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?"
To be continued...