United States, "Science" Editorial Office.

Sitting on a chair in the editorial department, Adam yawned and glanced at the wall clock on the wall.

It's 5 o'clock in the evening.

It's time to get off work!

He stretched himself, dragged the mouse to delete the files on the computer desktop.

As a science editor, he needs to review a large number of manuscripts submitted from all over the world every day.

And among these manuscripts from all over the world, it is conservatively estimated that only 10% of the manuscripts are really valuable!

As for the reason...it's simple.

"Science" is the top journal in the world.

Numerous scientific researchers hope that it can include and publish their own papers.

This is not only an affirmation, but also a status symbol!

This also led to a very helpless situation.

In addition to those serious scientific researchers, there are many "wild" scientific researchers who will also contribute to the journal "Science".

These "wild" scientific researchers have a name unique to them.

citizen scientist.

Referred to as Minke.

It is no exaggeration to say that at least half of the emails Adam receives every day come from these civilian scientists.

The conclusions inside are even more shocking than the last.

Water grinding knife cutting atomic technology, anti-gravity device, perpetual motion machine...

It can be said that in Adam's mailbox, there are only papers that you can't think of, and there are no papers that you can't see.

Adam sighed deeply while dragging a file from the computer into the trash can.

This article is a typical civil science paper.

The author of the paper claimed to have solved Goldbach's conjecture.

But when he clicked on the file and began to examine it carefully, he was horrified to find that the author didn't even figure out what Goldbach's conjecture was!

"God... Michelle, you should really read this paper." While deleting the paper, Adam muttered to himself.

As Adam's words fell, a blond and blue-eyed beauty editor sitting next to him smiled, and turned to look at him: "What? What weird paper did you review again?"

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Adam stopped what he was doing, turned the swivel chair under him, and complained to Michelle: "The author thinks that Goldbach's conjecture proves 1+1\\u003d2."

Michelle froze for a moment, then burst out laughing.

"My God...Adam, I really don't understand why you can always review these weird papers!"

Adam shrugged helplessly: "Who knows?"

"Ding dong!"

Just as Adam was about to get up and leave his seat, a crisp reminder sounded from the computer in front of him.

"Damn...another submission!" Adam looked angrily at Michelle, who was doing nothing beside him, "It's not fair!"

"All day today, I reviewed fifteen papers!"

"Among them, fourteen are waste manuscripts!"

Michelle smiled and turned off the computer in front of her, shrugged and said, "Really? Every time I pay my salary, I also think it's quite unfair, why don't we switch?"

Adam: "..."

"Let's forget it..."

He smiled and sat back in his seat.

The moment he saw the title of the paper, he raised his eyebrows.

"Hey! It turned out to be a paper on controllable nuclear fusion!"

"Michelle, let's make a bet, I bet this paper is a waste manuscript!"

Hearing Adam's words, Michelle raised her willow eyebrows, dragged the office chair and sat next to Adam: "What's the bet?"

"A dinner?"

While speaking, Adam clicked the mouse to open the file.

"If it's from Michelin, I'll bet you!" Michelle glanced at the title of the email and said after a moment of pondering.

Adam paused slightly when he manipulated the mouse.

Michelin...that's going to cost a fortune!

But thinking of the experience of 14 consecutive scraps of manuscripts today, Adam felt a bit of inexplicable confidence in his heart.

"Okay! It's a Michelin restaurant!"

"I can't believe I'm about to leave work, and I can still see a normal paper!"

While speaking, the file in the mailbox was opened.

Adam quickly dragged the mouse and dragged the paper to the signature column.

"……hiss!"

The moment Adam saw the signature, Adam gasped suddenly!

"The second work of this thesis turned out to be the Nuclear Physics Laboratory of Xia State Sandaokou University?!"

The corners of Adam's mouth twitched slightly.

"You owe me a Michelin meal, don't forget!" Michelle's eyes almost overflowed with a smile.

Adam shook his head helplessly: "Michelin is just Michelin... I am more concerned about the first work of this paper."

"This Lv Yongchang... I don't seem to have heard of this name in the nuclear physics world."

Michelle looked a little serious.

She frowned and thought carefully for a while, then slowly shook her head.

"I've never heard of that name either."

"Could it be a newcomer?"

Adam shook his head solemnly, and casually wrote down the string of letters in the notebook beside him: "Probably not, do you think newcomers can get a first-author position on this kind of paper?"

"The second work of this thesis is the nuclear physics laboratory of Xia State Sandaokou University!"

Michelle shook her head slowly: "I don't know either...Let's read the content of the paper first!"

Adam nodded solemnly.

Knowing that this thesis came from Sandaokou University in Xia Kingdom, the expression on his face became a lot more serious.

"...According to experiments, the stellarator device can effectively prolong the maintenance time of controllable nuclear fusion?"

"Thirty-five minutes?!"

"wtF??!"

Adam quickly dragged the mouse and directly dragged the content of the paper to the experimental data section.

Looking at the dense experimental data in the paper, Adam's pupils dilated a little.

He muttered to himself: "Oh my God... Isn't Xia Guo just kicked out of ItER?"

He could even imagine how wonderful the expressions of the ItER people would be once this paper was published in the journal Science!

"etc!"

Michelle on the side suddenly exclaimed in a low voice: "Adam, have you noticed?!"

Adam looked at Michelle sitting next to him with a puzzled expression: "What's wrong?"

Michelle pointed to the last page of the paper with disbelief on her face: "Adam...don't you find the format of this paper familiar?"

Adam frowned and looked carefully at the last page of the paper.

"At the completion of this graduation thesis, the first thing I would like to thank is..."

Adam's pupils shrank violently!

"This, this is... an undergraduate thesis?!"

...

the next day.

USA, Stanford University.

Professor Collins came to the office early as usual.

"Tuk tuk!"

There was a hasty knock on the door.

Professor Collins, who had just put his butt on the chair, frowned slightly.

"Who?!"

Professor Collins shouted in the direction of the door with a somewhat unfriendly tone.

"Professor! It's me!"

A panicked male voice came from the door.

It was the voice of his student Eden.

Professor Collins frowned, and replied in a low voice: "Come in!"

The next moment, the door of the office was pushed open, and a young man in his thirties rushed into the office in a panic.

"what happened?!"

Professor Collins said angrily, "Eden, I need an explanation!"

Eden walked up to Collins nervously, and put a document on the desk in front of him.

"Professor, this is a newly published paper in Science."

"I think... you should take a look."

Collins frowned even deeper.

He glanced at Eden dissatisfied: "Didn't I say, don't bother me before nine o'clock in the morning?"

Hearing this, Yiden's eyes suddenly showed a bit of anxiety: "Professor! This time is different! Xia Guo may soon master the technology of controllable nuclear fusion!"

Collins' complexion suddenly changed!

"What did you say?!"

He quickly picked up the papers on the table and read them carefully.

"Professor...is this true?" Eden asked anxiously.

Collins' face was a little ugly, and he didn't respond to the students' questions immediately.

"How is it possible...the stellarator can achieve thirty-five minutes of controlled nuclear fusion?!"

"This, this is impossible!"

You know, he initiated the proposal to eliminate stellarators in the United States!

Although he didn't want to admit it in his heart, the detailed data in the paper gave him big mouths one after another.