kingnovel Chapter 856 There is a Traitor
Chapter 856 There is a Traitor
"I seem to have some impression of him. What happened to him?"
When Zhang Heping was doing experiments in the space capsule remote control center that day, his assistant Lao Lu mentioned to him Professor Cheng from the Department of Biology at Capital University.
"He won the International Young Scientist Award!" Assistant Lao Lu said with a smile: "Teacher Zhang, can you let Professor Cheng come to our place?"
"The age of the winner of the International Young Scientist Award must not exceed 35 years old!" Zhang Heping said without turning his head while sitting in front of the computer screen:
"If I remember correctly, he graduated with a degree in botany in 82, went to the United States of America to study for a master's degree in biomedical sciences in 83, and obtained his doctorate in 86."
"Old Lu, what is your motive for recommending this person?" Zhang Heping's tone suddenly turned cold. "Take your students and go to the Security Department to explain clearly now."
"Teacher Zhang, I..." Assistant Lao Lu was stunned on the spot. He had never expected that Zhang Heping's words would take such a big turn.
Just when the other assistants came to their senses and wanted to help persuade them, an alarm suddenly sounded at the remote control center.
Immediately afterwards, two guards at the door rushed in, followed by a dozen more guards who arrived one after another.
It was naturally Zhang Heping who sounded the alarm. He was too lazy to explain to everyone and simply deleted the access rights of his assistant Lao Lu and the group of students he led in the system and kicked them out of the top-floor laboratory.
This incident had a huge impact, because the specifications of the space capsule remote control center laboratory on the top floor could be said to be the highest level among the ground laboratories of the Peace College.
Twelve of the assistants went through layers of selection, passed theoretical tests, and multiple rounds of interviews before they were successfully retained by Zhang Heping.
For example, assistant Professor Xiao Tang, whose students made two major mistakes in space experiments, but Zhang Heping only gave him a verbal warning. This shows that Zhang Heping's tolerance for these assistants is proportional to the difficulty of their selection.
However, what puzzled Mr. Hua, Director Wang and others was that Assistant Lao Lu was kicked out of the top-floor laboratory by Zhang Heping just because he casually recommended someone.
Even if that person has studied abroad in the United States and does not meet the recruitment standards of the Peace College, they would not kick Lao Lu out!
According to Lao Lu's explanation at the Security Department of Shenzhen Peace College, the reason he recommended Professor Cheng from the Department of Biology of Capital University was that he received a call from an old friend in the morning, who asked him to recommend him.
However, according to Lao Lu's phone records, the call in the morning came from a public phone in a small shop in the capital, and the shop owner had no idea what the person who called in the morning looked like.
The old friend mentioned by Lao Lu was not only in Shanghai, but also had no idea about the recommendation when the Shanghai national security personnel came to inquire about it.
As for Professor Cheng who was recommended, he naturally answered that he had no idea.
However, Professor Cheng did express his desire to come to the Peace College for exchange and study.
It was two weeks later when we finished the investigation.
When Mr. Hua placed the results of the investigation next to Zhang Heping, he said helplessly: "We have also questioned Professor Lu's family and have not found anything suspicious."
Because Lao Lu couldn't prove who made the call, the matter came to a standstill and there was no way to rule out Lao Lu's suspicion of foreign involvement.
"Heping, can you tell me the basis for your cancellation of Professor Lu's position as assistant?"
When Mr. Hua asked this question, the other assistants and students in the space capsule remote control center looked over subconsciously.
"I originally handed this matter over to the Security Department, but you insisted on interfering in it." Zhang Heping looked at the brown paper bag on his right hand and frowned.
"Where is Lao Lu now? How many of his students are missing?"
Upon hearing this, Mr. Hua frowned, "Professor Lu said he was too embarrassed to continue teaching here, so he resigned and returned to his hometown."
"Two of the seven students he taught asked for leave, saying they wanted to send Professor Lu back to his hometown."
After saying this, Zhang Heping did not respond for a long time, as if his basis lay in those two questions.
Just when Mr. Hua realized that something was wrong, an assistant next to him said, "If it were me, I would not resign. I must get this matter cleared up and prove my innocence!"
Another assistant spoke up, "Professor Lu resigned, and asked his son and daughter-in-law to resign from their high-paying jobs arranged by the college. I thought they were angry with Teacher Zhang, but they left without a word the next day!"
A student interrupted and asked, "Professor Lu, do they have a lot of luggage? Two students have to ask for leave to take them there!"
As soon as Professor Lu left, the people in the laboratory on the top floor naturally stood on Zhang Heping's side, helping him magnify the various abnormalities shown by Professor Lu and his group, and at the same time making their own position clear.
However, these assistants and students spoke rather tactfully and did not boldly speculate that there was something wrong with Professor Lu.
But these words were enough to alert Mr. Hua.
He had previously trusted his subordinates' investigations too blindly and Professor Lu's archival materials too much, and had never considered that there was something wrong with Professor Lu himself.
"Boss!" A male voice rang out from the loudspeaker in the hall. It came from a black-clad bodyguard outside the glass partition. "Professor Lu, his family, and the two students boarded a cargo ship bound for Ri Island in Shanghai. The ship is currently leaving the port."
"What?" Mr. Hua looked at the glass door in disbelief.
However, before Mr. Hua could ask further questions, Zhang Heping replied, "I know," and casually passed over the matter.
Just as Mr. Hua took out his cell phone and prepared to find someone from Shanghai to intercept the freighter, Zhang Heping spoke again.
"Didn't you just ask me what the basis was for canceling Professor Lu's position as assistant?" Zhang Heping said calmly while staring at the experiment on the screen:
"Assistant Tang's students made two major mistakes in space experiments before. You should still remember that."
Mr. Hua responded lightly, put down his phone, and prepared to listen to Zhang Heping's explanation.
As for Professor Lu, since Zhang Heping had arranged people to monitor him, he probably had a backup plan. So Mr. Hua suppressed his annoyance and did not arrange for people to intercept the freighter immediately.
"First mistake, huh..." Zhang Heping shook his head and said, "It's such a simple thing as operating the petri dish, but they still made mistakes. My first reaction was to kick all of them out."
When the assistants and students around heard this, their expressions became a little unnatural, as if he was talking about them.
"Afterwards, I talked to that student." Zhang Heping's tone turned cold. "He said that he was operating according to the method taught by Teacher Tang, but the robotic arm in the space capsule seemed to be out of control!"
"I've said before in the software security course that no matter how secure the protection software is, it can't withstand attacks from insiders!"
"Afterwards, I retrieved the video of the student's operation and compared it with the video of the robotic arm in the space capsule. I indeed found that the student's hand operation did not match the movement of the robotic arm in the space capsule."
"After I ruled out software and hardware problems, I finally found that someone had tampered with the underlying code of my system and modified the records related to the space capsule experiment."
"Although I found out who did it, I didn't expose him."
At this point, Professor Hua and the assistants and students present couldn't help but think of Professor Lu who was fleeing to Japan!
"This person always has a purpose when he does bad things." Zhang Heping continued: "Even if he suddenly wants to kill someone, killing is his purpose!"
"So, I wanted to see what his purpose was, and then there was a second accident!"
"This accident may seem like an accident, but it was caused by the students in Lao Lu's group who provoked the experimental monkey with the spherical robot."
"When Assistant Tang's group of students was using the spherical robot to transport the virus sample, Lao Lu's group of students happened to deliver the banana paste to the experimental monkey through the robotic arm, and the experimental monkey happened to hit the spherical robot with the banana paste."
"Two accidents happened to Assistant Tang in a row. I was wondering how much hatred this old man must have for Assistant Tang to keep causing trouble for him."
"Then, I took the opportunity to warn Assistant Tang."
"As Assistant Tang no longer helps others prepare lessons or substitute for others, he has focused most of his energy on experiments, so no one has been able to take advantage of him."
"Just when I thought it would take a long time for those people to cause trouble again, I didn't expect him to take the initiative to come forward and recommend someone to me!"
"Humph!" Zhang Heping sneered, "We waited for them for so long, only to plant someone in here!"
"The reason they targeted Assistant Tang might be because Assistant Tang is about the same age as the person who recommended him."
"But what they didn't expect was that Assistant Tang had two accidents in a row, and I didn't fire him!"
Zhang Heping's cold voice echoed in the hall. Following his explanation, everyone realized belatedly why Zhang Heping did not disclose the core technology of the 120 and 160 lifespan potions. It turned out that this was the crux of the problem!
"Now that we understand their purpose, the only thing left is to find out who is behind it!" Zhang Heping said coldly:
"Based on the current situation, Japan and Magnesium are both possible, but we cannot rule out other countries."
After listening for so long, Mr. Hua finally couldn't help but ask, "You let them go to Ri Island, are you trying to find out who is behind it?"
"No!" Zhang Heping sneered, "I just want to wish him and the forces behind him a long life!"
When he heard the words "live a long life of a hundred years", Mr. Hua was shocked!
He naturally heard that Zhang Heping had no good intentions when he said these four words.
Besides, Zhang Heping had said this before, and he also took the initiative to let the magnesium guy steal a part of the original liquid of the 100-year life potion.
Otherwise, the guys in Magnesium would not have come up with the generic drug NMN100 so quickly!
The point now is that the biology professors and experts in Shenzhen Peace College have figured out the production method and principle of the 100-year life potion, naturally including Professor Lu who has already left!
Mr. Hua suddenly had an epiphany. He realized that Zhang Heping deliberately let Professor Lu and his group go because the NMN100 drug had recently caused many unexplained deaths among users, leading to dismal sales.
If the magnesium countrymen had the help of Professor Lu, they would not have to imitate it. They could directly copy Professor Zhang Heping's method and make the 100-year life potion.
However, would Zhang Heping, who is so murderous, really let go of Lao Lu's family and the two students who have learned software technology well so easily?
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As the freighter left the port, Old Man Lu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Until now, he still hasn't figured out why Zhang Heping suddenly turned against him.
In his mind, he was just recommending a young professor who had just won an award.
Even if Zhang Heping disagreed because of the other party's study abroad experience in the United States, at least he had registered an appointment with this person.
When assistant Xiao Tang makes another mistake, the assistant position will be vacant.
Therefore, Professor Cheng, who had previously made an appointment with Zhang Heping, had a great chance of being selected.
Even if he was not selected, according to Old Man Lu's idea, he could create experimental accidents for other people and drive away a few more people. There would always be a chance to let Professor Cheng enter the top-floor laboratory and complete the tasks assigned by those people.
As for those people...
When Old Man Lu thought back on his experiences over the past ten days, he felt inexplicably relieved!
Even though Zhang Heping was rich enough to rival a country and had the guards capture Old Man Lu at the first opportunity, with the help of those people, Old Man Lu still escaped to the cargo ship bound for Ri Island!
From this we can see that if he had chosen to speak frankly to Zhang Heping and told him that someone was threatening him to steal the longevity potion technology, Zhang Heping might not be able to protect the safety of him and his family.
After all, those people moved him and his family away from under the noses of Zhang Heping and Hua Lao.
With mixed feelings, Old Man Lu went down the deck and returned to the guest room that the captain had personally arranged for his family and two students.
They are called guest rooms, but in fact they are three double rooms. Old Man Lu and his grandson live in one, his son and daughter-in-law live in one, and two students live in one.
At this time, his son, daughter-in-law, and grandson were all sitting in Old Man Lu's room, discussing their future life in Magnesium.
On the way to Shanghai, Old Man Lu's son heard Old Man Lu's story of the whole incident and learned that someone was threatening Old Man Lu with his family's lives.
Of course, none of this matters!
The 1 million magnesium yuan settlement allowance, as well as the patent application for the 100-year-old medicine technology under a different name, and then the patent licensing fees, are the reasons why the father and son of the Lu family are so eager to live in the country of magnesium.
Otherwise, why would they give up their jobs at the Peace College with a monthly salary of tens of thousands of yuan?
You should know that the term "ten thousand yuan household" has only become popular in inland provinces in recent years.
"Dad, how many days will we stay in Rido East?" Old Man Lu's son said with some concern: "I heard from the security guards that the Umbrella Company has a branch in Rido East. What if they find us..."
"Don't worry!" Old Man Lu comforted the family in the room, "As soon as the freighter docks, we will go to the airport, fly to the west coast of Magnesium, and then go to Magnesium Huadu. They will have no chance to see us."
"Dad, how many days will this ship be on the sea?" The daughter-in-law of the Lu family touched her son's forehead and said worriedly, "Yangyang is still running a low-grade fever. I'm afraid the medicine I bought yesterday didn't work. I want to take Yangyang to see a doctor."
"Mom, I'm fine!" The grandson of the Lu family shook a bottle of mineral water. "The doctor yesterday said that I don't need to take medicine. I just need to drink more water and rely on my own immunity to get through it."
Old Man Lu reached out and touched his grandson Lu Yang's forehead, then touched his own forehead, nodded and said, "Your forehead isn't hot, it's just a minor cold, don't worry!"
This sentence of "don't worry" allowed Old Man Lu to sleep well all night on the rocking sea.
It was only when he was awakened from his drowsiness by a knock on the door the next day, and after opening the door, he gradually came to his senses amid the quarrel between his son and daughter-in-law.
"What's wrong with Yangyang? He has a high fever..."
Before Old Man Lu could finish his question, he fainted!