The Necessary Road to the Stars

The preprint posted on arXiv swept through the entire physics community like a tsunami.

Even though many had been mentally prepared, when they actually saw the paper, quite a few people were still stunned by the sheer volume of information it contained.

Whether it was the research into the Mass Gap or the Quantum Yang–Mills Field proposed in the paper, both were eye-opening.

The paper also continued Lu Zhou's usual style. Even as a preprint, it was rigorous to the greatest possible extent. Unless some major flaw emerged, it would basically not be revised after being posted, so there was no problem downloading and reading it immediately.

Once he had uploaded the preprint, the conditions for judging the mission complete had also been fulfilled.

After quietly waiting at his desk for the time it took to drink a cup of coffee, Lu Zhou leaned back in his chair and sank his consciousness into the System Space.

When he crossed the empty, pure-white space and arrived before the translucent holographic panel, a reassuring line of text appeared before him.

[Congratulations, Host, on completing the mission!]

[Mission completion details: Proved the Yang–Mills Equations Millennium Problem.]

[Final mission rating: S (Reward missions are not rated)]

[Mission rewards: 300,000 Mathematics experience, 300,000 Physics experience, 500 points, and one lottery draw.]

[Special reward for S rating: 10% experience bonus.]

It wasn't S+?

Lu Zhou looked at the mission rating in surprise.

Generally speaking, only an S+ rating came with a bonus mission.

An S rating usually awarded experience, points, or items.

Of course, the best rewards were branch rewards, though he had only received one in all his missions. That had been when he discovered the 750 GeV Signal at a CERN seminar. The System had determined that he had completed a hidden branch and