"Can you see it?"
"...See what?"
"That bridge," He Changwen said, gesturing with a finger as he continued with a strange expression. "The outline Academician Lu was talking about."
Resting her index finger against her chin, Han Mengqi gave it some serious thought before speaking.
"I'm not sure whether what I saw was what my mentor meant... but I think I have some sense of it."
He Changwen had assumed his junior fellow student was just as lost as he was. Hearing that answer left him stunned.
"Holy crap, you... actually understood what he was saying?"
Not quite understanding why he was so excited, Han Mengqi nodded with a puzzled expression.
"Yes... I think I have some sense of it, though that might have something to do with the topic I've been working on lately."
He Changwen asked, "...What topic?"
Han Mengqi replied, "The transcendence of values of the Riemann zeta function at odd positive integers."
He Changwen fell silent. "..."
Seeing him suddenly fall silent, Han Mengqi hesitated briefly before asking.
"...Is something wrong?"
"Nothing." He Changwen shook his head, looking as though he was questioning his entire life. With mixed feelings, he said, "My research topic is more or less the same."
At almost the same time.
In a conference room at Starry Sky Technology's headquarters in Jinling High-Tech Industrial Park, a man in a suit whose face frequently appeared in all sorts of memes handed over a document with a composed smile.
"At your company's request, we've made some revisions to our original proposal. I believe this round of negotiations will be much more pleasant than the last."
Although he was the head of Tencent, he showed no trace of condescension toward the younger CEO sitting before him.
Taking the document, Chen Yushan expertly scanned the