As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 199 The Gift of Fate Has Already Been Secretly Priced
In the past two years, giants at home and abroad have invested massive budgets in the direction of magic coin mining.

In foreign countries, Apple, Tesla and Amazon are the most crazy companies.

Apple's investment here is even more radical than Tesla.

As for FB, FB has no money to open up new battlefields.

The stock price of FB has been falling all the way before and after the name change of META, so don't talk about the stocks that have opened the downward channel.

At the same time, FB has been beaten by Kechuang Future in the VR market, and the mid-to-high-end market has given way.

FB has ushered in its own Davis double-click, and has no resources to compete with other giants in the next era of technological revolution.

For them, they can only hope that the world changes a little slower, so that FB has a chance to keep up.

As for Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs, Sequoia Capital and other American financial giants, they will not end up doing this in person, they will choose the government and enterprises to hedge their bets.

"Rom, congratulations, this is a new contract, Apple is willing to sign an indefinite contract with you."

"And this contract stipulates that as long as there are no particularly serious accidents, Apple has no right to fire you freely."

Domestic labor contracts generally have a term of three years, and of course there are contracts with no fixed term.

However, there is a big difference between American's open-ended contracts and domestic open-ended contracts.

Domestic open-ended contracts stipulate that employers cannot easily dismiss workers.

Many of American's labor contracts are open-ended contracts, but their open-ended contracts follow the free dismissal system.

Therefore, the stability is far inferior to Huaguo's open-ended contract.

Luo Shu's pupils dilated slightly after seeing it, and he has been working for two years since Dr. American transferred to a master's degree.

It's been a month since Apple's magic coin team made a new astronomical discovery.

Personnel suddenly asked him to talk about re-signing the contract, and Luo Shu figured out what was going on after a little thought.

You must know that an open-ended contract with strong constraints is very rare, especially for a giant like Apple.

It means that even if you work hard every day, Apple has to support you.

Although wages can be reduced, the minimum wage in Apple's salary system is also much higher than the average wage in American.

On the surface, it is an out-and-out pie, although it did not fall from the sky, but was obtained by Luo Shu's hard work.

"It seems that Apple has dug up the magic coin, even if it has not dug up, it has made great progress."

"No, it was definitely dug up. We didn't see this kind of treatment when we found something before but fell short in the end."

When Apple fell short many times before, the head of their team still complained in front of them.

After the discovery of the planet with a blue-like spectrum this time, the leader of their team only praised them at the beginning.

During the period that followed, the person in charge was exceptionally taciturn.

Luo Shu now understands why, probably because he signed a very high-level confidentiality agreement.

"Apple definitely dug up the magic coin."

Luo Shu thought for a while: "Why didn't I hear any wind."

"Instead, you have to guess by yourself."

Luo Shu always feels that although he is working for Apple, he can still say that he is a person engaged in magic-related work when he goes out.

But he is just a screw, and at the same time, he is a tool person who is not respected. This feeling makes Luo Shu feel a little twisted in his heart.

Normally, he can rely on the material satisfaction brought by Apple's high salary to cover up his emotions, but under the impact of the news that Apple dug up magic coins, these emotions surfaced in his subconscious again.

I obviously made some contributions to this project, but I don't even have the right to know.

If it wasn't for signing a permanent labor agreement, I wouldn't even be able to observe the slightest clue.

Luo Shu deeply feels that he is a peripheral staff of the magic coin project, a tool person.

Luo Shu realizes that this permanent labor contract is more of a constraint. Apple cannot fire him at will, nor can he leave Apple at will.

He flipped through it and sure enough, the ten-year non-compete agreement.

After signing this agreement, if he wants to engage in related industry research after leaving Apple, he will either have to spend ten years or pay a huge fine.

The hr sitting opposite Luo Shu saw that Luo Shu did not sign the agreement without thinking like others.

"I need to think about it."

Instead, he kept silent first, and then picked up the contract to look through it. HR also guessed:

"It's a good thing, Ro, and you know you're doing a job with a lot of secrecy."

"Although I don't know what you found out, if you don't sign this contract, the federal staff who will come to talk to you later will ask you to sign another non-disclosure agreement."

HR lowered his voice and said, "And you won't be able to return to China in the short term."

"You can only stay in American and return to China after the secrecy of this matter is reduced."

"In American, if you work in this direction, you will definitely not be able to enter the American government. As for other companies to compare, Apple's environment is definitely the best."

HR and Luo Shu are friends who occasionally chat a few words, and he also knows the general content of Luo Shu's work.

So he kindly persuaded each other.

Luo Shu nodded gratefully after listening, and then secretly observed the surroundings.

Sure enough, there was a white man obliquely behind hr, while reading the newspaper in his hand, he kept paying attention to this side from time to time.

"Thank you, Daniel, but at least let me think about it now."

A thought quickly popped up in Luo Shu's mind: There is no free lunch in the world.

Another thought: the gift given by fate has already secretly marked the price.

The words of the Austrian writer Zweig in "The Queen of the Guillotine" have always been regarded as a standard by some people.

Luo Shu had always thought that this was the groaning of losers, the self-consolation of those who had experienced the peak of life and then fell to the bottom and could not stand up.

It's just that he didn't expect that one day he would be so touched by this passage.

The job at Apple is high-paying and easy. After he came, he always felt that he was a blessing in disguise and became an elite in Silicon Valley.

I just didn't expect that the price that this gift needs to pay is freedom, a certain degree of freedom.

"Okay, I'll sign."

Having experienced the feeling of being taken away by federal agents in American, Roshu doesn't want to experience this feeling again.

At the same time, he also knew that he had no room for resistance.

After signing, HR patted him on the shoulder:

"This contract is to be signed by everyone in the magic coin project."

"After signing, you can go to change your h1b visa into a green card."

"If you want to change your nationality to American, I think the American government will give you some convenience."

The H1B visa is a temporary work visa, and most of the people who stay and work here after studying in American sign the H1B visa.

This visa can only engage in professional work, for example, those who study finance can only engage in finance.

Like Luo Shu, who was born in astronomy, he can only work in astronomy.

Had it not been for the emergence of magic coin, it would have been extremely difficult for him to find a job other than teaching in American.

H1B is signed every three years and can be renewed at most once. If you have not received a green card for more than six years, you will face the risk of being deported.

If someone had told Luo Shu that he could get a green card when he first came to American, he would have been happy for a long time.

But now tell him that he can get a green card at any time, and American will help him speed up the process, Luo Shu realizes that this is a kind of constraint.

An alternative way of restricting freedom.

After hr left, the man sitting behind hr got up and sat in front of Luo Shu. He took out a stack of documents and handed them to Luo Shu:

"Mr. Luo, hello, I'm a federal employee, and this is my ID."

"Here is a non-disclosure agreement that you need to sign. To be precise, it is not necessary, but must."

"In addition, please pay attention to your words and deeds in the follow-up, and do not disclose any information about your work at Apple and the content of your work."

"Apple will arrange for you to cover up your identity to the outside world, and you cannot mention your specific work content on any social media."

After Luo Shu read it, there was a sentence in the agreement that caught his attention, roughly meaning: without the approval of the American side, you are not allowed to return to China.

He thought about not signing, but knew that he had no room for bargaining.

Luo Shu, who has never smoked after signing, went to the convenience store downstairs and bought a pack of Marlboro and took a deep breath: "Oh~"

"People in the arena involuntarily."

In the smog, Luo Shu remembered that his fate should have undergone earth-shaking changes at the Mauna Kea Observatory.

Originally, he would return to China after finishing his doctorate in astronomy at American and become an astronomy-related researcher.

Once the gear of fate turns, it can never return to the original track.

After Luo Shu returned to the apartment he rented in Austin, he reviewed it carefully:
The reason why American did not sign an agreement with them before was that he had a certain degree of freedom in his research.

You must know that he can still communicate with his classmates outside at his workstation.

The level of secrecy is gradually increasing.

Before entering the astronomical observation area, communication with the outside world would be isolated.

Later, as long as you start working, you will have communication isolation with the outside world.

Although it is only through the soft constraint of the non-disclosure agreement, he is required not to disclose the content of his work.

But Luo Shu glanced at the iPhone in his hand and the MacBook on the table, and there was an Apple TV in the living room.

Luo Shu knew that as long as he revealed to others, especially his classmates and friends in Huaguo, Apple and American officials would definitely know about it immediately.

Luo Shu also knew that even if he changed to a Samsung phone or even rice, it would not be avoided.

The reason why the confidentiality requirements were low before was because there was not much progress.

The confidentiality requirements are gradually increased with the progress of magic coin mining.

Especially after the magic coin was mined, the confidentiality requirements were raised to a limit.

Although Luo Shu is only a peripheral researcher of this project, he still has some knowledge.

He only knew the part he was in charge of, and didn't know the whole picture of Apple's astronomical observation strategy.

But Luo Shu knows, for example, which specific phenomena may have planets with intelligent life, and which indicators are particularly concerned in Apple's internal astronomical observation strategy.

These are just a small part of the magic coin system engineering, but the value is very high.

If Luo Shu can return to China, giants like Huawei, Goose Factory, and Ari are willing to pay him millions of dollars.

If the news that Apple dug up the magic coin is confirmed, the remuneration can go up by dozens of percentage points.

After Luo Shu thought about it carefully, he knew that he would not want to return to China in a short time.

"Oh, I knew that I should have returned to China as soon as possible."

"The salary in American is higher, and the work intensity is far less than that of domestic Internet companies."

"If I'm just an ordinary programmer, the environment in Silicon Valley is obviously better than Zhongguancun."

"The problem is that due to the nature of this job, I can't get into the core research group at American."

"It's just doing odd jobs on the outside, and it's taking away my freedom."

Luo Shu chose to join Apple and engage in magic coin mining, a large part of the reason is that he is very interested in magic and the cosmic coordinate system.

I don't know that mining in reality is completely different from what I thought I was engaged in mining.

Every day is astronomical observation, pay attention to the characteristic value, and sometimes the above-mentioned observation strategy is formulated in the near future, and the above-mentioned strategy is implemented.

Luo Shu has no right to know why he did this and the thinking logic behind it.

That is to say, he thought that he was involved in system engineering and had the opportunity to get in touch with magic, but in fact he was involved in system engineering, but in the form of screws.

Fortunately, he likes to be serious, and he won't just bury his head in finishing the work at hand and muddle along every day.

Luo Shu will take the initiative to think about the logic behind the observation strategy, and then verify his point of view in a side-by-side manner in the work report with the person in charge and in the internal work meeting.

The further back, the closer Luo Shu's thinking was to the thinking logic of the person in charge.

You must know that the person in charge of the astronomical observation team is an old friend of Dr. Luo Shu's mentor, and a big cow in the direction of astronomy.

Luo Shu's progress is not uncommon. If he returns to China, he will be able to enter a big factory and stand alone in the field of astronomical observation of the magic coin project.

"Hey, he died before he left the teacher."

"But can I use futureverse to deliver the message?"

Luo Shu paced back and forth in the room, and accidentally noticed that there was a futureverse produced by Kechuang Future in his room.

"Taking Boss Zheng and Liang Zi from American, Kechuang Biology and Kechuang Future have almost no investment in American."

"The channel of brain-computer connection to VR is most likely not mastered by American."

"If I communicate with others or even transfer files here, can American monitor it?"

"In fact, it can be determined as long as the futureverse is not affected by the American side."

"But the problem is that futureverse can enter the American market, which means there is a compromise."

This kind of compromise is necessary, just like Apple entering Huaguo, it makes sense to put iCloud data in Huaguo.

Whether it is Huaguo or American, they cannot tolerate the data of their subordinates being taken abroad.

These data are valuable. Taking Apple's data as an example, this data is of sufficient magnitude to analyze the behavior of Chinese people.

"It's definitely not okay for me to pass the news directly through the futureverse. If it is exposed, it will be over."

"But I can slowly experiment with American's bottom line and their monitoring capabilities."

　There was something really wrong yesterday, so I didn’t have time to update it. The chapters I owed yesterday will be added this Saturday. I’m sorry again.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)