Study Monster Cultivation System

Chapter 297: The situation in battle 296 is looking a bit grim.

Day after day he holed up in the computer room, doing some strange things that affected the morale of his colleagues.

He Zhongrui endured it.

Occupying five computers to do things outside his duties, spending all day on the phone with people from other departments.

He Zhongrui endured that, too.

Turning the break room into a personal secret bedroom, insisting on sleeping on a special water bed for two or three hours every midday.

Even that, He Zhongrui endured.

But this time, the documents and work plans for the next half-week that he painstakingly organized were just tossed out.

If He Zhongrui endured any longer, he would really burst into tears.

"I won’t indulge you anymore, I’m done indulging!" He Zhongrui, with a voice turning shrill with anger, immediately took out his phone, dialed Chen Hongbing, staring at the two with wet eyes and a tone of barely concealed resentment, and as soon as the connection was made, his voice broke into a cry, "Director, you have to stand up for me, I can’t manage these two any longer!"

"Ah, I was just about to talk to you about that." Chen Hongbing said excitedly, "Tell those two immortals to come to my office right now, immediately, they can even take a taxi, it’ll be reimbursed."

"???"

"Get your team to arrange time off as soon as possible, let everyone take turns resting for the next couple of days, to save energy for the test run in three days."

"Ah? What about the task of the analysis report?"

"It’s ending ahead of schedule; we’ve just about reached a conclusion with the fault analysis. The test team has been working hard, arrange the time off quickly, we’ll talk about the rest at tomorrow’s regular meeting."

"Wait, Director... about Li Zheng and Lin Yujing..." He Zhongrui tried to continue his complaint.

"What about them?" Chen Hongbing asked expectantly, "Apart from using their personal time to collaborate with Institute No. 11 and Tianda University to provide a reliable diagnosis for the fault, what other remarkable work did they do?"

"..." He Zhongrui gaped frantically like he had choked on shit, dumbstruck, looking at Li Zheng and Lin Yujing who were busy cleaning up the mess.

"What is it?" Chen Hongbing urged, "Come on, tell me."

"They... they... they’re doing great..." He Zhongrui’s face puffed up, and he looked even more aggrieved, "Not only did they complete the work you mentioned, they also didn’t neglect the tasks I assigned them..."

"Zhongrui... are you under some kind of stress? Your voice... it sounds like my family’s dog who’s just been beaten..."

"No, Director... I’m... I’m particularly great..."

"Hmm... you, don’t feel inferior because of their outstanding performance. I’ve never encountered such immortals either."

"I’m not feeling inferior, not at all."

By the time He Zhongrui ended the call, Li Zheng and Lin Yujing had nearly finished tidying up the floor.

The other three were still looking at him in shock.

He looked back at them in shock: "The task has ended ahead of time, a reliable diagnosis for the fault has been made, we’re finishing work on time today, and the Director has given us two days’ leave."

All three of them opened their mouths wide—at first in panic, then in surprise, almost tearfully so.

Then, He Zhongrui turned to Li Zheng and Lin Yujing, "The Director wants you two to head back to headquarters immediately."

"Yes, people from Institute No. 11 have also informed us." Li Zheng was already packing his things.

Lin Yujing, on the other hand, ran towards the break room; most of her important items were there.

He Zhongrui weakly moved closer to Li Zheng, symbolically helping him pack up: "Li Zheng, what on earth happened..."

"We cooperated well with the guys from Institute No. 11, and afterwards, contacted the labs doing algorithms to optimize a little bit." Li Zheng nodded, "I was preparing other solutions here, but they came up with reliable results this afternoon, which matched the technical team’s first diagnosis exactly, and using the parameters with our algorithm, we could reach an 85% match with the data on the Sixth Institute’s test engines."

"Optimized, a little bit?"

"Just a bit."

"I thought you barely understood..."

Li Zheng chuckled and patted his senior brother’s shoulder, showing the unique smile of a senior programmer, "That was a week ago."

"..."

While He Zhongrui thought Li Zheng was still working on beginner’s lessons.

Little did he know, this senior programmer had silently endured thousands of hours of 996 work.

Along with the high-level cooperation of Institute No. 11 and the Tianda Laboratory, and the support of Lin Yujing’s ideas, they had blazed a trail that had never existed before.

"By the way, I need to come back later to clean up this row of computers." Li Zheng pointed to the five computers he had occupied for a long time, "I’ve pretty much trashed two of them."

"It’s okay; they are shared computers, nothing important on them, let’s just redo the systems." At this point, He Zhongrui finally shook his head, "Okay, I concede, I’m truly impressed now, people like you... will be getting offers from places like MIT soon, right?"

At this point, he suddenly realized: "Wait, you won’t be able to study abroad now, right?"

"What’s the matter, Ji University is also good." Li Zheng smiled, looking out the window, "A lot of my foundation was actually taught to me by an unnamed teacher from Ji University."

"Alright... we don’t actually have many from Ji University here." He Zhongrui also patted Li Zheng and sighed, "Alright, go report to the Director, we’ll take care of the rest."

"Thank you for your hard work, I lost control of my temper just now."

He Zhongrui gave a silly smile, "It’s worth it, if the fault diagnosis is really solved, smashing two computers is understandable."

"Huh?" Lin Yujing, coming along with her bags, dropped everything in her hands in astonishment, "Can we really smash them?"

"Stop! Li Zheng, get her out of here!!"

...

It was seven in the evening, and in the meeting room, Li Zheng met three senior colleagues from Institute No. 11.

Although he knew one was 25, another 30, and the last one 35,

they all looked like old programmers, making it difficult to tell who was who based on age alone.

But even among the old, each had their own charm.

One had smooth skin but very white hair.

Another had black hair, but aged skin.

And one was bald with excessive facial oil, obscuring his original skin quality.

All three seemed delighted to meet Li Zheng and Lin Yujing, as if they had been longing for this moment.

Although it was their first meeting, they felt like old friends already.

The feeling was somewhat like meeting comrades from an online gaming guild in person.

"Damn, too young!" the one with the prematurely white hair exclaimed, grabbing Li Zheng’s shoulder, "I thought it was a joke, but you’re really a high school student, huh."

Li Zheng laughed heartily, "Haha, at this rate, I don’t think my current look will last much longer."

"This is true." The man with the black hair chuckled and lifted his glasses, "Enter the field for five years and you’ll look like me; in another five years, you’ll look like Engineer Liu."

While they were talking, the man whose age was hard to determine approached and said, "I am the person in charge here, Liu Zhanqi. Thank you for your efforts."

"Not at all, you’re the ones who have been working hard." Li Zheng also stepped aside, introducing Lin Yujing, "This is Lin Yujing. She provided the key ideas."

Upon seeing Lin Yujing, the three men immediately lost their enthusiasm that they had shown towards Li Zheng, now becoming somewhat awkward.

"Oh..."

"Hello."

"Hard work, hard work."

It was like a guild meeting where you thought everyone was male, only to find out the guy playing the barbarian warrior was actually a girl...

So the atmosphere turned awkward.

After everyone modestly took their seats and while waiting for the rest to arrive, Liu Zhanqi began to speak in hushed tones.

"By the way, there has been a breakthrough with the recent findings, which were also confirmed in practical tests at The Sixth Institute," Liu Zhanqi nodded, "It should be enough for two papers."

The other two looked expectantly at Li Zheng, nodding in agreement.

For researchers like them, publishing papers was an important performance indicator, both for professional title evaluations and annual excellence awards.

Not to mention papers that had been verified in practice and contributed to major projects.

"Great, let’s do it," Li Zheng nodded, "Lin Yujing and I also got this far thanks to papers from our colleagues."

"Right, but about that..." Liu Zhanqi said somewhat sheepishly, "we still need to discuss who will lead the writing and organize the paper."

"I can do either," Li Zheng nodded somewhat cluelessly.

"Ha, is that so..." Liu Zhanqi gave an embarrassed smile.

The other two gave sympathetic laughs as well.

Li Zheng himself didn’t quite understand, and joined in the laughter.

It was then that Lin Yujing quietly stepped on his foot and whispered in his ear, "Scum Chap, they’re discussing the order of authorship for the paper."

Li Zheng suddenly understood.

Publishing papers seemed to have something to do with being the first author.

In some requirements for professional titles or degrees, you not only need to publish in core journals, but you also have to meet certain authorship criteria.

Li Zheng naturally didn’t care about these things.

"It’s not necessary, you guys go ahead, the main work was done by you and Tianda University," Li Zheng hurriedly said, "We’ll send over the information later, you can take your time to organize it."

Lin Yujing also nodded in agreement, "My specialty isn’t in this field either, so you guys can use the authorship."

The three men were immediately delighted and then their expressions became solemn and reverent.

These two...

Are they angels?

Having worked methodically in their positions, suddenly a great breakthrough and a major paper were delivered straight to their mouths.

What was expected to be a worry for a year or two was inexplicably resolved within a week.

Especially this girl who was a bit hard to look at directly.

She seemed much smarter and more considerate than Li Zheng.

"This isn’t appropriate, as it contradicts the facts," Liu Zhanqi said with a forced smile, rubbing his scalp, "But to be honest... authorship is indeed very important to us... You don’t yet feel this pressure."

"I understand, I understand," Li Zheng laughed. "You just need to discuss it with Tianda University. Don’t consider the two of us."

"We still need to consider it," Liu Zhanqi said as he looked back at the two. "Is it okay for both to be second authors?"

"No need, no need."

"No, this is necessary, otherwise it would be too much," the young man with white hair followed. "Although we conducted many experiments and simulations, the core ideas and algorithm constructions were developed by you. Without your names and endorsement, we can’t publish the paper."

"Then... how about third and fourth authors?" Li Zheng turned to Lin Yujing. "What do you think?"

"Either way."

"Hey, let’s discuss this further," Liu Zhanqi continued, "Besides the names, we still need to fill in the affiliated institutions. Specifically, you are from...?"

"Lake Ying Middle School," the two answered simultaneously.

All three were taken aback, suddenly feeling that everything was not okay.

Imagine, in the core technology journal’s repository of the aerospace system, someone finds a paper titled "Engine Failure Optimization Based on XGBoost and Autoregressive Models," a sophisticated and professional paper.

Then, opening it eagerly to see which expert is the author.

The two "Lake Ying Middle School" authors smack right onto his face.

This would definitely lead to complaints and reports...

Wiping the sweat from his brow, Liu Zhanqi asked, "How about, for the institution, we write down Aerospace Systems Engineering Research Institute..."

As they were talking, a group of people just happened to walk in.

Chen Hongbing, leading the way, laughed and said, "What’s going on, everyone’s so serious instead of using nicknames. What’s this stern matter you’re discussing?"

Everyone stood up at once, and Liu Zhanqi, nodding and smiling, said, "We were talking about the paper. Director Chen, you don’t know, this breakthrough is enough for at least two papers."

At this, Chen Hongbing became excited: "Then you can’t mistreat us young ones. Our official institution is the top institute and department, it must be clearly stated."

"Yes, yes, yes..." Liu Zhanqi didn’t want to carry on with that topic, fearful that Chen Hongbing would directly claim the first authorship. He turned to Shen Tinglan and nodded, saying, "Chief Engineer Shen’s arrangement was truly the finishing touch. Originally, we said we’d try working together, but who knew the effect would be so pronounced."

"Yeah, who would have known," Shen Tinglan laughed, a bit lost. Originally, she had only intended to create study conditions for Li Zheng, but unexpectedly, production conditions were created instead.

Then came Zhou Chenglong, who gave Li Zheng a punch on the back: "God Zheng, I’m prepared to write a new story beneath the question that pressures you."

"There’s no such question, stop messing around."

"There is," Zhou Chenglong quickly took out his phone and tapped on it, "How do you evaluate the 2019 Physical Science double champion God Zheng (Beauty God)? Lots of answers, and there’s someone claiming to be your deskmate, saying you have a strange habit of secretly drawing girls during class, and always sneakily looking at their legs."

Zhou Chenglong raised an eyebrow with interest: "Really or not?"

"...Fake... it’s fake," Li Zheng swallowed.

"Tsk tsk..." Lin Yujing grinned, "Are chubby legs that delicious?"

Li Zheng turned his head, saying, "Mainly... legs like that are better for refining drawing skills... especially the part where the socks meet..."

"So you say you don’t like chubby legs?"

"I don’t."

"Excuse me..." Zhou Chenglong realized he might have done something inappropriate and quickly scurried to his seat.

While they chatted, several engineers from The Sixth Institute entered the meeting room with serious expressions, gradually making the atmosphere heavier.

Li Zheng then noticed that the scale of this meeting was quite large, and