<h4>Chapter 211: Rumors</h4>


    Trantor: EndlessFantasy Trantion Editor: EndlessFantasy Trantion


    When the ck girl heard Zhang Lisheng’s words that indicated that he was a graduate student in the Biology Faculty, she raised her brows. After verifying the young man’s statement through LAN in the school, she looked at her dispirited colleague who was in a daze beside her before turning her head sideways to wink and whisper, “Hey, I like high IQ boys the most. In my opinion, great intelligence is more attractive than big muscles. Soon-to-be Dr. Zhang Lisheng, I can help you get ‘The Illustrated Handbook of Bio-anatomy and Chemical Reaction’ if you be my boyfriend tonight. However, if you don’t, I can only tell you which bookshelf it’s in and you’ll have to look for it yourself. The choice is up to you. What choice are you picking then?”


    “What do you mean?” Zhang Lisheng failed to grasp her point and asked.


    “Forget it, baby. Since you’re the most innocent boy at Stanford, I’ll make an exception to service you for ‘free’ this time! Wait a moment, I’ll get the book for you.” The girl was stunned for a moment as she looked at the confused young man. Suddenly, she sped her mouth with a hand to chuckle before walking quickly to the bookshelf in the hall. Very soon, she returned to the front desk while holding a big book.


    It only took her less than 20 seconds in total, but the ck girl’s expression appeared to be much paler.


    After she had settled the loaning procedure of the book ‘The Illustrated Handbook of Bio-anatomy and Chemical Reaction’ that had a ck hard stic cover vividly and realistically sketched with a half-skinned corpse lying on a rusty autopsy bed, she handed it to Zhang Lisheng. She could not help butment, “The cover of this book really makes me feel ufortable.”


    “Maybe.” After Zhang Lisheng took the book, he looked at the cover that was exactly identical on the one shown on theputer screen before shing a smile and walking out of the library. Breathing in the fresh air at night, he rode back to his dormitory building on his bike.


    As he walked into the dormitory while holding a book, the janitor who had a big square-shaped head and who had great physical strength recognized him at a nce and deliberately called out to him, “Young man, are you Zhang Lisheng from A011?”


    “Yes, sir.”


    “I’m Hammy Walter, the night janitor of this dormitory. I just received a notice from the Student Management Office that ording to Californiaw, you must return to the dormitory before 12 am on non-holiday days. If you exceed the time, you’ll have to report your whereabouts to me. You can just text me through my phone or Facebook. My number is...” Perhaps the janitor had received some warning when he received the notice from the Student Management Office, so the janitor who was usually rude appeared amiable to the young man.


    The first-year Stanford students who came to the front of the student dormitory and who had never heard that they would have to report to the dormitory janitor when they go to the college could not help but slow down their footsteps. Perplexed, they looked at Zhang Lisheng who stood face to face with the janitor.


    The young man could only sh a wry smile and nodded—”Alright, I got it, Mr. Hammy!”—before rapidly walking back to his dorm.


    In the next few days, Zhang Lishengid down on the bed and read ‘The Illustrated Handbook of Bio-anatomy and Chemical Reaction’ to spend his time. On top of that, an outrageous rumor began to spread out in his dorm—that a fairly remarkable person that the California court directly monitored had resided in this dorm.


    A wise man did not believe in rumors but the word ‘wise’ here did not refer to intelligence, but ‘wisdom’. Very soon, the rumor intensified among the immature first-year students. Meanwhile, the center of this new campus legend unknowingly went to his supervisor’sb to report himself after he finished reading ‘The Illustrated Handbook of Bio-anatomy and Chemical Reaction’.


    He had learned from the Inte that a giant scientificboratory could amodate hundreds of scientists that were divided into dozens of research groups which could solve scientific problems together at the same time. Zhang Lisheng had a premonition that Steven’sb would not be big.


    However, after he had finished his breakfast in the morning, he shuttled around Stanford’s vast campus with a group of college students who rushed to the ss on a bicycle like racing under the pleasantly warm sunlight. After a while, he finally found theboratory building. When he walked up to the third floor and entered the biologicalboratory built around the two color-changing soft beetles he contributed, Zhang Lisheng was surprised to see that thisboratory would actually turn out to be so small.


    It was a room of no more than three hundred square meters divided into three transparent and one opaquepartment at the four corners using special sses. In the middle where the public area lied, other than a circle of sofas and coffee tables where the researchers could rest after a tiresome day, there were also severalrge unknown test instruments. That was it, that’s theboratory.


    Early in the morning, Steven had already made a cup of coffee while sitting on the sofa in the public area of ??theb. He did so while doing something on his tabletputer. As for the few ss rooms in the corner of the room, there were already people carrying out their experiments there.


    Zhang Lisheng, who had changed into soft slippers and a white coat ording to standard experimental procedures, walked quietly towards his supervisor’s back. “Professor, good morning. This is theb you built with a quarter of the experimental budget of Stanford’s Biology Faculty? It looks different from what I imagined. ”


    “Oh, you’re here, Lisheng!” Steven replied without turning around. “How much do you think the experimental budget of Stanford’s Biology Faculty can get? Besides, thisb is not as simple as you think. Just these few machines beside me are already enough to attract three young scientists who have received a doctorate degree in science to sacrifice their temporary interests for postdoctoral research. Can’t you see? They’re in the ss rooms together with a group of graduate students who are equally ambitious but of little talent, vainly hoping to rely on the advanced experimental environment to produce amazing results and be famous afterwards...”


    “Oh, Professor! You’re really tart and mean!” Zhang Lisheng went around to sit down with Steven. “How is the progress with theb construction in the foreign world?”


    “Well, they can’t hear us in the ss rooms anyway. About that, Maggette said that it’s a little difficult. If it’s Shrimp World No. 1, it could be directly implemented. Yet due to ack of military strength, the government cannot guarantee the safety of theb in Shrimp World No. 2...”


    “Let’s just take the risk then if safety cannot be ensured! An undeveloped ind with dense pristine jungles and a piece ofnd that has matured into civilization before that has been tossed and turned where one could remember everything like the back of their hands. As long as you’re not an idiot, any biologist would know where to go to build aboratory.”


    “You know what, Lisheng? Other than the fact that you’re lucky and you’re a millionaire, what I like most about you is your decisiveness and your daring spirit to sacrifice for science!” Steven put down the tablet from his hand and took a good look at Zhang Lisheng. As arrogance disappeared with a sh from his face, he said, “I also answered Maggette like that! Even though what we’re doing is not as sacred and clean as what the outsiders think. However, if we want to stand on the peak, we must dare to fight other than having luck!”


    “Professor, you are a biologist, not a bank robber!” The young man said with a smile.


    “If you’ve been in this field for a long time, you’d know that there’s almost no difference. One is to snatch the wisdom of others while the other one is to snatch someone else’s money.” Steven took a sip of coffee and stood up before shouting out loud, “Everyone, stop your experiments ande out. Let me introduce a new working partner to you guys.”


    Upon hearing his shout, the people in the ss rooms soon came out in confusion.


    “This is Zhang Lisheng! My former coborator and a future genius biologist!” Steven first pointed at Zhang Lisheng as he introduced the young man to the others as his ‘coborator’ instead of his graduate student. This, no doubt, greatly elevated the young man’s status in theboratory.


    After that, Steven pointed to a burly, ugly, and ferocious-looking fat man in his thirties who looked more like a butcher than a scientist, an ordinary-looking Caucasian young man in his twenties who had a long face, and a solemn-looking young woman wearing square-framed thick sses. Steven then introduced all three of them to Zhang Lisheng. “Boyle, a doctor who graduated his Ph.D.st year. He’s now responsible for the study of the color-changing pigmentation of the beetle’s exoskeleton. Pamil, who graduated from his Ph.D. the same year as Boylest year. He’s in charge of the study of the exoskeleton bone structure of the beetle’s soft body. Shalin, a doctor who just got her doctorate degree this year. She’s in charge of the study of the visceralpression resistance of soft beetles. They’re the heads in-charge of three different topics of ourboratory.”


    As he was introducing the members of theboratory, Zhang Lisheng nodded his head while greeting them continuously, “It’s an honor to meet you, Dr. Boyle... Dr. Pamil... Dr. Shalin...”


    Boyle, Pamil, and Shalin also appeared to be very polite towards Zhang Lisheng, particrly Pamil who even took the young man’s hand and shook it. “Mr. Zhang Lisheng. I’ve read about the paper on the soft beetle you and Professor Steven published in the Science journal before. It’s the foundation of the research work in ourboratory. I’m very happy to be able to work with you. ”


    After seeing Zhang Lisheng acquainting himself with theboratory’s topic heads, Steven then introduced theboratory’s ‘research assistants’, also known as the graduate students who did all the ‘crappy jobs’, to the young man.


    The supervisors of these graduate students put their name on Steven’sboratory, which could be said as one of the ways to apply for research funding, but they rarelye to theb. Instead, they were busy with their own research.


    They would usually send their own students to deal with errands, so for this reason, these research assistants would rotate every few days. Even so, it would always be the same 20 or so peopleing here every now and then.


    Zhang Lisheng greeted these graduate students who were a few years older than him. With that, he had officially integrated into theboratory and became one of them.


    “Lisheng, my task in theboratory is to summarize the research results obtained by Boyle, Pamil, and Shalin from the three research topics. Then, by experimenting on what we know, we could finally form a scientific conclusion. From now on, you’ll be my research assistant. Well, you have a strong ability in carrying out things by yourself, so if you want to do some small research of your interest, you can carry out the experiment independently when I’m not using theb...”


    “Professor, if you allow me to carry out my experiment independently, can I get a separate ss room?”


    Steven sighed and shrugged. “I’ll ask Maggette. I think he’d most likely agree to it. However, you’d have toe up with the research assistant you need yourself when you’re carrying the experiment.”


    “I’m fast and brisk, so I don’t usually need any assistant,” Seeing that his purpose had been achieved, Zhang Lisheng smiled.