There are two main working locations, Meryin and Prevessin.

Zheng Li spends most of his time in Meyrin. There are two restaurants in Meyrin, one in Switzerland and the other in France.

Meyrin spans two countries.

Zheng Li was sitting near Switzerland eating breakfast. This body still had to eat to replenish the substances it needed.

Opposite is Zheng Li's colleague, or the colleague who often takes the initiative to chat with Zheng Li - Kate.

Kate is from England, with typical blond hair and blue eyes. She often comes to chat with Zheng Li when she has nothing to do.

She has always admired smart minds and claimed that she would not accept men who are not as smart as her.

But Kate, who graduated with a PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge University, at the age of 23, has yet to meet a man of the right age who can convince her.

Zheng Li is the only man she can come into contact with that she recognizes.

However, although she acted very proactively, Zheng Li remained unmoved at all.

"The rare good news on such a terrible day is that the man behind the random deaths in London has been arrested.

What a blessing among misfortunes.”

Zheng Li sat opposite her, eating his usual chicken sandwich.

Zheng Li doesn’t like changes in his diet, so he only eats three fixed dishes for more than two years at the R&D center in Kechuang Biotech Lion City.

This led the chefs at the Lion City R&D Center to strive for excellence in those three fixed dishes.

"That was a good day.

You don’t have to worry about your parents’ safety anymore.”

Kate's parents live in London.

Although the London side said that you could leave but not enter, in fact, Londoners were not allowed to leave London until the murderer was identified.

Kate leaned back in her chair and sighed: "It's not that easy.

I read on the news that only the main culprit and some of the prisoners have been caught so far, and many others have not been found.

Moreover, all London citizens are learning magic, and the whole city has fallen into a craze for magic.

Because they learned magic and acted recklessly, they felt that they were different from ordinary people, and similar impulsive criminal behaviors increased a lot.

The police force across London now feels inadequate."

Zheng Li replied: "You should have confidence in England.

It will always be properly resolved.

I read the news and the situation in London is not out of control yet, right?"

Kate sneered: "The media reports can only be believed at most.

Prices in London have tripled.

My parents should be considered middle class in this city, and they both complain about the current prices.

It is conceivable that if the bottom class in London continues like this without solving the problem of material supply, the consequences will be disastrous."

Zheng Li asked: "London is only closed to flights, but daily trucks are still supplying goods.

Moreover, the autonomous truck technology is quite mature and is fully capable of supplying goods to London around the clock."

Kate nodded and said: "You are right.

That's why prices have doubled, not tenfold.

If London hadn't maintained smooth logistics and supply, the prices would have been far more than double.

Have you studied economics?"

Zheng Li: "No."

Kate held her chin with her hand and looked at Zheng Li and said, "I also took a bachelor's degree in economics when I was studying for a Ph.D.

If I hadn't wanted to graduate with a PhD early, I might have taken another PhD in economics.

The price of materials is not determined by buyers, but by sellers.

The buyer can only decide whether to buy or not.

It's true that there are automatic trucks, but automatic trucks will only deliver goods to the logistics park. In the end, manual delivery is still required from the logistics park to people's hands.

But the current situation in London is that no one is interested in working.

People from outside can't go in.

Labor costs are rising, and businesses take advantage of this opportunity to increase prices."

"Does the English government not care?" Zheng Li asked, because in his opinion, if a similar thing happened in China, the government would definitely take action.

In this world, COVID will be controlled by special drugs in 2022, so the Shenhai incident did not happen.

Kate: "The government will not control this kind of market behavior.

You have to know that this kind of pure market behavior cannot be directly interfered by the government.

They can only indirectly alleviate the cost of living for Londoners by providing subsidies to businesses, reducing taxes, or giving money to citizens.

They absolutely cannot directly order merchants to reduce prices through administrative means.

At best, it’s just a suggestion.”

For example, the price of refined oil products has been soaring, and the profits of British Petroleum Company and Anglo-Dutch Shell Oil Company have been astonishing.

Then the English government and civil organizations could only put pressure on these oil giants to lower their prices.

Zheng Li: "I understand, then I can only pray that the two months will pass quickly."

A trace of sadness appeared on Kate's brow: "Merlin's arrival changed everything.

He brings the unknown and chaos."

Zheng Li saw that the other party mentioned him, "Merlin seems to have hardly appeared in public.

Including the magical events in London, there is currently no news claiming to be related to Merlin.

I think the changes brought about by Merlin are neither good nor bad, it is human nature that caused all of this to happen.

Without Merlin, the world would not be a better place."

Kate had almost never seen Zheng Li express his views on things on Blue Star. She was a little surprised and said: "I can't tell you are still a magic fanatic."

Zheng Li asked: "What is a magic fanatic?

Passionate about magic?

I am far from being a fanatic about magic. Everything that humans can do now seemed much more magical than magic in the past."

Kate explained: "He is the one who supports Merlin.

Merlin's arrival has divided public opinion into two groups.

The two sides attacked each other, and the faction supporting Merlin was labeled as magic fanatics.

And the faction that opposes Merlin is called Muggle."

Zheng Li said: "I neither support Merlin nor oppose him.

It’s just that I feel that what he brings does not exceed our understanding.

It just slightly expands our cognitive boundaries.

He is just an external cause, and the internal cause of the chaos and turmoil in the world is ultimately human beings themselves."

Kate sighed: "Well, maybe what you said is correct.

But when it happened to my parents and my country, it was hard to stay calm."

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Talking about this won't make me feel better.

Let’s talk about your paper, which is about to be published. What do you think now?”

Zheng Li thought to himself, isn't it just published in Nature? I have already published it.

"Nature" is England's top scientific journal. As a result of the Europa Alliance, it will naturally be published in the journals of the Alliance member states.

"I heard that you will be unanimously elected as the winner of this year's Nobel Prize. It is very likely that this year's Nobel Prize in Physics will be yours alone.

Are you excited?"

Zheng Li smiled and said nothing. He couldn't say that I also won the Nobel Prize you mentioned.

At that time, all the other winners did not receive their prizes.

Even with my own efforts, the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony achieved the highest ratings in history.

The problem is that none of this can be told to you.

"Why are you not interested in anything?

It’s so boring.”
To be continued...