Chapter 34: The Invisible Hand
After eating the fat cow happily, accompanying Zhang Zifeng to tease the handsome pot chef of the stick country, and of course, after crying happily, Li Wenjing felt that he was resurrected with full blood.
Genius mathematicians don't need to rely on men, it's enough to have mathematics and the Gödel system.
If Wang Yinan knew that Li Wenjing had entered this state, he would definitely be overjoyed, and he was still waiting for Li Wenjing to help him round it.
On the weekend, Wang Yinan did not arrange overtime, on the one hand, to let everyone relax, and on the other hand, to wait for the results of Qian Zhonghua's investigation and application for permission.
Wang Yinan hadn't enjoyed the weekend for a long time, and on Saturday morning, Wang Yinan slept beautifully, and he made up his mind that he must get up again when he was hungry.
The phone rang suddenly, and Wang Yinan answered the phone as soon as he saw that it was Dong Zhi's.
"Boss, something happened", as soon as the phone was connected, I heard Dong Zhi's loud voice.
"What can happen, don't worry, say it slowly",
"Have you read the latest Review of Physics?"
"I haven't seen it, I've been busy lately, how can I have time to watch"
"Let's take a look, Cheng Qian and Thomas have published a new paper"
Wang Yinan's sleepiness disappeared all of a sudden, "It's finally here", he was not surprised at all, since Sideburns Smith stole those experimental materials, Wang Yinan knew that there would be today.
In fact, it took more than three months for Cheng Qian to publish their paper, which far exceeded Wang Yinan's expectations.
According to Thomas and Cheng Qian's lab's funding, manpower, and normal efficiency, this article should have appeared at least a month ago.
Let's go back to more than three months ago, after Smith's flight landed at the Sun Country Tiancheng Airport, he did not board the flight back to the rice country, but boarded a direct flight to Europe.
The field staff only focused on the flight to the United States, but ignored the European route, which completely lost the trace of Smith.
After more than ten hours of flight, Smith came to Frankfork, Europe's largest transit airport, and rented a Dior at the airport, where Europe seems to be full of cars of this brand.
Smith drove for more than two hours, going around the road, convinced that there was no tracking. He came to a medieval castle.
A housekeeper who was over seventy years old, but still very athletic, opened the door for Smith.
"Hi Lancelot, nice to see you again", "Arthur has been waiting for you for a long time"
"Sir Gawain, it's been three years since we last met, and you look younger", Smith, oh no, Lancelot exchanged a few words with the butler,
He carefully held the small package of materials taken from Wang Yinan's laboratory, walked into the thick door of the castle, and boarded the elevator next to the living room.
The elevator goes all the way down, -1, -2, -3, and then the numbers are motionless. But the car is still going down.
After a few moments, the elevator doors opened, and Lancelot walked out.
Outside the elevator is a modern laboratory. All kinds of LCD screens, LED lights flickering, all the latest electronic devices in various countries, you can find them here, Lancelot walked in front of a new 3D terminal, a blonde man turned around, and when he saw Lancelot, he immediately showed a heartfelt smile, turned around and hugged Lancelot.
"Hi, are you alright"
"I don't know how good it is, you know my candy store, which is frequented by beautiful customers on Wall Street"
"But you, you've been bored in this ghost place for so long, and you haven't gone out for activities?"
"Haha", the blonde man smiled, "Don't dare to move, Niu Guo, Gaul Kingdom are staring at me tightly"
"A few days ago, the Prime Minister of Gaul came here and asked us if we had any plans for the near future, and if so, how the government could help"
"In fact, the European Parliament is about to open, and I am afraid that something will happen, so I have come to ask for peace."
"It wasn't until I agreed to let Gareth and Gerante go for a yo-yo that he was satisfied."
"But you gave us a lot of surprises this time."
"I can't imagine that our Oriental friends have gone so far"
Lancelot took out the small packet of materials from his arms and handed it to the blonde man, who, of course, had guessed that the blonde man was Arthur.
Arthur first opened a prepared safe, put all the materials inside, and then took out one of the most intact metal coils and placed it on a tray.
"Aha, is this our little darling",
He picked up this little coil, like a woman holding a ten-carat diamond, he couldn't see enough, and he was amazed while looking at it,
"You look at this crystal, this insulating film, perfect"
Even the most ordinary patina at the junction is, in Arthur's eyes, the most beautiful petals given by nature, and no matter how good the carving is, it cannot be made.
Carefully connecting the two electrodes to the two ends of the coil, Arthur placed the electrodes and coils together on an insulating bracket in a metal basin.
When the power is turned on, a layer of wire mesh is placed on top of the coil, and a small piece of permanent magnet is also placed on the wire mesh.
It seems that physicists' quirks are similar, and when they look at superconductors, they are reluctant to look at the instrument that measures electrical resistance, which seems too low.
Put a small piece of permanent magnet and levitate it, this is the correct posture to open it.
Arthur picked up an insulated container that had been placed on the side, apparently containing liquid nitrogen that had been prepared long ago, and he slowly soaked the liquid nitrogen throughout the coil.
Then, in Arthur's constant exclamations of "Amazing", "Horror", and the like, the permanent magnet levitated.
Staring silently at this "God-given masterpiece", these are Arthur's exact words, until the cooling effect of the liquid nitrogen has worn off, and the permanent magnet falls.
Arthur didn't even blink an eye during the whole process, he continued to pour liquid nitrogen, looked at the permanent magnet suspended in the air, and sighed continuously.
"Hey, Arthur", "Isn't it just a coil, I see you drool more than I see beautiful women"
"You don't understand, Lancelot", "I don't see a coil, I see the dawn of civilization", Arthur replied.
"Okay, Arthur, I really didn't expect to just casually talk about the client's situation, and you let me come over as soon as I get it"
"He didn't even hesitate to reveal his identity." Lancelot said.
"What am I going to do with my client, I think he must be frantically contacting me right now"
"No, no, no, you haven't revealed your identity, and you don't have to," Arthur replied.
"You're Lancelot of the Guardians League, and you're still the owner of Smith's candy shop."
"As for going back to the United States, I came to Europe just to get rid of the tracking, isn't it normal?"
"What about these materials, and do you want to give them more?"
Arthur's face changed, "OMG, these masterpieces of God, how can you give them, how can you give them them"
Arthur looked at the materials in the safe, as well as the coils, with a look of QJ on his face.
"You say, don't give them anything, can you fool the past," Arthur asked.
"I'm afraid it's difficult, then my reputation in the industry will be ruined, and I guess the Smith candy store won't be able to open."
After struggling for half an hour, Arthur sighed resignedly, "Okay, leave me the coil"
"Give them all the rest of the material",
"Are you sure?" , Lancelot (let's call him Smith in the future) said.
Arthur shoved the material into Smith's arms and shouted, "Get out, get out of here"
"Don't let me see you, I'll change my mind at any time"
Smith left the lab in the elevator, and he asked Gawain for a new cell phone and dialed Cheng Qian's number.
"Hello, I'm Smith"
"Sideburns! You bastard,"
"You finally showed up, I've been in your candy store for a full twenty-four hours and no one knows where you've been"
"What the hell is going on, my friends in China said that no one was arrested"
"You're not going to run away, I'm telling you, Smith, my dad's name is Li Gang...
"OK, OK, don't get excited, I got the material, in eight hours, you can see it"
"Artificial intelligence, you ask artificial intelligence, how can I take that thing, don't worry, I've completely destroyed their system"
Smith boarded a flight to the United States.
But the strange thing is that in the face of Arthur and Cheng Qian, Smith did not mention the data hard disks of artificial intelligence that he got.
What's even more strange is that he didn't arrange for someone to pick it up immediately. If Smith was at Tiancheng Airport, or even arranged for someone to pick up those hard drives immediately after arriving in Europe, he would definitely not give Wang Yinan a chance to make amends.
The mystery of why Smith, or Lancelot, did what he did, won't be solved until a long, long time later, that's another story.
After getting a few pieces of materials in Smith's hand, Cheng Qian immediately put all his dissatisfaction behind, this is a material that can stably achieve superconductivity in the liquid nitrogen temperature region.
Cheng Qian felt that the one million dollars he spent at Smith's candy store was simply worth it.
Back in the laboratory at Princeton, Cheng Qian immediately worked with Thomas and his team to conduct high-intensity experiments and research on the preparation process of materials.
Until today, more than three months later.
Wang Yinan came to the company, Dong Zhi had already arrived, and he handed the "Physical Review" to Wang Yinan.
The title of the paper is "An Oxide that Stably reproduces the superconducting effect in the temperature region of liquid nitrogen", and Wang Yinan read it carefully. Putting down the article, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's much better than expected, they haven't even mastered the technology of making wires", Wang Yinan was a little puzzled,
"I remember that in the stolen material, there were two coils that were fully prepared and working."
"How come Cheng Qian's article shows that all the experiments are carried out around crystalline oxides?"
"Didn't they get those two coils?"
"It stands to reason that something so important can't be lost."
Of course, even if Wang Yinan had an IQ of more than two hundred, he would not have thought that Sideburns Smith was actually a member of an organization called the Guardian Alliance, which put Cheng Qian together and buckled the coil.
Unexpectedly, Smith, that is, Lancelot, also concealed the data of the Gödel system from the guardian alliance, and even opened the net, giving them the opportunity to get back the data of the Gödel system.
It seems that in the dark, there is an invisible big hand, manipulating all this.
Facing Dong Zhihe and Li Wenjing, who rushed over, Wang Yinan comforted them,
"It's okay, Cheng Qian, it will take at least half a year for them to master all the processes for preparing materials."
"We have enough time to beat them"
"Moreover, it seems that we still have invisible allies", Wang Yinan silently added in his heart.