Master of Ten Thousand Foxes

Whew...

The colder the autumn gets, the shorter the days become.

At five-thirty in the afternoon, the dusk outside the window has turned deep.

The distant teaching building hasn’t finished class yet, and even through each window, there are lights shining.

Bai Mo had already reviewed ten papers, and for a few, he had even reviewed their revised versions and suggested approval.

Sitting in his office chair, holding his apprentice, he scrolled through the mouse wheel and finished reading another article.

While reading, suddenly a message from Mo Lanyou popped up at the bottom right corner of the desktop.

[The three papers you reviewed are in the Immortal Grass Paper Library now. They are of such high quality! Haha!]

Bai Mo glanced at the sky, it was almost time to get off work.

He simply opened the Immortal Grass Paper Library and saw that the three papers he reviewed had thousands of clicks and numerous comments.

[The papers reviewed by Expert Bai Mo are of quite a high standard]

[Content is great, wording is excellent, and meaningful]

Bai Mo grinned.

He casually glanced at the newly established Immortal Grass Paper Library and saw that on the first day, there were already twelve papers that had passed the review. The number was somewhat meager, not even filling a page.

But it didn’t matter, as time passed, the number of papers would increase, and the library would become enriched.

He stood up holding his apprentice and called out to Fang Xiaoyu and Wu Qingyun.

"Time to clock out, let’s go eat!"

...

Heluo Immortal Committee.

In a spacious office, a young man with a crew cut wearing glasses and a white coat sat in front of a computer, staring at the screen displaying the Immortal Grass Paper Library.

His expression was quite unpleasant.

"This... The editorial department is also biased based on people!

"The papers given to Bai Mo to review are better one after another.

"The papers I received for review, why are they all such rejects?"

This afternoon, the five papers he reviewed and approved were also uploaded to the library.

But these five papers had scant clicks and even attracted some inexplicable comments.

[How could something like this pass review?]

[Could the standards be too low?]

[It seems this one was cross-reviewed by Expert Jiao Su, Expert Wang Motie, and Expert Chen Rufeng?]

[It seems to be of lower quality than the ones reviewed by Expert Bai Mo]

The more Jiao Su looked, the more his eyes widened, his face reddening and fuming with anger!

He grabbed his phone, directly dialed the editorial department, and as he waited for it to connect, he took a long breath to slightly calm his emotions.

"Hello? Editorial department? This is Jiao Su.

"How are you assigning papers to review experts?"

From the other end came a voice from the editorial department, puzzled.

"We’re generally arranging three experts for cross-review on the same paper.

"If they’re revised, those same three experts review again..."

Jiao Su impatiently interrupted.

"I know about your cross-review process!

"I’m asking about the quality of the papers!"

Jiao Su held a high status in the Heluo Immortal Committee, had things go his way on a daily basis, and his style today was as direct and straightforward as usual. He hadn’t planned on indulging the editorial department.

"Why does it seem to me that the papers reviewed by Bai Mo are of higher quality than those I reviewed? What does your editorial department mean by this?

"Is Bai Mo more noble than me somehow?"

The other end of the call fell quiet for a moment.

Jiao Su seemed to vaguely hear someone in the distance say, "Of course," but he frowned, uncertain whether he heard it wrong, unsure whether that person was answering his question.

Furrowing his brow, anger bubbled up, he was about to demand an answer, but suddenly heard a response from that side.

"We’ve sent you a paper reviewed by Expert Bai Mo, you can check it in your email.

"Before he reviewed it, the quality wasn’t high either."

Jiao Su snorted coldly, not hanging up the phone, operated the mouse with one hand, opened his email, opened the newly received mail, and opened the paper reviewed by Bai Mo.

Crack!

As the paper opened, he was stunned.

Scrolling through the abstract to keywords to the text, every part of the paper was densely annotated in red.

"This commentary... It’s too much..."

He skimmed over the original paper, seeing that its level was indeed average.

The research was well done, but the paper was a bit of gibberish.

But Bai Mo’s annotations were dense, one after the other, revising and patching up the paper.

"Following these annotations to revise the paper, wouldn’t it change dramatically...

"Bai Mo... is he the real father of this paper’s author?"

Jiao Su exhaled deeply, calming down a bit.

"Perhaps Bai Mo is just particularly good at writing papers?"

Then he heard the voice from the editorial department again on the other end.

"Expert Bai Mo has reviewed all ten papers.

"There are seven others where the experiments and research had issues, pointed out by Expert Bai Mo, who gave suggestions for doing new research work."

Jiao Su hung up the call, dumbfounded.

He opened a forum instinctively, only to see someone praising Bai Mo intensely!

[Can Expert Bai Mo even be called a reviewer? That’s my real father! My real father wouldn’t give me this much guidance!]

[Look at all those annotations, look at the corrections and ideas he gave me!]

[Although the paper was rejected by him, I’m not upset at all, hahaha]

[Following his annotated revisions, my paper will soar!]

This person posted screenshots of part of the paper’s content, exposing dense annotations.

A bunch of people replied below.

[Oh my gosh, this is possible?]

[I also want to submit a paper to the Immortal Grass! It’s nearly impossible to contact Expert Bai Mo directly]

[But if you submit a paper and let him review it, he’ll teach you hands-on!]

[Hahaha, that’s so true]