The End of Technology

Space, the first base on the moon, the third experimental module.

"Senior Brother, Senior Brother, wait for me..." Urgent shouts came from the quiet white passage, followed by the "dong dong" sound of high heels touching the ground, echoing in the passage.

Chen Luo, who was wearing a white lab coat that he had not yet had time to change out of, stopped helplessly, stood on the spot, and looked back at the corner of the passageway of Experimental Cabin No. 3. Soon, a little girl also wearing a lab coat emerged from Rushed out from the corner of the passage.

"Chen Xi, can you stop being reckless all the time? Also, have I ever told you that this is a lunar base laboratory, which is different from Kuafu. There are no lively commercial streets. Why are you wearing high heels? Huh? No one is watching?"

"Elder brother, you didn't tell me when I came here that I brought these shoes. Besides, my shoes are not high either." The girl said aggrievedly.

In just one sentence, my eyes were visibly red, filled with mist, and tears were about to fall.

"Okay, Chen Xi, it's okay for you to act like this in front of the big boss, but I'm not used to your stinking... Forget it, forget it, if you want to ask me anything, just tell me if it's okay."

Chen Luo finally retreated.

There is no way, Chen Xi is the youngest junior sister under Ning Ji's sect, and she has been completely doted on since she entered the school. What made Chen Luo even more speechless was that Chen Xi and Ning Zi studied mathematics, and Chen Xi was selected by Ning Zi in his freshman year of high school.

It is widely rumored that Academician Ning never accepts female students because of his experience in Huaqing. But as the senior disciple of Director Ning, Chen Luo knew very well that his boss did not accept female students because he simply disliked girls because they were too troublesome, and he was even more afraid that they would not be able to endure the hardship and could not bear the kind of life where they would not be able to return to Earth for a long time.

Under such circumstances, there was naturally only one reason why Ning Zi took Chen Xi under his wing. This girl's mathematical talent was too strong.

In the words of Director Ning: "If Chen Xi had been born two hundred years earlier, Hilbert would have had nothing to do with him." Hilbert was a mathematician who was highly respected by his tutor. You can imagine what this little junior sister's How talented are you in mathematics?

The only problem is that when I was just entering high school, my instructor took me to the branch of the Space Academy on the Wu Gang to start studying. As a result, I was spoiled by a bunch of senior brothers and developed a bad habit of shedding a few tears when I was wronged...

Of course, only Chen Luo thinks so.

No other senior would be as impatient with his beloved junior sister as Chen Luo.

"I just want to ask you, where has Director Ning gone? I've finished reading the books he asked me to read, I've finished the small paper he asked me to write, and I've finished the calculation problems he asked me to help you with. I want to go back I rested at home for a while, but I haven’t been able to contact him.”

"I...no, if you want to go back to Earth and ask the boss directly after you're done? Why are you looking for Director Ning? He took ten Kuafu ships to explore C/2012 UN271 last week. He wanted to Try to introduce this comet into the orbit of Mars, and then wait for it to collide with it, so that our director Ning can take his wife to watch the fireworks together."

Chen Luo spread his hands and said.

…

Ten years is enough to change many things, such as the worship of idols by teenagers.

Distance produces beauty, which is the true meaning of this world.

Before studying with Ning Zi, Chen Luo felt that being able to study with Ning Zi and touch the truth of the world must be the happiest thing in the world, but ten years have made him exhausted. The instructor is not a human being. He has not completely solved the topic he chose ten years ago, which also resulted in him not being able to get his diploma.

Of course, the school had no intention of expelling him. Chen Luo also knew that even if he didn't graduate for another ten years, the school would keep him studying.

Because in the past ten years, Chen Luo has published twelve papers as the first author and corresponding author in the world's top physics journals, and the total number of SCI papers with his name in the first area or above has exceeded fifty.

What's more, three years ago he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for a series of discoveries in controllable nuclear fusion.

In addition, he also received a national scientific progress award, the Dirac Medal, and the Einstar World Science Award. At only 28 years old, Chen Luo has grown into a world-renowned scientist, but he has not yet graduated.

To paraphrase Ning Zi’s teachings to him before he went to Mars to do things: “I’ve given you so many resources, I’ve put so much effort into it, and you’re just going to be satisfied with just publishing a few papers and winning a few awards? Let me tell you that controllable nuclear fusion has seriously slowed down our ability to transform the planet's environment. You'd better show me that your controllable nuclear fusion device can operate for more than half a year at a time. This is the most basic thing. Otherwise, don’t even think about graduating. By the way, take care of your junior brothers and take good care of your junior sister.”

According to the current popular saying on the Internet, Ning Zi is in PUA.

But Chen Luo was helpless.

Because what the instructor said was really done.

There are indeed a lot of resources invested in him. To put it simply, the instructor gave him too much. If he wants to complain, he will be regarded as showing off.

"Senior Brother, you won the Nobel Prize during your Ph.D., what else do you want? Do you want your supervisor to design a special award for you?"

Listen, is this really human talk?

In fact, Chen Luo really wanted to explain to these naive children that as long as they served their mentor well, the Nobel Prize would be just a cloud. After all, as long as Ning Zi recommends a candidate, the judges of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will consider it very carefully. Unless a genius emerges every year in the next two or three years, there is a high probability that the candidate recommended by his or her mentor will win the award after a delay of at least one or two years.

That's how he won the award.

Ning Zi recommended her own students in the first year, although they failed that year. Awarded to another Spanish scientist working on the theory of graviton dimensional transport.

After the results were announced that year, Chen Luodao did not show too much disappointment. However, the chairman of the review committee for the Nobel Prize in Physics came to China specifically to meet with Director Ning. He chatted a lot with him and confirmed many of his views. Then the next year he went to...

Later, Chen Luo learned that the chairman of the Physics Nobel Prize Review Committee came to see his mentor and carefully explained in person why he rejected the candidates submitted by his mentor.

Um……

To be honest, this left Chen Luo speechless, even shocked.

He is very confident in his results.

But Nima, do you want to be so exaggerated?

What's even more disgusting is that Ning Zi didn't tell him this, but the chairman of the review took the initiative to tell him frankly when he attended the Nobel Prize award party the following year.

The original words are: "Last year, I went to explain to Academician Ning the reason why you were not selected. Academician Ning did not accept our views very much. After we came back, we also did some review and admitted that there were some mistakes in the process of selecting the judges. Too many scholars who focus on theory but ignore practice have been selected as judges. For this, I apologize to you on behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

But you're still young, aren't you? It doesn't make much difference whether it's one year earlier or one year later. Anyway, you don't want to break the record set by your teacher, right? Haha, I'm very optimistic about you, please keep working hard. Everyone in the field of physics research at the Royal Academy of Sciences very much hopes to see artificial solar energy appear in our civilization. By the way, remember to say hello to your instructor and my sincere apology. "

MMP!

You can imagine how damaging these words were to Chen Luo's good mood when he won the award. Really, if he hadn't already gone on stage to give his acceptance speech, he would have gone home directly without winning the award.

Such shameful university tyranny...

But fortunately, he is the most shameful disciple of the most shameful scholar in the world.

At least the honor that should belong to him was not taken away by others.

Chen Luo could only comfort himself in this way.

However, in recent years, Chen Luo felt that his mentor had become more and more excessive, and even began to develop in the direction of a happy person.

For example, after the lunar base was officially built the year before last, his dear mentor directly wrote a report to help his lovely wife win the position of lunar governor. He had read the report. According to the report, in theory, the position of Governor of the Moon has great authority. Basically, he has the power to intervene in all matters of the three major bases and a total of eight laboratories on the moon.

For example, the right to appoint personnel. Including the commanders of various bases and the administrative directors of each laboratory, the appointment letters for these positions need to be stamped and confirmed by the Governor of the Moon before they can officially take effect.

What Chen Luo never expected was that after this report was submitted, it was reviewed and approved by the newly established Earth Alliance Lunar Resource Management Committee! Passed? !

Then the wife of his big boss became the Governor of the Moon.

Fortunately, Chen Luo's beloved mistress was probably the first to find the feeling of being an elder in him, and she cared about him. In other words, he had someone to protect him on the moon again.

Although this fun-loving lady showed up at the official ribbon-cutting day of the First Base on the Moon, she followed her instructor to the moon to see the scenery on the ground. She disliked the fact that the moon was too deserted and unpopular, and she never landed on the moon again. , but still bears the title of Governor of the Moon.

At least that's how it has always been displayed on the Moon Base's contact list. Even so, the operations of the Moon Base and various personnel appointments and dismissals are still managed in an orderly manner.

In order to realize controllable nuclear fusion as soon as possible, Chen Luo, who had been staying at the lunar base for a long time, knew very well that this was definitely not the credit of his wife. He even suspected that his wife did not know that the second and third lunar research bases had been built. Of course, he does not think that the improvement of the management of the lunar base is the credit of the Earth Alliance Lunar Resource Management Committee.

In the same way, few people from the administrative level are willing to come to the lunar base. The reasons are similar. Even if they need to stay in space, everyone prefers to stay on large space research ships such as Wu Gang and Nuwa. At least the ship is not only lively, but also has all kinds of commercial facilities.

Especially the Nuwa, which was launched five years ago, not only has a commercial street, but also various specialty bars, and even a series of unique space tourism projects. From the original definition of a space scientific research ship, it has become a space scientific research tourism and training adaptation ship.

Every year, China will organize large, middle and primary school students in batches across the country to experience space life and teaching activities on the Nuwa, ranging from one week to half a month.

As for the lunar base, apart from the laboratory, it is a laboratory. The only living people that can be seen are scientists in white coats who are in a hurry. Or else it is an N5 engineering experimental robot that even the lowest artificial skin is too lazy to decorate in order to save costs.

So God knows who is running the moon base.

But thinking of this, Chen Luo's eyes became gentler when he looked at his junior sister.

The delicate little junior sister was willing to listen to her mentor and went to the moon base to stay for more than a month. She seemed to be forgiven even if she liked to cry.

After all, she has just reached the age of freshman this year.

…

"Ah? Director Ning went to capture C/2012 UN271? Well...can I just ask you for leave directly?"

Chen Xi blinked his big eyes and looked at Chen Luo praying, feeling pity for that pitiful look.

Chen Luo nodded, dumbfounded, and said: "Theoretically, I can help you approve the fakes, but do you think I have the dignity to allow the Wu Gang or Kuafu to come to the moon on a non-reception day? Do you want to pick someone up? So even if I approve your leave today, you still have to wait until the mid-month reception boat comes to pick you up. Today is only the 3rd, so you still have to wait twelve days before you can go back."

This is probably the reason why many people are reluctant to come to the moon base.

Transportation is inconvenient, and the supply ferry boat comes twice a month and stays for 24 hours. In other words, when you arrive at the moon base, if you don't leave with the ship the next day, you will have to stay in this deserted place for a full half a month.

Except Ning Zi, of course.

My tutor is so proud that even if he has to go out temporarily for something, he can always make a phone call and guarantee that a ship will arrive at the moon within five hours to pick him up.

But this treatment is only for his big boss, including him, no one talks so well.

Nowadays, the development of the entire space route and the erection standards of space communication buoys are basically in the hands of the school's R\u0026D base. Whether you are operating a space test ship or someone who hopes to operate an Earth-moon travel route in the future, you need an approval stamp from the R\u0026D base. And my tutor happens to have the final veto power over the approval results...

That is to say, no matter how good the previous plan is, even if the base’s external authorization departments have been taken over, or even the agreement has been signed, if Ning Zi feels that something is wrong after reading it, he has the right to directly cancel the signed agreement. It was torn up without even giving any reason.

What makes Chen Luo even more speechless is that as the base becomes larger and larger, and there are more and more departments, his mentor basically doesn't care about these trivial matters, but every year there are always times when some people feel happy that everything is done. , use this power to veto one or two external authorizations to demonstrate a sense of presence.

Well, it’s so willful, but there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

As for Chen Luoke, he doesn't have the dignity of his own mentor. Not to mention the junior sister, even if he wanted to temporarily return to the base or the academy branch on the Nuwa to work, he would have to wait for the half-monthly reception day at the lunar base.

Thinking about it for a moment, Chen Luo felt that his PhD studies were too miserable...