Son of the Stars

Chapter 202 Miniaturization

"The East Asia Regional Comprehensive Investigation Bureau... has not responded so far."

"It's the same here. The Australian Bureau of Investigation has not responded."

“The African Integrated Survey Bureau has an automated response, no manual response.”

Lu Chen looked up from the computer and said to Tang Qinglong, who looked unhappy, "The signal from the South American Comprehensive Investigation Bureau is completely unreachable. I also tried the emergency service numbers of several major cities, but still couldn't get through."

Lu Chen and Mu Zhiran have been trying to contact the Comprehensive Investigation Bureaus of various regions. The contact information of this "special agency" is public and has a high response level. For people living under the rule of the coalition government, "calling the Comprehensive Investigation Bureau" is the highest level of "reporting a crime". The corresponding phone number of the Comprehensive Investigation Bureau also plays a very important role in social life.

But currently all contact methods are unreachable - this even made Lu Chen wonder for a moment whether they were the only few normal people left in the world still working.

The current situation does not seem like there is a problem with the communication lines. After all, the messages from Mars can still be received, and the "anti-collapse" equipment in various locations can still transmit real-time data - currently the number of people suffering from high fever in the world has exceeded 10,000, and is rapidly approaching 15,000.

There may be fifteen thousand four-hundred-to-five-hundred-ton TNT bombs in human society, and their fuses are still smoking.

Although TNT explosives do not require a fuse to ignite, the strong sense of urgency is exactly the same. Especially when people think that there may be such an uncertain bomb near them, they are even more worried.

Soon, such concerns were unfortunately confirmed - John, a first-year doctoral student at the Institute of Physics who had been evacuated from the school, developed a high fever.

When the others finally passed the news to Tang Qinglong in the midst of chaos and panic, the entire experimental group fell into panic.

Almost all of them had experienced the first explosion, and Thomas' death had left a deep psychological shadow on everyone. Lu Chen could still clearly remember the feeling of the glass shards falling on his head, and the sight of the twisted iron fence flying to the ground.

Little John Khan had a fever, and it was progressing very quickly. This news disrupted everyone's psychological expectations, and the one who was most worried about him was naturally Xiao Huang, a junior sister from the Management Department.

Huang Yaping is currently pursuing a doctorate in business administration, which is a very difficult subject - not only is the research in the relevant field difficult, but it is also difficult to collect enough data to promote research. After all, these data can only come from large companies, and Huang Yaping is not Yang Weimin - she does not have a partner who comes with a large company.

But it is not completely impossible to find a way to connect with large companies - this is how Huang Yaping and John Khan Jr. came into contact.

She originally wanted to use her communication skills and Dr. Khan's research transformation content to contact large companies. She could use this as an excuse to get the data she needed - and find a buyer for Dr. Khan's research transformation products, which would be a way for her to do justice to Dr. Khan.

Unexpectedly, what Little John saw in Huang Yaping was not her ability. Or rather, it was not just her ability that attracted him. Little John, who had been single for as long as his life, launched a fierce attack on Huang Yaping. Huang Yaping initially thought that she would never fall for him easily, but after Little John put down all his work and spent two months to come up with the hypothetical product she had proposed as a joke, Dr. Huang could no longer hold back.

This is the amazing thing about women - they don't even know that they will fall completely for something that seems insignificant.

Even Huang Yaping herself couldn't remember why she had the idea of ​​asking Little John to study the miniaturization of his "gamma ray-electron flow" conversion system. Perhaps she thought that if this kind of equipment could be successfully reduced in size, it would have a very good commercial prospect.

It was not because she felt that the project would be in long-lasting trouble and hoped that time would cool little John's restless heart.

Anyway, that was all in the past. Just when Dr. Huang Yaping finally accepted that she was conquered by Little John and began to worry about their future, the sudden collapse completely stunned this smart and capable girl. Although other students in the same research group were safely controlled, Huang Yaping, who had never seen a collective collapse, was still scared.

When she was most terrified and helpless, Little John, with his hair messy like a chicken coop, rushed into the Management Department. He anxiously looked around the room, and then accurately locked onto Huang Yaping who was locked in the corner. When she was picked up by Little John, she smelled his sweat and the slight metallic smell caused by welding, and her panicked heart suddenly calmed down... It was the most comfortable feeling in the world.

She felt somewhat relieved for a few hours.

Little John took Huang Yaping to dodge all the way. He very accurately chose a route where there were basically no people, and deliberately stayed away from all tall buildings - to prevent anyone from falling.

As a result, near Dongyang Lake, Little John suddenly stopped due to exhaustion. His face showed an unhealthy red color. After confirming that he was slow and had a fever, Little John immediately started to drive Dr. Huang away.

Huang Yaping certainly couldn't understand Little John's behavior. She looked at her boyfriend, who was half lying on the ground and insisting on "staying away from him", with worry and confusion. Dr. Huang certainly wouldn't leave before she figured out what was going on. She stayed by Little John's side, even when he tried to drive her away by yelling and cursing.

After trying several times, Little John was sure that Huang Yaping's stubbornness was beyond his expectations. He forced himself to make new requests despite the dizziness and confusion.

"Go find... the director." He said stutteringly, "Let them come, I... quantum, quantum energy release..."

It takes several hours to travel from Dongyang Lake to the current "location" of the Institute of Physics. And you have to cross a road where there are dead bodies and serious serial car accidents. Huang Yaping initially wanted to follow Little John's strategy and choose a route away from tall buildings. But later she realized that it was a pipe dream to find such a road.

Just when Huang Yaping gave up the search in despair and returned to the campus to look for little John, she saw vehicles coming in and out of the lakeside dormitory area.

When the whole world seemed to be in a "post-crash" state, the sight of vehicles driving in and out in an orderly manner was as magical as suddenly seeing a small wooden house with lights on in the windows and smoke coming out of the chimney under a yellow light on a snowy mountain in the middle of the night - so magical that it looked like an illusion. If Little John was still here, he would never approach rashly. He would definitely try every means to repeatedly confirm the authenticity of this "gathering place" and make sure that the people inside were safe.

But Dr. Huang Yaping didn’t think so much. She just wanted to find Tang Qinglong, the director of the Institute of Physics, as soon as possible and pass on little John’s call for help.

Tang Qinglong and Lu Chen appeared in front of Huang Yaping, who was slumped on the ground. They looked at each other with serious expressions.

"We must intervene immediately." Lu Chen said to Tang Qinglong, "Dr. Huang went from Dongming Lake to the residential area and then returned to the lakeside. The round trip took at least four hours. We are leaving the radiation zone and cannot casually apply the previous course of disease time."

"How to intervene? Do you have any ideas?" Tang Qinglong asked with a frown, "Little John is still conscious, so should we just throw him into the incinerator?"

It was obvious that Tang Qinglong couldn't bear to put his nephew directly into the incinerator and burn him to ashes. Especially when he was still alive.

Lu Chen didn't think so much. After being shocked by Tang Qinglong's imagination, he realized that as a doctor... he had no treatment options to use. In addition to isolating the patients and keeping the bombs away from the crowd, he really had no better way.

"After all, it's all about the radiation field..." Tang Qinglong complained half a sentence, then suddenly looked at Dr. Huang Yaping, who was slumped on the ground a little further away with blisters on her feet.

"That's the electron wind blown by the stars. This level of electron tide is not just a radiation field." Lu Chen echoed, and then he couldn't wait for the second half of Tang Qinglong's sentence.

Academician Tang is a good person, and he is a good person with a little obsessive-compulsive disorder. Lu Chen is very sure of this, so he is a little curious - what is Teacher Tang thinking about, so serious that he doesn't even want to say the second half of the sentence?
"Find me all the recent reviews written by Little John, and all the patents he has applied for in the past year." Tang Qinglong suddenly issued a series of instructions to his scientific research AI assistant, "Connect the simulator and run it at the highest level of realism..." He paused, waiting for a string of words to quickly appear in front of him, and then selected the most recent one, "Run this miniaturized model of gamma ray-electron flow."

(End of this chapter)