Chapter 51: What are you waiting for?
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Just after seven o'clock that night, Martin, who had declined the school reception, hurried to the hotel, pushed open the door, and saw Kevin sitting quietly on the sofa, looking very normal, and even nodded at him when he saw Martin.
"You bastard! You've messed up all of them! In a fit of rage, Martin ripped off the tie around his neck and threw it to the side.
"I'm sorry my old friend, I'm sorry."
"Excuse me? I'm sorry? Oh! My God! Do you know what was done today? Martin covered his face, knowing that Kevin would do such a thing, he should not have told him the truth yesterday, or that it would have been a mistake to stuff Kevin into this group of members of the academic interview from the beginning.
Kevin certainly understood what he had done, and was well aware of the consequences of doing so. To be honest, he doesn't regret his actions, and he will still do it if he did it again, but Kevin apologizes to Martin because his actions may affect this old friend.
"It's my personal behavior, Martin, and I won't embarrass you." Kevin stood up and said that Martin was about to say something when the phone in his pocket suddenly rang.
Connected the phone, I don't know who called on the other end, and what he said to Martin, but Martin's expression suddenly became extremely complicated, and he even glanced at Kevin a few times, and then whispered a few words to the phone and hung up.
"Bad news for you." Martin, who hung up the phone, said to Kevin with a stern expression: "I just received a notice from the Physical Society, in view of your mental problems, from now on you are no longer a member of our academic visiting group, and ...... Caltech ...... considering that your physical condition no longer seems to be suitable for the position of professor. β
Martin made a gesture of helplessness, and looked at Kevin with pity and pity in his eyes.
"So, I've been swept away?" Kevin seemed to have anticipated this, and asked with a calm expression, even with a hint of mockery at the corner of his mouth.
"You can understand it this way, very sorry my friend, I can't do anything about it." Martin shrugged, Kevin went too far this time, although it happened in China, and because of Martin's efforts to remedy it afterwards, the school reluctantly accepted his "explanation". But don't forget that this is the information age, not to mention that there are other scholars in the entire academic visiting group, including other scholars, who can hide it from the Chinese university, but they can't prevent this from being known by the physical society and even the big people behind the society.
On the way back, Martin had been worried about this problem, and now, the phone call just now also confirmed this, when they learned what Kevin did, those big guys really took action, not only kicked Kevin out of the Physical Society, but even the California Institute of Technology where he worked was forced to make the decision to fire Kevin under pressure.
βOKοΌβ Kevin looked around at the room he was in, clapped his hands and said, "Okay, now that I've been expelled, this is no longer a place for me to stay, thank you for your help, my old friend, I hope it won't cause you more trouble." β
After saying this, Kevin directly picked up the luggage he had prepared long ago and walked to the door, opened the door and walked out.
At the moment Kevin left, Martin couldn't help but open his mouth, but in the end he didn't do anything and watched Kevin leave. Until Kevin's figure completely disappeared in front of his eyes, and a dull sound of closing the door sounded in his ears at the same time, Martin couldn't help but curse anymore, "Shet!" β
Standing at the corner of the street, the evening breeze of late autumn in Shanghai felt a little cool, Kevin tightened his collar, and looked at this strange city for a while.
"Hello, sir, do you want a car?" A taxi stopped beside Kevin at this time, and the driver poked his head out and asked Kevin in stiff English.
Kevin was stunned for a moment and nodded subconsciously. The car door opened, Kevin sat in, the driver asked where he was going, Kevin thought about it and asked the driver if there was anything he could do to relax, the driver smiled and replied of course there is, whether it is a bar or something else, as long as Martin can pay the price, it can be found in the metropolis of Shanghai.
"Go to the bar." Kevin replied briefly, the driver said OK, started the car and left quickly, ten minutes later, the taxi pulled Kevin to a bustling street in the city, which is the favorite bar street for foreigners living in Shanghai, where Kevin got out of the car, found a bar and walked in.
After ordering a beer, Kevin sat alone in the corner and drank it one sip after another. The 55-year-old Kevin now just wants to get himself drunk, use the paralysis of alcohol to make himself forget about jì, lose his membership, and at the same time be dismissed by the school, Kevin knows that he is almost finished, but he has long expected this consequence, as written in a poem "Don't die in silence, just explode in silence", Kevin does not regret his choice, but at this moment the loss in his heart is unimaginable to ordinary people.
A bunch of beer was quickly drunk, Kevin raised his hand and asked for another one, he picked up the new wine and took a big sip of it, put down the wine glass without using the napkin on the table, and directly raised his sleeve to wipe the foam on his mouth.
"It's not good for your body to drink like this."
A voice suddenly sounded beside Kevin, and he looked up to see a young Chinese man standing beside him, in the dimly lit bar, this young man didn't look very clearly, but he only felt that his eyes were especially bright.
"So what?" Kevin muttered in his mouth, thinking that the other party was a bar staff, he shook his head and continued to pick up the cup and take a big sip, who thought that this drink was a little urgent, and he choked and coughed again and again.
"I said, drinking like this is not good for your health." The young man pulled out an empty chair and sat down beside him, took a napkin from the table and handed it to Kevin, who thanked him and wiped the half-coughed wine stains from his body.
"Are you alright? Need help? The young man asked.
Kevin suddenly laughed, "No, I'm fine, I don't need much help, young man, if you really want to help me, maybe leaving here and leaving me alone is the best help." β
The young man nodded slightly, but did not get up to leave, on the contrary, he sighed lightly: "Buying drunk is actually not a good choice, there is a saying in China that you borrow wine to eliminate sorrow and sorrow, which is what you are like now." β
Kevin, who was stretching his hand to the wine glass, squinted and stared at the young man, the other party's English was very good, and the translation of the sentence "borrowing wine to eliminate sorrow and sorrow" touched his heart at this time, but how did he know that he came here on purpose to buy drunk?
Kevin. Adams, a professor in the Department of Physics at Caltech, published a professional review article on ITER and the Tokmak device in an international physics journal six months ago, denying the practical value of the ITER project and the Tokmak device with extremely bold assumptions, and at the same time proposing a novel solution and theory. Today, as a member of the visiting group of scholars of the European and American Physical Societies, he directly rejected the ITER project and the tokmak installation in the auditorium of the Faculty of Science, and claimed that he had been threatened and suppressed ....... β
The young man twisted his fingers around a round coaster on the table, gently turning it on the smooth tabletop, while at the same time lightly recounting Kevin's previous experience. When he heard this, Kevin was shocked, and suddenly raised his head and looked at the other party with a vigilant gaze, his expression was full of doubts and a hint of panic, and at the same time he tried to restrain himself to calm down.
"Who are you? Chinese agents? Or was it sent by some other force, or by some big man? β
"Don't be nervous, Professor Adams." The other party gently placed the coaster on the table, and said to Kevin with a soft and sincere smile: "I don't represent anyone, just myself, the reason why I know you is actually very simple, because I have read your article, and I happened to be there this afternoon." β
In order to make Kevin believe in himself, the young man began to recite his article published in the journal, at first Kevin didn't care, but after listening to a few sentences, he was a little surprised, because the other party's recitation content was almost word for word, especially when it came to some key links, the young man also looked up at himself, and pointed out the key points in the article in an emphatic tone.
"You're a university teacher? No, no, look at your age should be a graduate student? Kevin couldn't help but ask, the other party was able to remember his article so deeply, which made Kevin surprised and relaxed his vigilance, because if the other party was just some agent or someone else, it was absolutely impossible to be so professional. Kevin's articles are difficult for ordinary people to understand, especially the novel theories and ideas he puts forward cannot understand their value without a very professional level. But Kevin found that the tone and tone of voice used by young people when talking about these key points was clearly the expression of industry insiders.
What's more, Kevin, who came back to his senses, quickly realized that the previous tension was without a source, no matter how he said that he was just an ordinary university professor, and now he has been expelled from the physics association, and he has lost his school job, without which he is now penniless, this is not making a Hollywood movie, where are there so many conspiracy needles to treat himself, in the eyes of those big people, it is enough to give himself such a punishment, not to mention that he is still in Shanghai, China, which is known as the best public security.
The young man smiled and shook his head: "I'm not a student anymore, but in some ways I'm your peer." Professor Adams, who started following you when I saw your article a few months ago, I think you were right in your judgment, that the ITER project and the tokmak installation have gone astray, and that perhaps if they continue, there will be some so-called theoretical results, but in the long run, they will be like parallel lines to success, they will always be parallel and will not cross. β
"You agree with my theory?" Kevin perked up when he heard this, and asked eagerly.
"Of course recognition, not only recognition, but I think your theory is correct!" The other party replied very seriously.
Kevin smiled happily, and was pleased to be recognized as a very happy thing for a scientist like him, not to mention the current situation, and he also noticed that the young man did not use the words maybe, or, maybe, or think these vague words, but used the words "approve" and "think" categorically, which was enough to make him happy.
However, Kevin soon shook his head in frustration, because what if the other party recognized him? Having lost his membership and job, what is the value of his theories even if they are correct, as a scientist who has been banned by a joint force? Moreover, now that even he himself could not continue his research, from this point of view, the young man gave himself only a consolation.
"I don't know why you're the way you are, but I think you got into some trouble after leaving the podium. But it doesn't matter, Professor Adams, I have done a preliminary calculation of your theory, and the results have confirmed your assumptions and judgments ....... β
"Wait, what did you say?" Without waiting for the young man to finish speaking, Kevin stared at him incredulously and asked, "You did a preliminary calculation, and you got the results?" β
"That's right." The other nodded.
Kevin was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but laugh, and he laughed so much that tears came out of his eyes, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world.
"Young people...... Thank you for your comfort, but I'm going to say that your lie is too clumsy, my theory is just an idea, and you can rely on it for preliminary calculations without even having time to refine it? And the results of the check? Ha ha! Hahaha! It's ridiculous...... β
"I don't think there's anything funny about that." The young man replied as he watched Kevin, who was still calm as he leaned forward and backwards, and then took Kevin's beer glass, dipped his finger into it, and then wrote casually on the table. At first, Kevin didn't know what the young man was going to do, but soon he found that the other party had written a complicated formula with a beer, and when he read the first line of formulas, his eyes could no longer take his eyes off the table, and his eyes were fixed on the young man's fingers that were quickly writing down.
In the dim light, as the young man wrote more and faster, Kevin changed from a sitting position to a standing position, and finally the whole person fell on the table, staring at the things written with his fingers dipped in beer with an incredible expression. And when the young man almost filled the entire desktop, he suddenly stopped, and then Kevin couldn't help but shout: "Don't stop, keep writing!" Go on! β
"I'm very sorry," replied the young man after a pause.
"Why?"
"Because there's nowhere left, if you want to complete it, you know you'll need a few more jΓΉ checks." The young man replied with a smile as he pointed to the already filled table.
"Yes...... Yes....... Kevin's face flushed, and he didn't know if it was because he had drunk too much or because he was excited to see these things.
"Let me see the results later, you must have, right! You just said that you have made the preliminary results, haven't you? Kevin snapped back to his senses and grabbed the young wrist as if he were firmly grasping a priceless treasure that would never give up, his eyes spurting with burning longing.
"Of course, that's why I came to you." The young man replied frankly, which made Kevin ecstatic, and he couldn't wait to grab the coat that was on the back of his chair: "So what are you waiting for! β
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