The agreed time to meet with the Pope with the Holy See was two days later, so Chen Muwu and Hubble arrived early this time.

Rome is an ancient city with a long history, and of course there are many world-famous attractions and monuments, but now that it is getting late, and there is a whole day tomorrow, it is not enough to race against time to reach such a tight situation.

After leaving the train station, Fermi did not rush back to the University of Rome, where he taught, but continued to help them find a hotel and settle down before leaving alone.

Before parting, Fermi did not forget to tell Chen Muwu that he would come over tomorrow morning, and asked them to wait for his arrival and not act alone.

"This Professor Fermi is pretty good, is it a friend you've known for a long time?"

After Fermi left, Hubble, who had dinner at the pizzeria next to the hotel, sat down at the table and asked curiously.

"No, I only met him after I arrived in Italy, and he was a staff member in charge of reception at the organizers of the Como conference, but he was also a very good theoretical physicist."

Chen Muwu told the truth.

After listening to Chen Muwu's words, Hubble had several different opinions in his heart.

First, he felt that although Chen Muwu was young, he really didn't say anything about his personal charm.

The Como meeting had been going on for just over a week, and in such a short period of time, having met a new local friend who had helped them with their busy work, Dr. Chan had to come up with enough to attract others.

However, Hubble was skeptical of Chen Muwu's statement that Fermi was a very powerful theoretical physicist.

Although the relationship between astronomy and physics is "like a mountain", Hubble is, after all, a high-end doctoral talent cultivated in the orthodox university education system in the United States, and his level of physics cannot be regarded as proficient, but it is much higher than ordinary people.

Hubble always felt that if a person was a theoretical physicist, it was impossible for him to ask so many unbelievable questions on the train like Fermi, and then say such ridiculous things as "I learned that aliens should exist after calculations" before getting off the train.

Hubble was amazed to hear Fermi's conclusion, and he didn't understand why the other party could say such sensational things in public.

What surprised Hubble even more was that the Italians in the carriage seemed to have turned a blind eye to the "conclusion" reached by Fermi, and the expressions on their faces did not change, and everyone did not react at all.

Are Italians so open-minded?

Later, it wasn't until he arrived at the hotel and listened to Fermi book a room for the two of them in Italian for today and tomorrow that Hubble realized another thing, that is, Fermi used English when he said to Chen Muwu on the train, "Aliens do exist", so he could understand it, on the contrary, most of the Italians in the carriage couldn't understand it, so there was no overzealous performance.

Hubble was eager to continue the discussion with Chen Muwu on the topic of Fermi, and ask him why he was so adamant in supporting the nonsensical conclusion that aliens existed.

But when he saw Chen Muwu sitting on the opposite side of the dining table, he yawned absentmindedly, so he had to temporarily store these words in his stomach first.

Rome is further south than Milan and closer to Naples, the birthplace of modern pizza, so the pizza format is more authentic and tasty.

Pasta with a variety of rich cheeses, which he wasn't very accustomed to, but all the way south, the pizza did become more and more to his taste.

Chen Muwu really felt that after his trip to Italy was over, he should gain a lot of weight after going back.

At the same time, he was a little resentful, hating why the center of physics in Europe was not France or Italy, where the food was better, but a small island in the middle of the world.

The next morning, before the two men had even gotten up, Fermi had already arrived at the hotel where they were staying.

Rome is Fermi's home turf, and in order to be a competent tour guide today, he also deliberately drove a Fiat 501 car to facilitate the shuttle between various attractions in the city of Rome, so as not to travel by either 11 or tram as he did in Milan two days ago.

After breakfast, Chen Muwu and Hubble, led by Fermi, started a new day of tourist travel in the Italian capital.

There are many well-known attractions in the city of Rome, and the first place on the list is of course the place where the slave hero Spartacus "worked" and lived, the ruins of the Colosseum.

This is the first place where Fermi took them, and although it is only a ruin, the tall ruins are also majestic, and people can think of how lively this place was during the ancient Roman period.

There are not many tourists outside the Colosseum, after all, in the era when there were no passenger planes, it was not easy to go abroad for a long trip.

The Leica camera that Oppenheimer bought for himself in Berlin came in handy during Chen Muwu's trip to Italy, not only did he take a lot of photos of the well-known and unknown physicists who came to the conference in Como, leaving many valuable images for future generations, but he also frantically pressed the shutter to take many photos of tourists during his visits to Milan and Rome, becoming the most beautiful boy around the scenic spots.

Leaving the Colosseum, Fermi drove the two to the Pantheon in another car.

It is one of the best-preserved Roman buildings in the city, originally used as a Roman temple but later converted into a Catholic church.

After the Renaissance, the Pantheon became the burial place of many artists, the most famous of which is one of the "Three Masters of the Renaissance" of the "School of Athens", Raphael - not the teammate of Mbappe who wore a red blindfold and a double iron ruler.

Westminster Abbey in London is home to many scientists, and the Pantheon in Rome is the final destination for artists.

Just as the Mona Lisa is housed in the Louvre Museum in France, the Pantheon's artifacts have been looted by other powers.

Some of the reliefs carved on the marble pillars in the Pantheon have been stripped away and stored in the British Museum.

Speaking of this, Chen Muwu was very empathetic, and he and Fermi invariably agreed to the outside world, scolding the inappropriate robbers and British Yankees in the air.

In addition to the Colosseum and the Pantheon, Fermi took the two of them to other places that he himself thought were more famous in Rome, such as the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Forum, and so on.

As a native of Rome, Fermi was born and raised in Si, and this time he did not read from a book like he did on the shores of Lake Como, and of course he did not point to the Pantheon behind him, saying dismissively in the native Roman dialect that "this rotten Pantheon has a place to see".

Like when he was in Milan, because of the limited time, Chen Muwu only visited the city of Rome in a casual way.

Looking at Fermi's appearance, he really couldn't think of anything else worth visiting in Rome, he turned his head and just wanted to talk to himself, but Chen Muwu, who was sitting in the co-pilot, suddenly opened his mouth first.

"That, Enrico, I remember as if there was a marble disc on which the face of an old man was engraved, and the man had a big mouth on his face, and it was said that people would put their hands into his mouth, and in this case, if a lie was spoken, then the old man's mouth would suddenly close and bite off the liar's fingers.

"Is there such a thing in the city of Rome? I know that this legend is, of course, fake, but where is it? I'm a little curious. ”

Chen Muwu also did a thousand anti-Tian Airu.

In fact, his knowledge of Rome is very limited, except for the Colosseum, most of his knowledge is learned from a black-and-white movie "Roman Holiday", although the purpose of watching that movie is not to learn about Rome, but to appreciate the beauty of Audrey Hepburn when she was young.

But it has to be said that this movie has become a perfect promotional film for the city of Rome, and even after many years, there are still many people who will list Rome as a list of cities they must visit in their lives because of a movie.

The attraction described by Chen Muwu is called the Mouth of Truth, and it is a famous scene in that movie.

"Dr. Chen, there is indeed such a place," Fermi looked at Chen Muwu with a surprised expression, "but how do you know?" ”

Chen Muwu just wanted to blurt out, saying that of course he knew it when he was watching a movie.

But he suddenly discovered that the movie was only released in 1953, thirty years before now.

Fermi's surprise was justified, and without the publicity of Roman Holiday, the Mouth of Truth would have been a minor attraction in the city of Rome.

Chen Muwu could only say that he learned that he was coming to Italy and Rome, and he consulted a lot of travel guides before leaving the UK.

When sound movies become popular, it is better to poach some directors and actors from China and open a film company.

This kind of artistic carrier with pictures can have a more propaganda effect than only words, and it is also more novel and can attract the attention of the public.

When the time comes, I will simply ask someone to shoot a "Roman Holiday" first, Hepburn has not been born yet, and it doesn't matter who the heroine chooses.

As for the American male reporter played by Gregory Peck, he was directly replaced by the foreign correspondent of "Declaration", and it would be very good to let a handsome guy like Zhao Dan play it, and give Westerners a good propaganda and publicity, what is the beauty of Asian men, and what kind of mess is high cheekbones and squinting eyes!

After his film company was set up and became an instant hit because of this movie, he continued to materialize the George Chen series of movies, anyway, the copyright is in his own hands, but it is just a left-handed hand-to-right-handed.

The more ruthless he starts this propaganda machine, the more European and American audiences who empathize with the Chinese actor will definitely be more disgusted with him at that time.

While Chen Muwu was thinking nonsense, Fermi's car had already driven to the door of an inconspicuous small church.

According to Chen Muwu's meaning, here he is like an ordinary tourist, take a photo in front of the marble face and make a card, and then it will be considered a visit.

Everyone is a science practitioner who studies physics, and everyone knows that the idea that the statue will bite its hand when telling a lie is completely nonsense.

However, some people don't think so, and among the three of them, it is not the foreigners Chen Muwu and Hubble who put their hands into the mouth of the statue, but the local Fermi.

He put his hand in the statue's mouth, and the words were still in his mouth.

Fermi, who had his eyes closed and looked nervous, spoke Italian this time, and neither Hubble nor Chen Muwu could understand it, except that he seemed to be repeating something constantly.

Chen Muwu felt that since he did not speak in English, but chose the native Italian Chinese, his intention was definitely not to be afraid that his Roman ancestors would not understand English, but that he did not want to understand these words for himself and Hubble.

- If his reasoning is really the former, then Fermi should have spoken Latin rather than Italian as it is now.

So he didn't even bother to ask what Fermi had said to this ancient polygraph machine.

But if Chen Muwu doesn't ask, it doesn't mean that others won't ask.

Hubble plays the role of an unsightly American at this moment, and he thinks that Fermi is performing some kind of religious ceremony, so he is very interested in it.

"Professor Fermi, what were you just talking about?"

"I was just asking about the stone, 'aliens exist', and the stone didn't answer, so I asked him again, 'aliens don't exist', and the stone still didn't answer," After explaining Hubble's doubts, Fermi looked at Chen Muwu happily, "Dr. Chen, doesn't this mean that the result we got is indeed a paradox?" ”

Chen Muwu felt as if he had a little headache, the reason for his headache was not because of the fatigue of the journey, but because he couldn't guess whether Fermi was taking the mouth of truth seriously or taking it as a joke.

Maybe it's because I'm used to the dullness of the British, so I'm still a little unaccustomed to the Italians with a sense of humor?

Seeing that Chen Muwu probably didn't understand his joke, Fermi didn't explain too much, but continued to talk about the topic.

"Dr. Chen, as you instructed yesterday on the train, I contacted the Corriere della Sera correspondent in Rome yesterday after I returned to the University of Rome.

"Now that we've seen all the sights of Rome, can we find time to do a short interview with the journalist?"

Fermi's compliments, Chen Muwu listened to it very uselessly.

What do you mean by doing what I command?

This paradox is clearly your own thing decades later, and I'm just bringing it up in advance to awaken your inner feelings.

When interviewed by reporters, Chen Muwu's original intention was that he was unwilling to participate.

He was afraid that these uncrowned kings would play with words in the title and content, and put a title of alien research expert on top of the magic stick.

But Fermi volunteered to be a tour guide in Milan and Rome for so many days, which made Chen Muwu a little unhappy.

So he finally participated in the interview arranged by Fermi, and emphasized many times in front of Italian reporters that he did not know whether aliens existed, but pointed out that there was a contradiction in this, that is, the development of the universe should have appeared on other planets except the earth, and these aliens on the planets that were born decades earlier than the solar system should also have studied the method of interstellar travel, and the contradiction between the fact that there has never been a record of alien arrival on the earth.

He asked reporters to report their views truthfully, otherwise they should be responsible if there are deviations in the future reports.

But despite Chen's emphasis, the Corriere della Sera, which was also oddly enough, turned out to be the morning newspaper the next morning — with an eye-catching headline on its front page: "Dr. Chen, a Chinese physicist and astronomer who visited Rome, says there may be aliens in the Milky Way."

In an office at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, the all-encompassing Italian prime minister is sipping his morning coffee while listening to his secretary read a summary of the news from today's newspaper.

When he heard that Chen Muwu had arrived in Rome, His Excellency the Prime Minister became very interested in it.

He prepared for half a year and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to hold an academic event in the field of physics in Como, just to highlight Italy's national strength and accumulate some reputation for the country.

Although he was unable to attend the conference in person due to some reasons, the Prime Minister would like to meet him today to hear how the physicist felt about the Como meeting.

He asked the secretary if he could invite Dr. Chen to the official residence of the Venetian Palace because he happened to have some time today.

The secretary looked a little embarrassed and said that the newspaper had written that Dr. Chen was going to visit the Pope in Vatican City today.

Mussolini had some not-so-pleasant expression on his face: "Pope? How many divisions does he have? Please be sure to bring Dr. Chan to my office today! Arrange for me to have a meal with him. ”

(End of chapter)