Tang Shun smiled slightly, "Do you have any experience leading large projects?"

Tao Tianlei was taken aback, "I didn't expect hierarchy matters to you too. Does one always need experience to lead a project? If that's the case, will I never be able to directly lead a project? Without experience, I can't lead, and without leading, I can't show my capabilities. It's a dead cycle."

"What I mean is, if you feel capable, you could try participating in projects first. While participating, showcase your talents. Your talents need to be visible to others, so you can lead large projects." Tang Shun patiently told him. It's normal for newcomers to be ambitious and proud. You can't argue with him; you should be more tolerant. An adult doesn't get into a tiff with a child.

"No, let me be honest. I've participated in my mentor's major projects, and many of my suggestions were dismissed. Frankly, if he'd accepted my suggestions, it would've yielded sensational results. It's a pity he didn't see their value. If I come here and the same thing happens, I might easily get overlooked, unable to demonstrate my abilities." Tao Tianlei was quite arrogant. The top-ranking science student isn't for nothing; he surely has ability, but that only pertains to exam strength, not directly equating to research innovation.

Tang Shun actually knows his mentor, and this professor is quite reputable in the field, a very respected professor, and supportive of newcomers, unlikely to suppress or neglect.

"Mr. Tao Tianlei, if you have a chance to join us, you'd certainly start as a regular researcher. Doctor Tang is different from you; he's already shown exceptional talent during his studies abroad and achieved visible research outcomes. If you are truly skilled, believe in yourself; you'll surely shine here." Yang Ping found it hard to directly say the suggestion letter was worthless, not wanting to publicly hurt his self-esteem. Everyone goes through a bewildered phase at times.

"Let's proceed with a formal interview, at least this way, we'll get a face-to-face understanding of your basic situation," Yang Ping suggested. Although Tao Tianlei's arrogance was unappealing, Yang Ping was still willing to give him a chance to showcase his talents.

However, Tao Tianlei wasn't pleased with Yang Ping's suggestion. He felt someone of his talent should not be treated like everyone else, interpreting it as a disregard for talent.

Subsequently, Tang Shun and Song Zimo asked him some questions. His responses were evidently somewhat far-fetched, lacking deep understanding of the knowledge behind the questions and showing a gap compared to other well-performing doctors, not demonstrating the level expected of a former top-ranking science student.

Perhaps those questions weren't his forte, so Yang Ping intentionally extended the interview and asked a few other questions, even directly asking what area he knew best and then questions in his domain, yet his performance was still unsatisfactory. His answers were dishonest, trying to appear impressive with empty grandiloquent words, lacking substantive content.

Though you can't fully assess a person in just a few dozen minutes, you do get a basic understanding. Yang Ping asked the others, "Do any of you have more questions for Dr. Tao?"

Tang Shun didn't want to ask further. He saw through this type of person; you wouldn't say he's incapable—he knows a bit, but it's like half-filled water. He always feels he's being oppressed by others, thinking his lack of achievements isn't due to his incompetence but that the world is suppressing him, bullying him, not giving him a chance. That's his true feeling.

Song Zimo also didn't want to ask more. They shook their heads, "We have no further questions."

No need to ask more. When faced with unfamiliar topics, admitting lack of understanding like other students is sufficient. But he insisted on throwing around high-sounding empty terminologies to showcase his level, often hinting his mentor was suppressing him, not allowing access to certain knowledge. His mentor has been kind enough to facilitate his smooth graduation.

Tao Tianlei still felt uncomfortable. He felt the Sanbo Research Institute wasn't any better. His excellent suggestions weren't valued by Professor Yang, which was truly regrettable. He perpetually felt like a talent going unrecognized.

The subsequent interviews went quickly, half an hour per person, with a short break at noon, resuming in the afternoon, completed by evening; the whole process took a day.

Among these dozen people, two or three were quite excellent; after some discussion, they decided to shortlist them temporarily and compare them after subsequent batches of interviews.

Of course, those shortlisted names didn't include Tao Tianlei.

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The next day, Yang Ping retrieved the laboratory's K treatment research materials for a review of the project.

Be it surgery or research, he had a habit of reviewing things.

The discovery of the K Factor was quite unexpected, much like the discovery of penicillin. After penicillin emerged, a new world of antibiotics was opened up. Subsequently, based on penicillin's structural function principles, many antibiotics were developed.

In Yang Ping's eyes, the K Factor was akin to penicillin for tumor treatment, poised to usher in a new era in tumor treatment.

Before penicillin, treating bacterial infectious diseases was a game of chance, relying purely on the body's immune capabilities, leaving bacterial pneumonia to claim many lives.

The advent of penicillin made treating bacterial infectious diseases possible, ushering medicine into a new era. It's not an overstatement to consider penicillin and antibiotics a cornerstone of modern medicine.

Yang Ping was confident that, based on the accidental discovery of the K Factor, he could develop other tumor-killing factors, it was just a matter of time.

Fleming observed a mold contaminating a Staphylococcus culture dish in his laboratory and noticed an antibacterial ring, thus hypothesizing the mold secretion had antibacterial effects. Pursuing this research led to the discovery of the world's first antibiotic, penicillin.

Similarly, the K Factor was discovered accidentally by Yang Ping. His lab had extracted many of Sisi's tumor cells for research. One day, these tumor cells unexpectedly showed massive death. After thorough analysis and comparison, he found an extra substance, which he labeled the K Factor. Upon purifying this factor and combining it with tumor cells, tumor cell death was indeed replicated.

Hence, Yang Ping focused on researching the mechanism of the K Factor in killing tumor cells. Observing something is one thing; understanding the "why" behind it is another, and the latter poses a greater challenge.

Studies revealed that these K Factors were remarkably affinity towards Sisi's tumor cells. They could precisely identify these tumor cells, adhere to their membranes, penetrate into the cell interior and release a specific substance that initiated the tumor cells' apoptosis process, thereby killing the tumor cells.

However, these substances only worked in the laboratory environment. If directly introduced into the human body, they couldn't adapt to the internal environment and thus couldn't function.

To successfully deliver them into the human body, Yang Ping devised multiple methods. He used adenoviruses as carriers, combining them with these factors to form a capable protein structure.

Part of this new substance was fully adaptable to the human internal environment, enabling it to travel through the bloodstream into the tumor and hunt tumor cells, yet due to various limitations, only few K viruses could evade the immune system's defense, with most perishing en route. Just a few reached their destination.

Additionally, the K Virus could trigger an immune response, which was highly unstable and sometimes very intense, even fatal.

Enhancing penetration rate and reducing immune response became Yang Ping's new challenge. Following conventional medical wisdom, resolving this would take decades, yet Yang Ping leveraged the time advantage in System Space to solve these issues rapidly, which gave him the confidence to treat Sisi directly.

Despite numerous uncertainties and substantial risks, he wasn't blindly betting, instead holding a reasonable success rate. He never acted blindly.

The new problem Yang Ping faced was the need to develop more K Factors, constructing a grand system through K treatment.

Like penicillin, using it as a starting point, to build a vast antibiotic system, and branch out to other different types of antibiotics.

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