The girl watched the tiger-striped kitten devouring the minced meat on the plate in front of her. She gently stroked the kitten's back neck with her right hand, making the cat purr, very happy.
She was completely unaware that there were other people watching her, she was just immersed in the joy of playing with the cat and couldn't extricate herself.
"I really envy you."
The girl murmured softly.
At this time, Reiner had already walked down the tower and came to the girl's side.
Looking closer, he realized that this girl was actually the top student of Crescent College, Fina Nabistin.
At this time, Fina no longer looked as calm and composed as usual, more like a girl of her age. She stroked the kitten a little awkwardly, and the tiger-striped kitten also enjoyed it very much, and kept changing her posture, making her whole body They all accepted Fina's baptism and ended up lying on the ground with their bellies turned up.
"Fina, why don't you go back to the dormitory?"
Reiner watched for a while, and finally couldn't help but said.
His words made Fina's hair stand on end like a frightened cat, but the real kitten had already rolled, turned over and jumped away, and slipped away to who knows where.
"Headmaster Iain Gray...I, I, that is..."
Fina showed panic for the first time, which was a bit strange to Reiner. You know, this girl was really calm. Even when she went to Toronto to take the exam, she didn't show too many emotions. .
"Okay, go back quickly. I'll pretend I didn't see it this time."
Reiner had no intention of holding Fina accountable. Students with good grades would naturally receive some leniency. He waved his hand, signaling Fina to return to the dormitory quickly.
"Okay, thank you principal."
After standing up, Fina saluted Reiner and ran back to the dormitory in small steps.
Reiner looked at the other person's leaving back, stretched, and returned to the office. He checked the paper again before sealing it and giving it to the owl for shipping.
... ...
At noon the next day, in a corner of the Rainbow Tower, where the alchemy mages of the thesis review committee gathered, Green yawned and was thinking about whether to take a nap.
Since the annual academic conference of the Mercury Balance was held, the number of papers in the alchemy department has obviously increased. On the one hand, thanks to the introduction of several brand-new theories, the mages have more research directions, and on the other hand, Stan The ordering of elements proposed by Lord Nien has triggered many discussions.
The mages have proposed their own element ordering tables based on Lord Stanion's paper and several conjectures in it. However, in Green's view, these are all in vain.
"These low-level mages really think they are smarter than you all?"
Green raised his eyebrows and looked at the three papers he had reviewed in the morning. They were all sent by low-level mages in an attempt to "perfect" Lord Stanion's element ranking list. However, after reviewing them, Green felt that he was wasting his life.
"... The logic is confusing and far-fetched, and the understanding of the elements is not yet thorough. It is recommended that you re-read the basic textbook of the Alchemy Department before writing the paper... "
"... The title is sensational, but the actual content is empty and meaningless... "
"... There are serious theoretical errors in the assumptions of the paper, and the reasoning process based on it is completely wrong. I hope that you can carefully read the papers of the high-ranking mages before doing research... "
Green's comments are always vicious, and he is even more ruthless when it comes to these shoddy papers.
He even wondered if the magic responsible for checking plagiarism in papers had failed, which resulted in these papers of extremely poor quality coming into his hands.
Green took another look at the papers to be reviewed. There was still one article left for the morning. He thought about it and finally decided to take a lunch break after reading this article.
But when he saw the name of the paper, Green was so frightened that he threw it away.
Rainer Ian Gray.
"A hypothesis about the difference in relative element mass and its impact and discussion on the laws of elements".
Oh my god, this is really life-threatening!
Green cursed in his heart. He had reviewed Rainer Ingle's paper before, which was about the carbon gas produced by calcining limestone. He was greatly shocked at that time. After the experiment, he gave the paper Essay evaluation.
Later, when he heard that a colleague suffered a cognitive collapse after reading Reiner's second paper, Green felt scared and was glad that he did not become that unlucky guy.
However, since he can serve as a thesis review committee, he must be well-informed after all. Green found it a bit incredible that his cognition collapsed because of one paper.
Even though he later learned that it was a paper on electrolysis of water that overturned the foundation of alchemy, Green still thought it was a bit strange.
But these are no longer important.
Because it's Green's turn.
He stood up tremblingly, picked up the paper, and immediately informed the review committee at his superior level.
This is a contingency mechanism established to deal with the episodic cognitive collapse events that have occurred in recent years—mainly Lehner’s paper.
When the next-level review committee feels that they have encountered a paper that may be dangerous, they can choose to activate this emergency mechanism and pass it to the upper level, and so on.
Fourth-level mages like Green generally serve as reviewers of academic papers from the first to third-level mages and mage apprentices. The review committee at the level above him can review the papers of fourth-level and fifth-level mages, and further up, the sixth-level and Papers in high-level fields are judged by high-level mages.
The more people are at the forefront of research, the less likely they are to have cognitive problems caused by disruptive discoveries. This is also a relatively reasonable mechanism.
Green quickly received a reply, asking him to properly seal the paper and take it upstairs. At the same time, this information was also passed on to the other two reviewers who received Reiner's paper, asking them to interrupt the review process of this paper. , to prevent accidents.
With a wave of his hand, Green used his mage's hand to pick up the paper. At the same time, he wrapped the paper in a large piece of paper and sealed it properly.
He hurried upstairs and came to the high-level review area, where Sullivan, the review member above him, sat.
"Mr. Sullivan, here are the papers."
Green handed over the paper with both hands. Sullivan looked seriously, took the package, opened it, and was stunned when he found that it was Liner Ingle's paper.
"I'll take a look first. If anything goes wrong with me, I'll notify Lord Dmitri immediately."
Sullivan ordered, then opened the paper and read it carefully.
Green watched Sullivan read the paper intently, not daring to make a sound for fear of causing some problems.
After a long time, Sullivan gently closed the paper and breathed a sigh of relief.
"The idea in this paper is really crazy, but it seems to make some sense. I think I need to do experiments to verify it."
Sullivan put the paper back on the table and couldn't help but glance at the author's name again.
"Reiner Ingle, are you really not a joke played by Mr. Hohenheim on us?"