Autistic genius, a flourishing era of scientific research

"Yanyan, you and Si Cizhan are going to buy coal together. Be careful with your hands and just watch from the side. Don't get involved." Jiang Xiaowen said to Jiang Yan with his head down, not knowing if she listened or not. Then he said to Si Cizhan, "Take Yanyan for a few more walks outside and come back in time for dinner."

Si Cizhan was just about to ask Jiang Yan to go with him when Xu Weiran and the others happened to call Jiang Yan in the living room. Jiang Yan reacted very quickly, and immediately walked towards the living room, shaking off her absent-minded look.

"It seems to be fine now." Jiang Xiaowen asked in surprise, "Could it be that they were playing together and Yanyan wasn't called, so she's unhappy?"

"Not like it." Si Cizhan shook his head, then walked out of the kitchen and stood in the living room looking at Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan was checking their renovation plan, then circled a few places with a pen, said a few words, and asked them to continue thinking.

When she was doing things, she was focused and wise, and looked full of energy. She seemed like two different people from Jiang Yan just now.

After all, what Xu Weiran and the others called Jiang Yan about was a small matter, so Jiang Yan quickly resolved it, then stood up and watched them start to work.

Xia Fei just happened to come back with the necessary wires at this time: "I also brought two batteries."

He walked straight over and sat next to Lu Ze. Seeing that they had started to work, he asked Li Ming and Xu Weiran about their ideas and methods, and at the same time he found something to do.

Jiang Yan could certainly participate, but she had already conducted countless experiments and upgraded and modified many machines.

They are the ones who need to practice now, and there is no need for her to get involved and take up their practice space.

So, she had nothing to do again.

Before traveling through time, she happened to be researching and designing a new generation of mental energy attacks. After studying mental power, space, and various energies in galaxies, Jiang Yan discovered that in addition to mental attacks, mental power seemed to be able to mobilize energy from another type of galaxy to attack.

In her prediction, it would be an energy attack comparable to high-level interstellar weapons, which would promote further reforms in interstellar armed forces and usher in a new era of armed forces.

I didn't expect to die on the way while looking for experimental materials. Now I can't continue my research. The things at hand have been arranged and solved, so I can only wait for the results passively.

She did everything she could.

"Yanyan." A clear voice seemed to carry the coolness of early autumn into Jiang Yan's ears. Standing in a daze in the living room, Jiang Yan looked in the direction of the voice and saw Si Cizhan had walked to her side without her knowing when.

"Let's go." Si Cizhan grabbed Jiang Yan's wrist and pulled her out. Jiang Yan subconsciously followed his pace until they reached the bicycle shed. She watched Si Cizhan unlock the bicycle and then asked, "Where are you going?"

"Have you forgotten what your brother just said? Buy coal, otherwise how will my mother cook and boil water here in the future?"

Jiang Yan stood aside to make way for him, obviously not interested in going with him.

Si Cizhan parked his bike, then looked at her for a moment, pursed his lips and said, "Don't move."

"What?"

Jiang Yan was wondering what he meant. She had already made plenty of space for him. Even if three more Si Ci Zhan came pushing their bicycles side by side, her position would not block him.

Si Ci Zhan looked around and saw that most people were cooking at home, so not many people were hanging around downstairs in the community. The bicycle shed was located in a relatively remote area, so apart from those who were riding back, basically no one would come here.

Seeing that there was no one around, he took the opportunity to bend down and pick up Jiang Yan, then put her on the crossbar in front of the car, rubbed Jiang Yan's head, and said in a pleasant voice that could not be refuted: "Hold on tight, you have to go whether you want to or not."

Jiang Yan: “…”

Just as Jiang Xiaowen said, Si Ci Zhan did not rush to the store to buy coal, but took Jiang Yan for a walk on the street. The street was very busy, and people coming and going were talking, but the two of them were particularly quiet.

Jiang Yan was even quieter than usual. She sat in front of Si Cizhan with her eyes downcast. The breeze ruffled her hair, but it couldn't let her smell the National Day fireworks on the street. She was out of tune with the celebrations and lively scenes all over the street.

"Why are you unhappy?" Si Cizhan had no choice but to ask, wondering whether she would answer.

"Unhappy?" Jiang Yan looked up at him doubtfully, "Me?"

Si Cizhan parked the car on the side of the road, helped her get out of the car, and then took her to a roadside stall: "Could it be me?"

"Your unhappiness is written all over your face."

The small stall sells girls' supplies, such as hairpins and collars.

Jiang Yan saw a mirror, picked it up and looked at herself in the mirror, but she didn't show any emotion.

She turned around and called Si Cizhan: "Come here."

Si Ci Zhan was picking out hairpins casually. He didn't know if they would suit Jiang Yan, so he just bought some at random. Whether he could make her happy depended on luck.

Hearing Jiang Yan calling him, Si Cizhan came over and looked in the mirror: "Do you like this?"

It looks unremarkable.

"If you like it, buy it."

He said he wanted to go look at something else, but Jiang Yan grabbed his clothes and knocked the mirror in her hand against him. Si Ci Zhan took it helplessly:

"Shall I hold it for you?"

Jiang Yan shook his head, holding up a mirror and motioning him to look at himself, then said, "Our expressions are similar. Aren't you happy?"

Si Cizhan understood what she meant and smiled at himself in the mirror in front of her: "I'm different from you. I'm very happy. Even if you don't say it, your brother and I can see that you are unhappy."

He paid for the mirror and the hairpin he had picked out earlier, then took her back to the bicycle, motioned for her to get on, and said as he rode towards the coal shop:

"You might not have noticed it yourself, but we're not wrong. Jiang Yan, what happened to you today? Before I came back, I asked the comrades in the team who were in charge of maintaining order at the school today, and they all said that everything went smoothly today. If you're unhappy because of this, then what is it?"

"You can tell me about it, maybe I can help you."

Jiang Yan did not refute Si Cizhan's conclusion that he was unhappy, but lowered his eyes and thought for a moment and said:

“This world has no meaning.”

Si Cizhan was instantly amused by her words: "Then you must be too idle."

Only when you are so idle that you can't be any more idle can you have such inexplicable thoughts.

"Yeah." Jiang Yan didn't refute. It was because she was too idle that she had nothing to do and nothing that interested her.

This planet has long been explored and studied in the interstellar space. She is interested in replicating the research process of her predecessors, but the conditions are not there at the moment.

"The world is empty. All we can do is wait."

Jiang Yan lowered her eyes. Si Cizhan was stunned for a moment. There was a hint of smile on his lips, but now it completely disappeared.

He realized that Jiang Yan's leisure was not what he thought it was.

The words "the world is empty" seemed to carry endless loneliness in Si Cizhan's ears, causing his heart to ache slightly.

This was probably the difference between her and ordinary people caused by her illness. He lowered his eyes to look at her and finally realized that Jiang Yan was not in a daze, but her eyes were empty and lifeless.

"Since you're so idle, why not find something else to do?" Si Cizhan suggested. "Even if you're not interested, you can still give it a try. Maybe you'll become interested in it as you go along, and it can also help you pass the time."

She only focused on the things that interested her, and once the things that interested her no longer required her participation like today, naturally everything seemed to be gone.

Unlike ordinary people, even if someone is so idle because he has nothing to do, he will not feel that the world is empty when he sees other people or things.

Instead, you will have some thoughts and ideas.

But Jiang Yan's world is not colorful, there is no human worldly wisdom, and there is no scenery that can move her. She only cares about what she cares about, and her world is empty.

It is incomparable loneliness.

"I know." She has researched and dabbled in various fields in the interstellar world, and she has never been so idle as she is now. "Not yet."

"What's wrong with that?" Si Cizhan was amused. There were so many things he could do to kill time. "I'll take you there."