When you make a new friend, you have discovered a new continent, and when every acquaintance leaves, the world is missing a piece of land.

Chapter 17: The Yanshi Codex

When Li Bai walked into Professor Hogg's office again, it had been eighteen years, and he looked at the shelves full of books, stroked the yellowed classical clock, stepped on the new Persian carpet, and finally sat down on the sofa at Professor Hogg's invitation.

"How do you feel? Will the academy arrange more classes for you? If you feel tired, I'll coordinate. "Professor Hogg was busy preparing the tea set.

Li Bai shook his head, "It's okay, do you still have green tea here?"

"Of course, I don't know when you'll be here, so I have the best green tea for you all year round. Professor Hogg brought the green tea he had just brewed to Li Bai.

Li Bai smelled the fragrance of tea, and sighed for a while: "You don't seem to have changed here, it's hard to believe that eighteen years have passed." ”

"Yes, in the past 18 years, our scientific research and exploration have made almost no progress, and it is almost impossible to break through the bottleneck of the solar system. ”

Li Bai was also melancholy, this is an incomparably long eighteen years, he has not found any news about Qing Jue, the "Black Hole Research Laboratory" that he has high hopes for has been stagnant, Hogg in front of him is already full of white hair, skinny, gratifying that his spirit is very good, still so energetic, "What I'm worried about is you, how many eighteen years can there be in the life of ordinary people?"

When Hogg heard this, he couldn't help but cough nervously, and soon he made a helpless look and said, "Time has always been our worst enemy. After saying that, he hesitated for a moment, and then pleaded: "Your Excellency, Deacon White, you ...... Can you give me some more time? You know what I mean. ”

Li Bai was a little surprised when he heard Hogg's request, this was a request he had never mentioned, "Hogg, I really want to help you, I grew up watching several of you, but life and death are fate, everyone's life is limited, only this I can't help you change, and I can't violate the Code of Deacons." ”

Hogg laughed helplessly after hearing this: "I understand, I understand your plight, I will definitely do my best, in my lifetime, I will complete this research." ”

Li Bai nodded, got up and said goodbye to Hogg: "I remember that your birthday will be soon." ”

"Yes, thank you for remembering, this time I'm going to have a dinner party, and I'll invite my best friends and family, and you will definitely come and enjoy your face. ”

"I'll be there!"

In the evening, after Li Bai finished the last lecture of the week, he saw that the sky outside the window was already dark, so he left in a hurry. Tong Meng chased out of the classroom, this time on the zebra crossing on Regent Street, she wandered to the thrift market boredly, and to her delight, the "Wen Si Shan" bookstore was finally open.

She hurriedly ran into the bookstore, found the location of her books on the shelves in the second-hand book area, found the ancient building atlas, and hurriedly took it to the cashier to pay, but in her joy, she left the cover of the atlas on the shelf. Tong Meng happily left the bookstore and bumped into Yesheng Ge, who had not been seen for several days, at the door, still wearing the dark blue trench coat.

"Tong Meng, I finally saw you. ”

"Hello, Mr. Yeshengge. ”

"This is fate, I will come to you today. Ye Shengge glanced at the time on his wrist, and without waiting for Tong Meng to speak, he pulled her back to the bookstore, and led her to the big screen in the bookstore, where the BBC real-time news was playing on the TV, and he said mysteriously, "Wait a minute." ”