Be a real Phoenix man

And Xie Canglin clearly saw it, his eyes were firm and revealed a deep earnestness, carefully examining Ye Qingluan's back.

His gaze moved inch by inch, as if he saw not only the tail feathers, but also the delicate and delicate lines on the tail feathers.

Fang Yibai's expression changed, he strode forward and pulled Ye Qingluan behind him, blocking the old academician's microscope-like gaze.

"Excuse me," Fang Yibai squinted his eyes and lowered his voice, "What are you looking at?"

Ye Qingluan also trembled slightly, and subconsciously hid behind Fang Yibai.

Xie Canglin then looked away.

"Sorry." He waved his hand, passed Fang Yibai's slightly hostile face, moved back a few steps, and sat on the sofa far away, "I'm so excited to finally see it .”

Ye Qingluan's face turned completely pale, and for a moment he suspected that there was something wrong with his eyes, he pursed his lips, and touched his back again.

There was nothing behind it.The tail, did not appear.

Xie Canglin noticed his movements keenly.He raised his eyes, looked at Ye Qingluan with kind eyes that were almost loving, and smiled: "I should tell you first, children, don't be afraid, I am not a monster, nor a superpower."

He pointed to the sofa beside him, and his tone was somewhat anticlimactic: "Sit down, let's talk slowly."

Fang Yibai didn't respond, he stared at Xie Canglin silently for a while, and then helped Ye Qingluan to sit on the opposite sofa.

Assistant Xiao Wang opened a small notebook, stood aside and began to record.

Xie Canglin said: "Don't worry, the computer in Xiao Wang's hand is protected by the national security system, and nothing related to today will be leaked out. However, if you don't want to, I can ask him to give up the record .”

After finishing speaking, he smiled slightly, and the smile appeared a little sly on the restrained and steady lips: "On the contrary, although my legs and feet are not good, my brain is very good, and it will memorize all these things."

Assistant Xiao Wang understood, closed the computer again, and sat quietly aside.

The air was a little stagnant, and the whole space was so silent that only the chirping of birds could be heard outside the window, which were a few sparrows chirping and jumping on the edge of the balcony.

Xie Canglin was attracted by the crowing of the sparrows, and he extended his gaze with great interest, and landed on those sparrows.

After a while, he said, "Those birds seem to like this place very much." He turned his head, looked at Ye Qingluan, and smiled again: "I guess it's because of you."

Ye Qingluan couldn't laugh, he frowned, and finally asked: "How did you see it?"

Since he was able to fully control the appearance and concealment of his tail with his consciousness, there have been no accidents, and even Doctor Jiang's helmet is no longer needed.

And his tail will not show its shape under the camera's shooting, but the person in front of him can actually see it.

Xie Canglin's expression was not mysterious at all, or playing tricks. He said with a light smile: "Because it doesn't exist after all. My child, as long as everything in this world exists, it must be seen or be seen." be perceived."

He paused, and continued: "You can either use the helmet or use your own consciousness, you just hide the tail in a certain way, instead of cutting it off completely, right?"

"In this case, I have a way to see what you hide. Now, humans can even detect black holes, let alone your tail." When Xie Canglin said this, there seemed to be a little pride in his expression , that pride is not a momentary elation, but buried in the bones. "Actually, I wear a pair of special glasses. Through this pair of glasses, I can see some things that cannot be seen in the normal world, such as infrared light, such as your tail."

Xie Canglin pointed to his eyes.

There was no frame on it.After being stunned for a moment, Ye Qingluan realized that the scientist in front of him should be wearing a pair of contact lenses.

He couldn't help staring at those eyes carefully, as if he really saw a thin layer of translucent material on the dark brown pupils of the old man, refracting a tiny gleam of light under the indoor light.

He blinked in surprise.

Seeing this look, Xie Canglin laughed: "My child, you are so innocent and cute. No wonder this Mr. Fang wants to protect you so strictly."

Fang Yibai looked uncomfortable for a moment, but he didn't think the previous actions were too exaggerated.

Xie Canglin turned his gaze to Fang Yibai again, and said, "Mr. Fang, could I trouble you to pour me a glass of water?"

Fang Yibai stood up neatly and went to the kitchen to make tea.

Xie Canglin narrowed his eyes and smiled, taking advantage of this moment, he continued to talk about his relationship with this little phoenix.

"Son, there is one thing you should know." He closed his eyes and thought for a while, and said, "It was about 30 years ago. We already knew about your existence. It's just a pity that because of a colleague's mistake, we missed This is a great opportunity to conduct research on you. We almost forgot about it until half a year ago. Fortunately, Jiang Tao found you."

Seeing Ye Qingluan's suddenly tense expression, he smiled and waved his hand, signaling him to relax.

Then he turned his head and whispered something to Assistant Wang.

Assistant Wang immediately turned on the computer and searched. After a while, he handed over the computer and put it on the coffee table in front of the sofa.

"Son, come here." Xie Canglin beckoned, pointed to the computer screen, and said, "Look, this is the paper Jiang Tao published on SCI as a researcher of the Academy of Sciences three months ago. This is the Chinese version of the paper. "

Ye Qingluan hesitated and leaned over to take a look, his eyes widened in surprise.

Regardless of the content of the paper, the author's signature alone was enough to surprise him.In the author's column, in addition to Dr. Jiang's name, his name Ye Qingluan was even affixed.He became the second author.

Looking at the abstract and content of this paper, it is even more bizarre.Ye Qingluan had a half-knowledge, but he also knew what Dr. Jiang was writing about the possibility of human atavism, the relationship between ancient creatures and human beings, and even talked about a bird named "phoenix". After talking about the physiological characteristics of this phoenix bird, it can emit a magnetic field from the brain. This magnetic field and electric waves can make all birds surrender, and then they even talked about the fire control ability and automatic defense system of the phoenix bird's tail feathers.

Isn't that what he is talking about? !

Xie Canglin observed Ye Qingluan's demeanor, raised his voice and laughed twice, and said: "Jiang Tao has this kind of nonsense character. He was like this when he was in the research institute in the early years. We all call him 'Crazy Jiang'. But don't Care about him, although he looks messy, he knows how to measure. Although the whole article provides detailed data, it doesn't mention the research object—that is, your reality. The academic environment in foreign countries is relatively loose. Pursuing innovation and logic, the data and logic of this article are too strict, even if the research site is not provided, and it is not even stated that the research object must exist in reality, it can still be published. After publication, it caused a lot of excitement A group of foreign scholars are interested, and they even want to come to China to find out if there is such a phoenix.”

When Xie Canglin said this, his smiling expression suddenly froze for a moment and became serious: "However, it is absolutely impossible for us to reveal half of your existence. This is the top research secret of the National Academy of Sciences. Even Jiang Tao doesn't know, he No such qualifications. He discovered you purely by mistake."

Fang Yibai just came out of the kitchen at this time. In fact, he had been paying attention to the situation in the living room. He put the tea set in his hand on the coffee table, looked up at Xie Canglin, and said in a deep voice: "But, Qingluan is also an ordinary A person is a citizen, he should enjoy human rights, he is not your research object, let alone a secret, he lives aboveboard."

Xie Canglin didn't refute or answer, he was silent for a while, and said: "Listen to what I have to say first, and then you can make a conclusion, okay?"

Ye Qingluan grabbed Fang Yibai's hand and motioned him to sit down. After listening for a long time, he thought about it.Rather than living in a daze, it is better to understand this time.

Then he heard an incredible story.

That was about 30 years ago.Before the new century, there was a lot of waste waiting to be done, the country was underdeveloped, and basic science also needed to catch up quickly.

Fortunately, everyone at that time, although materially poor, had the drive to catch up. The natural science community also experienced several times of ideological emancipation, and a group of young scientists enthusiastically joined in.

Although Xie Canglin was middle-aged at that time, he was aroused by the young people around him and was willing to do some novel and interesting research with them.

Back then they were doing paleontology.Xie Canglin is different from them. He studies polymer biology, mainly doing gene chain deciphering.At that time, foreign scientists had already claimed to have unlocked 70% of the human gene chain, while domestic research was still in its infancy. This gap not only made national leaders anxious, but their scientific community was the first to bear the brunt of anxiety.

At that time, he stayed up all night for his research topic, and then got up before dawn, but still made no progress.

It is too difficult. The U.S. imperialists have imposed a technical blockade on the country, and the research equipment manufactured by the country is really backward. Under such conditions, it is as difficult as heaven to make a substantive breakthrough.

Xie Canglin was anxious for a long time, couldn't eat, and felt that life was boring, and he was immersed in frustration all day long.

At this time, the young people who studied paleontology around them suddenly proposed a topic. They wanted to go to Mount Everest in Tibet to find the remains of paleontology.

At that time, it was the time when blockbuster movies about foreign dinosaurs were popular all over the world, so strike while the iron is hot, and many research articles on dinosaur fossils were published in foreign journals.

So these young people were not convinced.There are dinosaurs abroad, but don't they exist in China?On a whim, they planned to go to Everest to find dinosaur fossils.The area around Mount Everest is the junction of the plates, where the vicissitudes of life have changed. Tens of millions of years ago, this area was a tropical plain. Maybe dinosaurs really appeared.At least in theory, it is possible.

Unexpectedly, this project was approved and received a sum of funds and support.

Among them was a young man named Li Feihua who usually liked to ask Xie Canglin about academic issues. This time, he suddenly realized that his academic teacher and friend seemed to be in a difficult situation. After thinking about it, he proposed this invitation to Xie Canglin.

Li Feihua said: "Although you are studying polymer biology now, you are my biology teacher. You know more about paleontology than I do. I really hope that this field trip will be guided by you, otherwise we will How funny it would be if dinosaur egg fossils were identified as ostrich eggs, or ostrich eggs as dinosaur eggs."

Xie Canglin laughed at his gag, and the depression of the past few days seemed to have dissipated a bit.

Li Feihua took advantage of the opportunity to invite again, and said that taking this opportunity, Xie Canglin could at least go out to relax, which was better than being bored in the laboratory all day.

After several times of persuasion, Xie Canglin was tempted. One day when he was eating in the canteen with Li Feihua, he finally agreed to the invitation.

So, they had a wonderful trip, which he will remember all his life.