When I picked up the phone, the caller ID on the screen was Professor Kang!

Tang Cheng and Lin Yi glanced at each other and quickly pressed the answer button.

"Hey, Teacher?"

The phone was connected, but no one was talking on the other side.

"Teacher? Can you hear me? ”

"Hello?"

After Tang Cheng shouted a few times in a row, there was a sudden sound of something falling to the ground and shattering from the other side of the earpiece.

The two of them twitched their hearts, followed by a chaotic and cacophony of noises that lasted for a few seconds, and the call was disconnected.

Intuition told the two that something must have happened to Professor Kang's family!

So Tang Cheng canceled the automatic driving, clenched the steering wheel, and stepped on the accelerator deeply. The car was like a beast that had woken up from a half-asleep state in an instant, and the engine roared and sped away in the direction where Professor Kang's house was.

The two arrived in a hurry, Tang Cheng knocked on the door and no one responded, so he slammed the door open in a hurry.

When they rushed into the room and saw the messy environment, the two froze.

The floor was littered with pieces of broken glass, vases, fish tanks, mixed together. There are still a few fish on the ground struggling desperately, trying to survive in square inches of stagnant water. In addition to this, there were also pieces of paper that were thrown everywhere, most of which had been torn to pieces.

Professor Kang's figure collapsed in the mess, a crimson liquid emanating from beneath him.

"Professor!"

The two of them ran over in shock to check on Professor Kang's condition, and when they turned over, a strong smell of alcohol came to their nostrils.

Only then did the two realize that the red liquid on the ground was not blood, but red wine. Professor Kang described him as embarrassed, with the smell of alcohol in his breath, which showed that he had drunk a lot of alcohol.

Lin Yi is a professional nurse who knows how to relieve hangover quickly. She got up and went to the kitchen to find vinegar and sugar, which she brewed with warm boiled water to make an antidote. This is the easiest and quickest hangover cure.

Tang Cheng helped Professor Kang onto the sofa, and Lin Yi poured the hangover water into the bowl. After a few minutes, Professor Kang slowly opened his eyes, and without waiting to speak, he suddenly felt his stomach churning. He jerked to his feet, staggered to the bathroom and threw up.

After throwing up, he felt much better.

"Teacher, are you alright?" Tang Cheng walked over and helped Professor Kang back to the living room.

Looking at the mess everywhere, Professor Kang rubbed his temples, and after a moment of trance, he suddenly sighed in disappointment.

"Why are you here?"

"I saw the news in the morning and it was terrible. On the way, I received a call from you again, and there was a noise in the receiver, and the two of us were worried about what was going on, so we rushed over. ”

"Phone ......" Professor Kang felt in his pocket, searched around, and finally picked up the phone with the broken screen under the table. Because of the alcohol, I can't turn it on, "Oh, I guess I accidentally touched the dial button." It's okay, don't worry, I'm not alive and well. ”

With that, he lay on his back on the sofa and fell into a half-asleep state again.

Tang Cheng didn't wake him up, but together with Lin Yi, he cleaned up the broken glass on the ground and the pieces of paper that had been soaked in wine, and cleaned the living room.

Since the death of his wife, Professor Kang has not continued to live here alone. If there is no one to take care of it at home, it will be a bit chaotic.

After the two of them cleaned up, they made a pot of tea. The shrunken leaves stretched out in the boiling water, and wisps of tea fragrance rose.

Professor Kang's nose moved, opened his eyes, and got up following the scent of tea. After a nap just now, his drunkenness had dissipated by a third.

Tang Cheng poured the tea and pushed it in front of him.

"Teacher, the matter of the thesis ......"

The teacup had already been handed to his mouth, and Professor Kang's hand suddenly paused in the air. After a moment's hesitation, he slowly put the cup of hot tea back on the table.

"What do you think the truth will be?" Professor Kang asked Tang Cheng rhetorically.

"I believe in the teacher." Tang Cheng replied by staring at his eyes seriously.

But in the few seconds when they made eye contact, he found a few ripples in those eyes that were originally ancient.

Professor Kang shook his head, and suddenly hid his face and began to cry.

An accomplished old professor, when faced with academic doubts from public opinion, he did not stand up impassionedly to refute it, but left tears like a child. This shows that he has neither the confidence nor the strong argument to fight back.

Tang Cheng frowned, knowing that the trust he easily exported might have been paid by mistake.

Judging from Professor Kang's reaction, the authenticity of the paper is self-evident.

"Teacher, should you ......" Lin Yi looked at Professor Kang who buried his face in his arm in disbelief, and she also guessed the approximate result.

"Why are you doing this?" Tang Cheng asked.

The words are like ice cubes falling on the porcelain floor, loud and crisp.

Professor Kang raised his head and patted the sofa vigorously, tears streaming down his face, "I have no choice but to do it...... I'm old, I've been engaged in scientific research for 30 years, and I've achieved nothing, I'm not reconciled! If you want to say that you don't chase fame and fortune if you do academics, it's all fake! ”

"Back then, you taught us that when doing medicine, remember not to deceive ourselves, because every piece of knowledge learned is related to human life and death! Now, how can you make such a mistake of deceiving the masses? Tang Cheng said coldly.

"'Universal cells' are just an accidental discovery in my paper, but the cultivation conditions are extremely harsh, and they cannot be put into practical applications for decades, so I am not harmful! I...... I admit that I was lost in my mind and wanted to seek fame and fortune! In that experiment, the so-called "pluripotent cells" implanted into the rats to induce teranoma and confirm their functionality were actually embryonic stem cells. None of the participants at the time knew about it, and I disposed of the guinea pig afterwards, and as long as I added a clause to the paper that it was 'unstable and accidental', this conclusion became an unexpected miracle, and even if it could not be done in the future, I would not be held guilty. But I didn't know who found out about it, and who exposed what I was doing behind my back! ”

"It's not just the paper and the subject, as long as the institute's investigation team carefully studies the experimental material that you have left from your previous experiments, it will surely find a flaw. Previously, no one was in the research phase so no one did a thorough check, but now that someone has pointed them in the right direction, there is nowhere to hide what you are doing. Learning is the same as being a man, it can't be fake, it can't be fake, you used to teach us like this, why have you forgotten it all now! ”

Professor Kang didn't listen to Tang Cheng's words, but suddenly thought of something, and took out the handkerchief from his pocket. The plain white handkerchief was dyed red, and eight words were written in blood on it: "Within three days, you will be ruined." ”

"It must be him! Definitely! Professor Kang's voice trembled, grabbed the corner of Tang Cheng, and said in a panic, "He found me!" It's all come to pass, I'm dying! ”