Despite their best efforts to conceal the discovery of the new particle by the Europa Union using the Large Hadron accelerator, the news inevitably leaked due to the large number of member states.

Other countries have limited access to information and only know that the LHC in Europe has made groundbreaking discoveries about the soul.

Only America has obtained accurate information about the specific findings.

At this point, England was making a lot of noise trying to rejoin the Europa League.

As countries gained a deeper understanding of magic, they realized that this was something small countries couldn't handle.

Small countries lack both the resources and the talent pool to invest in mathematics and astronomical observations.

England is indeed a developed country, but they are weak in astronomical observation.

A news item from a couple of years ago read: The Royal Observatory Greenwich in England resumed astronomical observations after a 60-year hiatus.

It's important to know that the Prime Meridian uses the Greenwich Observatory as the starting point for world time zones.

This observatory had ceased astronomical observations for a full sixty years, but it was scheduled to restart two years ago.

As for the Weber Telescope, which was jointly developed with America, all the scientists from England have been expelled back to England.

America claims that the Webb Telescope has encountered force majeure events and is unable to continue joint development.

Only the scientists from Canada remained. Canada can be seen as a fallback option for the American leadership. The two sides are deeply intertwined in terms of interests, and their connection is far closer than outsiders realize.

Soon after, the Weber Telescope in America was destroyed, making England realize that America was completely unreliable.

Not only have they completely learned Lao Tzu's thick skin and ruthless heart, but they've even surpassed him.

England can only look on with longing to return to the Europa League.

Putting aside everything else, Europe is far superior to England in both astronomical observation and mathematics.

Furthermore, Europa boasts the world's largest particle accelerator.

The European side refused very decisively. "You wanted to leave in the first place, and now you want to come back?"

What do you take the Europa League for? A hotel or an inn?

Even though England offered to pay a hefty fine, it was rejected without hesitation.

England, having been ruthlessly rejected, realized that they had become orphans of Europe, and chose to huddle together with Japan, the orphan of Asia, for warmth.

Neon originally wanted to play with America, but America responded by saying, "Who do you think you are? Know your place. Do you think you're worthy of touching magic?"

Japan is self-aware enough to know that it would definitely not agree to cooperate with China.

At this time, England was also singled out, so England simply brought in its former ally Australia, and the three parties formed a joint research organization.

Australia has a superior geographical environment with vast plains and a sparse population, making it suitable for building large telescopes and an excellent astronomical observation point.

At the same time, Australia also has a strong astronomy program.

Neon is strong in optical instruments and industry, while England is barely considered first-rate in mathematics.

In a sense, the three parties benefited from the misfortune and formed a very good complementary relationship.

China, on the other hand, chose to join forces with Russia, with both sides investing half of their resources to build a high-energy particle accelerator larger than the LHC on their border.

China had previously planned to build a particle accelerator with a circumference of 100 kilometers, while the LHC in Europa only has a circumference of 27 kilometers.

Moreover, China's original plan was to use a completely new technology, employing a ring-shaped electron-positron collision to make the particles collide at near the speed of light.

Its output power is significantly higher than that of the LHC, reaching up to seven times the maximum energy of the LHC.

This project, abbreviated as CEPC, completed its conceptual design at the end of 2016.

The basic design and site selection were completed in 2019, with a planned investment of over 30 billion RMB.

However, it was later suspended for various reasons, but the project was urgently restarted after news from Europa was confirmed.

"Professor Wang, the CEPC project is about to be restarted, but this time the site needs to be chosen around the border between us and Russia, so we need to select a new location."

“Those places are not suitable; they are not suitable in terms of material transportation, geographical location, climate, personnel allocation, and so on.”

"This is a collaboration between our two countries, and it cannot be changed by our personal will. Please make preparations as soon as possible and inform your team members to prepare for departure!"

Russia shared Perelman's conjecture and optimized proof with China to establish a preliminary mutual trust mechanism, and China also shared some intelligence related to the "Demon Brain" in turn.

At the same time that China launched the CEPC program, Japan also began to launch the ILC program.

The ILC, short for International Linear Collider, was originally planned to be built at the intersection of Miyagi and Iwate prefectures, but the project was halted due to its high cost.

High-energy physics experiments are too expensive, often costing tens of billions of dollars, which small countries simply cannot afford.

Previously, the construction cost of ILC was estimated at around 53.5 billion RMB, which is 10 billion RMB more expensive than CEPC.

Japan has partnered with England and Australia to invest in the project, which will be shared by scientists from all three countries once completed.

At least Japan can find partners, but South Korea has to do it all by itself, and nobody wants to help them.

In some ways, the hatred between Japan and South Korea is even deeper than the hatred between China and Japan.

During this period, diplomats from various countries were actively engaging in diplomatic maneuvering. Seeing that no one was willing to cooperate with them, South Korea decided to bring together South Asian countries to form a scientific research organization.

Singapore is a small country with only one city, but it has far more influence than just one city.

Singapore is a small country with big ambitions, and they realized that this was a rare opportunity for Singapore.

"We can take this opportunity to integrate these countries in South Asia, starting with the research and development of magic, and gain control of the South Asian Alliance."

The South Asian Association is just a regional economic alliance, but that doesn't mean it can't do more.

"The White Elephant Kingdom is eyeing the South Asian Union with covetous intent. Can we really profit from this?"

"It's best to cooperate with two or three countries so that the magic coin can be distributed more easily. The South Asian Association has as many as 10 member states."

"At most, it will win over South Asia economically."

"The problem is that we don't have many decent bargaining chips to offer either."

"No, Singapore has money and enough research teams. Our research capabilities are the strongest among these countries."

“By placing the headquarters of the joint research institution in Singapore, we can use this to achieve our goals step by step.”