Germany, Greifswald.
Wendelstein 7-X laboratory.
Professor Keriber stared at the computer screen as he sat at his desk. He held the mouse in his right hand and repeatedly dragged the progress bar of the video. He buried his head in his head and thought hard.
The screen was showing Lu Zhou's interview on the Light of Science program.
Probably last night, which was the day the show was broadcasted, someone recorded it and uploaded it to YouTube with their own subtitles, and it received millions of views.
For an ordinary science program, millions of views was quite impressive. Especially since the video was quite poorly recorded. It could be seen that with the breakthrough of controllable fusion technology, this program, which originally had nothing to do with the general public, had attracted widespread attention.
After Keriber heard about this, he immediately downloaded the video.
He was different from everyone else.
He didn't care about Lu Zhou's thoughts on controllable fusion, nor did he care about the series of problems surrounding controllable fusion. As a scholar like Lu Zhou, he only cared about one thing.
That was, what was Lu Zhou thinking about controllable fusion itself!
Whether it was a vague idea or a vague concept, even if it was just inspiration!
Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't find what he was looking for.
Suddenly, his assistant's voice came from the side.
"Professor?"
Professor Keriber rubbed his eyebrows and looked away from the screen. He looked exhausted as he looked at his assistant who was sitting at the office desk.
"What, Price?"
"You've been dragging the mouse for an hour …" The young assistant seemed to be startled by Professor Keriber's tired eyes. He originally wanted to remind Keriber that there was a new email, but he changed his words and said, "I mean … Do you need help?"
"No need … No, bring me a cup of coffee."
"Okay."
Price immediately stood up and walked out the door.
Professor Keriber looked back at the computer and stared at the young man sitting in the studio. He had a complicated expression on his face.
Kicking China out of ITER was the wrong decision.
Whether it was before or now, he still thought this was the case.
However, the politicians who made the wrong judgment of the situation obviously would not pay for their actions, and they would not even honestly admit their mistakes.
If there was anything they could do to make up for their mistakes, it would be to focus all of their resources on the stellarator research.
Now, China had proven that this technical route was feasible. At the very least, it had helped them eliminate more than eight out of nine technical routes, including the tokamak, inertial confinement, reverse-field pinch, and other technical routes.
Plus, from the participating units and scholars involved in the project, they could almost figure out an effective plan. This information was useless in the eyes of outsiders, and it was difficult for a large scientific research project to be completely confidential.
Of course, even with the influx of international capital and state funding, and the involvement of more and more research institutions, it was still not easy to repeat the same mistakes that China had made.
According to Professor Keriber's own estimates, even if the entire Europe placed their hopes on the Wendelstein 7-X laboratory, it would take at least ten years to complete the demonstration reactor project.
And this was under optimistic conditions.
If the situation wasn't so optimistic …
Maybe even twenty years wouldn't be enough time for them to argue …
In order to advance this project as much as possible, Professor Keriber spared no effort to collect information about Lu Zhou. From his thesis to his interview videos, he watched these things over and over again, trying to share his inspiration.
However, what made him distressed was that he found out that this was a waste of time.
Lu Zhou understood controllable fusion better than anyone else.
If he didn't want to reveal the secrets of controllable fusion, no one would be able to find out about it from him.
Perhaps the only way out was to ask Lu Zhou for help.
However, he knew that the possibility of this happening was very slim …
"I have to make a trip to Cathay …" He muttered to himself as he stood up from his office chair, grabbed his coat from the hanger, and put it on. Then, he quickly walked out of the laboratory.
After two or three minutes …
The office door was pushed open again.
Price came back with a freshly brewed cup of coffee. When he saw the empty office, he was stunned for a second.
"… Professor?"
Where is he?
He was here a second ago.
…
Chinese New Year's Eve.
301 Hospital was a lot quieter.
Even though there were nurses and patients who hadn't been discharged yet, it was a lot quieter than usual.
Lu Zhou was lying in the empty hospital room. He stared at the ceiling and thought about math problems that were difficult for other people to understand.
As for Xiao Tong, who was sitting next to him, she was playing with her phone on the table.
This year's Chinese New Year's dinner was brought forward to noon. After lunch, Lu Zhou's parents went to the CTV Broadcasting Studio No.1.
The tickets for the Spring Festival Gala were delivered by Director Luo. There were a total of five tickets. In addition to Lu Zhou's family, even his health workers were included.
However, only two of the five tickets were used in the end.
First of all, Lu Zhou didn't like crowded places, and second of all, he wasn't interested in the Spring Festival Gala. As for Xiao Tong, she was too similar to him, so she also stayed at the hospital.
As for Yan Yan, according to her, she went to the Spring Festival Gala several times when she was a child, but she wasn't interested anymore. It wasn't a rare thing for these children whose fathers had some status to follow their families to watch the Spring Festival Gala live.
Lu Zhou gradually began to feel a little bored. He suddenly remembered that he hadn't used the system lucky draw yet, so he silently said "system" and sank his consciousness into the pure white system space.
Almost at the same time, footsteps came from the hallway outside the hospital room.
Chen Yushan gently knocked on the door and quietly pushed it open and walked in.
"Hello ~"
She was worried that she would disturb Lu Zhou, so she deliberately lowered her voice and waved at Xiao Tong, who was sitting at the table.
When Xiao Tong saw Chen Yushan at the door, her eyes lit up. She stopped playing with her phone and jumped down from her chair.
"Chen Yushan? Why are you here? "
She didn't know when she started calling Chen Yushan like Lu Zhou.
Chen Yushan made a shushing gesture at Xiao Tong and carefully pointed in the direction of Lu Zhou. She then shook the plastic bag in her hand and said happily, "Of course I brought you delicious food."
Xiao Tong looked at the dumplings in the plastic bag and her eyes lit up. "Wow, dumplings, did you make them yourself?"
Chen Yushan said embarrassedly, "Yeah … I did half of the work, right? It was mainly my grandmother who taught me. It would be great if they fit your taste. "
"They definitely fit our taste. My brother and I are never picky eaters," Xiao Tong said proudly. She suddenly thought of something and her eyes turned. She inadvertently smiled and said, "Speaking of which, Doctor Yan is also making dumplings. Looks like we don't have to worry about dumplings this year."
Chen Yushan asked, "Doctor Yan?"
Xiao Tong nodded and said, "Yeah! She's the doctor who takes care of my brother. The hospital organized a dumpling event on Chinese New Year's Eve, so she just went. She said she's going to make us some dumplings … She'll probably be here soon. "
Chen Yushan suddenly nodded her head.
She had heard about the health worker from Lu Zhou. Her father, who worked in the Organization Department, had also talked about this with her.
She didn't know why, but she had a strange feeling in her heart.
She didn't know what it was exactly.
However, compared to these insignificant things, she was more worried about his health.
Chen Yushan placed the dumplings on the table and walked to the side of the hospital bed. She sat down on the stool and looked at his face for a while.
Speaking of which, after knowing him for so long, this was the first time she had seen him asleep.
Why do I feel like …
This feeling is quite refreshing.
Perhaps he had sensed her gaze.
Suddenly, the eyelashes of the person lying on the hospital bed moved slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes.
Lu Zhou happened to make eye contact, so he coughed and reached out to touch his face.
"Is there something on my face?"
Chen Yushan blushed and quickly stood up from the stool.
Taking half a step back, she cleared her throat and said.
"Don't misunderstand, I didn't do anything weird while you were sleeping."
Xiao Tong smirked and raised her hand, "I can testify."
Lu Zhou looked at the energetic Xiao Tong and sighed, "I know … I just closed my eyes, I didn't sleep well at all."
He was in the system's lucky draw.
Based on his past experience, if anything happened outside, he would be able to feel it since he was in the system space.
However, his words seemed to have the opposite effect.
Chen Yushan thought about how she stared at him for a long time and realized that he wasn't sleeping at all. She felt even more embarrassed.
She cleared her throat, and her face gradually turned red as she quickly and awkwardly changed the topic.
"… Are you feeling better?"
"I can't be better." Lu Zhou made a helpless expression and said, "I haven't been in the lab for so many days, I feel like I'm rusty."
Chen Yushan didn't know why, but when she heard this and looked at Lu Zhou lying on the hospital bed, she suddenly felt a little distressed.
Even though she wanted to say some words of concern, she thought for a long time and didn't say it.
"My grandpa asked me to deliver the dumplings."
Lu Zhou: "Grandpa?"
"Yes … He saw you on the news and kept praising you as a pillar of the country at the dinner table. Then, when he found out that we knew each other, you don't know how surprised he was. Then, he urged me to come over and brought you some gifts. He said that he wanted me to thank you for your hard work for the country's scientific research … "
Chen Yushan smiled playfully and looked around. She said, "Speaking of which, is there a kitchen here? You and Xiao Tong haven't eaten yet, right? Seeing that you've suffered so much, I'll reluctantly help you cook the dumplings and bring them over. "
When Xiao Tong heard that Chen Yushan was going to cook dumplings for them, her eyes lit up and she raised her hand.
"I'll lead the way!"
With that, the little guy giggled and took his senior sister's arm, leading her out of the ward.
Lu Zhou looked at his greedy sister and shook his head.
He put his head on the soft pillow and looked at the ceiling. He recalled the item he had just won.
Perhaps it was because he had been working hard on the frontline of scientific research during this period of time that he had accumulated a lot of moral qualities in a metaphysical sense.
This time, his luck had really exploded for once in this lucky draw.
The third piece of wreckage was quietly lying in his inventory.
From the looks of it, he seemed to have won something amazing.
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