chen said with a smile.
Theresa was educated, but she hadn't attended school. Xing Chen felt that things from the academic world shouldn't taint her innocence.
However, the fact that such a matter reached Xing Chen's ears indirectly indicated that the spread was widespread, and relevant knowledge must have been noticed by insightful individuals.
“Then aren’t you afraid someone will come looking for you?” Xing Chen had told Theresa about the consequences if he were found out, so she was very worried.
“Relax, relax,” Xing Chen took the opportunity to put his hand on her head while comforting her. “Look at this: that ID card belongs to an illiterate old man in his eighties from a mountain village. What does that have to do with me?”
He could still be found if someone really wanted to, and Xing Chen was very aware of how terrifying weaponized information could be.
However, he felt that those capable of doing so might have more important things to do and probably wouldn't investigate deeply.
“Why can’t people from mountain villages have knowledge? Eighty years old is quite young.”
“I know, I was just using a stereotype as an analogy…”
“But that’s very disrespectful to those people…”
“Sorry, I won’t do it next time,” Xing Chen said to Theresa, lowering his head.
When he looked up, what he saw was Theresa’s “triumphant” smiling face.
Well, if Theresa were truly a saint, he would be worried instead.
“Mmm~~~” As retaliation, Xing Chen vigorously rubbed Theresa’s cheek. “…Stop rubbing it---”
After venting, with Xing Chen's help, Theresa squeezed Friston’s small car into the library. The remaining components would not be installed on Earth.
After lunch, Xing Chen took Theresa to the school.
In addition to new semiconductors, Xing Chen also obtained Terra’s exploration technology—exploration efficiency and accuracy that crushed several current mainstream exploration methods.
One only needed to send someone to carry the equipment and walk around on the ground, and the subsurface structure would be laid bare. Moreover, there was no Originium signal shielding on Earth, making its application wide-ranging.
This was within Xing Chen’s professional scope, so he wasn't worried about it being questioned.
“What exactly is the principle behind this?” The Senior Brother pointed at the concept model of the detector technology with a pen and asked Xing Chen.
“Because I discovered that Originium collects and reacts to information, I made a detector,” Xing Chen disassembled the casing, revealing the Originium particles inside. “As for signal processing, this is a set of programs she wrote.”
Theresa turned the computer screen around, displaying her code to the people in the lab.
“Interesting, but using Originium for prospecting equipment… isn’t that a bit too wasteful?” The Second Senior Brother’s work was slightly less than the Senior Brother’s, so he was responsible for managing the Originium samples.
Occasionally, when something went wrong on Xing Chen’s side, the Originium’s proliferation speed would suddenly accelerate. Most of the time, Originium replicated itself at an extremely slow pace.
“Then we won’t make civilian equipment; we’ll make military detectors. I think its effect is quite good, and it’s not afraid of strange interference,” the mentor on the side spoke up. The few people present all looked up at him. “Any problems?”
No problem, of course no problem. Xing Chen was eager to make weapons out of Originium.
The only issue was that Originium had a special attack, Oripathy, against Terrans, but for humans, it was just like high-performance explosives.
Theresa was not very willing, so Xing Chen quietly told her that if there were any useful technologies here, they could also be fed back to Sarkaz.
Since Xing Chen had said so, Theresa felt Excuse me to refuse again. From their first meeting to today, under his efforts, her thinking had also undergone some changes.
“How about this, I’ll open a company specializing in Originium research. How about we all make some money?” The mentor proposed an idea. “Don’t worry, I’ll handle the money and procedures. You guys just help solve some technical issues.”
“Mentor, aren’t you going for an academician position?” the Senior Brother asked.
“Do I look like someone who can achieve that?” The mentor’s words were full of helplessness, but he quickly cheered up. “However, with my connections, setting up a company to make money is doable. Isn’t this more practical?”
The matter was thus settled. The mentor would handle most of the work, and they just needed to follow along and share some money.
“Mentor is awesome!”
“Top floor!”
“+1!”
As for the patent for the Originium detector technology, Xing Chen and Theresa would be the first authors, with the rest following in order.
“Oh, by the way, Teacher, I have a question,” Xing Chen suddenly remembered something. “Teacher, do you know how uranium deposits are found?”
“Why are you suddenly asking about that? I don’t research that area,” the mentor scratched his head. “However, if you need relevant information, I can help you get it, just don’t spread it around.”
“That would be truly wonderful. Thank you.”
“But speaking of uranium deposits, I suddenly remembered something,” the mentor took out his phone and found a video. This seemed to be a tank in motion.
“This must be the latest main battle tank,” the Senior Brother recognized it at a glance.
“It should be, but don’t you think… its speed is a bit fast?” The Second Senior Brother also recognized it and noticed the anomaly.
“At this speed, our existing materials science simply can’t support it,” among the few people, Xing Chen had the most extensive knowledge of materials science.
“You’re all correct, because some parts of this vehicle have been replaced with Originium alloy, and the power technology also utilizes some of your research findings.”
If this were the case, it could basically explain why a classified video would reach their hands.
“If all goes well, we might have to live in a military restricted area for a while. You all manage your own affairs.”
“Understood.” *4