Infinite Life: Trapped in a lifetime

In the more than ten years from Mo Dao's seventy-sixth year to his eighty-eighth,

It can be said to be a quite peaceful period of time.

Before the age of eighty, Mo Dao, besides studying the fixed problem, would go around with Qin Huaishi.

He has been to many places, but Qin Huaishi in this life has never been there, so he doesn't care about going again.

Occasionally, Chang Yedui would ask him specifically if he had some questions.

However, Mo Dao rarely had any particular opinions on these matters, and just let the people in charge behind Changyedui make their own decisions.

Gradually, things over there gradually stopped bothering Mo Dao.

I just know that Mo Dao is still studying the issues of controllable nuclear fusion plasma confinement and turbulence.

In some experiments, a copy of potentially valuable data would still be specially sent to Mo Dao.

Although, in Mo Dao's research, there are still very few places where these data are used.

After the age of eighty,

The aging of his body and the stumbling of his steps meant that Mo Dao could no longer go to too many places.

He just stayed at his residence in the capital and lived an ordinary life with his girl Huai Shi.

So I concentrated on doing research.

In the past ten years or so, we have continued to think about the same issue, and we have moved forward.

It’s just that the further back you go, the slower the progress of research will be as the body ages.

Many times, Mo Dao just recalled and sorted out the information and thoughts he had accumulated before.

His body could no longer support him to continue thinking like this.

It's like a body that has begun to decay, and is really unable to provide a great brain that can burst out the aura that breaks through the times.

Most of the time, Mo Dao spends a day studying and thinking,

Even if the time is not that long, when you stand up, you will feel a little light all over.

However, these past ten years have been spent peacefully, repetitively, and fully.

…

Then, Mo Dao was eighty-eight years old.

There is almost a month left before the end of Mo Dao's life.

The state's routine physical examination for him, an old academician, had revealed some physical problems in Mo Dao.

Some of the students he has taught in his life and some of the people he has worked with in Chang Ye Dui seem to have heard some news.

This month, many people made a special trip to visit Mo Dao.

The student who took over as the head of Mo Daochang Yesui was also among them.

By this time, this student had also resigned from his position as the person in charge of Changyedui and returned to Capital University to educate students.

When the student walked into Mo Dao's study again, he saw some manuscript papers left by Mo Dao when he was thinking and researching, and his expression was very complicated.

"Teacher, are you still studying that problem?"

"Any questions?"

Mo Dao just smiled and then asked a question.

The student opened his mouth, but in the end he said nothing else.

Just shook his head,

"No."

Except for this student,

At this time, senior leaders from the Huaguo Academy of Sciences came to visit Mo Dao.

"Academician Mo...do you need anything?"

"No."

When leaving, the leader looked at Mo Dao, also a little sad.

He is much younger than Mo Dao.

However, he also knew a lot about Chang Yedui and Mo Dao.

At this moment, he was just thinking that maybe the people at that time,

Be more persistent and let Academician Mo try to build a demonstration reactor.

Perhaps at this moment, research on controllable nuclear fusion will make better progress.

But when I think about it, I can only shake my head.

Because at that time, this proposal was also rejected by Academician Mo.

…

And the time passed with people coming to visit one after another.

These days, when people come to visit, Mo Dao doesn't mind chatting with some old friends and students.

When I have free time, I will dig out the ideas recorded in the study before and think about them again.

And more than ten days later,

Mo Dao's body became worse at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This difference is not manifested as a disease;

It's the weakness that comes with aging.

Mo Dao will feel sleepy from waking up in the morning until noon.

In this state, Mo Dao's lifelong research had to stop.

The research was too energy-consuming and his physical strength simply could not support it.

And as time went by, after research had to stop,

No wonder the waking hours every day are getting shorter and shorter.

Throughout the day, the hours of sleep become longer and longer.

Just like a small baby,

It's just the same phenomenon, pointing to two opposite results.

Miss Qin Huaishi didn't say anything at this time.

Just stay with Mo Dao.

If Mo Dao could no longer move his feet, she would accompany Mo Dao and sit on the sofa in the living room, from early morning to sunset,

If Mo Dao could only fall asleep, she would sit by the bed, hold Mo Dao's hand, and wait for Mo Dao to wake up.

Or sleep next to Mo Dao so that Mo Dao won't be able to see her when he wakes up.

And in this case,

This day ushered in a day that was completely opposite to Mo Dao's state of mind for the past ten days or so.

…

early morning. Mo Dao, who should have been sleeping normally, woke up with Qin Huaishi.

Compared with the previous ten days, Mo Dao has obviously become much more energetic.

From the first moment he woke up, Qin Huaishi noticed the change in Mo Dao, but he didn't say anything.

The two of them had breakfast without being in a hurry.

"Huai Shi, I want to take some more time today to think about the previous issue in the study. Can you wait for me?"

After breakfast, Mo Dao smiled at Miss Qin Huaishi and said.

"good."

Qin Huaishi looked at Mo Dao's unnaturally rosy face,

In fact, he had already realized something, but he still agreed without asking any more questions.

The two arrived at the study.

Mo Dao dug out those in the study, the manuscripts of previous research, the research notes from this year, and the manuscript papers marked with some ideas.

I am not in a hurry to calculate or study anything.

Just sorting out these things.

Qin Huaishi was sitting not far away, just accompanying Mo Dao quietly and not disturbing Mo Dao's work.

And Mo Dao, after taking out all the manuscripts he had studied before and sorting them out,

Just like that, I slowly flipped through the pages without writing.

Mo Dao is ready to solve this problem that has troubled him all his life today.

This is not a coincidence, but Mo Dao did it intentionally.

Because this may be the only time in this period, or even in several years, that he has been so clear-headed, and it is also a rare time when his thoughts can be so clear.

The last bit of vitality in his body was able to support him and complete a relatively complete thought.

My body at this moment must be on the verge of collapse.

The countdown of less than six hours in front of me also proves one point.

But it was also the unreserved release of the last bit of life force that made Mo Dao's thoughts seem to be withdrawn from this decaying body.

If possible, Mo Dao still hopes that before this life is completely over,

Write an answer to this question that has been studied for a lifetime.

Holding his research manuscript, he slowly turned over the pages.

Mo Dao also dealt with the thoughts in his mind.

In fact, the answer to this question is very close.

If Mo Dao was before the age of fifty, he might have been able to find his direction earlier.

Instead of just finishing it off, the final step took another dozen years.

After going through all my recent manuscripts,

Mo Dao still has not written any calculations.

Instead, he paused.

He was sitting behind his desk as if in a daze, staring straight in front of him.

Then, an hour.

There was no warning or any calculation process.

On a piece of manuscript, a string of lonely formulas and a few numbers were left.

There is no process of solution and no process of calculation.