Chapter 26 First Encounter with Wang Miao_1

His brain, kept consistently activated, was no longer that man who used to employ only crude and stiff methods to impart knowledge.

The two began to engage in deep conversations, and Qin Ming's approach to transferring knowledge became more profound yet simpler. Many explanations and wonderful metaphors suddenly made Liu Yueyue feel that physics might actually be quite fun.

As time passed, Qin Ming began to speed up, and Liu Yueyue concentrated hard to keep up. However, before they reached the end, she could no longer match Qin Ming's pace.

Within a short hour, her head had turned into a physical shape.

Liu Yueyue shook her head, her face filled with bewilderment, "No more, no more, my head is about to burst with all this knowledge."

She, immersed in physical knowledge, returned to reality, looked around, and realized that at some point, many people had gathered around them, both men and women, all appearing distracted and she wasn't sure if they were looking at the books or at them.

"Why are there so many people?" Liu Yueyue whispered quietly.

"Maybe it's because I'm explaining so well that they're attracted by me?" Qin Ming offered his explanation.

"Is that so?"

"Perhaps." Qin Ming straightened out the sidetracked conversation, "I want to ask you a question now, and you need to answer me seriously."

"What question?"

"Which is heavier, a pound of iron or a pound of cotton?"

"Of course, a pound of iron is heavier than a pound of cotton!" Liu Yueyue answered without hesitation.

Hearing this, Qin Ming was unusually silent, staring at her intently, trying to discern something from her face.

After a few seconds, he was defeated by Liu Yueyue's earnest gaze and asked again.

"How did you come to that conclusion?"

After hearing the question, Liu Yueyue naturally explained, "According to the principle of equivalent exchange, a pound is as heavy as another pound, and iron is heavier than cotton, so adding together, a pound of iron is heavier than a pound of cotton, right?"

Well, it sounded quite logical at first listen.

Qin Ming instantly realized that during the lecture, he always felt that their thought processes on certain issues were not on the same wavelength. It wasn't that he had a problem, but her logic did.

Qin Ming couldn't help but give a thumbs up to Liu Yueyue beside him.

"You do understand physics."

The girl didn't catch the unusual tone in his voice, and instead, took it as a compliment—the approval from the academic god, got!

"How about that, brother, my progress is quite significant, right?!"

"Yes, yes, you're absolutely correct!"

The second affirmation from her scholarly younger brother, got!

This made her very happy, and a smiling Liu Yueyue's face bloomed like flowers.

Qin Ming shook his head inwardly; when it came to teaching physics to Liu Yueyue, he could only say it was tough!

Honestly, if the world were filled with women like Liu Yueyue, Sophon wouldn't need to bother with the blockade of fundamental physics—everyone might as well just surrender!

"Grandpa, your grandson is calling you."

"Grandpa, your grandson is calling you."

The bizarre ringtone suddenly went off in the library; the people who had been sneakily watching struggled to hold back their laughter, while others laughed out loud outright,

Liu Yueyue, unperturbed as always, seemed not to have heard it and directly pulled out her phone to answer, "Hello, Mom."

A minute later, she hung up and said to Qin Ming, "My mom just called. Uncle Wang is visiting for lunch, and she said you should come over to our place for a meal too."

"Oh, who is Uncle Wang?"

"Eh, he's Mom's colleague, I think his name is Wang Miao."

Wang Miao? The one researching nanomaterials?

Qin Ming felt puzzled. Initially not at all eager to go, he now felt compelled to see for himself.

He nodded and said, "Alright, I happen to be a bit hungry too."

...

When mealtime arrived, the two left the house and took a taxi. Qin Ming followed Liu Yueyue to her home for the second time.

As soon as Qin Ming entered, he saw a thin middle-aged man with glasses sitting on the sofa. There was a briefcase beside him, and he looked very scholarly, obviously an intellectual.

Is this Wang Miao?

As Qin Ming looked at Wang Miao, Wang Miao also noticed him.

Wang Miao looked up and asked Liu Yueyue with a gossipy smile, "Yueyue, who is this? Aren't you going to introduce us?"

He glanced at Qin Ming again.

"Uncle Wang, he's my schoolmate," said Liu Yueyue with a sweet smile.

Apart from their difference in height, they actually matched well in terms of looks.

That's what Wang Miao was thinking.

In the kitchen, Chen Lin brought out the last dish.

There was a round of polite small talk before Chen Lin urged everyone to eat.

"The dishes are getting cold, everyone, please start eating."

The four individuals in the room began to sit down and use their chopsticks.

Qin Ming noticed that today's dishes were exactly the same as last night's meal.

A while into the meal, Chen Lin, who was sitting next to Wang Miao, poured him a glass of wine and said with a smile, "Professor Wang, a lot of people in the project team have complaints about you recently. Engineer-in-Chief Zhang even called me just now, asking me to persuade you not to be so stubborn."

"People have complaints about me?" Wang Miao drank his wine and absentmindedly picked up a piece of meat, "Is it because of the Reaction Black Box project?"

Chen Lin did not deny it and looked at him before responding, "The Reaction Black Box has been operating for over a year now, and the sensitivity of many sensors has decreased significantly. It's time for a shutdown maintenance. To keep the Reaction Black Box running normally, the lab's project team has been working overtime for several days."

The conversation between the two took place at the dining table, with no attempt to avoid Qin Ming and Liu Yueyue. The talk did not involve any technical details; it was not a secret matter.

Quietly listening, Wang Miao patiently explained, "Professor Chen, as the leader of the Nanocenter, you should understand the importance of the Reaction Black Box project. Right now, the black box is in its third batch of synthetic combination. Nobody knows if the next second will yield results."

"Experiments are like that, can't stop until the end. As the Chief Scientist of the project, I will fight alongside the engineers in the project team."

He spoke flawlessly, leaving Chen Lin, the leader, at a loss for a rebuttal.

Their conversation made Qin Ming realize that this Wang Miao was the scientist who researched nanomaterials mentioned in the original work, and apparently, Liu Yueyue's mother, Chen Lin, was his boss.

The nanomaterial Wang Miao was researching was known as "Flying Blade." In Three-Body, the Zither Plan was implemented using super-strength nanofilaments made of "Flying Blade."

Each one was only a tenth the thickness of a human hair and could easily cut through most materials on Earth, rightfully the strongest cutting tool on the planet.

Moreover, after mass production in the Crisis Era, this material was also used as the framework for space elevators, possessing extremely superior tensile strength and fatigue resistance, among other mechanical properties.

If Qin Ming could obtain the manufacturing method, this light and high-strength nanofilament, not easily detected by the naked eye, combined with his invisible psychokinetic power, could become his strongest weapon. With resonance, it would greatly enhance his self-preservation and offensive capabilities in the Worlds of All Heavens.

While eating, Qin Ming pondered how he might acquire the "Flying Blade" nanofilaments.