After getting out of the system space, Lu Zhou got up from the sofa and was about to make a phone call with Professor Carlson of the Clay Institute, but a string of bubbles popped up on the phone.

Xiao Ai: [Master, a guest is coming.?? (^?? ^*)】

Guest?

Who will visit him at this time?

Lu Zhou raised his eyebrows suspiciously, but he didn't ask, got up and went back to the cloakroom to change into clothes that could see people, and then walked to the entrance.

Standing outside the courtyard, Director Li was stretching out his hand to ring the doorbell, but the iron gate in front of him creaked open by itself, making way for the main entrance.

The door not far away was pushed open, and Lu Zhou, who was standing at the door, said hello with a smile.

"Director Li? What is the wind that is blowing you? ”

Putting his hand back from the doorbell, Director Li said with a smile.

"I heard that you have returned to Jinling from Shanghai, didn't I come to see you? Walk around, go in and talk, don't stand outside and talk. ”

Looking at Director Li, who bypassed himself and went into the house very consciously, Lu Zhou was slightly stunned.

Although there is nothing wrong with saying this, I always feel that my lines have been robbed......

After returning to the living room, Lu Zhou went to the kitchen and brought a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, put it on the coffee table, and then sat opposite Director Li.

Just when he was about to ask this old guy what he was doing when he came to Jinling on a business trip from Beijing, Director Li took the first step to talk to him with a smile.

"Every time I come to you, I want to ask, your courtyard door is quite high-tech, aren't you afraid of opening the wrong one?"

Don't worry, even if you recognize the wrong person, Xiao Ai will never admit it.

Complaining so silently in his heart, Lu Zhou smiled and said.

"Today's facial recognition technology is quite advanced...... What's the matter? ”

He didn't believe it, this guy went to Jinling just to see himself.

Director Li smiled and said, "Are you busy now?" ”

"Not busy...... Or busy, does it matter? ”

In fact, after completing the Z-particle project, Lu Zhou was basically idle, not only busy, but even planned to go to France for a walk.

However, as soon as he was halfway through his sentence, he noticed the kind smile on Director Li's face, so he immediately changed his words.

After so many years of friendship with this old man, this smile is too familiar to him.

As long as it happens, eighty percent of them ask for help if they have any trouble.

After trying twice and failing to get the words, Director Li made a helpless expression and said frankly.

"Okay, then I'll get straight to the point, here's the thing...... Didn't you say at the end of last year that you were going to come out with the whole good stuff when you were done? Now can you tell me what the hell is? ”

Lu Zhou: "......?" ”

Good stuff?

What a good thing.

Looking at Director Li in a daze, Lu Zhou hesitated and asked.

"Is there such a thing?"

Seeing that Lu Zhou actually didn't admit it, Director Li suddenly became anxious and hurriedly said.

"There must be! Have you forgotten? When I came to talk to you about IMCRC at the end of last year, you told me about it and told me to keep it secret for the time being, so don't fool people. ”

As soon as he heard that he was talking about IMCRC at the end of the year, Lu Zhou immediately remembered it, and then smiled embarrassedly.

Like, there's really such a thing.

But to be honest, in fact, at that time, he was thinking that he would have 30,000 points to complete this task, and he was afraid that he would be able to exchange a lot of good things, so he said casually, mainly to send him away.

The virtual reality technology he got last time hasn't been completely digested, and he really hasn't figured out what to redeem this time.

"Oh, that's it, I think about it-no, how could I have forgotten such an important thing," Lu Zhou coughed dryly, and continued to look at Director Li, who was crying and laughing, "But how can scientific research be so fast, I still have to prepare for a while, and I will tell you when I have news." ”

Director Li said with a smile: "Academician Lu, you are selling a little bit at this level...... It's a bit too much, but at least tell me what it is, right? ”

If I knew I would still need to sell it to you?

Although he thought so in his heart, of course it was impossible for Lu Zhou to say so.

"For a variety of reasons, allow me to keep this matter a secret for the time being, anyway...... You can wait a little longer, you won't have to wait too long. ”

didn't give Director Li a chance to continue talking, Lu Zhou immediately changed the conversation, diverted the topic to a hundred and eight thousand miles away, and said with an embarrassed smile.

"By the way, speaking of which, I just happened to think of one thing, I'm going to go to France recently, and you can see if you can ...... Want to help me arrange it? ”

Director Li: "......"

After so many years in this position, it was the first time he had seen such a brazen ......

……

In Paris in February, although the winter is coming to an end, the chill in the air has not yet dissipated, and most of the pedestrians on the street wear down jackets or use scarves to wrap themselves tightly.

Especially in this unpopulated suburb

The street outside the window is so quiet, which makes the air even colder.

For Molina, though, the silence couldn't be better.

In the old mansion that looked old, she stood in front of the oil painting hanging on the wall in a black goose down coat, looking at it like a sculpture.

"It's been almost thirty years......"

Standing from the morning until now, it took a long time for this sentence to come out of her mouth, and she continued to talk to herself in a dream-like voice to the oil painting.

"Please, please tell me what I should do next......"

For seven years, she worked tirelessly on the Riemann conjecture as her goal.

Although she knew that hard work might not necessarily lead to results, and she was mentally prepared not to see this problem solved in her life, she never thought that everything would end like this.

Yes.

It's over.

She didn't know what kind of mood she was in at this moment.

Throughout the process of proving the paper, she did not see a trace of her own results, as if the methods she had racked her brains to come up with were irrelevant.

But when those calculations were written on the whiteboard, they were so smooth and natural that it made her feel like the past seven years had been in vain.

After returning to France from St. Petersburg, she locked herself in this mansion, did not return to Princeton, did not contact her friends in Princeton, but asked the dean for a long vacation, and the whole person disappeared as if from the world of mathematics, without any news.

In fact, does it matter if you have oneself or not?

She herself had thought so more than once.

After all, the results she had made anyway seemed to be nothing more than inconsequential things now......

The clasped hands curled up in the sleeves, looking at the back of the granddaughter, the old man in the nightgown leaning on the handrail at the staircase, his cloudy eyes full of complexity, and a trace of guilt.

As if he had been fighting his mind for a long time, he finally made up his mind and gritted his teeth, saying the sentence that he had always wanted to say, but had never spoken.

“…… There's one thing I've been hiding from you. ”

Without looking back, Molina said in a calm voice.

“…… If it's a story about you and Grandma Anissa next door, you don't have to say it, we all know it. ”

"No, it's not that," the old man blushed, and the old man coughed dryly, and the silence lasted for a long time, and finally he spoke, "...... In fact, our family is not a descendant of Nils Abel at all. ”

Hearing her grandfather's words, Molina had a hint of warmth in her eyes.

"I know you're comforting me, I'm fine, don't worry about me."

Grandfather: "...... No, I'm actually telling the truth. ”

A serious look at my grandfather.

This time, Molina was stunned.

Although she instinctively didn't believe it, seeing that it wasn't a joke or like she was confused, she gradually began to realize that it might not be lying or comforting her.

Swallowing hard, she asked, in a trembling voice.

“…… What do you mean? ”

Now that he had made up his mind, the old man no longer hesitated and nodded vigorously.

"I had intended to bring this secret into the coffin, but in fact, our family had nothing to do with that Mr. Abel. I've never been to Norway either, let alone my father and grandfather...... Actually, when I first retired, I had planned to go, but in the end I gave up. ”

Molina: "Then my last name ......"

"My surname is indeed Abel...... But there are actually a lot of people with the surname Abel in France, aren't they? I remember when I was in middle school, there were two of us in my class. You too, your father too, why are you so upright? Abel only lived to be in his twenties before he died, never married, and this is all written in the history of mathematics, don't you who study mathematics read it? ”

The expression on Molina's face was like she was going crazy, and she looked back at the oil painting on the wall, her eyes widening.

"Then this oil painting is also fake? And those notes in the collection room......"

The old man's face was full of guilt, and he muttered in a low voice, "Those things are not fake...... After all, it's not a famous work, and it's not worth much. Including the math notes he made when he was young, and the difficult things he wrote, I bought them from a collector when I was young. Originally, I was going to donate to the museum, but I ran into various accidents and finally put it on hold. ”

Staggering back half a step, Molina shook her head, looked at her grandfather, and said with a broken face: "...... I don't understand, why are you lying? ”

Why did you lie to me for so long?

"When your father's math score was not good, I pointed to the oil painting and said casually, you really shamed our surname, and then somehow, his math score suddenly jumped up. I wondered at first, but it was a good thing anyway, so I didn't pay much attention to it. Until one day he suddenly came to me and asked me if my family was the descendant of Professor Abel, and I ...... I didn't control my mouth. ”

As if ashamed of his lies, the old man lowered his eyes and let out a heavy sigh as he looked at his granddaughter.

"It turns out that there is no such thing as a white lie in this world, a lie is a lie, and a lie has to be made up for by countless lies. And no matter how perfect and seamless it is, there is a price to pay in the end. I'm sorry, I really just said it casually, I didn't expect it to turn out like this......"

"If you want to hate, hate me."

Looking at the mural on the wall, Molina felt as if something had broken, and her whole person collapsed instantly......

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