Chapter 13: The Worshippers**
An Chen put a cup of mint tea on Ji Wanxing's table: "Wanxing, good afternoon." ”
Ji Wanxing was originally focusing on the data on the screen, and when he heard someone say it, he raised his head suddenly. When she saw An Chen, her eyes behind the lenses widened slightly, and then she got up from the chair within half a second, and said a little crampedly: "Down...... Good afternoon, Mr. Anchen. ”
"Don't mind, I'm not much older than you, you might as well just call me 'An Chen'." An Chen winked at her, "Aren't you sleepy in the afternoon, drink some mint tea." ”
Ji Wanxing stood up, straightened his hand and picked up the cup on the table, put it to his lips and took a sip. Although she was about the same height as An Chen, she kept her eyes focused on An Chen's chin and below.
Then Ji Wanxing said with some restraint: "The time difference data of the four satellites last year has been processed, and after the accuracy is to the hour, the value of time advance is normally distributed, and the advance time center value of each satellite is not equal. ”
"That's good, it's very much in line with our expectations." Anchen smiled encouragingly at her.
For introverted employees like Ji Wanxing, more encouragement should be given. Although she changes between plaid shirts and jeans of different materials throughout the year, and doesn't usually talk to others, she looks like a "geek", but she can find the "extraterrestrial time difference effect", which shows that this girl is a capable person - in a statistical sense, "luck" is also a manifestation of ability.
"An Chen-" Ji Wanxing tried his best to swallow the "teacher" behind him under An Chen's gaze, "I think this should be able to prove that this is an independent event in advance...... It should not be caused by a delay in signal transmission. ”
"I didn't think it was due to the delay in signal transmission from the beginning." An Chen said the objective facts, "Your statistical analysis is beautiful, and people can know that this phenomenon is unusual at a glance. ”
"But the others ......" Ji Wanxing's gaze brushed aside, and it was clear that not everyone in the satellite control group supported the idea that the "extraterrestrial time difference effect" really existed.
You must know that the satellites launched a few years ago and are still in the sky now carry timers of old models, and the accuracy used now cannot reach the microsecond level at all. Ji Wanxing's initial data of about 10 microseconds per day was based on the denoising of the original data. Some members of the Raw Data faction in the Satellite Control Group are still skeptical of how this data is handled.
"You don't have to care what other people think." An Chen comforted her, "Now that you are concentrating on the 'extraterrestrial time difference effect', you can ignore the matter of satellite monitoring for the time being." On a technical level, the satellite timer can be corrected directly with the data you derive, and there will be no other problems. ”
"Actually, I-" Ji Wanxing seemed to muster up the courage to say this sentence in its entirety, "I still want to return to the post of satellite monitoring." ”
This made An Chen feel a little strange, in her impression, Ji Wanxing has always been very introverted, and it seems to be quite uncomfortable for her to let her discuss work with the people around her. And if Ji Wanxing is arranged to study this time delay phenomenon alone, in An Chen's opinion, it should make her feel more comfortable.
What's more, the "extraterrestrial time difference effect" was discovered by Ji Wanxing herself, and she has been studying this phenomenon under the guidance of An Chen, and it seems that her enthusiasm for work is much higher than when she did satellite monitoring before.
"Do you think the 'extraterrestrial time difference effect' is boring?" An Chen asked.
"It's not." Ji Wanxing hurriedly retorted, and explained in a low voice: "It's just that it's been three weeks, and everyone doesn't call me ...... for meetings."
The symposium on satellite monitoring had nothing to do with the "extraterrestrial time difference effect", and she was probably afraid of delaying her work if others did not notify her to participate. An Chen was a little surprised and said, "If you want to hear it, why don't you just listen to it?" Isn't the monitoring team always meeting in the control room? ”
"But even if I went, I wouldn't have to say." Ji Wanxing muttered.
"You don't have to say it, it's okay if you just want to hear it." An Chen briskly persuaded her, "Don't be embarrassed, everyone is a colleague." As long as you subjectively don't want to speak, others won't have to let you speak. ”
Ji Wanxing nodded, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "Then I still won't transfer satellite monitoring...... I think it's good to have a research time delay. ”
An Chen smiled and patted her shoulder, and touched his mint tea and Ji Wanxing's mint teacup: "Come on." ”
Then she left Ji Wanxing's desk with brisk steps and walked back to her desk.
Ji Wanxing sat down and pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose. She looked at An Chen behind the screen of the terminal for a few moments before returning her gaze to the data on the screen.
An Chen turned his head to look at her and sighed leisurely in his heart. Her charm is really uncontrollable.
When I was in the palace back then, everyone thought that a bad girl like An Chen couldn't be the pope. However, now in the people, An Chen's contempt for imperial power and class order has become part of her personal charm.
Of course, the most important reason for her transformation from disliked to popular is that after puberty, the Virgin gene has been silenced again, which has made Anchen's personality a lot less aggressive.
The expression of the Virgin gene is the key to distinguishing α women from β women, and its product is a α female-specific sterol hormone called "royal alcohol", which plays an important role in activating the female reproductive system. But in addition to its effects on the reproductive system, royal alcohol can also affect the brains of adolescent α women, making them more selfish and aggressive towards those around them.
This is evolutionarily adaptive, because during puberty α female bodies face a transition from the "default" β to the α type, which requires energy and makes them vulnerable. In ancient times, the mortality rate of the human race was high, and α female leaders usually gave birth to multiple α female offspring, so the α women in this period needed to be relatively less altruistic and suppress their sisters to obtain more resources. If α women fail to compete during this period, then what awaits them will be the loss of fertility and the right to inherit the chief, and they will be forced to engage in the social division of labor β women in order to α women's relatively weak bodies, which basically means early death.
This is also a trace of evolution in the human genome, but it is usually past adolescence when the prince is facing the succession to the pope, so it is not too much of a hidden danger. However, Anchen was distrusted by everyone in the palace because of this, and I am afraid that it was really beyond the expectations of evolutionists.
An Chen sat at his desk, holding his cheeks and reading the project plan for the payload area of the "Long-Distance-3" rocket displayed on the screen. Her current state of mind is so peaceful that it is very different from when she was in the palace fourteen years ago.