26: Chapter 26: The bigwigs in Beijing held a meeting overnight, while I accompanied a beautiful woman to buy groceries in the county town!

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A "boom" went off in Su Che's brain.

If the previous technical data was a small stream, then what was rushing into his mind now was a mighty river.

A massive data stream, many times larger than before, poured in frantically.

From the most basic quantum superposition encoding rules to the star-shaped network topology covering the entire globe.

From strong interference shielding algorithms for coping with solar storms to theoretical models for using quantum entanglement for superluminal computing.

This was no longer just router technology.

This was a complete set, a... technological cornerstone capable of supporting a nation's information hegemony for the next few decades.

Su Che sat on that broken wooden chair, motionless, digesting it for a full half-hour.

Then, he picked up a pen and spread out some drafting paper.

That night, Su Family Village was very quiet.

Only at the entrance of the village, the floodlights of the Engineering Battalion were as bright as day, machines roared, and voices were clamorous.

And in that small, dilapidated studio of Su Che.

Drafting paper after drafting paper covered the desktop, and then one by one fell to the floor.

The formulas and diagrams on them were complex enough to make any physics professor go crazy on the spot.

...

The next morning.

General Zhang pushed open the door of the studio, and a strong smell, mixed with instant noodles and ink, rushed to his face.

Su Che, with two huge dark circles under his eyes, neatly stacked a thick pile of drafting paper and pushed it in front of him.

"Here, the things you wanted."

General Zhang looked at the stack of at least a hundred pages of drafting paper, filled with formulas that looked like heavenly scripts, his hands trembling.

He held it up carefully, as if holding the most precious treasure in the world.

"Kid... this one night of yours is worth our entire army's research funding!"

"Less nonsense." Su Che yawned and waved his hand, "Take it away quickly, don't delay my sleep."

General Zhang nodded heavily.

"I will personally take this information back to the capital. General Peng has already set up a 'Quantum Technology Application Research Group' overnight. He is personally in charge, just waiting for this 'imperial edict' of yours."

He carefully put the information into a metal password case and locked it.

"After I leave, Captain Li Jun will stay behind, and the security level will be raised to the highest. On the Engineering Battalion side, I will also have Zhang Jun keep an eye on it. At the latest by the day after tomorrow, I will make the internet in your village faster than in my office!"

General Zhang walked to the door, then looked back at Su Che.

"When I come next time, I will bring you something."

"What?"

"An appointment letter... stamped with the national seal."

After speaking, he turned around and strode away. The roar of the helicopter soon sounded over the village, and then quickly faded away.

Su Che stretched and was about to go back to the house to sleep.

"Brother! Brother! Something big is wrong!" Su Hao rushed in, holding his phone with a spiderweb-cracked screen.

"Someone on the internet is scolding you! Saying that water pump of yours will destroy the geological structure and trigger an earthquake! And saying you are some kind of pseudo-scientist, messing around!"

Su Che took the phone.

On the screen was a post with a shocking title.

[Shocking! An internet celebrity, for the sake of attention, actually built an "Anti-gravity" device privately in the countryside. Experts say it may trigger an irreversible environmental disaster!]

Below, a pseudo-science blogger certified as a "Geophysics PhD" was talking eloquently to the camera.

"... This so-called 'Anti-gravity', essentially, is forcibly distorting the local gravitational field. This behavior is extremely irresponsible! It may lead to crustal plate stress imbalance, or even induce small-scale earthquakes..."

The comment section had already been occupied by paid trolls.

[Holy crap! So dangerous? Must be strictly investigated!]

[For the sake of fame, he really does anything! Playing with the lives of the whole village!]

[Ban him! Must ban this kind of pseudo-scientist!]

Su Che finished reading and threw the phone back to Su Hao.

"Nonsense."

He only evaluated it with one word.

"This bunch of people hasn't even understood fluid dynamics, yet they dare to come out and pretend to be geophysics PhDs? Is the gravitational field that easy to distort? Who does he think he is? God?"

"But brother, they are scolding so badly!" Su Hao stamped his feet in anxiety.

"Let them scold." Su Che didn't care at all, "A bunch of fools who don't even understand the conservation of energy, talking to them is a waste of spit."

He was too lazy to pay attention to these disturbances on the internet and was about to go back to the house.

Looking up, he saw Teacher Lin standing at the courtyard gate, holding a small cloth bag.

She had changed into a clean light blue down jacket today, and her hair had been re-combed. Although her eyes were still a bit red and swollen, she looked much fresher.

"Student Su Che..."

"Today, the school is on winter break."

Su Che looked at her and remembered yesterday's promise. People are iron, rice is steel; justice must be sought, and the street must be strolled.

Although he had stayed up all night without sleep, in front of a beauty, he had to perk up!

"Let's go, Teacher Lin." Su Che smiled happily, "Accompany you to the county town to buy two new clothes for the New Year."

...

Tonghui County was the largest county town nearby. Although it was not big, it had everything it needed.

The two walked side by side on the bustling street.

Teacher Lin was a bit reserved, her hands in her pockets, her head down, not knowing what she was thinking.

Su Che didn't feel anything, looking left and right.

"Teacher Lin, look at that shop!" Su Che pointed to a clothing store decorated in pink.

Teacher Lin looked up; it was a women's clothing store.

"Go in and take a look?"

"Okay..."

Teacher Lin followed him inside. The shopping guide saw the two, her eyes lit up, and she immediately greeted them.

"Beauty, are you looking at down jackets? We just got the newest style, the same as the celebrity's!"

The shopping guide took down a white, fluffy down jacket and handed it to Teacher Lin.

"Try this one, you'll look like a fairy when you put it on!"

Teacher Lin hesitated, but was pushed into the fitting room.

A few minutes later, she walked out. The white down jacket made her skin look even fairer, and she looked gentle and cute.

"Does it look good?" She asked Su Che with some lack of confidence.

Su Che looked her up and down, then frowned.

"The filling is white duck down, 700 fill power, thermal resistance coefficient is average."

"And look at this fabric, polyester fiber, poor breathability, easy to generate static electricity when worn for a long time."

He walked up to Teacher Lin and reached out to pinch the sleeve of the down jacket.

"Not worth it."

He concluded.

"My vest made of aerogel weighs one-tenth of this, and the thermal insulation efficiency is five times higher. This thing has too low a cost-performance ratio."

"Take it off."

Shopping guide: "..."

Teacher Lin: "..."

Coming out of the clothing store, Teacher Lin didn't say a word.

Su Che also felt that the atmosphere was wrong.

"Teacher Lin, why are you unhappy? I didn't say you don't look good in it, I was analyzing from a scientific perspective that this piece of clothing is not worth the price..."

Teacher Lin stopped, turned her head, and looked at him.

"Su Che."

"Hmm?"

"Do you think that all problems can be explained by science?"

"Most of them, I guess."

"Then... what about this?"

Teacher Lin suddenly stood on her tiptoes and leaned in.

Before Su Che could react, a soft, slightly cool lip gently imprinted on his cheek.

Then, she quickly backed away, her face as red as a ripe apple.

"This... use some science to explain it?"

Su Che was completely stunned.

He stood on the spot, touching his face, feeling like it had been electrocuted, numb.

In his brain, that CPU comparable to a supercomputer had, for the first time, crashed.

"That... Teacher Lin, is it because the New Year is coming, and you miss home?" Su Che choked for a long time and squeezed out this sentence.

Teacher Lin looked at his dull appearance and finally couldn't help but laugh out loud.

She took the initiative to hold Su Che's hand.

"Let's go, we won't buy clothes anymore."

"I'll take you to a good place."

She pulled Su Che, walked through a few alleys, and arrived at the door of a hardware store.

"Student Su Che, the New Year is coming, I will give you a gift too!"

Teacher Lin pointed to the dazzling array of tools in the store, smiling with curved eyes.

Su Che's eyes lit up instantly.

Half an hour later, the two walked out of the hardware store.

Su Che contentedly carried a brand-new set of top-tier German-imported electrical toolboxes.

And Teacher Lin, looking at her empty wallet and Su Che's silly look of having obtained a beloved toy, didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

She felt she wasn't dating.

She was raising a son.

A... genius son.

The two carried big bags and small bags, preparing to take a car home.

Su Che's phone suddenly vibrated with a "buzz".

He took it out and looked.

It was a text message from a strange number in the capital.

The text message was very short, only one sentence.

"That academician, his surname is Ma, be careful! He has arrived in Xuefeng City!"