"Are these Chinese people still refusing to leave?" asked Councilor Bohr, rushing into the research center's office.
The European High Energy Particle Collider was managed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, an institution composed of the academies of science of various European countries and funded by the European Union. Its primary responsibility was the research of high-energy physics and particles across Europe. The high-energy particle collider was an institution under this research organization.
However, as the saying goes, the one who pays the piper calls the tune. Although the high-energy particle collider had no direct subordination to the EU, its actual administrative power was directly governed by the Council of the European Union. The European Council would dispatch a commissioner to manage the collider.
The European Council was a secondary management body of the EU, consisting of a minister from each member state as a permanent commissioner. For example, a minister from Sweden was currently the nominal head of the high-energy particle collider. In fact, this position had always been held by a minister from Sweden. This was because the high-energy particle collider was built within a mountain range on the border between France and Sweden, directly within the territories of both countries. It was naturally more appropriate for commissioners from these two countries to be directly responsible. Considering France's significant influence within the EU, this balance meant that Sweden had always been responsible for the collider.
However, Sweden had little interest in management, as this was not a particularly profitable venture. Therefore, the Swedish minister, in charge only nominally and making appearances on important occasions, did not handle specific matters. The actual management of the entire high-energy particle collider fell to an academician from the Swedish Academy of Sciences, who was also a leading scholar in high-energy particles. Having such a person manage the collider provided a sense of security for everyone.
But no one had anticipated that trouble would arise, with a researcher from another country dying within the research center. Such an incident made even the Swedish minister unable to remain idle. As the minister was currently in a meeting, he sent his deputy, also an official, Deputy Minister Bohr, to deal with the situation urgently.
"They refuse to leave, and their attitude is terrible. I tried to use security personnel, but they huddled together, holding onto each other, and our security personnel couldn't move them by hand," Professor Carl, the head of the center, suggested, "So, I hope our security personnel can get permission to use some necessary equipment to help us drive these people away!"
"You, still thinking about that now!" Deputy Minister Bohr rolled his eyes. "Let me ask you, have you still not cut off the Wi-Fi network in that ward?"
This question caught Professor Carl by surprise. He had never considered the Wi-Fi network, so he foolishly asked, "What about the Wi-Fi network?"
"What about it? Do you know how much trouble your foolishness has caused? Haven't you seen how many reporters are outside your research center right now?" Bohr said angrily. Professor Carl, as if waking from a dream, walked to the window and saw that the entrance to the entire research center was already filled with various vehicles and reporters armed with long guns and short cannons!
"How did so many reporters get here? I explicitly ordered to seal the news and not allow them to leak information!" Professor Carl was shocked.
"Seal the news? How can you seal the news if you don't even cut off their Wi-Fi signal? My Professor Carl, you are an academician of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, one of the most intelligent people in the world, much smarter than me. How can you not even do something as basic as cutting off the network? Do I need to come all the way here?" Mr. Bohr said helplessly.
In fact, Professor Carl had done a good job of sealing the news. At least Mr. Bohr, the actual supervisor, had not learned of the incident through official channels. Instead, his secretary had urgently delivered several news reports and videos from the internet, informing him that a serious accident had occurred at the high-energy particle collider, resulting in the death of a foreign scientist. Even more frightening was that the news had already spread across the entire internet, with videos shot by the other party everywhere.
In the videos, the deceased was lying in bed, the deceased's family was crying heartbrokenly, and both sides were in confrontation. Mr. Bohr was also seen standing at the door loudly announcing that the deceased foreign expert had willingly donated his body for research, even though their family had loudly refuted this statement, saying that the deceased had never expressed a desire to donate his body and that they intended to take the body home immediately.
What was even more alarming was that during the argument, both sides revealed the cause of the deceased's death. It turned out that the deceased's research time, originally seven days, had been compressed to only three days. As a result, he had been working day and night on experiments, leading to extreme fatigue and a fatal mistake, ultimately being pierced through the heart by high-energy particles.
This video, due to its highly explosive content, went viral within ten minutes. The media across Europe almost simultaneously followed up with reports. Online media were the fastest, with related news dominating their front pages within twenty minutes. Many terminal media outlets even pushed news notifications to their users.
However, it is worth noting that some terminal users later complained online that they had disabled notification push permissions for most apps and had explicitly turned off push notifications for certain news applications. Yet, this push notification still went through, bypassing their settings as if the block did not exist. However, this blocking function was later restored, meaning the malfunction only occurred for a brief period. Of course, the number of users who reported this issue was small and was quickly overwhelmed by more news online. No one paid attention to the loss of terminal notification blocking functionality. After all, the news itself was so sensational that many users who had previously blocked notifications were not angry upon seeing the notification but eagerly clicked on the video to start consuming the gossip.
With all this, the news's popularity became unstoppable. By the time Mr. Bohr consulted his superior and rushed to the research center, he found that the reporters had arrived even earlier, and the entire main entrance was completely blocked. Mr. Bohr, with his considerable political experience, chose to use the employee entrance to avoid the reporters and successfully reached his office.
"You immediately send people to cut off all external networks of the research center, don't let them send any more information out!" Mr. Bohr said powerlessly. Professor Carl nodded quickly and ordered his staff to cut off the Wi-Fi signal.
This part of the plot might seem unbelievable, as it's hard to imagine someone being so foolish as to not even cut off the Wi-Fi signal. But it's important to remember that even someone like Professor Carl, a distinguished figure and a highly intelligent person, might overlook basic matters due to his exceptional intellect and extremely high standards. Furthermore, Professor Carl had never handled such a matter as sealing news before, so it was understandable that there were some oversights. Moreover, with high intelligence often comes lower emotional intelligence. If Professor Carl had even slightly higher emotional intelligence, he wouldn't have dared to demand the body immediately after someone's death, let alone tell people it would be used for research.
If Professor Carl had higher emotional intelligence, he would have expressed profound grief at this time, empathized with the deceased's family, and tearfully stated that a great figure like Professor Zhao could not have died in vain and that his death should be made more meaningful, his name known to the world. He would have also said that Professor Zhao, having been exposed to high-energy particle radiation today, would surely wish to save other patients who might die from high-energy particles in the future. Therefore, he truly hoped that Professor Zhao's family would allow them to keep his body so that his name could be immortalized in the history of science. Finally, he would have asked if Professor Zhao had children and if they were interested in high-energy particles. If so, he would be very willing to take them on as disciples and arrange for them to study in Sweden.
Damn it, with these three moves, the family of Professor Zhao would have certainly voluntarily agreed to donate his body, and the situation would not have escalated to such a tense standoff. Mr. Bohr mused inwardly before ordering, "Now, hurry up and end this farce. Have someone let all these Chinese people leave. We can't have reporters blocking the entrance!"
Mr. Bohr expected this order to be executed immediately, but to his surprise, Professor Carl unequivocally objected, "No, absolutely not. The research value of this corpse is extremely high. It can help us understand the damage of high-energy particles to human cells, as well as the reactions triggered by this beam within the human body!" He insisted, "This is unique research material, and we must keep it!"
"You..." Mr. Bohr, a seasoned politician, was rendered speechless by Professor Carl, a seasoned scientist.