"Everyone, everyone, stop for a moment, a major announcement has arrived from the Princeton Research Institute—the existence of the Yang-Mills Equations has been proven and has already passed the scrutiny of five heavyweight reviewers, unanimously approved, one of them being Edward Witten. The paper will be published in 'Mathematics Annual' very soon. The highlight is that the author of the paper is from Huaxia and is nineteen years old."
The chatroom instantly fell silent.
It was a while before someone spoke up, "Where did you get this news? Can you confirm it? @Nan Feng."
"One hundred percent confirmed, Edward Witten personally rang several academicians from Hua Academy of Sciences and Yanbei University, said it with his own mouth. The news should come out soon. You guys should receive it anytime now. By the way, Professor Yang already knows the good news and is said to be on the phone with his old friends at Princeton Research Institute."
"Huaxia? Nineteen years old? I..."
"Why don't we just directly say it's Qiao Ze?"
"No, this is not what Edward Witten originally said. The academicians are very rigorous, and before the official announcement, of course, that is all they could say."
"I suddenly really want to curse!"
"There's nothing to say, being envious of Li Jiangao for the 78th day."
"It really is... Who leaked those records from the chat before? Isn't this just adding chaos?!"
"Exactly! There's a chat group with just over twenty people, it should be traceable!"
"There's a rumor that when Qiao Ze wanted to apply for expert status, it was the people from the Linhai department who kept blocking him... In my opinion, it definitely has something to do with that bunch. Plus, you see, several of the big Vs who broke the news are from Linhai."
"We can't be sure about that, right? It's normal for Linhai, with its developed economy, to have more influencers. Let's go find out more information first. We need to settle this matter properly."
Below, a group of professors were discussing lively; above, the entire natural science grant evaluation committee was at their wits' end.
"What is this all about? Wang, I asked you to communicate well with Qiao Ze today, how did you talk to him?"
"I... I just did as you instructed, made a call, and asked about his attitude."
"Oh, and what was his attitude?"
"He said something like whether we are bullying an honest person... That's obviously twisting the truth, and I really didn't know how to answer. Who would have thought he would stir up such a big incident in the evening! But those diagrams... they must be scribbles, right?"
"Do you not have any idea if they are scribbles? What did I tell you, the main thing was to appease him, and you, you've actually intensified the conflict? You need to call him immediately and apologize! See if you can retract the content on Weibo for the time being!"
"Apologize? What am I apologizing for? Shouldn't we talk to Xilin University of Technology first to see how to handle this? Or maybe talk to Weibo to temporarily hide the content?"
"To hide it? Do you want to make a big joke? Where has he violated the regulations? Is Weibo owned by your family? You say hide, and it hides? Let me tell you, I just got news that Qiao Ze quietly solved the existence problem of the Yang-Mills equations, and the mainstream academic community has already recognized it.
Now even Professor Yang is involved, inquiring about the matter! Are you causing trouble at this time because you want to pick a fight with Qiao Ze, or do you want me dead?!"
"Ah?! I understand now!"
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"You understand nothing; solve this immediately, find out who is causing trouble, and make sure Qiao Ze and Li Jian are appeased! From now on, in the entire academic community, offend anyone but not these two! If you are not up to it, prepare your resignation letter, I will approve it immediately and find someone capable to deal with it! All this nonsense every day..."