Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

St. Petersburg First National Hospital.

In a white, flawless hospital bed lies a girl with a pale face, whose beautiful blonde hair has lost its former shine and is even losing its original colour.

However, that beautiful sleeping face was very peaceful.

Sitting next to the hospital bed, the ark held a thick book with a cowhide cover and read it softly in a steady voice, as if reading a bedtime story.

“Although the eight-page thesis from the small town of Brethren in the Kingdom of Hannover, formerly of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, revolutionized mathematics for the next century and a half, the God he believed in did not give him eternal life for it. ”

“Almost like the fateful Abel, the great mathematician died on 20 July 1866 in a lakeside town in Italy after only 39 years, 10 months and 3 days of his brief life. ”

“According to his best friend, Dadekin, he was sitting under a fruit tree until the day before his death, exploring endlessly. That's what he wrote in his memoirs--”

“When that last moment arrived, he did not have a slight struggle and a pre-mortem convulsion, but watched with interest the separation of the soul from the flesh. His wife brought him bread and wine, and he asked her to pay tribute to the family and say," Kiss our children. "She recited prayers for him, and he could no longer speak for himself. When she remembered to forgive us our sins, his eyes looked to the sky with piety. She felt his hands gradually getting cold and after several breaths his pure and noble heart stopped beating...”

“For a genius who sees an unusual world, the universe is never friendly. ”

“Way suffered almost the rest of his life, from hope to despair, and Nash's speech at Columbia University in 1959, testifying to Lehman's speculation, was seen as the beginning of his schizophrenia. By the seventies, Lehman's guess was seen as a direct cause of Grotendik's decades of hiding away from home...”

“… but it is precisely because of these great sacrifices that we are able to bring the unseen scenery of ordinary people from God's rear garden to this world. ”

“Whether or not the person who ultimately proves it can be immortal, it is certain that history will remember all the pilgrims with torches on this pilgrimage path. The glory of taking down the crown may belong only to the one who arrives at the end, but the glory of the human mind never belongs only to one person...”

The girl lying flat on the bed, her eyelashes trembled slightly.

This image was captured acutely by the light in the corner of his eyes, and the ark paused to read, gently closing the book in his hand, and glancing at the heartbreaking face.

The room suddenly quieted down.

It seemed curious why the man sitting beside the bed had not continued reading, and the sapphire-like eyes had secretly opened a gap, yet they had straightened against the ark.

His cheeks were getting hot and he finally couldn't hold them. His sapphire-like eyes opened completely and he hid from sight with a few strokes.

Watching Vera's little move, the ark couldn't help but smile and put the book in his hand on the nightstand, opening it.

“Since when did you wake up? ”

Her cheeks were slightly red, and Vera was embarrassed to say, "Did you notice? ”

Ark: “I think I found it when I read Professor Lehman's story. ”

“Sorry…”

Looking down at the slight pull of his head, the ark did not carelessly say.

“It's not something to apologize for. ”

Upon hearing this, Vera raised her head and watched him continue.

“No, I meant to say, I'm sorry... my report will be screwed up...”

Looking at the sincerely eyed little girl, the ark smiled slightly and said in a comforting tone.

“If that's the case, then you don't have to be sorry. You've done a great job. The vast majority of the scholars here, even me, wouldn't necessarily do better if they were in the same position as you. ”

Genius is the patent of a few, not the courage and perseverance of fate, but the qualities of a few.

There is no one in the world who has both.

In that case alone, she can already be proud.

The air suddenly caught silence.

The only voice left in the room was a second hand with the wall clock walking quietly.

The sound of the gear fluctuating slightly, as if it were reading seconds for a young life.

Yet the ark next to her didn't even show much sadness or sadness, as if she didn't know anything.

I don't know why, seeing him like this, Vera's heart was quietly relieved.

Emotions are contagious.

Perhaps what she was really afraid of was not the sickle that Reaper had erected around her neck, but the people who cared about her, who, together with her, endured such suffering at the last hour.

Nothing to change, nothing to be sad about.

Life was doomed from the very beginning, and for her, the day was only a little early.

She was grateful that math had changed her destiny. The gold medal of the IMO competition had given her the offer from Berkeley, kept her away from that bleak childhood, got rid of that bad family and a town full of bad memories, and met so many good people...

And who she loves.

If it all started with mathematics, then ending here would be paying off the gift of mathematics to her.

Doesn't that seem like a bad ending?

At least in the last moments, she can still enjoy the warmth she never felt.

As for the promise of the Phil Prize, it doesn't really matter anymore.

“That...”

Ark: “Anything else? ”

Taking a deep breath, Vera spoke with a slightly apologetic voice, incessantly.

“... I'm sorry I kept it from you. When I received my doctor's medical certificate, I felt… the whole world seemed to have collapsed. ”

The ark nodded.

“I understand, but there are some things that you don't really have to carry alone. ”

Vera opened her mouth and tried to explain that she didn't mean to keep it from herself. However, at this point, the doctor had informed her about the aftermath. She really didn't want the people around her to suffer the countdown of their lives together.

But the Ark did not give her an opportunity to explain.

Because of what she was trying to say, and the so-called tenderness of expression, he already knew.

“Well, that's it. I said, these aren't small things to apologize for. Let's talk about something fun. ”

“… happy things? ”

“Yes," the ark nodded, like magic, taking a stack of papers out of his arms, shaking slightly in his hand, continuing with a storytelling tone, "the previous story was only halfway through, thanks to the inspiration of a beautiful lady, all the clues were connected in a genius's head. ”

“At this moment, the unending exploration has finally come to an end, and no matter how rough and tortuous this century-old journey is, the scenery we see is largely similar at the moment of crossing the finish line. The only difference is that the gifts we can get from the universe, each of them unique. ”

Watching Vera stagnate, the ark laughed and continued in a relaxed tone.

“… seems to have missed the point. ”

“Anyway, Lehman's guess has been proven to me. ”

Although his thesis has not yet been evaluated by academia, since even future human beings, or higher civilizations, agree with his research, there should be no major problem.

However, despite his understatement of the sentence, almost as soon as it exited, the air in the ward calmed down.

Those bright eyes gradually zoomed in and filled with an exciting layer of water mist.

Those slender little hands held onto the sheets, and she subconsciously wanted to get out of bed, just because she was too weak, she didn't succeed in the end, just with her trembling lips.

“Really?”

Seeing the patient's intense reaction, the nurse, who had been standing beside her, grabbed her shoulder and looked back at the ark and complained: "Sir, if you really care about the woman's body, please don't say anything that irritates her. Otherwise, for the sake of the patient's health, we can only ask you to leave...”

However, Vera didn't care what the nurse was saying there, she couldn't wait to interrupt her words, looked at the ark with excitement and said quickly.

“It's okay, tell me! How do you solve the problem of curve Re (s) = 1-cln [| Im (s) | +2] infinitely approaching Re (s) = 1 when Im (s) ∞? I've tried a lot of heavy methods, but fundamentally...”

As if Vera had expected to say so, the ship raised its right hand to indicate that she was not agitated.

“I'll tell you, but before you do, please calm down. Otherwise, I'm afraid I haven't spoken yet, and this beautiful lady is about to kick me out of here. ”

The nurse standing next to her did lift her chin so much, but perhaps because of that “beautiful lady," she felt uncomfortable raising her mouth and chin.

After hearing the ark say so, Vera finally calmed down and sat down in bed with a good face. It's just the desire to know filled with pupils, or the agitation that exposed her heart.

Clearing his voice, the ark looked at the paper in his eyes and continued.

“Thanks to your help, I finally figured out some things that didn't make sense. And your questions can be answered in this paper. ”

Vera spoke weakly and whispered her request.

“Can you read it to me? ”

Ark: “No. ”

The sapphire-like eyes were filled with grievances, and the voice became smaller.

“Well... show me. ”

Ark: “Neither can I. ”

Unbelievably opened her eyes, Vera looked at the ark and said unclearly.

“Why?”

Staring into the sapphire-like eyes, the ark said in a serious tone.

“Unless you promise me one thing, I will satisfy you when it is done, whether you want me to read it to you or to read it to you. ”

The eyes were full of confusion, Vera said.

“… what is it? ”

In the eyes of the little girl, the ark eventually turned its back, restrained the urge to share this joy with her immediately, and closed the paper in hand.

“and I went to go to the capital. ”

“I'll tell you when I get there. ”