Night, 9:37.

Kitabayashi Apartment, No. 6, Takebihonmachi 3rd Avenue, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto.

In the small living room, the sound of the heater was buzzing. In front of the window, a row of young ladies' fashionable clothes were hanging to dry. There were faint water droplets falling on the floor. The incandescent lamp on the ceiling illuminated the shadows of the three people in the living room.

, casting their shadows on the tatami.

After the court hearing, Kitahara and Miyagawa came to Mikiko's residence again. While there was an internal meeting at Kyoto University, Kitahara also needed to verify some things with his client. He sat on the mat, holding a steaming teacup.

, and took a gentle sip of tea.

Mikiko was still leaning lazily on the table, flipping through the latest beauty magazines, and yawning from time to time. As the initiator of this storm, Mikiko seemed like

As if not affected at all, the years continue to be peaceful.

Beiyuan looked at the teacup, already lost in thought.

In today's court hearing, he has successfully asked the collegial panel to conduct a substantive review of the issue of whether the paper constitutes plagiarism. Although it is difficult to say what impact it will ultimately have on the judge's evidence, but to a certain extent, it can indeed

It's a small victory.

However, it is just a "victory".

Because starting from today, all my trump cards have been played.

This is the end of the material Professor Yue Zhi can provide him.

No new, more material.

All the trump cards have been played out, which means that starting from today, the powerful force to counterattack will be lost.

And after today, the enemy, like a frightened bird, will definitely adopt various routes to block his attack.

It felt like the landing force had just captured the machine gun position on the beach, and then found that there were hundreds of bunkers waiting for them behind. The problem was that the engineers no longer had explosives.

Headache.

Kitahara couldn't help pinching his eyebrows slightly, then he raised his head, looked at the girl in front of him who was reading a beauty magazine intently, and said, "Mikiko, during today's court hearing, we obtained some important information,

I need to confirm with you to see if you can recall the relevant facts."

"What questions do you want to ask?" Mikiko fiddled with her hair with one hand, as if she disliked the long, fluttering hair that had split ends at the end. She couldn't help but pick up the comb with her other hand and began to hold her hair.

, insert the comb into your hair and comb it vigorously.

"Today, Kyoto University presented a lot of evidence." Kitahara said, "Among them, there are relevant letters from two academic journals that initially launched investigations into you. From these letters, we can see why these journals originally launched

We want to launch an investigation into your paper."

Kitahara's words seemed to touch a corner of the girl in front of him.

The hand that was combing her hair stopped. Mikiko's casual eyes suddenly became sharp. After a pause of only a few seconds, she suddenly raised her head, looked at the male lawyer, and couldn't help but ask:

"Why? Why did these journals suddenly investigate my paper in the first place?"

Kitahara did not answer Mikiko's question immediately, but opened the briefcase next to him, took out one piece of paper and laid it on the table, and then said: "These information were displayed by the other party's lawyer in court. These are

The reason why the journal will investigate your paper is-"

"report."

These two words echoed in the living room.

It was like a piano that had been silent for a long time and suddenly hit the keys.

Make a frightening sound.

The moment Mikiko heard the word "report", her eyes suddenly widened a bit, and her whole body trembled slightly at that second, as if a huge turmoil was caused in her heart. But then,

She seemed to have a strong ability to control emotions that was not commensurate with her age, and she immediately suppressed the inner shock.

"Your first paper was reported." Beihara flipped the papers on the table, "Your second paper was also reported. Especially the second paper. When you were writing, those four

The two project papers have not been published yet. Therefore, when you submit your paper, it is impossible for the journal to find that there is overlapping text. If the first paper is reported, forget it, maybe because the experiment cannot be repeated. However, the second paper,

Although I am not an expert in biology, I can generally tell that the focus of the paper is to propose a mathematical model to predict protein structure, rather than focusing on experimental results. Such articles have also been reported."

"It's definitely not an accident that something with a small probability happens twice." Kitahara said, "Someone should be targeting you. So, what I want to confirm with you today is, can you remember who has the most potential?

They may stare at you and report your paper.”

"To be honest, I knew that my paper was investigated because of a report, and I was very surprised." Mikiko said: "I always thought that the misconduct in my paper was discovered because of the detection of the paper software. As for who is the most

There is a possibility of staring at me and reporting the paper. I really need to think about this issue."

To be honest, Beiyuan also felt a little strange.

Strife in academia generally occurs between scholars.

Either young assistant professors vying for tenure, or senior faculty vying for administrative positions.

What kind of interests can a doctoral student have?

Why would anyone stare at a PhD student and do this?

Kitahara has not figured out this problem yet.

"Think about it carefully." Beihara continued, "Have you ever offended some people in the laboratory, or have a particularly bad relationship with anyone? For example, do you students have any special interests?

Relationships will make the other party become a competitor. Do these situations exist?"

Mikiko fell into deep thought after listening to Kitahara's words.

She just lowered her head.

Time seems to be frozen.

The movement of the hour hand became silent.

"Tick tock, tick tock". The sound of the clock in the living room became monotonous and boring.

Just like this, the silent silence continued. Kitahara and Miyagawa did not continue to ask further questions, but left the girl enough time to think. I don’t know how long it took, the clothes in front of the clothes drying rack stopped dripping, and the tea cup

The heat no longer rises slowly.

In an instant, Mikiko moved, and her voice sounded: "Chida Mayu."

This name, which Kithara had never heard before, came from Mikiko's mouth.
Chapter completed!