Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 357 Tu Hengyu

Ding Yi woke up at New York First People's Hospital.

He got up groggily, his memory seemingly still stuck on the time of the Mantis, the image of the Trisolaran probe instantly annihilating five star-class warships still flashing through his mind.

Looking around at the bustling hospital room and feeling the standard gravity unique to Earth, Ding Yi realized that he had returned to Earth.

"Where is this?"

Ding Yi touched his chest. The area had been completely pierced by shrapnel from the warship's explosion, but it had now been restored to its original state. Human medical technology had not yet reached this level, which meant that someone had saved him.

Who is it? It's so hard to guess.

Ding Yi habitually tapped a few times next to the armrest, and a screen quickly appeared. He browsed the relevant information on it, but found that the online world seemed to be completely oblivious, with most netizens still discussing the situation at the front lines of Fleet International.

He vaguely remembered that before he lost consciousness, he had seen the main force of the solar system fleet, consisting of more than 4,800 ships that had entered the forward orbit of Jupiter.

How could people on Earth not know what happened?
I have already traveled 600 million kilometers back to Earth, so at least a week should have passed.

Why is the internet so chaotic that not a single useful piece of information can be extracted?

Ding Yi felt a little dizzy.

Soon, a somewhat familiar figure pushed open the pristine white isolation door, walked past the numerous nurses, and entered carrying some fruit.

Yes……

so familiar...

Who was it again?
"Mr. Ding, I just received a message from Xiao Moss that you have woken up, so I came to see you. How is your recovery going?"

The visitor, dressed in a white coat and wearing old-fashioned glasses from the Common Era, smiled shyly at the elderly physicist on the hospital bed.

“Picture…” Ding Yi pointed at the other party, his throat tightening.

"Hengyu, it's me." Tu Hengyu nodded.

"It's Xiao Tu..." Ding Yi's chaotic memories finally sorted out a bit, and he finally recognized the person who came.

Tu Hengyu and Ding Yi are not from the same era. Ding Yi was born in 1976, a year that also saw countless endings and countless beginnings, but compared to today's era, it seems like a completely different world.

Tu Hengyu was born in 2010, making them more than a generation apart in age.

As a prodigy computer scientist from Tsinghua University who achieved fame at a young age, Tu Hengyu inherited his mentor Ma Zhao's mantle and shouldered the responsibility of leading China's research on supercomputers. He presided over the research of numerous supercomputers, including Tianhe. Later, the mentor and student, together with an older computer expert named Wu Miaoyuan, formed the world-renowned "iron triangle" of computer science. With the help of quantum data provided by Luo Qing, they broke through the technological blockade of sophons and created the first quantum computer in human history—the 550A—from scratch. The 550A is the prototype of the world-famous 550W quantum computer and the creator of the little moss MOSS.

(Note: The 550W quantum computer can achieve self-iteration, and its hardware can also be upgraded with the help of advanced intelligent machinery. Therefore, 550W is the ultimate form of quantum computer, and there is no next-generation version. The external facilities of today's 550W quantum computer are vastly different from those of the early 550W quantum computers, and different applicable models have been derived.)
Ding Yi had heard of Tu Hengyu's name on television before, but their real acquaintance dates back to when Ding Yi urged countries around the world to build the 'Einstein Equatorial Particle Accelerator'.

The Circum-Equatorial Accelerator was a mega-project for countries around the world at the time, and it was also during a major economic downturn, so the construction did not go smoothly in the early stages. Later, Tu Hengyu joined the construction team as a computer consultant and used the computing power of a 550W computer to greatly advance the construction of the Circum-Equatorial Particle Accelerator.

This was the first time Ding Yi and Tu Hengyu had met.

At that time, Ding Yi was nearly seventy years old, while Tu Hengyu was only in his thirties and in his prime.

And looking at Tu Hengyu's current appearance...

In terms of appearance, there hasn't been any change.

As if sensing Ding Yi's confusion, Tu Hengyu took the initiative to explain: "Old Ding, I hibernated quite early. At that time, I noticed that the social trend was not quite right. There were both the Trisolaran rebels and the economic downturn. Therefore, after the accelerator was basically completed, I hibernated first. This hibernation lasted for more than 140 years, and I only woke up during the Great Confrontation period."

(Note: The Great Confrontation Period refers to the period between Crisis Era 190 and Crisis Era 202, during which the Solar System Fleet and the Devouring Empire were confronted across the Kuiper Belt.)

"Oh, thank you for coming to see me." Ding Yi didn't know what to say for a moment, her mind filled with too many questions, so she took the initiative to start a conversation and asked:

"How is your teacher... Academician Ma Zhao? I had a fairly good relationship with him in my early years. We worked together at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, although it only lasted for a few months."

Good relationship.

This refers to the incident in 2002 when Ding Yi joined the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the invitation of Dr. Chen. After staying for less than two months, he smashed the head of the president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and left in anger. At that time, Ma Zhao and others desperately held back the furious Ding Yi and rescued the president, Xu, who was being beaten to the ground by Ding Yi.

Upon hearing his teacher's name, Tu Hengyu's expression became somewhat complicated: "Teacher Ma... Teacher Ma passed away as early as 2056 due to stomach cancer. At that time, there was no gene editing technology, and he was unwilling to hibernate. When he passed away, many people from the country came to pay their respects."

"Oh...please accept my condolences, please accept my condolences," Ding Yi said.

Tu Hengyu smiled and said, "There's nothing to grieve about. It all happened more than 150 years ago. Besides, the teacher witnessed the birth of the little moss. It has no regrets since it was born."

Ding Yi nodded, changing the subject from these old grievances, and said, "Anyway, thank you for still thinking of this old man... Oh, I'm not that old, Xiao Tu, is there something you need from me?"

“There are some things,” Tu Hengyu nodded apologetically. He said, “Old Ding, you were on the front lines on Jupiter before. Can you tell me what happened there? Right now, everything is a mess. I really can’t find a suitable source of information. Even Little Moss can’t explain it clearly. All I know is that the Chairman emphasized in the live broadcast that humanity has won the final victory… saying that the Trisolaran world has been defeated. Do you know what that means?”

Ding Yi smiled wryly upon hearing this: "Xiao Tu, you might have asked the wrong person. I seem to have been unconscious for a long time. I was still in Jupiter's orbit, and in the blink of an eye, I'm on Earth. It's probably been more than a week..."

Tu Hengyu realized that Ding Yi might be unaware of the current situation, so he interrupted, "Old Ding, you were unconscious for a very short time, probably no more than a day. Has anyone told you that time stood still for a week?"

(End of this chapter)