Study Monster Cultivation System-Chapter 308 - 307 highly upvoted answerer

On the bus to Southern Suburb, Yin Hang, considering himself as someone who had been around, began to endlessly share his work experience with Li Zheng. However, as his experience was limited, the conversation would mostly drift to his passion for aerospace.

In fact, among those who were the best at studying, if they weren’t going into finance or IT, the aerospace system was indeed an ideal place. Which boy doesn’t have a dream about the universe? Moreover, although working in the aerospace system may not lead to vast wealth, it is still better than ordinary research institutions.

As someone who had been through it, Yin Hang naturally told Li Zheng about the destination that is scientific research, which is roughly about studying for many years and then competing desperately with a bunch of top students for the qualification of a lab assistant, just to legitimately work hard for the supervisor, receiving minimal income and performing what equates to "Senior Technician" mechanical labor day after day.

If all goes well, around 30 years of age, one might obtain a doctoral degree, then once again fight fiercely with a bunch of Ph.D.-level top students for the opportunities to do research or teach at universities. Among these people, the luckiest ones would secure a stable job and become part of the system.

However, by that time, those who were too poor in their grades to pursue a Ph. D. would likely have already gotten stock options in some Internet company, or maybe managing some region in a real estate company. Yet, these people wouldn’t earn as much as those who made it into banks, securities, and fund companies.

"So, if you can, you should definitely go to a big internet company or the financial sector in the future," Yin Hang urged earnestly. "I’m restricted by my major and can’t really squeeze into those fields. It’s better to choose something you love and live an honest life. Besides, the pay in aerospace has been increasing rapidly these last few years. With enough seniority, you can also go out to attend conferences and participate in reviews to make some extra money. Look at our team leader; add everything up and he makes at least thirty to forty thousand after taxes a year."

"Does he often go out to earn extra money?" Li Zheng asked.

"What, are you in a hurry too?" Yin Hang chuckled as he patted Li Zheng’s shoulder. "You’re just a kid in a hurry. Once your internship is over, aim to stay and work at the academy. You still need to worry about applying for professional titles... What’s your major, by the way?"

"Ah, I…," Li Zheng tried to describe, "know a bit about mechanics, chemistry, computer science..."

After some thought, Yin Hang asked, "Aerospace engineering? Ji Hang? Zhongke?"

"Something like that..."

"Alumni, huh? If I were two years later, we might have been classmates," Yin Hang excitedly asked, "Which teacher is guiding you?"

"Shen Tinglan."

"Damn…" Yin Hang cringed, "Teacher Shen is pretty freaking incredible… Does she still take masters students?"

"Well… my family, you see, helped a little…"

"Hey, who doesn’t pull some strings," Yin Hang then looked Li Zheng over, "Speaking of which... with your age… you wouldn’t be a whiz kid from the Zhongke youth class?"

As they were speaking, a female administrative teacher came over with a clipboard.

"Excuse me for two minutes, signing in ahead of time."

"Yin Hang, third institute." Yin Hang stood up instantly and pulled out his ID. "Do you need the employee number?"

"No need, no need, I found you," the administrative teacher checked off the list. "You’re in class three, gather over there at the class three sign after getting off the bus."

"Roger that!" Yin Hang sat down excitedly. "Haha, feels like the military training from back in the days."

"We do actually have military training," the teacher smiled. "The instructors are from the Rocket Forces Academy, including mock grenade launching. You still remember high school geometry, right?"

"Hahaha, my ballistics are solid, teacher," Yin Hang boasted, patting Li Zheng. "Your turn."

Li Zheng hurriedly stood up to check in: "Li Zheng, first institute, department one."

"First institute?" the teacher flipped through the register. "Everyone at the first institute is busy with projects; no one was sent here..."

Li Zheng suddenly panicked, worrying that Chen Hongbing might have messed up.

It wasn’t that he judged people based on their academics, but people with just over a hundred Academic Power just can’t be relied on.

"There should be someone sent…" Li Zheng said, craning his neck forward. "Director Chen should have reported my name..."

"Director Chen Hongbing?" The teacher also became anxious.

"That’s right."

"Wait a second…" The teacher lifted her pen and looked at Li Zheng. "You are… Teacher Li Zheng?"

"I am Li Zheng, but I can’t quite say that I’m a teacher..."

"No, no, no, Director Chen has explained it very clearly." The administrative teacher swallowed and looked at Li Zheng with reverence, "So many national champions of academic competitions, originally went for an academic exchange, and incidentally found the root cause of Yellow 2’s problems, holding dual degrees in Computer Science and Aerospace Engineering, even Chief Engineer Shen couldn’t stop praising this key figure."

"........."

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Dammit, that’s a bit over the top!

But if they didn’t exaggerate like that, they probably wouldn’t accept letting an intern teach a class, would they?

"Ah…" Yin Hang panicked as he stood up, "You… you are that… big shot from the first institute…"

Li Zheng braced himself and said, "I’ve just done some trivial work."

"That… uh…" the administrative teacher looked around and said, "We really aren’t well-prepared for reception, the training teachers usually drive themselves… we haven’t arranged a private car."

"No problem, I’m fine sitting with Yin Hang," Li Zheng patted Yin Hang and smiled, "He is a person full of ideas."

"Ha… ha…" The administrative teacher forced a laugh and said, "Then please make do for now, I’ll come and find you at the training hall later."

"Okay."

And with that, the administrative teacher went on to call the roll.

But for Yin Hang, he was no longer that cheerful boy.

"Did you just say… if there’s a chance, you’ll go into IT or finance?" Li Zheng closed his notebook and asked, "Is the welfare at the third institute really that bad?"

"No… no… everything’s pretty good, Teacher Li."

"Post-tax salary is indeed a bit low, but other benefits are at least twice as much, aren’t they?" Li Zheng muttered, "And this is an industry where the older you get, the more valuable you become, it’s impossible to be laid off in your 30s…"

"Exactly, exactly, I… I want to dedicate my life to the aerospace cause!"

"About the side job you mentioned earlier, is it something you can share in more detail?"

"I’m not… I didn’t…"

"Hahaha." Li Zheng slapped Yin Hang on the shoulder and said, "Just kidding with you, I’m nothing special, just graduated from high school, Director Chen was talking nonsense."

"???" It took a long while for Yin Hang to ask, "Then what about the fault analysis?"

"That part is true."

"Wait… I’m a bit confused…" Yin Hang scratched his head and said, "A high school student really solved the formidable problem of Yellow 2’s reset?"

"It’s a bit complicated for me to explain, you should just directly search for my name on Beep Hub…"

"I’ll search for it right now, Teacher Li."

Yin Hang unlocked his phone, and soon let out an exclamation.

"Not to flatter you, Teacher Li… but are you that legendary… super genius?"

"Just a little broader knowledge."

Yin Hang kept browsing for a while, then suddenly covered his nose and asked, "Also, who is this Shi Yang? Seems like you… are quite familiar with him?"

"… Moderately familiar."

"It’s almost four thousand likes."

Li Zheng grabbed the phone and cursed, "Growing so fast???"

[How to evaluate the Physics and Chemistry dual competition champion God Zheng (Beauty God)?]

[Shi Yang][Jijing University’s Institute of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Guardian of the Ring]

"It’s just Li Zheng, indeed quite capable. I was supposed to mock him for only getting a runner-up at ICHO, but now he can only go with his girlfriend to IPHO for a runner-up."

"9.3 update: Don’t ask anymore, his girlfriend is the Quiet God, always on top of him. It’s just that the competitive final exam questions are too easy for them, not allowing them to show their true abilities. The actual level of IPHO will reveal itself."

"Here’s a clip of their New Year’s performance at our school, sorry for the shaky camera."

"The one singing is Quiet God, the dancer is Li Zheng’s disciple, and the flute player, I’ve forgotten his name."

"9.7 update: Likes going up so fast... Wish my chemistry experiment tips could get 1/10th of these likes. But since everyone’s so keen, I’ll add more, starting with how we met."

"It was a scorching summer day, I was doing experiments at Ji University, and I passed a public restroom, couldn’t help but go in to relieve myself."

"I had just squatted down when someone rushed in, in a big hurry, clack clack."

"This was nothing special, but the issue was... this person’s shit was just so damn smelly, in all my years and all the experiments I’ve done, I’ve never encountered such an odor."

"Shit stink is mainly due to indole, skatole, hydrocarbons, and so on. For well-known reasons, these substances are usually found in higher concentrations in public restrooms. Let’s just assume that they are at 1g per cubic meter."

"But 5 seconds after this person let it out, the concentration spiked at least tenfold, especially for someone with a chemist’s sense of smell like me..."

"I was like, fuck me..."

"You’re just minding your own business when suddenly you’re teleported into a septic tank!"

"Then it’s an instant death of the olfactory cells on the nasal mucosa, completely dumbfound!"

"Thinking back on it, the death of olfactory cells was probably a self-defense mechanism of sorts, better than having your brain neural explode..."

"After that incident, I never went to a public restroom again."

"Later on I found out, that person was Li Zheng."

"After we got to know each other better, he even dragged me to the lab to artificially synthesize shit."

"Of course, I refused."

"..."

"It’s him who wanted to synthesize it!" Li Zheng raged, clutching his phone, "This? Over four thousand likes? Is this what followers really like?"

"So... aside from who had the lead in making fake poop, everything else is true?" Yin Hang asked, covering his nose.

Li Zheng threw down his phone, saying, "I ate stinky tofu the day before..."

"I hope the training center’s menu doesn’t include stinky tofu..." Yin Hang said, patting Li Zheng and laughing, "Come on, don’t be mad. Everyone likes you that’s why they’re liking it."

"Could you maybe take your hand off your nose when you say that?"

"I... my imagination is strong, need a moment to recover."

"I don’t care about the rest..." Li Zheng pointed at the phone, "just don’t share this with other cadets, or I’ll give you a failing grade."

"Don’t do that! I’m aiming to be an outstanding rookie here." Yin Hang clutched Li Zheng, "This training also includes a comprehensive evaluation that goes into the system’s talent pool. Give me a break, Teacher Li."

"You just don’t need to share it." Of course, Li Zheng was just making an empty threat, but seeing the eagled-eyed expectation in Yin Hang’s eyes, he asked one more thing, "I see there isn’t much time scheduled for technical courses in the training, so I was thinking of running a study group in the evenings, to talk about Yellow 2’s project experience, are you interested?"

"Yeah."

"There will be an exam."

"I love exams the most."

"Hmm... alright." Li Zheng handed back the phone to Yin Hang, "Help me publicize it a bit, find a few people like you who love studying."

"Sure thing, who wouldn’t want to learn about Yellow 2."

As they were talking, the car stopped, and Yin Hang was about to hold his nose and escape the clutches.

"Wait a moment..." Li Zheng suddenly pulled him back and then glared.

[Yin Hang]

[Academic Power Value: 132.]

Seeing this number, Li Zheng’s frown deepened.

Has university education become so lax nowadays?

Yin Hang swallowed and asked, "Is there... anything else you need, Teacher Li?"

"Did you really graduate from a Ji Hang’s postgraduate program?"

"Yes, I did..."

"What’s your grade point average coefficient?"

"Top 5% of the whole major," Yin Hang said hastily. "I’ve been getting scholarships every year, haven’t I?"

"Is that so..." Li Zheng then let go.

It seemed that this Academic Power Value wasn’t an issue with Yin Hang, but rather that the top 5% of 985 universities had an Academic Power Value around 132.

Seen this way... Chen Hongbing and Lin Yujing weren’t that weak either.

It was just that Aunt Shen and I were too strong.

After getting off the bus, the trainees reported to their respective squad leaders, a bit like the process at a military academy.

As a training instructor, Li Zheng was separately received and arranged by the administrative staff of the previous training center.

After some hustle, the administrative teacher handed over the access card and the course schedule to Li Zheng.

"You’re responsible for the section ’New Generation Aerospace Engineering,’ about... eight classes," the teacher said, looking at the course schedule. "There is also a little test at the end. The college’s intention is to pass everyone if possible, with an excellence rate of about 50%, and the rest good."

Li Zheng frowned and said, "Isn’t this a bit too lenient..."

"Ah, that... for a teacher of your caliber, lecturing here is indeed an underuse of your abilities," the administrative teacher gestured hesitantly, "However, this training is more of an onboarding process; the necessary selections have already been made during the recruitment phase, and as everyone is from different institutions, the focus on technical knowledge is more about basic science popularization."

"Alright, I understand," Li Zheng muttered. "Looking at the schedule, there’s nothing after dinner every evening?"

"There is military training and team-building activities, so we should allow some rest time," the administrative teacher said with a smile. "Moreover, most people are almost thirty and don’t have the same energy as you."

"Hmm... But Yin Hang told me that there are still some people who want to learn something real." Li Zheng looked around, "Is it possible to use a classroom for extra training after dinner? It’d be voluntary."

"I can mention it to the center," the administrative teacher said blankly. "You really do have the strong sense of responsibility and craftsmanship that Director Chen mentioned..."

"Since I’m here, I want to provide a space for improvement to comrades who truly want to get better," Li Zheng said, storing his key card with a smile, "When the classroom is confirmed, please let me know; preferably one with multimedia capabilities."

"Of course." The administrative teacher suddenly seemed grateful. "Teacher Li... our college has been conducting training for many years, but you are the first to seriously lead everyone to improve..."

"Ah, this... It’s just a personal hobby," Li Zheng said with an awkward nod. "I like learning, and I like organizing group learning, watching everyone progress."

"You are really... even more noble than Director Chen described," the administrative teacher said, dabbing his eyes. "I’ll include all this in the summary report. I am grateful for your dedication. I don’t know if there’s an age limit for professorship awards in our country, but you certainly deserve the title more than many professors in service now."

"You flatter me... Also, you can just call me Li Zheng or ’you’," Li Zheng said with a chuckle, shaking his head. "You’re making me feel like I’m listening to a translated document..."

"Ha... ha..." The administrative teacher continued to shake his head in admiration. "And you’re still so humorous..."

"See you... in a bit..."