"Squeak!"

A little gray squirrel with white fur on its head slowly crawled in from outside the window, and it craned its neck to look curiously at the boy lying on the bed.

"Hungry again, aren't you?"

Duan Pingsi grabbed a handful of melon seeds and put them on the windowsill, but fortunately he had a lot of melon seeds in his pocket.

"Squeak!"

The gray squirrel couldn't wait to run over, a pair of small hands picked up the melon seeds and gnawed them, watching it peel the skin very skillfully, and then chewing and swallowing slowly, it was still a very particular gray squirrel.

"What a cute little gray squirrel, or call you white hair, the white hair on your head is different, this is your unique sign!"

Duan Pingsi chatted with a little gray squirrel for some reason, but Bai Mao seemed to understand his words, and after eating a handful of melon seeds, he squatted on the windowsill and looked at him quietly.

"Bai Mao, go back quickly, I'm going to sleep!" Duan Pingsi held his mouth and yawned and said to the little gray squirrel.

"Squeak!"

Bai Mao screamed, as if in response to Duan Pingsi's words, and then climbed down the sewer pipe next to the window.

What Duan Pingsi didn't expect was that when he woke up the next morning, Bai Mao appeared on the windowsill again, looking at his pocket pitifully, and he had to grab another handful of melon seeds to feed him.

However, this time, Bai Mao did not come over to eat immediately, but first carefully climbed up Duan Pingsi's palm, and then spit out a small black object from his mouth.

"What is this?"

Duan Pingsi carefully looked at this black thing, like two black backgammons glued together, and like a small gyroscope, and the two discs could slide between them.

The strange thing is that the weight of something with a diameter of only two or three centimeters is not light at all, Duan Pingsi estimated that it weighed seven or eight taels, and it was heavy in his hand.

"Squeak!"

Bai Mao seemed to be asking Duan Pingsi what he thought of this "gift".

"I don't know what it is, but thank you, I'll keep it for fun." Duan Pingsi put the small object in his jacket pocket and told Bai Mao that he would cherish it.

"Squeak!"

Bai Mao happily ate the melon seeds, and after eating a handful of melon seeds after dividing five by two, Duan Pingsi grabbed some more for him, and told him: "I won't live here in the future, if you want to find what I want to eat, you have to go somewhere else." ”

"Squeak!"

I don't know if Bai Mao understands it, after eating the melon seeds, he climbed over the window and left, seeing such a humane gray squirrel, Duan Pingsi was really a little reluctant to it.

However, when Duan Pingsi moved to a new dormitory two kilometers away, Bai Mao appeared proudly in front of his window again, and he happily welcomed it in and fed it melon seeds.

"Squeak!"

Every time Bai Mao eats melon seeds, he will express his gratitude with a cry, and one person and one beast will slowly become familiar in this way.

Since then, Bai Mao has often appeared near him as if he recognized Duan Pingsi as his master, and Duan Pingsi has never lacked small snacks such as nuts in his pocket.

The graduate dormitory is located just outside the west gate of the university, a newly built five-story building, and since there is only one student in the major, Duan Pingsi was assigned a single room, so he boldly re-hung the wall clock from his undergraduate days on the wall.

"Click! Click! Click! ……”

After the repair, the wall clock regained its vitality and was turning endlessly, Duan Pingsi looked at it blankly, hoping to see through the secret on its body.

"Knock knock!"

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and Duan Pingsi thought to himself that he had just moved in, how could someone find him, so he hesitated not to open the door, he had never liked to talk to strangers.

"Knock knock!"

The knock on the door sounded again, Duan Pingsi had no choice but to open the door, and the person standing in front of him turned out to be a black foreigner, medium height, slightly curly short hair, and a very strong body.

"Hello! I'm Xiaoqiang, from the United States, I live across from you, please take care of me in the future! ”

Just when Duan Pingsi didn't know how to greet this foreigner in English, the foreigner first introduced himself to him in very fluent Mandarin.

"It's good for you, my name is Duan Pingsi, a paleontology major, it's nice to meet you!"

Duan Pingsi also briefly introduced himself, thinking that fortunately this is China, if he goes abroad, he really doesn't know how to communicate with people, his spoken language is too bad.

Xiaoqiang asked again: "Can I come in and sit?" I haven't gotten the dorm key yet, just came in to take a look. ”

"Of course, come in!"

Duan Pingsi looked at his very sincere eyes, as if there was no reason not to let him in, so he took a step back and invited him in.

"Wow! It seems that you are also a person who cherishes time, and I also brought a wall clock similar to yours! Xiaoqiang pointed to the wall clock on the wall and said proudly.

"yes, thank you!"

Hearing Xiaoqiang's praise, Duan Pingsi tried his best to answer his words in a "foreigner way".

"You're welcome, everyone should cherish time, in the vast universe, our human time is too short, if we don't cherish time, it is difficult for us to reach a highly developed civilization."

Xiaoqiang looked at Duan Pingsi and said seriously, and took out a small globe from his backpack and gave it to Duan Pingsi, and told him where China was and where was the United States.

Even though Duan Pingsi knew all these simple knowledge, he still tried his best to listen to Xiaoqiang's explanation patiently.

Duan Pingsi told Xiaoqiang, "Your country is very powerful, it landed on the moon many, many years ago, which is beyond the reach of many developed countries!" ”

Xiaoqiang said modestly: "Thank you for your compliment, but your country is also amazing, your lunar rover has landed on the dark side of the moon, which other countries can't do, and sending living people to the moon is just around the corner, but the United States has not landed on the moon for many years." ”

"It is also difficult for our country to do it, not because the technology is not good, but because the resistance from the people is not small, many people think that so much money is better than being used to improve the quality of life of the people, alas!"

Duan Pingsi heard Xiaoqiang praise his motherland so much, on the one hand, he was very proud, but on the other hand, he was also very worried.

In today's frenzied plundering of resources, all the funds used for research that temporarily do not have practical benefits can easily be regarded as wasteful, which makes many cutting-edge scientists feel pain and disappointment.

"It's not just your country, it's our country." Xiaoqiang agreed with Duan Pingsi's words.

He continued: "Cutting-edge science is now facing an invisible resistance, such as gene editing in China, head swapping in the United States, and genetically modified crops in France......

"Aren't you afraid that these words will cause criticism?" Duan Pingsi interrupted Xiao Qiang's words, hoping that he would not be in a hurry to tell himself what he really thought.