Free Web NovelChapter 142: Chapter 122: The Truly Incredible Papers Are Unpublishable (Part 2)
But he knew all too well what the current academic environment was like!
Chu Bamboo had clearly never been through the wringer. If this was all fake, then there was nothing to say—he’d just chew him out later!
But if this material was real, if Chu Bamboo was truly this exceptionally gifted in this area too... Li Quanyuan had no doubt that Chu Bamboo was headed for a hard lesson in the future.
"I already took precautions!" Chu Bamboo said, full of confidence. "When I came to school this morning, I made a copy of the paper and mailed it to myself via the Shen Zhou Post Office."
Li Quanyuan was left speechless. Fine. That was some seriously authoritative proof. The Shen Zhou Post Office operated under its own postal laws! That could absolutely be used as evidence in court.
But the problem was...
"You haven’t filed for a patent, have you? Even if you wanted to, that’s not something you can get done in a short amount of time!" Li Quanyuan rubbed the bridge of his nose, trying to persuade him earnestly. "And if what you have is real, I would advise you to obscure the material formulas you’ve recorded directly in the paper!"
"It’s fine," Chu Bamboo said lightly, but his thoughts were growing more and more complex.
He was beginning to understand even more clearly why the release of the *Star Sea Detailed Explanation* would cause such a massive uproar in the world—
Just a single paper based on a mere scrap from it was enough to make Li Quanyuan emphasize this so heavily. It was truly hard to imagine the value of the entire book!
Li Quanyuan didn’t know what to say anymore. He sighed, "With the way you’re acting, you really don’t want to make any money, do you!"
"And how can you be so sure that this is all I have?" Chu Bamboo retorted.
A paper was, in the end, just a paper!
Chu Bamboo’s real trump card was the Alisu Battery, with an energy density a full one-sixth that of gasoline...
As for the materials involved, the structural calculation methods...
Even if the information got out, even if all the battery manufacturers in the world learned of it and began adjusting their structures, allowing their battery technology to advance by leaps and bounds, so what?
Once the Alisu Battery went into production, all competitors in the same field would be utterly crushed.
In the face of such an unimaginably high technological barrier... a paper that merely clarified the material structure was, in the end, just a paper!
Li Quanyuan’s pupils contracted. He understood the implication behind Chu Bamboo’s words. After a moment of silence, he said in a low voice, "Later, I’ll find professors from the Materials Science Department! And those from other departments related to batteries. We’ll take a look at your paper."
"Don’t worry, if there are real results! The authorship will be yours alone!" Li Quanyuan guaranteed.
Now that it was in his hands, even if it was verified and some professor wanted to get their name on it as a second author, he would never agree.
"Besides, if this is truly such a revolutionary breakthrough! Just like you said, if it can optimize all batteries, improving their energy storage performance to one-and-a-half times what it is now..."
Pausing briefly, Li Quanyuan narrowed his eyes. He sized up Chu Bamboo for a moment before speaking with profound meaning.
"This paper... it probably can’t be published in any authoritative academic journals."
"Of course, if you really do manage to produce an even more revolutionary result later on, and this paper proves to be of little real help to foreign countries in terms of military applications, then it could be published."
Truly groundbreaking papers can’t be published openly.
In fact, the Divine Continent is still sitting on a pile of papers from decades ago—papers that are still suppressed because if they were published, they might allow a hostile nation to make that final breakthrough and produce advanced weaponry.
The most classic example is a certain paper that was helpful to White Elephant’s hydrogen bomb research. It’s been suppressed for decades and never published.
Originally, the academician who wrote the paper was prepared to publish it once White Elephant succeeded in its hydrogen bomb research... but who could have expected that it would get stuck for decades?
And from the looks of it now, there’s still no telling when White Elephant will finally take that step, allowing the paper to be released...
"Then I’ll have to trouble you!" Chu Bamboo put his palms together. "Oh, right. If the paper turns out to be legit, will the university... want to invest in my company?"
"...Huh?!" Li Quanyuan froze.
"Please believe me," Chu Bamboo began, a wide smile on his face, his words filled with an indescribable confidence. "This might just be the most profitable investment Jinling University has ever made since its founding!"
’Thirteen percent of the shares? It might not sound like much.’
’But the key is, this company is a future Top-3 global giant!’
’Only Z, which Chu Bamboo also interfered with, and the White-headed Eagle’s ridiculously overpowered Celestial Net Company could even compare!’
’What kind of astronomical sum was that?’
’Even calculated with the current shares of that fruit company overseas, Oracle, and Intel, this was a massive fortune measured in the trillions!’
’Not to mention, the future market caps of the three giants would inevitably far surpass these current conglomerates—’
’He wasn’t sure about Z and C Company, as they wouldn’t be publicly listed in the future, but Nuwa had evaluated that the market cap of the comparable Celestial Net Company would create an insurmountable gap with all other public companies! Its stock value would reach the highest point in human history.’
"I’ll consider it." Li Quanyuan gave Chu Bamboo a deep look, then stopped eating. He grabbed his document bag, picked up his tray, and prepared to head back and start the verification process.
"Oh, right..." Chu Bamboo suddenly remembered something. He stopped Li Quanyuan, then said a bit sheepishly, "Principal Li, if I wanted to find a student at Jinling Third High School, could you maybe help me out?"
"?" Li Quanyuan was stunned. He turned to look at Chu Bamboo, feeling there were so many things wrong with that sentence he didn’t know where to begin his complaints.
’Wait, is this even related to what we were just talking about?’
’How did we suddenly jump to high school!’
"...I’ll give you a phone number! Write this down." Li Quanyuan smoothly rattled off a series of digits. "This is the number for Principal Yang at the Third High School! I’ll call him in a minute to let him know, and you can talk to him directly this afternoon!"
"And one more thing..."
Li Quanyuan shot Chu Bamboo a fierce, warning glare. "You brat, if you’re looking for a girlfriend, find one at our university! Don’t go looking for a high schooler! You might be shameless enough to pull something like that, but my old face can’t take the embarrassment."
"???" Chu Bamboo stared, dumbfounded, at Li Quanyuan’s retreating back. ’It’s true I’m looking for a high school student, but what does that have to do with dating?’
’Oh, right...’ Chu Bamboo belatedly realized. ’I guess that’s the most logical explanation under the circumstances?’
’Crap! Lu Keke actually is a girl’s name... HISSS!’
"Tsk tsk!" Chu Bamboo pursed his lips. "Why does everything involving a female have to get twisted like this! Can’t it just be that I purely value her talent? This is too much..."
Principal Li, who hadn’t actually gotten that far away yet: "..."
His face darkened, and he forcefully suppressed the urge to go back and chew him out. But his departing footsteps grew even faster!
