Chapter 569: To hell with it, just do it

The living room of Yandongyuan.

Guo Zi originally wanted to poke the passing tabby cat, but the fat cat dodged it nimbly. He shook his head, gnawing on an apple, and suddenly said, "Zhouzi, I want to resign."

"Thinking of going solo?"

Xu Qingzhou wasn't very surprised and scooped up Er Miao, who was trying to run toward the kitchen. In his previous life, Guo Zi had worked as a corporate slave for three years before coming out to start his own company. Nowadays, everyone's life trajectory had changed to some extent.

It was normal for Guo Zi to escape the big factory two years early.

Guo Zi nodded. "Those friends of mine contacted me again last month about going solo. I was thinking about whether to give it a try, to start a studio or something. Although the scale is relatively small, it's still better than being a corporate slave in a big factory."

"As long as you've thought it through."

Xu Qingzhou smiled, paused, and said, "If you're short on funds, just say the word. I don't have a ton, but I can still scrape together ten or twenty million."

"..."

Guo Zi suspected this guy was showing off his wealth.

Of course, he also knew that as long as he asked, Xu Qingzhou would definitely lend it to him.

He shrugged and said, "No need to worry about money. My old man saved up a 'wife fund' for me, and pooling it with those friends is enough."

"Alright then."

Xu Qingzhou didn't force it. Guo Zi's professionalism was fine; after all, he had managed to build a company of dozens of people before.

Guo Zi sighed and said in a low voice, "It's just... I don't know if this choice is right."

Big factories have a lot of overtime, but they really pay.

He currently has an annual salary of over 300,000. Once he resigns, his future will truly be uncertain.

"What are you afraid of?"

Xu Qingzhou laughed, turned his head to glance at the busy figure in the kitchen, and said, "Tell me, back when the two of us would dive into internet cafes every weekend, did we ever think about now?"

Recalling the past, Guo Zi also chuckled.

In high school, after school on weekends, the two of them wouldn't even eat, rushing straight to the internet cafe to grab a computer.

Guo Zi also turned his head to look at the two girls busy in the kitchen.

The future is unknown, no one knows what will happen. To hell with it, just do it!

Kitchen.

Ding Jiahui looked at Song Yao, who was chopping vegetables quickly, hesitated, and said, "Yaoyao, about the trip in July, Guo Zi and I ran into a small accident, so we might not be able to go."

"Didn't get annual leave?"

Song Yao's hand paused.

"I got it, but Guo Zi just took on a big project and can't get away."

Ding Jiahui made a bitter face. They had even planned where to go, but then Guo Zi suddenly got a project.

Although they were reluctant to give up the travel opportunity, they could at least get a performance bonus of over 100,000 when the project closed. After discussing it, they decided not to go.

You can go traveling anytime, but project opportunities don't come around often.

Over 100,000 is very important to them.

"It's okay, we'll go together next time."

Song Yao was quite understanding. Guo Zi and Ding Jiahui were under a lot of pressure. Kyoto wasn't that friendly to ordinary workers; corporate slaves faced survival pressure every day.

Ding Jiahui gave Song Yao a big hug.

"Yaoyao, you're so good."

At 7 PM, when the sunset spilled into the room, the four young people were already sitting in front of a bubbling hot pot, holding their cups.

"Come on, let's celebrate our reunion, and also welcome Yaoyao and Professor Xu back to the country."

"Celebrate the reunion!"

In early July, the midsummer heat was suppressed a bit by a heavy downpour. Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao made a few trips to the 4S dealership and quickly bought two cars: a white Jeep Wrangler Rubicon and a white Audi A6.

The two of them were like ants moving house, driving to move their things from home to Xishan No. 1 Courtyard bit by bit.

The first meal was to celebrate Xu Qingzhou's birthday.

Good news came from the US: patent attorney Lise Anderson called to say that according to feedback from the Patent Office, the review progress was very fast, and it might be approved soon.

This eased the financial pressure to a certain extent. With the equipment costing nearly a billion previously, plus the current house, 200 million USD really didn't leave much.

During this time, Xu Qingzhou had a meal with his roommates Xu Zhengyang and Zhai Ziqiang. Only three people from 101 arrived; Kong Xianbo had gone to the US with his senior to attend an academic conference.

Song Yao's efficiency was extremely high; she submitted the application materials for "Zero Point Technology" on July 3rd.

July 4th, the day before returning to Rongcheng.

Xishan No. 1 Courtyard, Building W4.

At 10 AM, it was still drizzling outside the window. The lake in the distance rippled with raindrops, and the cool, moist air entered the study through the window.

Xu Qingzhou took out the notes on supersymmetry theory he had discussed with Tao Zhexuan last year.

The Materials Research Institute could be put into use in September, which meant that the researchers and experimental plans had to be determined before then. This was absolutely a massive project.

The pressure was not small.

New energy batteries are a hot topic in the field of materials physics research.

The Xia Nation's Xiake Academy, Jingda Shuimu Academy, the US's MIT and Stanford, South Korea's Yonsei University, and Europe's Max Planck Institute could be considered the main battlegrounds for current research.

Moreover, good results had been achieved in recent years.

His institute was starting from scratch. Competing with these established teams, or even surpassing them, was quite challenging.

"I'm not without advantages, am I?"

Xu Qingzhou wasn't worried. After all, his brain was filled with advanced experience from the next decade or so. Besides quantum mechanics, fields like nuclear fusion and condensed matter were also well-represented.

At the very least, the general direction of the research wouldn't be wrong.

In addition, he had "mutated," and his brain seemed to have been strengthened, terrifyingly so.

"Phew~ Let's get down to business."

Xu Qingzhou opened his notebook, intending to handle the institute's work after returning from the trip. For now, he would use his fragmented time to study superconducting symmetry theory.

"Quantum random walks have an exponential acceleration advantage compared to classical random walks, making them suitable for modeling the randomness of high-dimensional complex systems."

"Mapping each integer position on the number axis to a quantum state (|n\rangle), the prime gap transition process is realized through the superposition state evolution of qubits."

Xu Qingzhou narrowed his eyes. While thinking, he wrote down equations on the manuscript, continuing the calculation he had stopped half a year ago, realizing dynamic modeling of prime gap distribution through quantum random walks.

【Constructing the controlled transition Hamiltonian can be expressed as h=∑【ooe^{io}+h. c.】+λ∑p_p】

【`o` and `o` represent the raising and lowering operators of the n-th grid point, respectively, and the phase factor `e^{io}` corresponds to artificial gauge field regulation.】

One hour passed quietly, and the manuscript was filled with complex equations.

"Supersymmetric generalization needs to ensure that the analytical properties of the z-function are not destroyed. Dynamic sieving needs to break through the linear constraints of classical sieving, introducing quantum parallelism and physical symmetry... Still not working, need to change the method."

Xu Qingzhou shook his head. No wonder 99% of researchers in the world had given up; even he, the proposer, sometimes didn't know how to start.

He took out a new manuscript, prepared to start over, considering the Riemann z-function and symmetry expansion, and then transitioning to the gap dynamic sieving method.

(End of chapter)