Life was like a journey taken on a whim: making choices at countless forks in the road, only to finally arrive at an endpoint where you did not even know you would stop.
Professor Miel felt that he was standing at just such a crossroads. Behind a future that seemed full of promise lurked all kinds of risks. Though he had agreed without hesitation, the more he thought about it, the more rash his decision seemed.
After three whole days of agonizing over it, however, he finally packed his bags and set off for Shanghai.
Although Dr. Z's identity was highly suspicious, spending his entire life in obscurity at this research institute was not the life he wanted either.
Traveling with him was his old friend, Professor Sarot.
Although putting a Materials Science professor together with a summit in the field of Artificial Intelligence seemed somewhat mismatched, carbon materials had found increasingly widespread applications in recent years. In particular, ever since Hua Nation developed that Carbon-Based Chip, research into carbon materials had suddenly become closely linked with information technology.
He had expressed his envy more than once.
They had both started out in computers, and they had both switched to other fields midway through. Yet before he knew it, even Artificial Intelligence had begun riding the wave of carbon materials. Why was his own research direction still half-dead?
Every time he thought about it, he got annoyed.
"...This was probably the most boring academic conference I've ever attended."
Clearly holding a different view from the envious and resentful Professor Miel, Professor Sarot, who was wandering the streets with him after leaving the presentation venue, said in a slightly bored voice, "A bunch of people who don't even understand what Graphene is are expecting it to become a miracle cure for