Yang Yunhe’s thoughts were not wrong. After hearing his reasons, Boss Huang just scolded him with a smile and then instructed him to act as if nothing had happened, so Yang Yunhe’s heart finally relaxed. He chuckled and returned directly to Li Susu’s room to continue his revelries.
Meanwhile, Boss Huang put down the phone with a stiff expression. This time, he had been completely kept in the dark. If Yang Yunhe had not confessed everything himself and instead chose to hand over the data to the Americans, everything would have been ruined. The absolute foundation of Jiangnan Group, Black Gold technology, would have been completely taken by the Americans, and it would have been uncertain whether Jiangnan Group could maintain its current situation.
After all, a large portion of Jiangnan Group’s current technological lead was built upon the Black Gold technology.
“Forget it, Black Gold was never a technology that could be hidden forever. Besides, there are a thousand days to be a thief, but not a thousand days to guard against a thief. We need to find a way to make the Americans give up on Black Gold.” After some consideration, Boss Huang’s lips curved into a smile again. It seemed the key to this problem still lay with Yang Yunhe.
“He got off too cheap!” Boss Huang muttered. Knowing that almost all of Yang Yunhe’s achievements were gifted by Goldman Sachs, Boss Huang’s affection for Yang Yunhe had basically evaporated. After all, this also showed that Yang Yunhe had no outstanding talents.
Originally, Boss Huang thought Yang Yunhe had super geniuses like Tong He and Zuo Sicheng, but it turned out he was just a deceiver. This naturally disappointed Boss Huang greatly.
However, Yang Yunhe also had lovable qualities, namely that all his technologies were obtained from Goldman Sachs Group, which made him very happy.
So, after careful consideration, Boss Huang decided to maintain the status quo and make good use of Yang Yunhe as a chess piece, but some things still needed to be prepared in advance.
After Yang Yunhe and his senior sister had a wonderful day, Yang Yunhe suddenly remembered that he still had important business to attend to: assisting Professor Zhao with the experiments for the high-energy particle collider.
He wondered what the situation would be after two days.
However, Yang Yunhe also knew that he probably wouldn’t have to do anything. Because the work that was originally scheduled for a week had been compressed into three days, Professor Zhao couldn’t even complete his own plan, so how could he possibly have extra time to let him conduct experiments?
But it also seemed strange if he didn’t show up in the laboratory at all. Yang Yunhe was originally planning to just hang around the center on the third day and show his face, when a researcher from Professor Zhao’s team suddenly rushed over, bringing him astonishing news: Professor Zhao, also known as Deputy Director Zhao, was seriously injured and in critical condition.
This news terrified Yang Yunhe. He followed the researcher to the research center, inquiring about the specific situation.
It turned out, just as Yang Yunhe had said, because the time had been compressed to only three days, Professor Zhao had to push himself even harder, working day and night without sleep in the collider center, personally handling all the procedures, even setting every parameter himself.
This seemed somewhat unnecessary, as setting parameters could be done by his subordinate researchers. But this was a high-energy particle collider. Deputy Director Zhao felt that this might be his last opportunity in life to interact with such equipment. At the same time, he was also burdened by the regrets of his father and feared that the researchers might not set the parameters correctly with due diligence, so he insisted on doing it himself.
Meanwhile, during these two days, although a large number of collision experiments were conducted, none of them successfully produced any special particles, meaning there were no results.
This made Deputy Director Zhao even more anxious, and his mindset changed accordingly.
So, at 9:02 AM this morning, an accident occurred. After an experiment, Professor Zhao, who had not slept for over 52 hours, suddenly received a safety warning from the equipment.
This misfortune, coupled with the continuous rain, caused Professor Zhao to neglect many of the necessary safety precautions. He directly opened the passage to troubleshoot the fault. However, at the moment the fault was cleared, the equipment inexplicably automatically emitted a high-energy particle beam, and he was directly hit by it.
“It’s over, Professor Zhao is probably doomed!” Yang Yunhe lamented in his heart upon hearing this news.
This was a particle beam generated by the world’s most powerful high-energy particle collider. A 500-rad particle beam was enough to kill an ordinary person, and the energy of this particle collider was as high as 1.8 million rad. Yang Yunhe understood that when he went over this time, he was probably not going to save anyone, but to clean up the mess.
Although there had been a case in history where someone survived being penetrated by a 200,000-rad high-energy particle beam and was still alive today.
However, that person was hit by gamma rays, which have the characteristic of not leaving large amounts of radiation in the human body. It was like being shot by a bullet, but with no shrapnel remaining inside. Therefore, as long as the bleeding could be stopped, there was a chance of survival.
But the particle beams from the high-energy particle collider center were different. They would leave a large amount of residual radiation in the body, and this radiation would constantly attack the body’s cells and DNA. Professor Zhao would sooner or later die from the death of all his body’s cells and organ failure.
Indeed, when Yang Yunhe arrived at the scene, he found that Professor Zhao was already in a dire state. He was very unlucky; the part of his body hit by the radiation was close to his heart. At this moment, his entire chest had swollen up completely, filled with pus produced by cell necrosis.
Although the high-energy particle collider center had professional radiation doctors, and Professor Zhao had received very professional treatment immediately, he was now struggling to even breathe.
“Deputy Director Zhao!” Yang Yunhe tightly grasped Professor Zhao’s hand. He didn’t offer any words of comfort but asked directly, “Is there anything you need us to do? We will definitely fulfill it for you!”
At this moment, Professor Zhao had no strength to speak. He weakly raised one hand and pointed to a small notebook placed by the bedside.
Yang Yunhe recognized the notebook. This was Professor Zhao’s notebook specifically for recording various high-energy particle collider experiment ideas, filled with a large amount of data and parameters.
On the plane, Professor Zhao had excitedly told Yang Yunhe that this notebook contained parameters for as many as 3682 experiments, all of which he believed had a high probability of producing new high-energy particles.
And he had carefully selected over a hundred experiments to be conducted in this collision experiment.
However, with the seven days being reduced to three, only less than 40 of these essential experiments had been completed before Professor Zhao was about to pass away.
“Professor Zhao, I understand your meaning. I, Yang Yunhe, swear to you here that in my lifetime, I will do my utmost to help you go through all the experimental parameters in the notebook!” Yang Yunhe solemnly promised. Professor Zhao nodded, then his body stiffened, and he went limp.
At the same time, the heartbeat on the monitor stopped completely. Professor Zhao’s heart had suffered extensive myocardial cell necrosis due to the impact of radiation energy, ultimately losing its ability to beat.
And once the heart stops beating, the various parts of the body will lose their nutrient support, and Professor Zhao was bound to die.
“Old Zhao!”
“Teacher!”
The entire ward instantly erupted in tears. Although Yang Yunhe did not shed tears, his nose felt a little sore. Who would have thought that a person who was enthusiastically discussing various experiments with him just a few days ago, a person burdened by his father’s long-held regrets, would leave this world like this, and even before his father.
Yang Yunhe silently began to direct everyone to handle the aftermath, while also arranging for personnel to continue preparing for the experiments. After all, he had promised Professor Zhao that this was his last wish, and he had to fulfill it. At that moment, a group of research center staff rushed out, demanding that they leave.
“What do you want to do?” Yang Yunhe angrily questioned the aggressive staff.
“Gentlemen, your three days are over. You can no longer use our equipment!” the previous person in charge came out and said coldly to Yang Yunhe and the others.
“Sir, are you mistaken? We booked seven days, not three days!” Yang Yunhe said through gritted teeth.
“No, you had three days!” the person in charge said expressionlessly.
“You scoundrel!” One of Yang Yunhe’s researchers couldn’t help but explode. “Our professor was driven to death by you. We paid for seven days, but you only gave us three, forcing Professor Zhao to work day and night, which led to an accident caused by his momentary lapse in concentration.”
“Not only do you not apologize to us, but now you refuse to give us the time that rightfully belongs to us. Are you people even human?”
“We are also very sorry for Professor Zhao’s death, but he died due to his own improper operation. We never required him to work overtime. These were all his personal actions and have nothing to do with our center. Furthermore, due to Professor Zhao’s improper operation, a large number of expensive components in our equipment have been damaged. After we complete the equipment inspection, we will send you the compensation bill!” the person in charge said.
“You things worse than pigs and dogs!” Many researchers were furious and were about to rush in and fight, but fortunately, Yang Yunhe pulled them back in time. He knew that further argument was meaningless, as this was their territory.
So, he gritted his teeth and said, “We’ll settle this with them later. Let’s take the professor away from here first!”
“I’m afraid that won’t be possible!” the person in charge suddenly said. “You can leave, but you cannot take Professor Zhao’s body with you?”
“Why?” Yang Yunhe questioned.
“He is now a very important research material. For the sake of human science and the future, Professor Zhao would certainly be very willing for his body to remain here for the world’s top scientists to study. This would also be Professor Zhao’s greatest contribution to humanity!”