Chapter 631
Zuo Li nodded again, “Oh, he’s still the chief executive, ah, that’s also still …… what did you say?”
He suddenly reacted, his mouth open wide in disbelief, “The chief executive of the venus group?”
The rise of venus group is a mystery, within just a few years, leaping to become the number one group in the world.
Its companies were spread across various fields, and it also owned a number of world-cla*s laboratories.
The CEO of the venus group has never been seen in public, and there are many different opinions about it.
But no matter what the speculation is, the public believes that the CEO is a native of O China.
Zuo Li spoke with difficulty: “Ying, are you kidding?”
After Ying Zidian finished his phone call with Fu Yunshen, he raised his eyebrows: “Professor Zuo, I have an advantage.”
“You don’t have one, your whole body is full of merits.”
“I don’t lie.”
“……”
To the side, Sinai bit into her lollipop, curious: “What’s the venus group?”
Zuo Li finally snapped back, “Ying cla*smate, this is your sister?”
Sinai was furious, “I’m older than her!”
Ying Zidian ignored her and nodded towards Zuo Li, “Professor Zuo, we need to go to the celestial institution centre first, then I’ll send you back to China myself.”
“Huh? I’ve called the Celestial Institutions Centre.” Zuo Li said, “They have promised that they will withdraw your paper first, you.”
Ying Ziji faded: “I’m afraid some people will get an inch.”
The darkness of human nature, having spent a long time in the ancient martial world, she had seen more than Zuo Li.
Zuo Li nodded: “Okay.”
The three of them got on the helicopter.
Zuo Li stared at Sinai for a while, but in the end, curiosity about science prevailed; “Hello, what was that laser you just let out?”
“What for?” Sinai looked up, “Don’t you move, you won’t use it.”
“I’m not moving.” Zuo Li thought to himself that he didn’t want to melt, “I just wanted to see your watch the one from the manufacturer, I want to buy one to study.”
“Don’t look, you can’t buy one, and what’s a laser? There’s so much more you haven’t seen.” Sinai crossed his short legs, “I’ll show you-”
Ying Zigui glanced over, his eyes faint.
Xinae immediately swallowed her words and changed the subject, “Come, come, let’s watch the drama together, I find all your dramas are good, my watch automatically turns the picture into 3D, it’s full of motion.”
Zuo Li watched as Sinai pressed a few times, and the watch projected a three-dimensional floating movie screen.
A real motion picture, but also do not need to bring 3d gla*ses, as if in the scene inside the shuttle.
Zuo Li couldn’t help but wipe the cold sweat.
It was over.
Not only had Ying Zigui dealt him a huge blow, but this little girl had also struck him.
His three views had completely crumbled today.
**
The following day.
Morning.
Two guests arrive at the Celestial Institutions Centre.
It was Elizabeth and her personal housekeeper.
The Celestial Institutions Centre is a civic organisation, the organisers and the members within it are all professors of repute in the field.
Naturally, the one with the highest reputation in this field is Hervin.
These professors also looked up to him greatly.
When Zuo Li delivered his thesis, he did not mention the relationship between Ying Zigui and Helvin.
He didn’t want to make these professors lose their fairness because of this relationship.
Ying Zidian is Ying Zidian.
She has her own strength and does not need to rely on anyone.
Also because of the high degree of secrecy surrounding the experimental project of the cosmic carrier, no one from the outside world could inquire who the researchers were other than Helvin.
These scientific geniuses are easily targeted by international criminals and outlaws.
If a power were to possess a research project of this level, it would conquer not only a country but the universe.
So the official list of researchers is that not a single bit of information is available.
So even Elizabeth was not sure who else was in the project until she had been transferred.
But the president of the International Physics Centre had warned her too.
Some of them were quite unaware of the East, and it was better to let them roll over first.
“Yes, I’m Miss Elizabeth Laurent’s housekeeper.” The butler stepped forward and smiled, “This is our young lady.”
The surname Laurent was enough to get the attention of everyone on o continent.
The person in charge looked solemn and immediately became respectful, “Greetings, Miss Elizabeth, you are here in a big way for something important.”
Elisabeth only nodded slightly and did not reply.
She sat gracefully on the sofa as her personal servant brought out the prepared cup of tea for her.
“It’s like this, I’ve come today to show you all something.” The butler pulled out the issue of the International Centre for Physics’ scientific journal and flipped to Elizabeth’s piece of paper.
The head took it and looked at it and his expression changed instantly, “This ……”
A few professors were nearby, so naturally they all saw it and couldn’t help but change their faces as well.
“You all are familiar with it, right? This paper of our lady’s was submitted to the International Centre of Physics in September last year.” The housekeeper took out a few points of paper and blandly, “Why would a paper identical to our young lady’s appear at your institution? But at a later date?”
Without speaking, the head of the house compared the two papers carefully.
There was no difference even in the order of the words, the subordinate clauses used.
Even if the ideas had collided while researching the same field, there was absolutely no way they could be similar to this extent.
No, it was simply identical.
It could only be plagiarism.
Several professors looked at each other, all a little shocked and unable to believe it
The second isc final was held this year, and now the replay has just finished, with the same 1,200 people entering the international final.
But there has never been another genius like Ying Zidian who rode to the top.
The professors are more than a little sorry.
But how could a genius like Ying Zidian have copied Elizabeth’s paper?
Elizabeth is not a newcomer in the field of research, she has published three papers.
She has published three papers, while Ying Zidian has not published any.
In comparison, it is Elizabeth who has the better track record.
The facts are there for all to see.
The Head murmured, “No wonder Professor Zuo Li asked us to withdraw his student’s paper.”
The butler continued to smile, “If it wasn’t plagiarised, why did he withdraw it instead of defending it?”
Elizabeth put down her teacup and spoke lightly, “I don’t care about this matter, I just need an explanation to inform the entire research community that my paper was plagiarised.”
“You don’t care?” A cold laugh rang out from the doorway, “Of course you don’t care, you thief!”
Elizabeth’s face went cold and she turned her head.
“And for the International Centre for Physics to leave me behind.” Zuo Li walked in, “A thief, and you dare to be so arrogant.”
“So you are Zuo Li.” Elizabeth was noncommittal, “You Chinese are so fond of slandering people, I’ve really counted my blessings, luckily I’ve never liked dealing with Chinese people.”
The person in charge had seen Ying’s photo and recognised her immediately, “Miss Ying, your thesis?”
“You said I copied this paper from you.” Ying Ziyi looked at Elizabeth and nodded slightly, “Multiverse, substitute universe, parallel dimensions, the formulas I used in these panels, do you know how they were derived?”
“Why should I talk to you here?” Elizabeth smiled, quite contemptuously, “Is it convenient for you to then copy my thoughts?”
“I’ve heard from a few students at Helga University that you’re very good at computers, but that’s only stealing what’s in the computer, what’s in the brain, there’s no way to steal it, so don’t try any tricks.”
Sinai heard this and immediately retorted, “Who says there’s no way?”
This kind of technology, the City of Worlds had it all long ago.
The corner of Zuo Li’s mouth twitched, “Little girl, this really can’t be helped.”
“I don’t want to hear the word little, I said I’m older than her.”
“……”
Ying raised her eyes, “Did you really think that I had nothing to prove or prepare for?”
Elizabeth’s brow furrowed, “What do you mean?”
She had bought the paper directly from the International Centre for Physics, it wasn’t like she had simply plagiarised it.
The name of the paper was hers, what else could Ying Zidian do?
Ying Zidian raised her hand and knocked on the table, “Please, use a computer.”
Sinai glanced at the slim laptop handed over by the person in charge and said slowly, “This is all we used in the last century.”
Zuo Li: “……”
This little girl has a middle-aged problem, doesn’t she?!
Elizabeth laughed again, “What, are you going to show how good your computer skills are in front of us?”
Ying didn’t say anything and pulled up a web page.
After a few clicks, it was laid out in front of the person in charge and the professors.
They came closer to take a look.
It was a private post for a blog.
But now it had gone from private to public.
The article was divided into two sections, one in Chinese and the other in English.
The English version was exactly the same as the one published in the scientific journal.
At the bottom is the date of publication.
August 2, 2021.
That was more than a month earlier than when Elizabeth had submitted her paper.
Looking at the string of numbers, Elizabeth’s smile froze little by little and her expression shattered.
The blog was like a slap in her face.
Last August?
How could someone post a written paper on a blog first?
What kind of operation is this?
Even if it was posted privately, it could have been stolen.
Computers are never secure.
Zuo Li was also confused. He didn’t think that Ying Zigui really had evidence.
But after the confusion came aggravation: “Ying, you actually lied to me!”
When he asked her for it in August, she said she hadn’t written it down.
But it turned out that she had already written it and saved it on her blog, but she had only added it to her private profile.
Ying Ziyi was not burdened, she was not slow: “I can push it for a while, otherwise I would have to write many articles, I don’t want to lose my hair.”
Zuo Li: “……”
Now the timeline has changed.
The heads and professors of the Celestial Institutions Centre all looked at Elizabeth, their gazes gradually turning cold.
An old professor spoke coldly, “Miss Elizabeth, how do you explain this?”
“Who knows if you changed this with computer technology?” Elizabeth’s fingers trembled and she turned stern, “How can you prove that I copied you?”
Zuo Li said in disgust, “I heard you just before I came in, our timeline is later than yours, so we copied you, why do you deny it now that it’s the other way around?”
Elizabeth’s expression obscured for a few moments and finally became impatient, “Alright, let me tell you directly, I am an a*sistant researcher for Professor Helvin’s new experiment, do I need to copy her paper?”
At these words, the professors were shocked.
The person in charge was also surprised, “Miss Elizabeth, joined the Cosmic Carrier project?!”
Helvin had stopped his other experiments to concentrate on the research of the cosmic carrier.
However, because of the difficulties, the research was progressing very slowly indeed.
“She joined the Cosmic Carrier Project?” Zuo Li was also stunned.
If Elizabeth was also in this project, Ying Zigui could not know about it.
Ying Ziyi pressed her head and lowered her eyes.
She finally recalled that Cesar had given her a few profiles of a few scientific talents in the Laurent family, because she had casually mentioned that she needed big researchers.
No requirement to be a genius like Rihan, but the physics and computer knowledge couldn’t be bad.
The space carrier project was so big that the researchers here for the power core and programming alone would be in the hundreds.
There were at least three thousand researchers for the whole project.
She needed the manpower badly.
So she pa*sed them all on to Helvin’s a*sistant to help with the selection.
As to what the names were, she didn’t bother to look at them.
It was only later that Helwyn even called her to thank her for her help in finding someone
Looking at Zuo Li’s shocked expression, Elizabeth smiled faintly, “As I said, I wrote this paper, you must not be unaware of this, I am most annoyed by this.”
This time, the person in charge and the professors were also in a dilemma.
Indeed.
If Elizabeth had plagiarised, would she still be in Helvin’s lab?
Zuo Li turned back and frowned, “Ying, she ……”
“This is Professor Helvin’s phone number.” Ying pressed a string of numbers in front of Elizabeth, then placed the phone in front of her, “I pressed it for you, you call it.”
Chapter 632
Elizabeth still had a sneer on the corner of her mouth.
She knew that by bringing up the name of Herman, these people would no longer suspect her.
Herrmann was well known and respected by all.
His status was no match for a newcomer to the academic world like Ying Zidian.
However, this sudden move by the girl caused Elizabeth’s smile to freeze once more: “What did you say?”
She looked down, trembling, and picked up her phone, seeing the number on it.
Helwyn had a special work phone, and she knew it, but it was all run by an a*sistant again, or a landline number.
But the string that Ying pressed was a mobile number on the o-continent side.
Elizabeth’s hand trembled again, hesitating to move, her brain stopped working at this moment.
“No call, right?” Ying nodded slightly, faintly, “I’ll call it for you.”
In full view of everyone, the girl pressed the dial button and the speakerphone button.
There were a few “drops” and the call was quickly answered.
The person on the other end of the line was clearly happy, “Ying, are you here in O Chau? Or do you want to see me about something?”
“Yes, Professor, I am really in O Chau and I have something to ask you.” Ying said, “One of the a*sistant researchers in the lab has illegally bought my paper and published it in the journal of the International Centre for Physics. ”
Helvin had to pay attention now, and for the first time his kind voice sank: “The a*sistant researcher in the lab bought your paper? Which one?”
“Elisabeth Laurent.”
The sound of tapping on the keyboard came from there, obviously looking up information.
It took a moment before Helvin spoke again, “There is such a person, but she hasn’t had access to the core experimental material, and since she copied your paper, the lab won’t have her anymore.”
Hervin knew very well what kind of person Ying Zigui was.
He didn’t need to ask for proof, he would believe him.
Ying Zidian nodded: “Good, I’ll trouble the professor.”
This was the end of the conversation between the two men.
A few light words decided whether Elizabeth could still stay in the lab or not.
“……”
There was silence in the hall.
Everyone else was stunned except for Zuo Li.
“You’re saying this is Professor Helvin is it?” Elizabeth’s eyes were gloomy, her nails pinching her palm, “Finding a random person to pretend to be Professor Helvin, who do you think you can fool? Don’t you Chinese love to play with copycats?”
“I told you, this paper, I wrote it!”
She said this, but a cold sweat had broken out on her forehead; she had heard Helvin’s voice.
That voice was exactly the same.
Moreover, Helwyn’s English accent had its own characteristics, not something anyone had failed to imitate.
“Good.” Ying Zigui’s eyebrows did not move, still calm and collected, “Since you wrote it, you take out the next part of the paper as well, if you don’t have it, I have it here.”
She took the mouse and opened a private blog once more.
The date of publication, still August 2, 2021.
“Say it!” Zuo Li pressed aggressively, “Didn’t you write it all? You didn’t know that this essay was actually just a previous one?”
Elizabeth’s lips quivered and her face turned white little by little.
What she had gotten for $300 million was just the first chapter?
Several professors went through the thesis once more and inevitably marvelled, “Good, there are some ambiguities in this thesis, not to say that you can’t see them, but when you point them out, you can indeed find out that this is only the first half of a thesis. ”
This one was completely hammered home.
The stares from the crowd were like manacles, causing Elizabeth’s face to turn red.
The extreme embarra*sment made her turn away in shame and anger.
But when she reached the door, Elizabeth suddenly stopped again and turned back, “I’ll give you 100 million dollars for this matter, and rot it into my stomach.”
“Yo, a hundred million dollars and you’re so arrogant?” Sinai pulled out his ears, “I’m worth a billion dollars, if you don’t have money, don’t come out and hang around in front of others, make a big show of your face, is it an eyesore?”
For once, Elizabeth had no more face to stay.
But she was so flustered that she fell three times on her way down the stairs, dropping her high heels.
The man in charge hadn’t believed the story that the timeline had been changed using computer technology.
He could be sure that the person who had copied it was Elizabeth.
The person in charge looked serious: “Professor Zuo Li, Miss Ying, what do you mean?”
“What did she say just now?” Zuo Li sneered, “Don’t you want to make it public? Then let’s go public, let’s see who’s reputation in the scientific research community is broken first.”
If you had the guts to do it, you had to be able to bear the consequences when things broke out.
The person in charge nodded and hesitated again, “But the Laurent family’s side ……”
This Elizabeth, no matter how you say it, was also the native lady of the Laurent family.
She was able to buy the paper without any problems, also because the International Physics Centre side was afraid of the authority of the Laurent family.
After all, the big laboratories and some advanced technologies are in the hands of the big powers.
The Laurent family could indeed have their hands in the air.
“It’s just a family matter.” Ying Zidian said indifferently, “Don’t worry.”
“A family matter?” The person in charge froze, a little puzzled, but still responded, “We’ll prepare to issue a notice.”
Forcing the author to buy out the paper without her knowledge was too bad.
Ying Ziji and Zuo Li left the Celestial Institutions Centre.
“Kid, you did write this paper well.” Sinai read the paper while eating a lollipop, “This parallel universe does exist, we have observed it, only then, we haven’t made a cosmic carrier either, we can’t go there yet.”
She thought about it and added, “But the solar system can still go out, I’ve never been there, and I’ve heard from some of the guards of the House of Sages who have made the ship that the biological civilization on other planets in our universe is not as high as ours, and it’s not much fun.”
“Student Ying.” Zuo Li couldn’t help himself, he lowered his voice, “Does this sister of yours have a middle-aged disease?”
What’s all this talk about?
There is no conclusive proof of a parallel universe, scientists only speculate that there is one, and this is an observation?
Ying Ziji was silent for a moment, his voice slowing down, “Obviously, no.”
Zuo Li turned his head.
Sinai muttered “It’s a bit cold” and then took a flake half the size of her palm out of her pocket.
Then she put a few drops of liquid on it and shook it off with her hand.
Zuo Li watched as the small flake slowly turned into a leather jacket.
Sinai put it on leisurely, hands in her pockets, the miniature tyres under her shoes propelling her forward.
Zuo Li: “……”
D*mn, he’s blind!
**
Meanwhile.
j country.
venus group headquarters.
In the executive director’s office.
“Brother, it’s not easy, you’re actually volunteering to work?” Ian rubbed his hands together, “So do I get a few days off?”
“There’s one thing you need to do, stop the entire issue of the International Physics Centre, not a single copy of the journal must go out.” Fu Yunshen raised his eyes and his voice was light, “Stop all funding and take it all back.”
“There won’t be a penny more until the president and vice president are replaced.”
Ian was a little confused after hearing this, “What happened to the International Physics Centre? I’m not in charge of that aspect of science and research either.”
He was only responsible for approving financial applications.
There was a special person in charge of contacts related to scientific research.
“Illegal sale of papers.” Fu Yunshen folded his hands, his peach blossom eyes as deep as night, lazy, “The hands and feet have moved to my girl.”
Ian’s jaw dropped in shock: “No way, how dare they?”
Insane?
Buying and selling papers to investors?
That’s not giving up a lot of money for a little?
“Also, find out about their grey income and the victims of similar incidents.” Fu Yunshen’s eyes narrowed slightly, “Unilateral violation of the contract, come according to the regulations signed at that time, ten times the compensation.”
Ten times the compensation, which would make the president and other senior management spit out all the money they had swallowed.
Ian nodded, his expression serious: “Okay, I’m on my way.”
The venus group’s investments were all open and transparent, and the top bra*s of the International Physics Centre didn’t dare to misappropriate them.
Only private bribes could be taken.
But this time, when the earth is moved to the head of the taiyoung, it has kicked the iron plate.
The International Physics Centre would have to be cleaned up.
Ian thought about it and asked, “Brother, should we also look into a few other organisations?”
There were too many companies under the venus group and there would always be a few a*sholes, not to mention the fact that the venus group was only an investor in the International Physics Centre.
The sky is high and the headquarters doesn’t have that much energy.
Fu Yunshen gave a faint hmph: “Check them all out too.”
Ian responded to all of them and walked out before reacting that something was wrong.
Wasn’t he supposed to give the job back to their boss?
Why was he being told to start working again?
Inside the office.
Fu Yunshen was out the door after handling a few minutes of paperwork.
He was wearing a mask and had changed his face underneath it.
He took the lift down and ran into Joseph, the president of the O-League region, and his secretary, who were also coming downstairs.
There was zero communication the whole time.
Until the lift descended to the ground floor and Fu Yunshen left.
Joseph frowned: “Upstairs, we only have the offices of Ian’s chief directors and the executive director, right?”
The secretary nodded, “Yes, President.”
Joseph’s frown deepened, “Strange.”
He hadn’t seen this man before.
But it didn’t look like the chief executive; the man was dressed in ordinary clothes, none of them big names.
The secretary hesitated for a moment, hesitating, “I think he looks a bit like that President Fu from the Asia Pacific region.”
“Asia Pacific?” Joseph laughed when he heard those three words, “If the executive director valued the Asia Pacific region, he wouldn’t have waited two years after both the North M and South M regions were established before setting up a branch in the Asia Pacific region.”
Their CEO was a native of O China.
What did Fu Yunshen have to do with it.
Joseph didn’t think twice about it.
He should just be upstairs reporting on his work, there were so many employees at headquarters, there were plenty of people he didn’t know.
**
Afternoon.
International Physics Centre.
The president leaned back on the bed, one arm held in place by a splint.
His face was grim: “D*mn it, Ying Zigui and Zuo Li, the two Chinese, I declare them finished!”
When he recovered from his injuries, he would make these two people’s reputation in the physics world completely infamous.
The president took a few breaths and was about to drink some water when the door was kicked open.
Before he could react, he was roughly yanked off the bed by two men.
The president let out a miserable cry, “Who are you? What do you want?!”
No one answered him.
He was dragged all the way to the ground floor, and only then did he find that several patriarchs from the International Physics Centre had come out.
These patriarchs were originally semi-retired and had all gone home to retire only.
The president shuddered and looked up, only then noticing the group of people who had come with the logo of the venus group.
Ian himself led the group up, took out a document and blandly: “The president and vice-president of the International Physics Centre will be replaced, all senior people involved in the illegal sale of papers will be dealt with, and there will not be a single investment in the International Physics Centre in the future.”
The patriarchs burst into a frenzy.
One of the patriarchs stepped forward and violently grabbed the president by the collar of his shirt: “You actually traded papers?!”
The president’s face went white as he heard the cold sweat: “Yes …… I am, but ……”
He had done too many of these things before.
Buying and selling dissertations is common within academia, and there are university and postgraduate students who go for it in order to graduate.
But again, it does fall into a grey area of trading and is explicitly forbidden.
But if there is a demand, there is a market, and there are people who will write papers specifically to sell them.
So there is a huge chain of transactions.
The president originally planned to give Ying Zigian a few thousand dollars when the scientific journal was launched.
Who would refuse money?
Ian didn’t have the slightest sympathy: “Bring it here, I’ll interrogate it, and you can search the whole building to see what else is there.”
The two men escorted the president into a nearby room.
“Superintendent Ian!” The chairman didn’t care about his injuries, he rolled and crawled forward, “Director Ian, I won’t dare again, I definitely won’t dare, give me a chance, please give me a chance together!”
How did you alert the venus group?
“Ah President, not too bold.” Ian applauded and smiled, “Trading papers, buying into our Executive Director’s wife.”