The next morning, Lu Zhou followed the Chinese delegation to visit the controlled fusion power station in Cadarache, a small city in southern France.

In addition to the old man who came to France with him, he was accompanied by the president of France, as well as executives from EDF, as well as engineers from East Asia Power.

This time, it was not Academician Wang who led the team, but an old engineer who Lu Zhou had never seen, and a group of young men.

As soon as they met, the old engineer excitedly pulled Lu Zhou's hand, which made Lu Zhou very embarrassed.

Obviously, although all these years have passed, he has not been engaged in research in the field of nuclear engineering for a long time, but his prestige in this field has not diminished in the slightest.

I don't even know if it's his delusion, but I always feel that these nuclear power people who haven't really had contact with him are a bit over-mythologized.

At least in his own opinion, at least half of Pangudui's success belongs to the entire project team.

Not long after arriving at the destination, the group first took a photo at the gate, and then walked into the nuclear power plant under the reception of the construction party.

The exterior design of the nuclear power plant is basically completely modeled after the Pangu reactor, which took three years. And not far from it, there are the foundations of the unfinished ITER project.

Because the core trap used in Pangea was a very different technology route from the ITER project, the French team was faced with the choice of either digging out the foundation and rebuilding it, or abandoning it entirely.

Considering that the former may not be so cost-effective in terms of cost and may not be able to pass the project acceptance on the side of BEAPT, they chose the latter.

When the person in charge here talked about how the French workers overcame many difficulties with their professionalism and wisdom to finally build this "little sun" that is destined to light up the west coast of Europe, the engineers of East Asia Electric Power who accompanied the delegation laughed in unison.

It's been three years since this thing was built?

It's a shame that they can still be so proud.

However, in the end, the construction period was not extended, and the work was not completed until the end of next year, which really surprised many people in the delegation, and gave applause at the end.

During the visit, Lu Zhou, who is the chief designer of Huaguo's controllable fusion project, seemed a little absent-minded throughout the whole process.

Not so much because he was troubled by the efficiency of these Frenchmen, but because he had been studying the notebook all night yesterday, and even now he was still spinning around with the complicated mathematical formulas in his head.

Even for him, it was not easy to solve the math puzzle on that notebook.

Especially in the form of mathematical expression, the parts involved in these puzzles are abstract numbers, rather than decimal numbers in the traditional sense, although the motive theory can be well suited to the role of tools, but if you attach more complex logical transformations to these mathematical forms that are already abstract enough in themselves, the whole problem suddenly becomes like a ball of yarn that is entwined, and it takes a lot of effort to figure them out.

Fortunately, he had completed the unified theory of algebra and geometry, and he added many points in Motive's theory.

If we had used the mathematical methods of ten years ago, just proving that proposition 2 in this notebook was equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis would have been enough to kill countless people. And the fact is that even such an outstanding scholar as Professor Grothendieck is stuck in this hurdle.

With advanced mathematical theories, it took less than an hour for Lu Zhou to prove this yesterday.

But the optimism ended there.

After spending a night finally proving proposition 3, in the face of proposition 4, which was geometrically increasing in difficulty, Lu Zhou racked his brains for an hour without any ideas.

And the back of the puzzle.

And a whole ten......

It's a big head to think about.

Deliberately slowed down and walked to Lu Zhou's side, Director Giacobino, who had accompanied him to visit the church of St. Lizier yesterday, smiled and accosted.

"Academician Lu, what do you think of the construction of this nuclear power plant?"

Lu Zhou glanced up at the surroundings and said casually.

"It's okay."

Director Giacombino asked eagerly, "What about Pangu Dui?" ”

Lu Zhou: "Almost." ”

Hearing this, Director Giacomino's face suddenly appeared with joy.

Looking at the expression on his face, Lu Zhou didn't know what to say for a while.

As an experimental reactor, the Pangu Pile in Haizhou has less than half of the full-load power generation capacity of the Fuxi Pile in Daya Bay, and only supplies power to Lu Province and northern Jiangsu. As for the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration from Wuzhong to Shanghai and Zhe Province, the newly completed Xihehei fusion substation is now responsible for power supply.

And even if it is Pangudui, it only took them one year from construction to official operation, and this is done on the basis of research while construction.

It took three years to reproduce an identical Pangu pile according to the drawings of East Asia Electric Power, and I don't know what he is proud of......

Regardless of the inexplicable pride of Director Giacobino, Lu Zhou finally followed the delegation through the rest of the process of the core delivery ceremony.

With a price of 10 billion euros and a cost of only one-tenth of the price, the production of such a core is more profitable than the sale of a hundred fourth-generation aircraft.

This order alone has increased the foreign exchange reserves of the Central Bank of China by two to three percentage points, not to mention the political policies behind this order. The hidden value of economic and trade cooperation cannot be measured with money.

On the French side, although the flesh is painful, it can eliminate the expensive domestic nuclear power with low-cost fusion power generation, whether it is the pressure on public expenditure or energy, the pressure on both public expenditure and energy will be reduced a lot, and the cost of industrial electricity will also be greatly reduced, which will have a direct stimulating effect on production than interest rate cuts.

For both parties, the deal can be described as a win-win situation.

Therefore, when shaking hands, both the French president and the Chinese delegation had a bright smile on their faces.

After the process was completed, the group returned to the car.

As soon as he sat down, Lu Zhou took out the unfinished notebook and continued to study it.

Continuing with his previous speculation, if this "information" did come from an extraterrestrial civilization, it was indeed not appropriate to make it public without being sure of the content of the information itself.

Lu Zhou is not sure if Professor Grothendieck interprets this message in the "language of extraterrestrial civilizations", and given his mental condition, it is possible that he will interpret it as a "demonic whisper" or something.

Perhaps it was these unanswerable propositions that became the last straw that crushed his spirit.

In fact, if he could, Lu Zhou would very much like to discuss the "demon" in his mouth with him face to face, but unfortunately this is no longer possible.

At that time, he had probably just received the system, and had just completed the proof of the first mathematical proposition in his life, and the pope of algebraic geometry had already reached the last moment of his life.

In addition to the origin of these mathematical formulas themselves, Lu Zhou also had a little bit of confusion that according to the "Void Memory" he saw in the system space, the "Void" that weaved this memory obviously knew the language of the earth's civilization, and could even translate it into the languages of other civilizations.

But the message that Professor Grothendieck received did not seem to be a straightforward language? Rather, it's a piece of password in mathematical form.

Don't......

Professor Grothendieck received a message that did not come from the Void? It's a little lower than the Void, or even a few levels, an extraterrestrial civilization like the "Jialan Civilization"?

This speculation is also possible.

Anyway, whether it is the Void or other civilizations, Lu Zhou does not believe in the existence of such a thing as a "demon".

It's just that he now understands a little bit why the old man's mental state suddenly took a turn for the worse in his old age, and he did some things that seemed unthinkable to others one after another.

Thinking about these things is indeed not an easy thing for an old man in his seventies and eighties.

He still remembered Professor Deligne's assessment of Sir Attia, and at that age, let alone any more achievements, it was already a blessing to be able to stay sober and not be confused.

What's more, these complex mathematical calculations, even in Lu Zhou's own opinion, will be a bit mentally polluted.

Sitting next to Lu Zhou, Wang Peng glanced at him and said.

"You seem to be in a bad mental state."

Lu Zhou: "Maybe I stayed up late last night." ”

Wang Peng: "You've been staying up late for two nights in a row, right?" ”

Lu Zhou: "It's okay, I still get five hours of sleep every day." ”

Wang Peng: "...... Dr. Yan's advice is that it is best to get as much sleep as possible for the sake of your body. ”

"Compared to my body, there are more things worthy of my attention," looking at this concerned old friend, Lu Zhou gave him a reassuring look, smiled and said, "Don't worry, when this matter is over, I will definitely rest for a while." ”

Wang Peng hesitated and glanced at the notebook in Lu Zhou's hand.

“…… This notebook? ”

Lu Zhou didn't nod or shake his head, just turned the pen in his hand and gave a simple and ambiguous answer.

"Sort of."

Lamp pen