The Academy's cafeteria is open 24 hours a day, of course, because this is the Federal Academy of Sciences, and scientists and researchers here have no concept of time once they work, and often forget the normal time of meals, which leads to missed meals and affects their health. Therefore, taking this into account, the administrative staff of the Academy of Sciences changed the canteen from the initial regular time to 24-hour operation, which increased the difficulty of canteen management, but it was also welcomed by scientists and researchers.

Now is the time when the canteen is the most crowded, after all, there are still some scientific researchers in the Academy of Sciences who are used to maintaining a good schedule, plus ordinary administrative staff, etc., when Meng Lin walked into the door of the canteen, he found that there were already many people queuing up to get food.

The way of dining is basically buffet, and the food in the cafeteria is dazzling, and it can be said that the tastes of all countries on the earth can be found here in the past. If you like to eat rice, you can also take a big-eyed steak if you love steak, and if you are used to pasta, there are all kinds of pasta products, even the kind of corn paste that black Africans often eat.

Taking a plate on the side, Meng Lin followed the people in line to choose some of his favorite food, and when the plate was full, he took the plate and found an empty seat to sit down and eat.

As soon as he took a few bites, he felt that someone seemed to be standing behind him, and Meng Lin didn't pay attention, just thinking that the other party wanted to ask if there was anyone in the vacant seat next to him. He muttered the food in his mouth and muttered that there was no one here, but the other person did not move, but walked from behind him to his side.

"Xiao Meng?"

"Lao Li?!"

Hearing the greeting, Meng Lin looked up, and only then did he recognize who the other party was, wasn't the person standing beside him holding a plate and smiling at himself Li Xiao?

"Haha! It's really you. I looked at the back in front of me and it was like, why are you here? "Li Xiao and Meng Lin are old acquaintances, they worked together in the Northwest Base back then, and the relationship between the two and Su Yichen is a very good friend. However, later their respective jobs changed, and after the outbreak of war. Li Xiao stayed at the northwest base, while Meng Lin went to Pluto, this difference is many years, although the two sides communicate on weekdays, but there is also a lot of time without seeing each other.

Li Xiaole sat down next to Meng Lin, the old friend was very happy to meet, Meng Lin told Li Xiao that he came to participate in the seminar this time, and asked Li Xiao why he was here? You must know that Li Xiao went to the Mars base before Meng Lin returned to Earth to assist in the construction of Mars. Could it be that the work on the Martian base is over?

"It's early, where is it so easy to build Mars, Mars is not Pluto, everything has to be done little by little." Li Xiao replied with a smile, although the construction of Mars is very fast, and with the expansion of the Mars base, a new Martian city has risen from the ground, and the work of human migration from the earth to Mars has already begun. More than 20 million humans now live on Mars, and that number is expected to reach 100 million in a few years. At that time, Mars will become another planet of life like Earth.

But as Li Xiao said, it is not so easy to transform a planet. It will take many years for humanity to transform Mars into another Earth. In this process, the Martian City is built in a similar way to the Space City, and the entire Martian City is protected in a force field area, which is equivalent to replacing the role of the air pump. In order to prevent Mars City from being hit by meteorites, and to prevent the initial ecological environment of Mars City from being damaged.

As for the transformation of the atmosphere of Mars itself, it will take a lot of time and effort, and it is not easy to modify the atmosphere structure of a planet, although the current technology of the earth has barely reached this step, but to succeed it needs to be gradual. There's no rush for this.

"I'm on vacation this time, and the project at hand has just been completed, so I finally have some free time to go back to Earth." Li Xiao took a sip of soup and said with a smile as he ate the food.

"Vacation? Vacation running here? Meng Lin didn't believe Li Xiao's words, he didn't know what kind of character Li Xiao was? That's a fool's thing.

"Haha, I knew I couldn't hide it from you." Hearing this, Li Xiao immediately laughed, shook his head and said: "It's true that the vacation is true, but I'm here to do something by the way, by the way, you know that the old dean is going to retire, right?" ”

Seeing Meng Lin nodded, Li Xiao continued: "So, take advantage of this time to come back and take a look at the old dean, it is said that he will completely retire this time, and there will not be much time to meet again in the future." ”

"Completely retreat? Didn't the committee say that the committee would confer the position of lifelong member on the honorary president of Tian Lao? Meng Lin was stunned for a moment and stopped the chopsticks in his hand.

"You don't know who our old dean is?" Li Xiao shook his head and sighed: "These have been pushed by him, the old dean said that since he wants to retreat, he should retreat cleanly, don't do those things that occupy the pit and don't, it's useless to ask for these false names." ”

Meng Lin thought about it silently, and finally sighed. That's right, Tian Lao is this character, his early military career gave him a different personality from ordinary scientific research workers, and this kind of character style has a strong military flavor. For Tian Lao's decision, Meng Lin was both emotional and admiring in his heart.

Similarly, Li Xiao's words also reminded him that he forgot to visit Tian Lao when he came to the headquarters of the Federal Academy of Sciences this time, and immediately asked Li Xiao if he had already gone to see Tian Lao, but Li Xiao replied that he had made an appointment with Tian Lao to go to his house tonight, and he was not preparing to eat a good meal and set off.

As soon as he heard that this was the case, Meng Lin hurriedly said that he was going too, this suggestion was not a problem, for Tian Lao and the two were very familiar, it was not a matter to have one more Meng Lin, and Li Xiao immediately agreed.

After finishing the meal, they sat down and chatted a few more words, and after half an hour to see that the time was almost up, the two got up and left the cafeteria, got into Li Xiao's car and rushed to Tian Lao's residence.

The place where Tian Lao lives also belongs to the headquarters of the Federal Academy of Sciences, but this is a living area, and it is very quiet. Although there were no guards along the way, in fact, when their vehicles entered the living quarters, Zhi Brain determined their identities through scanning.

Tian Lao's home is a small gray building, which was one of the first buildings built shortly after the establishment of the Federal Academy of Sciences. Over the years. With the development of the Federal Academy of Sciences, there are many more and better buildings in the living area have been built one after another, and it is not difficult to change to a better place to live according to Tian Lao's identity and level, but every time the administrators of the Academy of Sciences put forward it, Tian Lao was rejected, so Tian Lao has been living here.

When I arrived at the place, I got out of the car and verified my identity at the door. The door of the intelligent brain control slowly opens automatically. Tian Lao is a person who doesn't like to be special, and he only has two staff members at home besides himself, one is Tian Lao's secretary, and the other is Tian Lao's nanny. Although many housekeeping jobs can now be done by robots, Tian Lao, who misses the old, still stubbornly uses his nanny, according to him, there is a popularity when someone in the family is there, and this feeling is incomparable to that of a cold machine.

"Aunt Du, is Tian Lao at home?" Inside, a gray-haired woman greeted him. Li Xiao and the others recognized her at a glance as the nanny of Tian's family, this Aunt Du has been working here for more than ten years, and it can be said that she is equal to half of Tian Lao's relatives.

"Yes, yes, the old man is playing chess with people." Aunt Du said with a smile, stretching out her hand and pointing to the study in the room.

"Aunt Du, go get busy, we'll go over by ourselves, I'm sorry for you."

"You're welcome, you're free." Aunt Du smiled and nodded. It seemed that there was still soup boiling in the kitchen, and a faint fragrance came from it.

Tian Lao's secretary has already left work. Who is Tian Lao playing chess with? With doubts, Meng Lin and Li Xiao walked to the house, walked through the living room to the study, the door of the study was not closed, and at a glance, they saw Tian Lao sitting in front of the chess case with a chess piece in his hand, frowning and thinking hard.

And beside him there was an old man watching. This old man made Meng Lin and Li Xiao stunned for a moment, because they all knew who this old man was, he was the first director of the 781 Center that year, Tian Lao's predecessor, and the former academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences - Lin Dong.

Lin Dong's complexion is obviously much better than more than ten years ago. He replaced his heart a few years ago through cloning technology, so as to completely get rid of the long-troubled disease, coupled with the rapid development of medical technology in recent years, people's health and life have been greatly extended, and now Lin Dong looks even a little younger than back then, his face is ruddy, refreshed, and he can't tell that he is an old man who is already in his 80s.

And the one who played against Tian Lao was also an old man, but Meng Lin couldn't see his front, they could only see his back. This old man's hair is more white and less black, and he looks similar to Tian Lao and them, but his figure is not as tall as Tian Lao, who has been a soldier.

"There it is!" Tian Lao, who was thinking hard, suddenly brightened his eyes, and the chess pieces in his hand slapped heavily on the chessboard, and immediately laughed after the pieces fell: "Lao Tzu smashed the Yellow Dragon, see what you do!" ”

The other party just silently looked at Tian Lao's position and didn't speak, unlike Tian Lao, who was triumphantly holding a cup and drinking tea, this old man just stretched out two fingers and picked up a word from the chess box and gently landed in another position.

Tian Lao seemed to have already thought about the next steps, and saw that every chess piece he landed was held high and low as if he was slashing in battle, and he looked very imposing. But the old man was unusually calm, and every word he dropped was so casual, but after a few moves, Tian Lao's smug expression gradually solidified on his face, and the chess pieces in his hand suddenly became as heavy as ten thousand pounds, and he couldn't fall down.

"Hey...... You've won again. This sentence came out of Tian Lao's mouth helplessly, and Tian Lao said in frustration: "After making trouble for a long time, you deliberately leaked the flaw just now, just waiting for me to drill into it?" ”

"Hahaha, Lao Tian, Lao Tian, I said a long time ago that you can't go down, look, you don't believe it, right? Now you always believe it? Lin Dong next to him laughed happily, looking gloating and looking lively.

"Are you okay? You can do it! Don't stand and talk without backache, and watch people not have a hard time. Tian Lao glared at Lin Dong angrily, Lin Dong looked like he knew you would say this, and his head suddenly shook into a rattle: "I'll go down?" I won't go down, I know I can't go down and then go to find abuse? Am I sick? ”

"Humph! If you start a battle, I will see that your old Lin Zhun is a traitor. ”

"I'm self-aware, besides, what's so surprising that the student can't get off the teacher? I have known this for decades, where like some people, I know that I can't do it, but I still want to do it, and I don't give up until the Yellow River. Lin Dong was not provoked by Tian Lao at all, and he stabbed him back.

Two people, you and I say a word, just like a child quarreling, so the old child and the old child, the old man and the child, the same character has been fully reflected between them.

Meng Lin and Li Xiao, who were standing at the door, couldn't help but snicker, it was the first time they saw the other side of these two old leaders, but it was different from Meng Lin, when Li Xiao heard Lin Dongsuo's words, his heart suddenly moved, could it be that the old man who played chess with Tian Lao was actually ......?

"Hey, isn't this Xiao Li and Xiao Meng? When did you guys get here? After a few laughs, Lin Dong saw Li Xiao and them standing outside the door, and hurriedly beckoned them in.

"Hello Lin Lao, we just came." Li Xiao and Meng Lin first said hello to Lin Dong, and then greeted Tian Lao.

"Come in, just come in, and stand at the door to watch us lively, right?" Tian Lao said reproachfully, but there was no real blame in his tone, and even there was a smile on his face.

At this moment, the old man, who had never seen his face, turned around when he heard the voice, and said with the same smile: "Your master is not kind, and you don't receive guests when they come, and you blame the guests for standing at the door and not coming in." ”

"Hahaha, what you said is, yes, yes, yes, it's me who didn't take care of it." To Meng Lin's surprise, Tian Lao looked very polite in front of this old man, and he took the initiative to apologize. You must know that they saw Tian Lao and Lin Dong raising the bar and being unconvinced just now, but what now?

Meng Lin didn't know this old man, but Li Xiao did, and when he saw this old man's face, Li Xiao hurriedly stepped forward: "Wan Lao, I haven't seen you for a long time, how are you lately?" ”

"It's not bad, I've had a comfortable time all these years, it's never been so good. Xiao Li, we haven't seen each other in years, have we? There is about ...... time to calculate Nine years, right? Wan Changchun looked at Li Xiao with a smile, and Li Xiao nodded again and again: "Wan Lao has a good memory, I haven't seen him for nine years, time flies so fast!" (To be continued......)

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