Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 209: Just as I guessed
After registering on the official website, Chen Zhou uploaded the paper to the website in accordance with the submission requirements of the Journal of Mathematics and left his email address.
When he saw that he had to pay a hefty publication fee, Chen Zhou cursed in a low voice: "How stingy! It's already a top-ranked publication, but they still charge so much!"
The publication charges of Acta Mathematica Sinica were more than twice as expensive as those of the Journal of Functional Analysis to which he had previously submitted his manuscript.
Chen Zhou suddenly thought, if he could publish a top magazine, wouldn’t that be great?
However, he could only think about it.
At least now, he has absolutely no such ability and is totally unqualified.
The paper was uploaded successfully, and Chen Zhou refreshed the official website page.
The paper status is [Submit], waiting to be received.
After waiting for a while, Chen Zhou refreshed the page again. The status did not change and he was still waiting to be received.
Chen Zhou closed the webpage and no longer paid attention to the submission status of the paper. Instead, he concentrated and waited for the voice in his mind.
Not long after, the system prompt sound in my mind sounded as expected.
"Congratulations, host. You have completed your mission. The first brick of your mathematical building has been laid. So, are you willing to stop here?"
"Completion status: The host has chosen the study of the operational characteristics of the hailstone conjecture and the proof of the hailstone conjecture as his own topic, and has successfully proved the validity of the hailstone conjecture! The paper on the research results has also been successfully submitted to the Journal of Mathematics, and it is only a matter of time before it is published."
"Completion time: Because the journal review cycle in the host's current world time is too long, after the host submits the paper, the system will automatically evaluate the value of the paper and make a judgment on whether it can be passed. The review cycle will not be taken into account in the task time. This task took 6 months and 7 days to complete, which is far less than the one year required by the task!"
"Get reward: Based on the value of the host's final project paper and the impact factor of the journal in which it is published, a comprehensive consideration will be made, and 100,000 natural science experience points will be awarded!"
"Attention: The task template has been solidified, and the three-task mode will be maintained for a long time. The selection of this task has affected the release of subsequent tasks. The task will be updated for the host, please click to view!"
Chen Zhou only paid attention to two key points.
One is "Reward Natural Science Experience Points 100,000".
When Chen Zhou heard about this huge experience value reward, a smile instantly appeared on his face.
This made him happier and more delighted than if he received a 100,000 yuan scholarship.
Another place is "the choice of tasks has affected the release of subsequent tasks."
Upon hearing this, Chen Zhou thought to himself, "As expected."
The system's previous words really came true here.
When Clifford was analyzing the choice of that task, the system once said that his choice would affect the release of subsequent tasks.
However, after completing the task, the new tasks released by the system, except for Task 1, Task 2 and Task 3, are obviously not subsequent tasks affected by the previous task.
Therefore, the system's tasks become a multiple-selection mode.
Chen Zhou has been thinking that the system would not make a statement without reason, and the impact of subsequent tasks would definitely appear again.
Sure enough, these three task templates were fixed, and they would be refreshed one by one after completing the tasks.
This means that the three-task model, starting from the first task, affects the subsequent tasks one by one.
Chen Zhou didn’t know yet whether this task mode was good or not. The only thing he was sure of was that he would be very tired under this task mode.
Retracting his thoughts, Chen Zhou slightly tilted his head to glance at Yang Yiyi beside him.
Yang Yiyi was immersed in her own research and noticed Chen Zhou's actions.
Chen Zhou looked around again and saw that no one was paying attention here.
He then rested his chin with his hand, closed his eyes, and let his consciousness enter the system space.
Chen Zhou scanned the prompts on the display screen one by one.
When Chen Zhou saw the number 100,000, he felt happy and couldn't help but smile.
After Chen Zhou finished reading all the content, the prompt message on the display disappeared.
Then, his personal information interface appears:
"Name: Chen Zhou"
“Rating: Pseudo-scholar”
"Linguistics Lv1 (1000/5000)"
"Natural Sciences:"
"Mathematics Lv4 (0/50000)"
"Physics Lv3 (0/20000)"
"Chemistry Lv1 (0/5000)"
"Biology Lv1 (0/5000)"
"Applied Science:"
"Information Science Lv0 (0/500)"
"Medical Science Lv0 (0/500)"
"Energy Level 0 (0/500)"
"Engineering Technology Lv0 (0/500)"
"Materials Science Lv0 (0/500)"
"Task: In progress (new tasks refreshed)"
"Note: The balance of natural science experience points is 113,000."
Looking at the huge balance of 110,000 natural science experience points, Chen Zhou raised his mathematics level by another level without hesitation.
Math Lv4 was upgraded to Lv5, and the feeling was different from the previous upgrades.
Chen Zhou nearly fainted from the discomfort.
That’s right, I fainted from comfort.
The warm current continued to wash over Chen Zhou's mind, and the previous "whispering" sound was no longer enough to express Chen Zhou's pleasure.
It took a while for Chen Zhou to recover.
"Oh~comfortable~" Chen Zhou murmured belatedly.
After a while, Chen Zhou finally came to his senses.
Fortunately, this is in the system space. If someone saw him like this, I'm afraid there would be no way to explain it ...
The information on the display has been refreshed, and Mathematics is already at Level 5.
To upgrade from Lv5 to Lv6, 100,000 experience points are required.
There are still 63,000 experience points left, not enough to level up again.
Chen Zhou also anticipated this.
The higher the level, the higher the experience points required.
There was nothing wrong with that, he could accept it.
But there are only so many experience points left.
Chen Zhou felt uncomfortable if he didn't use it.
I use it but I’m afraid of wasting it.
Very conflicted.
After thinking about it, Chen Zhou decided to keep these experience points in case of emergency.
And with so much inventory, Chen Zhou felt particularly at ease.
Chen Zhou then noticed that as his mathematics level was upgraded to Lv5, his rating also changed.
He transformed from a "pseudo-scholar" to a real "scholar".
Looking at this change, Chen Zhou frowned slightly.
"That doesn't make sense. Previously, the rating would change only after a total of several levels were upgraded. How come the rating changed after only one level was upgraded?"
The more Chen Zhou thought about it, the more confused he became. He really had no idea about the system's rating.
"Could it be because Lv5 is a watershed?" Chen Zhou muttered to himself.
Unable to figure it out, Chen Zhou stopped thinking about it.
One day, he would be able to figure out what this system was all about.
Moving his eyes downward, Chen Zhou's gaze came to the constantly flashing "task bar".
He reached out and clicked on the taskbar to check the refreshed tasks.
In the task template, Task 1 has been automatically refreshed, while Task 2 and Task 3 remain the same.
Chen Zhou looked at Task 1.
"1. What is a building? It is something that cannot be collapsed! (Continuous Mathematics Task)"
"Task description: The host has independently solved a world-class problem in the field of mathematics, and the paper is about to be published. But this is only the first step in building a mathematical edifice. Please continue to build your own mathematical edifice! There are many world-class problems, and the host has made plans, so keep moving forward!"
"Task Reward: Based on the value of the host's final thesis and the impact factor of the journal in which it is published, a comprehensive consideration will be made to reward natural science experience points!"
"???"
After reading it, Chen Zhou felt that this system was too hassle-free...
