Upon hearing Zhang Lisheng saying that he was a graduate student in the Department of Biology, the black girl raised her eyebrows. After verifying the young man's statement through the school's local area network, she looked at her dispirited colleague by the side and blinked before whispering, "Oh, I like boys with high IQ the most.
In my opinion, great wisdom is much more attractive than big muscles. Future Dr. Zhang Lisheng, if you're my boyfriend tonight, I'll help you get that Biological Anatomy and Chemical Action Illustrated Handbook.
If you're not, then I can only tell you which bookshelf it's at and you can go get it yourself. The choice is yours, so what's your decision? "
"What do you mean?" Zhang Lisheng asked in return.
"Forget it, baby. Since you're the purest boy in Stanford, I'll make an exception and serve you 'free' this time. Wait a minute, I'll go get the book for you." The girl was stunned. When she saw the young man's puzzled expression, she suddenly covered her mouth and chuckled softly. She walked quickly to the bookshelf in the hall and soon returned to the front desk with a large book.
It only took her more than ten seconds to go back and forth, but the black girl's face looked a lot worse.
She handed over the Illustrated Handbook of Biological Anatomy and Chemical Action that was drawn with a lifelike, realistic brush stroke on the black hard plastic cover of a rusty dissecting bed with a half-skinned corpse lying on it. She could not help but say, "The cover of this book is really uncomfortable."
"Perhaps." Zhang Lisheng took the book and looked at the cover that was exactly the same as the one on the computer screen. Smiling, he turned around and walked out of the library. Breathing in the fresh night air, he cycled back to the dormitory building.
Walking into the dormitory with the book under his arm, the strong gatekeeper with a big head like a square melon recognized him at first glance and called out to him, "Young man, are you Zhang Lisheng who lives in A011?"
"Yes, sir."
"My name is Ham Walter, I'm the night administrator of this dormitory building. I've just received a notice from the Student Management Office. According to California law, you must return to the dormitory before 12 o 'clock on a non-rest day. If you don't return after the deadline, you'll have to report your whereabouts to me.
You can send me a message or leave a message on Facebook. My phone number is … "Perhaps it was because they had also received some warnings when they received the notice from the Student Affairs Office, all of the dormitory administrators who usually spoke in a gruff tone seemed to be very kind to the young man.
When the Stanford freshmen who were walking in and out of the front hall of the student dormitory heard this strange conversation, they could not help but slow down their footsteps and looked at Zhang Lisheng, who was standing face to face with the dormitory administrator, in confusion.
At this time, the young man could only smile bitterly and nod. "I understand, Mr. Hamm." Then, he quickly walked back to his dormitory.
In the next few days, Zhang Lisheng lay on the bed and relied on the illustrated Illustrated Handbook of Biological Anatomy and Chemical Action to pass the time. An outrageous rumor gradually spread out in the dormitory building where he lived. It was said that there was someone who was living in this dormitory building who was said to be under direct surveillance by the California court in the university.
Rumors stopped with the wise, but the 'wise' here did not refer to intelligence but wisdom. Very soon, the rumors became more and more intense among the freshmen whose minds were still immature. The protagonist of this new campus legend, on the other hand, went to report to his supervisor's laboratory without realizing anything after he finished reading the Illustrated Handbook of Biological Anatomy and Chemical Action.
Zhang Lisheng, who had learned from the Internet that a giant scientific laboratory could often accommodate hundreds of scientists divided into several dozens of research groups to solve a certain scientific problem in unison, had long had a hunch that Steven's laboratory was unlikely to be so big.
However, after he had his breakfast in the morning, he turned left and right on the vast Stanford campus with a group of college students who were rushing to class on their bicycles like he was racing under the warm sun. Finally, he found the laboratory building and climbed up to the third floor. When he walked into the biological laboratory built around the two color-changing soft beetles that he contributed, he was still surprised by how small this laboratory was.
A room of no more than 300 square meters was divided into three transparent and one opaque area by special glass at the four corners. Other than a circle of sofas and coffee tables for the researchers to rest when they were tired, there were also several large experimental instruments of unknown use placed in the public area in the middle. This was everything in the laboratory.
Early in the morning, Steven was making coffee on the sofa in the public area of the laboratory while fiddling with a tablet computer. In the few glass rooms in the corner of the room, there were already people doing experiments.
According to the standard experimental procedures, Zhang Lisheng, who had changed into soft slippers and a white coat, quietly walked up to his supervisor. "Good morning, Professor.
This is the laboratory that you've spent a quarter of the Stanford Biology Department's experimental budget to build? It looks different from what I imagined. "
"You're here, Lisheng!" Steven replied without turning his head. "How much do you think the Stanford Biology Department's experimental budget can be? Besides, this laboratory is not as simple as you think.
Just these few machines around me are enough to attract three young scientists who have obtained a Ph.D. in science to sacrifice their temporary benefits to do postdoctoral research.
Can't you see that they're bringing a group of equally ambitious but untalented graduate students to stay in the glass room? They're delusional enough to rely on the advanced experimental environment to research amazing results and become famous in one fell swoop … "
"Oh, Professor! You're so mean!" Zhang Lisheng walked over to Steven and sat down. "How's the progress of building the laboratory in the supernatural realm?"
"They can't hear us in the glass room anyway.
Maggette said that it's a little difficult. If we're going to Shrimp World No. 1, it'll be done right away, but the government can't guarantee the safety of Shrimp World No. 2 due to the lack of military power … "
"If safety can't be guaranteed, then we'll have to take the risk. An undeveloped island densely covered with primitive jungles and a piece of land that has been bombed into ashes that once had a mature civilization. As long as you're not an idiot, any biologist would know where to choose to build the laboratory."
"You know what, Lisheng? Other than being a lucky man and a rich man, what I like the most is your determination and your spirit of sacrificing for science." Steven put down the computer in his hand and looked at Zhang Lisheng seriously. A hint of a bandit flashed across his face as he said, "I also answered Maggette like this.
Even though what we're doing is not as sacred and 'clean' as it looks on the outside, if we want to stand at the top, other than luck, we must also have the courage to fight. "
"Oh, Professor! You're a biologist, not a bank robber!" The young man chuckled.
"You'll know after working here for a long time that there's not much difference. One is robbing other people's wisdom and the other is robbing other people's money." Steven took a sip of his coffee and stood up before shouting loudly. "Everyone, stop your experiments and come out! I'll introduce a new working partner to all of you."
Upon hearing his shout, very soon, the people in the glass house walked out in confusion.
"This is Zhang Lisheng, my former collaborator and a future genius biologist." Steven first pointed at Zhang Lisheng and told the others. By introducing the young man as a collaborator instead of a graduate student that he brought along, it had undoubtedly greatly improved the young man's status in the laboratory.
Then, Steven pointed at a burly man in his thirties with a ferocious-looking face who looked more like a butcher than a scientist.
A white young man in his twenties with a long face and mediocre facial features and a very serious young woman wearing a thick pair of square-rimmed glasses said to Zhang Lisheng, "Burwell, a Ph.D. in biology who graduated last year and is now in charge of the research on the pigmentation of the soft beetle's shell.
Pamir, a Ph.D. graduate in the same period as Burwell and is in charge of the research on the exoskeleton structure of the soft beetle's muscle.
Charlene, a Ph.D. who just graduated this year and is in charge of the research on the internal resistance of the soft beetle's internal organs. They are the people in charge of the three categories of topics in our laboratory. "
As he introduced them, Zhang Lisheng nodded and continued to say, "It's an honor to meet you, Dr. Burwell … Dr. Charlene …"
Burwell, Pamir, and Charlene, on the surface, were also quite polite to Zhang Lisheng. In particular, Pamir even shook the young man's hand hard. "Mr. Zhang Lisheng, I've read the paper on the soft beetle that you and Professor Steven published in the 'Science' magazine.
It's the basic document for our laboratory to carry out research work. I'm very happy to work with you. "
After watching Zhang Lisheng and the people in charge of the laboratory getting to know one by one, Steven introduced the laboratory's research assistants, who were also the graduate students who did the chores, to the young man.
The supervisors of these graduate students were nominally in Steven's laboratory, which could be considered as an additional way to apply for research funds. However, they did not come to the laboratory often and would only be busy with their own research.
Usually, they would send their own students to deal with the errands. For this reason, these research assistants would be rotated every few days, but no matter how they changed, it would always be the same more than ten people.
For this reason, Zhang Lisheng politely greeted these graduate students who were a few years older than him, officially integrating into the laboratory and becoming one of them.
"Lisheng, my task in the laboratory is to summarize the research results of the three research groups, Burwell, Pamir, and Charlene, and form the final research conclusion through the overall experiment. You'll be my research assistant in the future.
Well, your hands-on ability is very strong, so if you want to do some small research that you're interested in, you can also experiment independently when I'm not using the laboratory … "
"Professor, if you allow me to experiment independently, can I separate another 'glass room'?"
Steven was stunned for a moment before shrugging. "I'll go talk to Maggette and he should agree to it. However, you'll have to find a way to deal with your research assistant when you're doing the experiment yourself."
"I'm light and agile, so I never need any assistants when I do experiments." Seeing that he had achieved his goal, Zhang Lisheng smiled and said.
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