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Chapter 132 Demeanor and Leading by Example (Please Subscribe)
"When...when did this happen?" Fang Ziye lowered his voice, his heart sinking.

Fang Ziye has finally managed to integrate halfway into Hong Zili's team, and he can gain knowledge points through their experimental results. The amount of knowledge he gains is comparable to his daily experimental income, which is considered extra income.

But if this happens, doesn't that mean I can't continue to have such a great time?
Luo Tingzhu paused slightly. She actually wanted to remind Fang Ziye that he could temporarily put aside his "collecting obsession," but Fang Ziye seemed particularly persistent.

"It should have been a while. I didn't ask for the exact time," Luo Tingzhu replied.

After immersing all the reagents in water until they were stable, she slowly stepped back two steps, took off her gloves, and waited for the reagents to warm up to about 37°C, which is the human body temperature level.

Fang Ziye hesitated for a moment, but decided it would be best to find out more about the matter first.

Everyone in the lab, as well as colleagues in other labs, knows that experimental results are the result of hard work, and it is extremely distressing when they are leaked and misused by others.

Moreover, it's difficult to challenge others to a debate based on unpublished data, since they've already changed the tags and obtained similar results.

"Senior Brother Duan, are you busy?" Fang Ziye couldn't find Qian Qiaofeng, but he found Duan Qingyun in a laboratory.

Qian Qiaofeng was definitely not there, but in the lab, Qian Qiaofeng's senior brother, Duan Qingyun, who was rumored to be the senior brother of Associate Professor Hong Zili's group, was running a Western blot at the moment.

Unlike Qian Qiaofeng, who was tall and thin, Duan Qingyun was very fat, especially his belly. He was only about thirty years old, but he looked unusually plump. His face was as big as his belly.

He was unremarkable in appearance, with a mole about 4mm in diameter in front of his ear on the right side of his face, making him look like a very greasy middle-aged man.

But if you really think that way about him, then you are absolutely wrong. Senior Brother Duan Qingyun's existence perfectly illustrates the saying that you can't judge a book by its cover.

As Associate Professor Hong Zili's top student, Duan Qingyun was able to pursue a doctoral degree under Professor Hong's guidance. This was due to two reasons: firstly, Hong Zili was very capable, and secondly, Duan Qingyun made significant contributions to Hong Zili's research during his master's studies.

They directly promoted Hong Zili to the title of researcher and to the positions of associate professor and doctoral supervisor.

With two papers impacting over 15 points, he's practically a rising star in the research field, easily getting jobs at many teaching hospitals...

"Ziye, is there something you need?" Although Duan Qingyun wasn't handsome, he spoke very naturally and was generally not intimidated by anyone.

Upon seeing Professor Deng Yong, I simply greeted him respectfully as "Professor Deng," and then shared my opinions when I had them, otherwise we chatted about work, relationships, and various other things, which was a bit too much.

"Senior Brother Duan, I'd like to hear what Zhu has to say about our research group's experimental results?" Fang Ziye asked without being too direct.

Then, while putting on gloves, he very naturally began to help.

Duan Qingyun moved aside slightly, but when he turned around, his chubby belly still bumped into Fang Ziye.

He took two steps back before saying, "Oh, this matter has nothing to do with you, Ziye. Our team has investigated it thoroughly."

"It's just a clueless junior colleague who was showing off his results to a company employee. Coincidentally, that person was collaborating with someone else and was missing a result image, so they just sent my junior colleague's results over."

“I resigned two months ago.” Duan Qingyun is from Shashi, Hunan Province, and speaks with a slight Shashi accent and intonation.

"You think we suspect you? If we suspected you, we would have dragged you out long ago."

“My master was the first to say you could be cleared of suspicion,” Duan Qingyun reassured him.

Fang Ziye was taken aback upon hearing this. To be honest, he was genuinely impressed by Hong Zili's vision.

Despite the huge leak of the group's results, Hong Zili didn't suspect him, an outsider, at all. Instead, he gave him a second authorship on one of the articles.

Is this something an ordinary person could do?

At least, Fang Ziye felt that if something like that happened in his group, Yuan Weihong would definitely become a huge sensation.

If one's family isn't well-off, who would dare to be generous?
It's not that I'm being petty; I simply can't bear such a loss.

For small businesses, you have to be frugal.

Fang Ziye was slightly touched, but still replied, "Senior Brother Duan, please don't let other senior brothers send me pictures in the future. I'm getting really nervous."

Duan Qingyun, having finished cleaning up his stomach, smiled and narrowed his eyes into slits: "Xiao Fang, that won't do. Now that you've boarded our group's pirate ship, jumping ship halfway is not allowed."

"Gene sequencing is a massive undertaking that requires more manpower and more people to discuss it together in order to have a chance to discover a new direction. And if we can find and name a completely new target, you should know how important that achievement is."

"Leaving aside the clinical impact, if the corresponding mRNA can be found and processed with plasmids, it could support a small biotech company to start up. Just by making the corresponding processing reagents for this target, the annual revenue would be very considerable."

Seeing that Fang Ziye was still hesitating, Duan Qingyun nudged him with his shoulder and said, "Ziye, don't worry about it. If you don't trust someone, don't use them; if you use someone, don't doubt them. We are partners, so naturally we should trust and support each other."

"Thank you very much, senior brother."

"I just feel a little guilty, since I didn't really help much." Having said that, Fang Ziye didn't back down any further.

Fang Ziye does indeed need the results from Associate Professor Hong Zili's group to solidify his academic knowledge.

How could knowledge points possibly be enough?
Even with 10,000 points, Fang Ziye could spend them wisely...

"What's there to feel guilty about? If you can help, that would be a breakthrough in basic scientific research. It's not that easy."

“Even in China, there aren’t many experienced researchers who can operate gene probe technology using specialized equipment. This kind of groundbreaking technology is something only your company can do,” Duan Qingyun said with a slightly ingratiating tone.

"Senior Brother Duan, that's a bit too much of a commercial boast. You still need to accumulate more experience." Fang Ziye didn't dare to be arrogant.

Duan Qingyun's current workload includes published articles, but he hasn't published any articles in a long time. It's not that he has no workload, but rather that he's accumulating it and preparing to publish a major article.

Fang Ziye had observed Duan Qingyun's experimental speed; he could produce at least one workpiece every ten days or so. Moreover, he was a full-time academic doctoral student, and in nearly three years, there had been no news of any publications. The workpiece he published during his doctoral studies was actually accumulated during his master's studies and published during his doctoral studies.

It was only to meet the requirements for graduation and staying at the hospital, but now, Fang Ziye conservatively estimates that he has accumulated at least eighty units of data and is also working to produce a very high-quality article.

"Whether you're bragging or not, I know perfectly well. Excessive modesty is just arrogance."

"Ziye, if you want to be an unknown, unassuming monk in front of my master, then you're going a bit overboard. As for me, needless to say, I definitely have more work to do than you, but when it comes to efficiency..."

"Junior brother, there's no need for you to step on your senior brother's foot to show off your abilities, is there?" Duan Qingyun's words clearly conveyed his meaning while also comforting Fang Ziye's feelings.

Fang Ziye didn't know how to answer, but he thought to himself.

Someone like Duan Qingyun, who is capable, eloquent, and knows how to take care of other people's feelings, and who also has a mentor who is an expert in scientific research, how could his future be small if he didn't do something reckless?
"Senior, you should have gone to a postdoctoral research station for standardized training after graduation, right?" Fang Ziye changed the subject.

Duan Qingyun is an academic doctor, and academic doctoral graduates still need to undergo standardized residency training.

Generally, if you can enter a postdoctoral research station for standardized training, your annual income will be higher than if you directly join the hospital and stay on as an employee.

After all, the starting monthly salary for doctors in our hospital's residency program is over ten thousand yuan. When working at the postdoctoral research station, the subsidy is over three hundred thousand to four hundred thousand yuan per year, and even after starting work, even reaching the level of attending physician, the amount is not that much.

"It's alright. If Master didn't have a mobile station, I would have to go outside to look for one."

"Are you free to grab a late-night snack tonight?" Duan Qingyun asked very casually.

Associate Professor Hong Zili is currently capable of building his own postdoctoral research station. This is a capital that Associate Professor Hong Zili and his students, including Duan Qingyun, have accumulated together, allowing Duan Qingyun to enjoy exceptionally high-quality services.

The establishment of a postdoctoral research station is something Professor Deng Yong covets, as it only requires research experience and has absolutely nothing to do with clinical practice. However, Associate Professor Hong Zili obtained it before Professor Deng Yong, at least ten years ahead of him in age.

"Senior brother, let's do it next time. I'll treat you next time." Fang Ziye politely declined, but made an appointment for a follow-up.

"Okay." Duan Qingyun chuckled, seemingly unfathomable. ...

Fang Ziye, because he still had basic experiments to conduct, ended his conversation with Duan Qingyun about half an hour later, when the disinfection was roughly completed, and left the laboratory.

Upon leaving the laboratory, Fang Ziye's first thought was that ability is the key to earning respect.

The publication of articles is part of the accumulation of strength; absolute strength and operational skills are another aspect of strength.

If I were missing something, the current situation wouldn't be so calm and peaceful.

……

In the cell laboratory, Fang Ziye and Luo Tingzhu sat side by side in front of two cell manipulation tables.

Luo Tingzhu carefully moved the liquid in the cell culture flask after trypsin digestion into the centrifuge tubes. After transferring all the cells, she carefully turned the centrifuge towards the centrifuge, balancing it and adjusting the centrifuge parameters.

"Senior brother, have you found out the general reason?" Luo Tingzhu hinted at gossip.

"It was one of Qian's junior brothers who accidentally leaked it, and then the company sold it to someone else. We won't go into details about who it is." Fang Ziye dared not name the person.

Hong Zili's team can handle their own affairs well, but who buys the articles, how Hong Zili finds the company and the person who buys the articles, is something to "fight" with others, and it's not something Fang Ziye and Luo Tingzhu can consider for the time being; they don't even have the qualifications to consider it.

Upon hearing this, Luo Tingzhu's eyes flashed. After balancing the liquid on both sides of the centrifuge tube on the scale, she placed them symmetrically into the centrifuge and turned around to say, "In other words, Professor Hong has never actually doubted you, Senior Brother Fang."

"Professor Hong, do you think it's unnecessary for you, senior, to steal experimental results?"

This is a stereotype.

A person worth tens of thousands of dollars might steal for 100,000 dollars, but a person worth millions or even tens of millions of dollars would only stoop to such a despicable act for 100,000 dollars if they were desperate.

Except for oddballs.

Fang Ziye's accumulated workload is evident to all, and it's bottomless. Why would he sell a few experimental results images? Wouldn't it be better to sell his own work?

"Perhaps so. Professor Hong is quite magnanimous." Fang Ziye tilted his head slightly. It would be a lie to say that he felt no pleasure at all, but more than that, Fang Ziye felt that Associate Professor Hong Zili had given him a vivid lesson.

Luo Tingzhu said with lingering fear, "So, generally, data transfer within a research group is done offline, not online."

"Whether it's the images of the results or the basic data, everything is transferred via USB flash drive. I've heard that some advanced experimental groups don't allow the results to be taken out of the lab. Even if they need to be transferred, they can only do so through the intranet."

"We certainly can't have our own dedicated intranet, but it's better to be safe than sorry."

"Many employees of outside biotech companies, a small portion of whom also have no moral bottom line."

Luo Tingzhu waited for the centrifuge to start working on its own. She was wearing a white lab coat, a mask, a hat, and gloves, and looked a little dashing.

……

Time is like water.

Around February 20th, when Fang Ziye arrived at the entrance of the basic laboratory, he saw several people who were clearly employees of a biotechnology company waiting for something at the entrance.

Inside the lab, there were quite a few students, but none of them seemed inclined to open the door for them.

As soon as Fang Ziye stepped out of the elevator, several people surrounded him. After carefully examining Fang Ziye, they realized he wasn't from Professor Hong Zili's team and asked, "Professor, are you going into the lab too? Could you show us in?"

"We are here to see Professor Hong Zili."

Upon hearing this, Fang Ziye immediately turned to look at the people sitting in the laboratory and replied, "I'm here to deliver something to the people inside."

Whether they are laboratory workers or medical workers, they generally do not wear work clothes while walking. Therefore, Fang Ziye's usual attire consists of a backpack and casual clothes.

These people were clearly deliberately exposed to the elements by the people in the lab; how could Fang Ziye possibly lead them in?

To gain their trust, Fang Ziye even made a special call to Luo Tingzhu: "Professor Luo, are you in the lab? The things you requested have arrived. Would you like to come out and get them, or should I bring them in to you?"

Luo Tingzhu, standing opposite, visibly froze for a moment.

Then he stood up and walked out of the laboratory. At the same time, several of Qian Qiaofeng's junior brothers also arrived at the door upon hearing this.

Luo Tingzhu opened the door and pretended to wave to Fang Ziye. The other two junior brothers then said to the other staff members, "Brothers, please don't make things difficult for us students. My master really isn't here."

"If you have his phone number, please contact him directly. The people in the lab right now are all senior students doing experiments. If you continue to disrupt our work like this, we will have to call the security department."

The security department is responsible not only for the safety of its own premises, but also, and more importantly, for the safety of the laboratory.

This laboratory is a provincial key laboratory. If these people really want to cause trouble, we can call the uncles over to talk to them.

"The main problem is that Professor Hong won't answer the phone. Brother, actually, we have a misunderstanding with Professor Hong," one of the middle-aged men said.

"We can't get through on the phone either, sorry. We have to get back to work now, thank you for your understanding. Bye." With the glass door closed again, the two men returned to the lab.

They don't want outsiders to disturb them, but that doesn't mean they don't need to work; they just need to keep people out.

If they try to force their way in, then things are actually quite simple; sending them inside for a while won't be difficult.

The crime of trespassing in a laboratory is no small matter, after all, it is a biological laboratory.

Once Fang Ziye entered, he stopped pretending to be a staff member and focused on preparing for the experiment.

Naturally, the people outside still hadn't left, but they had sent one person to wait outside as if they were going to wait for him to die.

"Tingzhu, do you know what's going on with those people outside?" Luo Tingzhu came over to help Fang Ziye while he was preparing the reagents.

Even if it doesn't really help in any way, you can at least learn multi-line operation and control mode from Fang Ziye.

This would allow Luo Tingzhu to learn Fang Ziye's operating model and conduct multi-line operations after going abroad.

"They came to apologize in person."

"Although the previous staff member ran away, the temple can't be hidden forever. That staff member really underestimated Associate Professor Hong Zili's status and influence in the scientific research field in the province and even the country."

"I heard that after he posted this in the group and on his own Weibo, the company was basically besieged by its 'peers'." Luo Tingzhu arrived at the lab before Fang Ziye, so she knew more of the secrets.

Of course, Luo Tingzhu spoke of Associate Professor Hong Zili with a hint of admiration.

To achieve the level of academic excellence that Hong Zili has reached is truly a life without regrets.

"Oh well, we'll have to be more careful in the future. It's best to avoid something like this from happening again."

"Of course, our group probably can't afford to hire a company to help with the experiments; it's too expensive," Fang Ziye said with a forced smile.

The gossip was fake, but it taught me a vivid lesson, and that's the real story.

Fang Ziye is a very studious person.

(End of this chapter)