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"Who is that student? Is he from your school's genius program?" the principals were all amazed, someone actually dared to ask a world-class scientist to hand him a wrench and even then proceeded to take notes?

If you said you were also a renowned scholar, that would be one thing, but the person who said this was just a young man who looked under 20!

Just when they all thought that Professor Orlick would blow up, he surprisingly showed an excited expression, picked up his notebook, and hurriedly ran after that student with the wrench in hand, moving so skillfully it was almost pitiful.

"Jiang, student, you speak, and I'll note it down!"

"This Anti-Gravity Engine, let me first tell you the basic principle. The Anti-Gravity Engine works by compressing space in front and expanding it at the back, using a vortex to rotate dark matter..."

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England's Professor Orlick, a national treasure-level scientist, his academic achievements were not only top in his own country but top across the globe!

Several top universities from Huaxia had invited him to give academic lectures, but Professor Orlick, being quite proud, refused them all. He wasn't even interested in many world-class academic conferences.

And now, he had actually come to Huaxia and was eagerly assisting a youngster?

"He is just a sophomore at our Mechanical Academy," Zhang Menglong explained, "Their teaching assistant is a student from the genius program. Our country took a strategy of 'getting rich first, then bringing others along' during our economic development phase. Hence, our education now focuses on having excellent individuals inspire and lead more to excellence!"

"An ordinary student?"

"Does Jiangnan University of Science and Technology have some misunderstanding with the word 'ordinary'?"

"An ordinary student explaining key points about the Anti-gravity Engine to a top scholar in the mechanical domain?"

"Wait, this machine isn't the Anti-gravity Engine, is it?"

"Student, may I ask what this is?" one of the principals gathered courage and stepped forward to ask.

"Academician Zhang, Academician Han!" the student beamed with admiration upon seeing Zhang Menglong.

Their genius program teaching assistant was seen as omniscient by them, but when they talked about Zhang Menglong, their admiration was barely concealable; in their eyes, the seldom-seen Academician Zhang was nothing short of legendary.

"This is Jiangnan University of Electronic Science and Technology's principal. Please answer his question," Zhang Menglong said.

"Oh, this is the core engine of the Anti-Gravity Device, mainly driving the dark matter energy," the student stuck out his tongue, "but there was a small error just now, and it nearly exploded—all because of this foreigner, having him do some work and he's so clumsy!"

The 'clumsy' foreigner the student mentioned was none other than Professor Orlick.

However, there wasn't the slightest hint of displeasure on Professor Orlick's face. Perhaps he couldn't understand Huaxia language, but even if he did, he had no grounds to argue—his blunder had indeed caused the malfunction.

At that moment, he was fervently recording data and other information in his notebook, displaying an attitude eager to learn.

"Did you all research this by yourselves?" asked the principal of Jiangnan University of Electronic Science and Technology.

"Yes, our teaching assistant explained the detailed principles to us, then let us get hands-on," the student grumbled, "If we can't build an Anti-gravity Device by the end of this semester, there go our credits for this term!"

"You're doing such things in your sophomore year?"

"Ah, it's mainly because I'm too dumb," the student shook his head, "it took me three classes to fully understand this material, while my peers are already on to the Curvature Drive Engine. Even some juniors have started researching Curvature Drives."

"Your Mechanical Academy is already researching such advanced stuff? Just any of these research topics could get published in world-leading journals, right?"

"Pfft!" the boy scoffed, showing a disdainful expression, "What's so great about world-leading journals? Nowadays, if you're from Jiangnan University of Science and Technology and you don't have at least one first-class SCI paper, you can't even walk with your head held high. Just randomly pick a few people here and they've published in 'Nature' and 'Science'. Is that supposed to be impressive?"

"Then what do you find interesting?"

The student's tone turned alarmingly bold. At these schools, a single publication in one of these top journals would almost certainly cause a grand celebration, yet at Jiangnan University of Science and Technology, you wouldn't dare step outside if you hadn't published at that level?

Even Versailles couldn't compare to this level of opulence, could it?

This comment reminded them of Huaxia's ping pong team, and the ignorant fat guy who once said, "Our national team is replete with world champions, everyone's got a few world champion titles, you bag a national champion and that's the real deal!"

Could it be that the students at Jiangnan University of Science and Technology are all authors in top-tier journals just like that?

"Of course, it's the school scholarship and the school newspaper!" the boy exclaimed excitedly, "you do not understand how difficult it is to get an article published in our school newspaper. It's published monthly, and only seventy to eighty people can get their articles in, out of how many students in the whole school!"

"School... school newspaper?"

There was a time when, for a school of science and technology, publishing a paper in the school newspaper was almost the bare minimum for a lab graduation requirement, reserved only for those papers that couldn't even make it into the fourth-class SCI category.

At some schools, having your paper in the school newspaper didn't even qualify for graduation—it was a pillar of shame, ridiculed by your contemporaries!

But at Jiangnan University of Science and Technology, they had apparently fallen out of favor with world journals and turned to school newspapers!

"Yeah, having your article in our school newspaper is the real deal. What are 'Nature', 'Cell', 'Science'? What level of articles are they considered? Are they even worthy to be called articles?"

"Is it that hard to get into your school's newspaper?"

"You bet!" the boy slapped his thigh, "It's incredibly hard! Just take, for example, my lousy Anti-gravity Engine; it probably wouldn't even pass the screening process for the school newspaper. The worst technology in the last issue was the Photon Drive Engine, at least seventy or eighty years more advanced than my junk."

"Moreover, our scholarships; that's even harder to earn than getting published in the school paper! First-class scholarship, 50 million; second-class, 30 million; third-class, 10 million! Don't you think it's a cutthroat competition?"

"You have no idea, it's not too bad for us undergraduates, but the grad students and PhDs, that's really where the gods battle," said the boy, "the last time our teaching assistant led that PhD class, they actually created a black hole that existed for 0.002 seconds, now that was impressive!"

"Thud!" Suddenly, there was a huge noise from upstairs.

The principals shivered in fright, "What's happening? What exploded now?"

"Oh, nothing," the boy shook his head, "upstairs are some first-year students; they've apparently been working on the Mark 42 model of Iron Man armor. They should be close to finishing, might even have a shot at the third-class scholarship."

"Has your school's academic competition gotten this fierce?" all the principals were astonished.

They had heard about how Qingbei University's grad students and PhDs ended up taking civil servant positions in less prominent places, and how that level of competition had already drawn severe societal criticism.

Compared with the cutthroat environment at Jiangnan University of Science and Technology, what even qualified as competition at Qingbei? It was simply child's play. How could ordinary students survive at Jiangnan University of Science and Technology?