Many members of our experimental team were dissatisfied with Tan Xi and decided to jointly apply to launch an Academic Review against him.
I had already written the details into a letter. At midnight on Sunday, I would stuff the letter into the public bench at the very end of East First Road, Aerospace Town. The third wooden slat of the bench could be lifted, and there was a recess underneath.
Song He was horrified.
He tore the note to pieces, but did not dare throw the scraps around carelessly. Instead, he stuffed them back into his pocket.
An Academic Review was an extremely serious matter. Once initiated, Tan Xi would be placed in temporary custody!
Song He had long heard of the terror of such custody.
There were specialized holding facilities: tiny rooms of twenty square meters, with every wall, floor, and piece of furniture covered in soft padding, as yielding as a sofa, to ensure that no one could kill themselves by smashing into a wall. The tableware, toothbrushes, and pens were also designed to prevent self-harm. In short, every facility in the room was meant to prevent suicide!
After being placed in custody, Tan Xi would have to undergo repeated interviews and write statement after statement. Especially for a Level Ⅲ Project Leader like him, whose work involved hundreds of millions in research funding and several major projects, the review would be even stricter!
The scope of the review was broad: espionage, academic fraud, usurping academic achievements, embezzling research funds, and even a chaotic private life. Any stain had to be explained in detail.
The statements could not contain lies. Interrogation experts would oversee the entire process, capturing contradictory details from the repeated interviews and each successive statement. At the same time, case officers would collect evidence