Chapter 292 The 'Defection' of the Chief Scientist
Java Airlines Boeing 737 soars in the blue sky.
Professor Huo Laien looked at his wife beside him.
His wife is his college classmate and is currently an economics professor at Princeton University.
On weekdays, my wife always looks like a slovenly engineering woman, her beauty has deteriorated greatly with age, but this time she came out in the name of vacation, and after dressing up, she is still quite pretty - at least she looks much younger.
"Penny." Huo Laien saw his wife looking melancholy at the blue sky outside the cabin, so he gently patted the back of his wife's hand: "Jiaotong Province is a good place."
Professor Petunia turned her head and nodded towards her husband.
Of course she knew it was a good place - in fact, as an economist, she had long planned to visit the country for exchanges.
Since the birth of Aita, a centralized strong artificial intelligence, it has affected not only the computer academic community. It has also affected the nerves of economists - new industries and new models will inevitably produce new economic models.
Professor Penny is not a "old-fashioned" Adam Smith school of economics. Her research direction and ideas are based on reality, analyzing economic activities under different economies and economic policies and systems, and building a mutually inclusive macroeconomic form.
Even in the past, China was still the object of her research.
Therefore, after knowing that her husband had made up his mind and would no longer tolerate the instructions of those idiots, she did not think for long before choosing to stand with her husband.
But it's really not easy for the two of them to leave.
They took advantage of the opportunity to attend a conference in Australia and were invited by friends in Java to transfer to Java. Finally, it was not until they were about to board the plane that the husband sent Ye Ming an email.
This is also the first email in three months.
"Jimmy, the province is a good place, but is Professor Ye Ming really willing to accept you? Or...will you really be trusted?" Professor Penny called her husband's nickname, with a serious expression on her face: "
The current situation is no longer a mere academic exchange."
Huo Laien was silent for a few seconds, and then said softly and with conviction: "I believe Professor Ye Ming."
Then, he looked out the porthole.
Outside the window is a clear blue sky, and below is the vast sea.
We are about to enter the South China Sea.
…
The airport tower below is as busy and orderly as ever.
Air traffic controllers methodically directed the continuous flow of flights to take off and land.
Suddenly, a team of airport administrators strode into the control room.
"Suprapu."
"Hello, general manager." Suprapu, the person in charge of the tower who was guarding his post, immediately stood up.
"Did th687 take off?"
"Already taken off."
"How long has it been since takeoff?"
Suprapu looked at the time: "One hour and fifteen minutes."
"Call down!" The general manager took a deep breath, looked at a plane that was just taking off, and frowned: "Notify us to return immediately."
The general manager's voice was loud and everyone heard it.
The air traffic controller was also slightly stunned and looked back at the general manager.
Suprapu was stunned for a second.
It only takes five hours in total from Jakarta to Hong Kong, and we have already flown 1/4 of the way... Call us to return?
"Is it dangerous?"
"No need to talk nonsense, just call!"
The general manager breathed a sigh of relief.
He didn't know if there was any danger, but he knew that there was a white couple on this newly opened daytime commuter plane to Hong Kong... who needed to stay.
Although Suprapu's eyes were full of doubts, he still nodded to the air traffic controller.
The air traffic controller took a deep breath and pressed the call switch.
"th687, this is Jakarta, please reply when you receive it."
Following the sound of the air traffic control, the general manager breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at his watch, turned around and sat on his chair.
But before his butt landed on the ground, his cell phone rang, and at the same time, the tower's phone also rang rapidly.
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Capital, a research center.
Ye Ming stood in front of Director Niu, with his hands on his waist, frowning slightly, and looking at Director Niu with bright eyes, indicating his current nervousness.
Half an hour ago, after he received Professor Huo Laien's email, he immediately asked Yin Ta to reply to the email to express his enthusiastic response.
You know, this old man he has been flirting with for a long time has not contacted him for several months. Ye Ming always thought that the old man was "severely hit" and was now in retreat...
Unexpectedly, the old man secretly gave himself a surprise!
Do you think he is welcome?
Of course it was an enthusiastic response!
He even pretended to take out his mobile phone and shared the good news with Director Niu.
Director Niu naturally knew the name of Professor Huo Laien, and also knew that Ye Ming had been trying to invite this big boss who transferred to physics after taking Fields from Princeton, so he immediately expressed congratulations.
But after the email was returned, it seemed as if it had disappeared, and there was no reply for five minutes - this made Ye Ming a little confused, so he took an extra step and asked Yin Ta to check the old man's whereabouts and related news...
After this investigation, I found out that Professor Huo Laien had been in a "marginalized" situation since the last time he communicated with me.
At the very least, there were several high-level meetings on controlled nuclear fusion there without him as the chief scientific adviser.
And this time, Professor Huo Laien and his wife actually traveled from Australia to Jakarta - the stopover was less than three hours.
In addition, the emails are blocked, and the phone calls are not answered...
Ye Ming knew that this old man's visit might not be a normal departure.
Soon afterwards, Yinta told him that she found emails between the professor and other scholars from Huo Laien's email server. In the emails, the professor was very angry and complained about the Bureau's monitoring and investigation of him. Some of them were used.
The emotional expression of the words is still very strong.
Therefore, Ye Ming told Director Niu these trivial matters, as well as Professor Huo Laien and several other identities.
Director Niu stood up as soon as he heard this. After thinking for less than ten seconds, he took out his mobile phone and made several calls in succession.
Seeing that Lao Niu finally finished his work, Ye Ming breathed a sigh of relief.
"Can you come over?"
"No one dares to vouch for something that hasn't happened." Director Niu used a famous quote from Ye Ming to reply to him. Although there was a smile on his face, his eyes were obviously still a little nervous.
Ye Ming: "...let me ask you, will there be any pressure on Java?"
"Of course, but our influence must be greater." Director Niu frowned, and after a few seconds of silence he looked at Ye Ming: "That brother Huo Laien, is he really also a scientist of the space program?"
"He didn't say, but I guess...he is."
Director Niu looked at Ye Ming again.
"He and I have complained about Musk's ambitions and designs together. And we know that in order to realize the space program, a fusion engine is necessary."
"And I know that Professor Huo Laien is very good at fusion engines, and his helium 3 idea is right."
Director Niu let out a low "fuck" and immediately grabbed the phone again.
Academician Qin laughed loudly as he heard the voice on the phone asking him to contact fjj to carry out maritime missions.
"A thousand dollars to buy horse bones, huh?"
"It's not a horse bone, it's a thousand-mile horse."