Thomas's current status is "missing". But everyone at the Institute of Physics, and even everyone at Central University, knows that this Ph.D. from the Institute of Physics is probably dead.
A video has been circulated on the Internet, which is said to be a surveillance video from the collider control room channel before the explosion.
In the video, a stumbling figure ran along the passage. After more than ten seconds, an extremely bright light filled the entire field of vision, and then the entire video stopped abruptly.
According to the identification of "enthusiastic netizens" at Central University, the man who stumbled over was Thomas. He was also the only missing person in the entire explosion.
The collider explosion killed six people and left one missing. In theory, casualties of this magnitude should not attract too much attention from public opinion. Accidents with casualties of the same magnitude occur almost every day.
Today is the third day after the accident. The sudden circulation of Thomas's video has brought the Central University bombing case back into people's sight, and it has also led to some "new situations" that are of concern.
The coalition government was established at a time of crisis and survival. Efficiency, objectivity, and rationality are all natural attributes directly engraved in the DNA of the coalition government. The death toll from the collapse is announced every day, and detailed statistics and classification of similar incidents are made and announced.
These are all routine operations of the coalition government.
However, it has been three days. Let alone a formal data report, the coalition government has not even been able to publish a rough, less formal press release.
Abnormal, this is the best trigger for public outcry.
Humanity's thirst for "answers" has reached an almost pathological level. Any "abnormal" thing must be answered and answered. It seems that only in this way can wise people feel at ease.
No matter whether they can understand the answer or not, no matter whether the answer is relevant to them.
If they can't get an answer, they will even make speculations without authorization for the sake of "answers." This kind of behavior is called speculation at best, and rumors at worst. Now it's popping up like mushrooms after a rain. Even Tang Qinglong
Academicians have all been affected to some extent.
Rumor has it that Thomas was the love interest of Academician Tang, but Thomas was unyielding and never gave in to the reactionary academic authority. Academician Tang, because of love and hatred, caused the collider to malfunction and explode, killing Thomas and silencing him. p>
Lu Chen silently closed the screen floating in front of him, and after a while he said to himself, "No...that's not it, right?"
Lu Chen saw Thomas with his own eyes and felt that Academician Tang still left Thomas alone when he had a high fever. It was a bit excessive. Of course, he would not believe the rumors on the Internet.
Talking to oneself does not count as believing rumors.
The hospital is undergoing large-scale renovation work, but to be honest... the progress is slow. All the glass in the entire hospital has to be replaced, and the treatment process of some patients who are inconvenient to transfer to another hospital must be maintained. It is not only the doctors who are troubled, but also the engineering department.
The workers who came to install the new windows also had a headache.
In fact, the biggest headache is still with the property cleaning department. Today is already the third day of the explosion, and so far, there are still several floors of broken glass that have not had time to be removed.
All the patients who can be transferred to other hospitals have basically been transferred. It is summer now. The dimension where Central University is located is a standard subtropical area. If there is no air conditioning in the summer here... it will be fatal. And those who were shattered by explosions and loud noises
Patients with broken glass really cannot wait long in this environment.
In recent days, Lu Chen has focused all his energy on getting discharged from the hospital. But he has not forgotten the special situation of Bed 42 - a high fever of this level cannot be treated by the current First Affiliated Hospital of Central University.<
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Letting go of an important paper is a trivial matter, and missing a brand-new disease is no big deal. But forty-two beds are now burned into such a horrible state, and releasing people from the hospital can no longer be described as "irresponsible."
Intentional murder is more like it.
The beds in surrounding hospitals are very tight, and the level is relatively uneven, making it difficult to guarantee the treatment effect. Finally, with Yang Weimin's active contact, 42 beds were picked up by an expert team from the Central Demonstration Hospital of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Experts
The group also made a very honest guarantee - if this patient is indeed a brand-new disease, then the first author will definitely hand it over to Yang Weimin and his experimental team.
Anyway, this attitude is quite correct. Lu Chen continued to write the discharge report while thinking wildly. As soon as he finished writing the part about taking medicine after discharge, the junior sister slipped over with a nervous and mysterious look.
"Senior brother, have you heard? It is said that Academician Tang himself deliberately caused the explosion. It is said that he was motivated by love and hatred, and in the end he killed and silenced him!"
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The progress of the situation was hugely different from Tang Qinglong's expectations.
The collider is an experimental project with huge investment. It had such a serious accident. It stands to reason that the coalition government should have proactively intervened in the investigation. However, there is still no news about the investigation team that should have appeared. Academician Tang even suspected
This investigation team does not exist at all.
Those who were supposed to come didn't come, but those who shouldn't came did come several times. The insurance investigator had appeared for several days in succession, and each time he would ask different students various questions. Rather than saying that he was here to investigate,
It would be better to say that he came to clock in and attend to errands.
Tang Qinglong looked at the black figure blocking people everywhere in the atrium of the Institute of Physics, and his brows jumped twice.
Of course he couldn't be a commercial insurance investigator. The first moment he saw this young man, Academician Tang realized that he should be a civil servant working directly for the coalition government.
It is still unclear what happened when the collider exploded, and even where the origin of the explosion was. Academician Tang Qinglong has submitted reports to the academic committee more than once, requesting to find out what happened as soon as possible and to start investigating the collider.
Make repairs.
But the response Academician Tang received was only "Please maintain the scene and wait for investigation." Even if he directly asked his old friends in the academic committee, their responses would be the same - nothing new.
The coalition government adopts this method and does not even care about public suspicion or whether scientific instruments with such a high investment can still be repaired.
Tang Qinglong frowned. He regretted his move of releasing the surveillance video to put pressure. It seemed that the coalition government had really found some problem.
Just when Tang Qinglong was regretting having a headache due to his mundane duties, Mu Zhiran pushed open his office door, knocked on the door and asked, "Teacher, are you convenient now?"
Looking at the polite but few students, Tang Qinglong nodded and said naturally, "Yes, sit down."
Teacher Tang is really a good person.
"I just received a call from the review committee." Mu Zhiran looked at Tang Qinglong and said, "The committee said that the safety of our experimental project needs to be further confirmed. They will not transfer approved experimental samples to us until safety is ensured.
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Tang Qinglong raised his eyes and glanced at Mu Zhiran, then pushed a cup of hot tea towards her.
Mu Zhiran picked up the teacup, his hands shaking slightly.
"After all, such a big thing just happened. It's understandable that the old guys on the committee are a little timid." Academician Tang persuaded him kindly, "Don't be too anxious recently. Wait until the committee has reviewed and determined that there is no problem.
, the materials were delivered."
Mu Zhiran raised his head, then shook his head.
"You and Thomas are not in that kind of relationship. This is trying to discredit you." She suddenly said, "I don't understand why someone suddenly tries to attack you..."
"When we encounter many hypotheses that seem to make sense, using the exhaustive method to eliminate them one by one is the slowest and also the stupidest way." Tang Qinglong smiled and drank the warm tea in front of him.
"The correct approach is not to worry about other theories. Continue experiments, accumulate data, and then abstractly propose a theory that truly conforms to objective laws."
"Don't worry about these things other than study and life. You can't help, and it's very troublesome to explain this kind of thing to you." Tang Qinglong suggested, "Since the committee has stopped the transfer of experimental samples, isn't that right?
Can we use Dr. Lu’s samples to do a confirmatory test first?”
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"I support Teacher Tang on this point." Dr. Lu, who was eating in Taoweilou and feeling like his hands were not his own after a busy day, stopped his trembling hands and explained, "The sample matter is easy to handle. I will take care of it tomorrow."
I’ll send it to you...how long will three samples last for you?”
"About tens of seconds?" Mu Zhiran thought for a while and said, "It mainly depends on the difficulty of extracting lithium in the sample. For normal samples, tens of seconds is enough..."
The two were chatting when Lu Chen's cell phone suddenly called. Baozi jumped up and down and waved on Lu Chen's cell phone. After confirming that Lu Chen had noticed him, it displayed a few lines of words on the screen.
"You should go back to the dormitory first." After reading the message, Lu Chen dropped his chopsticks and walked out, even though he only took four bites of the meal.
"When can we come back?" Mu Zhiran asked, "Can we have breakfast together tomorrow morning?"
"I don't know the details, so don't wait for me yet." Lu Chen picked up his coat and rushed out the door, "I'll contact you if I have any news!"
Rushing all the way back to the laboratory, Lu Chen was out of breath and threw his coat on the corridor. He opened seven or eight doors in succession, and finally found Yang Weimin sitting in front of the table without saying a word.
"What's going on, Brother Yang?" Lu Chen felt that his legs were a little weak. The content displayed on Baozi's screen was very short, [Urgent, return to the laboratory immediately]. The last time this kind of title appeared, Lu Chen and Yang Weimin had to fight for it.
An astronaut on the Mars manned space mission provides emergency medical advice.
"Something big happened..." Yang Weimin pointed to the screen in front of him as if he was out of his mind, "The demonstration hospital... exploded."
Chinese is a very broad and profound language. Lu Chen naturally understood the word "exploded" as "too many patients and the hospital was full." Although the plume of smoke on Lushan Mountain flashed through his mind for a moment, Lu Chen really didn't think much in this direction.
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Until he saw the mess on the screen and the deep pit that suddenly appeared on the ground.
There are black crystals on the walls of the pit. There is not even a complete building within a radius of five to six hundred meters.
That pothole was once the core campus of the best hospital in the world, the Puhui Campus of the Central Demonstration Hospital of the Academy of Medical Sciences covering an area of 400,000 square meters.
This hospital has 3,600 beds, and the maximum number of outpatient visits per day is close to 20,000.
Now, in this land of healing and saving people, only the remains are left.
Yang Weimin closed his eyes with difficulty, "The number of casualties is still uncertain, but the number of hospitalized patients alone... must be at least two to three thousand."
"We are in trouble." Lu Chen said to Yang Weimin, "Transfer all the patients out immediately and notify the medical office. If they cannot be transferred, let the doctors from the Department of Nephrology take over."
Yang Weimin looked at his student with some confusion. Could this kid have a mental problem from being frightened?
"Before the collider exploded, Thomas had just escaped from our hospital. Just as the forty-two beds were transferred, the Central Demonstration Hospital also exploded." Lu Chen said quickly, "Although it does have nothing to do with us, there should be due investigation and inquiry
It’s probably indispensable. Let’s move all the patients away, otherwise there won’t even be anyone to do ward rounds...”
"It's a good idea, but it's a little late to implement it." A man in a black suit and carrying a brown leather document bag appeared at the door of the room. He put down the document bag in his hand and took out a green document from the inner pocket of his jacket.
"I am an investigator from the Second Division of the General Investigation Bureau. You can call me Fujimoto."
Although he was holding the green certificate in his hand, Fujimoto had no intention of opening the cover to let Lu Chen and Yang Weimin see the contents. He held the certificate, stared at Lu Chen and said, "Doctor Lu, you are suspected of two crimes.
This is a serious bombing case. I will now summon you verbally. Now, please come with me."