Chapter 56: The Successor
The countdown to the launch of the lunar module is 33 hours, 14 minutes and 55 seconds.
"Li Zhen" stood in front of the window and looked up at the huge rocket standing in the distance, and looked thoughtfully at the young man standing beside him.
is indeed a young man, even compared with Li Zhen, who is also young, he is much immature. He wears a white lab coat, but on his feet are a pair of sneakers. He wore black-rimmed glasses, wore a three-and-seven-minute hairstyle, and even wore a beard on his chin and lips...... He still looks like a college student.
With a stack of paper papers under his arm and a pen pinned to his chest pocket, he looked like the old-school researcher of decades ago. However, when Li Zhen's gaze swept over him, the young man became slightly nervous.
He pursed his lips, subconsciously pushed his glasses, and said astringently: "Brother Li, if the call comes late......"
"It's nothing. Dr. Shen couldn't have predicted so accurately. Li Zhen smiled faintly, "If you can stand here, it means that you are much stronger than the other wastes in the base." ”
The young man raised his foot crampedly: "Actually, they have more experience than me......"
"Li Zhen" curled the corners of his mouth: "Experience? What do you say about their experience with those messy theories? If they are really better than you, it is them, not you, who are standing by me. ”
Young people stopped talking. "Li Zhen" glanced at him again, and continued as if he was slightly touched: "Yuanwei, you have to remember that more than a year ago, you were still doing your homework at home. But now - you're standing by my side. And what you have in your hands is very likely to change this world. ”
"It doesn't matter what you used to do or what kind of person you are. But now you have enough power to make a lot of people look sideways. No matter how you get it, but right now you are the one chosen by fate—you, me, people like us, destined to go down another path. ”
Wang Yuanwei looked at Li Zhen with a little surprise, hesitated for a long time and only said a low "um".
Because he thinks...... This Li in front of him is really a little unfamiliar.
I still remember the first time we met. At that time, he saw him in his bungalow, and he felt that Ying was very handsome, like a sharp sword in its sheath—although the edge was restrained, but the momentum was compelling. But there is indeed a "popularity" in the compelling momentum - he can answer his questions like a big brother next door or a young teacher in school, always with a faint smile between words, and he is very gentle to everyone.
Later, more things happened - the wanted warrant, the news of the able, the Battle of Zamboanga, and the resurrection of Lee Jin from the dead. In just one year, these events completely subverted his view of the world. For the first time, he realized that behind the ordinary human society, there was such a terrible and mysterious world. And that "Li Zhen" is one of them.
Later, he himself walked into that world - the second aurora came, large-scale evolution, and he had super computing power and logical thinking. Because of a series of opportunities and coincidences, he entered Liaoji University ahead of schedule and became a student of Shen Mu. also because of the memory of Li Zhen. He felt that he should seize such an opportunity - the heavens would descend on him. He does not allow himself to be satisfied with a life of money, status, food and clothing that may exist in the future.
Maybe it's because the abilities are extremely similar, and they can't be understood by the people around them. Such a rural boy had an inexplicable sense of affection and sympathy for him after hearing about Shen Mu. The next thing was logical—he was able to understand Shen Mu's theory.
Although he was not comprehensive, and he did not possess the genius of the past and the present like the other party, he could already see the vague whole picture of the theory from the tube. He realized......
It is possible that you have participated in a major event that will change the history of mankind.
So it took him four months to make Shen Mu accept him and become the other party's "assistant". At that time, many teachers regretted his choice, and even communicated with him privately several times because of concerns such as "pearl casting darkness". But nothing swayed him, and he spent a lot of time trying to figure out the vast and mysterious kingdom that Shen Mu had built—though he couldn't roam that with the same ease as the other man.
Just when he had once desperately thought that he would eventually play the role of a follower rather than a trailblazer......
Shen Mu is dead.
He became the sole heir to this "unique secret art". The only person who has ever heard Shen Mu explain his theory in a tone that is impatient and hateful, the only person who knows the way forward of this theoretical kingdom, and the only person who has the original theory that the other party has carefully deconstructed and processed in his hands.
More and more things confirmed the correctness of this theory, and a teenager who came out of the countryside became the focus of many people's attention.
After that, it was a cliché, with many demanding that all the information in his possession be made public, and others making private contact with him in an attempt to enjoy the glory for himself. He didn't have any capital to fight against those predecessors, so he could only give everything he knew.
The empire is full of brilliant people, and this is especially true in this field. However, these so-called "brilliant people" are only relative to ordinary people.
In the same way, Shen Mu's theory is not a theory that should appear in the current world. If you use some people's more pertinent comments two years ago, it is "too advanced".
It's as if the ancients 2,000 years ago couldn't use electricity – and therefore can't imagine what would happen if two microscopic particles collided in a high-energy, high-speed environment. In the same way, under the scientific and technological conditions known to mankind, people are also unable to understand most of the assumptions in this theory. For example, a high-speed collision with energy equivalent to the total amount of matter in the universe - the level of human technology is far from reaching such a height.
In fact, the so-called "unified quantum theory" has no experimental basis, and almost no theoretical basis - it is more like a set of advanced theories taken from thousands of years later, separated from the existing theories of mankind by dozens of centuries. It is a set of theories that encompass all existing human cognition, but it cannot be explained by any modern theory.
Such a castle in the sky is hundreds of millions of kilometers away from even the most majestic and tall of the human science and technology edifice.
And such a set of theories was born in Shen Mu's mind - if the god really existed, he was undoubtedly a light that the god gave to mankind and broke through the confusion.
When Wang Yuanwei first came into contact with this thing, he felt that he was fascinated by its beauty - it is the beauty of indescribable harmony, which can only be experienced in the body of the "ultimate truth". He felt like a Tang dynasty person, or a Song dynasty person. Because of the incredible opportunity, he had an incomparably sharp mind and a penetrating mind, and then a copy of the general theory of relativity from modern times was sent to him by Shen Mu.
He may not know what it is talking about, or whether the phenomena described in it are likely to exist, but his instincts tell him that it is it.
And now those "scholars" who also lived in the Tang Dynasty or the Song Dynasty recognize the importance of this theory, and try to figure it out and construct it in its entirety. Sadly, however, they seem to be completely unable to comprehend most of these assumptions, or logical patterns.
It's as if a scholar of the Tang Dynasty was asking Wang Yuanwei - how could there be a thing called the universe in this world, which is obviously a round world? Where we can't see or touch, there's nothing, and what is the air? If the mass of something is too large, it will distort space-time...... But what is space-time? What is quality?
He thought the questions were ridiculously stupid, and he couldn't even explain them to them. Because he can't find any kind of carrier or tool that can support this explanation, because there is a thousand-year-old technological gap between this theory and modern technology!
And the most basic things are all constructed by Shen Mu in his mind. He can understand it, but he can't refine and supplement it with miraculous thinking skills like the other party.
Just when he was anxious and was considered by many people to be "hiding secrets", this Li Zhen appeared. He showed a tough and unquestioning attitude, saving Wang Yuanwei from endless quarrels and doubts. "Li Zhen" gave him the environment he dreamed of and the time he had not been disturbed, enough for him to barely straighten out something, and with apprehension and trepidation, he made the first prediction based on that theory - the disappearance of the aurora.
However, the two of them have gotten along until now...... Even a young man like Wang Yuanwei, who has not been deeply involved in the world, has a vague and inaccurate idea in his heart - this does not seem to be the original person.
Perhaps Li Zhen was only a lieutenant at the beginning, but now he has become the youngest general in the history of the empire. But he felt that something shouldn't change so quickly – such as a person's temperament, such as a person's personality.
If the Li he knew before was really a sword hidden in a sheath, then he felt that the current Li Zhen was more like a dagger—the blade still had a glimmer of blood, dangerous and evil.
He used to think it was just his hallucination, but it wasn't until Li Zhen took a look at him.
After Li Zhen's words were finished, he only let out a low "um".
So "Li Zhen" turned around and raised his hand to pat him lightly on the shoulder, revealing a kind smile: "I've worked hard for you this time." ”
The other party's fingers fell on his shoulders through three layers of clothing, but Wang Yuanwei felt that a slippery and cool poisonous snake popped out of its forked thin tongue, and it was also lightly touched there. The sudden sense of crisis made his heart skip a beat, and he instinctively took half a step back.
Li Zhen's fingers stopped in mid-air, revealing a slightly puzzled smile: "What's the matter, nervous?" ”
Wang Yuanwei opened his mouth and was stunned for a while, and replied, "I...... I don't know what to do, I just ......" (to be continued......)