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Rise of the Wasteland - Chapter 242

Published at 17th of June 2018 05:37:52 PM


Chapter 242

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Chapter 242        Dissertation

Zhou Qingfeng was pleased that he finally had his own biochemical lab. Even though the lab was a little old, the specs were subpar and the number of lab assistants was a little low.

Zhou Qingfeng broke into the biology laboratory of Ronghua Medical University in Tianyang city. In front of everyone, he formulated a small test tube of ethidium bromide and stood out in front of the foreign professor Howard, who was in charge of the lab.

However, as a consequence, the associate professor Xu Guoqiang, who served as the deputy director of the laboratory, was dismissed from the university. Ronghua Medical University vacated an abandoned warehouse, moved the test benches that belonged to him and put up a sign: ‘Xu Guoqiang’s biochemical lab’.

It seemed like a good thing for him but he was actually being marginalized. In fact, the university was trying to say, “We’re giving this lab to Professor Xu, you can use this lab any way you want, and you can bring whoever here. Just stop causing trouble for us.”

The laboratory did not even meet the basic requirements of a standard biochemical lab. There were just a few tables filled with dust sitting in the old warehouse. It looked extremely pathetic!

Professor Xu used to have around five or six graduate students with him. Unfortunately, all of them ran away when they saw the laboratory. They regretted picking such an unlucky professor. Other than Zhou Qingfeng who came out of nowhere, there was only a young lecturer around thirty years old who stayed with Xu Guoqiang.

Oh well, everything is hard at the beginning, just need to work hard. Hmm…, but this is far out!

“Who the hell are you?” The young lecturer was pissed at Zhou Qingfeng. Even though they were not happy about staying in Howard’s laboratory, they could actually get money and they were allowed to use the experimental equipment.

Well, everything’s gone now!

Xu Guoqiang was a research maniac; he was mad, weird, and had very bad character. The worst thing was, he spent all his money on the laboratory to the point where he could not any research funding. As a result, Li Mingjue could not stand it. She had no choice but to remarry Feng Ruhai.

The thirty-year-old young lecturer named Yan Tao had a chubby face and he looked harmless. He liked to curry favors with other people and earn a little from there. However, he offended someone recently and he was forced to work with Xu Guoqiang. Zhou Qingfeng heard that Yan Tao was preparing for his wedding, and he needed a lot of money. Thus, he was very unhappy with Zhou Qingfeng who had messed up everything.

There were only three…. and a half people in the entire laboratory. The extra person was Yan Tao’s fiance. She was in charge of the university’s finances and was around twenty-five years old. She looked cute and plain. Zhou Qingfeng thought she was not bad.

This little fiance was small in size and very smiley. She would bring lunch for the three men every day. However, Yan Tao was very worried and looked after her very closely. Especially after they met Zhou Qingfeng; he thought Zhou Qingfeng was a real threat.

Of course, the team of the three was not completely useless. Xu Guoqiang loved research, Yan Tao loved to earn money, and the fiance of whom Zhou Qingfeng did not know the name of loved to watch Korean dramas. All of them were not aware of ‘Victor Hugo’ and Zhou Qingfeng could finally take off his sunglasses.

“Alright, stop arguing, let’s clean this place. It’s a little old but it’s not completely useless. Howard has been wanting to get me out of his laboratory. He’s just lucky that he found an excuse this time.” Xu Guoqiang looked so much older in one night from the huge impact. However, he was not going to give up.

“How are you going to research with these?” Yan Tao pointed at the dust on the floor, the rubbish at the corner of the lab, the broken windows, and finally at Zhou Qingfeng.

“Why are you pointing at me?” Zhou Qingfeng asked.

Yan Tao shouted, “If it weren’t for you, we wouldn’t have ended up here. Nobody would come to this d*mn place. I wasn’t involved in your trouble but I ended up here struggling with you. What did I do to deserve this?”

While Yan Yao was complaining, Feng Ruhai, one of the most powerful people in the university, came to visit them. He was surprised by Zhou Qingfeng’s actions. As for Yan Tao, he felt a lot better after seeing Feng Ruhai. He thought the chance of getting out of the lab had increased and most importantly, he treated Zhou Qingfeng better now.

“I have some money here, and you can use it to hire someone to clean the lab.” Zhou Qingfeng had around eighty thousand yuan left after he sold Guan Yin’s jade. The money was not even enough to buy all the experimental drugs but they were enough to make the lab look better.

The moment Xu Guoqiang heard that Zhou Qingfeng was willing to donate some money, he was again surprised, “You’re Zhou Qingfeng, right? What exactly are you doing here? What do you want from me?”

“I want to learn biology and medicine from you, and I’m gonna build a world-class biochemical lab.” Zhou Qingfeng had great ambition.

“Hahahaha, just you? A high school graduate who wants to build a world-class laboratory? Why don’t you try for the Nobel Prize?” Yan Tao was pissed. He was at the bottom of his life at the moment and he was not happy to see positive people.

Zhou Qingfeng left the words with disdain, “How can a sparrow know the will of a swan?”

Yan Tao was astonished by Zhou Qingfeng.

The eighty thousand yuan barely fixed and refurbished the interior of the warehouse. The floor was cleaned, the windows were fixed, and the few test benches were ready for use. Also, the warehouse was divided into facilities like restroom, office, kitchen, and washroom.

Eighty thousand yuan was not enough for all that. The eighty thousand yuan was gone in two days. Three of them started worrying about the future.

“Professor Xu, I’ve written this dissertation, do you mind taking a look?” Zhou Qingfeng was not thinking about the financial problems. Instead, he took out some handwritten papers.

Two days were enough for the three men to realize their current situation. Zhou Qingfeng knew he could get the dividend at the box office but that would probably be next month upon the launch of ‘Wasteland 2’. Before that, he had to get some money to build the laboratory; he couldn’t just wait and do nothing.

Yan Tao lost his patience. He was depressed and could not be bothered anymore. However, he was surprised when he saw that Zhou Qingfeng had been doing something on the test bench for the past two days. At the same time, Zhou Qingfeng kept on learning from Xu Guoqiang. He never thought that the young man could get a dissertation out of nowhere.

“You’re just a high school graduate, what dissertation are you talking about?” As usual, Yan Tao was teasing Zhou Qingfeng. In fact, he was so depressed that he wasn’t even in the mood to make Zhou Qingfeng feel bad.

As for Xu Guoqiang, he did not take the dissertation very seriously. It would at least take a few months or even years for people to come out with a dissertation and Zhou Qingfeng only took two days. Even if the dissertation only had the basic logic, Zhou Qingfeng would already be considered as a genius.

The entire dissertation was only about two thousand words. Even with the introduction and references, it was less than six pages. Xu Guoqiang roughly looked at the format and flow. As for the content…..

What would one expect from a high school graduate who only learned about biology, and medicine for less than a month?

“Hmm…, it’s alright. The format is alright.” Xu Guoqiang nodded and said, “Send it to the school journal and give it a go.”

“School journal, hahaha…., school journal!” Yan Tao burst out laughing.

It was a shame for a researcher to not publish their dissertation on international publications. Even if they could not reach the international level, they would at least be on the domestic level. China was classified into provinces, cities, counties, and townships. The school journal was basically for the ‘villagers’, there were only a few people would read the school journal.

The title of the dissertation was ‘The new application of genetically modified enzymes’. It was a famous dissertation from Professor Alonzo who developed the key technology for NTZ to be successful. In 2030, it was posted on the world’s top scientific journal, ‘Cell’. The concept was extremely easy but useful. The entire world was shocked after it was published.

Right now, Zhou Qingfeng was copying the entire dissertation.





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