Shanghai.
Maglev Station.
Watching Lu Zhou walk out of the exit passage, Luo Wenxuan could not help complaining.
"I waited at the maglev station all day yesterday!"
"You should have called me."
"I did. At three and five in the afternoon! But it said the person I was calling was out of the service area. What were you doing then?"
Looking at Senior Brother Luo, who was complaining to him, Lu Zhou thought back carefully. At the time, he seemed to have been on the third basement level of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study. Because the protective measures there were extremely stringent, no outside signals could get in, nor could any signals leak out.
As for the missed-call notifications...
Perhaps because all his attention had been on his memories of the Old Universe, Lu Zhou had not noticed them at all.
"...That was my oversight. Anyway, let's put that aside for now." With a light cough, Lu Zhou forcibly changed the subject. Looking at Senior Brother Luo, he continued, "Have all the invitations been sent out?"
"They've all been sent! So far, the world's eight major High-Energy Physics research institutes have replied, expressing their support for the initiative jointly proposed by us and CERN. As for CERN, there's no need to mention them—they've already arrived in Shanghai. Do you want to meet them?"
Lu Zhou said, "I'll go later... I'll have to trouble you to receive them for the time being."
With a helpless expression, Luo Wenxuan sighed.
"I knew you'd say that."
Lu Zhou smiled sheepishly and gave him a thumbs-up.
"You really do understand me."
The car sent to pick them up was parked at the station exit. Wang Peng, walking ahead of them, opened the door for the two of them before taking the front passenger