Planetary Museum

"Qinglan Consulting."

He forgot to wear his glasses when he went out today. Rao Xin almost put his whole head on the four words, and finally saw clearly what was on the signboard.After making sure he was right, he walked into the company's gate.

A girl was at the entrance, and after seeing him walk in, she asked him, "Did you bring the invitation letter?"

"I've brought it." Rao Xin took out the card in his hand and handed it to the other party. The other party glanced at it and said with a smile, "It's you, Rao Xin, I've read your novels. Have you written any new books recently? "

Rao Xin smiled: "Still preparing... the meeting is here, right?"

"That's right, there are still 10 minutes left. You wait a little bit, come in and sit down. You can use these computers as you like. The wifi password is on the wall. You can eat the company's drinks and snacks as you like."

Rao Xin noticed that there were quite a few people already sitting in the room, and most of them were chatting with each other.Not wearing glasses made the faces of these people look very blurry, and Rao Xin couldn't get close to identify them one by one, so he could only go and pour himself a drink, then find a secluded place to sit down, ready to listen What topics are these people talking about—and then analyze why there is a company he has never heard of that pays him for a third-rate writer to come to some consulting meetings.From Yunzhou to Shenhai, round-trip air tickets plus a week's accommodation, and a part of the "consulting fee" prepaid to him, add up to tens of thousands—equal to his income from writing novels for half a year.

The journey was tiring, and Rao Xin didn't even eat breakfast because he was in a hurry.After sitting down and drinking two sips of water, he started to feel hungry again, so he had to get up again and go to get food back.

But when he returned to his seat with two bags of small cakes, the place was already occupied by a newcomer.He went to get the drink he had left, only to realize that the other party had taken his place: "Sorry, I thought there was no one here, you sit."

"It's okay, you sit down, I'll just sit here."

There are chairs everywhere in the company, and everyone sits casually. It looks like a party.After sitting down, the person opposite Rao Xin asked him: "Do you know what this consultation meeting is for?"

Rao Xin shook his head: "I don't know, I just came here too."

"Oh," the other party nodded, and stretched out a hand to shake his hand, "I thought it was an academic conference in the middle of a university... May I ask, what do you do for work?"

Rao Xin smiled dryly, and said, "A writer of novels. How about you?"

"Teacher," the other party seemed a little surprised, then turned his head and asked the middle-aged people who were talking on the other side of the table, "Can I ask, what do you all do?"

"I'm from a toy factory," said a man in a suit, pointing to two other people beside him, "one of them is an engineer, and the other is a scientist."

"Scientist?" Rao Xin's attention suddenly focused on the face of the person who was called a scientist.

The man waved his hand embarrassingly: "It's not a family, it's just doing scientific research."

Rao Xin asked with interest: "Which field?"

"Nuclear physics," the man said, "you go on, you go on."

"You're a scientist, why don't you tell me? We were just joking," the toy factory said. "This consultation meeting sounds more and more mysterious, and you can do everything. All walks of life... You said they came to us Why do you come here to consult?"

"I've given you money, so you can answer whatever you ask."

The nuclear physics expert coughed and added: "As long as it doesn't involve state secrets."

"Oh, what kind of state secrets can we have to leak, a small factory. Take a look, this little thing can also be a state secret?" The toy factory took out a palm-sized object from his pocket, and Rao Xin's Can't see clearly, but roughly looks like a small bird with a plate under it.He pressed a switch on the plate, and the bird fluttered its wings, suspended in the air, as if it was taking off, and after it was turned off, the bird fell back to the ground.

Rao Xin looked at the bird and subconsciously asked, "Maglev?"

"Almost, it's electromagnetic levitation with batteries inside."

People continued to come to the scene. At first glance, there were more than a dozen people in the whole scene. After the follow-up people came in, they were a little restrained at first, just like Rao Xin.But after hearing a few words from everyone, they began to join in the conversation again. The occupations among them were more complicated, including white-collar workers from large companies, technicians from steel mills, and pilots of fighter jets. What is surprising is that this company also invited an astronaut—he has been in the news. When the astronaut surnamed Meng first came in, Rao Xin and the nuclear physicist recognized him at a glance. over him.

It turns out that everyone was just a little curious, but now they are getting a little eager. Judging from this situation, they will not be surprised if they are asked to represent the country to meet aliens.And what will be the content of the meeting held by this company?

The meeting started at 09:30. At 28:[-], Shen Changwen walked into the company, and then Yan Yan and Chen She began to invite everyone into the meeting room.There were sixteen people in total, plus four from Qinglan Company, a total of twenty people.The conference room here was not too small at first glance, but after so many people were seated, the room suddenly seemed small.Everyone moved their seats several times before barely sitting down.

Shen Changwen personally presided over the meeting.

The manuscript was provided by the search and rescue team, and he had read it twice before.There are also some technical explanation documents, He Yuqing is distributing specific things to each person according to the head.When it is sent to everyone, they will whisper a sentence: "The content is confidential and cannot be viewed in exchange."

When Rao Xin got the manuscript, he asked embarrassingly, "Excuse me, did you bring your glasses? Could you please make the words bigger? I can't see clearly."

The girl who sent the document nodded to him: "Then wait a moment, I will print it for you later. What size font do you want." After speaking, the other party wrote him a few by hand, and he pointed out one that could be read clearly. Yes, the other party left.

Shen Changwen announced the start of the meeting.

"Well, there is a confidential meeting in the conference room, and the confidentiality agreement has not yet been typed out. After the meeting, everyone will re-sign it. If you have any doubts, you can go to the contract now, and we can wait. If there are no doubts, the meeting will start now. "

Everyone looked at each other, but no one spoke.Rao Xin had read the electronic version of the confidentiality contract before, so he certainly would not have any doubts.Just like what the person from the toy factory said, the other party has given you money, and you are asked to say a few words for the money. Of course, you can ask for confidentiality.

"This meeting is a one-to-many meeting. The meeting will be divided into several topics, and each topic will be discussed by you in a group. The discussion time for one topic is about ten minutes. The content and scope of the topic are up to you. In the file at hand, everyone had better ask and answer according to the rules."

"Group members under the same topic can read the files of other group members, so that everyone can know what other members are good at. Well... I will talk about the discussants of topic 1 now, and I will just say the name, I hope I will not offend you Everyone, Leng Gang, Qian and his party..."

Shen Changwen read four names, and those four people stood up, and then exchanged positions with others. They held the document paper in their hands, exchanged and read each other, and then began to talk in a low voice.

The second group came out soon, and Rao Xin saw that the toy factory worker and the astronauts were assigned to the same group, so he couldn't help being a little curious—what kind of topic would make these two fields intersect.

Rao Xin's name appeared in the third group, and he was in the same group, as well as the nuclear physics expert, and there were three others whose identities were unknown.But half a minute later, Rao Xin knew that they were a linguistics professor, a programmer, and a battalion-level sergeant.

Rao Xin’s documents haven’t been delivered yet, so he can only give a brief self-introduction: “I’m a novelist. I’ve written two science fiction novels before, and they’re all related to aliens. The reason for this.” Rao Xin’s document did not arrive, but from other people’s documents, he still knew the content of their No. [-] issue: “According to the following information, in the event of a conflict between this civilization and the existing military force on the earth, the two sides A possible game of force.”

At this time, the girl just sent Rao Xin his documents.He quickly turned to the specific content at the back, and an interrupted text description and a close-up sketch appeared in front of him.

Rao Xin just watched the beginning of a paragraph, and he was addicted to it all at once, and several other people around him were also fascinated by watching it.

Five minutes later, Rao Xin finished reading his file. Most of the information in his file was describing a space station, the layout of its various functional areas, and the state of the periphery of the space station.The programmer next to him touched Rao Xin lightly, and then motioned for the two to change their files, and Rao Xin readily accepted.

The information in the hands of the programmer is not so simple. It is a large number and codes. Rao Xin only had some programming knowledge in college, so he didn't understand what these codes meant, so he just flipped through them a few times , After confirming that I couldn't understand it, I exchanged the code in my hand with the linguistics professor.

The information in that professor's hand is even more evil. If the code is still in English and he can understand it somewhat, then the things in this professor's hand look like a bible.It's just a large block of unfamiliar symbols. I don't know which language it is on the earth, or which tomb was dug out by archaeologists.These languages ​​have been taught to simply draw a lot of circles and underlines, which look like symbols.