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These questions are definitely not something that a layman can ask. If Xuzhou didn't know Song Xiyun, he might have thought that Song Xiyun was also an expert in materials.

"Teacher Song, when did your expertise in materials become so strong? No wonder Teacher Ning insists on letting you join the project team. Your abilities are really hidden."

Xu Zhou's words were not just polite. As a mathematics expert like Song Xiyun, such a reserve of materials science knowledge is indeed incredible.

"No, I just refreshed my materials knowledge yesterday. Compared with real materials experts like you, there is still a huge gap. I will have to learn more from you in the future. Just study.”

"Teacher Song, you are so humble. I have only seen such incredible abilities in Teacher Ning before. In time, you will definitely become a world-class scientist that is not inferior to Teacher Ning!"

In the following time, Ning Chen and Song Xiyun continued to chat with Yuan Shuai, Sui Feng and others about their experimental plan.

Similar to Xu Zhou's feelings, after listening to some of Song Xiyun's questions and ideas, Yuan Shuai, Sui Feng and others also saw Song Xiyun's professional ability in materials science, and their views on Song Xiyun changed.

Song Xiyun also gained a lot of confidence through this process, and no longer had the same doubts about her abilities as before.

"Ning Chen... thank you. I seem to have realized why you have expectations for me. The person I am now is indeed very different from before."

"Song Xiyun, why are you so polite to me? Speaking of gratitude, I should thank you more. If you are willing to join the project team, it will definitely be of great help to the progress of our project. We will follow At this pace, let’s continue with the project.”

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Time passes quietly day by day, and with the joint efforts of everyone, the project is moving forward in an orderly manner.

Ning Chen's topic allocation plan has achieved very good results. Every group has achieved some breakthroughs in these days of experiments, and no research has been stagnant.

The thing that surprised Ning Chen the most was Song Xiyun's huge progress during this period.

Ning Chen knew clearly that when Song Xiyun first joined the project team, his materials science ability was only that of a beginner. Even if he could come up with some ideas that could be used as a reference, it would be difficult to play a key role.

But after these days of continuous learning and practical operation, Song Xiyun has completed the transformation of her abilities and truly evolved into a materials science expert.

Under Ning Chen's test, Song Xiyun's materials science subject level was basically equivalent to the second to third level of the system rating. At this level, she would not even lose to ordinary materials science professors.

As a researcher majoring in mathematics, Song Xiyun's materials science ability is completely sufficient, not to mention that the current ability is far from Song Xiyun's limit. As long as Song Xiyun is given enough time, Ning Chen believes in Song Xiyun's ability. You can continue to improve.

After the experiment had progressed to a stage, Ning Chen called everyone together to prepare a summary of the experimental results of this stage and plan for subsequent experiments.

"In this stage of experiments, we all performed very well and achieved many excellent experimental results. First of all, we have basically understood the synthesis mechanism of the 'moonstone' material, and can use it in the simulation model, Accurately prepare the 'moonstone' material. Secondly, we have also clarified some clues about the relationship between moonstone and superconductivity, and thus created several new superconductors. Even though the properties of these superconductors are still relatively Ordinary, but it has opened up a new superconducting system..."

Listening to Ning Chen's summary of this stage of the experiment, everyone was in a good mood. Even if everyone spent a lot of time and energy on this, it was still very worthwhile.

In fact, Ning Chen wanted to specially praise Song Xiyun for his contribution at this stage, but because he was worried that other people would think it was unfair, he decided to praise Song Xiyun in private.

But it turned out that Ning Chen's idea was still a bit over-the-top. Through her performance at this stage, Song Xiyun has completely conquered everyone.

"Thanks to the participation of Teacher Song, our research has been able to proceed so smoothly. When Teacher Ning took the lead, our experiments often encountered some challenges."

"Yes, Teacher Song's brain computing power is so powerful. Together with Teacher Ning, it forms a very powerful dual-core brain biological computer architecture, which can basically solve any problem encountered. Not to mention your materials science major, Teacher Song. Your knowledge is also very good, I think you are no worse than Teacher Sui."

Everyone couldn't help laughing when they heard what Xu Zhou said. After all, Sui Feng had been studying materials science for more than ten years, but he was still not as good as Song Xiyun, who had just studied materials science for a few months. Woolen cloth.

Sui Feng himself was very open to such remarks, and even echoed Xu Zhou's statement.

"Of course, Teacher Song is a genius that is rare to see in ten years. How can I, a materials science bastard like me, be compared with Teacher Song? I can continue to stay in the materials experimental group of Shengzhou University and conduct such great research." I am very satisfied with my research.”

Faced with everyone's praise for herself, Song Xiyun didn't know how to respond, so she could only smile helplessly from the sidelines.

"Okay, okay, let's not say these meaningless words, and let's quickly confirm the follow-up plan. Although the progress of our experiments is very satisfactory, there is still a huge gap before it can actually be applied. There’s a gap.”

After hearing Ning Chen's words, everyone's expressions immediately became serious, and they were seriously waiting for Ning Chen's next arrangements.

"After the experiment reaches the next stage, I don't plan to conduct scattered experiments as before. Instead, I will focus on solving branch problems one by one. Next, I plan to conquer the experiment on the 'moon stone' material first. room synthesis, and then solve other problems.”

Seeing Ning Chen's arrangement, everyone felt that it was a bit unexpected, but it was also reasonable.

To everyone's surprise, Ning Chen was able to devote all his efforts to focusing on such an extremely difficult problem, because in previous simulations, the formation time of 'moon rocks' on the moon was generally several dozen. Millions, or even tens of millions of years, even if it goes very smoothly, it will still take hundreds of thousands of years. This is not a substance that can be easily prepared in a laboratory.

However, this branch project is the one that has gone smoothly so far. Everyone has every reason to believe that they can completely overcome such a problem through continuous efforts.

Under Ning Chen's insistence, everyone finally agreed to Ning Chen's plan without any objections.

Early the next morning, everyone came to the laboratory together and began laboratory preparation research on the "moon stone" material.

In fact, after Ning Chen's meeting yesterday, everyone had already started preparations for relevant research and determined the basic experimental plan.

People throughout the project team are leaning towards this method: by increasing the conditions of the material synthesis process, thereby reducing the time required for material generation.

But this method is easy to say, but in the actual process, you need to face various thorny problems.

When Ning Chen and Song Xiyun conducted simulations, almost most of the experimental methods failed. Of course, because this was just a simulation, neither Ning Chen nor Song Xiyun completely gave up hope. After all, only through real experiments can they Only then can we determine what effects these plans will have.

"For the first experiment, let's maximize the experimental conditions. Such an experiment may be destined to fail, but we still need such experimental data to enrich our database and correct the simulation..."

Everyone also understood Ning Chen's ideas, and quickly started the experiment in accordance with Ning Chen's requirements.

The conditions of this experiment are very extreme. Even on the moon, such an extreme environment does not exist. There are only some places deep in the universe where such harsh conditions may exist.

This feeling is like putting in various seasonings and turning the heat to the maximum when cooking, striving to get the ideal dish in the shortest time. This is obviously An unrealistic thing.

However, as long as this process can help Ning Chen get the final perfect solution, Ning Chen is still willing to give it a try.

After the experiment started, Ning Chen and Song Xiyun's brain biocomputers had already formed a computer architecture to detect and analyze the situation in the reaction container in real time.

By interacting with Ning Chen's brain, Song Xiyun began to feel Ning Chen's incredible brain state, and understood the reasons for some of Ning Chen's abnormal behaviors.

"No wonder Ning Chen usually doesn't need any instruments to measure experimental conditions. It turns out that Ning Chen's brain can actually display these data in real time..."

The ability that Song Xiyun was referring to was naturally Xiaozhi's information perception function. Even though she found this ability very incredible, Song Xiyun didn't ask any more questions. After all, the incomprehensible things that happened to Ning Chen were really It was too much, and Song Xiyun quickly accepted this fact.

As the experiment continued, everyone's last glimmer of hope for this experiment gradually came to nothing.

Because at this time, the material generated in the container can hardly be called a "matter" in the conventional sense, but is something close to a state of chaos.

There is a huge gap between this material nature and the "moon stone" that everyone is aiming for, and it is even difficult to find similarities between the two.

Ning Chen didn't seem to be surprised by the results of the experiment. At the same time, he did not decide to stop the experiment immediately. Instead, he continued to observe for a while before ending the experiment with satisfaction.

"Very good, these data will still be helpful to our research on the entire subject. Pack up the experimental equipment and we will prepare for the next experiment." Ning Chen said.

In fact, everyone still doesn't quite understand Ning Chen's feeling of being so confident, but Song Xiyun can understand Ning Chen's feeling. It's like getting one of the pieces of a huge puzzle.

Even if this piece of the puzzle seems inconspicuous, when the pieces accumulate to a certain extent, the true face of the puzzle will gradually be revealed.

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Unconsciously, this experiment lasted for a month. During this month, the project team conducted hundreds of experiments, and all of them ended in failure.

In fact, everyone has been mentally prepared for such a result, because the goal of this subject is an almost impossible task.

But what everyone didn't understand was that Ning Chen could always show a very calm state, and even seemed to be very satisfied with the results of such an experiment.

Everyone didn't understand whether Ning Chen's feeling was just a deliberate expression or he was really confident.

At noon that day, during the break in the experiment, Xu Zhou, Yuan Shuai, Sui Feng and others started chatting about the progress of this experimental topic.

"Hey, judging from the current experimental results, we may not be able to synthesize the 'moon stone' material in the laboratory for a while." Xu Zhou said.

Xu Zhou is not usually a pessimistic person. The reason why Xu Zhou made such a judgment was also a very objective judgment based on the current experimental phenomena.

"Judging from the current experimental progress, this is indeed a result that is difficult to accept, but must be accepted. I am afraid that this substance is like coal, a substance that cannot be replicated in the laboratory at all and can only be reproduced through A long time, in nature, natural generation."

"Maybe Teacher Ning will suddenly stop this experiment one day. This is not something that has never happened before. Anyway, Teacher Ning has said before that preparing 'moonstone' in the laboratory is not a must. mission, and more importantly, to complete the research on room temperature superconductivity." Sui Feng said.

Compared with the preparation of moonstones, room temperature superconductivity is obviously a research with greater application value. Even if the research on moonstones really fails, as long as significant progress can be made in subsequent room temperature superconductivity, the entire experiment will still be considered very useful. successful.