Home planet. Asia State. Little Vienna. It was already the end of April, and snowflakes were still falling in Little Vienna, which was covered with remaining snow and gray.
The dean of the Nuclear Energy Department of Homestar Heavy Industries was in the same mood as Can Xue at that moment. All was gray. The dean is an elderly academic, with a pair of black-rimmed glasses stuck on the bridge of his nose, his hair slicked back, and a navy blue waistcoat cardigan outside his shirt.
His always calm face had lost expression control at this moment. He stared at the father and daughter in the office with wide eyes.
"This...Mr. Su, are you serious?" Su Yuan has undergone several surgeries recently. Most of his internal organs have been replaced with mechanical prostheses, and his bones and muscles have been replaced by up to 100%. seventy.
Except for the area above the neck, the whole body has been modified to varying degrees. Fortunately, Su Yuan's nerve connections were strong enough to survive several surgeries and still maintain consciousness.
Now the disease that causes the greatest harm to Su Yuan has changed from the occasional irradiation riots to the burden on neurons caused by cyber links.
Su Yuan's body could not be seen under the coat, but from the outside he was still thin, leaning on a cane and walking unsteadily.
"Yes, Dean Cheng, I am serious." Su Yuan nodded slightly. The old scholar in front of him was Cheng Puhua. Even though Su Yuan had won the Xinghai Award, he still had to remain humble enough in front of the old man.
He is a descendant of Cheng Zaidao, the founder of the gravitational wave spacecraft, and is also the recipient of the highest academic honor from the Nuclear Energy Department of Homestar Heavy Industry.
"However, Su Lei is very good at studying. I have the impression that Su Lei is among the top ten in every grade. Su Lei's subjective vision of nuclear energy is one of the most constructive young people I have ever seen. It is really embarrassing to drop out of school halfway. What a pity." Cheng Puhua kept shaking his head: "Even if you can teach Su Lei, how can you teach Su Lei in detail? You must know that your successor is easy to find, but this kind of academic genius is too difficult. It’s rare.”
"I understand your concerns, but this is not my intention, this is Su Lei's intention." Su Yuan said helplessly: "I have the same idea as you. In fact, I want Su Lei to finish college."
"Then what..." Cheng Puhua looked at Su Lei through the lenses, then at Su Yuan, frowning slightly: "Mr. Su, can you let Su Lei and I have a few words alone?"
"Of course." Su Yuan nodded.
"terribly sorry."
"No, it doesn't matter. If you can persuade Su Lei to change her mind, I would like to thank you very much." After Su Yuan said this, he slowly left the dean's office with his cane.
An old man and a young man in the office looked at each other. Cheng Puhua took off his glasses, wiped them, put them on his desk, and looked at Su Lei lovingly.
"Tell the dean, did someone bully you when you were in the department?"
"No, Dean, it's not that I was bullied or isolated, I just simply feel that there are more important things to do." Su Lei's face turned slightly red because of the cold wind just now: "Thank you, Dean, for your concern. "
"What's more important?" Dean Cheng didn't know what Su Lei was referring to: "Are you talking about taking over your father's company?"
"Yes and no." Su Lei grabbed the corner of her clothes a little nervously. She can talk about her ambitions in front of her father, saying that she wants to take Hex to go higher and further, and be Chen Mo's solid backing in the future, but it would be unavoidable to say this in front of other people. It's still too shameful.
"Can you tell me about it?"
"Father is not in good health. The previous incident... I don't know if you are clear about it. I think if it hadn't been for the two hours that Martial God helped my father, maybe my father would have passed away long ago." Deng Jianxing, the Martial God of his home planet, paused the incident for a full two hours.
Dean Cheng is highly respected and still knows about this secret news.
"It turns out that the Martial God is helping Mr. Su... This makes sense." Cheng Puhua nodded: "But you think, the reason why your father was rescued by the Martial God himself is because he developed the Hex Energy Core to provide human You have made an indelible contribution to the development of society. If you continue to study on this path, you may become the second father of yours in the future. Maybe you will be the second Xinghai Award winner in your family..."
"Dean, I know what you want to say." Su Lei smiled playfully: "But I don't want to be my second father. I just want to be myself." Cheng Puhua was amused by Su Lei and couldn't laugh or cry.
"Father's Hex energy core can only be used in military industry and high-precision fields. The lack of broad-spectrum energy is still a big problem. Uh... Dean, I don't know how to say this." Dean Cheng was a little curious about Su. There was nothing in Lei Xiao's mind, so he signaled to Su Lei and said it didn't matter.
"I borrowed the college's mainframe to briefly calculate the conventional power generation of our home planet. This only includes hydropower, wind energy and solar energy. I did not include fossil fuels, nuclear fuels and erythium power generation." Su Lei made a gesture: "The electricity generated by conventional power generation is enough for the daily use of the mother planet, and it can even have spare power to help other brother planets. But the actual situation is that on the mother star, the lack of broad-spectrum energy is still the norm, and many slums in the city cannot even afford it. Ensure the perennial existence of the energy matrix." Dean Cheng frowned.
Although he is an old scholar, he knows something about politics and economics, and he knows that energy shortages are linked to supply-side market regulation.
But these are matters for politicians and cannot be solved by scholars. Even if one day in the future, someone can invent an impossible perpetual motion machine, the energy problem will not be solved.
It just means that energy utilization will be cheaper and more beneficial to the people.
"So, do you want to make the world no longer lack energy? Or do you want to solve..."
"Isn't the ultimate dream of the subject of nuclear irradiation energy to solve the energy problem?" Su Lei said with a smile: "Solving the energy problem is nothing more than taking two paths, either achieving commercial and controllable nuclear fusion, or using solar energy in a broad spectrum... The former is not possible Yes, the latter can already be done, but the energy conversion rate is frighteningly low. But in any case, the current home planet is not an energy-poor planet, and our discipline is not solving problems of people's livelihood and people's needs. But if the ultimate goal of our discipline The dream is not to solve the energy problem, but to solve the energy utilization problem of interstellar navigation. The Hex Energy Core has given the best answer. So I can’t find a reason to continue to support my study. I want to go home and continue Hex Project research." Dean Cheng was silent for a long time this time.
The little girl in front of her has a maturity that belies her age, and her perspective on the problem is completely different from that of most scientific researchers.
only…
"I can propose the acquisition of Homestar Heavy Industry or reach a technology sharing agreement with Hex." Dean Cheng said after a while: "You have great ambitions, and it happens that my words are also very important in Homestar Heavy Industry. In this way, you can continue to complete your studies. It will also give you enough time to get familiar with your father's Hex." Su Lei shook her head regretfully.
"I'm sorry, Dean. I really had other plans and I failed to live up to your expectations. I'm sorry." Dean Cheng sighed heavily and didn't try to hold him back.
She just said to Su Lei: "You know, Nuclear Energy College is different from other colleges. If you want to come back, you are welcome at any time." Su Lei's beautiful eyes smiled into a long and narrow crescent.
"Thank you, Dean."...Su Yuanhua completed the suspension procedures for Su Lei and returned to Hex's headquarters on the home planet.
Sulei said she needed a day to work on her relationships. Regarding Su Lei's precocity, Su Yuan was reassured and didn't worry about her getting drunk before leaving.
At this moment, Su Lei ordered a steaming cup of hand-made Mandheling and was sipping it in the cafe next to the home star heavy industry.
The person she was waiting for arrived more than twenty minutes earlier than the appointed time. The thin body was wearing a black down jacket, and the large skirt showed that the clothes did not fit him well.
The girl who walked in seemed to be coming to the coffee shop for the first time. Her face was red from the cold, and the tip of her nose was even brighter. She held her slender hands in front of her face and breathed continuously.
It's the west building. This was the first time Su Lei took a closer look at Xilou, and she felt some inevitable sympathy when she saw her shrinking.
He waved to the west building who came in.
"Here." Xilou saw Su Lei and walked over quickly.
"I've kept you waiting for a long time." Su Lei shook her head with a smile.
"You arrived much earlier than the agreed time. I didn't wait long." Su Lei turned the ordering screen over: "What would you like to drink?"
"Uh... let me see." Xilou looked at the items on the menu that were not cheap for her, and after a while she ordered the cheapest American coffee.
Su Lei shook her head and checked another caramel macchiato and two pastries on this side of the screen.
"I came to you today because I wanted to ask you something." Su Lei took a sip of coffee and said, "You are from Cote City, right?" Xilou was a little surprised about the beautiful girl in front of him who didn't look older than her. You will know where you are coming from.
"I'm from Jiangyin City, and I spent a year in Kote City." Xilou answered truthfully.
"I heard from Ye Ziwen, do you know Chen Mo?" Xilou was even more surprised now. But he nodded.
"Well, I know Brother Mo, do you know him too?" Su Lei frowned indistinguishably, and stepped forward to cover Xilou's cold and red hands.
"Is it cold outside?"
"Fortunately, I've been used to it since I've been here for a long time." Xilou said with a smile. With this covering, Su Lei's eyes became complicated and difficult to understand, and her eyes towards Xilou also became erratic.
At the same time, two red clouds appeared on her face. Su Lei's powers are no longer what they used to be. She is no longer the little girl who can only read the simplest and most superficial thoughts.
In the instant handshake, Su Lei saw Chen Mo's madness and unspeakable night when he was drunk one day.
Although she told her father that it was normal for Chen Mo to have a female companion, after she really knew... and even felt the other side of Chen Mo, she felt blushing and felt some unexplainable unhappiness.
She was obviously the one who came first. Even if she wasn't here, how could Chen Mo do this... The girl in front of him was not Chen Mo's real girlfriend.
Looking at the beautiful girl in front of him who became angry after shaking hands, Xilou was a little confused as to why. It couldn't be that her hands were too cold, making her unhappy, right?
"Are you okay?" Xilou asked cautiously.
"Well, I'm okay." Su Lei suppressed the jealousy and anger in her heart and told herself to do business first. After drinking two large sips of coffee, she felt that her mood was calmer and then she said: "Uncle Whitestone won't give me anything." Do you want tuition?"
"Hey, you even know dad...the boss?" Realizing that the other party might be an acquaintance of Chen Mo and his son, Xilou quickly turned the dad who almost shouted out into the boss.
Now, she still has a strong sense of inferiority, fearing that others would discover her true relationship with the Chen family and her son, which would lower Chen Mo's rating in the hearts of others.
Su Lei saw it. The girl in front of her had a crazy night with Chen Mo, but she was not a bad person.
"I haven't formally introduced myself yet. My name is Su Lei." Su Lei extended her hand generously. Xilou was shocked and quickly shook hands with Su Lei.
"My name is Shen Xilou... I know you and have seen your photos. I didn't expect that you have changed so much in two years. I didn't recognize you just now." Su Lei already knew through mind reading that it was Chen Mo who showed her his photos. , I felt a little more comfortable.
"Let's talk about tuition first." Xilou nodded.
"The boss paid my tuition fee, 100,000 yuan per year... I was admitted, so the department exempted the tuition. I also received nearly 100,000 yuan in scholarship this year... It's actually a lot, but we studied nuclear weapons Although everything in the laboratory for energy subjects is free, if you want to explore more things on your own, you can only buy ydium metal by yourself. Now the price of yb metal specially supplied by the school has increased to more than 94,000 per gram, boss The tuition fee plus my scholarship is only enough to buy two grams, which is difficult to cover all my courses in one semester." Xilou said sincerely: "But don't tell the boss or Brother Mo, they have already helped me a lot. , I can't be greedy." Su Lei thought about her experiment again... The yridium she used was directly provided by Hex, not to mention it was used in kilograms.
Therefore, in many places, Su Lei is ahead of others. God-given intelligence is certainly a factor, but strong financial resources that can support her to conduct unlimited comparative experiments are also indispensable factors.
It is difficult for a poor family to have a noble son, and even if it is, it is difficult to go further. It must be inseparable from these things.
Su Lei sighed softly. There is also much less hostility towards Xilou.
"I'm calling you here this time just to tell you that I can provide you with all your experimental materials for free in the future. In a few days, I will ask a lawyer to sign an agreement with you. After you graduate, you will directly enter Hex. Go to other energy companies." Xilou's eyes lit up.
"real?"
"Really." Su Lei nodded: "But you must become excellent, better than everyone else, and go long and far in the field of nuclear energy. I don't expect you to make a brand new Hex core. Things, but you need to be able to improve the processing of Hex core, so for your second degree, you need to study mechanical engineering and cyber links in Homestar Heavy Industry." Xilou's expression became serious.
Even if she is a top student in the Institute of Nuclear Energy, she cannot guarantee whether she will become a top scientific researcher.
The home planet of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is no better than the tiny place of Ross. What's more, mechanical engineering and cyber links that have nothing to do with the field of nuclear energy?
This is no easy task.
"I will do my best." Xilou nodded vigorously.
"There is one more condition. You have to accept it before we can continue talking." Su Lei absentmindedly played with the coffee cup.
"Well, you tell me." Xilou took the plate from the machine waiter and placed the more delicate-looking pastry in front of Su Lei with some flattery.
"Chen Mo..." Su Lei looked at Xilou who was handing something over, her eyes became firm: "It's mine."
