Chapter 158: Protection
[The Pride of China, the Divine Light of China!]
[Glory to our China, hail to our Divine God!]
Naturally, wherever there is light, there is shadow, and there was no shortage of cynical and sour commentary. [They're just trivial mathematics awards. What use are they? They have zero production value. If she's truly brilliant, why doesn't she win a Nobel Prize in Mathematics!]
A group of self-flagellating critics also began to pop up relentlessly.
[What is wrong with this country? What is wrong with these people? This is the tragedy of our exam-oriented education. The slightest glimmer of success and people lose their minds with arrogance. She's just good at solving test questions with zero innovative capacity. I see no future for this country!]
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However, these cynical, self-hating pseudo-intellectuals never expected to kick a solid wall this time. First, a group of knowledgeable and discerning netizens, who happened to be fierce fans of Wu Tong, mercilessly shot back.
[To that self-proclaimed noble and knowledgeable individual: Since when has there been a Nobel Prize in Mathematics? Why don't you go win one and show us?]
[To the person whose IP says "In the US, just landed off a plane": How interesting that your location tracker showed you in a remote Chinese mountain village just yesterday. Does your master's private jet travel so fast that it let you time-travel instantly?]
[To those saying our Divine God isn't powerful enough: I'm not asking for much, why don't you go fetch a prize for us to see? Anyone with a shred of common sense knows that mathematics has always been the playground of supreme geniuses and the sunken abyss of ordinary people. Which of these awards is anything you could ever reach? You wouldn't even be fit to lick the boots of the winners!]
[Saying our Divine God lacks innovation? That's the funniest joke I've heard all year. To borrow the exact words of Andrew Wiles—the international titan who spoke when our Divine God first made it to the top-tier journals—"This is true innovation... Let us proudly introduce to the world a genius pearl from the East! The light of our Divine God makes the world stand in awe!"]
While the entire internet was holding a carnival celebrating Wu Tong's award, there was also a chaotic dance of demons. Regarding the online celebrations for Wu Tong, the personnel tasked with protecting and monitoring her only provided positive guidance and exercised minimal interference, as long as it didn't involve classified information. However, those who attacked Wu Tong and maliciously smeared her fell squarely within the scope of violent retaliation!
Pan Wenhua issued a furious, ironclad order: Sue them all! He brought in the Peking University Law School to serve as reinforcements, mobilizing all those gold-medal lawyers who were just itching for a fight. Defending the glory of the university was entirely up to them!
Let's see who else dares to talk nonsense and slander the radiant sun of Peking University!
And so, those so-called cynical, self-hating pseudo-intellectuals were delightfully served with lawyer's letters one by one. In an instant, they scattered like startled birds and fell into dead silence. Their previous comments were wiped clean in a flash. They had danced wildly more than once, but who could have imagined that someone would actually play for keeps?
Warm-hearted netizens who took note of this promptly flooded the comment sections with screenshots they had saved just in case, thoroughly proving that the internet does indeed have a memory.
Major universities chimed in to forward and show their support. It was a mere courtesy to Peking University and Wu Tong—a trivial gesture, so why not?
Following the successful maiden flight and landing of the J-20 Mighty Dragon—which, based on Wu Tong's assistance, saw its data genuinely double and achieve unimaginable excellence—and her subsequent submission of the Qian-style ballistic research, Wu Tong's importance was elevated to yet another tier.
She was verifiably a top-tier national treasure of immense potential, as well as an intensely patriotic talent willing to dedicate herself to the nation. They had to ensure her protection was airtight.
On ordinary days, Wu Tong basically stayed on campus, leaving them with little opportunity to show their worth. But now, they finally had a chance to put their skills to use. The Ministry of State Security reserve team immediately stepped in to guide online discourse, preventing excessive human-flesh searching and doxxing of Wu Tong.
Cooperating with the technical teams, they dug out the real identities of those troublemakers who feared the world wouldn't be chaotic enough, mailing legal letters directly to their homes and arresting those who broke the law without a shred of mercy!
It was imperative to completely strike down and net those harboring malicious intentions, while also sending a clear warning to netizens harboring malice, whether expressed or unexpressed: the internet has never been a land beyond the law.
With the advancement of technology and the popularization of the internet, this was utterly necessary!
Meanwhile, across the ocean at the Science Editorial Center, a reviewing editor gasped in astonishment over a submitted paper. "What? Is this a materials paper or a mathematics paper? Did they send it to the wrong place?"
Judging by the title, it was undoubtedly a materials paper. But upon diving into the main text, it was filled to the brim with complex mathematical formulas. She considered her own mathematics proficiency to be decent, yet she found herself utterly unable to comprehend what any of it meant.
However, she could not dismiss it out of hand. The author of this paper possessed too dazzling a resume—she was the prover of three major conjectures. Who could casually dismiss her achievements, even when she crossed over into the field of materials science?
A paper like this was infinitely more headache-inducing than those fabricated, completely incoherent filler papers!
Had that mathematical genius grown tired of the loneliness of the mathematics world and come over to wreak havoc in the materials world instead?
Forget it, forget it. Which materials scientists possessed exceptional mathematical prowess? Professor Sader from UC Berkeley? Professor Omar from Stanford?
One a Wolf Prize laureate in Chemistry, the other a Nobel laureate. She would simply report this to the editor-in-chief and let those big shots deal with the headache. Little shrimps like her had no qualification to critique the utterances of leviathans!
When the international materials titans contacted by the science editorial department finally laid eyes on the paper, their reactions were no better than the reviewing editor's. Were such convoluted mathematical models something they could easily comprehend?
A heavy, oppressive atmosphere hung over these top-tier masters. If you're going to do math, just do math! Crossing over to torture them, the materials people, was simply too driving-you-to-madness!
In the end, with aching heads, they had to admit they needed outside help, and successively reached out to friendly acquaintances in the mathematical community for assistance. This could be considered a rare precedent; given their wealth of experience, having to ask others for help was certainly a novel experience!
The materials world was once again plunged into turbulent waves because of Wu Tong's paper.
Human understanding of particle synthesis in materials science was still in its infancy. The emergence of Wu Tong's covalent bonding theory filled a portion of that void, holding immense inspirational and reference value for material chemistry bonding.
If they could uncover the special mechanisms between material atoms, they would grow ever closer to the essence of matter.
Wu Tong's theory was merely a foundational theory existing within the realm of natural sciences, focusing primarily on the existence of a special covalent bonding effect during the process of elements forming chemical bonds. She did not explicitly state that this mechanism could be utilized to make alloys stronger, so there was no need to worry that releasing this theory would enable others to develop epoch-making alloy materials like T4 titanium-aluminum alloy or T5 nickel-iron alloy.
After all, even the discoverer herself could only rely on special deductions and directional judgments to select combinations and form outcomes capable of mutually reinforcing complementary effects and achieving transcendence.
Just as countless people throughout the world poured their hearts and souls into researching relativity, how many were actually able to achieve groundbreaking results with it?
(End of this chapter)