According to the schedule of the forum, everyone will move to the lecture hall in the afternoon to start the meeting. But apparently this was an ideal estimate, and the time spent on site for the on-site scholars to observe the anti-gravity material continued until nightfall.

Yes, the end result is a whole day spent on the playground. This means that although the material can be fused, the material is actually extremely hard, otherwise it may have to be taken away a few grams.

Of course, the indulgence is only for this afternoon.

At 7 p.m., after the staff began to take further measures to dissuade all the scholars from the site, the heavily armed motorcade drove into the playground again to transport the materials away. Until the convoy carrying important goods disappeared from the field of vision of the scholars on the scene, these people were finally able to go to the Ningyuan Canteen to enjoy the dinner that had been prepared long ago.

On the way to Ningyuan, more than 100 scholars were also divided into small groups. However, it can be seen that the vast majority of people are discussing something with a solemn expression, and a small number of people are extremely excited or worried. Nothing but remains calm.

In fact, most people would prefer to be able to communicate directly with Ning Xiao, but this young man had already left the venue first when he announced that they could observe the materials in an orderly manner.

……

On the way to Ning Yuan, Colin Drost, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly asked Tim Cook, who was beside him, "Tim, how could Ning Xiao have thought of inviting you to this meeting?"

"Huh?" Tim Cook, who was visibly distracted, glanced at Colin beside him with an inquiring gaze.

"Why did Ning Xiao invite you?" Colin Drost repeated the question.

"Oh, I came to visit him because of a business problem, and then he invited me to stay a few more days, what? What do you think?" Tim Cook replied casually, not in as much detail.

"I just thought that if Ning wants to include Apple in this project in the future, maybe we can have a chance to work together." Colin Drost said sincerely.

"Oh? So, Colin, what do you think this project means for Apple?"

"It may not make much sense now, but it may determine whether the world will still need Apple in a few decades or hundreds of years, or whether Apple will still exist." Colin Drost gave a profound opinion.

Tim Cook glanced sideways at Colin Drost again, then nodded, smiled, and said, "Thank you very much, Mr. Drost, I will seriously consider your proposal."

The discussion was then suspended.

They are all people who stand at the top of the pyramid in their respective fields, and they are all very assertive.

The shock is the same, but the perspective of thinking is definitely different.

Business logic and academic logic are often incompatible, as if a scientist often has a conflict with the financier who provides him with money. There will always be demand biases, and how to deal with them is a matter of opinion.

In fact, Tim Cook didn't quite understand why Ning Xiao wanted him to observe the scene of this forum at this time.

It was true that he was shocked, but he didn't think that with Ning Xiao's personality and style of doing things, he would let Apple get a piece of the pie in this field of infinite possibilities. ….

Yes, Apple has the money, but not enough to actually participate in the development of the space track.

If Ning Xiao is willing to sell, Tim Cook really doesn't mind using 80% of Apple's cash flow to buy back the materials that Ning Xiao is showing today, and he is very sure that this business will not be able to lose money, and even make a lot of money. It is a pity that people who can achieve this kind of achievement cannot be so short-sighted.

So, what does Ning Xiao want to do?

……

Tim Cook is clearly not alone.

At the buffet buffet of Ning Yuan Restaurant, when he saw Ning Xiao, he was already surrounded by people.

At this time, Tim Cook did not join in the fun, but quietly watched the group of people gathered around Ning Xiao from a distance to discuss the scene.

In the bottom of his heart, he was still silently thinking about what Ning Xiao would talk to him about.

Until someone interrupted his thoughts.

"Hi, Mr. Cook."

Tim Cook turned his head to see Ning Xiao's sister and wife standing next to him.

It was Ning Xiao's sister who greeted her, who was eccentric and impressed him very much. In fact, Ning Xiao's wife has a similar temperament, but it seems that her English skills are not very good.

"Hi, hello." Tim Cook smiled and said hello to the two.

"That's right, my brother has a few words that he wants my sister-in-law to bring to you, but my sister-in-law's English is not very good, so I'm here to make a cameo as a translator. By the way, what do you think of my current level of English?" Ning Yulin asked.

"It's good, at least I can understand every word." Tim Cook couldn't help but laugh.

Then he looked at the two young women who were laughing there and biting their ears for a long time, and finally Ning Yulin said, "Thank you for your recognition of me. Well, my sister-in-law asked me to ask you first, how do you feel about what you saw today?"

Tim Cook raised an eyebrow and thought for a moment before replying, "It's amazing, I don't know much about what Ning said, but I know that it represents something very new. The world is likely to be completely different from what it is now because of Ning's discovery, and I think what we see today will change humanity as a whole even more than the steam engine first appeared in this world."

After answering, Tim Cook saw Ning Yulin turn his head and say a few words to the young woman next to him Chinese seeing the two of them smiling, he always felt that his answer was too formal......

Fortunately, he soon waited for the second question.

"My sister-in-law said that my brother would definitely be very satisfied with your answer, but my brother also said that everything should not be based on what others say, but on how others do it. My brother asked my sister-in-law to bring it, so that you can think in advance about whether you are willing to let Apple help him build a stable global industrial chain, so as to ensure that the space industry with new materials as the core can quickly complete the global layout in the future.

The benefit for Apple is that your product will be the only non-Chinese product in the future that will be authorized to access the signal and be used in space. As for the rest, it's all minutiae benefits. My brother also said that Apple is not the only choice, firstly because we have a foundation for cooperation, and secondly, because this set of Apple has been very mature and has great appeal in the world. ….

If the two sides cooperate, Apple can save him about two years. But my sister-in-law and I both think that we can afford to wait for two years, after all, my brother is still so young. In short, I brought you a message, which is to let you think about it first, so that by the time you talk, you will have a foundation, and you won't waste too much time, well, I said it clearly enough, right?"

Tim Cook nodded, clear enough.

He even thanked this little girl for being able to say these words so clearly.

Otherwise, he would have to guess Ning Xiao's thoughts for a long time.

At this time, he also suddenly realized, no wonder when he talked to Ning Xiao two days ago, this guy talked to him about Apple's global industrial chain laying, and he was originally thinking about this issue. Every second counts.

Of course, Tim Cook still has concerns about this cooperation model, and of course he doesn't think it is useful to directly talk to the two girls in front of him, so he just politely said, "Thank you, I will definitely consider it carefully and carefully."

"Huh? Don't you have any doubts? It's not like you really want to cooperate. Do you see that my sister-in-law and I are too young and deal with us casually?" Ning Yulin said with a wink of her big eyes.

Tim Cook spread his hands and smiled wryly.

Okay, this girl......

"Actually, there are problems, such as mutual trust. I don't know how Ning is going to solve this problem, I don't think he will put the supply chain system directly in Apple's hands, so he will definitely ask for more from Apple, I just don't know what he will ask for, maybe that will be known after we talk."

Tim Cook casually said one direction of concern.

"Haha, my brother also said that you must have doubts about this

。 In fact, he said, Huaxia has already begun to lay out and has the ability to produce an anti-gravity flight platform in the atmosphere in a short period of time. But if we want to build a real space operation platform, there are still many difficulties to overcome, and if we can introduce foreign supply chains, especially Western ones, it will greatly shorten the preparation time.

So you don't have to worry about him being in control of the supply system. After all, it is you who advance the money, and the most you will lose to the space platform is to launch it some time later. But you have much to lose. My brother said that you are a smart person, so he is very confident that you will definitely not make a loss-making transaction that hurts people by hurting people by 200 and losing 1,000.

In Huaxia, this is called bad, and it may have to be said first. By the way, I'm quite satisfied with the gift you gave that day, so if you cooperate, I will ask my sister-in-law to say good things for you. But then again, the most important thing about working together is honesty. The ancestral motto of our Ning family is that whoever is good to us, we will be good to whom, and whoever wants to calculate us, we will ...... Bang."

Saying that, Ning Yulin raised his hands, cooperated with the onomatopoeia in his mouth, and made a big explosion gesture, which not only looked like it was not deterrent, but it also felt extremely cute.

If Ning Xiao said this, the meaning of warning and threat would undoubtedly be much heavier, and it would even make people feel very uncomfortable. Therefore, Ning Yulin said these words under Lu Xiaoya's platform, which can actually attract people's attention, and the sense of rejection is much less. ….

"Heh, of course, I believe that no one in this world will think of using inferior means to seek benefits when dealing with your brother. Someone has done it before, and then they didn't end well." Tim Cook replied with a wry smile.

"My brother is right, you are indeed a smart person. Well, enjoy the food. Oh, by the way, he'll see you at half past nine in the evening, in his office on the fifth floor. Well, you just go up and tell the staff when the time comes. Oh no, you're actually a pass!" Ning Yulin waved his hand.

"Thank you." Tim Cook thanked him with a smile of tears, then watched as the two little women waved at him, and then left happily arm-in-arm to feast on the seafood section.

Subconsciously glanced at Ning Xiao, who was still surrounded by a group of scholars not far away, and Tim Cook suddenly felt enlightened.

……

In fact, the message is delivered much faster than expected.

After all, this is an academic forum with no confidential nature, and there is no link that does not allow visiting scholars to use various communication products, including mobile phones. The day-long queue also gave the scholars plenty of time to get the word out.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally.

In fact, when seeing an incredible achievement, sharing it with the same field is an instinctive reaction of researchers.

This also caused many professionals to stay up all night, regretting that they could not participate in this forum, otherwise they would be able to see and even touch the legendary negative mass substance with their own eyes at this time.

Some scholars even posted the presentation directly on Facebook, or used Twitter to praise this great discovery, and the harvest probably made many people sleepless.

A day that has just passed in China is a night in the Western world.

Many Western scholars who came to the conference received many phone calls asking for verification while they were on the spot. With excitement, these scholars used various exaggerated and shocked tones to give back this discovery.

Of course, these feedbacks and impacts are still concentrated on a small scale, and it is difficult for scientific progress to resonate with ordinary people in the first place. The bar is too high, and it's a headache to understand those obscure concepts.

Not to mention that scientific theories always imperceptibly and gradually affect people's lives, just like when people use the Internet to obtain all kinds of information, they don't need to care about the stratigraphic logic of the Internet, let alone who invented it.

But for the small group of researchers or intelligence agents, the news was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue.

Among other things, the discovery of anti-gravity materials means, first and foremost, the discovery of a truly green and adaptable power system. Don't

Tinin also demonstrated that the material also has a fusion effect. These two points alone are enough to show that this particular material has many physical properties that are currently unknown to the world.

What these physical properties can do, a lot has been explained in many science fictions. Even without science fiction, many basic researchers can name a bunch of applications. This, in turn, expands the impact in a deeper direction. ….

For example, in the future, there will suddenly be many more airfields in the sky that can move for a long time, and the emergence of anti-gravity vehicles, what will be the impact on the situation in the world? It's certainly a good internal report or thesis topic.

It's just that while all this is still waiting to be confirmed, these emotions can only be brewed silently for the time being, and they are far from being comparable to the emotions on the scene.

……

After the dinner, Tim Cook first went back to his room on the fourth floor, made a few phone calls, and walked out of the room at 9:25 a.m.

There was no elevator and I went straight up the stairs in the center of the building to the fifth floor.

Sure enough, a staff member appeared, and after a brief exchange, he was led to the door of room 501 on the left side of the building.

The staff knocked on the door, someone answered, and when the door opened, Tim Cook found that although he came at the wrong time, it was still early, and there were two other people in Ning Xiao's office.

Seeing his arrival, the young man in a suit stood up, greeted him, and then looked at Ning Xiao.

After the two of them had spoken a few more words in Chinese, which he did not understand, the young man in the suit left with another unremarkable-looking young man, leaving the office to the two of them.

"Sorry, I might have been early."

"It's okay, that Mr. Zhang just came over because it was an unplanned thing, and he asked me to talk about some questions about security upgrades, or I hope that there are twenty-four people around me who are close to me. By the way, Tim, do you have bodyguards by your side?"

"Of course, the company spends about $700,000 a year on my personal security, but it's not personal protection, it's just that they provide a full suite of services when needed. If you want to go a step further, I think you should ask Zuckerberg, who is more concerned about security, and spends about $5 million a year on personal protection, including 24-hour personal protection. And of course, some intelligence services."

Tim Cook spread his hands and said.

Hearing this description, Ning Xiao sighed with emotion: "More than five million dollars, huh...... Sure enough, it's a rich man, but fortunately, Mr. Zhang said that all the services provided to me were free."

This made Tim Cook smile and replied, "Somebody has to pay."

"Okay, let's not talk about that." Ning Xiao waved his hand and asked, "Tea or coffee?"

"No thanks. I've just finished drinking two cups of coffee, Ning, is it a serious suggestion for you to ask your sister to bring me?" Tim Cook took the lead in making today's conversation more formal.

Ning Xiao nodded and replied, "Of course, there are two considerations. In addition to the reasons she should have mentioned to you, Apple's position can also be a good lubricant so that some of our next developments will not be misunderstood. Actually, I don't really care about that, but there are always people who are too sensitive. The misunderstanding will definitely be cleared up, but I don't want to waste time on it. It's important for me to hurry."

Tim Cook glanced at Ning Xiao with a complicated expression, and asked again, "Okay, so if we intervene in this matter, and someone asks Apple to provide information about the entire supply chain and it is inconvenient for us to refuse, can we provide this information?"

"Of course, I don't think that the information about the supply chain will cause any problems in the next development plan. In fact, I will not put all my eggs in one basket, as long as the cooperation is good, the supply chain mastered by Apple can reduce our financial pressure in the short term, and can help us buy a certain amount of time, in the long run, there will naturally be a set of independent internal circulation supply chain construction."

"So, you don't have to worry about reverse research revealing some secrets of business or core technology chains?

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"Haha, Tim, I dare to put the material out for everyone to see on an occasion like today, and of course I won't be afraid of that. There is a saying that may be hurtful, but it is true. In this direction of research, the West as a whole is at least a century behind us. That's right, this building you're in, this school, and everything you see here, it's that century."

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A bucket of pudding