"Hello, sir." The receptionist was stunned and frowned. "Do you have an appointment to see the president?"
She was polite but distant. "If you don't have an appointment, please make an appointment and I'll arrange a time for you."
In other words, the president was very busy and not just anyone could see him.
Zuo Li stared at her for a moment. She didn't say anything and just walked inside.
The receptionist was anxious. "Sir, you can't go in!"
But she couldn't stop Zuo Li at all. She could only anxiously make a call. "Security! Security! "
Before the security guards could move, a voice sounded first.
"Professor Zuo, right?" It was a young man standing at the stairs. "Please come up, the president is in the office."
Upstairs.
In the president's office.
The current president of the International Physics Center was not a physicist.
He used to be a businessman.
But he was very popular, so he succeeded in becoming the president during the election.
When an outsider became the president of the International Physics Center, it was destined to be corrupted.
"Professor Zuo, long time no see." The president smiled. "Come, sit. I just bought some good tea from your Hua. Have a cup."
Zuo Li didn't sit down and went straight to the point. "My student's thesis, you sold it to the Laurent family?"
The president's hand paused and he looked up. "Yes, what about it?"
"What about it?" Zuo Li was so angry that he laughed.
He rushed forward, grabbed the president's collar, and slapped him.
The president was shocked and angry. "Zuo Li, you're crazy! Do you still want to stay in the physics world?! "
"How much did you sell it for?" Zuo Li sneered. "You sold the thesis and deliberately put it in this month's scientific journal, right?"
"So that my student would be caught in the plagiarism storm!"
"Professor Zuo, that's your problem." The president smiled slightly. "You insisted on submitting your student's thesis to the Astrophysical Research Center of Continent O. What does this have to do with us? Did we force you to submit it?"
"It's your superfluous action that got your student into the plagiarism storm. I want to ask you, why do you want to stop your student's scientific research path so badly?"
Zuo Li's fingers trembled. "You're really shameless."
He knew that there was no need to talk anymore, so he turned and left.
"Professor Zuo, if you don't think for yourself, think for your student." The president's cold voice came from behind. "You have to think carefully. No one in this world can afford to offend the Laurent family!"
Zuo Li left the president's office.
The president was still sitting in his office chair.
The door opened again.
The president..
"President, don't tell me this Hua man is really capable of doing something?" The Vice President walked over and frowned. "If we let him make a big deal out of this, we'll be in trouble as well. “
Every industry would more or less have some gray areas that were tacitly agreed upon.
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If everyone knew about this, the International Centre of Physics would lose its reputation, and it would lose its impartiality.
"I told him just now so that he would know his place." .......................................................
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Elisabeth Laurent was one of the top nobles in Continent O's upper-class society.
Once Family Pazzi fell, no other family could compete with the Laurent family.
Between Ying Zijin, the ISC champion who had just entered the scientific research world, and the daughter of the Laurent family, it was obvious who would be the winner.
"You're far-sighted, president." The vice president finally smiled. "Giving Elizabeth the paper of a new researcher not only allowed us to get three hundred million dollars in funding, but also sold Elizabeth a favor."
Elizabeth was only one paper away from officially establishing herself in the academic world.
They had also been searching for a long time. Of course, they could not bring the papers of the old professors.
Coincidentally, Zuo Li delivered Ying Zijin's paper.
"Not only that." The president shook his head. "You don't know, but Elizabeth was personally selected by the leader of the Laurent family. This leader even specially arranged for her to enter Professor Irwin's laboratory."
"We're not only giving Elizabeth face, but also giving face to the leader of the Laurent family and Professor Irwin."
After all, compared to the latter two, Elizabeth was far from enough.
The vice president took a deep breath. "I see, Elizabeth's daughter is really amazing."
"But what you said makes sense." The president narrowed his eyes. "Zuo Li is a rising star in the physics world. It's impossible to guarantee that he doesn't know anyone."
"I heard that he and Irwin seem to know each other. Detain him first."
As long as the two scientific journals were published globally, even if Zuo Li could produce evidence that Ying Zijin's paper was earlier than Elizabeth's, he would not be able to clear his name.
They just had to say that it was fake.
What could Zuo Li and his student do?
The president took a sip of tea. "Send someone to do it. After he's locked up, take good care of him. Release him after the journals are published."
**
At the airport.
Zuo Li was calling the astrophysical research center in Continent O. "Yes, there's a problem. Please take down my student's paper first. I'll bear all the losses."
Zuo Li hung up the phone and was about to call Ying Zijin again.
It was his carelessness that led to Ying Zijin's paper being stolen.
But now he couldn't protect his student and could only let her solve it herself. He felt very guilty.
In Zuo Li's teaching career, he had never encountered something that made him feel so helpless.
However, before he could dial the number, his neck suddenly went numb.
Then, everything in front of him fell into darkness.
Two people sent by the International Physics Center carefully carried Zuo Li out.
The people around the airport saw it, but they were not surprised. They all looked away indifferently.
**
Two days later.
Continent O.
Country J.
The headquarters of Venus Group was here.
Ying Zijin and Fu Yunshen left the airport together and got into the car.
Ying Zijin glanced at the equipment in the car and raised her eyebrows. "Do you like collecting cars?"
When she and Xiu Yu participated in the Manson family's racing competition together, Fu Yunshen casually gave her a T Family car that had been retired from racing for twenty years.
This was not something that could be done with money.
"Huh?" Fu Yunshen raised his eyelids. "I'm an old man, but I still have some hobbies."
He turned the steering wheel and drove to the hotel in the city center.
On the way, the car phone automatically connected.
It was a video call. The person on the screen was Li Xini.
"Sir, the target has not appeared yet. Continue to monitor her."
"Okay, got it."
The video call flickered and then ended.
Ying Zijin turned her head. "Target of protection?"
"Yes." Fu Yunshen tapped his fingers on the steering wheel. His eyes were deep. "Not long ago, all the top fifty hunters on the NOK forum received an anonymous bounty."
"The bounty target is a six-year-old girl, but she doesn't have a face. The hunters are out in full force. I asked IBI to monitor them. They can't hurt the girl."
This little girl might be the only way to get to the mysterious place.
But until now, there had been no news of the little girl's death or injury.
It could only be that the hunters had not found her.
Ying Zijin looked up. "A six-year-old girl?"
"Yes," Fu Yunshen said, "Yaoyao, you don't have an account as a hunter, right?"
Ying Zijin shook her head. "No."
The account of the fortune-teller was not on the hunter list either.
After changing the rules of the trading area that day, she had not logged into the NOK forum again.
"I'm also curious. Who did she offend?" Fu Yunshen said indifferently. "It's worth a billion USD bounty."
Ying Zijin frowned. "I'll get someone to take a look."
She forwarded the message to the Vice President and asked Norton University to start checking.
After a while, the car stopped in front of the hotel.
Fu Yunshen did not get out of the car. Instead, he put his arm on the car window. "Yaoyao, the room is booked. I have something to do in the presidential palace of J Country."
"Okay." Ying Zijin nodded. "I'm going out to play."
Fu Yunshen understood. "Take it easy."
The two of them separated at the hotel.
Ying Zijin changed her clothes and went to the commercial street in the city center.
J Country was also an international powerhouse. In addition, the headquarters of Venus Group was here. The streets were bustling and crowded.
Ying Zijin went to a coffee shop to buy a cup of hot chocolate.
As soon as she came out, her ears suddenly twitched and she looked to the right.
A little girl in black was running in this direction.
A few seconds later, the sound of a gunshot exploded in the air, shocking the surrounding people.
This was an international metropolis, even though Japan had a gun permit.
Although J Country had a gun license, it was impossible for a gunfight to break out on the streets of the capital.
The passers-by screamed and started to run for their lives.
The cars on the road were also out of control.
But the strange thing was that the bullets were very accurate.
They did not shoot at other passers-by. Their target was only the little girl.
A sharpshooter.
In an instant, Ying Zijin could tell that this little girl was the bounty target that had surpassed her and Fu Yunshen.
There were as many as 200 hunters, and the NOK forum was unprecedentedly stirred.
"Quick! Get out of the way! "The little girl ran very quickly and shouted as she ran." Get down, get down! Don't hit you! "
As she spoke, her body nimbly dodged the bullets.
She was so agile that she did not seem like a six-year-old girl.
Even the IBI agents who had undergone special training would not be able to dodge every bullet as accurately as she did.
Ying Zijin did not dodge.
But those bullets could not hit her.
She lowered her eyelashes and clenched her hands.
There were memories from a long time ago that were gradually breaking out of the seal.
Until a loud explosion came from afar.
"Bang!"
Just 500 meters away, a sharpshooter was stationed on a 100-story building, shooting at the little girl with a sniper rifle.
"Good lord, there's more." The little girl jumped up and looked back. "I really dug up your ancestors' graves!"
Although she said that, her expression was very calm. Then, she raised her hand.
The little girl did not have a gun in her hand, only a watch.
There was a golden lace letter on the watch.
She turned a button on the watch.
Instantly, the watch projected a blue laser net.
"Buzz!"
The blue laser net firmly imprisoned the bullet.
Soon, the bullet that could blow up a building fell to the ground.
The little girl muttered, "Fortunately, I have a lot of equipment on me. Otherwise, I would have been killed by you lunatics. But goodbye."
She continued to run forward. When she passed by Ying Zijin, she specially greeted her. "Kid, you're amazing. Everyone else has run away, but you're still so calm."
"We must be fated. When I get rid of these people, we'll get to know each other. Today is not the time. Wow, they're so fierce. I'll keep running."
But before the little girl could take a step, she was lifted up by Ying Zijin.
She was a little confused, but she quickly reacted.
"Hey, hey, hey. Although I'm only six years old now, I'm definitely older than you. How can you lift me up like that? You don't know how to respect your elders, kid. Let me tell you … Ah! "
The little girl suddenly fell to the ground and let out a scream.
She rubbed her butt and found that she was thrown onto a seat in front of a convenience store.
She did not know why, but when she wanted to get up, her legs seemed to be numb and she could not move.
The little girl was stunned and raised her hand.
Her hand also seemed to have touched some kind of barrier.
The bullets that followed her were all blocked by this barrier.
She floated in the air.
Her inner strength appeared. A protective barrier!
Ying Zijin rolled up her sleeves and said indifferently, "Wait."
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