Xie Li sat in the waiting area separated from the meeting room on the top floor until his gluteus maximus became numb.

There were 3 candidates in the re-examination, 15 minutes of free speech, plus [-] minutes of question and answer session. Xie Li was the last one, and he waited for nearly four hours.

Although there was food and drink in the waiting area, and the chairs were quite comfortable, Xie Li was still exhausted from waiting.

He was still nervous at the beginning, but in the end he was so tired that he didn't even have the energy to study the manuscript.

At two o'clock in the noon, the No. 2 candidate finally came out of the meeting room.

Xie Li suddenly became nervous again.

The staff called his name and walked into the meeting room with him.

The decoration of the meeting room is very strange, there are no windows, and the walls and ceiling are covered with large pieces of black and gray glass. If you look closely, even the floor is too.

The lights were turned on in the room, and all other furniture was removed, leaving only a table and a chair in the center of the meeting room.

Xie Li approached, only to find that there were dense black spots on the inner wall of the glass embedded in the wall.

He also smelled a bit of paint, and the conference room seemed to have been recently renovated.

The staff took Xie Li over to sit down, put on the earphones for him, checked the microphone, explained to him how to operate the recording equipment, and left.

The conference room was so empty that even breathing would echo.

Xie Li cleared his throat, recalled the first sentence of the speech, and reached out to press the start button of the recording device.

Just as he was about to press down hard, the lighting in the room suddenly went out.

The darkness only lasted about one quadrillionth of a microsecond, just like the dense singularity* 150 billion years ago exploded into a huge universe in a short, almost non-existent moment—after the brief darkness, On the wall, on the ceiling, and on the floor under his feet, densely colored light spots were lit up at the same time.

Xie Li was stunned by everything in front of him——

It took him several seconds to realize that the majestic light pattern in front of him was a huge spiral galaxy.

The huge galaxy is not static, the countless star clusters floating beside him are slowly rotating around him.

The bright and hot core of the galaxy, two clusters of white light, one large and one small, were right under his feet, slowly revolving around each other.

And he, a strange wanderer traveling with only a table and chairs, is sitting in a transparent and narrow cabin at the moment, receiving the attention of the stars.

In the twinkling of the stars, he almost thought he heard the humming of the life cycle system in the cabin.

Xie Li stood up involuntarily, the illusion of being in the universe even gave him a faint illusion of weightlessness.

He walked towards a large cloud of dust scattered with reddish-purple light, until his tentacles touched the slightly hot wall——

It turned out that the four walls of the entire conference room were covered with high-definition screens.The galaxy in front of me is magnificent and bright, all of which are the images of the video that is being played.

Xie Li couldn't explain how he felt at this moment.He reached out again and touched the magnificent nebula on the heated screen.

When Tan Ke came over, Xie Li had already finished memorizing his speech.Seeing him coming in, the staff stood up and made room for him.

In the later stage of the recording, people still need to operate, but Tan Ke lied to Xie Li that no one would listen to him in order to reassure Xie Li.In fact, in the small cubicle next to the meeting room, there is a staff member sitting.

He just sat down when Fang Xian also came in: "Hey, I heard that our company bought several large high-definition screens."

A tone of watching the excitement.

"Correct me, I bought it in my own name." Tan Ke took the earphones without looking back.

Fang Xian folded his arms and leaned on the back of the chair: "Oh, in ancient times, there was King You of Zhou who played with the princes in the flames of fire to win a smile, but now there is talk of always spending a lot of money to win a smile..."

"Don't talk." Tan Ke interrupted him suddenly.

Synthetic robotic voices are coming from the earphones.

Xie Li was answering the penultimate question, what methods or techniques are there to ensure the smooth progress of his project.

After Xie Li listened to the question, many high-sounding answers quickly appeared in his mind.

Communicate frequently with tutors, read more articles, care about the dynamics in the academic field, and communicate more with the same group...

He organized his words in his mind, lowered his head inadvertently, and the two bright galactic nuclei under his feet were quietly entangled and danced, like a pair of tacit dancers who will never be separated.

The galactic nucleus was once thought to be a large clump of bright stars sitting quietly together, until the Hubble Space Telescope sent back pictures.

Scientists realized that there are not only stars in the nucleus of the galaxy, and it is not quiet.There may be one or even two huge black holes there, and the violent gravity will tear and swallow everything around.

The bright light that people see on the earth is just the accretion disk surrounding the black hole - a circular light band produced by the gas, dust or small stars being attracted by the black hole and rubbing against each other, releasing a lot of energy.

Prior to this, other theoretical studies on galactic nuclei were sentenced to death.

"Actually, I have no way to guarantee that my research will continue. I mean, like dark matter research, so many people have so many different directions, but there is only one truth, and only one person will be right in the end .But I guess that doesn’t mean the efforts of the rest of us are meaningless. Someone has to prove the wrong answer, someone has to lay the bricks.”

Xie Li pressed the button and cut off the recording.

Tan Ke held the earphones, looking extremely dignified.

Fang Xian was very curious about what was playing in the earphones, so he also leaned over to listen.

Tan Ke ignored him.

The electronically synthesized vocals sounded again, and the last question was broadcast: what motivated you to choose your current major.

The silence in the headphones lasted longer than Tan Ke expected.

Just when he almost thought that Xie Li was about to give up, Xie Li spoke.

"I, when I was about 13 years old, in middle school, I visited the observatory, and I went to a lecture. I remember the teacher said that all life on earth has the same past, from the same sky. The ancient As they die, stars collapse, explode, and scatter their own fragments throughout the galaxy."

"...the elements that make up living and non-living bodies on the earth, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen, and iron from No. 26 to plutonium on No. 94, almost everything comes from those dead stars far away from the light years."

"That teacher said we are all children of these stars. So whenever I look up at the night sky, I think, that's where I came from, where my first parents were. I was a part of them , and will one day be a part of them again."

The boy on the other side of the headset took a deep breath.

"Although I am small and insignificant, I have a deep and real physical connection with this world. I belong to this world, and this world belongs to me. Whenever I feel lonely, as long as I think about it this way, I no longer feel lonely .”

"That's why I chose astrophysics, it's a pleasure to have the opportunity to learn about my birthplace, to see it, to study it."

"Click", the recording device was turned off.

Tan Ke sat holding the earphone for a while before slowly standing up.He patted Fang Xian before going out, and told him: "Be careful when you go out, don't let Xie Li see you."

After Xie Li turned off the recording equipment, he lingered in the conference room for a long time until the star map on the screen disappeared and the indoor lighting was turned on again.

He stood up, opened the door, and couldn't wait to find someone to ask.

The receptionist who brought him in was waiting outside the meeting room and took him straight to listen to his own recording.

After hearing this, Xie Li breathed a sigh of relief.The free speech part was better than he thought.Although the following questions and answers were a bit stuck, they were still fluent.

The downside is probably his accent.

But he doesn't care so much now.

He said goodbye to the staff at the front desk politely, and pretended to casually mention the star chart in the conference room.

"That's really spectacular," Xie Li said, "I was dumbfounded at first."

The front desk seemed unaware and excited: "Really? It was assembled just two days ago, and we haven't even entered yet."

Xie Li was startled, then smiled and said, "Then you must go and have a look."

At the hottest time of the day, Xie Li walked out of the revolving door of Changjing Capital with his schoolbag on his back, and followed the sparse crowd into the subway station.

He still felt that he was still in that artificial universe, and there was a huge sense of unreality.

He felt as if he had also become a small star, captured by a huge star, and revolved around the star involuntarily.The light and heat of the star melted the ice on the surface of the star, and the first prokaryotic organisms grew in the stromatolites on the seabed.

So he began to become a unique asteroid.

A cool wind blew from the subway, and Xie Li's overheated brain began to cool down slowly.

He suspected that the whole thing had something to do with him, from the change of the form of the retest location to everything in the meeting room.But he didn't dare to think too much.

He took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Tan Ke, deleting, deleting, and modifying it several times to make his tone seem polite but not overly polite.

[Stir-fried chestnuts need sugar: Today went very well, the venue provided by Changjing is so beautiful, thank you. 】

Here comes the subway.

He held his mobile phone in his hand, followed the flow of people into the car, and wondered in his heart how Tan Ke would reply to him.

As a result, Tan Ke never replied to him.

Xie Li went to the office, Cheng Guang saw that his face was not good and he was tired, so he drove him back to the dormitory to rest.

He went back to sleep and dreamed that Tan Ke sent him back to Lanzhou University from Professor Fang's house for the first time.

He took his mobile phone and told Tan Ke to add WeChat to return the money to Tan Ke.

Tan Ke sat in the driver's seat and watched him, laughing as he watched.

Xie Li was very annoyed at being laughed at, and got angry at Tan Ke.

So Tan Ke told him that his WeChat ID was a big secret, and he asked Xie Li to come over and tell him secretly.

Xie Li in the dream was not foolish, and leaned over obediently.

"Bo", Tan Ke kissed him on the cheek.

When Xie Li woke up, he reached out to touch his face.

He suspected that he had this kind of dream because he had taken a fancy to others.

But then, he thought of another more serious problem - Tan Ke is a zero, and he is also a zero.

How could he like a zero? !

The author has something to say: The pure little virgin has never kissed anyone before, kissing the face is already the limit of imagination.

In fact, I originally wrote an English version of the question-and-answer part.But it's a bit too weird to put it on and look at it.I changed it back to Chinese_(:з」∠)_

And this thing about zero and zero.

Tan Ke said: It's okay, you can be one, I will let you be on top.I quite like navel oranges.

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*Dense Singularity: The Big Bang Theory, the place where everything started, with infinitely small volume and infinitely high density.Thanks to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated the nutrient solution~

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