Chapter 1467 The Reason for Going to the Future

"Recently, a vicious arson incident took place in the Lion City district of Malacca. The incident took place in a bar called the Reef. According to preliminary police investigations, the cause of the incident was a brawl caused by a quarrel..."

On the holographic TV, the morning news is shown.

Judging from the messy scene and the serious expressions on the faces of the policemen standing in front of the isolation zone, it was clear that what happened here was not as simple as arson.

Sitting at the dining table, Lu Zhou was concentrating on the fried eggs on the plate, while taking time to watch the news from time to time.

"...It seems that the 22nd century is not so peaceful."

It seemed that he had finally found the opportunity to intervene in the topic. Xiao Ai, who was sitting across the dining table with her hands on her chin, immediately answered a sentence with great enthusiasm.

"It's okay! Xiaoai will protect the master! ()"

Lu Zhou: "Thank you."

Xiao Ai: "Hey, you're welcome. But thank you so frankly, I feel embarrassed. (///ω///)"

Ignoring the beating words in his pupils, Lu Zhou put his chopsticks on the plate after breakfast, and wiped his mouth with a paper towel.

"There will be guests coming in a while, so you can change into something more normal... Forget it, you'd better stay in the next room with Ling and don't come out."

Lu Zhou seemed to have thought of something in the middle of the speech, and changed his words temporarily.

However, this change of words shocked Xiao Ai who was originally excited. Not only did the kaomoji in her pupils change their shape, but even their colors changed accordingly.

"Eh? Aren't you going to introduce Xiao Ai to the master's friends? w(Д)w"

Lu Zhou sighed and said.

"Whenever your head becomes a little more normal, I'll consider doing it."

While talking, there was a knock on the door.

Lu Zhou gave the aggrieved Xiao Ai a "please go to the bedroom for a while" look, then got up and walked towards the entrance.

Stretching out his hand to open the door, Lu Zhou was about to say hello, when the person who entered through the threshold gave him a big bear hug.

Confused by this action, Lu Zhou was stunned for a long time before he settled down and said.

"what are you doing……"

Holding Lu Zhou's shoulders with both hands, Wang Peng looked at him excitedly, his Adam's apple moved up and down, and after a long time, he squeezed out a sentence.

"You... are still alive."

"if not?"

I read a lot from the eyes of this old friend, Lu Zhou was silent for a while and didn't know how to speak.

The last time the two met was a century ago, tens of millions of kilometers away.

At that time, he was still in the ruins of the Martian civilization. Not only did he not expect, but no one expected that the sideways miss would be a hundred years...

"The door is not a place to reminisce, let's talk about it when you come in... You came alone?"

"There is another old acquaintance of yours."

Just as Lu Zhou was about to ask who it was, he saw that familiar face appearing at his door.

"Director Li?"

The muddy pupils stared at him intently, gradually becoming a mist mixed with excitement and nostalgia. After a while, he said in a choked tone.

"haven't seen you for a long time……"

There was also a touch of nostalgia in his eyes.

Looking at this old acquaintance who has caused him a lot of trouble, Lu Zhou said softly with some emotion.

"yes……"

Really long time no see...

...

Although it was the first time for the three of them to meet each other, they had actually met once on the virtual social network. Last night, Li Gaoliang created a discussion group for them in the virtual reality community, and even the meeting time this morning was set at that time.

Director Li, who put the beer bought from the convenience store on the table and sat down on the chair, took a look at the house and said with a smile.

"I heard that you are still alive, Wang Peng and I came to visit you immediately."

"Is there such a thing? I actually planned to look for you, but I didn't contact Li Gaoliang until last night."

"Gao Liang is serving in the fleet after all, and he doesn't have time to surf the Internet every day. After he sent me the address, Wang Peng and I came over..." Director Li smiled and continued, "At that time you Maybe he went out, and the person who answered the door seemed to be a woman."

Lu Zhou coughed lightly and corrected.

"It's a bionic person."

Director Li had a dazed expression on his face, and nodded with a smile.

"Oh, I see..."

Although I always felt that the old man misunderstood in various senses, Lu Zhou felt that it would be better not to continue wasting time on such an increasingly dark question, so he changed the subject.

"Speaking of which, how are you doing here?"

"It's good. My retirement salary is quite high, and I have no problems in life. The only problem may be that I have a little leisure time, and I am a person who can't be idle," Director Li continued with a smile. I am quite worried about the boy, and I have been enlightening him these days, letting him try to find a new goal in this era and start a new life."

"Don't make what I said so useless," Wang Peng coughed lightly, paused for a moment, then changed to a serious tone and continued, "I've already made up my mind, I plan to go to the preparatory school for a year."

Lu Zhou asked with concern.

"Have you contacted the school?"

Wang Peng nodded.

"National University of Defense Technology, Li Gaoliang contacted me. He also graduated from there."

"National University of Defense Technology?" Director Li said, "That's a good place. It's said to be the Whampoa Military Academy in the 22nd century. It has sent many excellent engineers and officers to the First Fleet."

Lu Zhou: "Speaking of which, I've always been curious, why did you come to this era?"

"Two reasons," Wang Peng said after being silent for a while, "...you should know some inside information, so I won't hide it from you. Actually, I go to the future with two missions, one is about the universe. One is about the Spirit Foundation, and the other is about the remains of Martian civilization."

Hearing an unexpected name, Lu Zhou frowned slightly.

"The Universal Spirit Foundation?"

In his mind, he had heard the name before.

I just didn't expect to hear it again a century later.

"Well, back then... that is, about a hundred years ago, the group who attacked you on the Northern Lights cruise ship. After we launched Operation Dandelion against the warlords in Somalia, we found some clues about the Universal Spirit Foundation .And that was probably the first time this organization came into the view of our intelligence services."

Lu Zhou: "It's the first time I entered your field of vision... that is to say, after that, you met them again?"

Wang Peng nodded and continued: "About the second year after you left, the Shanghai Economic Cooperation Organization planned to hold a meeting in Manila to discuss the 'Pan-Asian Economic Integration Agreement', and then there was an explosion on the streets of Manila We traced the clues to Mogadisha in Somalia, where we found some new clues about the Universal Spirit Foundation and the Northern Lights cruise ship incident three years ago."

"Those people do not belong to any country or organization. The source of their funds is quite mysterious, and their actions are very cautious. Until I went into hibernation, I couldn't find their mastermind."

Speaking of this, Wang Peng's expression suddenly showed a little emotion.

"But thinking about it now, that was all a hundred years ago."

a hundred years.

Enough to change too many things.

Just like he never imagined that the meeting would eventually change the future of the whole Asia and even the world. The so-called Universal Spirit Foundation would never have imagined that the actions they took to thwart the continued expansion of Huaguo's influence in Asia would not even stop the wheel of history for two seconds.

"And then, there is the matter of the Martian ruins," Wang Peng said with a smile, "It was because of a paper that was widely circulated in the academic world. The author of the paper is Professor Schultz, and you should know it."

Lu Zhou nodded and said.

"What did he write?"

"Some theoretical discussions on four-dimensional space debris, from the perspectives of mathematics and physics, explained the cause of the disaster that occurred on the Martian ruins that year. I only know so much about the specific situation. The judgment made by my superior at the time was, If the technologies buried in the Martian ruins, as well as the four-dimensional space debris, are unearthed, they may have an earth-shaking impact on the current international situation."

"So he wanted me to go to the future a hundred years later to investigate the ruins..."

Having said that, Wang Peng continued with a trace of regret on his face.

"But when I got here, I found that the situation had changed completely. Except for the people from the Frozen Human Rights Protection Foundation, no one contacted me at all. Then I heard that the plan to reinforce the future was in the 1960s or 1970s The era has been cancelled... If I hadn't heard the news that you were still alive a few days ago, I would have felt like my trip was in vain."

Chief Li said with a sigh.

"Objectively speaking, there are indeed certain problems in the plan to reinforce the future. It is better to let the people in the future solve the problems in the future. Then I thought about it for a long time. Come alive to command us, I'm afraid we can't accept it."

"Let's not talk about this," Wang Peng sighed with some emotion, then looked at Lu Zhou, and asked curiously, "Speaking of which, you woke up from there. What did you do when you were in the ruins of Mars?" Did you find it?"

"The remains of Martian civilization... To be honest, there is actually nothing to dig there. Although I have seen a lot of interesting things, most of the traces of their existence have been buried in billions of years. erased,"

His eyes fell into memories, thinking of everything he saw in that dream, Lu Zhou sighed softly, and continued, "To be honest, I can sit here and talk to you all thanks to the fragments of the four-dimensional space, Fortunately, I found a well-preserved hibernation capsule inside."

Lu Zhou didn't know whether his explanation passed the test, but considering that many things were inconvenient to explain, he could only explain it this way.

I don't know whether he saw his embarrassment or believed in this set of rhetoric. Wang Peng didn't say much, but nodded to express his understanding.

Director Li, who was sitting next to him, was still curious and muttered.

"The fragments of the four-dimensional space... what does that thing look like? I'm quite curious."

Lu Zhou thought for a while and replied.

"Its projection in three-dimensional space is a transparent sphere, and it will be very troublesome to describe its structure and physical properties unless you can understand some basic mathematical tools."

Director Li hastily coughed dryly and said.

"Forget it, you pretend I didn't ask."

Basic math tools...

When this sentence came out of someone else's mouth, he might not take it seriously.

But this sentence came from the mouth of Academician Lu, and he has automatically translated this sentence into "mathematical problems that ordinary people cannot understand".

"Speaking of which, are you familiar with Li Guangya?"

"Li Guangya?" Hearing this name, Chief Li rubbed his chin and said, "Is that the chairman of Pan-Asia Cooperation? I saw him once after I woke up, but he didn't say anything to me, just greeting Just yelled and left."

Lu Zhou: "He wants me to be the chief scientist of Pan-Asian cooperation."

Director Li looked at Lu Zhou in surprise and said.

"Such a big hat?"

Lu Zhou nodded and continued.

"Not only that, he also wants me to participate in his space elevator project."

Hearing this sentence, Director Li frowned, and said after thinking for a moment.

"I'm a person who came from the beginning of the 21st century. It's hard to say anything. After all, we wanted to build a mass projector, and it took several years to decide. The space elevator... In my understanding, this is already It's a sci-fi concept."

"However, this Li Guangya, I suggest you be careful. Maybe I, an old man, can't keep up with the times. I can't figure out what he wants to do."

"I didn't agree to him right away," Lu Zhou continued, looking at Director Li who was full of worry on his face, "After all, this concept is a bit too exaggerated for me. In contrast, I want to know that the second generation is controllable. Has there been any progress in fusion technology, and to what extent have other more basic researches been developed?"

Director Li asked with interest: "Second-generation controllable fusion? I seem to always hear you say it before, but I feel that the cost of the first-generation controllable fusion is already low enough. This second-generation technology...is it really that important?"

"Very important. Maybe it's just my idea, but at least in my opinion, it is much more important than the sky elevator," Lu Zhou glanced at the sky outside the window, and continued, "Speaking of it, do you still remember when I proposed Is it the reason for establishing the Guanghan Special Economic Zone?"

Director Li frowned and asked, "Is it related to the second-generation controllable fusion?"

Lu Zhou nodded.

"I can say responsibly that at least half of the reason is because of it."

The establishment of the Guanghan City Special Economic Zone is mainly for more convenient staking on the moon. And the places he circled on the map are basically areas with rich reserves of helium-III resources.

If the second-generation fusion technology breaks through, the layout he made a hundred years ago will become a legacy that is so huge that no one can imagine it will be left to the future generations of Chinese civilization.

Just like the oil fields left by the Arabs to future generations.

Lu Zhou can even assert without exaggeration.

The precious helium-3 resources on the moon will be the key to their journey beyond the solar system to more distant worlds.

To say that after he came to this era, the only dissatisfaction is probably the truly valuable treasures he left to future generations. Up to now, no one has found the key to open it...