Ishihara Baisan was stunned. "Three minutes?"
But the other party had already hung up. No one answered.
At that moment, Ishihara Baisan subconsciously looked at the caller ID on the landline. Unfortunately, the phone number was no longer visible.
He pressed the button on the landline to see the previous number, but it turned out to be the hotel room's internal number!
Could that person also be staying in this hotel?
Ishihara Baisan thought about it and felt even more excited.
It seemed that it really was a gift that Gu Xiangwen had left for him …
Maybe it wasn't a prank.
After all, someone who could stay at the Dunhill Hotel couldn't be a penniless hooligan who had nothing to do outside.
Ishihara Baisan walked to the door and looked out through the peephole.
The corridor was very quiet and empty. He didn't see anyone putting anything at his door.
But what he didn't know was that Lu Jin didn't go to his door to put anything.
He held the small test tube with a few old and yellowed lab notes and stood at the door of his room. He casually threw it at the door of Ishihara Baisan's room.
His movements were so fast that by the time Ishihara Baisan walked to his door and looked out through the peephole, he had already thrown the thing away.
When the three minutes were up, Ishihara Baisan opened the door with a swoosh.
The corridor was still empty. He didn't see anyone else.
Lowering his head, he saw Gu Xiangwen's gift on the floor beside his feet before he died. A few yellowed lab notes were rolled into thin strips the size of test tubes and lying quietly at his feet.
Ishihara Baisan quickly picked them up and squeezed them. They were hard, and there was indeed something like a test tube inside.
He looked around like a thief, then quickly dashed into the door and slammed it shut.
He leaned against the door of his room and gasped for breath.
That scene just now had been too exciting. It was like a dream.
But he was extremely excited.
If these things could provide him with clues and ideas for his experiments that were stuck in a bottleneck, it would be priceless!
Ishihara Baisan closed his eyes and tried to calm himself down.
Then, with trembling hands, he opened the yellowed lab notes in his hand.
He didn't even have time to see what was inside the test tube before he was attracted by the contents of the old experiment notes.
His pupils suddenly dilated, and his lips trembled violently. He couldn't believe that Gu Xiangwen actually knew that year!
Because on those yellowed experiment notes, there were the steps of an experiment written on them!
The flamboyant handwriting looked extremely familiar.
It was really Gu Xiangwen's handwriting!
However, this experiment was exactly the experimental design described in Dr. Ishihara Baisan's thesis several decades ago!
How did he know?!
Ishihara Baisan's ruddy and healthy face instantly lost all color, leaving only a pale and haggard expression.
He slumped against the door and sat on the floor, holding his head.
He fell into great fear.
Just like now, back then, his doctoral thesis was stuck in a difficult situation. There was an experiment that he couldn't do no matter how hard he tried.
Seeing that it was almost impossible for him to graduate, Ishihara Baisan, who was staying up all night in the laboratory, saw the experimental notes that Gu Xiangwen had forgotten to take away.
There was a simple experiment design written on it, and it just so happened to solve Ishihara Baisan's predicament!
Ishihara Baisan remembered looking at it over and over again. In the end, as if he was attracted by the devil, he took out his camera and took a picture of the experiment design.
At that time, the laboratory wasn't as full of surveillance cameras as it was now, and Ishihara Baisan didn't take away Gu Xiangwen's experimental notes either. They were still there.
Therefore, after so many years, Ishihara Baisan never thought that Gu Xiangwen would find out about his tampering.
Later, when he defended his doctoral thesis, not only had Gu Xiangwen already left their laboratory and returned to his own laboratory, but he had also graduated earlier than him and returned to China.
Ishihara Baisan didn't completely copy Gu Xiangwen's experimental design. He only made some minor changes and explained the steps of the experiment in his own words.
Even if Gu Xiangwen really saw his doctoral thesis, he would only be confused for a moment. He wouldn't think that Ishihara Baisan had stolen his experimental design, right?
That was because he was convinced that Gu Xiangwen's experimental design had not been published in a formal journal, nor had it been used in his own doctoral thesis. It was like an idea that he had come up with at the last minute, an experimental step that had already been abandoned.
Therefore, he had no qualms about using it. In the end, he had even relied on this experiment to receive unanimous praise from the professors in the thesis defense team. He had even received the highest award for a doctoral thesis from Harvard University!
His doctoral thesis had so much content, but only this experiment had been praised by the professors …
Thinking about this, Ishihara Baisan broke out in a cold sweat.
He was silent for a while, trembling as he flipped the few yellowed experimental notes to the last page. He saw a few crooked diagrams, but he couldn't tell what they were.
There were a few lines of words below the diagrams, which were obviously written later.
It was probably written eight years ago when Gu Xiangwen was on his deathbed, right?
"I know what you've done …"
"Trash! Even if you copy it, you won't be able to produce a perfect experimental result! "
Ishihara Baisan looked at the crooked diagrams and howled. He hurriedly threw the few pages of experimental notes and test tubes away, as if they were hot potatoes.
"I'm not trash … I'm not trash … I'm not trash …"
His gaze gradually became blank, and he kept thinking, I'm trash … I'm not trash … I'm not trash … I'm not trash …
It was like a program that had entered an infinite self-loop dead end.
It's over, everything is over.
Soon, everyone would know what he had done. He didn't believe that Gu Xiangwen didn't have any backup plans to expose what he had done back then.
Since he had prepared all of this eight years ago, Ishihara Baisan firmly believed that Gu Xiangwen must have a follow-up plan.
From then on, the academic community would know that he, Ishihara Baisan, the best biogenetic engineer in the Empire of Japan, the chief scientist of the United Nations Population Fund, was a plagiarist.
Everything he had, his reputation, his status, and the results of his hard work over the years, would be discovered to be not his own creation?
According to the regulations of his alma mater, Harvard University, plagiarism in a graduation thesis would result in the cancellation of the degree.
So he's going to lose his PhD?
Ishihara Baisan knew better than anyone how serious the consequences of plagiarism in the academic community were.
He had dared to do it back then because he was sure that Gu Xiangwen wouldn't find out.
Moreover, he had waited two years for Gu Xiangwen to graduate. His published PhD thesis had nothing to do with these few pages of experimental designs. Only then did he carefully use them in his own graduation thesis design.
He didn't expect Gu Xiangwen to be so scheming and cunning …
He had dug a pit and was waiting for him to jump into it!
Ishihara Baisan stared straight ahead and slowly walked into his room.
In his suitcase, there was a katana. It was the katana that his father had given him.
No matter where he went, he would bring it with him as a form of encouragement.
He had mentioned this habit to Gu Xiangwen back then. He had even shown Gu Xiangwen the katana.
Because of this, he rarely flew. Now that the security was getting stricter, his katana could only be specially checked in.
He took out the katana from his suitcase and wiped it carefully with a towel.
The lights in the bedroom reflected the gleam of the katana. It was as beautiful as the snow in the coldest winter, without any impurities.
Ishihara Baisan closed his eyes and pulled open his bathrobe. He held the handle of the katana with both hands and slashed at his abdomen!
..
After Lu Jin threw the thing at Ishihara Baisan's door, he did not leave immediately.
He sat in his room, crossed his legs, and set the time on his phone. Then, he began to study the network security system of the Dunhill Hotel.
When his timer rang, there was the sound of chaotic footsteps in the corridor outside the door.
"What happened?"
"What's wrong?"
This floor was filled with luxury suites. There weren't many people living in them, but there were still seven or eight people.
Everyone opened the door and looked out.
The hotel staff rushed to a room in a flurry.
A man who looked like a manager said nervously to everyone, "Something happened. Please don't come out."
"What happened? We have the right to know! "
These people were not easy to fool. They all questioned the hotel management.
The manager couldn't resist and kept saying, "Everyone, please be quiet! Don't panic! The police and ambulance will be here soon! "
"What? Police and ambulance?! What the hell happened?! "
It would have been better if this person hadn't said anything, but the moment he did, he panicked even more.
A chubby man walked out of the room and said angrily, "If you don't explain it clearly, I won't dare to stay here anymore!"
He turned around and walked towards the elevator, but before he could walk out of the corridor, a few hotel security guards flashed out and blocked his way.
The hotel's senior management also came over and said to the man in a pleasant tone, "Please don't be impatient. There was an international murder case on this floor just now. The police asked us to seal off the entire floor. No one is allowed to leave until they arrive. "
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This is the second update of the day: Chapter 1706, "I Know What You Did."
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