The beautiful and terrifying sights that appeared all over the world caused an uproar in an instant.

Some blamed the destruction of the environment in developed countries for this anomalous large-scale astronomical phenomenon, while others blamed it on an anomalous reaction caused by the explosion of a supernova – which led to the creation of a popular science fiction novel, The Supernova Era.

More than five terrorist groups have simultaneously declared responsibility for the incident, claiming that it is the result of their testing of new weapons of mass destruction, and that they will launch a strike in the near future against one or more countries that will "shock the universe" unless they provide food aid to the group.

Other sects claim that this means that the end is imminent, and that if the believers pay the atonement to the leader, they can avoid judgment at the end of the day and be led to the ideal kingdom from all suffering.

However, after all, these rumors are only circulated among ordinary people, and few people take them seriously.

Because it looks like it's just the aurora after all. Folk scientists at the forum explained that the phenomenon could have been triggered by an unprecedented increase in solar storms due to a massive eruption of sunspots, which completely enveloped the Earth with energetic particles.

At more than 7 o'clock in the morning, the official also released news through various channels to explain the abnormal aurora phenomenon that occurred around the world. The results are similar to the explanations circulated among the people, except that the interviews on the show are all heavyweight scientists. They looked tired, their eyes were blue, and they had obviously been busy all night.

Anyway. This has somewhat reassured the hearts of the majority of ordinary people. After all, it's the Spring Festival, and people will always subconsciously force themselves to think about the good side, so that they don't let something that seems to have nothing to do with them affect the most important festival of the year.

Therefore, on the second day, the vast majority of people still chose to visit relatives and friends, play cards and chat. As for what happened the night before, it was used as talking point. For many, this year's Chinese New Year is a dramatic and even a celebration – after all, most people rarely see the Northern Lights once in their lives.

But only for the average person.

Right now, in a factory in Binh Duong City, a dark and thin middle-aged man is dialing the same number for the ninth time.

The building appears to have been abandoned, but it has been cleaned and the broken glass windows and doors have been repaired. Strange-looking instruments were placed in the center of the field, with wires densely laid on the ground. It's almost hard to find a place to put your feet. But there was a small clearing to the west - there was a single bed there. The sheets and bedding all looked dirty. The owner also added a cotton coat to the quilt, as if the quilt was too thin and had to be kept out in this way.

Next to the bed was a large table, which looked like it used to be a machine tool or something. Rusty. However, it is now covered with a layer of newspaper. The newspaper has unwashed dishes, chopsticks, cups and saucers. And a bunch of books and papers. It was filled with dense numbers and symbols—symbols that only the owner of the paper could understand.

It's cold in the warehouse, but it's not damp. Because there is a milky white central air conditioner on the east side. It was the only thing in the house that was new and clean. At the moment, it controls the temperature of the room at three degrees above zero, which seems to be the optimal temperature required for some instruments to work.

It seems that everything in this room has to compromise on the operation of those instruments. Even the master is no exception.

The master is Shen Mu.

Right now, he held his phone to his ear, muttered to himself, and listened patiently to the beep in the microphone.

Hard work pays off. After six rings, the phone finally connected.

Over there was a slightly tired man's voice: "Hey? Old Shen, what's wrong? ”

Shen Mu immediately whispered: "Right? Right? Am I right? Isn't it! ”

These four headless words seemed to make the person on the other side slightly stunned, and then he slightly understood what he was referring to, so he responded vaguely: "Well, okay, hehe, I'm a little busy now, let's talk later." ”

"Don't, can't wait!" Shen Mu immediately said, "I watched your TV interview - it's all nonsense!" What sunspots, I made it clear before, I predicted it before, it was a tide! The tide is coming! This shows that my theory is correct! Do you know the way forward? Forward-looking! ”

It sounds rather rude, but the person on the other end of the line seems to be accustomed to it, or may not be able to do it. He had to smile: "Well...... Maybe you're right. But ......"

"So I need information! Your lab's information! I need to verify the data of cosmic background radiation in the last half month, the fluctuation values of Benin particles and virtual particles! He shouted excitedly, crumbling the phone, "You send it to me quickly, and I'll do the experiment later!" ”

At this time, the person on the other end of the phone finally became a little impatient: "I said Lao Shen, you know that this is impossible." There's no way I'm going to tell you that level of information. And besides, your prophecy ...... There are at least four theories that can roughly explain this incident, and you are not the only one who is correct. ”

He sighed again: "I heard that you've been teasing your virtual particle bubble accelerator again this time - you listen to my advice, if you get sponsorship, you can use the money to do something meaningful." That theory of yours Su Lao also said before is a castle in the air, everything is based on assumptions, and now there are no clear facts to verify at all. Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if you get it out and are self-consistent, so what? It's useless in any field at the moment! ”

It's a pity that Shen Mu didn't listen to what he said. Shen Mu glared and couldn't wait to interrupt him: "I want information, can you give it to me?" ”

The man on the other end only said, "No." There's really nothing I can do. ”

Shen Mu's hands trembled a little: "Then I'll give you money, I'll give you 10,000 yuan, you sell it to me!" ”

The other party seemed to be angry and snorted: "Old Shen." Why are you so ridiculous! Am I in it for the money?! He hung up the phone.

Shen Mu was stunned, his eyes widened, he took off his glasses and skimmed them on the table, and raised his hand again, as if he was going to throw the phone out of the box. However, after hesitating, he was reluctant to do so, so he had to sit back on the bed and kick the table in front of him with his foot, yelling like crazy: "Don't give it to me!" Why don't you give it to me! Give you money and don't give it to me! ”

He kicked the table for a moment, yelled a few more words to vent, and suddenly withered like a deflated ball. I clicked on the phone screen and pulled down the phone book, until it was Ying Zhaoran.

But I watched it for a while. Still haven't dialed it out.

He couldn't think about it. I had to sit on the bed in a daze, staring at the scribbled papers on the table.

The other laptop had a screen ajar open, and something seemed to be flickering all the time. He looked at it in a daze for a while before he lifted it and saw an avatar on QQ flashing all the time. It was a woman's avatar, and five messages had already been left. Shen Mu frowned slightly. Clicked it on.

The message was just as he imagined. Ask yourself if you've had any difficulties lately.

"Fool ......," he muttered impatiently. Move the mouse over to close the dialog box. However, the pointer accidentally clicked on the input box, so there was soon another message over there: In?

He hesitated slightly, and with two fingers he typed a few words: busy.

Then the dialog box was closed.

It seemed to him that this woman did not know what to do. I don't know what Lu Dao'an's mind is. She lives near this factory, her name is Zhao Jin, and she is alone. When he first rented this house, Shen Mu was impatient to clean it by himself, so he asked the owner if he would clean it. But the owner said that this was not within his responsibility, and suggested that if he wanted to clean up, he should go to the red brick building across the street to find a woman named Zhao Jin.

This woman is a housekeeper, but this kind of work is also accepted, and the price is very low.

So Shen Mu found her. At that time, he had just sold his family's two houses, and felt that he was very wealthy, and he was impatient to bargain, so he offered a price of two hundred yuan. The woman happily agreed, and then spent three days cleaning the hundreds of square meters of the workshop and replacing them with new doors and windows—all by herself.

Shen Mu simply thought that this woman was very capable, so when he made a mess of this place in the future, he paid for her to clean it. Although those who knew him well thought he was unreasonable, this woman didn't seem to see him that way.

When she entered the door for the second time, she saw the instruments that Shen Mu had moved in, and realized that this dark, thin, and unattractive man might have a university question. When I asked again, I couldn't help but be in awe - he was engaged in scientific research or a university professor.

This woman had never been in contact with any scholars in her life, and she felt that the things on the display screens of Shen Mu's instruments were mysterious, and every jumping character shone with an indescribable depth.

So after that, she was cautious when entering and exiting this factory, and occasionally asked Shen Mu what he was studying with an admiring expression. At this time, the depressed man would show a proud and disdainful look on his face, and said lightly: "Unified quantum theory." You don't understand. ”

She felt that this man looked like the king of the world.

Then another incident happened. Zhao Jin accidentally broke an antique vase in someone else's house while doing housekeeping, and promised to compensate as soon as possible. However, she couldn't scrape together enough money by all means, and was approached by creditors.

At that time, Shen Mu called her and asked her to clean up the room, and when she heard the panicked and eager tone and scolding on the other end of the phone, she knew about it.

In fact, the vase is only worth more than 700 yuan, but it is not a small amount for Zhao Jin. Shen Mu spent half an hour having dinner in the factory, and then stopped by Zhao Jin's house when he went out to buy cigarettes—at this time, the creditors were already arguing and were about to smash her house.

So Shen Mu took out 700 yuan from his wallet on the spot and sent the angry creditor away.

And Zhao Jin didn't expect this man to do this at all, and stood in place for a while.

However, Shen Mu only felt that this woman was already familiar with the environment in the laboratory and was very sensible. When she was thinking about a problem, she would be silent lightly, and even knew that Dao helped her put the experimental materials back in place - if she went to jail for 700 yuan, Shen Mu didn't know if he could find such a pleasant cleaner.

But after that. Zhao Jin's attitude towards him has undergone some subtle changes.

When Shen Mu sat in front of the door smoking and relaxing, she would say a few words of common words. Sometimes dumplings or buns are made at home, and they will also be packed and sent to Shen Mu.

Of course, Shen Mu couldn't bother to think about it, why a woman who didn't have a good life and lived alone would often make dumplings, and they were full of round and full meat filling.

In this way, more than a year has passed, and Shen Mu has fallen into an embarrassment. Research is a bottomless pit. It's even more frightening when this kind of research is an individual act. The cash obtained from the sale of the two houses could have ensured him to live without food and clothing for the rest of his life, but in this regard, it only lasted for a year.

As a result, his financial situation became stretched, which made him even more irritable and irritable. The work that he didn't care about in college was now even more left behind by him. The students' letters of complaint against him flew like snowflakes to the Registrar's Office. Ordinary people may have been fired long ago if they did this. But because of his relationship with the Ying family, the school board finally gave him a little thin face. Eventually, it was decided to transfer him to the administration and no longer be involved in teaching. However, as a result, his income was less, and he even went to the principal's office to quarrel a few times.

But most people have long been accustomed to his absurd behavior. At most, he just sighed a few words when talking about him - a genius with such a flexible brain in the past. Once on the wrong path. It becomes a neuropathy.

In fact, most geniuses are a little nervous, but it seems that Shen Mu has become more serious because of the pressure of reality.

After all, he slowly became a complete loner. Some of his friends and colleagues in college have become famous, but he is declining. Later, some of his friends who had tried to help him lost faith in him. Let him fend for himself.

At this time, the only person who really cares about him is Zhao Jin. She repaid Shen Mu 500 yuan, relieved his urgent need, and often brought him not sumptuous but quite delicious meals when he was hungry and thinking about problems.

This went on for three months, and even the dullest people should be aware of something.

However, Shen Mu has always continued his career calmly, and has never put his mind on anyone else.

In his opinion, this woman is good-looking, not very old, and similar to himself. He was born in the countryside and married into the city. However, her ex-husband was just a street vendor, who died of illness and did not even have a child. The woman had been widowed for five years and had been living on her own.

But in his opinion...... After all, she's just a fool. After graduating from junior high school, I don't even know what the speed of light is, let alone a common language.

Such a woman should find someone to marry again while she is still young, what should she do with herself? Do you think that the equipment in this room can be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars to leave to her?

He had always had confidence in his mind, but not in his appearance. Therefore, he didn't believe that this woman would have any special emotions - not to mention that her surname was Shen.

How is it possible to marry such a woman.

It was this complex emotion that made him feel a little irritated when he saw Zhao Jin's avatar, and after turning off the dialog box, he turned off the computer, walked to a device and looked at the numbers jumping on it in a daze.

But those are the little things...... It's just a trifle.

Shen Mu said to himself in his heart. I've long since dedicated myself to this cause.

A bunch of fools and stupid women...... How do they know what it means to be on the aurora last night? And he said silently in his mouth, tides, tides...... This is the tide predicted by my theory.

Theories constructed purely mathematically with a handful of factual observations – unfounded, unsupported by evidence to the ignorant......

Ridiculous, is there any evidence that 1 is 1 and not 2? The whole edifice of mathematics is built on a few incomparably fragile inferences and assumptions! And what about the modern scientific system, which is supported by a mathematical system? If your own theories are in the air, what can those be!?

He felt his mind diverge once more—as he had experienced so many times before, and suddenly entered the realm of fantasy. An unimaginable amount of information was presented in his mind one by one, and the numbers and symbols passed by his eyes at the speed of light, and were captured by his thoughts one by one. The complex calculation process can be completely solved with a single thought, and even the hundreds of decimal places are as clear as lightning. Huge arrays of data are arranged in a square in his mind space, and then with a single thought, they can interact with each other, and test his ideas again and again under the guidance of his thoughts.

Because of this, he rarely uses a computer.

This was something that Shen Mu had always been proud of—he disdained to use artificial machines that were far inferior to his own thinking abilities. And he also believes that only a giant machine can barely match him.

It seemed that the hard life had sharpened his mind and cleared his mind, and this time, he felt that he was thinking faster. In fact, he's been feeling the same way these days—his thinking skills are getting stronger, slowly but significantly. He almost completely no longer needs any assistance, and can do the most complex data processing in his head.

God help me.

A quarter of an hour later, Shen Mu was freed from that dreamlike state of thought.

Then he froze in place and spent half an hour sorting out the derivation he had just made.

The next moment he turned and threw himself on the bed, grabbed his phone, and dialed the number he had before. But the other person's mobile phone was turned off, so he called the landline in the man's office again.

After ten minutes of perseverance, the call finally came through. He ignored the other party's angry tone, and shouted loudly: "There will be an aurora in a month after my language, do you believe it or not?!" ”

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I wrote late today and didn't make up too much. 7000 words, I'll make it up slowly, for the hundreds of people who are automatically subscribed ~~~ (to be continued.) )