106: Chapter 106 The Immortal Beauty Returns? It's the Return of the God of War!

On the night Zhao Yang returned to the capital, Professor Lin went directly to the expert apartment where he was staying.

"Professor Lin..." Zhao Yang was surprised. Seeing Professor Lin's unhappy expression, he realized the man had come to settle accounts. He quickly and politely invited him into the room, brewed tea, and placed it before him. "Please have a taste; this is green tea from Jinghai. The flavor is quite different from other places."

Professor Lin took the tea but didn't drink it, setting it down on the coffee table. "Zhao Yang, tell me, how has Shuimu University treated you?"

The corner of Zhao Yang's eye twitched slightly.

Old Lin's resentment was no small matter!

He said with a grin, "Great! Shuimu University treats me exceptionally well! It's practically like being a biological son. As soon as I step onto the Shuimu campus, I feel like I'm home, and my whole being..."

"Enough!" Professor Lin said, caught between laughter and tears as he pointed at Zhao Yang. "Don't try to pull the wool over my eyes! Answer me, why did you put such heavyweight Computer Science results into your Criminal Investigation thesis?"

Zhao Yang spread his hands. "Professor Lin, without those Computer Science results, my Criminal Investigation thesis would have become a tree without roots, or rather... metaphysics. If you look at my thesis, simply put, it is the application of the latest developments in computer technology to Criminal Investigation, right?"

Professor Lin pondered for a moment and had to admit that was indeed the case.

It was just that Zhao Yang's computer technology was far too advanced—so advanced that no one had ever researched it before.

To be more precise, it was the application of advanced computer technology developed by Zhao Yang to frontier research in Criminal Investigation.

Professor Lin sucked in a breath of cold air.

How did this kid dare? If the frontier developments in the Computer Science Domain mentioned in the thesis were wrong, wouldn't his entire thesis be wasted? However, facts proved that those technologies were truly useful—the cases cited in the thesis were solid evidence.

His expression softened slightly, and he smiled. "I'll let you pass! But for my next step in research, I need to cite things from your thesis. Do you intend to let the thesis of the Vice Dean of the School of Information Science and Technology at Shuimu University cite an article from the doctoral thesis database of Handong University of Political Science and Law's Criminal Investigation department?"

Zhao Yang was stunned for a moment, secretly amused.

Sectarian bias! The open and secret strife between Sects!

Zhao Yang smiled. "Professor Lin, as cited literature, the theories in that thesis are actually not sufficient in either depth or breadth."

Professor Lin's eyes immediately lit up. "You mean you have articles with enough depth and breadth?"

"Please wait a moment." Zhao Yang turned and took a stack of printed materials from the cabinet. "These are the first drafts of three papers. Two are about Large Language Model theory, and one is about a new computer language I call 'Go.' At the back is a proposal for our Department of Computer Science to take the lead in establishing a 'Go' language open-source community."

"Let me see..." Professor Lin picked them up and flipped through a few pages, his hand suddenly pausing. He flipped back two pages, read them again, and looked up to glare at Zhao Yang. "You kid, when did you come up with these things?"

Zhao Yang gave a cheeky grin. "I just write them whenever I have free time."

Professor Lin didn't speak further, lowering his head to continue flipping through. Page by page, he flipped slower and slower.

Half an hour later, he let out a long breath. When he looked up, the anger on his face had long vanished, replaced by a complex expression. "You kid have no small ambition! Setting everything else aside, this proposal alone is of immense significance to Shuimu, and even to the development of the entire country's Computer Science field. Where do you plan to publish the papers?"

"I want to publish them in the English version of the 'journal of shuimu university'," Zhao Yang said with a smile.

"Huh?" Professor Lin was startled. "How can you publish such important results there? Our journal's influence in the field of Computer Science is too low!"

Zhao Yang smiled faintly. "Once these three papers are published, the influence will naturally become high."

"Uh..." Professor Lin was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed three times. "Good! Good! You really are a true son of Shuimu!"

Zhao Yang scratched his head and said a bit sheepishly, "Professor Lin, I want to apply for a separate server to do some research on software development; I'll need our department's cooperation. Don't worry, I'll use my own money to buy the equipment; I only need the environment and space in the server room."

Professor Lin waved his hand. "There are many idle servers in the server room; just use whatever you see fit. Why would you need to buy any? If it's not enough, just come to me for funding! Alright, I'm leaving! Hurry up with the papers! Oh, and put your own name first for the authorship! Don't secretly put mine first again. Last time someone asked me about something in an article, I almost made a fool of myself!"

After giving his instructions, Professor Lin left satisfied.

...

Just as he sat down, Huang Yimei's call came in. "Brother Yang! You must watch TV tomorrow night!"

Zhao Yang was taken aback, then it clicked: tomorrow was the day "the smiling, proud wanderer" would begin broadcasting.

Perhaps because Yue Lingshan had been replaced by Huang Yimei, the broadcast time of this drama seemed to be over a month later than in that other spacetime.

Although the two spacetimes were similar, there were still some differences. For instance, in the South China Sea in April, although friction occurred, it wasn't in the air but at sea, and the scale was relatively large.

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he found that the Dragon Nation in this spacetime was significantly tougher towards America in the current era.

Moreover, based on the news he browsed online, the outside world was even more chaotic and cruel. Especially in parts of the Middle East and Africa, the events occurring were of a level of cruelty he had never even heard of in his original spacetime.

"Brother Yang, are you listening?"

Huang Yimei's voice pulled Zhao Yang back from his thoughts. He gave an "mm": "I got distracted. I was wondering when you'll be back."

"Sigh... it's hard to say. The crew is still running promotions in Xichuan. But haha, I have good news for you!"

"Oh? What good news?"

"A Taoist from Mount Emei taught me the authentic Qi Family Saber Technique! I can now cut through a willow tree as thick as a thigh with one strike! Hahaha, I shocked everyone in the crew!"

"Impressive!" Zhao Yang couldn't help but laugh.

Well, how was this the Immortal Beauty Returning?

It was clearly the Return of the God of War!

Subsequently, Huang Yimei chattered away about interesting anecdotes in Xichuan, chatting for an hour before hanging up.

Zhao Yang was also quite looking forward to the broadcast of "the smiling, proud wanderer".

The very first episode would feature the God of War Huang—no, rather, Yue Lingshan played by Huang Yimei.

The next evening during prime time, Zhao Yang turned on the television.

After the opening theme, Yue Lingshan soon made her appearance.

Zhao Yang narrowed his eyes.

Huang Yimei's acting... well, with a face like that, who needs acting?

With just this image, that guy playing Lin Pingzhi should expect the audience to send him razor blades in the mail!

...

Just as he fell asleep that night, the System's notification sounded in Zhao Yang's consciousness.

[Hidden Quest "Immortal Beauty Returns" completed]

[Host has obtained a world-exclusive title — celestial beauty guide]

[Title Effect: All fan emotions obtained by Huang Yimei will be converted into the host's emotion points at a certain ratio (Effect only exists in this world)]

Following that, Zhao Yang felt the growth rate of his emotion points clearly speed up. However, he could only feel the numerical increase and could not perceive the nature of these emotions.

Actually, he didn't even need to think to know—the emotions of movie fans towards Liu Tianxian in that spacetime, everyone understands.

Having completed one hidden quest, Zhao Yang thought of another hidden quest — Sorrow of a Lifetime.

At the end of 2002, that medical storm was about to arrive. Time was running out!