In the blink of an eye, three days have passed since the founding party of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, during which time the city of Cambridge has become colder and colder in winter, and most of the pedestrians on the street have changed into warm winter clothes. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At noon, on the window seat of a rice-style café in the west of the city, Zhang Longchu looked at the crowded street through the glass, drinking strong black coffee, while unconsciously tapping his fingers on the coffee table, not knowing what he was thinking.

And just as he was thinking, the wooden door of the café was gently pushed open, and with a cold cold wind, two people, one tall and one short, one old and one young, walked in, and his eyes swept around the shop, and saw Zhang Longchu immediately walking over together.

When he came to his side, the younger of the two knocked on the table and said with a smile, "Hey, man, what are you thinking?" ”

"Ah, here you are, Howard, I was thinking about what good news you're going to bring me." Zhang Longchu came back to his senses, looked up at the young man and said casually with a smile, and then turned his gaze to the old man beside him, "This must be your mentor, Professor Donald, hello professor, I'm Zhang Longchu." He stood up and politely extended his hand.

"Hello, Mr. Zhang, I'm Donald J. Esther." Donald shook hands with Zhang Longchu politely and responded with a smile.

After the two sat down opposite each other, Zhang Longchu waved to the waiter in the coffee shop, and ordered two cups of coffee plus refreshments, then smiled and asked Donald: "Professor, I'm sorry, I'm a very straightforward person, I'm used to having something to say, you asked Howard to spread the word that you want to see me, what's the matter?" ”

"Nothing to be sorry for Mr. Zhang, I like straightforward people.

In fact, most scientists think in a straightforward way. Donald smiled and shook his head and replied, "That's right, I heard a rumor that you are planning to donate 500 million meters to MIT in exchange for an honorary doctorate..."

"Oh, Professor, is this matter already in a boil," Zhang Longchu deliberately showed a surprised expression, interrupted Donald's words: "What a hell, Principal William himself said that it was best not to make a noise until the matter was successful, but I didn't mention it to anyone, but he was, this is really speechless."

Well, professor, maybe it seems to you that spending a lot of money instead of 10 years of hard study for you scientists to get a PhD is uncomfortable, and maybe a little self-defeating, but if you can..."

Donald interrupted Zhang Longchu's words with a sincere attitude: "No, no, no, Mr. Zhang, I am not one of those scientists you imagined, and I don't think there is anything wrong with you donating money instead of studying to obtain a doctorate.

And in fact, if you really talk about the contribution to scientific progress, the impetus that 500 million yuan can generate in the right place is actually far greater than the contribution made by most doctoral students in the elite universities in their lifetime, and from this point of view, it is completely deserved to award you a doctorate. ”

Hearing this seemingly absurd but self-justified bizarre theory, Zhang Longchu couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and said with a happy smile on his face: "Oh, this statement of yours is very innovative, professor, he really deserves to be the world's top scientist, and his thinking is really very unique." ”

"It's not a big deal to see through the essence of things and look straight to the core, which is what a scientist should have," Donald said with a smile, "but didn't you think that you could earn a more respected reputation in other ways than an honorary doctorate from MIT." ”

"Is there such a thing," Zhang Longchu said with an angry expression: "To be honest, professor, the reason why I am willing to spend such a sum of money and must buy a doctoral degree is that I don't want people to keep saying that I am a nouveau riche who relies on luck to get it for nothing."

When I was poor, I always thought that as long as I had money, I would naturally be able to win the respect of others, but who knew that when I really stepped into the so-called upper class, I found that it was not the case at all.

Everyone may be polite to you on the surface, but secretly everyone looks down on you, oh, don't talk about these birds, what do you mean by other forms of earning respect? ", plays a young man with little experience, who suddenly broke out overnight from the bottom of the society and was promoted to the upper class, but who was always not recognized by the same class.

"It's hard to explain this kind of thing, Mr. Zhang, you can only understand the meaning of it after you experience it yourself," Donald said with a hint that the fish had been hooked, "Well, I'll invite you to visit my laboratory tomorrow, and then we'll talk slowly." ”

"The laboratory, the laboratory in the B9 laboratory building," Zhang Longchu's eyes widened, "Howard boasted all day long that it was not a place for ordinary people to enter, and even MIT students generally had to obtain graduate qualifications before they could enter as experimental assistants..."

"It seems that you haven't gotten used to your new identity yet, Mr. Zhang," Donald interrupted Zhang Longchu with a smile and whispered, "How can you be considered an ordinary person." He couldn't help but laugh.

After a little more small talk, and after drinking coffee, Donald took Howard and left.

In the evening of the next day, he personally came to the hotel with a temporary pass to pick up Zhang Longchu and rushed to the B9 laboratory building, and after a series of strict security measures including stripping naked, drenched in the rain with special chemicals, and changing into a snow-white disposable laboratory gown, he came to a laboratory on the first floor that covers an area of hundreds of square meters and is separated by several blocks with glass walls.

"Wow, Professor, is this your laboratory, it's like a scene from a science fiction movie..."Looking around at the empty space, only dozens of large and small instruments of different shapes and sizes, and a lot of mechanical arms dancing around, Zhang Longchu said in admiration.

"It's nothing," Donald said with a smile, "Actually, the really big experiments are carried out in the underground laboratory by remote control, do you want to see it?" ”

"Of course." Zhang Longchu showed an interested expression, and nodded impatiently.

"Then please come with me." Hearing this, Donald bowed slightly to Zhang Longchu like a magician performing on the stage, led him into the largest glass room, and came to an instrument table densely distributed with countless buttons, and pressed his hands a few times as flexibly as playing a piano.

In an instant, the entire wall of glass in front of Donald turned into a large hemispherical screen, revealing a dark room.

Staring at the dark room, he was silent for a long time, and said in a low voice: "If the next experiment I am going to do is successful, it will probably change the whole world, I hope your arrival will bring me good luck, Mr. Zhang." Then the fingers began to continue to press the keys on the instrument table, and the speed was getting faster and faster.

With the movement of his hands, the black room displayed on the screen of the glass wall began to show different colors of light, and became brighter and brighter, and after a while, the whole room was illuminated into a colorful and gorgeous appearance.

At this time, with the help of colored light, Zhang Longchu saw clearly that the light source in the dark room was actually a metal ball suspended in the air, and couldn't help but half-truthfully praise it: "It's really fantastic, professor, I never thought that the physics experiment would be so, how to describe it, well, spectacular and beautiful..."

Before he could finish his words, he suddenly saw the light points on the spherical screen burst out with long rays and collided with each other.

At first, the rays collided with each other or exploded like fireworks, but as the intensity and frequency of the impact continued to increase, the rays began to extinguish each other, slowly forming black spots one after another.

When the black dots first appeared, they were only the size of a grain of rice, but they were very conspicuous in the bright light room, and when they appeared, they began to expand the light little by little, and the adjacent black dots would pull each other and merge into one.

Seeing this scene, for some reason, Zhang Longchu really felt a chill rise in his heart, his head flashed, and he blurted out: "Black hole, is that a black hole, Professor Donald, you, do you know what you're doing..."

"Of course I know, I'm making history..."Hearing this, Donald replied without looking back, and when his words landed, he suddenly saw the huge screen in front of him flash suddenly, and all the light disappeared in an instant, along with those black spots, and the whole room returned to a dark state.

"It's a pity that I failed again," after staring at the glass wall for more than ten seconds, Donald turned to the stunned Zhang Longchu and sighed, and continued in a hoarse voice: "I have researched that black holes can be created by photon impacts of different intensities and frequencies, but I have never been able to find a way to make them constant, otherwise the whole world will change for it...";

While strolling to a metal table placed in the middle of the glass room, he took out a bottle of pure water from the drawer, took a few sips, and was about to continue talking, when suddenly he lost consciousness without warning, and his whole body collapsed to the ground like noodles.

Zhang Longchu, who was standing not far away, saw this scene, kicked forward with his feet on the ground, crossed a distance of more than ten meters in an instant, reached out and grabbed Donald's collar, and gently put him down on the metal table.

He then walked out of the glass room to a metal door in the lab with the bathroom logo painted on it, pushed the door open and called softly, "Okay Howard, your dear mentor has been mixed up, come out quickly." (To be continued.) )