"Hey? Academician Lu, hey, you're finally over?"

Office of the Chief of Science, Technology and Industry.

Director Li, who was sitting at his desk, was reviewing the documents. He did not expect that he suddenly received a call from Lu Zhou, but he was very happy.

On the one hand, because Lu Zhou suddenly closed the retreat, the research must have made progress, on the other hand, because Lu Zhou had not actively called him for a long time!

However, just when he was getting up and ready to hear what Lu Zhou had to trouble himself, the tone of the phone was a bit out of place.

At least, not quite as he imagined.

"Leave nothing else, what is that prehistoric relic on Mars, what is going on?"

"... What, what's going on?"

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

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

"... Okay, I'll ask another question. In the past few days of my retreat, the ruins of the Martian civilization and the news of extraterrestrial civilizations, why was it suddenly made public?"

"Oh, you're talking about this," a look of unawareness appeared on his face, and Director Li leaned back on the office chair and said with a smile, "This is quite complicated to say ... and some time ago Didn't I tell you this? "

Lu Zhou: "?????"

What the hell?

When did you say that?

Seeing that there was no movement for a long time on the phone, Director Li couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, reminded him by coughing gently.

"Do n’t you remember? Maybe it was five or six days ago. I called you at the time. I hope you will come to Beijing to have a meeting. Everyone will sit and study together. As a result, you threw a sentence on the phone. You'll give it to me, and then hang up. I heard that you were in retreat and didn't continue to call you. You almost forgot I didn't say, you guys haven't called me back yet! "

Don't say if you can't remember ...

For such a big thing, Lu Zhou had no impression at all.

"... and then you just do whatever you want?"

Director Li said embarrassedly and said, "How is that possible? How can such a thing be random ... We have held three working meetings, and all the experts who can be called are invited, first in a small area to solicit opinions, and then in a limited area. Raise your hand. In the end, a resolution of 310 to 270 was passed to make the Martian remains public, and some top-secret contents were lifted. "

"Although I abstained at the time, but afterwards I looked back and thought that those experts in international relations did indeed make sense. In the case of unclear interests, behind the international community's separate and extraterrestrial contacts, The risk is too great. Other countries will suspect us, and we ca n’t let go of ourselves. If we make a mistake, let ’s go a step further and say that the diplomatic achievements that we have managed so hard for more than ten years will be destroyed , To say that it is a diplomatic crisis that has risen to the level of civilization. "

"Anyway, we are the only ones who can send people to Mars, and the initiative has been in our hands from the beginning. In this case, we have no need to sneak up and engage directly with the extraterrestrial civilization directly, and then This is the bargaining chip to establish an international 'foreign-related' organization that can speak for all humanity. This is the right way to build a community of shared future for humanity! "

While listening to the telephone, Director Li said that the generosity and excitement, but Lu Zhou's side was holding his forehead, a large head.

Now whether it's the manned landing office or the high-rise on Chang'an Street, everyone seems to have recognized that the sound under that "Gate of Hell" belongs to extraterrestrial civilization.

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

The ability to use completely unknown technology on Earth is one, the ability to survive on Mars with cut off supplies is the second, and the estimated life span of billions of years is three, plus they use the proof of the ABC conjecture as The threshold of communication, at least they have surpassed earth civilization in terms of mathematics.

And mathematics is the foundation of all scientific foundations. At least they have higher imagination in the technical upper limit. With this imagination alone, it is enough for people on earth to take it seriously.

There is nothing wrong with this analysis. If you do n’t know the inside story, Lu Zhou will probably analyze it like this.

The problem, however, is that he knows the inside story.

That sacred relic is really a "thing", which is really a relic left from a civilization other than a certain time. To say that he is not an extraterrestrial civilization, there is no doubt yes, but what this "extraterrestrial civilization" represents is obviously a little different from the extraterrestrial civilization that most people imagine.

At least, human civilization has no hope of establishing any diplomatic relationship with a planet some light years away ...

Of course, Lu Zhou can pretend to know nothing. After all, when he is in his current position, he wants to hide what other people are doing. It is really not a particularly difficult thing.

But now the national issue has risen to the international level. Even if he wants to operate in secret, the difficulty is not ordinary.

As it is now, the evidence of Mars' ruins has won a large amount of diplomatic capital for China, but at the same time it has placed China on no small international responsibility. Now it ’s not just the Chinese people, the people all over the world are ready for the first intimate contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. Even if this does not affect his "treasure hunt" plan for Mars, it will still add to it. Quite a few variables.

There was no response on the other side of the phone for a long time, and Director Li, who had been arguing for a long time there, couldn't help feeling a little bored. Fearing that Lu Zhou had tossed the phone aside, he couldn't help but whispered a tentative question.

"... that, is there any problem?"

"……No."

"Will you call just for this matter?" Hearing Lu Zhou's voice with some emotions, Director Li said with smirk, "It didn't matter what you said!"

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

Although it is his word, he will definitely wait until he returns from Mars before playing this card. However, this involves a problem of poor information, and he cannot blame it too much. After all, from the perspective of national interests, this is an extremely correct choice for the current China.

Sighing, Lu Zhou changed the subject and continued.

"Forget it, let's not say this ... there is one more thing I have to tell you."

Feeling something big happen in advance, Director Li suddenly felt refreshed.

"Please tell me!"

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

I saw Lu Zhou pause for a moment and said.

"Conjecture about that abc ..."

"I'm done here."

...

"What happened?"

In the activity room of lspm's group, looking at the weird expression on Lu Zhou's face that came back from the outside, Schultz could not help but hesitated slightly, worried and asked.

Looking at the three teammates who trusted him so much, Lu Zhou took a deep breath and said slowly.

"One important thing, I have to confess to you."

Schultz, Mochizuki Shinichi, and Perelman exchanged sights, and read the confusion from each other's eyes.

There was silence in the activity room.

Just as Lu Zhou was pondering and breaking the silence by himself, Schultz suddenly started to do it for him.

"So ... you're getting married soon?"

When I heard this sentence, Lu Zhou, who had been in the mood for a long time at the door, almost did not get choked by her own saliva, and the painful tears were almost squeezed out.

"Ahem—, what? How do you think of this thing?"

Schultz shrugged and said helplessly.

"Because your expression is so serious, in my impression ... it takes some mental preparation to say something, it seems that this is the only thing."

"I see," staring at the landing boat for a long time, Mochizuki's expression gradually became weird, and continued, "Do you want to say ... Are you actually an alien?"

"... Okay, don't guess," Lu Zhou sighed. "I'm not an alien, but ... Hey, let's say-we-or the subject of our research, actually has something to do with extraterrestrial civilization. "

Although he knew what the truth was, he would perform with the official propaganda. Otherwise, it would be rare to explain clearly. Thinking of this, Lu Zhou had already weaved a set of good-faith lies in his mind, but he soon found out that before he could tell the story, the three men had been aggressively there.

Obviously, since this time, they, like Lu Zhou, have no idea about the incident that is making a lot of noise in the world.

He sighed secretly, Lu Zhou said straight into the subject.

"... I'll just pick the key points."

"In short, abc's conjecture is the threshold for dialogue set up by extraterrestrial civilizations, proving that it is a prerequisite for us to have a smooth dialogue with each other ... this may seem like a little neurotic to me, but it is. If you do n’t believe me, just watch the news for a while. ”

"So ... sorry."

"I may have taken advantage of you."

Perelman: "..."

Schultz: "...?"

Mochizuki Shinichi: "...?!"