Chapter 64: Chapter 61: Goodbye Tian Liangwei (4th Update!!)
At ten in the morning on the third day, Xu Yun lazily opened his eyes.
After he had tinkered with the protein binding region and binding formula the night before last, he used the last of his energy to organize the relevant data, saved it in an electronic document, and then climbed into bed after freshening up.
To be honest, he had worked on quite a few projects. Whether it was for scientific research or crazily typing before midnight for the attendance award, he had never realized that mental labor could consume so much physical energy.
All he could say was that Mr. Niu was just too impressive, and his brain was a bit overloaded for a moment.
After finishing organizing the relevant materials, he considered the agreed time with Qiu Sheng and others was six days, so going to find them on the second day seemed a bit high-profile. Therefore, Xu Yun deliberately waited another day, planning to contact the laboratory this morning.
During this day of waiting, he did nothing, played a few rounds of melee combat— a long-awaited activity—and got beaten to a pulp by the arc of justice.
Alright, back to business.
After waking up, Xu Yun freshened up briefly, sat in the chair, and dialed the landline number of the biomedical laboratory.
A moment later, Qiu Sheng’s voice came through:
"Hello, who is this?"
"It’s the anti-pornography office. We received a report that a certain Qiu Sheng sends lewd pictures to the group daily."
"Get out!"
Listening to Qiu Sheng’s friendly and harmonious greetings over the phone, Xu Yun also laughed:
"Alright, Old Qiu, how’s your progress on the synthesis of the inducible agent?"
Upon hearing Xu Yun mention business, Qiu Sheng’s tone gradually became serious:
"It was synthesized up to 43% by early this morning. Thanks to the ideas you provided, everything is progressing smoothly. Just waiting for the reaction results. And how about your side?"
"The binding formula is sorted, and I’ve developed five models for axon depolarization."
"..."
On the other end of the phone, Qiu Sheng was silent for a full thirty seconds before saying:
"Come on, where did you buy the cheat? Get one for me too."
Without waiting for Xu Yun to speak, Qiu Sheng’s tone rose again:
"Five models in two days! Are you seriously hacking? Even Director Tian wouldn’t have managed this!!!"
Listening to Qiu Sheng’s excited tone through the receiver, Xu Yun wasn’t much bothered. Young people nowadays often use ’hacking’ to describe some particularly absurd situations:
"Alright, stop with that fancy talk. I just did some preliminary research a few days ago. I’ll send the organized materials to you guys later, and I’ll finish the product this morning. I have some personal matters today, so I won’t be going to the laboratory."
"Get lost, don’t expect any send-off!"
After hanging up the call, Xu Yun went downstairs to eat a bowl of Longjiang pork trotters rice. After settling the bill, he walked right for over fifty meters to a fruit store.
This fruit store is not large, about thirty square meters. Besides whole fruits, there are also quite a few fruit cuts packaged in plastic boxes.
The shop owner is a person from Zhongzhou, sitting on a small stool at the store entrance, got up quickly upon seeing Xu Yun, and asked enthusiastically:
"Student, would you like anything?"
"Miss, I’ll have two boxes of dragon fruit cuts."
"White Fire Dragon Fruit or Red Fire Dragon Fruit?"
"White is fine."
"Alright, ten bucks."
"Prices have gone up, huh....."
Xu Yun muttered softly, but his hands didn’t stop, quickly scanning to pay:
"All done, Miss, please check."
"Got it, sure!"
After paying, Xu Yun carried the plastic bag and took a ride to the Life Science Building in the West District, which is also the office location for the School of Life Sciences.
The inspection at the Life Science Building is much more relaxed than at the Medical Center Building. Xu Yun showed his credentials and was quickly allowed inside.
On weekdays, the building has a lot of people going back and forth. After waiting for an elevator but failing to squeeze in, Xu Yun didn’t hesitate to walk up to the third floor and came to an office with a slightly ajar door.
"Knock knock knock——"
Soon, Tian Liangwei’s voice came through.
"Come in."
Xu Yun gently pushed open the office door, glanced around instinctively to make sure his teacher wasn’t receiving guests, then fully opened the door:
"Teacher, I’m here."
As the dean of the School of Life Sciences, Tian Liangwei stays at the Medical Center Building during weekends or when there are scientific research tasks. When free, he fulfills his dean duties by working in his office.
Of course, don’t think he’s just sitting idle or neglecting responsibilities.
In fact, at schools like Ke Da level, the dean of the school almost always has national research tasks to deal with, and few handle internal tasks.
The position that truly manages comprehensive work of the school is called the Executive Dean, which is one of the vice deans, but is the most empowered one.
Once inside, Xu Yun went straight to the desk, placed two boxes of dragon fruit onto the table:
"Look, the dragon fruit you wanted."
"You’re quite something, kid."
Tian Liangwei opened the plastic bag and took a quick look, glancing at Xu Yun:
"Did you use the grant money to buy it?"
Xu Yun waved his hand grandly, dismissively replied:
"Not at all. It’s worth just ten bucks, I wouldn’t be as shameless as that Li guy who wanted to use the grant for a three-buck toothbrush and even issued a three hundred buck invoice for expense reimbursement, embezzling money."
Tian Liangwei nodded in satisfaction, opened the plastic box, and picked up a piece of dragon fruit with a toothpick, placing it in his mouth:
"Spit it out, kid. You’re attending with so much dedication today, aren’t you coming to me defeated from an experimental failure to cry misery?
Confess honestly, what instrument did you break? I’m telling you, when selling yourself, the most I can do is offer a 20% markup, no more than that."
"Haha, well you guessed wrong this time."
Xu Yun took out a stack one centimeter thick of experimental reports from his briefcase, and placed it steadily in front of Tian Liangwei:
"Teacher, have a look at this."
Upon hearing this, Tian Liangwei immediately paused his action with the toothpick stabbing into the fruit, surprisedly glanced at his student.
Xu Yun’s actions were straightforward in intention:
There were results in the laboratory’s research, and there should be a phased result.
Although Xu Yun’s previously submitted plan looked somewhat feasible, Tian Liangwei’s view was not very optimistic.
Anyone who has engaged in scientific research knows that project proposal documents often look like investment pitches, appearing quite different from the practical execution.
Some operate easily producing mistakes, while others appear feasible but do not yield quality results in practice.
Not to mention the distant ones, just take Ke Da for instance.
As a top university backed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ke Da’s entrance almost daily sees a bunch of folk scientists submit project proposals, slightly fewer than at the Science Institute.
Some project proposals are absurdly outrageous, but some can indeed justify logically.
Over ten years ago, perhaps under the residual influence of 90s Qigong and paranormal phenomena, the school leadership had some ’folk have extraordinary people’ anticipation, actually providing experimental conditions for some projects.
But these projects, one after another, ended in oblivion.
Since then, Ke Da completely gave up hope, no longer accepting folk scientist projects.
Another mention of folk scientists, Ke Da once had a very outrageous incident:
Back in ’13, a folk scientist tried to submit a project proposal but was rejected, so he sneakily dug a hole from Taihu Road—like a commando—from the beginning to end evaded multiple security checks, finally infiltrated into Tongfu Laboratory’s building three, successfully sneaked into a project group’s office.
The project group leader initially thought this folk scientist was delivering documents but was completely surprised when the man, like the famously dual-agent Pangolin, flipped his hat off and announced his grand invention on-the-spot.
At first, the leader was definitely intrigued and glanced at it, but almost died laughing:
This folk science boss had concocted a perpetual ghost machine, claiming through magnetic field ritual he could capture ghosts, then ’ghost power’ them to generate electricity, achieving perpetual motion.
Naturally, this folk science boss was eventually expelled by security, and his story became an infamous joke at Ke Da.
Alright, back to business.
Upon knowing Xu Yun’s research seemed to yield results, Tian Liangwei dispelled the thought of teasing further, picked up the experimental report, and began to read it earnestly.
"...1-bromo-2-pentyne..."
"Base number 22440484 vs 648..."
"Cyclization binding protein....."
Tian Liangwei studied very confidently, the whole report was read for nearly an hour, during which Xu Yun did not say a single word, just sat waiting in silence.
Another twenty minutes passed, and finally, Tian Liangwei moved his gaze to the last section:
"0.08 grams of fourth generation glue bait insecticide efficiency is about 70, effective cycle of dissemination 5.5-6 cycles, extermination time eight hours.....huh?"
Tian Liangwei suddenly looked up at Xu Yun:
"Xiaoxu, you’re already near completing the fifth generation?"