Chapter 90

Then, Wang Hongcheng performed a series of charlatan acts. When he finished, he looked at Jia Hongjian with a rather smug expression, only to see Jia Hongjian staring at the row of elderly scientist judges as if they were beautiful women. "Hmph!" He snorted coldly and glared at Jia Hongjian with malice.

At this moment, a few people behind Wang Hongcheng couldn't help but applaud. "Great!" "It's indeed water turning into oil!" "This is the fifth great invention in history after the four great inventions of our country!" Hearing these cheers, Jia Hongjian turned around curiously and saw a few middle-aged men looking up at the sky with tears in their eyes. Hey! Could these guys be any cuter? Looking at these truly tearful men, Jia Hongjian couldn't help but find it funny, really!

"Next, Jia Hongjian will raise objections..." After the young general announced this, the onlookers who had not expressed any opinions all looked at Jia Hongjian, even the famous old scientists looked at him curiously, wondering what kind of objections he would raise.

"I believe everyone knows that one of the important definitions of science is repeatability, which means that after an experimental result is published, others can repeat the result under the same experimental conditions and procedures..." Jia Hongjian explained loudly. Hearing this, the audience was a bit puzzled—what was he doing? Didn't Jia Hongjian always think that the water turning into oil was a scam? Was he trying to point out that Wang Hongcheng didn't reveal the secret formula, making it impossible for others to repeat the experiment? But the state didn't have the right to force Wang Hongcheng to hand over the secret formula!

"So today, I have brought a middle-aged scientist with a conscience who is also hidden among the people. I want him to try to replicate Wang Hongcheng's results using his formula. If he fails, that's another story, but if he succeeds, it will indirectly prove that Mr. Wang Hongcheng's technology has a certain possibility of success. Now, please welcome Professor Yingzi..." As Jia Hongjian spoke, he invited Professor Yingzi, dressed in a white lab coat, to the stage.

However, Jia Hongcheng's words left almost everyone in the audience stunned! No one understood what Jia Hongjian meant! Wasn't Jia Hongjian here to expose Wang Hongcheng? Why did it sound like he was helping Wang Hongcheng? What was he up to? Even the famous scientist Qian Xuesen, who was the head of the judges, found the young general to ask what Jia Hongjian was doing.

At this moment, Professor Yingzi, wearing a white lab coat and a pair of glasses, trembled as he walked to the front of the stage. Although he had always cheated for food and drink, he had never been on such a big stage before. He accidentally stumbled and fell to the ground...

The onlookers burst into laughter, and even Wang Hongcheng sneered. The young general, who had been dispatched by the two-bomb and one-star hero, hurriedly walked towards Jia Hongjian, but before he could speak, he saw the fallen Professor Yingzi trembling as he got up and took a bottle that looked like blue-black ink from a box under the table.

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing, just keep watching," Jia Hongjian said before the young general could speak. He turned his head and focused on Professor Yingzi, who used a test tube to draw some dark blue liquid from the ink bottle, looked at Jia Hongjian, and then, trembling, dripped the liquid into a beaker filled with mineral water.

"What's going on? If you have objections, raise them; if not, get off the stage! What kind of ghostly tricks are you playing?" "Get off!" "Get off!" The onlookers, who were all high-ranking officials, started to heckle like ordinary people! But at that moment, someone with keen eyes noticed something and pointed at the beaker, shouting, "There are bubbles in there? There are bubbles in there!"

Hearing this, the heckling crowd fell silent and looked at the beaker. They saw that the mineral water, which had been dyed dark blue, indeed had bubbles forming. At this moment, Professor Yingzi, following Jia Hongjian's instructions, threw a lit match into the beaker. With a "puff," a flame larger and brighter than the one in Wang Hongcheng's laboratory appeared!

Seeing this, everyone in the audience was truly stunned! They stared dumbfounded at the flame in the beaker, at the sharp-nosed and monkey-faced Professor Yingzi, and at the calm Jia Hongjian. What was going on? How could this happen? Wang Hongcheng's secret formula wasn't given to anyone, so how could Jia Hongjian replicate it? Could the sharp-nosed and monkey-faced man really be a super scientist hidden among the people? Could water turning into oil be real?

But at this moment, Wang Hongcheng's eyes were different! They were filled with shock and fear! Yes! He knew that Jia Hongjian must have known his secret, and after repeating it, how could he refute it? How could he respond? Wait! Could he say that Jia Hongjian stole the secret formula from him? No...

While Wang Hongcheng was sweating and thinking about how to find an excuse, Professor Yingzi, who seemed to have gotten used to the stage, gradually stopped trembling. He imitated Wang Hongcheng by pouring some of the liquid from the beaker onto the ground, and it burned just like in Wang Hongcheng's performance!

Seeing the onlookers becoming increasingly puzzled and some people about to ask why, Jia Hongjian didn't stop and directed Professor Yingzi to perfectly replicate all of Wang Hongcheng's performance! When the performance was over, the entire venue was deathly silent! Everyone stared at Jia Hongjian, hoping he would give an explanation.

"Everyone must be very shocked, right? You didn't expect us to perfectly replicate Mr. Wang Hongcheng's experiment, did you? Does this mean that water turning into oil is real? Ha ha, let's do another small comparative experiment, and you'll know..." Jia Hongjian said, taking out a bottle of Hero brand blue-black ink from the box, which had a trademark on it!

"Come on, that young general, please come over..." Jia Hongjian waved his hand and called the young general over. "Could you please take a clean beaker and fill it with mineral water?" The young general hesitated slightly, but when he saw Qian Xuesen nod, he obediently did as Jia Hongjian asked.

"Now, light a match and throw it in to see if it burns..." As soon as Jia Hongjian finished speaking, the young general threw the match in, and it went out. "This proves that mineral water is indeed not flammable..." When he said this, the onlookers laughed, but at that moment, Jia Hongjian added, "It also proves that our beaker is clean and nothing flammable has been rubbed on the walls of the beaker..."

This statement was like a slap in the face to those who were laughing, and they immediately fell silent! They seemed to realize where Jia Hongjian was leading them! At this moment, Jia Hongjian continued to direct the young general, "Please add two drops of blue-black ink and then light a match to see if it burns..."

As expected, mineral water with blue-black ink added wouldn't burn! But some smart people had already noticed something. They realized that the water with blue-black ink added looked almost the same as the water with the mysterious reagent that Professor Yingzi had used in his performance!

At this moment, Jia Hongjian continued, "There's a chemical substance in the box, called calcium carbide, in a glass bottle. Could you please take a little calcium carbide, grind it into powder, and pour it into the beaker..." After the young general did this, bubbles soon appeared in the beaker, just like the reaction when Professor Yingzi had added the mysterious liquid!

"Let's light it again and see what happens?" Under Jia Hongjian's direction, the young general threw the match into the beaker, and with a "puff," the flame shot up!

At this moment, Jia Hongjian turned and looked at the high-ranking officials who were still in shock, and then at the old scientists who seemed to have discovered something. "Yes, that's right! The key to this performance is calcium carbide! Calcium carbide reacts with water to produce calcium hydroxide and acetylene, and acetylene is flammable... This method has actually been used by charlatans to deceive farmers for many years. But since calcium carbide powder is visible in water, I hid it in the rubber sleeve of the pipette! This way, as long as a large amount of dark ink is drawn into the pipette, and then the ink is dripped into the beaker, the calcium carbide powder will react with the water unnoticed under the cover of the ink..."

"Wang Hongcheng! You scoundrel! I, your former colleague, a man who used to cheat for food and drink, can't stand your behavior! How dare you use such a trick to deceive the leaders of the party and government?" At this moment, Professor Yingzi stood up and sternly rebuked Wang Hongcheng.

"Innocent! They..." Wang Hongcheng was furious, pointing at Jia Hongjian and shouting, "They are deliberately using this ambiguous method to smear me! They are using a trick that looks the same but is actually a charlatan's trick to imitate my scientific achievement, trying to make everyone think my scientific achievement is fake through this fish-eye-for-pearl behavior!"

At this moment, almost all the onlookers immediately stared at Jia Hongjian, wanting to see his reaction—would he be panic-stricken, guilty, or stern? They felt that Wang Hongcheng was right. If Wang Hongcheng's scientific achievement was real and Jia Hongjian knew a charlatan's trick that could imitate it, theoretically, he could use the charlatan's trick to drive out the genuine achievement! Could Jia Hongjian make people think Wang Hongcheng's method was fake through a similar trick? How would Jia Hongjian react?

At this moment, under everyone's gaze, Jia Hongjian calmly asked Wang Hongcheng, "Wang Hongcheng! Do you dare to swear that you have never used calcium carbide to deceive people in any of your water-to-oil projects?"

"Of course not!" Wang Hongcheng immediately shouted!

"Good... Then everything that follows is on you!" Jia Hongjian said with a cold smile.

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