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Chapter 191 What did I do to make you disrespect me so much

While the whole world was excited about the advent of the era of high-temperature superconductivity, a discussion about Xiao Yi's paper was also taking place in the editorial department of Nature.

"Okay, now that all 10 laboratories have given positive results, I think we can prepare to send Xiao Yi the copyright transfer agreement."

Sitting at the head of the conference room, Magdalena Skip, editor-in-chief of Nature, spoke to the people present.

The other editors present also nodded.

After all, it was agreed with Xiao Yi at the beginning that Xiao Yi would provide samples and then let them designate a laboratory for verification. As long as the verification passed, Xiao Yi's paper would be accepted by Nature.

Of course, some people still couldn't help but ask: "Are you really not going to give it a try and let him publish the preparation method?"

Editor-in-Chief Skip spread his hands and said, "If you don't want to be scolded, then it's up to you to convince Xiao Yi."

The editor fell silent.

After all, it had already been agreed upon, and now Xiao Yi has already provided the samples and they have passed the verification.

Now he wants Xiao Yi to announce the preparation method, which is obviously asking for trouble.

"That's it."

Skip said: "Let's adjourn the meeting and send the copyright transfer agreement to Xiao Yi."

Many editors stood up and prepared to leave.

Just as Skip was about to leave, her cell phone rang.

"Huh? This is..."

It was a call from one of their shareholders.

Why are you calling at this time?

She answered the phone and asked, "Mr. Davis, what's going on?"

A man's voice came from the other end: "Skip, was the meeting you just had about Xiao Yi's paper?"

"Yes, we have decided to accept his paper and are preparing to send him a copyright transfer agreement." Skip said, "Mr. Davis, do you have any instructions?"

"Don't send him the agreement for now." Davis said, "Ask him to publish the method for preparing the new superconductor. Otherwise, his paper cannot be accepted."

"Ah?" Skip was stunned and said, "Mr. Davis, we have already discussed with Xiao Yi before. If we break the contract now, wouldn't it be bad?"

"Don't worry about this matter, just do as I say."

"This..." Skip said again: "Does Mr. Warner know?"

Warner is their CEO. Although Davis is a shareholder, Skip would never agree to such a thing without the CEO's consent. After all, she is the editor-in-chief and needs to consider the reputation of Nature.

Davis, however, simply said, “That’s what the U.S. Department of Energy means, you know?”

Skip was speechless.

"I see."

"That's it." Davis said, "Also, if Xiao Yi disagrees, just give him a hint. If he agrees, this year's Nobel Prize in Physics will be his."

"that's it."

The call ended and Skip shook his head helplessly.

Nobel Prize?

What they brought out was good, but would Xiao Yi agree?

Skip sighed.

The scientist has been tamed.

……

China, Science Island Laboratory.

At this time, Xiao Yi was meeting a guest in the conference room.

Director of the Science and Technology Bureau, Liu Cong.

"It's been a long time since we last met. First of all, I want to congratulate you on your achievement of such an important research result!"

Liu Cong said to Xiao Yi with a smile.

Xiao Yi nodded and smiled: "It's just luck, it's nothing."

Liu Cong couldn't help but sigh twice: "If this can be considered luck, then your luck is really incredible."

He shook his head, then his face became serious and he said, "I came to you this time mainly to ask, can this kind of superconductor be mass-produced?"

Xiao Yi said: "Okay."

"If it's not possible..." Liu Cong was suddenly stunned: "What? It's possible?"

"Yes." Xiao Yi said.

Liu Cong stood up excitedly, rubbed his hands, and asked, "Well... is it difficult to mass produce? What about the cost? Isn't it said that the synthesis of high-temperature superconductors is quite troublesome?"

Xiao Yi smiled and said, "The mass production method is not a problem. Although the required process is a bit troublesome, I have designed a very good industrial production design."

"I am also preparing to borrow a sum of money in the name of Science Island Laboratory and set up a company for mass production."

"In this regard... Director Liu should be able to bring me some good news, right?"

He looked at Liu Cong with a smile.

He had already planned for mass production, and now all he needed was some money and, of course, more importantly, support from the government.

The new type of FeSe is of great importance, and national support is indispensable.

Just as Liu Cong came over, he brought up this matter.
Liu Cong immediately said, "That's great! I'll get the SASAC to you directly, is that ok?"

"Of course that's no problem."

Xiao Yi smiled.

"Okay, that's settled. I'll call you later to contact the leader of the Anhui Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission."

Liu Cong nodded.

After all, the Science Island Laboratory was established with the support of Anhui Province, so just contact the Anhui Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.

Xiao Yi had no objection to this.

After the matter was settled, Liu Cong said, "Also, let me introduce someone to you."

He made a phone call, and a moment later, the door to the conference room was opened.

A young man who looked to be in his twenties walked in.

Judging from those two arms, he looks very strong and his eyes are quite sharp.

"This is Wang Li, a former special forces soldier. Because of his outstanding performance in the team, he previously served as a guard leading the security force. Now he has been transferred to your place and will be mainly responsible for protecting your safety from now on."

Liu Cong introduced to Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi was stunned for a moment.

Does this mean that he has been assigned a bodyguard?
"Isn't this necessary?"

However, Liu Cong's expression became serious: "Of course I need it, don't refuse."

"You haven't heard about Professor Feng's story?"

Hearing the words "Professor Feng", Xiao Yi fell silent.

"This is also what the higher-ups mean. You are now the youngest and most talented scientist in China. Your safety is a top priority, understand?"

"I understand." Xiao Yi nodded and said nothing more.

"Well, I won't stay here any longer. I have to go find the leaders in your Anhui Province and discuss matters related to superconductor production with them."

Liu Cong stood up and prepared to leave. Then he turned to look at Wang Li and said to him, "Xiao Wang, Professor Xiao Yi's safety is now in your hands."

Wang Li stood at attention and saluted: "Don't worry, leader. I will complete the task."

Liu Cong smiled and said, "I am not your leader. From now on, your leader will be Professor Xiao. Apart from his orders, you will not listen to anyone else's orders. Do you understand? Even if it is your former superior."

Wang Li: “Yes!”

Liu Cong smiled and nodded, then left without saying anything more.

Then Xiao Yi looked at Wang Li: "Wang Li?"

"Yes!" Wang Li said, "What instructions does the leader have?"

Xiao Yi shook his head helplessly and said, "Don't be so reserved. I'm a young man, and you're also a young man. Let's be more relaxed when we communicate in the future."

"Yes!" Wang Li still said meticulously. Although he said yes, his behavior did not change at all.

"Okay." Xiao Yi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and gave up trying to persuade Wang Li. He estimated that Wang Li would not change in the short term. "You are older than me, so I will call you Lao Wang from now on. If you want to call me... just don't call me leader. You can call me anything else, Lao Xiao or Professor Xiao. Oh, I am also the director of the Science Island Laboratory now. You can call me Director Xiao... forget it, it sounds a bit old-fashioned."

"Yes! Professor Xiao!" Obviously, Wang Li made his choice.

Xiao Yi nodded, and then said: "That's it, don't stand all the time, sit down."

Wang Li said, "No need for now, Professor Xiao. I have just been investigating the safety situation in this area. I haven't finished the investigation yet. If you don't have any other instructions, I will continue to investigate."

So professional?

Xiao Yi nodded: "Okay then, thank you for your help."

"No trouble! This is my mission!"

Wang Li said, and then he continued his survey mission.

Looking at his resolute and swift manner, Xiao Yi couldn't help but sigh, this is their soldier, right?

At this moment, his cell phone suddenly rang.

I took a look and saw that it was a call from Nature.

I guess it’s about the thesis.
Now the results from those ten laboratories are out. According to the previous agreement, it is estimated that the copyright transfer agreement will be issued.

However, just before he was about to answer the call, he suddenly frowned and thought about it.

That doesn't make sense. If Nature wanted to inform him that the paper had been accepted, why would they call him directly?

Generally speaking, they should just send an email to inform us directly, right?

This call was really unnecessary.

Could it be...?
After thinking for a moment, he answered the call, but pressed the recording button.

Then, the words of Skip, the editor-in-chief on the other side, confirmed his guess.

Xiao Yi's brows immediately frowned: "So, this means that you want to breach the contract? This is different from what we agreed before."

"Professor Xiao, this is it. If you agree, this year's Nobel Prize may be awarded to you. You know, this new superconductor undoubtedly verifies the value of the XSC theory. The Nobel Prize in Physics is very favorable to such achievements."

Skip said quickly.

However, after hearing what the other party said, Xiao Yi was silent for a moment, and then said: "Nature, Nature, what did I do to make you disrespect me so much?"

Skip: “I…”

Xiao Yi didn't let her continue, and said directly: "That's it, I won't say anything else."

Without further ado, he hung up the phone.

He wasn't angry at all, or rather, it wasn't worth it for him to be angry about it.

I can only say that these people really think that the Nobel Prize is something important.

In terms of economic value, according to reports, the global superconductor material market size is at least around US$80 billion each year, and with the increasing use of superconductors, this size will inevitably rise steadily, not to mention the new FeSe, which will inevitably further expand the scope of use of superconductors, and its future sales scale, US$50 billion is just a conservative estimate.

The Nobel Prize is only 90 million Swedish kronor, which is roughly equivalent to US dollars.

Choose between these two...

Well, Xiao Yi remembered a classic multiple-choice question he had seen before: Peking University admission letter and 1000 million, which one would you choose?
In addition to economic value, it is the other party's way of thinking.

Do you think a Nobel Prize can make him surrender?

Shaking his head and saying no more, he returned to his office and began to write an email.

The content of the email was to ask Nature to withdraw his previous article "Coupled model of electron density waves and spin density waves: mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity", as well as all reports in Nature about his achievements. For example, when he proved the twin prime conjecture and the Goldbach conjecture, Nature had reported on this matter.

Although these articles have been published and there is no academic fraud, it is basically impossible to retract them.

However, this is also a statement of his opinion.

From now on, he will definitely not submit articles to Nature again.

Ok……

I'd rather not submit any articles in the future.

He thought about it and decided to post any future achievements on his personal website. It happened that since he became a professor at the University of Science and Technology, he also built his own personal website, and he would no longer consider submitting to other journals.

Soon, the email was completed and he sent it to the editorial department of Nature.
Of course, this is not the end yet. In order to avoid the other party from turning the tables, he must first occupy the high ground of public opinion.
Therefore, it is necessary to write an article to explain the reasons for this matter.

Well, maybe it’s a short essay?
He shook his head with a smile, and then he started writing.

……

That evening, Xiao Yi's article titled "Nature has lost its credibility as a top journal" quickly went viral.

All of a sudden, the academic community, which was shocked by the new FeSe superconductor, shifted its attention to this matter.

A world-class scientist publicly criticizes a world-class journal?
Such a shocking piece of news immediately attracted the attention of people all over the world.

Afterwards, after understanding the reason, "Nature" was criticized and abused by almost half of the scientific community.

Since we have already negotiated it, why breach the contract?

Now he deserves to be criticized by Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi's influence today is quite large throughout the world, and of course there are quite a lot of people supporting him.

In addition, "Nature" is also caught up in public opinion turmoil because of the super fraud incident about Alzheimer's disease and the retraction storm of room-temperature superconductors some time ago. This incident has put "Nature" into an unbearable situation.

Nature's old rival Science was so delighted that it started to stir up trouble everywhere and even wrote an article in the new issue of Science titled "Nature not only wants your article, but also your money". In addition, it called out to Xiao Yi to submit his paper to them in the future.

Just when the whole world thought that this was just one of the incidents, it was suddenly discovered that a recording had been released on Xiao Yi’s personal website. It was actually the content of a phone call between Skip and Xiao Yi.

The Nobel Prize hinted at by Skip added fuel to the fire.

You are the editor-in-chief of Nature, and you know about the Nobel Prize?

The Nobel Prize, whose fairness had long been questioned, was also brought into jeopardy because of this recording.

For a time, the entire scientific community was in chaos.

The headquarters of Nature is in even greater disarray.

With a "bang", a glass was smashed to the ground.

Skip said angrily: "Fuck! Damn Science! If Xiao Yi's paper was submitted to them, they would be the ones being scolded! And they are still gloating over his misfortune!"

Opposite her was their CEO, Lanka Warner, an old professor in his sixties.

Warner also had a headache.

If Xiao Yi was just an outstanding scientist, this incident would not have such a big impact.

But the problem is that Xiao Yi is a scientist who made history, whether in mathematics, physics, or even materials science.

Not to mention that people have now developed a perfect superconductor, which is currently at the core of people's attention.

This is too destructive for them.

"You shouldn't have called him," Warner accused.

"How did I know Xiao Yi would react so strongly?!" Skip spread his hands: "Besides, Davis asked me to do it! He said it was the U.S. Department of Energy's intention!"

Warner said angrily: "You should have told me then! Why did you go past me?"

Skip said, "Davis also called me without going through you as CEO! Why did you come to me? Go find him! Go find the Americans!"

The two began to shirk responsibility.

At this moment, the office door suddenly opened, and an assistant came in and said, "The Nobel Prize Committee called..."

The two people in the office suddenly had an even bigger headache.

Warner said, "I really don't know what you are thinking! How can you hint at the Nobel Prize like this?!"

Skip said, "How could I have imagined that Xiao Yi actually recorded the conversation? And it was Davis who asked me to talk to Xiao Yi about the Nobel Prize!"

"I..." Warner was even more annoyed. Suddenly, his heart probably skipped a beat due to anger. He quickly covered his heart, then took out a quick-acting heart pill from his pocket and drank it.

However, at this time, good news came again.

Another person ran into the office and said, “Now 11 scientists have said they will no longer submit papers to Nature.”

Probably because the quick-acting heart-saving pills had not yet taken effect, Warner, an old man in his sixties or almost seventies, fainted from anger.

"Oh my god! Mr. Warner!"

For a moment, the office was in chaos.

……

(End of this chapter)