Zhou Cheng's flight landed at Sichuan Shuangliu Airport in a slanting wind and drizzle. The High Energy Particle Research Center's car was already waiting for him outside the terminal. When he opened the car door, a chill hit him.
Zhou Cheng glanced at the car's center console and found that the air conditioner was on.
Although he felt a little strange, the temperature on this rainy day was already very pleasant, but the air conditioner was still on in the car. But he didn't ask much, just wrapped his coat tightly and got in the car.
The car was driving on the road around the city in the pouring rain, crushing dead leaves and muddy water.
This romantic city that was once called "Rongcheng" is now gray and lifeless without any vitality of the past. Most of the way around Chengdu, we can see the High Energy Particle Research Center and the plain where the "Super Oriental Ring" is buried.
Already faintly appeared at the edge of the distant field of vision.
At this moment, Zhou Cheng discovered a very strange landscape. Most of the sky was covered by heavy dark clouds, and the sky was as gray as dusk under the rain curtain. Only the location of the High Energy Particle Research Center was like that in that small
There was a hole in the dome on the plain. The bright sunshine poured down, making it look particularly bright.
"The weather in Sichuan is really strange. It rains here and it's sunny there." Zhou Cheng said casually.
Driving assistants seem to be used to questions like this:
"Professor Zhou, this can be considered a feature of our place. We will be arriving at the High Energy Particle Research Center soon, and you will know better by then."
Zhou Cheng felt that the assistant's words were a bit strange, but he didn't ask any more questions. What he was thinking about now was how to communicate with Liu Chaowen later, which would never have happened before. Because Liu Chaowen was studying with him for several years.
A gifted student is as awe-inspiring to himself as he is to his high school teacher.
But in these recent exchanges, he found that although Liu Chaowen was full of respect and enthusiasm for him, the awe in his eyes seemed to have disappeared.
The sudden loud "ooh" sound of the car's wipers interrupted his thoughts, and it suddenly started pouring rain outside the car. Through the rain that was constantly being shaken off by the wipers, Zhou Cheng could clearly see the bright sun a few hundred meters ahead.
High energy particle research center.
"Professor Zhou, now you know what I mean. The last time you came here, it was a sunny day, so you didn't notice it. But it's obvious on rainy days like this. Our High Energy Particle Research Center has always been
It's sunny and never rains." The assistant drove the car calmly in the heavy rain, as if he had experienced such weather too many times.
"Has it always been like this? What caused it? Topography or warm and humid air currents?" Zhou Cheng asked.
The assistant shook his head:
"It only started in about half a year recently. It wasn't like this before."
"Ah? How could this happen?" As soon as Zhou Cheng finished speaking, the dense "tick-tick" sound made by the raindrops hitting the car suddenly disappeared. The bright sunshine enveloped the car covered in water droplets.
"I don't know. I heard from my colleagues in the Scientific Research Department. The underground circular orbital accelerator was conducting a long-term low-energy operation test half a year ago, and the lack of rain in our High Energy Particle Research Center also started at that time.
"The assistant said.
"You mean, this abnormal weather is related to the test? What is the content of the test?" Zhou Cheng asked.
The assistant’s voice was obviously lowered:
"I don't know this, and my colleagues in the scientific research department don't know it very well either. No one dares to ask Mr. Liu."
The car parked downstairs in the office of the High Energy Particle Research Center. Zhou Cheng felt a sweltering heat as soon as he got out of the car. Now he understood why his assistant turned on the cold air conditioner.
He looked up and saw a cloudless blue sky above his head. But far away in the surrounding sky was a circle of rolling dark clouds. Those towering black clouds and mountains seemed to be blocked from the distant horizon by invisible force.
Same.
Zhou Cheng came to the chief engineer's office. Liu Chaowen was still the same as before. He stood up from his seat very formally:
"Teacher Zhou, you are here!"
But Zhou Cheng couldn't find the previous respect and kindness in his eyes, but there seemed to be an indescribable energy. This made Zhou Cheng feel a little uncomfortable, which he had never felt before.
He did not discuss academic issues with his students straightforwardly as usual, but sat leisurely on his chair and asked:
"Chaowen, are you okay with your health? You scared us last time on the shuttle."
Liu Chaowen also sat down, the smile on his face was very neat, like a smile template:
"I have made you worried, Mr. Zhou. I am fine. As you know, I had several serious illnesses in my childhood. I think it was caused by the disease. However, the medical examination showed that I am very healthy. Please rest assured."
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Listening to Liu Chaowen's standard answer, Zhou Cheng just looked at him carefully and said nothing.
"Teacher Zhou, what are you doing here this time?" Liu Chaowen seemed to know why Zhou Cheng was here. This foresight made Zhou Cheng's heart tighten, and his hand had unconsciously reached out to the hand on the table.
He picked up the stack of information inside the handbag. But he stopped halfway.
"Hey, Chaowen. Do you still remember that you muttered something when you were unconscious? The shuttle's communication equipment was damaged and I couldn't hear it clearly."
A rare moment of panic flashed across Liu Chaowen's face.
"What?" His voice sounded a little panicked.
Zhou Cheng noticed this detail. He calmed down and deliberately controlled his speaking speed very slowly:
"I didn't quite hear it clearly. It seems to be related to your mother."
Liu Chaowen's expression returned to what it was before:
"Teacher Zhou, you also know that my mother was not with me when I was very young. Maybe she was talking nonsense unconsciously when she was confused."
Zhou Cheng just smiled casually on his face, but his heart was churning like a violently shaken cola. He was very sure that Liu Chaowen didn't know that he said the riddle of "there's something wrong with the pentagon".
"Oh, that's right. This is normal. It's human nature to miss your mother." Although Zhou Cheng said this sentence as naturally as possible, there was a complex emotion suppressed in his heart.
Liu Chaowen turned to look at Zhou Cheng's handbag. Zhou Cheng stood up, took out the cigarette case from his pocket, took out a cigarette and lit it, then walked towards the window next to the office and took a deep drag on the cigarette.
"Chaowen, I found that the weather in our High Energy Particle Research Center is very strange!" The tone of this sentence sounded relaxed and easy-going, but the corners of Zhou Cheng's eyes facing the window have begun to twitch slightly. He is really not good at such intrigues and political negotiations.
Conversations, especially with a student with whom I was once very close.