Leader of the Ark Raiders

Shen Cangye smiled, "For things that haven't happened yet, don't think so far—speaking of which, I bought cream, do you want to make ice cream together?"

Stuart raised his eyebrows.

Shen Cangye said: "This time it's a write-off, I don't owe you any ice cream."

"Then we have to see how it tastes first." Sarkaz curled his lips.

They go back to the kitchen.

Shen Cangye took out from the refrigerator the whipped cream and condensed milk that he entrusted the shop owner downstairs to order, as well as jam, chocolate, biscuits and other snacks.

Shirtel's eyes widened, "Why can you order it? Every time I ask that smelly old man, he tells me that it's out of stock."

Shen Cangye heheed, "The main reason is that I won't put a sword on someone's neck and ask."

"I think you want to be hung around your neck with a sword!" Shirtel snorted.

Shen Cangye laughed, but did not answer.

He poured the whipped cream into a large bowl, took out the whisk and started stirring.

Ice cream is actually super easy to make.

The main body of ice cream is cream, which is also the source of that dense texture.

The only difficulty is that it takes a lot of work to beat the whipped cream from a liquid state to a flocculent paste like bubbles.

Shen Cangye was whipping whipped cream.

Suddenly, a pair of slender hands grabbed his hand.

"Let me do it," said Stelter, "and you do something else."

Shen Cangye was stunned for a moment.

I saw Shirtel frowned, "Let go, I'll hit this."

Shen Cangye had no choice but to let go of the egg beater, and went to the side to prepare other raw materials.

The Sarkaz girl lowered her head, her ears turning red.

They mix whipped cream with condensed milk and sugar to make an ice cream liquid.

After the first ice cream liquid is frozen, dip it in melted chocolate and make chocolate cubes.

The second ice cream liquid is mixed with strawberry jam to make strawberry ice cream.

The third ice cream was added to yogurt, wrapped in a freshly baked egg roll, and made into a cone—but it was all eaten by the Sarkaz cat in the process of making it.

While waiting for freezing, Shen Cangye went upstairs to take a nap.

Going down to departure, I found that Stelter was still sitting in the kitchen, her notebook was spread out on the table, and she was staring at the refrigerator.

"You have really sat here for so long." Shen Cangye said in surprise.

Shirtel looked up at him, "The ice cream is already frozen, do you want to try it?"

"Yo, you are willing to give me a taste." Shen Cangye just laughed.

Shirtel didn't answer, but just opened the refrigerator, scooped up a large bowl of iced strawberry ice cream and handed it to him.

"So generous." After all, he made it himself, and Shen Cangye ate it unceremoniously.

Sier Teer was sitting next to him, watching him quietly.

"Aren't you going to eat?" Shen Cangye asked.

"No." Shirter shook his head, "I don't want to eat ice cream all the time."

"You said that ice cream can calm you down. Now that you've almost finished finding the places in your memory, aren't you as confused as before?" Shen Cangye asked.

The big Sarkaz cat stared at him and blinked, "It feels like I'm starting to get confused again."

"what?"

"It's nothing." Shirtel stood up and tapped his head with a notebook, "Thank you for the ice cream."

...He didn't know that his name was written on a certain page of that notebook.

678 What a Beautiful Thing This Chicken Soup Is

Time passed day by day.

In a blink of an eye, they had lived in Qinjiao Black Market for more than two months, and they had gradually gotten used to the life here.

"Wendy, I'm back."

At noon, Shen Cangye had just returned to his residence from the aid station, and opened the door while calling Xiao Hailong's name.

Usually, Wendy would sit in the living room and wait for him to come back.

Sometimes, a Sarkaz cat will be there too.

Most of the time, though, Stelter just gave him a cold glance to make sure he was back whole and safe, and then turned nonchalantly back to his room.

but.

Today is a bit strange.

The big Sarkaz cat was still lying on the sofa, glanced at him, and then went back to the room by itself.

But there was no sign of Wendy.

When Shen Cangye walked upstairs, he heard low sobs.

He hurried back to the room and found a quilt on the bed, trembling.

"Wendy, why are you hiding here?" Shen Cangye quickly approached and lifted the quilt.

I saw Agor curled up into a small ball, his eyes were as red as a rabbit.

There were a lot of tissues piled up on the bed, and she was still wiping tears with a ball of tissues in her hand.

"What's the matter? Who bullied you?" Shen Cangye was puzzled.

"I..." Wendy sniffled, "My thesis was rejected... Woo..."

"Isn't this a common thing!" Shen Cangye laughed, "We who are engaged in scientific research have long been used to being rejected by manuscripts to the point of numbness."

"I'm just uncomfortable..." Wendy wiped her tears, "At least... at least it should be at the stage of trial, right?"

Dissertations generally undergo multiple reviews.

It is first reviewed by the editorial department.

After review by the editorial department, it will be sent to senior experts in the same industry for review.

Most of the papers that were rejected in seconds did not even pass the review by the editorial department.

The rejection of a thesis is like when you have been preparing for an exam for two years, memorized the entire book and still haven't missed any of the exercises, and feel that you have everything in place and are even sure to get a perfect score——

You scored twenty points.

Even you yourself don't know why.

"I can't do anything well, and the classes I've taken are useless..."

The Agor girl buried her face between her knees and entered the stage of self-abandonment.

"Other Agors are so strong, unlike me, who are poor in physical fitness and small in stature... I am the biggest shame among Agors..."

She raised her head, fixedly stared at the opposite mirror, and sobbed:

"I look so stupid..."

"I can't do anything well..."

"I'm so stupid..."

"My eyes are so sore..."

"Why do my eyebrows look so weird..."

"Anyway, I'm the worst..."

Shen Cangye looked at Xiao Hailong and cried.

For a while, I couldn't hold back my face.

Poor is pretty poor.

But why are you picky about your appearance?

Shen Cangye sat on the edge of the bed and took Xiao Hailong into his arms, "Hey, Academician Wendy, let me tell you about an article I read."

"What, what?" Wendy still lowered her head.

"This "Effectiveness of Peer Review in Analytical Science" is an article published in the "Proceedings of the Columbia Academy of Sciences". 1008 manuscripts submitted to three major journals over two years."

After all, he is still a senior scientific researcher, Xiao Hailong's attention was quickly attracted by his words, "How to evaluate?"

Blinking her big ruby ​​eyes, the Agor girl looked up at him in his arms, like a child waiting for her parents to tell a story.

"The evaluation method is the number of citations of the paper, which is the standard to measure the quality of the paper." Shen Cangye continued, "There are more than 1008 rejected manuscripts among the 900 manuscripts, some of which were rejected in seconds like you, and some After the review by the editor, it will be re-reviewed by the big bosses in the same industry for ten reviews and rejected."

"and then?"

"Of the more than 900 manuscripts that were rejected, more than 750 were eventually published in other channels. On average, the number of citations of the 'rejected in seconds' group was lower than that of the 'rejected after ten reviews' group—but there are exceptions .”

Wendy was puzzled, "Exceptions? How about exceptions?"

Shen Cangye said: "You know, the number of citations of papers generally conforms to an exponential distribution. Most of the papers form a mediocre long tail, and only a very few papers have far more citations than their colleagues. These papers at the top of the pyramid are the foundation of human wisdom. Essence."

"Indeed."

"Aren't you surprised that the top 15 papers with the highest number of citations all come from the more than 750 rejected manuscripts, and 15 of these 12 papers come from the most tragic group of 'second rejection' .”

"Huh?" The Argo scientist's eyes widened.

Shen Cangye stretched out a finger, "Why is the manuscript rejected? This is because when human beings make decisions, they often start from their own experience and instinctively choose a safer solution.

"For a reviewer with limited time and resources, novel results within the existing scientific framework and self-cognition are more attractive-and really important discoveries often jump out of the existing scientific framework!"

Wendy frowned, "What...?"

Shen Cangye said solemnly:

"For example, an author who won the highest academic award, the reason for his first rejection of the manuscript was 'too novel, if this article is correct, then the whole economics will be different'."

"Wendy, the reason why your manuscript was rejected is because your research is so good that it has overturned the existing framework of this discipline and is about to make history!"

"I hate it!" Xiao Hailong laughed, and pushed him complainingly, "Where do you see so many messy things?"

"It's a mess, it's endorsed by the top journal." Shen Cangye said righteously, "You always have to stew a little chicken soup by yourself. If you change it and submit again, you will definitely win."

Wendy broke away from him, took out a wet tissue and wiped her face, then rolled up the tissue on the bed and threw it into the trash can.

Shen Cangye stood up.

The girl threw herself into his arms and hammered his chest, "Really, you bad guy, you didn't show up so late! I wish I had met you when I was studying for a Ph.D."

Shen Cangye raised his eyebrows, "It seems that Academician Wendy has not had many manuscripts rejected during her Ph.D."

"What are you focusing on!" The girl pulled him down on the bed together.

Shen Cangye was lying on his back, Xiao Hailong turned over, pressed his shoulder with a playful smile, and gently stroked his cheek.

Soft, warm, with an intoxicating fragrance.

"Stupid," she said.

"What?" Shen Cangye stared at the delicate face in front of him, the slender eyelashes were still wet with tears, and his long hair was casually tied behind his head, with a few strands hanging down disobediently.

"Kiss me." The Argo girl said mischievously.

"Ok?"

"The kind that takes 3 minutes." Wendy said coquettishly.

Shen Cangye stretched out his arms to wrap around the girl's waist, "It's pretty crazy, the kind that takes 3 minutes to come up."

"Then, then 1 minute..."

"3 minutes is 3 minutes." Shen Cangye couldn't help stretching out his hand to hug her into his arms, and kissed her side face.

The Agor girl responded to him with a chuckle, wrapped his arms around his neck, stroked the back of his neck, and offered it to his lips.