74: Chapter 74 Special Prototype Cells

"Holy shit!"

Surprise appeared in Zhao Yang's eyes.

He hadn't expected it to be accepted so quickly!

This was a great thing!

"Ding! User successfully published a mathematics paper * 1!"

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"Ding! Gained Mathematics experience + 1000!"

Uh.

Hearing the system prompt in his ear, Zhao Yang was stunned for a moment again.

He hesitated slightly. Although he had expected that publishing a Tier 3 paper would yield less experience, he hadn't expected it to be this low.

When he published that Tier 2 paper, it not only gave him 5,000 Mathematics experience points, but also 3,000 Informatics experience points. A total of 8,000 experience points.

Yet this paper only gave him 1,000 experience points. That was an eight-fold difference.

But it was understandable; the time and effort spent were completely different.

When he worked on that Tier 2 paper, he not only used some knowledge from his past life, but the calculation methods and level required were also very high, consuming a great deal of his time.

It took him over half a month to get that Tier 2 paper mostly finished.

But this Tier 3 paper was much simpler.

Aside from the time spent researching and collecting data, he only spent three or four days actually writing and finishing the paper.

And that was only because the volume of calculations was so large that he wasted too much time on them.

In fact, he hadn't spent too long on the actual paper.

As for Informatics papers, thanks to the knowledge reserves from his past life and his own insights, plus the lack of heavy calculations, he could work much faster. Once he had churned out one such paper, doing it a second time wasn't difficult at all.

Plus, he had some advanced ideas. It was hilarious; they would fight to accept such papers.

Actually, writing Tier 3 papers had its benefits, didn't it? Zhao Yang's eyes flickered.

Although the experience gained wasn't much, the speed was fast! He wrote quickly, and they reviewed it quickly.

Of course, publishing Tier 3 papers came with costs. A publication fee of 2,000 yuan was considered cheap; often, the fee was 5,000 yuan.

Zhao Yang pondered for a moment. He decided to wait and see how much experience he would get after this Informatics paper was published before deciding on his future direction.

As for now? Naturally, he would continue churning out Informatics-related papers.

His Informatics subject level was not far from Lv3.

After upgrading to Lv3, his intelligence would improve further, which was of great significance to his subsequent research and development. It would also be a huge help for his future progress.

In any case, Zhao Yang wasn't willing to pin down his research direction just yet.

It was meaningless; his IQ wasn't high enough, and his subject levels weren't high enough either. It wouldn't be too late to think about other things after he raised his IQ and subject levels.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yang continued to look at the screen.

Sure enough, after the paper was accepted, the journal asked him to wire 3,000 yuan in publication fees to their account.

Damn! They were really reaching into a coffin to demand money!

It was clearly an academic paper, yet these guys actually made scholars pay to get it published.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yang felt helpless. Especially this kind of trash journal, having the nerve to ask for such a high price!

Although Zhao Yang knew that these days, journals that didn't charge publication fees were few and far between, even some prestigious journals charged them.

And such publication fees, if one had a research group or was affiliated with an institution, were usually reimbursed by the institution. Someone like him...

For a Tier 3 paper, Zhao Yang had no intention of asking the school for reimbursement; that would be ridiculous. If he had written a Tier 1 paper, asking the school for reimbursement wouldn't be a big deal.

After transferring the money, Zhao Yang continued to write papers.

He planned to write another Informatics paper, this time bringing out some real substance to see if he could aim for a Tier 2 journal.

With the experience and knowledge regarding chips from his past life as a foundation, Zhao Yang wasn't confident about a Tier 1 paper, but churning out a Tier 2 paper probably wouldn't be hard.

Tier 2, after all. Sometimes it didn't need extremely detailed data or precise figures. As long as there was an innovative point, something interesting, combined with a relatively solid theoretical foundation, it could basically be published.

The requirements for Tier 2 were so much lower than for Tier 1 papers.

Because it was the weekend, Sun Xu had already gone to the school cafeteria to work at four or five in the morning. As for Li Tianqi and Wang Mian, those two guys were naturally sleeping in.

When Wang Mian got up to use the bathroom after six, he saw Zhao Yang sitting in front of the computer and rubbed his sleepy eyes in disbelief.

"Holy shit? Bro? You get up at this hour to study every day? No way? Do you have to be this driven!"

Zhao Yang glanced at Wang Mian and smiled. "Just checking messages! I'm going out to exercise!"

Saying that, Zhao Yang cleared his desk and went out to exercise.

In the morning, Zhao Yang stayed in the dormitory to continue writing his paper, and in the afternoon, Zhao Yang arrived at the laboratory again.

The current Zhao Yang wished he could split one minute into two.

Writing papers was a necessity for raising his subject levels. Entering the laboratory was a necessity for the future.

In the future, if he wanted to raise his Biology subject level, it would definitely be very difficult relying solely on theoretical research; the soil for theoretical Biology hardly existed anymore.

Now, it was all about doing concrete research. Zhao Yang was very clear and understood this point well.

Therefore, he needed to spend more time in the laboratory now, learning how to use more instruments and performing hands-on operations with them.

Don't underestimate these; in fact, they were very important. Without knowing these, it was impossible to do research; conducting experiments had always been the foundation.

In the laboratory, there weren't many people, but Gu Qing was there.

"You're here." Gu Qing glanced at Zhao Yang and said.

"The professor is currently performing electrophoresis on the newly synthesized special prototype cells in the lab to isolate the special DNA fragments within them."

Gu Qing briefly explained to Zhao Yang what the laboratory was currently working on.

Zhao Yang was slightly startled. Were they playing with such fancy things? Newly synthesized special prototype cells? That sounded so awesome!

And then electrophoresis separation... Zhao Yang had heard senior Li Tao explain the electrophoresis system before; its main function was to separate DNA, RNA, or proteins. It was considered a common thing in a Biology laboratory.

Zhao Yang curiously observed the progress of the experiment from the side.

Inside the sterile workstation, Professor Gu Ming carefully collected the newly synthesized engineered cells from the culture dish. He added lysis buffer and gently vortexed them to rupture the cell membranes and release the internal substances.