Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 60 - The World of Selling Personas

Chapter 60: Chapter 60 The World of Selling Personas

“Anyway, the whole clarification statement means, whether you believe in ‘Academician Candidate’ or just a little ‘undergraduate’ after all…”

“Shameless! Truly shameless! And there are even witnesses? It’s unbelievable!” Ye Kaifu seemed even more anxious than Zhang Yuan himself, shouting loudly, “I can be your witness too, even though I didn’t understand what you were talking about then… but I was probably discussing issues with you, right?”

Zhang Yuan looked at him with disdain.

“What good is a witness as insignificant as you?”

Ye Kaifu retorted anxiously, “How is it useless? I can… help you spray him!”

The Washing party quickly appeared to whitewash for people.

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“I’m telling you, it’s all slander. That Zhang Yuan is really good at hyping things up, to be famous, he even dares to touch an Academician Candidate, two words… awesome!”

“Having looked carefully at the two papers, Professor Mo’s style is very mature, clearly that of a true master. Zhang Yuan’s paper, on the other hand, gives off a novice vibe. It’s hard to imagine how a novice wrote this paper.”

“Poor loyalist, he has made so many contributions to human civilization, and now he’s being schemed against like this. Are we really going to repeat the historical folly of dying of entertainment?”

Repeating the historical folly of dying of entertainment?

This big hat is way too huge.

It’s just freaking chaos!

“Those who spread rumors should go to jail!”

“Discussing Xia Country’s academic community from the plagiarism scandal…”

“Academics lack due respect, Xia Country’s major country status is bound to be compromised!”

However, Zhang Yuan was relieved that there were a few natural allies still tirelessly debating for him.

“…Thinking back a bit, how could an undergraduate possibly steal a university professor’s manuscript and then plagiarize? Hacking technology? Please, if such technology really existed, would he need this? He’d have been recruited by Baribaba long ago, with an annual salary of a billion!”

“The existence of Academic Gatekeepers is severely endangering the sustainability of higher education!”

“What about Academicians? Don’t even mention just a candidate, if the character is bad, he’s still a dog!”

Various confrontations began to intensify. The onlookers were enjoying the drama immensely.

“…There should be an application for the relevant departments to deeply intervene and investigate, letting them investigate themselves, which they probably could never do thoroughly in their lifetime.”

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Zhang Yuan came to himself, his head a bit in a whirl, not wanting to join the fray directly.

Actually engaging in a verbal battle wasn’t very useful.

“Beep!”

The watch on his hand suddenly vibrated.

It displayed a message, “Mr. Zhang Yuan, please come to the Captain’s office in area A-1 immediately.”

He gathered his things, and hurried towards area A1.

Even the people in the Earth Era knew about this. But for this group of astronauts about to leave, it was merely gossip news, not causing much of a sensation, and the order within the spaceship remained very good.

When he entered, he found a very familiar middle-aged man sitting inside.

He seemed to have seen him somewhere but couldn’t quite remember.

“Let me introduce myself first, my name is Ma Tao, currently the Captain of the Earth Era.”

“Captain Ma, hello.” Zhang Yuan felt a movement in his heart.

Ma Tao waved his hand and said with a smile, “Don’t be so formal. Professor Wang Zhong was my mentor thirty years ago, and your father was my senior.”

“Do you know why I called you here?”

Zhang Yuan, slightly nervous, hesitated, then said, “Regarding that paper…”

Ma Tao nodded slightly, smiling, “Your matter actually involves conflicts between academic schools. Professor Wang is already handling it, and he wants to seize this opportunity to root out some academic corruption…”

“Overall, we will definitely give you a satisfactory answer.”

Zhang Yuan asked, “Then you called me here, is there something I need to do?”

“Right now, the most important things are two points.”

Ma Tao held up one finger, “First, is self-strengthening. Or rather, using more academic achievements to prove your strength!”

He looked up at Zhang Yuan and said with a smile, “Do you know how many people Newton, Lord Niu, knocked down in his lifetime?”

As one of the greatest scientists in human history, Newton’s character wasn’t that great; he made countless enemies throughout his life.

In the matter of the discovery of gravity, Newton tore into Hook, and the two fought for 30 years, resulting in most of Hook’s research being destroyed after his death, disappearing into the depths of history.

In proving gravity, Newton plagiarized Flamsteed’s data.

In the history of calculus, Newton also had a rivalry with Leibniz.

“…But, everyone just treats this story as an interesting anecdote about Lord Niu and it never affects his greatness.”

Ma Tao continued with a smile, “As long as you are strong enough, the scientific community will naturally lean towards you.”

Zhang Yuan nodded, holding back frustration.

He lowered his head and silently pondered, planning to quickly complete all the various procedures and patents to prove his copyright.

Secondly, to publish more heavyweight papers as soon as possible.

Ma Tao held out a second finger, continuing, “Another point is to rely on the widespread public opinion campaign.”

“Public opinion, in fact, is quite easy to manipulate.”

“Since Mo Jianhua is selling the persona of ‘Quasi Academician’, then you can sell ‘super-genius’ plus ‘astronaut’ personas, see who sells better! Don’t worry, from what we can see so far, your character definitely passes muster…”

Zhang Yuan felt a bit embarrassed being praised like this.

“They may have a big influence within the academic circles, but how could they possibly compete with the Deep Space Foundation elsewhere? We will fully support you, and soon some reporters from the moon news will come to interview you.”

“Reporters?”

Zhang Yuan suddenly became nervous.

“Don’t be too nervous, just chat casually. Just act as a representative of the advanced figures of Area C, anyway, we consider that paper yours already. What do you think?”

Zhang Yuan knew deep down that this was not only encouragement but also an invisible push.

Once on the newspaper, he must maintain his “persona” of outstanding genius without wavering.

This maintenance wasn’t for a month or two, but for life!

He must always be better than others.

Otherwise, his whole persona would completely collapse!

But, with real knowledge inside, what is there to fear?

Even if he had used up his father’s intellectual legacy, couldn’t he continue to explore and discover on his own?

“Okay!” he thought carefully and replied.

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