January 14, 2126.

This is definitely a historic moment for earth civilization.

On this special day, the Pan Asian cooperation in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei city group held an International Symposium on Space Elevator Engineering, which officially concluded in the form of a joint statement.

Under the witness of the representatives of the major regional alliances in the world, Li Guangya, President of Pan Asian cooperation, read out the use rules of the space elevator Jianmu in a friendly and solemn tone, reiterated the diplomatic rules of peaceful coexistence of Pan Asian cooperation, and won the applause of the whole audience.

On the same day, more than ten engineering ships set out from the Moon Palace space port, carrying construction materials from the Mars colony, went to the construction site of the space station at the top of the space elevator, and began the welding of the main structure of the space station.

It is said that Jianmu is a bridge between heaven, earth, man and God, and also a ladder for Oriental gods such as Fuxi and the emperor to and from the heaven. Therefore, this space station has been given a mythical name -

that is, "Heaven court".

The day after the end of the summit, the office of the president of the Pan Asian cooperation headquarters.

Looking at academician Ge who walked into the office, chairman Li Guangya stopped his work and threw a spring breeze smile at academician Ge who entered the office, saying in a gentle voice.

"What did academician Lu say? Did he agree? "

What academician Ge did before he went to Jinling was to ask for his instructions in advance. After all, such a major project as the space elevator, especially a major position like the chief designer, only his director general has the power to decide.

In fact, before academician Ge went to Jinling, he had signed the document of appointing Lu Zhou as the chief designer of the space elevator project. As long as there is no problem with Lu Zhou, he can take office at any time.

For the benefit of Pan Asian cooperation, Li Guangya, of course, hopes that the land boat can lift the beam of the whole space elevator project, rather than hanging the title of general consultant and drifting away from the whole project team.

Especially after seeing the frantic response of the track Research Institute of the Pan Asian Academy of Sciences in the face of this super project, he confirmed the idea.

He was very clear about what the chairman was thinking, but academician Ge didn't say anything.

After all, the strength of that man is obvious to all, and he witnessed it at the scene of the jury at that time. If someone else comes to be the chief designer, he may still be a little unconvinced, but if it's the man, he is not only convinced, but also convinced.

However, the problem is that everyone thinks so, except for Lu Zhou himself

“…… He refused. "

"Is it?" His face didn't show too many accidents, but after a moment of silence, Li Guangya finally sighed, "it's a pity If he can lead the whole project, we can take at least half of the detours

Looking at the regretful expression on Li Guangya's face, academician Ge hesitated for a moment and then said.

"One thing I don't know if I should

"What is it."

"In fact, when I called on him, he was in the lab. According to his own introduction, he seems to be studying a technology related to Hyperspace channels If I remember correctly, it should be called Z particle concussion device. "

As he said that, academician Ge compared the shape of the strange device with two hands. However, this kind of comparison obviously did not make Li Guangya understand more clearly, on the contrary, it made people more confused.

"Hyperspace channel? What is that... "

"In fact, I don't know much about it, but according to his own words, through this device, a straight channel can be opened between two points in the curved space, so as to realize curved navigation and superluminal communication --"

before academician Ge finished, Li Guangya stood up from the chair with his hands on the table.

"Warp speed?! Superluminal communication? Can such a thing really be done! "

Since entering the space age, communication distance has been a major problem that restricts the expansion of human space activities. Take the colony of Mars as an example. The shortest straight-line distance between Tiangong city and Shangjing city is 55 million kilometers, or even 400 million kilometers. Even at the shortest distance, a message from earth to Mars takes three minutes.

If the positive benefit is relatively far away, the delay time of information will be longer.

Although it's only three minutes, in this highly information age, let alone three minutes, even one second is enough for many things to happen.

Due to the communication delay and the high cost of communication, there has been a serious separation between the society on Mars and the society on earth. If Guanghan and other Pan Asian cooperative cities are only regionally discriminated, then Mars colony and cities on earth can be described by two worlds -

the latter is the benchmark of civilized society, while the former can only be regarded as a kind of existence between civilization and barbarism, even the poorest towns on the earth will feel more civilized than there, that is to say Life there may be more technological.If there is a special communication technology that can realize the information exchange beyond the speed of light and reduce the communication delay between the earth and Mars to within one second, it is self-evident how important it is.

Therefore, it is no exception that after hearing the news, the expression on Li Guangya's face will be so excited.

"I don't know if it can be realized. Even academician Lu himself seems to have only a try on this research..." Academician Ge sighed and went on, "in fact, I care more about his ideas than what he is studying."

Li Guangya: what do you think

"In my conversation with him, I felt that he might be a bit of a diamond."

Sitting back in the office chair, Li Guangya frowned.

“…… Is it because of problems in life? "

"It's true, but the main reason is probably the emotional aspect," said academician Ge, looking at Li Guangya with a slightly wrinkled brow and nodding his head with a complex expression. "In my conversation with him, I can feel that he loves his fiancee very much Even after 100 years, he still misses her

Li Guangya did not speak, but quietly waited for him to continue.

“…… He also told me that he planned to build a star ship that could fly out of the solar system to tiancang v. It was a promise he made to his fiancee a hundred years ago, and now he intends to make it happen on his own. I don't want to evaluate whether his idea is realistic or not. I want to say that we may have ignored his feelings all the time when we asked for him. "

"If this knot cannot be untied, he may never be able to come out of the past."

In fact, although there is no evaluation on the surface, in the subconscious, GE Huaizhi has almost acquiesced that he is doing a fantastic thing.

With the current technology level of human society, there is no basis for cross Galaxy navigation. Even the most advanced star ships of Pan Asian cooperation, the longest cruise distance is only to the edge of the Kuiper belt.

What's more, it's still a theoretical cruising distance. Nobody really flies over such a far place, let alone the need to fly there.

Let alone tiancang five, ten light-years away.

Even if it is, it is a one-way ticket with no return.

"A hundred years..." After listening to academician GE's words, Li Guangya pinched his eyebrows with some headache. For a while, he didn't know what to say. "I don't understand this feeling very much. After so long People are long gone. "

Although life expectancy has increased now, few people in that era can live to be 100 years old. And back ten thousand steps, even if really live so long, to now also have to become an old woman, right?

To be honest, what he didn't understand most was the attitude of the "old popsicles" towards the relationship between men and women.

It's just a fiancee.

Can you be so persistent?

Until the twenty second century, even marriage was only a few people's pleasure.

……

After academician Ge left, Li Guangya fell into trouble.

If it's just a problem in life, he can say without exaggeration that he can find a way to help him solve it as long as the land boat is put forward. But this kind of emotional thing, he really has no way.

The vision cast to the Wei secretary that sits in the office, Li Guangya pinched the eyebrow heart somewhat vexedly, ask casually.

"What do you think you should do about it?"

After thinking for a while, his office secretary said.

"From a personal point of view, the best way to heal an emotional wound is to start a new relationship."

"New feelings?" The index finger is on the desk, and Li Guangya sighs and says, "that is to say, we have to find a way to find him an object?"

"I have to admit that this is the most efficient way."

Never thought that one day he would guest star in the work of the matchmaker, Li Guangya's brow could not help twitching.

But he thought that if he could add more "cares" to the world, maybe he would give up that "unrealistic" idea.

Of course, superluminal communication is very attractive to him, but it's too dangerous to go to tiancang five or something!

It's just that

Can ordinary women really enter his eyes?

Let alone cultivate feelings. It's not easy to find a common topic.

"I admit that your proposal is really attractive, but Are you sure there are women who interest him? "

Secretary Wei has a confident smile on his face.

"There are still people like that."

"Oh?" Li Guangya raised his eyebrows with interest. "Who?"

"Do you remember the documentary of the great scholars?"

"I think any Pan Asian citizen would have seen it when he was a child Of course, you're talking about the new remake or the original old one. ""It's the same story," Wei continued after a pause. "If I remember correctly, it was mentioned in that documentary that he had a Ukrainian student named Willa puyoi."

“…… It seems that there is an impression, "Li Guangya asked after touching his chin." what's wrong with that man? "

"Out of interest in historical research, I have specially checked her data. As one of the outstanding mathematicians in the early 21st century, she has won many mathematical awards such as the fields prize, and is also one of the most proud students of academician Lu. And there have been rumors outside that the relationship between the two may be closer than recorded in the historical materials... "

"After all, it's a wild history," Li Guangya shrugged. "What's more, it's all in the 22nd century, and people haven't --"

"on the contrary, because of the late stage of lung cancer, she received the freeze dormancy and went to the future for treatment. Even according to the documents without textual research, the original intention of the establishment of the frozen human rights and interests protection fund is partly to cure her. "

"According to my investigation, she is not only still frozen, but also in the urban agglomeration of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei!"