The Necromancer of Hogwarts

Many people have a misconception that university professors must regard money as dirt.

But in fact, university professors are really short of money.

What they lack is not money for personal living. No matter how humble a professor is, he will not be so miserable that he cannot even live a satisfying life. What they lack is funds for research projects.

Because just like corporate employees have KPI indicators and are evaluated by the human resources department every quarter, university professors also have their own scientific research indicators and teaching indicators. Otherwise, some professors would be too idle to start classes for undergraduates.

Their purpose is to achieve teaching targets. If there are teaching targets, there will be less pressure on scientific research targets.

After all, teaching indicators are easy to achieve, but scientific research indicators are very difficult. A high-quality paper cannot be written just because you want to.

If you fail to meet the targets several times in a row, your laboratory may have to cut funding, and then your benefits and salary will also be reduced, and you will eventually fall into a vicious cycle.

That kind of situation is a nightmare for any professor.

Unless they have reached the level of a Nobel Prize scholar or a national academician, the daily work of most professors is actually to find ways to get funding. Anyway, there are doctoral students leading master's and undergraduate research work, and professors are separated for a while. It would be nice to have a group meeting sometime to check on the progress.

Therefore, even a professor like Pei Qiping, who works at the University of London, has no resistance at all to the three million pounds waved by Xiang Yu.

Isn't it just bringing capital into the group? Isn't this a problem?

Every year, the research team opens up a few places for undergraduates to experience the scientific research atmosphere. Now it is just opening up a supreme platinum VIP to Xiang Yu, and offering it as an ancestor.

If possible, Pei Qiping even hopes that all the students in the group will join the group with funds, so how cool it would be to start scientific research.

If you really want to do experiments by hand, to be honest, it is much more reliable to outsource it directly to professionals.

I don’t know how many mistakes students will make when doing experiments. Why do laboratories still like to let students do it so much?

Part of it is to cultivate students' abilities, but another part is to save money.

As for the reports requested by Xiang Yu, they are commonplace for professors, and I don’t know how many of them are done a year.

They have to apply for various financial sponsorships, and they are not allowed to give a report at any time. Now it seems a little inappropriate to give a report to Xiang Yu, but for the sake of sponsorship, it doesn't matter.

After hearing Xiang Yu's conditions, Pei Qiping didn't even hesitate. He hurried back to the classroom and said to his teaching assistant: "Joseph, I give you a task. This introductory lesson is taught by Come up here and let me see how well you understand the basics."

"If you do well in this class, you don't have to attend the next group meeting. I'll give you a few days off."

Joseph, a doctoral student and teaching assistant under Pei Qiping, shivered and his eyes were filled with joy.

Every group meeting is equivalent to an exam in school. The top students who have achieved results praise each other confidently, while the students who have not made progress in their experiments are trembling.

It was great to be able to avoid a group meeting. Joseph immediately adjusted his mood, and then walked up to the podium to introduce the various promising prospects of artificial muscles to the undergraduates.

Pei Qiping quietly left the classroom and spent an hour and a half preparing materials. Then he found Xiang Yu and introduced the research progress of his research group to Xiang Yu.

"We all know that a block of muscle is made up of muscle fibers one after another. When bioelectricity stimulates muscle fibers, the muscle fibers will contract or relax."

"The contraction and relaxation of countless muscle fibers to varying degrees can generate force in any direction, allowing the human body to move flexibly according to the brain's ideas."

"So research on artificial muscles mainly focuses on two points."

"First, we need to develop a material that can exhibit various complex movements according to changes in electric current, so that we can create muscles that are close to the real human body."

"More importantly, we need to create a high-end coordination device. Coordinating the movements in the mind with the movements of artificial muscles is the biggest difficulty."

Pei Qiping spread his hands: "Compared to the former, the latter is unimaginably difficult."

"Without this coordination device, artificial muscles are useless, so research on them has not made much progress until now."

"Of course, I didn't want to solve the latter problem. If I could solve the first problem, the results would be enough to shock the academic world."

A glimmer of light flashed in Xiang Yu's eyes.

He understood what Pei Chipin said.

Indeed, without a coordinating device that allows the brain and muscles to move in unison, artificial muscles would have little utility. No matter how good it is, it cannot replace prosthetic limbs for people with disabilities.

but……

What about the skeleton warriors summoned by Xiang Yu?

Skeleton warriors can perform various complex movements with only their skeletons. This is impossible in modern medicine. Without muscles, where would the strength come from? But the necromancy magic allowed the skeleton warrior to do just that.

If artificial muscles are loaded on the body of a skeleton warrior, it will have practical significance.

Others want to use artificial muscles to drive limb movements.

The skeleton warrior relies on bones to move, and the artificial muscles only act as a power amplifier.

Figuratively speaking, it is equivalent to putting on a naked skeleton warrior a suit of equipment!

"According to the current research results, how does the strength of artificial muscle fibers compare with real muscle fibers?" Xiang Yu looked at Pei Qiping and asked.

Pei Qi said calmly: "Most of the artificial muscle fibers currently produced in the laboratory are composed of high-molecular polymers, and their contraction and relaxation forces are generally ten to dozens of times higher than real muscle fibers."

"If a person was equipped with artificial muscles all over his body and could move freely, he would be a superman and be able to easily grab tons of weight!"

When he heard this, Xiang Yu's eyes flashed with a terrifying light, and he felt unusually excited.

If the skeleton warrior is loaded with artificial muscles, the strength and speed of the skeleton warrior can skyrocket, and the force of a full blow may reach several tons!

What would be the result of such a force bombarding the enemy?

Perhaps even the armor curse released by the elite Aurors may not be able to withstand an attack!

"Destroy all laws with one force?!"

"Necromancer version of Gundam?!"

"This will give me a little bit of resistance when facing the pursuit of the magic world. The University of London is at the right place. The prospect of combining technology with necromancy is very promising."

Xiang Yu felt happy.

He had also thought that if he escaped from England and fled to an island in the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean, maybe he wouldn't be discovered by the magical world?

However, he remembered the author's own setting of Harry Potter.

There are far more magic schools in this world than just three countries: England, Germany, and France.

According to the original author's setting, there are a total of 11 large magic schools similar to Hogwarts around the world!

There is one in the United States.

Brazil has one.

There is one in Africa.

The island nation of God has a large magic school with a long history, which is on the same level as Hogwarts. Muggles even built an air force base near it!

In addition to these large magic schools, there are also some small magic schools, all of which are registered with the International Wizarding Organization.

Therefore, the magic world actually covers the entire earth!

Even if Xiang Yu escapes to a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, sorry, when he reaches the school entrance age, the monitoring magic of the nearby magic school will detect his traces and issue an admission notice.

Then the problem arises. Xiang Yu is now a wanted criminal in the magic world. He must have a backup in the International Wizarding Organization.

There is really no way to escape, and you will be hunted by the magic world wherever you go.

"Well, no, maybe there is a place I can go to, a place I am most familiar with..."