St. Petersburg First State Hospital.
A haggard girl was lying on a white and flawless hospital bed. Her beautiful blonde hair had lost its luster, and it was even losing its original color.
However, her beautiful sleeping face was serene.
Lu Zhou was sitting next to the hospital bed. He was holding a thick book with a leather cover in his hand. He was reading a bedtime story in a steady voice.
"Although the eight-page paper from the small town of Breslenz in the Kingdom of Hanover to the Berlin Academy of Sciences completely changed mathematics for the next century and a half, the God he believed in did not give him eternal life because of this.
"Almost the same as Abel, the great mathematician only lived a short life of 39 years, 10 months, and 3 days. He died on July 20, 1866, in a small lakeside town in Italy."
"According to his best friend, Dedekin, until the day of his death, he was still sitting under a fruit tree, exploring unfinished. In his memoirs, he wrote this — "
"When the last moment came, he did not struggle or twitch. Instead, he seemed to be watching the separation of the soul from the body with great interest. His wife brought him bread and wine, and he gave his compliments to the family, and said to her, "Kiss our child." She chanted a prayer for him, but he could not speak. When she said to forgive our sins, his eyes looked up to the sky. She felt his hand gradually turn cold, and after a few breaths, his pure and noble heart stopped beating … "
"For a genius who can see the extraordinary world, the universe is always unfriendly.
"For the rest of Wey's life, she went from hope to despair. In 1959, Nash's speech at Columbia University announcing the proof of Riemann's conjecture was seen as the beginning of his schizophrenia. In the 1970s, Riemann's conjecture was seen as the direct cause of Grothendieck's departure from home for decades …
"However, it is because of these great sacrifices that we can bring the scenery that ordinary people can't see from God's back garden to this world.
"Regardless of whether the person who proves it can become immortal or not, one thing is for sure. History will remember all the pilgrims who carried the torch on this pilgrimage. The glory of taking down the crown may only belong to the one who reaches the end, but the glory of the human mind never belongs to a single person … "
The eyelashes of the girl lying flat on the bed trembled slightly.
Out of the corner of his eye, Lu Zhou caught this scene and stopped reading. He gently closed the book in his hand and looked at the beautiful face that made one's heart ache.
The room suddenly became quiet.
As if curious as to why the person sitting by the bed stopped reading, the pair of sapphire like eyes secretly opened a slit, but directly met Lu Zhou's gaze.
Her cheeks gradually became hot, and she finally couldn't pretend anymore. Her sapphire eyes completely opened, and she averted her gaze with some awkwardness.
Looking at Vera's little movements, Lu Zhou couldn't help but smile. He placed the book in his hand on the bedside table and said.
"When did you wake up?"
With her cheeks blushing, Vera said embarrassedly, "You noticed?"
Lu Zhou: "When I read Professor Riemann's story."
"I'm sorry …"
Lu Zhou looked at Weila, who had her head down, and spoke nonchalantly.
"This is not something to apologize for."
Hearing this, Vera raised her head and looked at him as he continued to speak.
"No, I want to say, sorry … I messed up my report …"
Lu Zhou looked at the sincere girl and smiled faintly. He spoke in a comforting tone.
"If that's the reason, then you don't have to be sorry. You've done a good job. Most of the scholars here, even I, if I were to put myself in your shoes, I might not be able to do better than you. "
Genius was the patent of a small number of people, and the courage and perseverance to not succumb to fate was a quality that only a small number of people possessed.
Only one in ten thousand people possessed both at the same time.
Just this alone was enough for her to be proud of.
The room suddenly became quiet.
The only sound in the room was the ticking of the clock on the wall.
The sound of the gears gently moving was like a countdown for a young life that did not have much time left.
However, Lu Zhou, who was sitting next to her, acted like he didn't know anything. He didn't even look sad or sad.
Vera didn't know why, but when she saw him like this, she felt relieved.
Emotions are contagious.
Maybe what she was really afraid of wasn't the scythe on her neck, but the people who cared about her and suffered with her in the last moments of her life.
There was no point in being sad about things that couldn't be changed.
Life was destined to come to an end from the moment it began. To her, this day had only come a little too early.
She was very thankful that mathematics changed her life. The IMO gold medal allowed her to get an offer from Berkeley. It allowed her to escape from her gloomy childhood. She got rid of her bad family and town full of bad memories. She also met so many good people …
As well as the people she loved.
If everything started with mathematics, then ending it here was like repaying the gift that mathematics gave her.
This ending didn't seem bad at all?
At least in the last moments of her life, she could still enjoy the warmth that she had never felt before.
As for the Fields Medal, it didn't matter anymore.
"Um …"
Lu Zhou: "Is there something else?"
Taking a deep breath, Vera spoke incoherently in an apologetic tone.
"… Sorry, I've been hiding it from you. When I received the doctor's diagnosis, I felt like … the whole world was collapsing. "
Lu Zhou nodded and spoke.
"I understand, but there are some things that you don't have to bear alone."
Vera opened her mouth, wanting to explain that she didn't mean to hide it, but at this point, the doctor had already informed her to take care of the funeral arrangements. She really didn't want the people around her to go through the torture of the countdown to her life with her.
However, Lu Zhou didn't give her a chance to explain.
Because the things she wanted to say, as well as the so-called tenderness that could be expressed, he already knew.
"Okay, that's it for now. I told you, these aren't small things worth apologizing for. Let's talk about something happy."
"… Happy things?"
"Yes." Lu Zhou nodded and took out a stack of papers from his pocket. He shook the papers in his hand and said in a storytelling tone, "The previous story was only half told. Thanks to the inspiration of a beautiful lady, all the clues were connected in the mind of a genius.
"At this moment, the unfinished exploration has finally come to an end. No matter how many twists and turns this hundred-year journey is filled with, in fact, the moment we cross the finish line, the scenery we see is generally the same. The only difference is that the gifts we can obtain from the universe are unique. "
Lu Zhou looked at Vera and smiled. He then spoke in a relaxed tone.
"… I think I'm off topic.
"Anyway, back to the main topic, I have proven the Riemann conjecture."
Although the academic community hadn't evaluated his thesis yet, since the future and advanced civilizations agreed with his research, there shouldn't be any problems.
However, even though he said this casually, almost at the moment he said this, the atmosphere in the ward instantly became quiet.
The pair of bright eyes gradually enlarged and were gradually covered with a layer of excited mist.
Her slender hands gripped the bedsheets tightly. She subconsciously wanted to stand up from the bed, but because she was too weak, she did not succeed in the end. She could only speak with trembling lips.
"Really?"
Seeing the patient's intense reaction, the nurse who had been standing next to her without saying a word quickly stepped forward and held her shoulders. She then looked back at Lu Zhou and said, "Sir, if you really care about this lady's body, please don't say anything to provoke her. Otherwise, out of consideration for the patient's body, we can only ask you to leave — "
However, Vera didn't care about what the nurse was saying. She couldn't wait to interrupt her. She looked at Lu Zhou with excitement in her eyes and spoke quickly.
"It's okay, tell me! How did you solve the problem that the curve Re (s) = 1-c/ln [| Im (s) | + 2] approaches Re (s) = 1 when Im (s) → ∞? I tried many methods, but it's not — "
As if he knew Vera would say this, Lu Zhou raised his right hand and signaled her to calm down.
"I will tell you, but before that, please calm down. Otherwise, I'm afraid this beautiful lady will kick me out of here before I can even open my mouth. "
The nurse standing next to him raised her chin, but perhaps because of the "beautiful lady", the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl up.
After hearing Lu Zhou say this, Vera finally calmed down and sat on the hospital bed with a well-behaved look on her face. However, the thirst for knowledge in her eyes still exposed the restless excitement in her heart.
Lu Zhou cleared his throat and looked at the thesis in his hand.
"Thanks to your help, I finally figured out some things that I couldn't figure out. All of your questions can be answered in this paper. "
Vera spoke weakly and whispered her request.
"Can you read it to me?"
Lu Zhou: "No."
Her sapphire eyes were filled with grievance, and her voice became smaller.
"Then … I can read it, right?"
Lu Zhou: "No."
Vera's eyes widened in disbelief as she looked at Lu Zhou.
"Why?"
Lu Zhou stared at her sapphire eyes and spoke in a serious tone.
"Unless you promise me one thing. After that thing is done, whether you want to read it yourself or you want me to read it to you, I will satisfy you."
Vera's eyes were filled with confusion as she spoke.
"… What thing?"
Under the girl's eager gaze, Lu Zhou finally made up his mind and resisted the urge to immediately share this joy with her. He put away the thesis in his hand.
"Go to Beijing with me."
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