Chapter 1471 The Last Two Keys

In fact, before going to Jinling University, Lu Zhou planned to go back to the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.

On the one hand, it was to find the key, and on the other hand, it was because he himself missed that place a lot.

Although the bricks and tiles of the past have withered, and the old buildings can no longer support the scholars of the new era, the precious academic heritage he left for future generations has been well passed down.

Today, the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study is still the most desirable academic destination in China, even in Pan-Asia and the world.

The former site of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study has not been abandoned, but has been transformed into a scientific and educational tourist attraction, and it has become a check-in that is almost never missed in the social practice courses of public primary and secondary schools in the entire Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration. Place.

"...need to make an appointment in advance?"

Looking at the sign hanging at the door, Lu Zhou thought for a while, then reached out and tapped his neck gently.

The distorted light and shadow quickly faded along the contours of the face. After removing the modification of the face by the holographic projection system, Lu Zhou walked straight towards the main entrance.

Seeing Lu Zhou walking towards the yard, a young lady tour guide standing at the door with a work card was about to step up to check the electronic tickets, but after seeing his face clearly, she was shocked and even said a word I don't know.

"You, are you Academician Lu?"

"Well," Lu Zhou smiled and said, looking at the surprised tour guide, "It's me. I haven't been back for so many years. I just want to go back to the place where I used to work. I shouldn't bother you?"

"How could it be?" After regaining her senses, the lady tour guide immediately said with a warm smile, "Our job is to help this kind of tourists, so why bother? What's more, this is the place where you worked before .”

After the grand triumphant ceremony held in the Heart of Asia, the people of the entire Pan-Asia knew the news of his return.

If there were people who doubted the authenticity of his identity before, now, except for some conspiracy theorists, almost no one doubts that he is Academician Lu.

"Are you an employee here?"

"Hmm! My name is Yang Lu, and I'm currently working as a tour guide!"

Glancing into the research institute, Lu Zhou asked curiously.

"I heard that the tour guides here are not all bionics?"

"It was indeed like this before, but some bad things have happened recently," the young lady tour guide surnamed Yang made a helpless expression on her face, and continued, "The mascot in the courtyard is missing, and the hippocampus The company suspects that a back door was installed by hackers. For safety reasons, our dean sent the rest of the guide bionics back to the factory for renovation. In order not to affect the children’s social practice class, the nearest guide’s location , it’s all the staff who came up on their own.”

The mascot is missing...

Lu Zhou could guess with his feet what happened.

Thinking of his little guy causing them so much trouble, Lu Zhou coughed and said.

"...It's really hard work for you."

"It's not hard, but actually this job is quite interesting... especially when you're taking the kids here." Yang Lu sighed, and muttered, "It would be great if I could get it back... I'm still Feels like it was stolen by some tai, so worried it will do something weird."

Lu Zhou: "..."

Noticing the speechless expression on Lu Zhou's face, Yang Lu thought it was because he was not interested in this topic, so Yang Lu smiled embarrassedly and continued.

"Speaking of which, where do you want to go to see? I happen to be free here, and I can take you in."

"Do you have to be accompanied by someone to go in?"

"Well, after all, many things here are historical relics, and I'm just an ordinary worker here... Ah, of course, if you want to go shopping by yourself, you should be able to, after all, this is the place where you worked before .I’ll ask the dean for instructions, and it should be fine.”

"No, if it's troublesome, forget it."

I just came back to take a look, there is really no need to alarm so many people.

Another one, when the movement will be so loud, how can I go to the underground laboratory of the Institute for Advanced Study?

It's better to follow her around first, and then find another opportunity to slip away.

He didn't guess what was going on in Lu Zhou's mind. He thought he was sympathizing with Yang Lu, and a grateful expression appeared on his face.

Although it is true that you can ask the dean for instructions, it will obviously be very troublesome.

"Thank you for understanding our work. Wherever you want to go, I can take you there!"

"My former office." Looking at the main building of the research institute, Lu Zhou said with some nostalgia, "I haven't come back for a long time, and I don't know what it looks like there now."

"Please rest assured about this! All the objects here are laid out according to the way they were a hundred years ago. In order to restore the scene when you were working, our courtyard specially invited a modern historian who specializes in your research," The tour guide said confidently, "I can assure you, the things here are the same as when you left!"

Hearing this confident speech, Lu Zhou smiled noncommittally.

Same as when I left?

This sentence is really familiar...

...

Following in the footsteps of Ms. Yang Lu, Lu Zhou arrived at the top floor of the main building of the research institute.

Sure enough, she brought herself to Yang Xu's office.

"This is Yang Xu's office. Before I left, he was the director of the Institute of Computational Materials. Later I heard that he became the dean." Looking at the desk and the photos on the wall, Lu Zhou sighed and continued, "Besides, I won't hang my own photo in the office."

Hearing Lu Zhou's words, Yang Lu was taken aback. After blinking for a while, she said in surprise.

"Eh? Dean Yang's office? But... When he was the director of the Institute of Computational Materials, wasn't his office at the Institute of Computational Materials?"

"My office is next door, come with me."

With that said, Lu Zhou didn't explain, turned around and walked out the door, and came to a tidy office.

Since he is either at home or in the laboratory most of the time, his office looks quite clean and there are not many things that belong to him.

In addition, the other offices on the same floor do not look significantly different from my own office, so it is understandable for people to admit their mistakes later.

Standing in the dean's office, looking at the place where he used to work, Lu Zhou couldn't help feeling nostalgic.

It's really the same as when I left, nothing here has changed at all.

The guy who wanted to come to Yang Xu also wanted to commemorate himself, so he kept this office here.

When he walked to his desk, at this moment, a key suddenly appeared in front of Lu Zhou.

Looking at the key, Lu Zhou froze for a moment, then stretched out his right hand to hold the key that only he could see.

"...Speaking of which, is the bathroom in this building still usable?"

"The bathroom? Of course, do you want me to take you there?"

Lu Zhou coughed lightly and said, "I'm going to the men's room, are you sure you want to follow?"

Her face turned red, and that Miss Yang touched the back of her head in embarrassment, and quickly explained.

"I didn't mean that, I meant—"

"Just wait for me here, I'll be back soon."

After leaving these words, Lu Zhou turned and walked out of the office. However, he didn't go to the toilet as he walked forward along the corridor. Instead, he turned a corner at the intersection and stood on the elevator that had been waiting for him for a long time.

Taking a deep breath, Lu Zhou looked up at the monitor in the elevator and said.

"Go to the 3rd floor of the basement."

As if understanding his words, the elevator did not stop after reaching the first floor, but continued to move down to the underground of the Institute for Advanced Study with the sound of a series of gears rolling.

There is a laboratory entrance disguised as a sample library. Behind the sample cabinet is an alloy door with a triple identification mechanism of iris, password, and fingerprint.

And behind that door, there is stored the biggest secret that he left in this world...

"Finally back here again."

Looking at the quantum computer case running quietly in the computer room, the mechanical arms connected to the wall, and the remains of the Hall thruster in the corner, Lu Zhou couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Especially the remains of that Hall thruster.

When he got this thing in the lottery before, he never thought that this thing came from the old universe, and it was placed on Mars tens of millions of kilometers away from him.

Walking to the quantum computer, Lu Zhou reached out and gently placed it on the case, touching the dust on it.

"Sorry for the waitting."

The signal light of the case flickered, and Xiao Ai who lived inside probably heard his voice, but because the circuit beside the screen was aging and could not be turned on, so he could only express his joy in this way.

Lu Zhou smiled and was about to withdraw his hand from the case.

However, at this moment, a transparent key suddenly floated slowly in front of him from the shell of the case.

The moment Lu Zhou saw the key, he froze there.

The third key...

He originally thought that this key would be placed in Princeton, or in the auditorium of the former CERN site, but he didn't expect it to appear here.

There was no need for him to reach out to touch it. The moment the key floating out of the case touched his arm, it immediately turned into a sky full of starlight and swayed in front of his eyes.

At the same time, a light blue holographic screen appeared before his eyes.

It's like giving it for nothing...

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