Chapter 4: Loss

The love that had been painstakingly managed for several years was shattered, although there were already many signs before, Mo Jiangnan still felt very sudden, but what made him even more strange was that he actually accepted this result on the same day. It is said that falling out of love is painful, it stands to reason that he should have been heartbroken and discouraged at that time, why was he able to leave so plainly?

A few days after the breakup, Mo Jiangnan really felt the pain.

He is an emotional person, and his parents died early, and his love with Xiao Yun once became his emotional sustenance in life. In fact, on the night of the breakup, he had insomnia, and the scenes from the past came to mind like a movie, lingering.

It is said that time is the medicine that heals, and as time passes, all memories will become more and more blurred, and eventually there will be no more colors in retrospect, just like a yellowed black and white photo. But Mo Jiangnan felt that the longer the time passed, the more torture became, and the deeper he missed Xiao Yun, and there seemed to be Xiao Yun's residual warmth around him, and that smile seemed to be yesterday.

Mo Jiangnan felt that the world had changed, it was not an overnight change, he had insomnia for a month, and after a month, he developed the habit of being a night owl. Whenever he fell asleep at night, the pain that penetrated deep into the bone marrow was like a blade clearly scratching in his heart, and it was then that Mo Jiangnan really felt the unforgettable feeling of lost love.

She doesn't want to live a dull life, what kind of life is not dull? A very simple way to have money.

This seems unlikely, Mo Jiangnan did not get a large inheritance, nor did he have a promising job, let alone the luck of winning the jackpot, he himself knew very well that his life was destined to be ordinary.

So Mo Jiangnan wanted to find something to distract himself, according to the novels and TV, working frantically might be a good way, but it didn't work with him, because insomnia always made it difficult to keep his spirits up for a long time during the day.

However, there are still many ways, Mo Jiangnan has not forgotten the treasures he found from the antique market, so when he can't sleep at night, he does some research by himself, and the dream of his ancestors for generations may be time to complete it.

The institute where Mo Jiangnan works is a very well-known research institute that has a high reputation in the field of materials science worldwide, especially in the crystallization of materials and superconductivity research. Most of the leaders in the institute are guest professors from prestigious schools, and they also give lectures all over the world from time to time, so Mo Jiangnan is not comparable to ordinary experts even if he is only a small research assistant in the institute, and he can learn a lot here, which is why he has been reluctant to leave the institute to work elsewhere.

But now he was confused, and the reason was the half of the bronze sword.

The hardness and strength of the half-cut bronze sword actually surpassed that of ordinary steel, which was definitely a supernatural phenomenon for Mo Jiangnan. If it is said that it is due to alloys, it is impossible for him to look away from the main component of this material, which is clearly copper. Of course, Mo Jiangnan couldn't rely on his own experience and conjectures, how to say that he was also a scientific and technological worker engaged in research, and rigor and seriousness were also one of the qualities he should have, so he brought the half of the bronze sword to the research institute and prepared to analyze it himself.

Speaking of which, the daily work of the institute is not too busy, but the person in charge of each research topic is busy, they grasp the direction of research, and organize the data obtained by the researchers every day. The person in charge of each research project is in charge of more than one project, and there are invitations for research and lectures everywhere, so I don't spend much time at the research institute.

An assistant like Mo Jiangnan only does those specific research and analysis every day, and many data cannot be obtained in a day or two, and long-term experimental observation is required. The leaders of the three research projects in which Mo Jiangnan was involved were all gone, and he repeated the work every day until a certain stage, and then reported the data to the team leader, who then reported it upwards. Therefore, no one has an opinion on Mo Jiangnan's listlessness at work, as long as he completes his work every day.

Taking advantage of this free time in the research institute, Mo Jiangnan used the instruments in the institute to analyze and detect the broken sword.

The results of the analysis did not give Mo Jiangnan much inspiration.

The vast majority of copper is made up of the rest, the rest is tin, and of course there are other extremely trace metal elements, as well as carbon and some metal oxides. All this is normal, probably the ordinary ingredients of bronze, maybe an old antique, but Mo Jiangnan is not interested in these, these results and Ben can't explain why this sword can achieve such quality.

Boldly conjecture, rigorously demonstrated.

Most of the scientific research starts with conjecture, and Mo Jiangnan has only one way to make assumptions first.

What is it that makes this sword so hard?

As we all know, the hardness of diamond is large, that is because its crystal structure is strong, and the reason why the alloy can achieve hardness and strength is better than the original is because the crystal lattice of the metal is distorted, which can hinder the deformation of the material caused by external forces. Therefore, the crystal structure is very important to the performance of the material, and the alloy is also an important way to enhance the performance of the metal, which is well known in modern times.

But if it is said that such strength can be achieved just by changing the crystal structure, Mo Jiangnan will not believe it, after testing, the hardness of this bronze alloy has reached an unprecedented level, which is the crown of all metal alloys, which is enough to make any scientist staggered.

Mo Jiangnan had reason to believe that if he used enough strength, it should be the nameless ancient pattern steel sword that broke when the two swords fought against each other that day.

In the Institute of Materials, almost all kinds of alloys have been tested, and the law of performance changes in them can be recited backwards, even if it is beyond the research data, it will not be too far away.

For more than ten days, Mo Jiangnan was confused, and it seemed that it was not easy to come up with some results.

If it was in normal times, he would definitely wait for the academicians of several research institutes to come back and ask for advice, but he was not in a good mood when he just fell out of love, and his temper was a little hot. In his opinion, it was his own incompetence that he lost Xiao Yun, so a competitive mood has dominated his mind during this time, making him unable to tolerate any form of failure in his heart.

So he began to do frantic research and thinking, read a lot of materials, and conduct comprehensive tests.

After a few days, he began to notice a more microscopic structure – metal atomic bonds.

Everything is made up of tiny atoms, these atoms are combined by bonds between them, and the properties of metals are not only based on the lattice structure, but also on the bond energy of their atomic bonds, the same structure, the greater the bond energy, the greater the hardness.

Could it be that there is a bond between metal atoms that is beyond what is currently understood?

Mo Jiangnan also knew that his conjecture was too bizarre, and this proposition was too exaggerated, once it could be confirmed, it would definitely be a great discovery, because it was impossible according to the theoretical basis of today's physics. But he believes that since impossible things have appeared, there must be impossible laws in people's cognition.

Thinking about it, it is very difficult to prove it, because Mo Jiangnan does not have access to those key instruments.

At the same time that he was struggling to work the idea of the institute's equipment, his body gradually stepped down.

The pain of falling out of love and many days and nights of hard work made Mo Jiangnan's whole person lose weight, his face was also ugly, and he would be in a state of dizziness from time to time. The colleagues and leaders of the institute also gradually noticed this situation, and they couldn't help but pay attention, and the discerning people could see at a glance that Mo Jiangnan's body definitely had a problem, and the problem was very big.

After a few mistakes in his work, the leaders of the institute went to Mo Jiangnan to talk, and when he saw that he was in such a state, he didn't even ask, and directly suggested that he take a leave of absence to recuperate, and approved a long vacation of one month.

Mo Jiangnan accepted the suggestion of the leader of the institute without question, he really needed time to get out of the shadows.

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It's true that I haven't had a good rest for a long time, and Mo Jiangnan doesn't like to talk much, so he has very few friends, and the few who can be regarded as friends don't often contact each other. So he is generally bored after work, he was still active when he was with Xiao Yun before, but now he is even more bored after falling out of love, and he doesn't know what to do.

It is useless for a lovelorn person to rest, Mo Jiangnan now understands this helplessly, he has stopped working, and the pain in his heart is like a tide, this pain is more terrible than physical exertion, and he is almost crazy.

I'm going to forget! Forget!

Mo Jiangnan once again devoted himself to his work, he did his own research and analysis at home, and due to his major and family background, he also had some simple instruments and equipment at home. So he shifted his painful thoughts again, and in a few days he wrote a paper on the atomic bond conjecture and posted it on a professional academic website.

However, this kind of unbelievable thing is obviously unacceptable to those scholars, so Mo Jiangnan's paper is basically ignored, and a few who reacted told him that this is a professional website and cannot upload science fiction novels.

Mo Jiangnan, who had no clue, had to stop thinking about it, after all, his work was not like building a house and moving bricks, and he could see the effect if he put his efforts. He suddenly thought of the antique dealer, and perhaps he could learn something about it.

Mo Jiangnan, who had made up his mind, appeared in the flower and bird antique market the next day, which was a place he was very familiar with.

He didn't meet the antique dealer, but he met another person.

The young boss of the peak company - Li Shan.