Lu Zhou suddenly opened his eyes.
Lu Zhou, who was lying flat on his back, jumped up from his bed. His chest was heaving up and down as he panted.
Only then did he realize that the back of his clothes had been soaked in sticky sweat.
Lu Zhou rubbed his sore eyebrows and got out of bed. He grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge and took a sip to calm himself down.
Although it was something that happened in the Realm of Consciousness, and although there were no demons or ghosts in there,
Maybe it was because it was too realistic, but the feeling of having a memory that didn't belong to this world wasn't good at all.
It was like …
He walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and stared at the bustling night view for a long time. The bottle of water in his hand no longer felt cold, so he turned around and left the window.
"It's like …
"It's like a nightmare."
He went to the bathroom to take a shower.
Lu Zhou changed into a fresh set of clothes and sat down in front of the computer.
After about a minute, he returned to the System Space and carefully examined it. The pure white space did not change because of the rare "Void Memory A".
However, the purple sample that exuded an ominous aura in his inventory had disappeared.
It was like it never existed.
Lu Zhou went back to reality and thought for a second. He opened the memo and typed a few lines of text.
[What are those black obelisks?]
[If they are computers, who do they belong to?]
[What are they calculating?]
Other than that, there were also the golden cubes at the bottom of the pool. If he remembered correctly, those were the "Debris No.2" before it was burned.
However, he wasn't in a hurry. After he went back, he would try to combine his memories and try to figure out what was hidden on Debris No.2.
Lu Zhou wrote down these three questions in the memo. He looked at the screen for a second and finally set a password.
Even if this kind of bizarre dream were to be told to others, they probably wouldn't take it seriously.
Still, he had to be careful.
…
The next day.
Vera's 45-minute report began, and the venue was arranged by the organizing committee to be lecture hall 7.
The lecture hall was quite lively.
Many people were curious about the Female Fields Award winner.
After all, even though female physicists and chemists weren't rare, female mathematicians were.
In particular, there were very few scholars who could produce top-notch results.
What's more, she was a talented woman with both knowledge and beauty. This was no longer something that could be described as a precious species.
Even scholars who didn't pay attention to analytic number theory or the Riemann zeta function attended the report.
Lu Zhou, who had arrived at the venue ten minutes earlier, looked around and almost couldn't find his seat. It wasn't until Schulz, who was sitting in the middle of the field, waved at him that Lu Zhou walked over.
"This spot was originally reserved for my old friend Akshay, but this report just happened to conflict with a 45-minute report in his research direction."
Lu Zhou: "Thank you."
Schultz said with a smile.
"You're welcome."
Lu Zhou yawned and picked up the thesis on the table. He then flipped through a few pages.
He didn't sleep well last night.
Until now, his brain was a mess. One moment, it was the city paved with metal, the next moment, it was the towering black obelisk, the next moment, it was the black space filled with blades, and the next moment, it was the liquid helium pool that looked like an altar …
Schulz: "You didn't sleep well last night."
Lu Zhou: "Yeah."
Schulz: "You stayed up late?"
"Sort of." Lu Zhou paused for a second and said, "I had a long nightmare."
Schulz asked curiously, "What did you dream about?"
Lu Zhou: "… Probably about the future."
Schulz raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are you sure it's a nightmare?"
Lu Zhou: "I think so … But I'm not sure if it's the future of humanity … I mean, I'm not sure if I've seen it in a sci-fi movie before. But in short, the deathly stillness doesn't feel good. "
"'I Am Legend'?"
"Haha, maybe, but that's an old movie."
Schulz shrugged and made an exaggerated expression as he joked, "That's sad, even the greatest scientist of this century is pessimistic about our future. Looks like I have to think about buying insurance."
Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head.
"That's not funny at all."
Schulz smiled and said, "But aren't you laughing?"
Lu Zhou: "That's because the first thing you think about is insurance … If something bad happens, who will pay for your insurance?"
Schultz rubbed his chin and spoke after some thought.
"That's a problem."
While the two were talking, the report had already begun.
Vera was standing on stage. She looked a little weak, which made people feel bad for her. Lu Zhou didn't know if it was an illusion or not, but he felt like she didn't look too good.
However, these things could wait until the report was over.
Now that the report had already begun, of course, it was still focused on academic matters.
This was the basic respect for the presenter.
Lu Zhou took a deep breath and focused on the thesis in his hand.
He had been so busy during this period of time that he almost forgot to read the final report before the start of the report.
However, this didn't matter to him.
In any case, with his level, there were many things that he could do with a glance. It wouldn't delay anything at all.
"Hyperelliptic curve analysis?" After reading the abstract, Lu Zhou raised his eyebrows and said, "Interesting."
Simply put, Vera continued Lu Zhou's idea of using the "hyperelliptic curve analysis method" to solve the problem. However, on the key step of "introducing the Plancherel formula to the Heisenberg group", Vera used a more ingenious method to make the "hyperelliptic curve analysis method" more operable on a connected one-dimensional complex manifold like the Riemann surface.
It was difficult to explain the mystery of this with ordinary language and elementary mathematics. However, not only did this instantly capture the attention of the audience, even Lu Zhou couldn't help but slap the table in amazement.
It even gave him a flash of inspiration, and he had the urge to immediately return to his hotel room and begin his research in seclusion.
Of course, Lu Zhou was just thinking about it.
If he really did that, he definitely wouldn't do it.
Apart from anything else, Vera was still speaking on the stage.
It wasn't easy for him to stand on the podium facing the entire mathematics world. If he, as the "teacher", suddenly left midway, he wasn't sure if the girl on the podium would cry …
Schultz, who was sitting next to Vera with his arms crossed, suddenly sighed and spoke.
"Honestly, I envy you sometimes."
Lu Zhou's eyes did not move away from the podium as he replied casually.
"… Envy me for what?"
"If you have a smart and obedient disciple, every time you propose a new theory or invent a new thing, she can help you perfect it."
Lu Zhou smiled and didn't answer the question.
However, at this moment, something unexpected happened.
Vera, who was standing on stage, suddenly coughed violently.
"… Sorry."
She put her right hand on her lips and apologized. Vera was about to continue her report. However, when she was about to speak again, she was interrupted by a violent cough.
Beads of sweat covered her forehead. Vera was holding the whiteboard, and her face was pale.
The staff member noticed the situation and walked to the front of the podium.
"Miss Pulyuy, the report will end here for the time being. If you feel unwell —"
"No, let me finish!"
She clenched her right fist, and her sapphire pupils flashed with a brief confusion. However, it was quickly washed away by her burning courage.
From the moment she started to get sick a year ago, she knew that she didn't have much time left.
It wasn't easy for her to make it this far …
The staff was stunned by the aura, and he subconsciously stopped walking. After hesitating for a moment, he stepped back.
Vera, who was standing on stage, looked at the whiteboard again.
Her thoughts were clearer than ever.
She clenched her teeth and raised her right hand again. She quickly wrote down lines of calculations on the whiteboard.
Due to the pain and anxiety in her heart, the numbers and symbols printed on the whiteboard were already distorted. However, the rapid strokes of the pen and the thoughts in her mind did not stop.
Not only did she write down everything that was mentioned in the thesis, but she also wrote down everything that was just a vague and abstract blueprint in her mind.
Time and space seemed to be behind her, and the pain in her chest seemed to have disappeared.
Apparently, when a person's physical condition was at its limit, the body would allocate all of its functions to the brain to ensure that important information could be left at the last moment.
However, she didn't have time to think about this.
Not for the successor of the mathematics world, not for the person she admired …
If this was the last report in her life …
At least …
She planned on doing it to the best of her ability!
Finally, with the support of her obsession, she wrote down the last stroke.
She looked at the full whiteboard and took half a step back. She had a faint smile on her face.
Even though I still haven't reached the end of the maze …
But I believe …
These things should be helpful to the people who came after me.
Especially his words.
Suddenly, her consciousness went into a trance.
She subconsciously reached out her right hand and held onto the whiteboard next to her. She did not expect to wipe the blood that she coughed out.
Blood!
An uproar and commotion broke out in the originally silent audience.
Oh no …
When Vera saw the red marks, she sighed in her heart.
Even though it was already a miracle that she was able to last for half a year, she didn't expect this day to happen …
Happy days and sad days seemed to have come together.
Her legs gradually lost their strength.
Before her consciousness fell to the ground, she used the last of her vision to see a familiar figure rushing towards her from below the stage at an incredible speed.
Suddenly, she felt like …
There was nothing to regret.
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