Top Student: Wasteland Technology Invasion

When Tao Luo and her younger sister returned to the door, the little girl Tao Ling exclaimed excitedly, "Sister, it's canned meat!"

Compared to her sister's excitement, Tao Luo appeared much calmer. She clenched her slightly trembling fists tightly, bowed solemnly towards the door, and then said, "Thank you for your kindness. This gift is too precious."

Although no contamination detector was used, Tao Luo dared to boldly guess that these two cans of meat were very likely to be zero-contamination food.

Even if she and her sister became permanent residents of the largest city in the east, they would never be able to eat such good food with zero pollution.

After the nuclear winter, the land has been completely changed. Except for certain powerful forces that worship technology and may be able to produce pollution-free pre-war food like canned goods, the food of the inhabitants of other forces is mostly various kinds of nutritional supplements.

These nutritional supplements may provide sustenance, but their taste can never compare to that of delicious canned meat.

In his excitement, Tao Luo even began to address Lin Chuan as "you" (formal).

Lin Chuan likely came from a powerful force.

Lin Chuan said, "You can take the two cans of food and leave, never to return. Consider it a small gift from me to you and your sister. If you want to continue the transaction, just come back with the book and the information and knock on the door every day. I will respond to you when the time is right."

"clear."

The woman left with her sister.

Lin Chuan didn't dwell too much on the transaction. If everything went smoothly, he would make a breakthrough in his exploration of the wasteland.

If a woman poses a danger to him, he will find an opportunity to open a new anchor point and secretly shoot her dead.

Of course, this requires a certain level of physical fitness and marksmanship from Lin Chuan. He plans to put physical training on his agenda after returning to the real world.

Thinking of this, Lin Chuan made a call to the system.

"System, you're a fake wasteland, real genius system, right? Then you should at least include physical education!"

Don't top students need to grind for sports experience points?

"Hey! Where's my Sports Studies experience bar?"

The system did not respond.

Got it!

He could only rely on his own skills to train; Lin Chuan refused to believe that he couldn't build muscle without the system.

……

The time travel countdown ended, and Lin Chuan returned to the real world.

Although there were no missed calls on my phone after I disappeared for two hours, a lot of information had accumulated.

Lin Chuan glanced at them briefly and sent replies to a few of them.

This incident also served as a reminder to him.

Assuming he continues down the academic path, as his reputation grows, he will inevitably be exposed to more and more people.

When the math level is upgraded to level 2, the time available for crossing between worlds increases by one hour.

In the future, this time may change from two hours to three hours, four hours, or even more.

What should you do if a famous person mysteriously disappears for so long and the people around them call the police?

This will cause a chain reaction.

After thinking about a solution for a while, Lin Chuan couldn't come up with a good one.

But he quickly came to terms with it. There was no point in thinking about it now; once he achieved that academic success or had more exposure to the wasteland world, he would naturally find a solution.

Looking back now, it was just needless worry.

"Ding!"

The phone beeped with a crisp notification sound.

The 10,000 yuan Xinping Loan has arrived in my account!

Seeing the extra numbers on his bank card, Lin Chuan felt a moment of joy.

Only for a moment.

Then he had mixed feelings.

Because it seems like he can't hold onto this money at all.

He was about to publish the computer science paper he had just written in the wasteland world: "An Implementation of Urban Transportation Network Based on Sparse Multi-Source Floating Data".

As for the target journal, he has already chosen it: IEEE Knowledge Engineering and Data Engineering Journal.

This is a core journal in the field of computer science, which regularly publishes high-level work in areas such as intelligent transportation, graph neural networks, and real-time computing, and it is highly consistent with the paper he wrote.

Most importantly, this journal, a Q1 journal, has an impact factor of 10.4, so Lin Chuan won't lose money by submitting to it.

According to the research Lin Chuan has done recently, the subsidy from Yueyang University for publication in journals with an impact factor greater than 10 is more than 20,000 yuan.

In addition, the review period for the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge Engineering and Data Engineering is only 2-5 weeks. If everything goes smoothly, Lin Chuan will be able to recoup his investment in October.

Lin Chuan's biggest problem right now is that he has no money.

What's the best way for him to make money right now?

Earn scholarships, project awards, and publish papers.

The first two were basically one-off deals, which Lin Chuan couldn't control.

The only exception is this one who published a paper.

He can make money as long as he can write papers and publish them in journals with high impact factors.

This involves a payment collection issue.

In the early stages, when he doesn't have much money, he should choose journals with low publication fees and fast review cycles. This way, he can quickly grow and become stronger.

If it were a subject like physics, chemistry, biology, or even engineering, Lin Chuan might not dare to do this.

After all, these disciplines are experimental sciences, and the important thing about publishing papers is that they can be reproduced.

Experiments always have costs; it's not an exaggeration to say that they can burn through hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars a day.

He's going to try and fix this now, and he doesn't even know how he'll lose all his money.

Mathematics and computer science are more friendly in this regard.

The former requires one person, one piece of paper, and one pen; the latter requires multiple computers, so it can be said that there is basically no cost.

"If you publish one article a week and earn 10,000 yuan, that's 40,000 yuan a month, and 480,000 yuan a year."

"Phew, I have more money than I can ever spend."

In addition, there are interactive rewards, which can earn a considerable amount of learning coins and a small amount of subject experience.

"And if you happen to produce a paper that gets published in a top-tier journal, the school's reward will definitely be substantial!"

Thinking of this, Lin Chuan felt a surge of excitement.

The process of publishing papers must be put into operation as soon as possible.

Saturday morning.

Lin Chuan arrived at the Information Building early since there were no classes in the Qiushi Class. Today was the day Professor Du Cheng was holding a group meeting.

He received a call from an unknown number as soon as he arrived at the information building.

The call came from the logistics officer at the School of Information Science and Technology, who said his computer was fixed.

It took Lin Chuan two seconds to finally remember that yesterday, his senior brother Jiao told him that Professor Du wanted to give him a high-end computer in the lab and asked him to write up the configuration list.

I didn't expect the School of Information Science to be so efficient; the computer was ready in less than a day.

"Senior Brother Jiao, could you lend me a hand? The computer I assembled yesterday has arrived."

Lin Chuan's computer has three monitors, so it was quite difficult for him to carry it back by himself.

I had stir-fry with my senior classmate Jiao yesterday. He and this doctoral student have a pretty good relationship, so naturally, he's the first person I think of when I need something.

Jiao Bolun nodded. "No need to be so polite about such a small matter. Let's go, Junior Brother Lin."

Since Lin Chuan was directly connected with the logistics teacher, Jiao Bolun didn't know what configuration Lin Chuan had written. Now, the two of them went to get the computer together, which satisfied his curiosity in a certain aspect.

Before long, the two arrived together at the Logistics Department of the School of Information Science and Technology.

"Hello teacher, my name is Lin Chuan. I am a student in Professor Du Cheng's project group. I'm here to pick up the computer that was assigned to me yesterday."

The logistics staff quickly verified his identity and pointed to several large cardboard boxes at the back. "They're all over there, take them yourself." As he spoke, he muttered to himself, "The sun must have risen in the west. Professor Du is such a stingy person, it's strange that he's being so generous with computers now..."