Chapter 554: Monitoring Matthew

"It's this attitude, it's this attitude that makes people unbearable, just like giving alms, acting like a big shot."

Ye Nan felt more and more that he couldn't bear Matthew, especially when Matthew was becoming more and more greedy.

"I remember you should be at the Human Federation, studying Brain Bugs with other scientists." Ye Nan suddenly popped out this irrelevant sentence.

"Yes, but I came back. That Brain Bug is actually nothing strange. It's just a large-sized slug." Matthew said casually.

Originally, he went to study the Brain Bug with great interest, wanting to know what this Brain Bug that could command the Zerg looked like, but the result disappointed him. The Brain Bug's genes had nothing special.

Afterward, he studied several bugs and found that their genes were also nothing special. The only special thing was the hundreds of thousands of different genes in the gene chain, but every bug had these genes, not just this one Brain Bug.

So after intercepting the genes of these bugs, he returned to Earth and continued his own research. As for the analysis of the complex bug genes, he put it aside for the time being.

"What do you think of the biologists of the Human Federation?" Ye Nan popped out this irrelevant sentence again.

"Not much. In the biological field, they are like a group of elementary school students. They can't even do the most basic gene fusion. They are simply a group of waste." Dr. Matthew said with disdain.

"What if they also obtained the Xel'naga's biological technology?" Ye Nan finally revealed his goal. "If they obtained the Xel'naga's biological technology, could they narrow the distance with you?"

The reason Dr. Matthew could look down on that group of scientists in the Human Federation was entirely because he had many achievements in the biological field, and these achievements were his confidence. But when everyone had the same amount of knowledge, the so-called confidence would not exist. In front of the Xel'naga's biological technology, Dr. Matthew's achievements were nothing at all.

Since Dr. Matthew had no confidence, why did he spend so much money to give Dr. Matthew research funds? Why not change to a more obedient person to do things?

Dr. Matthew seemed to realize the potential meaning in Ye Nan's words. "Even if they obtained the Xel'naga's biological technology, it would take quite a long time to absorb and digest it. And whether a scientist's ability is strong or not lies not only in the knowledge he has accumulated, but also in his talent."

Dr. Matthew pointed to his own head. "On the same foundation, as long as there is time, a genius can throw a mediocre person 100,000 miles away. This is not something that can be made up for by the number of people. One genius cannot be compared to 100 mediocre people."

"If there were no Edison, the whole world would still be in darkness."

"Swan is enough to represent Edison's invention in the field of light bulbs." Ye Nan directly denied Dr. Matthew's words.

Swan had once competed with Edison in the field of light bulbs and successfully defeated Edison. But unfortunately, he was just an obscure ordinary inventor, not as dazzling as Edison, so people naturally ignored him.

The reason Ye Nan used Swan to deny Dr. Matthew's words was to tell him that there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers among the people, and it is not necessarily the case that Dr. Matthew, the chief researcher, can crown the crowd in all fields.

"Even if there are one or two, can they replace me?" After a moment of silence, Dr. Matthew shook his head and sighed. "I know what you are thinking. I can guarantee that it won't happen again."

"If your guarantee were useful, trees could climb sows." Ye Nan sneered. Originally intending to say that sows would climb trees, he remembered that the person in front of him was an expert in the biological field, so he forcibly reversed the words.

You can add monkey genes to a sow to let her climb a tree, but you can't make a tree move.

Dr. Matthew's face turned black all of a sudden. About to get angry, he remembered that Ye Nan was his financier, so he forcibly endured it.

"Then what do you want me to do to provide funds?"

"What to do?" Ye Nan suddenly felt troubled. He indeed didn't know what to do. He wholeheartedly wanted Dr. Matthew to obey his orders, so he didn't hesitate to cut off his research funds.

But when Dr. Matthew truly softened, he didn't know what to do.

According to Dr. Matthew's past bad records, what he said could be regarded as farting. If he were given research funds, he would very likely repeat his old tricks. But not giving him research funds and abandoning such a good researcher was indeed a pity.

Besides his poor character, Dr. Matthew was top-notch in other aspects. Even Dr. Ashford had to bow down to Dr. Matthew in the biological field.

Of course, this is not to say that Dr. Ashford couldn't compare to Dr. Matthew, but Dr. Ashford lacked Matthew's madness.

Matthew could do experiments on himself, making himself look neither human nor ghost, and obtain experimental data through this method. Dr. Ashford couldn't do this.

"Cut off his funds." Stark proposed a method. "Choke his budget. It's not that he gets as much as he wants. You need to be stricter."

"Don't." Dr. Matthew heard Stark's proposal and immediately wailed. "Inspiration flashes and disappears. If you have to apply every time you do an experiment, the efficiency is too low. The inspiration that finally appeared might disappear."

"It's better than you taking my money to do your own experiments." Ye Nan snorted coldly, but in his heart, he agreed with Dr. Matthew's words. He had always given researchers great freedom and rarely gave tasks.

At the same time, he basically didn't cut the research funds applied for by researchers and gave great support. But for people like Dr. Matthew, his approach would only fuel his arrogance.

"I don't know if there is a way to not cut him off, but also make him willingly do the research topics he should do, instead of diverting research funds to other uses." Ye Nan looked at Stark and Dr. Ashford and asked.

"No way." Stark spread his hands, indicating that he was powerless to help.

"I have no way either." Dr. Ashford shook his head. Not cutting off his funds and making him honest is basically impossible, unless he watches Matthew all the time. But if he does this, it loses its original meaning.

"Neither of you has a way?" Ye Nan pondered, feeling quite a headache. At this point, besides obtaining a guarantee from Dr. Matthew, he had no other results. If he gave up like this, he felt unwilling. Now is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Once Dr. Matthew achieves results, it will be very difficult to cut his funds again.

"Maybe I can help." Knowing that she had made a mistake, Simila had been silent since then, and only now dared to speak. "If possible, give these data to me. Maybe I can help you monitor him, all the time."

"No." Dr. Matthew was like a rabbit whose tail had been stepped on, jumping up directly.

He absolutely did not allow himself to be monitored. This was not only because he still had the idea of diverting funds, but also because he couldn't accept doing experiments under someone else's monitoring.

"I would feel very uncomfortable that way." Under the suspicious eyes of Ye Nan, Stark, and Dr. Ashford, Matthew retreated directly. "What does she understand? She understands fart. She doesn't understand the experiments I do at all. If she monitors me, she will mess up my experiments. Dr. Ashford monitoring me would be about right."

Matthew secretly rejoiced at the reason he found for himself. He knew that Ye Nan would definitely not let Dr. Ashford monitor him, because Dr. Ashford's level was not lower than his.

However, the secretly rejoicing Dr. Matthew did not find the extremely angry Dr. Ashford. He pointed at Dr. Matthew's nose and scolded: "You are the one who understands fart. You don't understand fart. You bastard who diverts funds."

"Fine, you want me to monitor you, then I will monitor you. I am not finished with you."

Dr. Ashford scolded angrily. Dr. Ashford, who had originally sympathized with Dr. Matthew and felt that Ye Nan had gone too far, completely leaned toward Ye Nan's side when Dr. Matthew insulted his daughter.

"Don't, I said the wrong thing just now." Matthew realized he had said the wrong thing at this time and wailed busily.

He didn't like being monitored. Being monitored meant he would have no chance to do his own experiments. With his free nature, he would absolutely not allow himself to be monitored.

"Whether you want it or not, you have to." Dr. Ashford made a harsh statement directly. Simila is his daughter. Scolding Simila is equivalent to scolding him. No, scolding him wouldn't cause such a big reaction. In his eyes, Simila is more important than him.

"Ye Nan, starting from today, postpone my laboratory indefinitely. I want to monitor him well and let him know what respect is."

"Don't agree to him, Ye Nan. He is even more powerful than me. His monitoring is equivalent to waste." Dr. Matthew shouted. He also knew that he couldn't win back Dr. Ashford's heart at this time, so he aimed his eyes at Ye Nan, hoping Ye Nan would make a wise decision.

"Doctor, you doing this makes me very embarrassed." Ye Nan showed an embarrassed expression. Admittedly, Dr. Matthew's remarks insulting Simila made him very unhappy, but the empire's interests also needed to be taken into account. Of course, the main thing was that Dr. Matthew was just unintentional.

"However." Ye Nan's voice changed. "Actually, I think you can completely monitor him through Simila, observe him through cameras, and stop him as soon as there is a sign of misappropriating funds. Isn't it perfect this way?"

"Good idea." (To be continued.) ===== CHAPTER 555 =====