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Chapter 219 Expert: It's all fake! (Third update!)
Salman was momentarily stunned by his son's serious question, but quickly pointed to Rashid's chest:
"Remember, we have money. Money isn't everything, but you can't do anything without it."

"If money can't solve the problem, then it just means that not enough money has been given!"

His father's words made Rashid fall into deep thought. Soon, he nodded and said, "I understand!"

"If you understand, then go and prepare as soon as possible!" I have to go to Abu Dhabi. I patted my son on the shoulder again, Salman turned around and walked out of the room.

As I stepped outside, the gloomy sky just happened to break open, and gentle sunlight streamed in through the hole in the clouds.

The sunlight, under the Tyndall effect, looked magnificent, like the light of God descending upon the world. Salman whistled at the sky, lowered his head, and walked steadily toward the car parked not far away.

…………

Suzhou.

Early in the morning, while Lin Yi was still asleep, someone banged on his door.

He woke up with a start and roared at the door:
"Ji Shuangshuang, stop smashing!"

Just as she finished yelling, a head popped out from the sofa. Ji Shuangshuang, wrapped up like a silkworm cocoon with messy hair, got up and opened her eyes in confusion: "What did I smash?"

Upon seeing people, Lin Yi's brain began to retrieve memories from last night. His face twitched, and he walked toward the door with a gloomy expression.

Ji Shuangshuang was on the sofa. Who was outside the door?
He opened the door with a gloomy face, only to find that the person outside was Cao Bin.

Seeing Lin Yi open the door, Cao Bin couldn't hide his excitement: "Boss, Science has published our paper."

"It was even posted in the most prominent position on the official website!"

These words were like a rusty iron rod, striking Lin Yi's brain hard, causing it to short-circuit and crash.

His brain stopped working for several seconds before he finally came to his senses, tilting his head: "You mean, those bastards at Science ignored their own workflow?"

"They published that paper in just a few days?"

"What are you so happy about? They're using us as a negative example."

Since they were all researchers, Cao Bin gradually calmed down after Lin Yi said that.

SCI paper submissions cover a total of 254 disciplines, which are further divided into 4 regions.

Q1 journals are among the top 25% of journals in their respective disciplines, and have extremely high influence. Almost all researchers want to publish their findings here, but the review process is extremely difficult.

Zone 2 refers to journals ranked in the 25th to 50th percentile for a single subject area, which are considered excellent journals.

The competition is fiercest during this period. Zone 1 is hard to secure, and Zone 3 is too weak, so it's usually a battle of the best players.

There are experts and noobs.

Zone 3 is for students ranked 50% to 75%, representing an average level. It is the most popular and suitable submission zone for ordinary students from universities around the world.

It is challenging, but not difficult. Once a paper is successfully submitted, it will provide you with a respectable qualification. With this qualification, you can advance further, whether you are looking for a job after graduation or continuing in-depth research.

Zone 4 is the irrigation zone.

This is widely recognized as the "slacker zone." 90% of the people who submit their work here are just trying to gain some recognition and enhance their resumes. The remaining 10% are simply the only people who can get by here.

Internationally renowned and reputable institutions do not largely endorse the research findings from Region 4.

Regardless of which section a paper is submitted to, Science uses the same complete review process: initial review, peer review, revision, final review, and publication.

The initial review by the editor takes 1 to 4 weeks. During this period, the editor will focus on checking the paper's plagiarism rate, its own logic, data completeness, and whether it meets the journal's requirements.

If it meets the requirements, it will proceed to peer review.

The editor invites several reviewers from the expert database or the author recommendation list to review the data and logical relationships in the entire paper from beginning to end.

This time, Lin Yi did not add a list of recommended candidates when he submitted his application.

Therefore, the editor has to find people from the expert pool.

Just finding someone will take about one or two weeks.

Once the right person is found, peer review is required, which can take anywhere from one or two months to half a year.

This time, the paper was submitted to Nature, a Q1 journal, so the submission process will only take longer.

After peer review is completed, various comments will be made on the paper. The authors need to supplement the data in the paper and make relevant revisions based on the comments.

After the author completes the revisions, there will be a second review.

The second review could be conducted by experts from the previous expert pool, or it could be by editors.

At this point, the editor will decide whether to accept the paper.

If you are officially hired, you will receive a formal acceptance letter, which will include requirements regarding copyright transfer and publication fees.

This will take at least two weeks.

It will only be officially published once both parties have made a formal agreement.

Once the paper is officially published, you will need to wait another week or two to find it on the Science website, as it needs to be synchronized.

But now, only a few days after the paper was published, these people have already posted it directly on the official website.

There's only one explanation: the people at Science were reviewing too many papers, and then they suddenly saw this one with so many names on it, so they simply posted it on their website, intending to use it as a negative example.

Gan!
Cursing under his breath, Cao Bin quickly looked up, about to ask what to do, when he saw Ji Shuangshuang with messy hair walk out from behind Lin Yi.

She saw him, smiled and greeted him, and then walked past him.

Upon seeing this, Cao Bin instantly lost all interest in discussing the thesis; he sensed something amiss.

He leaned forward slightly and asked Lin Yi in a low voice:
"Lady boss?"

"Huh?" Lin Yi was still pondering why those editors would do such a thing when Cao Bin's sudden voice made his brain freeze once again.

After a moment of stunned silence, his brain finally processed Cao Bin's question, controlling his head and eyes to look at Cao Bin, while his mouth moved even faster than his brain:
Are you stupid?

"Huh?" The insult brought Cao Bin back to his senses. He waved his hands frantically, "No, no, no!"

"I was just lost in thought!"

"Boss, what should we do?"

Lin Yi didn't rush to speak. Instead, he first let Cao Bin into the office and waited at the door for a while. When Ji Shuangshuang reappeared after washing up, he called her over.

After Ji Shuangshuang entered the office, Lin Yi beckoned to Cao Bin with his finger:
"Since they've decided to put us out there as clowns, then let them be real clowns."

“Call each of those professors and experts one by one according to the list of submissions.”

"We'll schedule a time for them, which means we're going to prove the validity of the paper to the world."

"The necessary funds!" Lin Yi paused, turning to look at Ji Shuangshuang:
"Shuangshuang, prepare some funds."

"We want to make this a big, exciting event."

Ji Shuangshuang nodded and made a note of it. Then, Lin Yi waved to Cao Bin:

"Go back and organize the plan, and get started as soon as you're done."

"Understood!" Cao Bin nodded, then left with a look of excitement on his face.

Since some people want to play the clown, then I'll show them who the real clown is.

The door closed, and Ji Shuangshuang tilted her head: "Is there anything else?"

"Do you know how to trade stocks?" Lin Yi suddenly asked, posing an unrelated question. The next second, Ji Shuangshuang rolled her eyes and replied, "You want me, an accountant, to trade stocks? Are you really not afraid I'll embezzle company funds?!"

Before he could finish speaking with a contemptuous tone, Lin Yi suddenly nodded:

"I want you to embezzle company funds to speculate in stocks."

Upon hearing this, Ji Shuangshuang was completely dumbfounded.

She desperately wanted to know whether Lin Yi was after her as a person, or...

Forget it, she has nothing to gain anyway.

With her eyes closed, she pressed her hand to her temples and asked again:

"reason!"

You know about our published papers, right?

"I know, those guys in the technical department have been walking on air these past few days because of that paper on battery materials."

“Yes!” Lin Yi nodded, then turned on his computer, opened the China Nonferrous Metals Network, and found information on several metal materials. He then rotated the computer screen, pointing it at Ji Shuangshuang:
"This battery material requires a very crucial metal, lithium."

"There are not many lithium mines in China. The world's well-known large lithium mines and lithium salt lakes are all overseas."

"And the owners of these lithium mines and lithium salt lakes are all internationally renowned mining companies."

"Whether our paper is true or false, those bastards will try every means to drive up the stock price and then cash out and run away at a high price."

"Similarly, they will also stockpile lithium raw materials, which is detrimental to us."

"So I want you to buy those mining stocks now before they go up in price."

"Then we repeatedly pulled the price up and down to cash out."

"Finally, we acquired a stake in those mining companies."

"Can it be done?"

Feeling the burning gaze of the person in front of her, Ji Shuangshuang, who had been thinking about the season, suddenly found courage from somewhere, straightened her back, and nodded her little head slightly:
“It would be very troublesome to make the acquisition in a private capacity.”

"But it would be more convenient to buy stocks under the name of company investment."

"But all of this takes time; the initial procedures will take about a week."

"The funds we have at our disposal are only about $2.1 million."

"During this week, you must find a way to suppress those mining companies and prevent them from using this paper as an opportunity to hype up prices."

"A week later, once we've bought the stock, you need to make the price skyrocket as quickly as possible."

"It has soared to a point that drives everyone crazy, and this timeframe must be kept under control within two weeks."

"If the timeframe is too short, prices won't rise; if it's too long, the mining industry will realize what's happening and proactively release information to drive down prices."

"Then it's just a cycle that repeats until we've accumulated enough shares."

After explaining the operating procedures, Ji Shuangshuang looked at Lin Yi with a serious expression.

Her intuition told her that Lin Yi could do all of this, but she still wanted certainty.

Lin Yi understood Ji Shuangshuang's body language and gave her a thumbs-up: "Leave it to me!"

"I'll go prepare now!" Responding to the words, Ji Shuangshuang turned her head and strode out of the office.

After closing the door, Lin Yi first sent a message to Cao Bin, saying that he wanted to make the call himself, and then picked up the phone.

Call each person on the previous list one by one.

"Professor Meng, Science has posted our paper. They probably want to see us fail. Could you please tell everyone else not to say anything for a while? I have other plans."

"Also, Xiao Cao might contact you and arrange a time to come and see the experiment."

"Yes, please join us for some fun then."

After dialing dozens of numbers, Lin Yi tossed his phone aside, turned on his computer, connected to a VPN, and then logged onto the Science official website to see what these guys were up to.

Upon entering the official website, he easily found his submitted paper on the homepage.

There's nothing there, just a lonely paper hanging there, saying nothing, yet it seems to say everything.

Lin Yi took a screenshot of the computer screen, saved the image to his local computer, opened the image in Photoshop, and began translating the text in the image.

Japanese, Chinese, Arabic...

After translating five or six versions of the images, Lin Yu opened Twitter and registered several new accounts. The names of these accounts all seemed to be related to Science.

The bio was also modified.

Once the account is registered, log in and post these pictures to the account's tweets.

After successfully sending the message, I switched to other accounts and left comments on those accounts.

After leaving his comment, he started searching for accounts of famous universities, or similar accounts.

Regardless of whether it's true or not, they directly leave comments on the other party's account, stirring up trouble.

After working for half a day, he simply pulled out Twitter customer service and sent them a series of messages.

Could you guys implement a streaming mechanism? I'd like to pay directly to buy traffic and secure recommendations for specific videos or posts.

[Speak up! Do you want to make money?]

He sent a series of messages, but customer service didn't reply to a single one.

Frustrated, Lin Yi quit Twitter and started frantically registering Facebook accounts.

Using the same name as Twitter, he went through the Twitter process again after registering.

Compared to Twitter, Facebook has a better feature: the ability to like posts.

As the number of likes increases, the system will automatically recommend related tweets.

The only problem is that Facebook's CEO is a jerk; he doesn't protect user privacy at all.

After a series of mutual attacks and criticisms, a world war quickly broke out in the comments section of a few tweets on Facebook.

Looking at the world war below, Lin Yi was very satisfied. He turned off the VPN and went to Weibo.

As soon as I opened it, a pop-up window automatically appeared on Weibo, displaying some trending news.

The most popular news story used a picture that was his translated Chinese image.

Upon seeing this, Lin Yi couldn't help but curse inwardly.

These idiots use other people's pictures without even knowing the source attribution; they just copy and paste without any respect for intellectual property rights.

He cursed inwardly, but his hands moved even faster, already clicking on the corresponding Weibo news.

Suddenly, a lot of battery experts appeared in the comments section of this press release.

The most liked comment was a bet.

"It's fake! If it's true, I'll eat shit right now!"

(End of this chapter)