Chapter 1388 I May Have Taken Advantage of You

"Hello? Academician Lu, hey rare guest, is your retreat finally over?"

Office of the Director of Science and Technology Bureau.

Director Li, who was sitting at the desk, was reviewing the documents, but unexpectedly received a call from Lu Zhou, which made him very happy.

On the one hand, it was because Lu Zhou suddenly ended the retreat. Presumably, the research must have made progress. On the other hand, it was because Lu Zhou hadn't called him for a long time!

However, just when he got up and was about to hear what Lu Zhou had to trouble him for, the tone on the other end of the phone was a bit off.

At least, it's not the same as he imagined.

"Let's not talk about anything else, what is the matter with the prehistoric ruins on Mars?"

"...What, what's going on?"

Confused by this question, Director Li, who was holding the phone, looked a little confused, and he didn't react for a while.

Realizing that his statement might have been misunderstood, Lu Zhou took a deep breath, changed his statement, and continued to ask.

"...Okay, let me ask another question. During the few days I have been in seclusion, the ruins of the Martian civilization and the news of the extraterrestrial civilization, why are they suddenly made public?"

"Oh, that's what you're talking about," Director Li leaned back on the office chair with an expression of enlightenment on his face, and said with a smile, "It's quite complicated to say... and some time ago Didn't I tell you about this?"

Lu Zhou: "???"

What the hell?

When did you say that?

Seeing that there was no movement on the other end of the phone for a long time, Director Li couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed, and coughed lightly as a reminder.

"Don't you remember? It was probably five or six days ago. I called you at that time, hoping that you would come to Beijing for a meeting. We sat together to study and study, but you threw a sentence on the phone, 'whatever You just 'give it to me, and then hung up. I heard that you were in retreat, so I didn't continue to call you. I almost forgot if you didn't tell me, you haven't called me back yet!"

Don't say you don't remember...

Lu Zhou had no impression of such a big event.

"...Then you guys are free?"

Director Li smiled embarrassedly and said, "How is that possible! How can this kind of thing be done casually... We held three working meetings and invited all the experts we could convene. A show of hands voted. In the end, the resolution to disclose the remains of Mars was passed by 310 votes to 270 votes, and some top-secret content was lifted."

"Although I abstained from voting at the time, I thought about it later and found that what the experts in international relations said was indeed reasonable. The risk is too great when the interests are not yet clear. Our own We can’t let go. If we take a wrong step, it may destroy the achievements we have made in the past ten years, or it will be a diplomatic crisis that rises to the level of civilization.”

"Anyway, we are the only ones who can send people to Mars now, and the initiative has been in our hands from the very beginning. If this is the case, there is no need for us to do it secretly, and directly contact extraterrestrial civilizations openly, and then use This is the chip to establish an international 'foreign-related' organization that can represent the voice of all mankind, this is the right way to build a community with a shared future for mankind!"

Listening to the impassioned words of Director Li on the other end of the phone, Lu Zhou held his forehead and felt dizzy for a while.

Now, no matter whether it is the Manned Fire Office or the high-level officials on Chang'an Street, everyone seems to believe that the sound from under the "gate of hell" belongs to an extraterrestrial civilization.

And according to their "inference", the technological level of this civilization is not low.

Being able to use technologies that are completely unknown on Earth is one, being able to survive on Mars without supplies being cut off is the second, and the estimated lifetime of billions of years is the third, plus they use the proof of the ABC conjecture as The threshold of communication, at least they have surpassed the earth civilization in terms of mathematics.

Mathematics is the foundation of all scientific foundations, at least they have a higher level of imagination in terms of the upper limit of technology. Just relying on this imaginary space is enough for people on earth to treat it with caution.

There is nothing wrong with such an analysis. If he didn't know the inside story, Lu Zhou would probably analyze it like this.

However, the problem is that he knows the inside story.

That holy relic is really a "thing", a relic from a civilization that really came from some other time. To say whether he is considered an extraterrestrial civilization, there is no doubt that it is, but what this "extraterrestrial civilization" represents is obviously a little different from the extraterrestrial civilization imagined by most people.

At least, human civilization has no hope of establishing diplomatic relations with a planet several light-years away through it...

Of course, Lu Zhou can pretend that he doesn't know anything. After all, in his current position, it is really not a particularly difficult thing to hide from others.

But now, even if he wants to manipulate some things secretly, it is not so difficult.

Just like now, not only the people of China, but people all over the world are ready for the first close contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, even if this will not affect his "treasure hunting" plan to go to Mars, but Still will add a lot of variables to it.

There was no response on the other side of the phone for a long time, and Director Li, who had been talking about it for a long time, couldn't help but feel a little bored. Worried that Lu Zhou had thrown the phone aside, he couldn't help asking a question in a low voice.

"...Well, what's the problem?"

"……No."

"Isn't it just because of this that you called?" Hearing the emotion in Lu Zhou's voice, Director Li said dumbfoundedly, "It didn't matter what you said at the beginning!"

"This is my fault... But you are right, there are benefits to making it public."

Although if it were him, he would definitely wait until he returned from Mars before playing this card. However, this involves a problem of poor information, and he can't criticize it too much. After all, from the perspective of national interests, this is an extremely correct choice for the current Huaguo.

Sighing, Lu Zhou changed the subject and continued.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this... There is one more thing I have to tell you."

With a premonition that something big was going to happen, Director Li immediately lifted his spirits.

"Please speak!"

However, he still underestimated how amazing the information contained in Lu Zhou's next sentence was.

Lu Zhou paused for a moment, then spoke.

"About that ABC conjecture..."

"I've got it done here."

...

"What happened?"

In the activity room of the LSPM research group, seeing the strange expression on the face of Lu Zhou who came back from outside, Schultz couldn't help being slightly stunned, and asked a question worriedly.

Looking at these three teammates who trusted him so much, Lu Zhou took a deep breath and said slowly.

"There is something important that I have to confess to you."

Schultz, Mochizuki Shinichi, and Perelman exchanged glances, and read confused emotions from each other's eyes.

There was silence in the activity room.

Just when Lu Zhou was thinking about breaking the silence by himself, Schultz suddenly opened his mouth to do it for him.

"So... you're getting married soon?"

Upon hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou, who had been brewing emotions at the door for a long time, was almost choked by his own saliva, and tears of pain were almost squeezed out.

"Ahem——, what? How did you associate it with this thing?"

Schultz shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly.

"Because your expression is too serious, in my impression... it seems that this is the only thing that requires some mental preparation to say."

"I see." After staring at Lu Zhou for a long time, Mochizuki's expression gradually became weird, and he continued: "What you want to say is...you are actually an alien?"

"...Okay, don't guess," Lu Zhou sighed, "I'm not an alien, but... how should I put it, we—or the subject we are studying, actually has something to do with extraterrestrial civilizations. "

Although he knows what the truth is, he should perform together with the official announcement, otherwise it will be difficult to explain clearly if he tells the truth. Thinking of this, Lu Zhou had already woven a set of white lies in his mind, but he soon realized that before he could tell the story, the three of them were already in a daze.

Apparently, they, like Lu Zhou, knew nothing about the incident that was making a fuss in the world at the moment.

Sighing secretly in his heart, Lu Zhou said straight to the point.

"...I'll just pick the key points and talk about it."

"In short, the ABC conjecture is the dialogue threshold set by extraterrestrial civilizations, which proves that it is the prerequisite for us to have a smooth dialogue with each other... It may seem that I am a bit crazy when I say it this way, but it is the truth. You guys If you don’t believe me, just watch the news for a while.”

"So... I'm very sorry."

"I may have used you."

Perelman: "..."

Schultz: "...?"

Mochizuki Shinichi: "...?!"