407: Chapter 857 Super Milling Cutter!

After hanging up the phone, Professor Gu Ming hesitated for a moment, opened his contacts, and found a few of his old friends.

These individuals were all leading figures in the domestic Biology field and academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. They rarely reviewed manuscripts personally nowadays, spending most of their time mentoring students, conducting research projects, and writing monographs.

He called them one by one and explained Zhao Yang's situation.

"Old Zhou, Zhao Yang has written another Biology paper. The focus is on the positive feedback regulation mechanism of mitochondrial biosynthesis. The data is detailed, the arguments are sufficient, and the paper's discussion goes a big step further than the last one. Since it's a Chinese journal, I really can't find a suitable person here to review it. Could you help me take a look?"

There was silence on the other end of the line for a few seconds, and then Academician Zhou's voice came through.

"Didn't he just publish one? How did he write another one? How did he do it? Are papers of this level just cabbages? How many laboratories and students does he have under him!"

Academician Zhou's tone carried some astonishment.

Doing Biology is different from things like Mathematics!

Mathematics often relies on an individual's inspiration, but Biology requires a massive amount of experimentation!

Inspiration accounts for a very low percentage there!

Without a massive amount of experiments and a massive amount of laborers, wanting a breakthrough in Biology? It's simply dreaming!

"Just the few graduate students he mentors himself, plus that underground laboratory of his."

Academician Zhou was silent for a while, then slowly asked: "Tell me first, is this a sequel to his paper on Directed Evolution?"

"Yes. He found a positive feedback node in the mitochondrial biosynthesis pathway. The data has been running for several months, and the experimental design follows the same lineage as the previous one."

Academician Zhou took a deep breath and then said: "Alright, send the manuscript over."

The same conversation was repeated between Professor Gu Ming and the other two senior academicians. The reactions of the three senior academicians were surprisingly consistent: first shock, then disbelief, and finally, they all agreed.

They were all people who had experienced the academic dispute between Zhao Yang and Professor Ross before, and they were all too familiar with that incident.

They knew better than Professor Gu Ming just how high Professor Ross's status was in the global field of cellular aging, and how many countries his students and followers were spread across. They had all read Zhao Yang's response article online, and the shock caused by that sternly worded statement in the academic world had not yet completely subsided.

How long had it been? Who would have thought that Zhao Yang would come up with another, even more substantial paper?

They were the top tier of the domestic Biology field, but this young man's work had already progressed to a point where even they had to ponder repeatedly to keep up.

If Zhao Yang maintained this rate of output, it wouldn't be long before the entire field of cell Biology would likely be redefined.

The three spent a significant amount of time reviewing the entire manuscript word for word, and ultimately all gave their approval. After receiving the three review opinions, Professor Gu Ming sat in his office and let out a long sigh of relief, then opened his computer and sent an acceptance email to Zhao Yang.

When the email was sent, Zhao Yang was sitting at the laboratory bench in his villa's basement, reviewing the latest endurance data of the white mice. A new email notification popped up in the bottom right corner of the screen. He clicked to take a look, and just as he was about to close the window, a system prompt suddenly rang in his mind.

"Ding! Detected that the User's second paper related to Directed Evolution published in the Spark Biology Journal has been officially accepted. Gained 220,000 Biology experience points. The User's Biology experience is full, level successfully increased to Lv6. Gained +5 Intelligence, +3 random lucky draw attempts."

A familiar cool sensation welled up from the depths of his brain, spreading along his neural network to the entire cortex. He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes for a moment, feeling yet another leap in his thought processing speed, then slowly opened his eyes.

On the system panel, his Intelligence value had reached 227. Everything in his field of vision was a bit clearer than before; he didn't need to deliberately focus his attention to capture the extremely subtle numerical fluctuations in the data tables on the screen.

For the three random lucky draws, he chose to draw them all at once.

Ding! Obtained one gold-level reward mission card.

Ding! Three super milling cutters!

Ding! Two industrial robots.

Three system prompts rang in Zhao Yang's ears. Zhao Yang's eyes lit up immediately.

Super milling cutters!

He had possessed his super industrial machine tool for quite some time, but there had always been a bottleneck he couldn't break through: a lack of tools with sufficient hardness to process the super alloys produced by the system. Ordinary cemented carbide tools would go dull after just a few touches, and laser processing precision wasn't enough.

Now with these three milling cutters, the machine tool could finally unleash its true performance. It could not only process super alloys but also analyze the internal micro-structure of finished products, which was of great significance for subsequent materials science research.

He called up the milling cutter data and looked it over carefully. After confirming all the parameters, he had Shin-chan store one of them in the laboratory's high-precision tool library and seal the other two for future use.

The industrial robots were deployed directly to the basement, incorporated into the same control network as the previous engineering robots, and managed by Shin-chan.

After handling these, he finally turned his attention to the gold-level reward mission card. The card shattered, and a pale blue light screen displayed three lines of text.

[Optional Mission 1: Academic Anti-Corruption. Independently verify and publicly expose academic misconduct existing in at least three well-known domestic universities within the time limit. Each report lead must complete a full evidence chain loop and be officially accepted by the official Discipline Inspection Department. Mission Reward: 100,000 Free Experience Points, +3 random lucky draw attempts.]

[Optional Mission 2: Crowning Glory. Win an internationally recognized world-class academic award and accept it in person at the awards ceremony. Mission Reward: 100,000 Free Experience Points, one random gold-level item, +3 random lucky draw attempts.]

[Optional Mission 3: Passing the Torch. Get married and have at least one child within three years, and the child must be raised jointly by the User and their legal spouse. Mission Reward: +3 Physique Points, one random skill, +3 random lucky draw attempts.]

Zhao Yang's gaze lingered on these three missions for a moment. Mission 1 was too time-consuming; bickering with the academic circle was one of the most inefficient things in the world.

Moreover, doing this now would really offend too many people. Although Zhao Yang wasn't afraid of offending people, for the time being, there was no need for it.

As for the matter of academic anti-corruption, Zhao Yang planned to do it later, and he planned to use Shin-chan to do it, preferably to eradicate this issue from a systemic level.

Doing this now would be alerting the enemy too early; it was completely unnecessary!

As for Mission 3, it was directly ignored by him.

He was silent for a while, tapped his fingers gently on the desk twice, and then made his choice.

He chose Mission 2 because this mission was simple and straightforward, basically requiring no extra preparation on his part.

Because at next year's International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul, if everything went as expected, the fields medal would surely be awarded to him.

As long as he attended the awards ceremony in person, this mission could be completed directly. He had previously been considering safety issues, but now with the system mission, the matter of going to Seoul could basically be settled.