1020 Absentminded Professor Lu (3/3)

#1020 absent-minded Professor Lu (33)

In fact, sometimes Lu Zhou also feels that he may be a little paranoid in some aspects.

Not all questions are correct or not.

Rather, thinking about which answer is the correct answer is an act of carving a boat and seeking a sword...

The evening banquet was held in the cafeteria of the Corinthia Hotel.

For this banquet, the hotel not only prepared extremely rich food, but also specially changed the setting in the cafeteria so that it can accommodate the maximum number of attendees, but also for the mathematicians who have been staying for four years. Leave enough social space.

The protagonists of the whole banquet are undoubtedly the four Fields Medal winners.

As rising stars in the mathematics world, they are like magnets, and they hardly need to make any representations. As long as they stand in the banquet hall, they will naturally gather the eyes around them.

However, as one of the most talked-about winners, Miss Vera Puyoui was not present, which also made many people feel lost.

However, although he was a little concerned about Vera's situation, Lu Zhou was not in a hurry.

After all, tomorrow morning will be her briefing, so it's too late to say anything about it.

In contrast, it was the purple ominous sphere lying in his system space inventory at the moment, which made Lu Zhou feel even more concerned.

Void memory?

What the hell is that thing?

During the whole banquet, Lu Zhou was a little absent-minded, so that when he went to the long table next to him to get red wine, he was thinking about this and almost bumped into an old friend...

"Be careful, my friend, there are a lot of people here, and I don't want to go out with red wine."

"Feel sorry."

"Don't be sorry, the tragedy didn't happen, didn't it?" Professor Fefferman smiled, raised the wine glass in his hand, touched the apologetic Lu Zhou, took a sip and continued, "I feel that you are a little absent-minded. ."

After taking a sip of red wine, Lu Zhou glanced at him unexpectedly.

"Have it?"

"Of course, including now, when you look at me, I can clearly feel that your pupils are not completely focused on the bridge of my nose," said in a funny and relaxed tone, Professor Fefferman looked at the landing Zhou, smiled and threw a question, "Is it because your little apprentice didn't come?"

Lu Zhou: "...No."

He admitted that he may have been a little distracted because he was thinking about things in his head, but it was definitely not because of Vera. There is nothing to worry about about knowing the result tomorrow. At most, how to answer this matter may make him a little troubled...

Well, he admits, maybe there's a one percent reason.

But of all the factors that make him distracted, it is definitely only a very small part.

Just when Lu Zhou thought that this old guy who likes to inquire about gossip would definitely make an expression of disbelief and continue to ask, but he did not expect that he did not ask, but just said intriguingly "Really?" This topic has been brought up.

After chatting for a while about the research on the Riemann zeta function, and chatting for a while about the proposition that has troubled the mathematics community and Lu Zhou for a long time, when he was about to say goodbye, Professor Fefferman suddenly stopped Lu Zhou who was about to leave. .

"Wait a moment."

Stopping, Lu Zhou turned to look at the questioning.

"What's wrong?"

Professor Fefferman smiled and raised the glass in his hand.

"Congratulations, another laurel crown has been added to the collection room."

Lu Zhou: "Thank you."

"In addition, there is a piece of advice other than mathematics." Walking to Lu Zhou's side, Professor Fefferman reached out and patted him on the shoulder, with a kind smile on his face, "No matter what choice you make, remember Don't leave yourself sorry."

"Life is only once for everyone, whether it's an old guy or a young guy, there are not many opportunities for us to worry."

"And the closer you get to the end of your life, the more you will discover the fairness of time, because it is always irreversible."

...

The banquet came to an end.

Although I just had a few drinks with my friends, but because there were so many friends, I walked around the venue in the end. Even with the metabolic ability enhanced by the system, Lu Zhou was still slightly drunk.

But compared to the others, he was pretty good.

Not far away, Krugman and Albert were drunk alone, stumbling around in the aisle of the corridor, playing drunken madness, and were finally invited by the waiter to lie down in the lounge.

Many people nearby looked at these two people with black lines, and Lu Zhou also had a strange look on his face. He wondered how these two, an economist and a physicist, got in.

After going to the bathroom to wash his face, Lu Zhou felt a little more awake, and then took the elevator back upstairs.

When he stopped at the door of his room, Lu Zhou looked back at Wang Peng and said seriously.

"If there is nothing particularly important, don't bother me."

"OK."

Lu Zhou nodded, and was about to close the door when he suddenly thought of something, so he pushed the door open again and continued to exhort Wang Peng who was just about to leave.

"Correction, even if there is something very important, remember to call me first."

Wang Peng: "...Okay."

"Finally, if you hear anything unusual, don't worry about me, I'll be fine."

Probably misunderstood Lu Zhou's intentions, Wang Peng coughed lightly and said: "You can rest assured that we will definitely not interfere with your private life, it is better to say... If there is no such thing, it will be more worrying."

Lu Zhou: "...?"

Back in the room and closed the door, he walked to Lu Zhou, who was lying flat beside the bed, and told Xiao Ai to help him pay attention to the movement outside the door, and then sank his consciousness into the system space.

Standing in a pure white system space, Lu Zhou walked to the holographic screen in the center of the space, stretched out his index finger and swiped on the screen, and opened the item bar.

It was no different from what he saw in the hall of the venue during the day. The purple sphere exuding an ominous aura was lying quietly in his inventory.

The smoke-like tentacles that surround him are like the tentacles of insects, probing the surroundings.

"If my guess is correct... this thing should not be something that can be brought to the real world, but should be used in the system space."

Staring at the ominous purple sphere, Lu Zhou whispered to himself as if he was talking to himself.

Suddenly, he stretched out his index finger and lightly touched the surface of the sphere.

This time, it was different from when I was in the hall during the day.

The touch of climbing up his fingertips was not an electric shock, but rather like a sponge soaked in hot water with his index finger, which made him feel an indescribable warmth.

A stunned expression appeared on his face. Lu Zhou seemed to understand something, and withdrew his right hand from the inventory.

"Not only the pain, but also the temperature can be clearly felt..."

"Sure enough, this thing should be a prop that only exists in the body of consciousness."

"And for some special reason, the information can only be read in a very quiet environment, at least not interrupted."

"Otherwise trigger something like a protection mechanism?"

Thinking like this, Lu Zhou really wanted to go out and set an alarm to verify his conjecture.

But he thought about it, and it seemed that there was no need for it.

After all, the key to revealing the truth is right in front of him. If he wants to know what is in this box, he just needs to open it.

"...Come on, let me see what secrets you hold inside."

There was a hint of excitement and curiosity in his voice talking to himself. Lu Zhou stretched out his right hand again and tightly held the purple sphere floating in the inventory.

The warm and soft touch came from the palm of his hand, and quickly spread throughout his whole body, crawling through his entire consciousness that exists in the system space.

Just as Lu Zhou tried to take this thing out of the inventory, something unexpected happened.

The tentacles wrapped around the purple sphere suddenly swelled violently, expanding and overflowing from between his fingers.

He secretly said in his heart that Lu Zhou, who had probably lost his mind, was about to let go, but he saw the soaring tentacles, like twisted vines, scurried up along his arm, and quickly wiped out his entire body. The conscious body was engulfed in a thick gel-like darkness...

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(Thanks to the leader of the book friend "SooO_LaZy" for the reward~~~~)