Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

In the morning.

The ark is sitting in the cafeteria at the Hotel Clincia, enjoying bread and coffee, checking unread mail by logging in to his customary mailbox, and browsing several recent studies on Arxiv that he has marked the direction of tracing, such as algebraic geometry and differential streaming.

The whole mathematics community has been quiet these days, with no particularly interesting news. In professional academic forums like mathoverfolw, most of the discussion is not academic either, replacing it with some gossip about the mathematical world.

Even if not everyone has been invited to the IMU Assembly, almost the vast majority of scholars are watching this upcoming world event in St. Petersburg.

Just as the Ark was browsing a post about the Fields Prize prediction vote, a Russian man with sunglasses sat opposite him and blew a whistle.

“Can you please stay at the hotel as long as possible today? ”

The sight was removed from the computer screen and the ark threw the sight of the inquiry at him.

“What happened? ”

“Something must be said, something did go wrong," took off the glasses on the collar, wiped them with a glasses cloth, and Massim said in a chatty tone, "someone hacked into the grid system on St. Petersburg's side and inserted a few unclean codes into it. And, according to our National Security Intelligence Office, this could be a premeditated operation. ”

The ark had no words: "… can this not be premeditated? ”

“You don't understand what I'm saying,” looked up at the ark, and Massim smiled and said, "I mean, it could be a premeditated murder against you. ”

The atmosphere on the table instantly froze.

Just as if it had been silenced.

This is probably the first time.

His life was truly threatened.

The throat was slightly dry and the ark lifted the coffee cup for a sip.

It took three seconds to calm down, and he put the cup down and said calmly.

“... to be honest, this is a little tough. It's just a nuclear power plant malfunction, linked to murder, a little too much. ”

Blow up a nuclear power plant against him...

Next to the Helios nuclear power plant is St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city, which carries a nuclear word, even if controllable fusion technology is cleaner and safer.

If things were to fail, it would probably be more than just a regional dispute.

Even slipping to the brink of war doesn't surprise the ark.

“More than 80% of the possibilities, at least we think, are obviously more important than the strategic value of a person than the Helios Fusion Station, and can successfully disrupt friendly relations between us and our neighbours. After all, if you are in real trouble in Russia, it is not a 'we are deeply sorry' that you can just wipe it out. ”

Wearing clean sunglasses on the nose beam, Massim raised his eyebrows to the ark and pushed away the chair to stand up.

Through the sunglasses, he stared at the ark with a serious gaze and continued.

“In short, the situation is that someone is planning to do you a disservice, and we are not sure if they will have ‘Plan B' waiting for you after 'Plan A' fails, so in order to avoid an accident, or would like you to try to keep the range of activities in this hotel as much as possible. Here we have 100 percent certainty that you're safe, and if you're too far away from here, that's probably only 90 percent, even 80 percent. ”

“I know,” the ark nodded, looking away from Massim's face, continuing to look at the computer screen, "although I don't know who could see me that way, I try to keep the range of motion within the hotel. ”

Nor did he intend to wander around outside during the IMU convention.

Since someone is after him, it would be better to be cautious.

“That's the basics. I have an important thing to take care of for a while. I'm not staying here anymore. Have a nice day. ”

Massim smiled and walked to the entrance to the cafeteria.

However, just as he passed by the ark seat, he suddenly glanced left and right, so he pressed himself down carefully and whispered.

“... that place with so many good girls, I'm afraid I'll have to take you there next time. ”

Hearing this sudden sound, I just drank a cup of coffee on the ark and almost didn't get choked.

Dry cough put down the cup, the ark took the paper towel and wiped his mouth, blackened face said.

“… thank you, no. ”

“Ha ha, don't be shy, my friend. In addition to science, there are many other things worth pursuing in life, and if it wasn't for this accident, I'd really like to show you around, but... let's talk about it another time. ”

Massim smiled and patted him on the shoulder, then swung away.

The postponement of the Helios fusion reactor ignition program did not affect the tranquillity of St. Petersburg. Even authoritative newspapers such as The Truth, which represent the official tongue, have made only a minor mention on the last page, because of various reasons, such as the convening of the IMU Conference, the visit of national scholars, etc., the ignition programme, which was scheduled to start at the beginning of the month, will be postponed by one week.

However, even if the plan for the ignition was postponed, the Russian authorities simply took it in a trivial way. Nevertheless, a number of politically savvy and well-intentioned people can still smell something unusual in a series of tracks, such as the "early return of the presidents who visited the three Baltic States” and the "arrest of the manager of the St. Petersburg branch of the Unified Electricity Company for bribery”.

It's like an invisible storm brewing over St. Petersburg and the entire Russian electricity system…

On the afternoon of Massim's departure from the Crincia Hotel, scholars from all over the world began to arrive intensively at the five-star hotel, which had almost been vacated by the International Congress of Mathematicians.

In fact, many people arrived here as early as yesterday.

For example, Professor Deligne, a mentor in Princeton at the time of the Ark, and Professor Feverman, who had worked with him on the NS equation, and Professor Faltines, who was said to be planning to do a big story before retiring.

And that's what the Ark learned at breakfast.

But compared to old friends like Deligne and Professor Feverman, the mood really fluctuated considerably on the ark, the figure standing in the hotel lobby with the suitcase.

Satin-like blonde hair bundled behind her head into a slender ponytail, backed by a long white skirt, as bright as a snowflake in winter. The thin shoulders and the lines of the body contour seemed a little fuller than they were four years ago, but somehow, the uncomfortable feeling was more disturbing than it was four years ago.

She was coming out of the cafeteria, walking across the lobby to the elevator's ark, and she was spotted at a glance.

And it seemed to have felt his gaze, Vera standing in the middle of the hotel lobby with her suitcase, and a glimpse of the familiar figure from the crowd.

“Professor…”

With a whisper, the sapphire-like pupil instantly wrote a surprise and a surprise.

Releasing the grip on the trunk trailer with her right hand, she left the trunk in place and ran all the way to the landing boat.

According to the principle of inertia in Newton's mechanics, if she doesn't slow down at this point and move on, the next move will probably crash into the ark.

However, this extraordinary behavior is a little too exciting for a certain teenage girl.

Under the influence of a series of physiological effects, such as shame and tension, her footsteps eventually slowed down like lead as she approached the ark.

Standing in front of the ark, Vera flushed her cheeks for running or something, reaching out and flattening the fluttering hair in front of her forehead, her expression said somewhat blushly.

“… Long time no see. ”

“Long time no see indeed," looks at this familiar face, smiling on the face of the ark, "How's your body? ”

“Well... I'm fine, don't worry about me. ”

While a positive answer was received, that sudden look of dodging somehow kept the ship from letting go.

Just as the ark was preparing for questioning, the sound of high heels stepping on the granite floor came from the side.

“You make people even more worried. ”

The two men looked at each other, only to see Molina holding her suitcase and picking up Vera's suitcase with one hand, and had walked beside them.

Because we only saw it in Jinling last year, Molina's feelings for the ark were not much different than Vera's.

If there's any change, it's probably the long, cold trench coat, changed to a short grey green coat.

A slightly boyish, over-eared hair that joins the striped white shirt with khaki trousers gives you the feeling of being on the streets of Paris in the last century.

When she heard Molina's words, Vera hesitated slightly and whispered.

“Eh? Is there? ”

“I think it would be better if you said something wrong. Someone is famous for his short protection. You are his precious apprentice again, and he can definitely find a way to help you. ”

“No, I'm really fine... don't worry about me. ”

Seems to have felt the pressure from Molina's questioning, and Vera, who took the trunk trailer grip from her hand, whispered a thank you and walked quickly in the direction of the elevator with the trunk, even forgetting to say goodbye to the ark.

Watching Vera walk to the back of the elevator, the ark pulled Molina next to him and asked seriously.

“Aren't you her teammate? Don't you know anything about her? ”

“Obviously, my teammates aren't completely open to me, and even if I did, do you think I'd tell you the privacy of a lady without her permission? ”

Turning a white eye toward the landing boat, Molina pulled her sleeve back, carrying her suitcase and hurrying towards the elevator.

The expression looked sophisticated at the direction of the elevator and the ark fell into silence.

At this point, another familiar voice with a certain sense of joy suddenly came from the side.

“Professor! ”

Attracted by the sound, the ark immediately turned its head and saw a young man with slightly darker skin tone and curly hair, greeting him warmly with his empty right hand, in the arms of an equally dark-skinned Latino woman with slightly curly long hair.

Seeing the ark seemed unresponsive, the guy continued shouting as if he was afraid he'd forgotten himself.

“Hey, Professor! I'm Hardy! You didn't forget me, did you? ”

“Of course I know it's you, it just takes a little time to digest this huge information...”

His gaze swimmed back and forth over Hardy and the beautiful woman beside him who greeted herself, and the ark opened its mouth and spat a sentence after half a day, “Are you... married? ”

With a cool smile on his face and a neat mouthful of white teeth, Hardy touched the back of his head, smiling and said, "Sure! Anyway, I've graduated so many years from PhD, I'm not too young, especially now I'm a professor. It's pathetic not to get married again. ”

Ark: “…”

This guy, as always, really likes to add a superfluous sentence after a phrase that would have been nothing wrong with him.

Indeed, he should not have graduated so early.

Seems to have noticed the nasty look in the eyes of the ark, and after a few heartless words with him, Hardy took his newly wedded wife in the direction of the elevator.

According to him, they were married two months ago, and this time in St. Petersburg, in addition to attending an IMU convention, the other thing was for a honeymoon.

The reason for choosing to arrange honeymoon trips with IMU congresses is that if you apply to the school in the name of attending an IMU congress, the school side will not only allow paid leave and reimburse the toll, but will also give them a certain amount of travel subsidy...

After attending the IMU Assembly, they will also fly to Italy and Greece in the name of a transfer.

Of all the people the Ark knows, the only one who can do this kind of crap seems to be Haddie...

In addition to Hadi, the Ark also met Qin Yue in the lobby of the hotel.

Compared to four years ago, this young man changed from the inside out to the outside.

Remember when he first came to Princeton, he was quite honest with Mune, and now he not only treats people but talks about things, it gives people a very reliable feeling.

It is naturally quite a pleasure to see your students getting better and better.

The only thing that made him a little lost was that Vera still refused to confess to herself, what was going on with her body...

I hope, as she said, it's not a big deal.

But Ark always felt that things were not as simple as he thought...