Chapter 1138 High Risk, High Reward
The Brookhaven National Laboratory was able to convince a large number of American physicists to protest against the ILHCRC, causing quite a huge commotion in the international academic community.
Lu Zhou was a famous scholar that had yet to receive any kind of bad publicity prior to this. Hence, the media immediately jumped on the opportunity and reported on him intensively.
The Lunar Orbit Committee was heavily controlled by the state, and due to Chinese government policies, the Chinese media outlets did not dare to offend Lu Zhou.
However, outside of China, various news outlets had been having a field day. They had been calling him names such as “academic dictator” and “school of thought tyrant”.
A CNN talk show mentioned this matter in their latest episode.
The invited guest was Dr. Kerella from Syracuse University.
This nearly forty-year-old female PhD holder had long brown hair and dark eyebrows. It was obvious she broke many hearts in her earlier years.
The reason CNN invited her wasn’t that she was well-known in the physics world. Instead, the show producers learned that at the 2015 CERN conference, Lu Zhou, who was still an intern back then, pointed out a mistake in her presentation regarding the B1 experiment data part.i.tion. This was a huge blow to her reputation, which also ruined the past two months of her team’s work.
The 750 GeV characteristic peak was extracted from the B1 data part.i.tion.
Therefore, she was a witness to the famous 750 GeV event.
“The 750 GeV has been proven to be false… He won’t find anything in this zone,” Kerella said with a cheerful smile on her face. She kept tucking her hair behind her ear, struggling to hide her excitement.
Haha.
Lu Zhou!
I told you so!
Host: “But why is he insisting on doing this?”
Kerella spoke in an exaggerating tone.
“Perhaps he’s scared to be wrong? After all, it caused quite a commotion at the time… Even though no one ridiculed him, maybe he took the defeat too seriously. My impression of him is that he’s an immature and arrogant researcher!”
Host: “Okay… But what if he really finds something at the 750 GeV zone?”
“Find something? Forget about it, it’s been seven years. If there’s anything there, we would have found it already.” Kerella said, “If he really finds something, I’ll eat the CERN collider!”
The audience burst into laughter.
After the show was recorded, it was broadcast on television, then posted on the Internet.
The video was originally uploaded to YouTube.
But then, someone uploaded it to Weibo.
Jin Ling University, dorm 201.
Li Mo looked at the giggly guest and host in the show. He was furious.
“This is outrageous!”
Yang Shuang, who was playing games on his phone, said, “Calm down, they’re just poking fun, don’t take it seriously.”
Wu Di frowned.
“I don’t feel comfortable with this.”
Duan Siqi nodded.
“I agree.”
Seeing how all of his roommates were unhappy, Yang Shuang put away his phone and spoke.
“Okay, fine… Speaking of which, CEO Duan, don’t you have work today?”
Ever since Duan Siqi’s roommates saw his contract with Star Sky Technology, his nickname became CEO Duan.
He was a little dumbfounded with this name.
After all, he was only an “experiment guinea pig”. Seven times a month, he would test the latest VR equipment. With a compensation of 200 yuan per experiment, it was roughly equivalent to a part-time job.
Of course, the most important part was that he enjoyed the experiments.
“I nearly forgot,” Duan Siqi said as he threw a bag over his shoulder. He bent over, put on his sneakers, and said, “Don’t forget to lock the door, I’ll be back tonight.”
Yang Shuang smiled and spoke.
“Be gentle when you go to bed, your fat a*s woke me up last time.”
“F*ck off!”
…
High-tech zone.
Inside the virtual reality technology research inst.i.tute.
A teenager with a shoulder bag pa.s.sed security and quickly rushed into the laboratory.
Li Gaoliang was standing at the door when he saw the panting teenager running toward him. He spoke in a serious manner.
“One minute early, come on in, we’re all waiting for you.
“It’s fine, it’s not like we start straight away…”
Duan Siqi followed Li Gaoliang into the laboratory.
As the captain of the Resp.a.w.n Team, Li Gaoliang was responsible for leading and coordinating the team, as well as coming up with strategies. His role was similar to a guild leader in an MMORPG.
Normally, the teammates got along well with this captain. The only problem was that the captain sometimes took the games too seriously, and he was quite a control freak.
Even though most of his intuitions and instructions were correct, some players only wanted to have fun.
Wasn’t having fun the point of a video game?
Their purpose was to improve the artificial intelligence algorithm, so shouldn’t the algorithm maximize the player’s enjoyment?
Every time Duan Siqi came here, he would think about this problem.
Other than him, all of the other experimenters were already inside the laboratory.
People stood in groups and chatted with one another.
“When can we change the game? I’m bored of the Ring world!”
“I think it’s quite interesting, but is there nothing else to explore in the Calan civilization?”
“It’s not interesting at all, they’re at least a second-level Kardashev species, right? Why would they use the slow energy rays as their weapon?”
“Then, what do you think they should use instead?”
“If they don’t have magic and superpowers, at least they should have some kind of high-power lasers, right? Sigh, these game devs have no imagination at all, they don’t know what real science fiction is!”
“Pfft…”
Even though China has nuclear weapons, they’re not given to the police for counterterrorism uses. There is a balance between efficiency and cost…
Kinetic energy and thermal energy are clearly the two most common forms of energy in the universe.
Duan Siqi didn’t speak his thoughts out loud.
Arguing about this was too tiring.
“Now that everyone’s here, I have to say something.”
The conversation died down. Everyone was looking at Li Gaoliang, who was standing at the entrance of the laboratory, the “captain” of the Resp.a.w.n Team.
Li Gaoliang said, “We’ve been in the Ring world for too long.”
The guy that previously complained, spoke with excitement.
“Are we going to change the map?”
“No.” Li Gaoliang paused for a second and said, “Just now, we received a notice from the Star Sky Technology headquarters. Whoever can escort Professor Lane to the Empire council will get a bonus of 100,000 yuan.”
The laboratory suddenly became quiet.
One could hear a pin drop.
Everyone held their breath.
The person that was previously complaining was so shocked that his eyes were almost popping out of his socket.
A hundred thousand bonus!
For a game?
Duan Siqi felt like Star Sky Technology was crazy.
There has to be a secret behind this, there has to be something behind the scenes!
Li Gaoliang nodded to the research staff standing next to him.
The researcher smiled and clapped his hands.
“Don’t be surprised, everyone, this is a reward given to you guys by the headquarters. After all, we’ve been stuck on this mission for a long time, and it’s quite boring to keep grinding.
“Then, let’s begin the experiment.
“The Empire needs you.
“Good luck, everyone!”