"Work? Can I help you? "Song Jinning was very happy when she heard this. She felt very guilty towards her only son.
She hadn't raised him much since he was born. It was Huo Shaoheng's grandmother, Xie Ziyan, who had raised him herself.
Song Jinning loved her research work the most in her life. Her son was second, and her former husband, Huo Guanchen, was third.
"That should be within your job scope." Huo Shaoheng patted his suitcase and said very softly, "Maybe it has something to do with my grandfather."
Song Jinning suddenly became serious. She immediately brought Huo Shaoheng to her key laboratory and closed the door. She pressed a button, and a bulletproof fence slowly closed from the side of the room, separating the office into two parts. "You can tell me now."
Huo Shaoheng knew.
Although the Institute of High Energy Physics was a place for scientific research, it usually didn't have many secrets.
However, Song Jinning's Institute of High Energy Physics had cooperated with the military on many projects. The security level here was no longer that of a normal scientific research institution.
Song Jinning had even released their strongest defense against outside interference. It was obvious that this matter was very important to them.
Huo Shaoheng sat across from Song Jinning's desk and pressed the password on the suitcase to open it.
He turned the suitcase to face Song Jinning. "Look, do you recognize what this is?"
Song Jinning looked at the opened suitcase. There were a few transparent plastic bags inside. The transparent plastic bags contained some dark fragments. She didn't know where they came from.
Song Jinning looked at Huo Shaoheng suspiciously. "Where did these come from? Why do you want me to recognize them? "
"… Don't worry about where these came from. I just want you to confirm if these are things that you recognize." Huo Shaoheng took out a transparent plastic bag from the suitcase and gently pushed it. The plastic bag slid on the smooth surface of the desk to Song Jinning.
Song Jinning reached out a finger to press it down to prevent it from sliding under the desk.
Just as her finger pressed down, Song Jinning seemed to realize something. She quickly used her hand to pinch the fragments in the plastic bag. She was very curious about the feeling.
"I have to test it." Song Jinning's interest was piqued. She took out a new pair of plastic gloves from the drawer of her desk and put them on. She carried the plastic bag to her desk.
Huo Shaoheng walked over and watched from the side with his hands behind his back.
Song Jinning took out a fragment from a transparent plastic bag with a pair of tweezers and placed it in a lead box. Then, she placed it in a device that could detect the composition of materials.
Huo Shaoheng noticed the label on the instrument: Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometer.
Song Jinning started the machine and explained to him, "This machine can use plasma to stimulate the sample to vaporize and decompose it into atoms. The atoms will be excited in a light source and emit light. The system will use the spectroscopy system to conduct quantitative analysis of the spectrum and obtain the material structure diagram of this fragment. "
Huo Shaoheng listened quietly. After a while, he said, "Material analysis seems to be in the field of chemistry. Do you have any suitable equipment here?"
Song Jinning was the Director of the Institute of High Energy Physics, not the Director of the Institute of Chemistry.
Song Jinning smiled. "This fragment of yours doesn't look ordinary. It's a high-energy material, not an ordinary material. That's why it needs to be analyzed physically, not chemically."
Huo Shaoheng understood. "I didn't come to the wrong place."
Song Jinning stopped talking and focused her attention on the testing machine.
Huo Shaoheng waited beside her for two hours. The instrument was still analyzing, but Huo Shaoheng had already sat on a chair and started checking his email on his phone.
Song Jinning also returned to her desk to read the thesis.
The office was quiet. The afternoon sun shone in through the large glass windows, and the laboratory was as warm as spring.
Song Jinning finished reading the thesis and realized that two hours had passed, but the instrument was still analyzing. She couldn't help but ask Huo Shaoheng again, "Where did you get this thing?"
"Is it important?" Huo Shaoheng put down his phone and looked up at Song Jinning.
His expression was very calm, and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.
Song Jinning looked at him for a while and nodded. "It's very important. It can give me an idea. Maybe the method of analysis was wrong."
Huo Shaoheng thought about it for a while. Of course, he couldn't tell her the truth, but he could still explain the function of this thing.
Huo Shaoheng said carefully, "It's like this. This thing is a fragment from a weapon. We don't know how that weapon came about, but we know that it has a very strong carrying capacity. For example, a high-power and high-function armor-piercing bullet that can only be carried by a cannon can be shot out from a small gun barrel. This is the fragment left behind after the gun barrel exploded. "
If this thing wasn't so special, there wouldn't be a fragment left after the gunman self-destructed.
The other party didn't seem to care that they found the fragment, so the more important thing was probably destroyed.
Huo Shaoheng's gaze was a little deep.
Song Jinning frowned and tapped her head with her fingers. "Hearing you say that, I seem to have a familiar feeling … What is it?"
Huo Shaoheng sat up straight. "Think about it carefully. Did you do some experiments in the past? Or was this a product of the laboratory to begin with? "
With this reminder, Song Jinning's hand froze. She maintained her posture and thought for a minute before she gasped and stood up. "I'll go check."
Who didn't use a computer to check things these days?
But Song Jinning didn't. She dove into a small study in the laboratory and rummaged around for a long time before finding a very old booklet that looked quite old.
Huo Shaoheng walked over and asked, "What are you looking for?"
"Your grandfather's experimental notes." Song Jinning flipped through it quickly. "All of your grandfather's experimental records and notes were destroyed in the explosion. Only this notebook survived because I took it by mistake and brought it back to the Huo family."
Huo Shaoheng was speechless.
"Found it!" Song Jinning had flipped through this notebook countless times since she woke up.
This was the only memento her father, Song Haichuan, had left her.
She could almost recite many of the things in the notebook.
"What is it?" Huo Shaoheng looked over with Song Jinning to look at the page she had flipped open.
"This is a record of a new type of high-energy material that my father accidentally discovered during an experiment." Song Jinning stuffed the booklet into Huo Shaoheng's hands. "Look at it yourself. I'm guessing it's most likely this." As she spoke, she excitedly returned to the lab bench and turned off the Magnetic Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometer.
If it was a new type of high-energy material, then these instruments that measured the composition of normal materials wouldn't work at all.
Sure enough, when she turned on the instrument, the fragment was still lying in the lead box. It hadn't been vaporized at all. No wonder the instrument hadn't produced any results after two hours.
It only took half an hour for the analysis of normal materials to produce a complete molecular and elemental diagram.
Song Jinning curved her lips and lovingly pointed at the fragment. "What a naughty little thing. But don't be too happy just yet. I'll definitely find the composition of your material."
She took the fragment out of the apparatus and walked to another lab table. She pulled out a strangely shaped small apparatus from the shelf on the table and put the fragment into it with a pair of tweezers.
Then she started the machine for another round of testing.
This time, it only took her a minute to get the results.
"As expected, this is the new material that your grandfather discovered. He named it X-1." Song Jinning murmured. "But how did this thing come into use? It's clearly still in the experimental stage. "
Not only was its performance unstable, but it was also extremely expensive to produce.
Basically, 17 years ago, the cost of producing it was a thousand times the price of gold of the same weight.
Song Jinning found it hard to imagine that someone had obtained a stable X-1 and could even make it into a practical weapon!
Just the thought of the cost made Song Jinning dizzy.
Based on the price 17 years ago, this gun would probably cost more than 10 years of research funding for the Institute of High Energy Physics!
Not to mention the technological advancement that this kind of stable material would bring to society!
Huo Shaoheng calmly listened to Song Jinning finish describing the material's performance. He reached out to take the fragment and put it back into the plastic bag. He said calmly, "Maybe it's not that expensive. Technology will develop, and the price will go down. The question now is, other than my grandfather, who else knows about this new material? "
Song Jinning looked at the fragment in Huo Shaoheng's hands reluctantly and shook her head. "Not many people know about this. My father hid it from me. I only found out after reading my father's notes. But my father worked with the military for a secret experiment. I don't know if the military knows. "
Hearing this, they all thought of one person. It was Huo Shaoheng's uncle, his father's older brother, Huo Guanyuan.
But Huo Guanyuan also died in the big explosion 17 years ago. But before he died, did he report the discovery of this new high-energy material to the military?
Huo Shaoheng thought for a moment and asked, "What was the direction of the secret experiment that grandfather worked with the military?"
This experiment wasn't Huo Shaoheng's responsibility. Theoretically, he couldn't ask.
But now that he had this fragment as a bridge, he could reluctantly ask.
Song Jinning looked at him and smiled. She avoided the question and said, "The main experiment wasn't this new material. This new material was just a by-product of the experiment."
The people from the Institute of High Energy Physics who participated in the military's secret experiment were also disciplined. They couldn't reveal confidential information to Huo Shaoheng just because he was her son.
Huo Shaoheng understood what Song Jinning meant and didn't continue asking. He got up and said goodbye. "Thank you for your help. I have to go back."
Song Jinning walked him all the way downstairs and watched him get into the car before waving and leaving.
Huo Shaoheng came out of the Institute of High Energy Physics and reported directly to General Ji. Then, General Ji immediately ordered a meeting to be held at the headquarters of the Special Operations Forces.
Because the major and vicious case that happened near the Fourth Ring Road of the Imperial Capital in the morning involved some old events from 17 years ago, several standing members of the Imperial Capital Military Supreme Council and General Ji came to the Special Operations Forces to listen to his report.
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