Chapter 335: Of Course It's the Teaching Assistant Who Has Something to Do

It has been last month since Lu Zhou last appeared in the office of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

If Vera could still contact him through social software a few days ago, now he doesn't even reply to emails.

Although according to Professor Pierre Deligne, who was once Professor Lu's tutor, this kind of closed-door research completely isolated from the outside world is Professor Lu's unique way of thinking about problems, but not replying to emails shows that he is getting closer and closer to the results Well, I just need to bless him...

However, as his student and teaching assistant, Vera was really worried.

In fact, it is not only Vera who is worried about his safety, but all the students, including Qin Yue, are very worried about whether something happened to him.

So, at Hardy's suggestion, the group took some time on the weekend to go to Lu Zhou's small villa between Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, preparing to visit the professor.

At least, make sure their professor is still alive...

"God...the doorknob is covered in dust. How long has our professor been out of the house?" Rubbed his index finger on the doorknob, looking at the gray stains on his finger, Hardy widened his eyes in surprise, "What if If I don't go out for a month, I will definitely die."

He was a member of the Princeton Football Club and played football every evening. If he didn't go one day, the next day he would feel bad all over, and not even a can of herring would cheer him up.

Can anyone really shut themselves in a house for over a month, completely isolated from society?

It would be better to kill him if he stayed inside.

Qin Yue said solemnly: "So this is the gap between you and the professor. If you can spend more time playing football on research, our progress will definitely be much faster than it is now."

The progress of the two big men was led by a little girl. As a straight steel man, even if Qin Yue's usual performance was relatively dull and honest, he couldn't help but complain about his teammate.

"No," Hardy shook his head, "I don't think this is the main gap, the main gap is still in IQ."

Vera: "..."

Qin Yue: "..."

Jericho: "..."

Wei Wen: "..."

Seeing that the others were silent, the Brazilian boy was slightly taken aback and scratched his cheek: "Why are you looking at me like that?"

It's embarrassing...

Jericho smiled awkwardly: "It's nothing... I just think it takes a lot of courage to admit this. I admire you!"

Hardy smiled heartily, and patted his junior on the shoulder: "It's nothing, we're all the same anyway."

Vera, Qin Yue, Jericho, Wei Wen: "..."

MMP.

It makes sense, but I can't refute it.

Wei Wen coughed lightly, and said flatly, "Don't forget what we are here for. Brother Qin, go and ring the doorbell."

Qin Yue's expression was a little subtle: "This... you'd better go."

Wei Wen: "..."

Neither of the two people standing at the door moved.

Not just Qin Yue and Wei Wen, including Hardy, who seemed very ignorant, didn't touch the doorbell.

Although at this moment, everyone wants to know what is going on with Lu Zhou, but no one wants to interrupt his train of thought. Even though the well-spoken Professor Lu might not blame them, the cost of interrupting his thinking is not something any of them can bear...

I don't know when it started, the blue sky that was originally clear and blue suddenly dimmed.

Dark clouds came from nowhere, covering the beige sunlight, and it seemed that a heavy rainstorm was brewing.

As if something big was about to happen.

"It's overcast," Wei stretched her hand after looking at the thick dark clouds, and murmured softly, "It seems to be raining."

In this alternate season of spring and summer, the change of weather is always unpredictable.

Hardy rolled his eyes and came up with a bad idea: "We can just take shelter from the rain—"

However, he was halfway through.

The door, which had been covered in dust for a long time, was pushed open with great momentum.

Walking out of the house with footsteps like the wind, Lu Zhou, who was about to walk to the garage, suddenly noticed the students standing at the door, and couldn't help being slightly stunned.

"What are you guys doing standing here?"

Qin Yue said immediately: "Hadi was worried that you were poisoned by carbon monoxide while playing with the fireplace, so he proposed to visit you..."

Hardy suddenly panicked: "Hey, man, I didn't say that!'

Lu Zhou: ...

Although he did like that fireplace.

But it's almost summer, and who the hell is okay burning wood in the fireplace besides a psycho? !

"Professor, you haven't gone to the number theory class for a long time, and your students miss you very much," Vera reminded in a low voice, "and the class will end in half a month, you should start preparing for the subject test gone."

"I've been a little busy recently," Lu Zhou rubbed his nose, looked at the little girl, and said embarrassedly, "The papers for the final exam...can I ask you?"

I always feel that being a professor is too easy, and I leave everything in the school to the teaching assistants, and I haven't even met the students face to face a few times.

How about giving the little girl a raise?

Pleased by such a tone, Vera couldn't say anything to refuse, she blushed and nodded, "Okay..."

Noticing the car keys in Lu Zhou's hand, Jericho asked curiously: "Professor, are you planning to travel far away?"

"That's right," Lu Zhou looked around at his students and continued to ask, "Which of you... has a driver's license? Are you familiar with the road conditions in New York?"

Jericho and Hardy raised their hands simultaneously.

Among them, Hardy lifted the highest, and the expression on his face was the most enthusiastic.

However, Lu Zhou pretended not to see it, and decisively threw the car key in Jericho's hand.

"Take me to Columbia University, where I'm going to visit an acquaintance."

Hardy yelled with an aggrieved face: "Professor, obviously I can drive."

Looking at this aggrieved guy, Lu Zhou said unceremoniously: "Maybe you really will, but I don't trust you to hand over the steering wheel."

Hardy: "..."

After getting the car keys, Jericho quickly went to the garage and drove Lu Zhou's Ford Explorer out.

Looking at Lu Zhou who was sitting in the co-pilot, he hesitated for a while, and asked, "It may rain soon, is it really okay for us to start now?"

Putting on the seat belt, Lu Zhou looked up at the sky outside, and said without hesitation: "It's just a rainstorm, it can't stop me."

Hearing this sentence, Jericho looked slightly moved, and asked with a bit of excitement in his tone: "You... succeeded?"

"That's right, but it's still the last step," Lu Zhou said lightly, and closed his eyelids, "I'll sleep for a while, remember to wake me up when I get there."

It didn't take long for the co-pilot to breathe evenly.

He hadn't closed his eyes for some time.

At this moment, he doesn't want to do anything other than sleep...