I Can Meet with Dead Scientists

Chapter 438 - 221 So Where’s the Mission? (6000 Words)_3

"Use some tonight and put the rest on the cart to use along the way. It’s really too damp here."

Xu Yunjian nodded quickly and replied:

"No problem, Mr. Thomson."

Thomson responded casually with a sound, then walked towards the distant little river with a potato.

After he left.

Will took out two axes from the side of the carriage, handed one to Xu Yun:

"Mr. Luo Feng, can you chop wood?"

Xu Yun took the axe, testing the handle with his uninjured right hand, meaningfully said:

"Of course, it was passed down from Lord Newton’s family line."

Will: "0v0?"

Then Xu Yun followed Will to the pile of firewood and began chopping.

It was quite a coincidence.

William Thomson found all the wood were poplar branches, as these plants are dry and brittle, very suitable for firewood.

Looking at these uniquely English small poplar trees, Xu Yun suddenly thought of the 1665 dungeon.

Back then, Little Niu had also chopped this kind of wood with him before taking him to William’s home.

Really nostalgic...

Crack——

After splitting a piece of firewood.

Xu Yun glanced at William Thomson squatting and washing potatoes in the distance and casually said to Will:

"Mr. Will, where are you planning to go this time?"

To accommodate Xu Yun, who was a ’disabled person’, Will had to do more work. He wiped his sweat and said:

"To London."

"London?"

Xu Yun raised an eyebrow in fake surprise, curiously asked:

"You guys are going to London too?"

Will nodded and again moved a piece of wood in front of him, chopping it into two pieces with a crack, while saying:

"The harvest in the countryside hasn’t been good these years, so I’m planning to try my luck in London."

"I’ve heard there’s a shortage of people in overseas trade these years, and getting a job would be better than farming."

Will carried a very strong rural air, making Xu Yun easily believe this passerby’s role, then he suddenly switched the topic, asking:

"And Mr. Thomson?"

"Mr. Thomson, huh?"

Will shook his head, put down the axe to catch his breath, and answered:

"As for him, I don’t really know. I just heard he’s going to London to join a famous old professor."

"My father has known Mr. Thomson’s grandfather for many years, both families have a good relationship, so they entrusted me to him."

Xu Yun finally nodded with understanding, a hint of realization flashed in his mind.

Will, this rustic boy, is most likely unrelated to his mission, just another passerby like Zhang San, at most a steward like Mr. Xie.

And how could Halo put him next to Thomson without reason—after all, he’s no ordinary cabbage.

Therefore, it’s obvious.

The target of this mission should be the big figure Thomson is going to seek.

Thus, as long as the current year is determined, the target can be clearly identified.

Thinking of this.

Xu Yun couldn’t help but looked at Will, asked:

"Mr. Will, could Mr. Thomson actually get acquainted with a professor in London? He doesn’t look that old, is he thirty?"

Xu Yun learned this diversion tactic from a historical novel, asking the former but actually focusing on the latter.

Sure enough.

Will didn’t notice anything amiss, his thick eyebrows and big eyes answered earnestly:

"Didn’t I already say? I’m not clear about Mr. Thomson’s past either, but definitely not over thirty—my father said he’s only twenty-four this year."

Upon hearing this, Xu Yun’s heart immediately tightened.

Twenty-four?

If he remembers correctly.

William Thomson was born in 1826, plus this age.....

Considering issues like birth year, broadly speaking, it should be between 1849-1851 now?

At this time, the famous old professor in London related to William Thomson is undoubtedly Adam Hopkins.

Speaking of Hopkins, most people might think of the joke ’According to the report by Johns Hopkins...’."

However, Johns Hopkins University was established by Johns Hopkins and has nothing to do with Adam Hopkins.

Adam Hopkins was a well-known professor at the University of Cambridge, also a famous geologist and mathematician in the 19th century, mentoring both William Thomson and Stokes.

This person’s age should be around 60 now, undoubtedly fitting the description of ’old professor’.

Although his fame isn’t particularly prominent in science history, mentoring William Thomson and Stokes is enough to assess his extraordinary capability.

Besides, not being especially famous fits one of Halo’s characteristics, doesn’t it?

Thus, it’s clear.

This mission’s target has to be Adam Hopkins!

If not, Luo Feng would eat that axe on the spot!

How does that saying go?

The advantage is mine!

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The starting point collapsed for a moment, I thought I couldn’t post it.