Strictly speaking, the article had existed for many years. It had simply been dug up again at this particular moment.
At the entrance to the Hypergravity Training Room, Professor Furnal looked at Lu Zhou, who was sitting on a small stool scrolling through his phone, and made a joking remark. He was the one who had dug up the article and sent it to Lu Zhou.
"It seems doing scientific research in Hua Nation really isn't easy."
Lu Zhou closed the article. His expression barely changed as he replied casually.
"After all, it only took us a hundred years to go from the feudal era to modernization. That was a leap in the history of civilization, and some things were inevitably skipped along the way. Just as you wouldn't expect scholars to be as devout as priests, quite a few people among us still habitually label scholars as saints."
"Actually, what I meant was that the academic environment at the University of Oxford is a little more relaxed."
"What does that have to do with me?"
"...All right." Seeing Lu Zhou looking at him in bewilderment, Professor Furnal shrugged and said helplessly, "All right, it was just an offhand remark. Don't take it to heart."
The man sitting opposite Lu Zhou was Professor Pansy Furnell, from the Archaeology and Art History Research Laboratory at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Although he was only thirty-five, his thinning hair and the wrinkles on his forehead made one wonder whether he had fallen under a pharaoh's curse while conducting archaeological research in Egypt.
The article he had mentioned was a widely circulated commentary on Facebook, written by a Chinese American journalist named Xu Jing.
Although the article had first been posted on Facebook, it soon spread to Hua Nation, exploiting