Great Power Technology.

Chapter 367

On December 12th, the countdown to the final test of computer No. 6 of the Liubi project is 003 days.

Ye Zhou walked alone in the long corridor, followed by Wu Ping who never left, with a calm expression on his face.

This is Ye Zhou's third day at the underground base of the Six Nose Project on Gonger Peak, but he has completely adapted to life at the base.

Contrary to his expectations, this base is adjusted to the most suitable environment for the human body in terms of air pressure, temperature, and humidity due to the blessing of a huge life support system. You can't even feel that you are in it. Under a snow-capped mountain thousands of meters high, it felt like it was just a relatively closed research building.

There is also a central garden in this underground base, but Ye Zhou has never been there even once. The reason is simple: the personnel in this base are relatively complicated. In addition to the core members of the project team, there are also a large number of Frontier researchers, logistical support personnel.

Although the living area and work area of ​​these personnel are separated from the core personnel, they still share a public leisure area, including the canteen, leisure area, fitness area and central garden.

In order to protect Ye Zhou to the greatest extent, on the first day he arrived at the base, he was declared not to have too much contact with other people other than the core members of the project team under non-essential circumstances, so as not to be considered by some people. come out, causing a chain of identity leaks.

Although Ye Zhou already had no less than ten fake identities at this time, his face is still that face after all. Before the official completes the overall "memory modification" of the previous series of events, if some people suspect it, There will indeed be a lot of trouble in the follow-up processing.

Ye Zhou was very aware of this risk, so in the first two days, he strictly implemented this rule, except for discussing technical details with the core group led by Xiao Ping, he hardly participated in any other group activities, and did not appear in In any public area, life is so simple that there are only bedrooms-the laboratory is two points and one line, and even three meals a day are sent to the room for settlement.

However, what he didn't expect was that before he was tired of this kind of life, Xiao Ping expressed his worries first, especially when he learned that even when Ye Zhou was outside, it could be said that he was living a life. Living the life of an ascetic monk, and having no leisure time for more than a week in a year, he even directly dialed the phone and yelled at Chen Hao.

The innocent Chen Hao was scolded for no reason, but he didn't argue too much about it. It's just that Ye Zhou received a notice that night that he could freely spend time in the base in the future. After the event, all follow-up matters will be handled by the Intelligence Department.

However, even so, he still didn't really let himself go. He just quietly got up from his room on this night when he couldn't sleep, and walked alone to the central garden in the base.

As he has seen from the video before, the central garden is still a greenhouse layout, with various oxygen-generating plants planted inside. These plants with strange shapes from all over the world are placed on the same ceiling. Next, it gives people a strange impression.

Ye Zhou walked under a huge aloe vera tree, and broke off a small piece of aloe vera with some meanness. Just as he was about to take it back and try to make a clean and hygienic aloe vera drink for himself, a crisp sound suddenly came from behind him. sound.

"Hey! Why did you tear off the aloe?"

Ye Zhou looked back and saw that Wu Ping's right hand behind him had been put on his waist. He coughed quickly, and the latter relaxed his posture and moved a few steps to the left, between Ye Zhou and the visitor.

Seeing this posture, the young girl who was walking towards Ye Zhou froze in place.

In this base with the highest level of secrecy in history, there are security personnel to protect it at any time. Don't think about it, she is a big shot who can't get in touch with a newcomer. This can be seen no matter how ignorant she is of the world.

For a moment, her mind was almost blank. She couldn't stop talking, and she didn't know what to say if she wanted to talk.

Fortunately, Ye Zhou quickly broke this embarrassing situation. He quietly took a step to the left and stood in the shadow of the leaves, and then replied:

"I'm sorry, I just want to try to see if this stuff can be eaten. It shouldn't affect much, right? I heard that aloe vera has good self-healing properties."

Hearing his words, the girl, who was almost extremely nervous, finally relaxed a little. After a moment of hesitation, she said:
"It's best not to break it. Aloe vera is actually very delicate. After a part is broken, if you don't deal with it in time, the whole plant will slowly rot."

"so serious?"

Ye Zhou asked in surprise, this knowledge has indeed touched his blind spot.

"Yeah, that's why I was so anxious when I saw you breaking it off. I'm sorry."

The girl secretly glanced at Wu Ping on the side, and after confirming that he was not hostile, she carefully moved to the chair on the side, but Ye Zhou on the opposite side was still standing, so she didn't dare to sit down.

Seeing this scene, Ye Zhou felt a little funny in his heart. He coughed, sat down on the ground in the shadows, and continued to ask:
"Are you the landscaper here?"

The girl opposite was obviously taken aback by Ye Zhou's question. After a moment of silence, she sat down cautiously, and then answered:

"No, I just like to raise plants. I'm engaged in high-energy physics, that is, particle collisions. The main direction is the smallest unit and the direction of extra dimension. Uh, I can't think of how to translate this well. High-dimensional Space? It can be understood in this way, right?"

"Extra dimension? I remember seeing it too."

Hearing Ye Zhou's answer, the eyes of the girl on the opposite side lit up, and she said in a little surprise:

"That's right! Are you also a high-powered person?"

"...I'm not, in fact, almost ignorant of the lowest level of basic science. I'm into applied technology."

"Application technology? Which aspect? Oh, you are here, it should be quantum computing. Can I say this?"

The girl looked nervously at Wu Ping, who moved away calmly and stood in front of Ye Zhou's right again, making way for the two to communicate directly.

"It can be said that those who can enter this base probably have something to do with quantum computing, but I am a little curious. The connection between high-energy physics and quantum physics does not seem to be very strong. How did you get selected to join this project team?"

Hearing this question, an awkward smile appeared on the face of the girl opposite. After thinking for a long time, she answered:

"In fact, quantum physics and high-energy physics still have many connections. The simplest application connection is the high-energy quantum simulation of quantum computers. In pure theory, there are also theories such as the SKY model and the fraction model. These theories are trying to integrate states, high-energy physics, and quantum physics."

"The high-energy physics experiments we are doing now also have experiments to verify quantum nonlocality, mainly to study the decay and entangled spin singlets of particles composed of positive and anti-charm quark pairs. These experiments have important implications for quantum pair stability and quantum Self-error-correcting codes are all theoretically helpful, and that's what I'm here to do."

"To put it simply, my job is to help our current quantum computers reduce random noise through certain conclusions in high-energy physics."

Sitting in the shadow, Ye Zhou's expression was a little distorted. It's not that he couldn't understand what the girl said, but it was really difficult for him to connect her content with the ongoing quantum computing project. up.

Fortunately, he doesn't need to do such a thing - as long as he can understand the girl's last sentence, it's basically the same.

After a short pause, he said:
"So, are you busy with your work recently? The project has reached the final stage, and most of the theoretical support work should have ended, right?"

The girl on the opposite side nodded, and the spotlight above her head shone on her face, making her skin appear an almost transparent white color, but she didn't seem to feel the glare of the light at all, instead she looked up at the source of the light, A look of confusion and disappointment appeared on his face.

"I haven't been very busy recently. In fact, I have not been very busy. The period of this project is too short. I have only been here for less than half a year. It is too difficult to digest the previous theoretical results and provide them to the project team. .”

"I wrote some suggestions before, but they were too theoretical and not practical, so they were useless in the end."

"So, for me, supporting the project here is actually just writing a thesis in a different place-but it's also very good, I can still receive the data results from the collider, and there are no messy things to disturb, Papers are written quickly."

Ye Zhou heard the loss in the other party's tone, so he comforted him:

"It's like this. This kind of large-scale project requires a lot of technical and personnel redundancy, so it's normal for someone to be unable to help occasionally, so don't feel disappointed."

Ye Zhou's tone was always gentle, and the tense mood of the girl on the opposite side gradually relaxed. She sighed softly, shrank her legs to the chair, then drooped her head, and said listlessly:

"Actually, it's not. It's not that there are redundant personnel in this project, it's that my research direction is inherently redundant."

"High-energy physics is a field that requires a lot of talent. At first I thought I was talented enough, so I chose this major, but I didn't expect to find out after barely getting a Ph.D. that a Ph.D. is just the beginning."

"Compared to those real big cows, I am still far behind, and I don't know where I can go in the future. It is very likely that the things I have made in my life are some useless scraps , the kind that doesn’t bring any value.”

Looking at the girl's expression, Ye Zhou also felt a burst of sadness for no reason.

Yes, the goal I have worked hard for all my life may not even be able to leave the simplest record when the final conclusion is made. Such a future is quite uncomfortable to think about.

However, knowing that there is a high probability of such a result, but still going on this road without hesitation, it is probably considered a kind of heroism, right?

After all, Romain Rolland really said that there is only one kind of heroism in the world, which is to still love life after seeing the truth of life.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou suddenly had a question in his heart.

"So, why did you choose high-energy physics? Don't you know that this path is difficult?"

"I know!"

"However, high-energy physics is probably the closest subject to the truth of the world."

"The universe, the starry sky, time, space, the future, and time. In fact, almost all of these illusory concepts can be explained by the theory of high-energy physics."

"Easiest, there is a branch of high-energy physics called high-energy astrophysics, which studies pulsars, rays, plasmas, and so on."

"Did you know? Many of the stars we see in the sky now actually did not exist tens of thousands of years ago. We can still see them only because they are too far away from us. The light has not yet traveled all the way."

"Those stars may disappear in the next second, or they may disappear in decades, because we don't know whether the light is produced by a supernova explosion, or the last afterglow before the star's nuclear fusion is about to go out. .”

"In short, what we see now is nothing but the last shadow they left behind."

"It's romantic, isn't it?"

"I was drawn to this romance. But looking at it now, it seems like a big hole."

The girl's face had an expression of fascination and a little helplessness intertwined, and the bangs on her forehead kept trembling under the breeze of the central air conditioner, which seemed to make her a little impatient.

She stroked the bundle of hair with her hands, took off the hair tie from her wrist and tied it up, exposing her smooth forehead, then sighed softly and said:

"Anyway, the choice has already been made, and there is no other way, so we can only keep going. What about you? What major do you study?——Sorry, I don't think I should ask this."

Ye Zhou smiled and shook his head, as if he had forgotten that the other party couldn't see his expression in the shadows.

"It's okay, you can ask, but I can't tell you anyway."

"I know, I know you are probably the most mysterious person I've ever seen in this base, don't worry, I didn't see your face, so you don't need to silence me, right?"

"...When did we do such inhuman things?"

Ye Zhou replied helplessly.

"Hey, I was just joking. But from your voice, you should be very young, right? It sounds younger than me"

After pondering for a moment, Ye Zhou opened his mouth and replied:

"25 years old, isn't that young? How old are you? Talented players like you, even if you finish your doctorate, you should only be in your early twenties, right?"

"It's not that exaggerated! But I'm indeed a little younger than you. 24. Hey, it's okay if you don't ask, I'm already 24, and I don't even have a boyfriend yet. Leader, can you help me tell my own leader Now, let them arrange a boyfriend for me?"

Ye Zhou smiled lightly and replied:
"I can help you keep an eye out for it—speaking of words, how do you know I'm the leader?"

"It's too obvious. You're not good at asking this question. Forget it, I can't count on you guys after thinking about it. I'd better find it myself."

"I'm going back to sleep. See you later, maybe one day, I can sit with you in a conference room and look at your face."

The girl's words revealed a trace of curiosity with anticipation. Ye Zhou keenly captured this emotion. After hesitating for a moment, he stood up, walked out of the shadow, and then said:
"You can watch it now—but you'd better forget it, or it may cause unnecessary trouble."

The girl smiled, her eyes quickly swept across Ye Zhou's face, then she immediately turned around and replied:
"Then I'll wait and see when I become No. 1 in high-energy physics in China. By the way, my name is Lin Ling. If you have any particle-related questions, remember to contact me, I can help!"

Ye Zhou nodded and replied:

"Lin Ling. Is it Yu Linling's Lin Lin?"

"No, it's Lin Ling from 'this life is so wandering'. Damn, this statement seems unlucky, it's the zero of the zero number!"

"Okay, I'll remember. Lin Ling. My name is Hey. I can't tell you what my name is, so I'll call it number one."

"Hey, that's a crazy name for you. Alright, I'm leaving. Goodbye, Number One."

"Goodbye, Zero."

Ye Zhou watched the other party gradually walk away with brisk steps. At this moment, he still thought that this was just a simple, ordinary conversation like a breeze blowing across the water, leaving ripples but not causing any waves.

But he didn't know that the conversation that took place on the night of December 12 would completely change the fate of the world to some extent.

　positive answer:
　　This is the hostess.

　　But in the following plot, there is no routine of slapstick and petty love.

　　She is the key fulcrum of the plot of the second volume.

　　As for how it will unfold, it is expected to be announced in three days.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)