Fifty Shades
After coming down from the mountain, Xu Honghan drove them to a breakfast shop in the villa and had a simple breakfast.
On the way back, I bought a sun hat for Jiang Zhizhi at a roadside supermarket.
After sending the two to their accommodation, Xu Honghan put a sun hat on Jiang Zhizhi and gently fastened the hatband for her. "The base has been very busy these days. You may have to wait here for two more days. If you are bored, look around or go to the observatory. I will pick you up in two days."
Jiang Zhizhi felt a little embarrassed by his intimate behavior, and her face turned slightly red. "Thank you, senior brother."
"Qingbo, you are a boy, please take good care of Zhizhi."
As he spoke, he patted Xu Qingbo on the head.
"I know, I'm not a child anymore." Xu Qingbo pushed Xu Honghan's hand away and said unhappily.
Xu Honghan smiled gently, "Go in. I'll leave after you guys go in."
He stood there, looking at them.
"Then be careful on the road, and rest immediately when you arrive at the base."
Xu Qingbo kindly reminded her and went back to the temporary room with Jiang Zhizhi.
Although she hadn't slept for a whole day and night, Jiang Zhizhi was surprisingly clear-headed while lying in bed.
From the moment she was reborn, there had never been a time when her mind was clearer than it was now.
She raised her hand and touched the void.
"You want me to come over to you, don't you?"
No one answered her, so she answered herself.
"Okay, I'll come to you."
"If this is the meaning of my rebirth, I will use it to prove myself."
*
They stayed in the villa for another five days, and it was not until the morning of the sixth day that Xu Honghan came to pick up Jiang Zhizhi and Xu Qingbo.
Compared to the last time I saw him, his dark circles were heavier. It seemed that he had been staying up late these days.
It only took them about ten minutes to drive from the villa to the base, and they arrived around seven in the morning.
"By eight o'clock, the base will be busy and it will be inconvenient with all the people coming and going. We only have an hour."
Standing at the gate of the base, Jiang Zhizhi saw the huge object shrouded in the morning mist.
"That is..."
"Those are the ears through which humans listen to the universe." Xu Honghan whispered in her ear.
"ear?"
"The gravitational wave detector, however, is still in its embryonic stage. Whether it can hatch perfectly remains to be seen." Xu Honghan sighed at this point, but soon returned to normal. "Do you know what gravitational waves are?"
Xu Qingbo was silent for a moment and looked at Jiang Zhizhi.
"Gravitational waves are fluctuations in the curvature of space-time caused by the movement of celestial bodies, just like ripples on the surface of the water caused by a stone thrown into the water."
"Yes, but it is still just a physical concept, and no scientist has been able to verify it yet. However, Country M and Country Y now have relevant detection equipment, but we are still in the starting stage. Zhizhi, do you know why Elder Zong asked you to come here to visit?" Xu Honghan asked with a smile.
Xu Qingbo said, "Is it to motivate us?"
"Master Zong used to study nuclear physics, and I originally wanted to study nuclear physics with him, but he pointed me in another direction. This direction is more difficult and uncertain, but it is also full of temptation like the apple in the Garden of Eden." Xu Honghan looked up at the sky, his eyes seemed to penetrate the clouds and reach a deeper and more distant place. "It's the universe."
"Once gravitational wave detection technology matures, it will become humanity's ears facing the universe. It will be able to detect collisions of stars light-years away and the merger of supermassive black holes. It will be able to hear the sound of any movement in the universe, including the most primitive, the very first cry of the universe."
Jiang Zhizhi looked up at him and said, "The Big Bang."
"Ears are just the beginning. Humans will not only grow ears, but also eyes, mouths, and eventually wings. Humans will eventually enter the universe." Xu Honghan looked at Jiang Zhizhi and Xu Qingbo. "I will fight for this my whole life, but human life is too short, so we need endless inheritance, that is, you children."
Xu Qingbo was shocked by Xu Honghan's words. Faced with such a grand mission, he felt a little overwhelmed. "Uncle, we are only in junior high school. Aren't you exaggerating too much?"
"Haha, of course, it's your freedom to choose your own path in life. Today is just a small visit, don't put too much pressure on yourself." Xu Honghan returned to his normal self and patted Xu Qingbo's shoulder jokingly.
Jiang Zhizhi couldn't help but think about Xu Honghan's words.
Human beings will eventually enter the universe.
*
There weren’t actually many places to visit in the base, but that wasn’t important. What was important was Xu Honghan’s explanation to them along the way.
The physics knowledge that contained profound content became very easy to understand and even very interesting when spoken by him.
Jiang Zhizhi watched Xu Honghan along the way, and his obsession with ideals gradually infected her.
She suddenly realized that the happiest thing in life is not money, power or fame, but dedicating one's life to the pursuit of one's ideals.
Before leaving, Jiang Zhizhi asked Xu Honghan if she could touch the unfinished detection arm in the base.
"Be quiet, don't let anyone see you."
Xu Honghan pulled her to a small corner behind the detection arm.
She reached out and touched the cool metal.
For a moment, it seemed as if something hit her heart.
[Beep—the system detects that the object the host is touching is the remnant of a gravitational wave detector, and is currently absorbing knowledge—"
Knowledge absorption?
Before Jiang Zhizhi could react, the same chaotic electronic sound that she had heard when she encountered the spiral arm diagram of the Milky Way in the observatory was pounding in her mind. This time, she could even clearly feel something flowing from the broken arm into her mind, almost bursting her head.
"ah--"
Jiang Zhizhi screamed in pain and fainted.
Before she fainted, she vaguely heard a sentence among the countless electronic sounds.
[Knowledge acquisition progress 100%, system upgrade in progress——]
*
hot.
In a daze, Jiang Zhizhi felt as if her body was experiencing a burning sensation.
[Oh no! The patient's temperature suddenly spiked rapidly—]
What's your body temperature?
[42…No! 45…48…50…]
【……】
It’s no longer possible.
A helpless sigh came to my ears.
[Wait... Eh? Her temperature has dropped again!]
【Strange, what's going on? 】
【Is the machine broken? 】
She's still breathing.
…
"water……"
On the hospital bed, Jiang Zhizhi groaned.
For a moment, the whole room looked at her in shock.
A miracle of a person whose body temperature rose to 50 degrees and he survived...
Lin Hongxia hurriedly poured a glass of water, helped Jiang Zhizhi up from the hospital bed, and wanted to feed her.
But Jiang Zhizhi didn't even have the strength to open her mouth.
Xu Honghan thought quickly and quickly sucked up a tube of water with a thick syringe and injected it into her mouth little by little from the corner of her lips.
Seeing her swallowing movement in her throat, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's really strange. With her body temperature rising to 50 degrees, her physiological systems and organs should have collapsed long ago, but she can still swallow normally. Is she a human? Could she be a monster?" The only person in a white coat in the room folded his arms and murmured thoughtfully.
"Jiang Zhizhi is not a monster. It must be that the equipment here suddenly broke down." Xu Qingbo heard his mumbling and said angrily.
Zong Qinghai was in no mood to listen to their opinions on Jiang Zhizhi's condition. He stared at the girl lying on the hospital bed, his breathing trembling with nervousness.
Just like the moment when his only daughter Zong Yun lay coldly on the hospital bed, she looked helpless.
"Zhizhi, Zhizhi..."
Xu Honghan gently let Jiang Zhizhi lean on his arms, calling her name again and again.
Jiang Zhizhi opened her eyes and looked at him blankly.
"Senior Brother?"
Her lips moved, but her voice was soft and hoarse.
"Zhizhi..."
This time, it was Elder Zong who made the sound, but his voice was extremely trembling, as if he was still in shock from what had just happened.
He tried to stand up with the help of his cane, but sat back on the sofa weakly.
Lin Hongxia quickly supported him and said, "Zonglao, Zhizhi looks fine now, don't worry."
Jiang Zhizhi didn't understand what was going on. She looked around and finally her eyes fell on Xu Honghan who was holding her. "What's wrong with me?"
"It's nothing, you just fainted." Xu Honghan didn't know the specific situation, and the hospital couldn't find out what the problem was, so he could only comfort her like this.
In the room, the man in the white coat walked up to Jiang Zhizhi and suggested, "I think it would be better to give her a full body check first."
Jiang Zhizhi quickly cooperated with the doctor to undergo a full-body examination.
But the results of the examination showed that she had no abnormalities except mild dehydration.
Even their bodies are much healthier than ordinary people!
*
Although Jiang Zhizhi repeatedly stressed that she was fine, she was still forced to stay in the hospital for seven days and underwent various examinations.
Finally, he left the hospital in excellent health.
"Zhizhi, do you remember what happened?" Xu Honghan couldn't help but ask about what happened that day while driving them back to their residence.
"I don't remember." Jiang Zhizhi pretended to be stupid.
She actually remembered everything and knew the whole story.
This farce was just because of the system upgrade in her body.
But Jiang Zhizhi had no way to explain and could only play dumb.
She sat in the back seat of the car, turned sideways and looked out the window, avoiding the sight of Xu Honghan and Xu Qingbo.
After the upgrade, the system has two skills: [Knowledge Absorption] and [Knowledge Identification].
Just like now, Jiang Zhizhi only needs to put her hand on the car window in front of her and select [Knowledge Identification], and the explanation of [Sodium-lime glass: an amorphous solid formed by melting and cooling the three main oxides of silicon dioxide, sodium oxide, and calcium oxide] will appear on the glass. ①
Jiang Zhizhi also tried [knowledge absorption].
When she was in the hospital, she came across some popular science knowledge on the wall and selected [Knowledge Absorption]. The knowledge above was then clearly memorized in her mind.
Seven days have passed, and she still remembers the contents clearly.
However, remembering clearly is different from being able to understand. There are many things that Jiang Zhizhi just remembers but does not understand what they mean.
But even so, Jiang Zhizhi knew that everything was different.
Now that she has obtained this divine power, she is destined to no longer live like an ordinary person.
Passing over [Knowledge Absorption] and [Knowledge Identification], Jiang Zhizhi's eyes fell on the system account.
Account balance: RMB 1.7835 million.
For the system upgrade, she received a direct reward of 1 million yuan.
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