Beijing,

Conference room of the Institute of High Energy Physics,

All the scientific researchers carefully looked at the design drawings displayed on the projection. For a moment, everyone's expressions were horrified. This is a top-secret drawing in Europe. How...how did it appear in the hands of Professor Xu Mang? He...

How did he get it?

at this time,

Director Ye of the Institute of High Energy Physics was very frightened. He had talked with Xu Mang about the problem of particle collider before and raised the construction issue himself. He showed great confidence in this aspect. However, he had imagined so many possibilities, but

But I encountered the most surprising result.

this...

How did you get this?

"Xu...Professor Xu Mang?" Director Ye asked Xu Mang with a hint of curiosity in fear: "How did you get this? It's too detailed...It's so detailed that it's unimaginable. I

I don’t believe that the Europeans have any conscience and want to share their design drawings with you.”

"hey-hey!"

"I can't say how it came about, but I can guarantee that these drawings are 100% correct. I have already studied them. As long as the money is in place and the people are in place, the rest is just a matter of time." Xu Mang said seriously: "Really

...Director Ye, I hope to submit this decision as soon as possible."

However,

At this time, Director Ye hesitated. There are a lot of comments about particle collider. Basically, few people agree with the construction of this equipment. Moreover, the current public opinion is that building a large collider is a waste of money and cannot be achieved at all.

any effect.

"Professor Xu Mang..."

"I don't know if you are aware of the current situation." Director Ye said seriously: "If you want to build this equipment, first... you have to convince many domestic scientists, secondly you have to convince the public, and finally you have to convince

To deal with the pressure of public opinion from the media, these three issues... are not easy to solve."

"The current public trend is against this kind of equipment that wastes people and money. Many public figures have written a lot of articles to resist the construction of particle collider. Basically... there is no chance of winning in the Internet area." Director Ye paused.

After a moment, he continued: "Professor Xu Mang...have you thought about it?"

Xu Mang smiled bitterly, remembering that he had asked a question about elementary particles and received silence. This experience deeply hurt his heart. On the surface, the European Hadron Collider was used for international high-energy physics research.

, but the actual situation is not the case.

They are unwilling to share even a little bit of research results with China, just like the International Space Station, which ruthlessly shut out China.

Xu Mang has experienced this situation countless times and understood from it that only by owning it can he stand upright and speak up. Only by constantly striving for self-improvement can he become a world power. Unfortunately... After solving all the problems and even getting the construction drawings, he found that the biggest

The difficulty comes from within.

"well..."

"oh."

Xu Mang nodded, but there was still a smile on his face, but it was ugly and forced. After a long time, he said: "Director Ye, I know your difficulties, but... I want to ask, how to build such a machine?"

How much does a particle collider cost in total?”

"It will exceed tens of billions in the early stage, and it will take hundreds of billions in the later stage," Director Ye said.

Xu Mang opened his mouth and closed it silently. He just nodded his head at Director Ye and sat alone in a daze.

Feeling Xu Mang's disappointed mood, Director Ye was quite helpless, but he really had no choice. The voice of public opinion was like this. It could turn a matter that was originally full of hope into despair.

Everyone at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences can't wait to have their own large particle collider to solve some of the problems that have been troubled in high energy physics, but... in reality, it is so easy.

Xu Mang went back,

It only took half a day for him to come here, and it only took half a day to go from expectation to despair.

On the plane back to Shanghai,

Xu Mang looked at the thousands of miles of clouds outside. He didn't know what to do for a while, but one thing always surrounded his mind, which was the conversation with Qiao Sen. It seemed like a shadow that couldn't be shaken away.

Europeans have chosen to turn a blind eye to their own desires.

Just after getting off the plane, Xu Mang received a call from Xiaoman, informing him that the first batch of cultural relics had been delivered to the Beijing Airport. The uncle had contacted the official personnel to carry out related docking tasks. In the future, four batches of cultural relics would be sent to China one after another.

and,

Xiaoman also told Xu Mang the news that she was named an outstanding entrepreneur and an outstanding young person, and she was likely to attend the selection party with Xu Mang in January. Xu Mang was not surprised by this. After all, this time she would be a small

In the name of Man, the return of so many cultural relics is bound to cause a sensation for a while.

"What's wrong with you?" Yang Xiaoman heard that Xu Mang was in a very depressed mood, and her tone did not conceal her worries: "Did you encounter a setback at the large collider?"

"ah?"

"No...no." Xu Mang forced a smile: "Don't think too much, I'm fine. By the way...what do you want to eat tonight?"

"..."

"Husband... If it doesn't work, let's just pay for it ourselves." Yang Xiaoman gritted his teeth and said firmly: "How about we make it ourselves? Anyway, I'm so good at making money, the big deal... If I don't make money for a few years, you

Do you think so?"

Xu Mang said helplessly: "Don't make trouble... This is not a matter of money, this is... Forget it... I'm dead."

snap,

Hang up immediately.

...

The next day,

"Hello?"

"Xu Mang!"

"You...how could you suddenly want to submit such a report application?" The second grandfather came directly to Xu Mang and Xiaoman's home. At this time, his face was full of anger and confusion. He really couldn't understand why everyone

Everyone was trying to stop things, but Xu Mang insisted on doing it.

"I have experienced many things that others cannot experience. When I asked about whether there are undisclosed properties in the Higgs particle, but Europeans and Americans turned a blind eye to me, I felt... The scientific research equipment built by Europe and the United States has achieved great results in its research.

The ultra-high value core results are not told to us.”

"So we can only do it ourselves and master the core technical results, so as not to be controlled by others." Xu Mang smiled bitterly: "But... I didn't expect that this report would appear on the Internet. It seems that some people are very dissatisfied with my proposal."

"dissatisfied?"

"This is more than dissatisfaction!" Second Grandpa said helplessly: "You have been pushed to the forefront. Have you read the evaluation of you on the Internet?"

Xu Mang shook his head and said helplessly: "I was just going to go for a walk, but you rushed over. Did the Internet explode? Everyone is probably scolding me, right?"

"..."

"Oh... you are too impulsive!" Second Grandpa looked at Xu Mang and frowned: "Although the public opinion on the Internet did not accuse you, they just disagreed with the construction."

"oh..."

"I'll see for myself later." Xu Mang said listlessly, "I won't go to school in the past few days."

Second Grandpa nodded and said seriously: "It's okay if you don't go. You can think about it."

After sending his second grandfather away, Xu Mang returned to his study, turned on his computer and searched for news about the collider. Not to mention... it was widely spread, but he clearly used a special channel, why would such a confidential matter be spread?

Go online?

I clicked on a post at random. The content of this post was against construction. As for the content... Xu Mang didn't bother to read it, but the comments below caught Xu Mang's attention.

[Funny... Is one to two hundred billion enough? How many years will it take to build it? What will be discovered after it is built? What benefits can it provide to the Chinese people in fifteen or twenty years? It is worth investing so much money into an unknown thing

?]

[If this is applied technology, I agree. If this is cutting-edge technology, even if we are lucky and discover something, it won’t be useful within a hundred years!]

[Everyone must not support it. This project can be postponed for fifty years. The discovery of unknown particles is all a scientific proposition. Even if it is discovered, it has no practical significance!]

[I... I actually want to agree with it. The reason why Professor Xu Mang proposed this project may be that he has experienced the embarrassing dilemma of being blocked by foreign countries too many times. I think this is the reason. 】

Xu Mang sighed and silently closed the browser. The current situation was back to the same as before. When he started the gravitational wave detection project, he also encountered obstacles, but this time the obstacles were a little bigger.

"Hello?"

"Brother Chuan Xiao... what do you want from me?" Xu Mang received a call from Brother Chuan Xiao and said with a forced smile: "If you are here to ask me if I am okay, I can only tell you... I am a little depressed.

, I’m just a little depressed.”

"..."

"Xu Mang...the research institute is almost completed." Brother Chuan Xiao said calmly: "It's much faster than planned. What should we do next? Do you have any plans?"

Hearing Brother Chuan Xiao's words, Xu Mang was stunned for a moment. It seemed that he had not paid attention to the progress of the research institute for a long time, but suddenly it was built... Also, fund maniacs are not funny, and building a research institute is not

If it's an easy thing, then the next step is the equipment problem.

But...they are all minor issues.

"I understand." Xu Mang said, "By the way...how are your research results on dual black holes?"
To be continued...