Old Friends
At the subsequent ball, Shen Qi strolled through the crowd with a champagne glass in hand, and out of politeness, even danced with a lady.
In the vast sea of people, Shen Qi suddenly saw a familiar face; the blond man was also looking at Shen Qi.
"Hey!" Shen Qi opened his arms and walked towards the blond man.
The blond man did the same, smiling as he hugged Shen Qi: "It's nice to meet you, Qi."
"Jonas, I knew it. Your background in Sweden wouldn't be ordinary." Shen Qi was happy to see his old friend, Jonas, a tall Swedish man who was his former academic partner.
Those who could attend the banquet hall were all celebrities from Sweden's upper class; Jonas must have connections. He remained calm, even a little melancholic. "I'm going back to Sweden to marry a woman."
Shen Qi comforted his old friend, "Try to look on the bright side, Jonas. Everyone has to get married eventually. I got married too, and I'll be a father next summer."
"Really? Good news." Jonas picked up two glasses of champagne from a tray carried by a passing waiter, and handed one to Shen Qi: "Congratulations on the Nobel Prize in Physics. Is there anything you can't do?"
As they talked, Shen Qi sensed something was off. He noticed that Jonas's formal attire was very similar to that worn by male members of the Swedish royal family.
"Jonas, you're no ordinary person. You wouldn't happen to be a member of the Swedish royal family, would you?" Shen Qi deduced an extraordinary idea.
Jonas shrugged and said, "We can change the world, but we can't change our origins. Yes, I'm a member of this family."
It turns out that his former partner was a member of the Swedish royal family. When Shen Qi was working on the Riemann Hypothesis project, Jonas, a member of the royal family, had even assisted him.
Members of the Swedish royal family traveled thousands of miles to the United States to study mathematics and, together with Shen Qi, solved the Millennium Prize Problem, the Riemann Hypothesis. Jonas's experience was quite tortuous and bizarre.
"What kind of work did you do after returning to Sweden?" Shen Qi asked.
Shen Qi knew that the Swedish Crown Princess was the famous Princess Victoria. This princess preferred military uniforms to dresses. She had received professional military training in the Swedish army, and her individual combat capabilities were almost at the level of special forces.
Royal family members are all people with stories to tell, and barring any extremely unexpected circumstances, Princess Victoria will become Queen of Sweden in the near future.
Jonas returned to Sweden not to inherit the throne; he had no claim to it, and he couldn't defeat his sister.
"Managing the family finances," Jonas said.
"This job isn't difficult for you." Shen Qi found it quite interesting. King Charles XVI's daughter had astonishing combat skills; Princess Victoria might become the queen with the strongest individual combat ability in history.
Jonas was the son of King Charles XVI, a mathematician, and may be the most mathematically gifted member of royalty in history.
In reality, the Swedish royal family is now mostly a symbol; they are quite poor, the poorest of all European royal families.
The Swedish royal family doesn't have much cash on hand. They own several estates and castles, Sun Yat-sen University have been donated to the state for public tourism purposes.
The Swedish royalist party is becoming increasingly weak, while the anti-royalist party is gaining immense power, leaving the Swedish royal family feeling quite frustrated.
But Shen Qi believes that with Victoria in power and Jonas in literature, the Swedish royal family will surely regain its former glory.
As the two old friends were chatting, a white woman walked over. She was noble, dignified, and strong; it was Princess Victoria.
"Jonas."
"Victoria."
The siblings greeted each other, and Princess Victoria looked at Shen Qi with interest. "Hello, Professor Shen."
"Hello, Princess Victoria." Shen Qi was also very interested in Princess Victoria. These days, the number of unborn princesses is even rarer than Nobel Prize or Fields Medal winners. This princess is also the Crown Princess and will become the Queen in the future.
"It seems you and Jonas had a very pleasant conversation," the princess said.
"I would be even happier if I could dance with Princess Victoria." Shen Qi extended his hand, as the opportunity to dance with a crown princess was not common.
Princess Victoria smiled confidently, accepted the invitation, and danced with Shen Qi.
Princess Victoria is already a mother of two, and Shen Qi is about to become a father.
The two married individuals were both curious about each other's backgrounds, and the Chinese scientist and the Swedish princess danced a memorable ballroom dance together.
Shen Qi's time in Sweden was short but enjoyable. He bid farewell to his friends from the Swedish royal family and the other Nobel laureates, and returned to China with his Nobel Prize medal and prize money.
Ou Ye is two months pregnant, and Shen Qi's responsibilities are increasing day by day. He needs to work hard to earn more money for baby formula.
Sitting in the center Director's Office, Shen Qi outlined the work plan for the coming period, which consisted of three lines.
Shen Qi has been at level 14 in his main talent path, Mathematics, for a long time. He definitely won't be satisfied until he completes this main path.
The mathematical line faces three unsolved Millennium Prize Problem: the P versus NP problem, the Navier-Stokes equations, and the Yang-Mi equations.
Only if Shen Qi solves at least one of these three Millennium Prize Problem will he be qualified to spend 60 million academic points to upgrade his math level to 15.
The secondary physics level has just been raised to 14, and the three physics puzzles are equally challenging.
In fact, there is a certain connection between mathematics and physics. If Shen Qi can solve the Yang-Mille equation first, then at least one of the three physics problems can also be solved easily.
The Yang-Mille equation is a physics problem in itself, which closely links physics and mathematics.
The subplot is the biochemistry subplot. Shen Qi hasn't been in this field for very long and is still in the exploratory stage.
"Academician Shen, I heard you've been conducting secret animal experiments on the fourth floor recently?" Tang Yuan and Shen Qi went to the laboratory together.
"Everyone knows this already, so is it still a secret? Let's not even talk about the animals; today is an important day for the FASTER project."
Shen Qi and Tang Yuan arrived at the physics lab, where all the members of the FASTER project were.
After multiple rounds of research and development, a set of experimental samples with excellent parameters was finally obtained from the B Series.
In-situ high-pressure XRD revealed a turning point in the diffraction peak positions of the Cerium-Gallium-Copper Metallic Plastic sample as pressure changed, with the atomic volume shrinking sharply in the pressure range of 2.0 and 13.5 GPa.
In theory, Shen Qi and his team have succeeded, but further testing and verification are needed to precisely process the B178 sample at the 100-micrometer scale.
The A Series samples were numbered up to A21. Shen Qi ultimately selected A18, which had the best-looking data, to apply for a patent and transferred the patent development rights.
The B Series samples were numbered up to B178, indicating that the development difficulty of this series of samples increased several times over.
"Let's begin. Perform finishing work on B178 at the 100-micron scale," Shen Qi instructed. They were already several months behind the Princeton Physics Department, and they hoped to catch up and even surpass them this time.