I Am Gwen's Spider-Man Mentor.

Chapter 14 "Ghost Spiderman Enters Professor Xu's Laboratory!" "

What does it mean to be the second author of a paper published in Science magazine?

Gwen Stacy also has an understanding of this aspect. To put it simply, it is probably——if I am really the second author of this paper, then all my previous late arrivals and early departures plus failing subjects will be punished. The warning turned into a mockery of the entire Empire State University.

Why do schools give academic warnings?
In order to urge students to study hard.

Now there is a super genius who can become the second author of a paper that can be published in Science at the undergraduate level. What does this mean?This shows that she has nothing to learn at the undergraduate level, so she directly skips the master's degree and meets the doctoral graduation standard; this shows that people look down on those undergraduate courses, and think that it is a waste of time to study well.

If the bureaucrats in the academic affairs department don't revoke her academic warning, then Gwen believes that within 24 hours, other private ivy will find her dilapidated small bedroom and directly paste the admission notice of Zhibo on her face superior.

The admissions officers at MIT and Princeton might even go all out there, over whether their acceptance letters are grabbing her cheek or jaw.

Gwen Stacy glanced at Professor Xu, who was sitting next to her with a relaxed expression, with complicated complexions—there were mixed feelings in her heart, not because the girl didn't want to accept or didn't understand gratitude, but because of the pie that fell from the sky It was too big, and she was stunned directly, not knowing what to do.

In fact, Gwen's own psychological quality is already good enough to be able to remain calm at such moments.

Professor Octavius's jaw was about to drop to the desk. He first looked at Raymond Xu with a calm face, and then at Gwen Stacy, who was calm on the surface but actually full of confusion. , the small eyes showed great doubts: "Xu, are you sure it's Science?"

"The impact factor is 30, I forgot about 30, we should be talking about a Science?"

Now that the other party has spoken to this point, Professor Octavius ​​naturally has no need to punish Gwen Stacy. The other party is protecting the student with his academic reputation.Although Raymond Xu was not very popular in the school, he was still a tenured professor, and there was no need for Octavius ​​to tear himself apart.

So he turned to Gwen Stacy, who was sitting next to Raymond, with a calm face: "Well, Miss Stacy, if this is the case, I forgive your mistake..." He glanced at the person next to him again. After Raymond, he added, "I think it's understandable that you didn't hand in your homework late and early."

After coming out of Professor Octavius's office, Gwen Stacy, who had been suppressing her emotions just now, finally couldn't control herself anymore.

After the girl walked a few steps, she stood in front of Raymond, her eyebrows were raised upright, her face was scrutinized and vigilant, and when she spoke, she seemed to have a bit of questioning in her tone: "Raymond, even if we are friends, I will not accept such favors, this is not my thesis, not my work, and I do not want to be held responsible for academic misconduct."

Gwen spoke urgently and quickly, as if she was about to become a sinner if she was a second late.Finally, she took a deep breath, raised her head to look at Raymond, and frowned tightly: "If you need, I can ask Professor Octavius ​​to explain it myself, and say that I can't bear the burden you handed over to me. My work, all the consequences I bear alone."

"Also!" After finishing speaking, the girl thought carefully about Raymond's act of making up such a big lie without her consent, and suddenly felt out of breath. She made a fist with her left hand and put it on her waist in an akimbo , and continued to persevere: "Even if I helped you out in the morning, it would be fine if you explained it clearly to me just now. Why did you give me a paper for nothing?"

"Actually, this thesis is still in my mind." Raymond secretly sighed in his heart that every Spider-Man's sense of justice is so strong that it is a bit pedantic. He didn't directly answer Gwen's proposal, but just chuckled Laugh, "This is a project in my hand, it is enough to publish a Science, but I need you to help me work, so of course this is not academic misconduct."

"But?" Gwen was a little puzzled, and even more vigilant: "If this is the case, why do you insist on using such an excuse? There are obviously more and simpler excuses..."

"This is a confidential asset, but to be honest, I don't want to hand it over to the military, so I keep it in my hand." Raymond explained to Gwen helplessly. The vigilance and suspicion in the girl's eyes actually made him a little frustrated, " Gwen, I think this asset would be more useful in your hands."

"But..." Gwen still hesitated, as her professional habits as a Spider-Man had made her rarely trust anyone.The girl frowned tightly, biting her lower lip and showing embarrassment, and it took a long time before she responded, "But what can I do for you?"

"Don't doubt my vision in scientific research." Raymond pointed to his eyes, smiled cheaply—and looked very friendly, "You will like it. Besides, you don't know how many people want to enter my experiment Part-time job~!"

Gwen always felt that when he said this, Raymond's face shone with a light called narcissism.

"You have to do a full set of the play, Gwen." Raymond put his hand on her shoulders, "You can also choose to leave after finishing this project, anyway, your academic warning will be cleared after you finish."

At this time, Gwen was full of anxiety and uneasiness—no matter who could be chosen to be Spider-Man, he had a strong sense of justice.In other words, Raymond Xu's clearance itself is a kind of academic misconduct.The girl lowered her head and bit her lip to prevent Raymond from seeing the entanglement on her face: she wanted to accept this gift very much, but she was uneasy because of the torture of her conscience.

"It's not a free gift." As if seeing Gwen's worry, Raymond put it away and didn't care, and replied seriously, "It's an apology, I don't know if you acted rashly because of our quarrel that day. Wounded myself, but I did say it too much. After this, I think we're even, otherwise it's always going to bother my conscience to think that I caused you to be hurt."

"Is this an apology?" The girl couldn't help asking in her heart, "What on earth is he trying to do?" Girls are always more sensitive to these things, and at this moment she felt that Raymond was a little too special to her. Is it because he found out that he is Ghost Spider-Man?Or because of something else?
The scene of that night reappeared in the girl's mind for no reason. She pursed her lips and felt her cheeks burning again.

"Okay." After a while of silence, Gwen, who was standing in front of the professor, raised his head, and his brows relaxed, but the girl's face was still dignified, "Since you said that I am the second author of the paper, I will at least There has to be a matching workload, and I don't want to be accused of academic misconduct."

"That's no problem." Raymond rubbed the back of his head and smiled, "You can come into the lab tomorrow, just tell my graduate students that you are a student recruited by me."

Gwen nodded, and then the professor said goodbye to her, and then the girl stood there with the book in her arms, watching Raymond board the car and leave.Somehow, Gwen thought again of that night, that blurred figure of concentration and earnestness beside her bed, and also of the boy's accusation in the morning, of how he had been blocked by protesting students who had accused him of Develop lethal weapons and accuse him of "trafficking war".

Gwen Stacy doesn't like people dying, and Ghost Spider-Man's existence is different from other Spider-Men's - if other Spider-Man's duties are more focused on fighting crime, Gwen herself actually prefers to save lives. .So, he was doing the exact opposite of his job.

But it's also good, if I can enter his laboratory in person, I can know what he is doing.

Gwen Stacy made up her mind that she would take the risk herself and find out.

———Professor Xu’s happy dividing line———

Unlike Gwen Stacy, who is cautious and cautious, after helping Miss Spider overcome the difficulties of her academic warnings, Professor Xu seemed very happy when driving, as if a problem that had been entangled for a long time was suddenly solved .At this time, a strange call came in suddenly:

Seeing that no phone number was displayed, Raymond Xu roughly guessed who it was.

"Hey, shouldn't you be staying in the computer room right now?" Raymond smiled, "Why do you have time to call me? Why, don't you think buying stocks is not enough?"

"I promise you what you said." There was a processed voice on the other side of the phone, but this voice made Raymond more confirm the identity of the other party.

Hearing this sentence, Raymond's smile disappeared, and he became serious: "I didn't expect you to agree, and I planned to do it myself."

"It's just favors, and you don't need to know too much about the rest." Nathan obviously has his own concerns, so it's hard to speak clearly.

The corners of Raymond's mouth grinned, he knew that the news he passed on went to the right place through Nathan-Nathan worked for IARPA, and IARPA was a subsidiary department of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence led the A long list of intelligence agencies including CIA, NSA.

Nathan, who had always been a man who kept things separate, agreed to do his wet work, presumably because someone in the government wanted to check on Obadiah Stan.

"But I need a hardware connection. Obadiah Stein's computer is not connected to the Internet. I can only help you here."

Raymond frowned. He vaguely remembered that Pepper took the risk and copied the secrets on Obadiah's computer. With his character, he didn't want to play the kind of risk-taking... So, what did he do? what can we do about it?The professor was lost in thought.

He hung up the phone with Nathan, turned the steering wheel slightly to enter the fast lane after turning on the left turn signal, after thinking for a while, he dialed the phone to Tony Stark's personal assistant:
Pepper Potts.

(End of this chapter)