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Task 1: Elite Development Program

Description: Plant a college bully today, and tomorrow you will harvest a basket of top students, which is really beautiful to think about.

Requirements: Instruct students to complete a dissertation.

Rewards: 1~??? Discipline experience (the final value is positively correlated with the academic value of the research topic, negatively correlated with the host's direct participation in the project, and positively correlated with student participation). 500 points. Chance to draw (50% Junk, 9% Samples, 6% Drawings)

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Looking at the first task brushed out, Lu Zhou was a little powerless to complain.

What exactly does this system treat as a top student?

Leeks?

However, the word "college bully" should be regarded as praising him.

Having received recognition from a higher civilization, Lu Zhou didn't know if this was something to be happy about.

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Mission 2: The King of the Green Field

Description: Football is the national sport of the United States, and the Super Bowl is a household name here. Charging at the Super Bowl may seem a little too difficult for the hosts, so it's okay to aim for the Ivy League title in the fall, right?

Requirements: Attend any Princeton football club with at least a qualifying place in the intramural competition and a third-place finish in the league competition.

Reward: 10,000~50,000 free experience. 500 points. Chance to draw (80% Junk, 10% Sample, 6% Drawing, 4% Special)

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Lu Zhou: ......

What's the call?

It feels like there's a problem everywhere.

Thinking of Connie's Hulk-like size, Lu Zhou felt that it was better to stay away from the dangerous sport of rugby.

If this knocks him out of the way, it will not only be a loss for himself, but a loss for all mankind......

Directly excluding this cheating task from the alternative, Lu Zhou continued to look down the taskbar and looked at the last task on the list.

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Mission 3: Lithium Air is the Future!

Description: Lithium-sulfur batteries will eventually be eliminated, and lithium-air batteries are the future!

Requirements: Solve a series of technical problems existing in lithium-air batteries, so that lithium-air batteries occupy more than 5% of the market share in the global battery market. (Determined by system rules.) ）

Rewards: 0~??? Discipline experience. 500 points. Chance to draw (50% Junk, 30% Sample, 10% Drawing, 10% Special)

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There is nothing wrong with the mission itself, but the tone of the system is somewhat similar to that of Professor Sarot.

I don't know if it's overestimating the scientific and technological level of human civilization, or if it's just because it has too many points that it likes and wants to get a little out of its own point reserves.

However, since the system is so confident in the lithium-air battery, Lu Zhou feels that he should probably seriously consider buying the patent for the cage-shaped carbon molecule from Professor Stanley.

It probably won't cost much anyway.

Looking at the three missions, Lu Zhou finally chose Mission 1 as his main quest after some careful consideration.

Compared with Task 2, which is too dangerous, and Mission 3, which has no hope for the time being, Task 1 is undoubtedly a relatively low-difficulty and highly malleable mission.

However, regarding the fact that "rewarding experience is inversely correlated with the host's direct involvement in the project", the system seems to mean that he wants the student to complete the project independently, rather than solving it himself......

Lu Zhou touched his chin and fell into deep thought.

That's a bit tricky.

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Just as Lu Zhou was thinking about how to complete the next task, an angry roar sounded in Binghamton University's Institute of Materials Science.

"Ricardo! You come out for me! Damn it...... Where did that idiot go. ”

Professor Stanley, who searched for Ricardo from department to department, looked as if the anger in his eyes was about to erupt, and his beard was trembling and trembling even though there was no wind blowing.

Apparently, he was furious to the extreme.

During this time, many laboratories have questioned his paper, saying that it is impossible to restore his experimental results in repeated experiments.

For these doubtful voices, Professor Stanley naturally suppressed them with his own influence, and choked back with "just because you can't do it doesn't mean that others can't do it".

This response may sound vexatious.

However, this is not an uncommon occurrence in academia.

Although the essence of science is to be repeatable, not every "scientific achievement" can be repeated.

After all, even if the procedure is already detailed in the lab report, some subtle differences can lead to completely different results for the same protocol.

And in fact, the cage carbon molecule does have the effect of inhibiting the shuttle effect.

However, it is far less effective than what Professor Stanley portrays in his paper.

Just as the academic community was losing interest in his research, the reaction of industry began to grow impatient. ExxonMobil, in particular, is becoming more and more impatient looking at the indifferent market.

In order to reverse this situation, Professor Stanley has been stabilizing ExxonMobil for a month, while trying to make the cage carbon molecule a little more useful.

Unfortunately, no matter how he mixed the material to make the backbone of the cathode sulfur material, it could not prevent the diffusion of polysulfide compounds into the electrolyte. Often, the battery has only been cycled for more than 200 turns, and the cathode material has been almost lost.

Becoming more and more sure of the speculation about the double agent in his mind, just as Professor Stanley was about to find Ricardo for a showdown, the shameful traitor suddenly disappeared from his lab.

After asking his research assistant, he found out.

Since the day before yesterday, that guy hasn't come to the lab to report.

In an instant, Professor Stanley understood.

What he feared the most finally happened.

Thinking that he still had the slightest hope for that traitor's character, he felt like an idiot a few months ago!

Looking at Professor Stanley in a tantrum tantrum, the researchers in the lab trembled.

No one knows why, since going to Manhattan Island in New York to attend that banquet, Professor Stanley, who was already at the peak of his life, suddenly changed his temperament and became irritable and irritable.

Even in the same lab, in charge of the same research project, not everyone knows the specifics of the experiment.

With the exception of the core researchers, whose names appear in the paper, most of the researchers at the Institute of Materials Science know no more about the cage-like carbon molecule than those who know about it in journals.

Most people agree that they have solved the world-class technical problem of the shuttle effect of lithium-sulfur batteries......

"Damn it, Fake!" Cursing rude words, Professor Stanley sat down in his office chair with his index finger pressed to his eyebrows, calming his heavy breathing.

At this moment, the phone in the corner of the table suddenly rang.

Looking at the caller ID displayed, Professor Stanley took a deep breath, calmed himself down a bit, and reached for the phone.

As soon as the phone was connected, Woods's voice came from the other end of the receiver.

"My engineer told me that your batteries can't be built at all! Don't try to prevaricate me with those boring reasons, I need an explanation. ”

It was the fifth time since that Manhattan Island banquet that he had called Professor Stanley's office. And compared to the previous times, his tone was no longer as polite as the previous ones, and even carried obvious distrust.

Professor Stanley fell into a brief silence at Woods' aggressive voice.

Just when he finally made up his mind and was ready to show the CEO as it was, his heart suddenly moved.

Ricardo disappeared from his lab the day before yesterday, and ExxonMobil probably didn't know about it yet.

For him, this is not a bad thing.

At least, he has a person to dump the pot......

Lowering his voice, Professor Stanley said in a heavy tone, "We were tricked. ”

Hearing this unexpected answer, Woods was obviously stunned, and then frowned slightly and asked, "What do you mean......

Professor Stanley continued with a gloomy face: "That data is fake, Ricardo's real identity is actually a double agent, don't you understand? We were fooled by that man's acting skills from the very beginning! ”

Woods was cold behind his back, and immediately said, "Impossible, where can he run?" And with a lawsuit on him, even if he wants to run, he can't run far. ”

In the United States, commercial espionage is a very serious crime, especially when it comes to intellectual property issues, and can even be criminally prosecuted. In this case, Ricardo's entry and exit are restricted by the courts.

And as long as this Ricardo remains in the United States, it is too easy to find him.

"Since he is a double agent, do you think Star Technology will continue to prosecute him? Maybe they have already withdrawn the lawsuit before you know it......" Combined with his own speculation, Professor Stanley confessed everything he had hidden.

After listening to Professor Stanley's words, Woods, who was deep in thought, had a cloudy expression on his face.

Originally, he was going to ask the teacher for his guilt, but after learning that Professor Stanley had been hiding it from him for the past month, he was even more angry.

However, after hearing about the "double agent", his anger was transferred to Ricardo.

If what Professor Stanley says is true, then the blame is not entirely on him.

After all, the idea of digging the foot of the wall from Lu Zhou also has his own share.

But now is not the time to hold accountable......

Woods took a deep breath and spoke slowly.

"Regarding the Ricardo matter, I will confirm the lawsuit with the legal department when I go back. As for ...... now"

For an energy giant like ExxonMobil, which faces lawsuits large and small almost every day, it is true that a small clerk's lawsuit does not attract his attention.

Unless his secretary was specifically instructed to follow the case closely, no one would have put these trivial matters on his desk in great detail.

Of course, if this is true, he will make that greedy guy pay.

As for now......

After a moment's pause, Woods continued.

"For now, we have to hold our ground! Regarding the dissipation of the new material that is not ideal, the information must not be transmitted! Investors still have confidence in us, and we have an obligation not to let them rejoice in vain. ”

"In addition, I learned that Lu Zhou's recent research is theoretical, and lithium-sulfur batteries are not the focus of his research work. Even if we took a small detour, we were definitely not left behind. ”

"I need you to start experimenting again."

"We're already wasting a lot of resources, I don't want to end up with a meaningless piece of garbage, and I'm sure you don't want it to end up like this!"

Professor Stanley breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

Obviously, ExxonMobil is not going to admit defeat easily, and Woods still chooses to stand on the same side as him.

In a soothing tone, Professor Stanley continued.

"I've always done that."

He had no intention of admitting defeat in the first place.

Even if he holds on, he will hold on until the day when the results will be produced.