Opened his eyes violently.

Lu Zhou, who was lying flat, bounced up from the bed suddenly, his chest rising and falling violently, panting.

It was only then that he realized that the clothes behind his back had been soaked with sticky sweat at some point......

Rubbing his somewhat sour eyebrows, Lu Zhou, who got out of bed, went to the refrigerator to get a bottle of water and took a sip to stabilize his mood a little.

Although it is something that happens in the world of consciousness, although there is no such thing as demons and monsters over there.

But perhaps because it's so realistic, the feeling of having a memory stuffed in your head that doesn't belong to this world is not good at all.

It's like......

Walking to the floor-to-ceiling window, he stared at the bustling night scene in the distance for a long time, until the bottle of mineral water he held in his hand no longer felt cool, he turned around and left the window.

"It's ......"

"It's like a nightmare."

Went to the bathroom and took a shower.

After changing into fresh clothes, Lu Zhou returned to the computer desk and sat down.

It took him about 1 minute to go back to the system space and take a closer look, and the pure white space hadn't changed in any way because of the supposedly rare "Void Memory A".

However, the ominous purple sample in the inventory has vanished.

It's as if it never existed.

Back to reality, Lu Zhou thought for a moment, opened the memo, and typed a few lines of text on it.

[What are those black obelisks?] 】

[If so, who do they belong to?] 】

[What are you calculating?] 】

On top of that, there were the golden cubes that had been soaked at the bottom of the pool, and if he remembered correctly, they were supposed to be the "Wreckage Two" before it was scorched.

But this is not in a hurry, and when he returns, he will naturally try to study what he has not yet discovered on the wreckage No. 2 based on what he has seen and heard.

After recording these three questions in the memo, Lu Zhou thought about it for a moment before finally setting a password for it.

Although this kind of bizarre dream is told to others, most of them will not be taken seriously.

But, it's better to be careful.

……

Next.

Vera's 45-minute presentation began, and the venue was arranged by the organizing committee of the conference in Lecture Hall 7.

The lecture hall was quite lively.

Many people are curious about this female Fields Medal winner.

After all, while female physicists and chemists are not uncommon, female mathematicians are quite rare.

In particular, there are very few scholars who can make top-notch results.

What's more, she is still a talented woman with both knowledge and appearance, which is no longer something that can be described by a sentence of cherishing species.

Even many scholars who did not pay attention to analytic number theory and Riemann zeta functions were present at the presentation.

Lu Zhou, who arrived at the venue ten minutes in advance, looked around and almost couldn't find a location. It wasn't until Schultz, who was sitting near the middle of the field, beckoned to him that Lu Zhou walked over.

"This position was supposed to be taken for my old friend Al-Aqsai, but this report happened to clash with a 45-minute report on his research direction."

Lu Zhou: "Thank you. ”

Schultz said with a smile.

"You're welcome."

While yawning, Lu Zhou reached out and picked up the paper paper on the table and flipped through a few pages.

He didn't sleep well last night.

Until now, my mind was a mess, one moment the metal city, the next the towering black obelisk, the next the black space stuffed with blades, and the next the altar-like pool of liquid helium......

Schultz: "You didn't sleep well last night. ”

Lu Zhou: "Yes. ”

Schultz: "Stayed up late? ”

"Sort of," Lu Zhou paused for a moment before speaking, "I had a bit of a long nightmare. ”

Schultz asked curiously, "What did you dream about?" ”

Lu Zhou: "...... Probably about the future. ”

Schultz's eyebrows raised and he asked, "Are you sure it's a nightmare?" ”

Lu Zhou: "It should be...... I'm not sure if that's the future of humanity...... I mean, I'm not sure if it's a clip I've seen in a sci-fi blockbuster before. But in short, the feeling of dead silence is really not very good. ”

"I Am Legend?"

"Haha, maybe, but it's all old movies."

Shrugging his shoulders, Schultz made a somewhat pompous expression on his face and joked: "That's really sad, even the greatest scientists of this century have a pessimistic view of our future, and it seems that I have to consider buying an extra insurance policy for myself." ”

Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head.

"It's not funny at all."

Schultz smiled and said, "But aren't you smiling?" ”

Lu Zhou: "That's because the first thing you thought of was to buy insurance...... If something bad happens to take 10,000 steps back, who are you going to let pay for your policy? ”

Schultz pinched his chin and said thoughtfully.

"That's a problem."

As the two were talking, the report meeting had begun.

Standing on the stage, Vera's figure looked a little thin, and she looked inexplicably distressed. And I don't know if it's my own illusion, Lu Zhou always feels that her complexion is not particularly good.

However, these things can be found out after the briefing.

Now that the presentation has begun, of course, it will be mainly academic.

And this is also the minimum respect for the reporter.

Not thinking about anything unrelated to academics for a while, Lu Zhou took a deep breath and focused his attention on the paper in his hand.

It was so busy that after the uploader had revised the manuscript a few times, he almost forgot to read the final manuscript before the presentation began.

However, it doesn't matter to him.

Anyway, with his level, many things are just things to look at, and there is no delay at all.

"A complement to the ultra-elliptic curve analysis?" After reading the summary part, Lu Zhou's eyebrows raised slightly with interest, "It's a little interesting." ”

To put it simply, Vera continues his problem-solving approach to the theoretical tool of "superelliptic curve analysis", but in the key step of "introducing the Plancherel formula to Heisenberg groups", it is through another more ingenious method to make the theoretical tool of "superelliptic curve analysis" show stronger operability on the connected one-dimensional complex manifold of Riemann surfaces.

It is difficult to explain the subtlety of this in popular language and elementary mathematics, but in short, this operation not only instantly caught the attention of all the audience, but even Lu Zhou couldn't help but applaud.

It even gave him an impulse to go back to his hotel room and start a retreat.

Of course, Lu Zhou thought so.

If he did, he wouldn't be able to do it.

Not to mention anything else, Vera is still talking on stage at this moment.

He finally stood on this podium facing the entire mathematical community, and if he, as a "master", suddenly left the stage halfway, he was not sure if the little girl on the stage would cry......

Listening to what Vera on the stage said, Schultz, who was sitting next to him with his arms crossed, suddenly sighed and said.

"To be honest, I envy you sometimes."

Lu Zhou's gaze did not take his eyes off the podium, but only replied casually.

“…… What envy me? ”

"There is a good apprentice who is smart and obedient, and whenever you come up with a novel theory or invent a new gadget, she can help you make it better."

Lu Zhou smiled and did not answer the question.

However, at this moment, the unexpected happened.

Vera, who was standing on the stage and talking, suddenly coughed violently.

“…… I'm sorry. ”

Holding her right hand to her lips and saying sorry apologetically, Vera was about to continue her presentation, but just as she was about to face the whiteboard and speak again, the voice that had just risen to the tip of her throat was interrupted by a violent cough.

Bean-sized beads of sweat crawled all over her forehead, and Vera, who was holding the whiteboard, was faintly pale.

Noticing the situation here, the staff hesitantly stepped forward to the stage.

"Miss Puyui, I'll be here for the time being, if you're feeling unwell—"

"No, let me finish it!"

The right fist against his lips clenched, and his sapphire-like pupils flashed a brief moment of confusion, but it was quickly dissipated by the burning courage.

From the moment she started the disease a year ago, she knew she didn't have much time left.

Finally, she has already made it here......

Stunned by the momentum, the staff subconsciously stopped, hesitated for a moment, and then retreated.

Vera, who was standing on the stage, had already looked at the whiteboard again.

The idea has never been clearer.

Gritting her teeth, she raised her right hand again and quickly wrote down lines and lines on the whiteboard.

Because of the pain and the anxiety in her heart, the numbers and symbols printed on the whiteboard had been distorted, but the galloping strokes and the galloping thoughts in her mind still did not stop.

Not only the things that have been mentioned in the paper, but also the contents of those things that are just vague to abstract blueprints in her mind, she wrote them all on the whiteboard.

Time and space were left behind, and the pain that tore through my chest seemed to disappear.

It is said that when a person's physical condition is at its limit, the body allocates all its functions to the brain to ensure that important information can be left behind at the last moment.

However, she didn't have time to think about it.

Not for the successor of the mathematical community, nor for the person she admired......

If this was the last debriefing in her life......

At least......

She intends to make it the best she can be without regrets!

Finally, with the support of that obsession, she wrote the last stroke.

Looking at the filled whiteboard, she took half a step back, and a faint smile tugged at the corner of her lips.

Although it still hasn't reached the end of the maze......

But believe......

These things should be able to help people who come after them.

Especially his words.

Suddenly, my consciousness was in a trance.

Subconsciously stretched out her right hand, she held the whiteboard next to her, but she didn't expect to wipe the blood she coughed up earlier.

Blood!

Under the originally silent stage, there was an uproar and commotion.

Worst......

Seeing the red traces, Vera sighed in her heart.

Although it is a miracle that it has been able to hold on for more than half a year, I didn't expect it to be this day......

Happy and sad days seem to have come together.

The legs gradually lost strength.

Before her consciousness fell to the ground, she saw with the last of her eyes that the familiar figure rushed towards her from under the stage at an incredible speed.

Suddenly, she felt ......

There seems to be nothing to regret about it.