"Hello? Academician Lu, hey rare guest, your retreat is finally over? ”

Office of the Director of the Bureau of Science and Industry.

Director Li, who was sitting at the desk, was originally reviewing the documents, but he didn't expect to suddenly receive a call from Lu Zhou, which made him very happy.

On the one hand, it was because Lu Zhou suddenly ended the retreat, and I think it must have been progress in research, and on the other hand, because Lu Zhou hadn't taken the initiative to call him for a long time!

However, just when he had just cheered up and was about to listen to Lu Zhou's things to trouble him, the tone on the other end of the phone was a little wrong.

At least, it's not quite what he imagined.

"Let's not talk about anything else, what kind of prehistoric ruins on Mars, what the hell is going on?"

“…… What, what's going on? ”

Confused by this question, Director Li, who was holding the phone, looked a little confused, and he didn't react for a while.

Realizing that his statement might have been misunderstood, Lu Zhou took a deep breath, changed his words, and continued to ask.

“…… Well, I'll change the question. In the past few days of my retreat, why did the ruins of the Martian civilization and the news of the extraterrestrial civilization suddenly become public? ”

"Oh, that's what you're talking about," with a look of sudden realization on his face, Director Li leaned back in his office chair and said with a smile, "This is quite complicated to say...... And didn't I tell you about it some time ago? ”

Lu Zhou: "??? ”

What the heck?

When did you say that?

Seeing that there was no movement on the other end of the phone for a long time, Director Li's expression couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, and he coughed lightly and reminded.

"Don't you remember? Maybe five or six days ago, I called you and wanted you to come to Beijing for a meeting, and we would sit together and study it, and you threw me a 'whatever you want' on the phone, and then you hung up. I heard that you were in retreat, so I didn't call you any more. I almost forgot if you didn't say it, you haven't called me back yet! ”

Don't say you don't remember it......

For such a big thing, Lu Zhou didn't have any impression at all.

“…… And then you guys just do it? ”

Director Li smiled embarrassedly and said, "How is it possible! How can this kind of thing be casual...... We held three working meetings, and all the experts we could convene were invited, first to solicit opinions on a small scale, and then to vote on a limited scale. In the end, by a vote of 310 to 270, a resolution was passed to disclose the Martian ruins, lifting some of the top secret content. ”

"Although I abstained from voting at the time, I looked back on it afterwards and realized that what those experts in international relations said did have a point. When the interests are not clear, it is too risky to engage with extraterrestrial civilizations alone behind the back of the international community. Other countries will be suspicious of us, and we ourselves will not be able to let go. If we make a wrong move, at the very least, it may destroy the diplomatic achievements that we have managed with great difficulty in the past ten years, and at the worst, it will be a diplomatic crisis that has risen to the level of civilization. ”

"Anyway, we are the only ones who can send people to Mars now, and the initiative has been in our hands from the beginning. In this case, there is no need for us to sneak in and directly engage with extraterrestrial civilizations, and then use this as a bargaining chip to establish an international 'foreign-related' organization that can speak on behalf of all mankind, which is the right way to build a community with a shared future for mankind! ”

Listening to what Director Li on the other end of the phone said impassionedly, Lu Zhou was holding his forehead here, and his head was big for a while.

Now, whether it is the manned fire office or the high-level of Chang'an Avenue, it seems that everyone believes that the sound under the "gate of hell" belongs to an extraterrestrial civilization.

And according to their "inference", the scientific and technological level of this civilization is not low.

Being able to use technology that is completely unknown to Earth is one thing, being able to survive on Mars without supplies, and being able to estimate a lifespan of billions of years, plus they use the proof of the ABC conjecture as a threshold for communication, at least they have surpassed Earth's civilization in mathematics.

Mathematics is the foundation of all scientific foundations, at least they have a higher imagination in the upper limit of technology. This imagination alone is enough for people on the planet to be cautious.

There is nothing wrong with such an analysis, if you don't know the inside story, Lu Zhou will probably analyze it like this.

The problem, however, is that he knows what is going on.

That holy relic is really a "thing", a relic left behind by a civilization that really came from a time away. If you want to say that he is not an extraterrestrial civilization, there is no doubt that it is, but what this "extraterrestrial civilization" represents is obviously a little different from the extraterrestrial civilization that most people imagine.

At the very least, human civilization has no hope of establishing diplomatic relations with a planet a few light-years away......

Of course, Lu Zhou can pretend that he doesn't know anything, after all, at his current status, it is really not a particularly difficult thing to hide from others what to do.

But now that the national issue has risen to an international level, there are some things that are not ordinarily difficult even if he wants to operate them secretly.

As it is now, for example, the evidence of Martian ruins has won China a lot of diplomatic capital, but it has also made China bear a lot of international responsibility. Now not only the people of China, but the people of the whole world are ready to have their first intimate contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, and even if this does not affect his "treasure hunt" plan to Mars, it will still add a lot of variables to it.

There was no response on the other end of the phone for a long time, and Director Li, who had been talking at length for a long time, couldn't help but feel a little bored. Out of concern that Lu Zhou had thrown the phone aside, he couldn't help but whisper a tentative question.

“…… That, what's the problem? ”

“…… No. ”

"Aren't you calling just for this matter," hearing Lu Zhou's voice with some emotion, Director Li said with a smile and a smile, "But what you said didn't matter at the beginning!" ”

"This is my pot...... But you're right, and there are benefits to being public. ”

If it were him, he would have waited until he came back from Mars to play this card. However, this involves a problem of poor information, and he can't blame it too much, after all, from the perspective of national interests, this is the most correct choice for the current Huaguo.

Sighing, Lu Zhou changed the subject and continued.

"Forget it, let's not talk about that...... There's one more thing I have to tell you. ”

Feeling that something big was happening, Director Li suddenly perked up.

"Speak!"

However, after all, he still underestimated how amazing the information contained in Lu Zhou's next sentence was.

I saw Lu Zhou pause for a moment and speak.

"About the ABC conjecture ......"

"I've got it done here."

……

"Did something happen?"

In the activity room of the LSPM research group, looking at the strange expression on Lu Zhou's face when he came back from outside, Schultz couldn't help but be slightly stunned and asked worriedly.

Looking at these three teammates who trusted him incomparably, Lu Zhou took a deep breath and said slowly.

"There's something important I have to confess to you."

Schultz, Shinichi Mochizuki, and Perelman exchanged glances, and they all read the confusion in each other's eyes.

There was silence in the activity room.

Just when Lu Zhou was thinking about breaking the silence by himself, Schultz suddenly opened his mouth to do it for him.

"So...... You're getting married soon? ”

As soon as he heard this, Lu Zhou, who had been brewing emotions at the door for a long time, almost choked on his own spit, and his painful tears were about to be squeezed out.

"Ahem——, what's that? How did you come up with this thing? ”

Schultz shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly.

"Because your expression is too serious, in my impression...... It seems that this is the only thing that requires some psychological preparation to speak. ”

"I know," staring at Lu Zhou for a long time, Shinichi Mochizuki's expression gradually became strange, and continued: "Is what you want to say...... Are you actually an alien? ”

“…… Okay, don't guess," Lu Zhou sighed, "I'm not an alien, but ...... Well, we, or the subject we are studying, actually have something to do with extraterrestrial civilizations. ”

Although he knows what the truth is, he still performs with the official announcement, or it is difficult to explain it clearly if he tells the truth. Thinking of this, Lu Zhou had already woven a set of white lies in his mind, but he soon found that before he could tell the story, the three of them were already stunned.

Obviously, for a period of time, like Lu Zhou, they didn't know anything about the matter that was making a fuss in the international arena at the moment.

Sighing secretly in his heart, Lu Zhou said straight to the point.

“…… I'll just pick the key points. ”

In short, the ABC conjecture is a threshold for dialogue set by extraterrestrial civilizations, proving that it is a prerequisite for us to have a smooth dialogue with each other...... It may seem like I'm a little nervous when I say that, but it's the way it is. If you don't believe me, just watch the news for a while. ”

"So...... I'm sorry. ”

"I may have taken advantage of you."

Perelman: "......"

Schultz: "......? ”

Shinichi Mochizuki: "......?!" ”