Planetary Museum

When Wu Xiaoqing opened his eyes again, the clock had already pointed to 25:[-] in the morning.

It was the first time for Wu Xiaoqing to feel overtired from reading and fall asleep on the desk.

Probably because people turned off the lights when they left, the office was pitch black.When there are no special circumstances, the employees of Qinglan Consulting generally do not work overtime. Many times there are unexpected affairs that need to be dealt with, and they are often outside.

Wu Xiaoqing turned on the light, and put all the textbooks he had just read on his desk.

On the top was a thick stack of printing paper, which he used to make drafts when he was studying. He took out a few sheets and looked at them casually, and found that he remembered the ins and outs of every picture and every character on the paper. ——He can not only clearly remember the meaning of these characters, but also remember his own mental state when he wrote them down.

Such memory and comprehension ability made Wu Xiaoqing feel both strange and excited.

Turning the draft paper to the last page, Wu Xiaoqing instinctively wanted to continue the ideas on the draft, but subtitles appeared on the glasses.

"You seem to be in good shape, are you still adapting?"

"Brother," Wu Xiaoqing eagerly wanted to say something, but after thinking for a few seconds, he could only hold back a stupid sentence, "I think I was so stupid before."

"Don't rush to read the book," said the search and rescue team. "You can never finish reading the book. Remember Rao Xin? Go and meet him."

"Haven't the subjects stopped?" Wu Xiaoqing remembered the name "Rao Xin".

That Rao Xin was a writer of novels. He came to the company to participate in several consultation meetings on merits and demerits, but he didn't speak much—and what he said was a bit mysterious to Wu Xiaoqing at the time, and he couldn't understand it.

Even the current Wu Xiaoqing, recalling those speeches, still feels that this person's words are a bit empty-among the consultees, this is a bit abnormal.

Because most of the people who come to talk are paid—most of them are very expensive—and specially invited to come here, and the later the project, the higher the price they pay.In order to show that they are worth the price, most people always attach a lot of data sources at the end of the report, just like writing a thesis.

But this Rao Xin is different. This gentleman basically has no basis for what he says. Most of the projects and topics he participates in are directional—according to Yan Yan and Chen She's words, they are all bragging.

Since it is bragging, there is almost no question of whether it is right or wrong, as long as what you say is meaningful and looks good.

This time, after the mid-term of the nine-day mission, Wu Xiaoqing seldom participated in many consultation meetings in person, and Yan Yan was always arranging them.For the name Rao Xin, he basically didn't have much impression, thinking that like other experts, he left after receiving a few consultations.

"No," the search and rescue team said when Wu Xiaoqing got off the elevator, "I arranged for him to go to Denmark, and he just returned to China a few days ago."

"Denmark?" Wu Xiaoqing recalled, and found that this country did not exist in his memory at all.After he turned on his phone and opened the world map, he probably had a geographical impression.

"There are also Sweden, Switzerland, and some other highly developed countries," the search and rescue team said. "It's a project inspection, and I'm also doing some consulting work along the way."

"Then...you want me to go and listen to the report?"

Generally speaking, a consulting project will form a phased report after a period of time.

In the past, Wu Xiaoqing came to listen in person, and sometimes gave a lot of opinions according to the prompts of the search and rescue team to guide the next step of the project.Now most of the work in this area has become transactional and routine, and these people in the company usually do it. The search and rescue team only needs to give feedback remotely in the name of Wu Xiaoqing, and Wu Xiaoqing does not need to go out in person.

Now that the search and rescue team asked Wu Xiaoqing to come forward in person, maybe the content of this report will be very important.Reminiscent of the fact that this mission has probably reached the final stage...

"Is it preparation for the next mission?"

"It's hard to say," the search and rescue team rarely gave a vague answer. "It's okay to say, or not to say. This time I'm not going to listen to the report, but to let you chat with him."

"What are you talking about?"

"Talk about anything," the search and rescue team said, "I will find some interesting topics for you at that time. Rao Xin and I have talked about these topics before, and now you also need to understand this part of the information. You are of great significance to our future work."

The search and rescue team spoke very strangely today. It was a little different from Wu Xiaoqing's previous big brother in his impression.In the previous search and rescue teams, all the instructions that appeared on the subtitles were simple and clear instructions, either within quotation marks, what needs to be said, or ordinary information...

It is rare to see such non-objective and non-directive words as "important meaning".Because for Wu Xiaoqing in the past, the effect of saying such nonsense is undoubtedly playing the piano against the cow.

But now, that attitude is starting to change slightly.

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Rao Xin lived in a five-star hotel in the center of Ningzhou.

As far as the accommodation conditions are concerned, Rao Xin enjoys much better treatment than Wu Xiaoqing, and it is said that the money spent is still the company's money-strictly speaking, these are all Wu Xiaoqing's money. ——One night's room fee, now Wu Xiaoqing can't spend it all in a month.

If it was the former Wu Xiaoqing, he definitely wouldn't have any thoughts, because in the mind of that Wu Xiaoqing in the past, things like money were just a number, and it was still a very annoying number.

The addition, subtraction, and back and forth between these numbers are like a big net woven by the search and rescue team, covering Qinglan Consulting and everyone related to it.

In the past, Wu Xiaoqing once carefully read the company's financial statements, and the search and rescue team even explained many details to him, including the pricing standard for a person and the pricing standard for an item...

For Wu Xiaoqing in the past, these numbers represented too many complicated things, and of course he couldn't understand them.But now, almost after hearing the search and rescue team mention Denmark and the name of this hotel, the corresponding information automatically appeared in Wu Xiaoqing's mind.

Wu Xiaoqing only needs to turn on his mobile phone and find the company's bills for the last few months in his email, and it is not difficult to know how much the search and rescue team has spent on this person—even for the current Qinglan Consulting, this is still a problem. Not a small number.

And what is all this money used for?

do not know.

Yes, even search and rescue teams don't quite know.

Because Rao Xin went to Europe alone, the company did not send a financial follower to supervise the accounts, and Rao Xin almost never reported to the company or the search and rescue team.

If it was another ordinary company, and the search and rescue team was a senior executive of an ordinary company, the boss Wu Xiaoqing had almost every reason to suspect that the search and rescue team had embezzled a huge amount of money from the company in the name of the project.

"Brother, this doesn't look like your style of doing things," Wu Xiaoqing didn't even realize that his way of speaking was also undergoing a subtle change. The leap in intelligence gave him an unprecedented self-confidence. When the search and rescue team spoke, they were not as submissive as before, "Isn't he a novelist?"

In Wu Xiaoqing's memory, Qinglan Consulting has invited many people, from astronauts to scientists, from professional soldiers to nuclear bomb engineers...

Wu Xiaoqing even suspected that with the current strength of Qinglan Consulting, even if the consulting fees offered were to invite the President of the United States to hold a meeting, it might not be impossible.If you have already resigned, several people can be invited in every minute.And like Rao Xin, who took a large sum of money by himself, traveled around the richest countries in Europe, and continued to stay in five-star hotels when he came back... I have never seen a single one.

"Why, discriminate against those who write novels?"

"Discrimination is not counted...but the treatment... By the way, what project is he going to do?"

"You're so smart now, guess what."

"Brother!" Wu Xiaoqing said in surprise, "You're starting to talk now..."

"If you change, I will naturally change too," the collection team said, "Try to guess, and let me see how smart you are now."

After being told this, Wu Xiaoqing felt a little embarrassed: "No matter how smart I am, I only read textbooks for half a day."

"A person's knowledge has little to do with the reserve of knowledge itself, the key is the way of thinking about the problem. You should have a feeling for this yourself-the same textbook, the way you look now must be completely different from the way you used to be."

Wu Xiaoqing seriously recalled the topics that Rao Xin participated in in his memory, and what he said in the memory... Just like when he just woke up and read his draft, his brain seemed to be a computer at the moment. With a professional-grade camera, any content he needs to recall can be clearly reproduced in his mind, and he can even remember every tiny movement made by everyone in that scene...

This feeling is very indescribable. In his previous memory, the impression of this memory is just a blurred scene - he was drowsy at the venue, and most of the time he was watching the participants , several beautiful women, and several experts with the most powerful titles.

When you need to speak by yourself, you will focus all your attention on the content of the subtitles.At the beginning, Wu Xiaoqing would try to understand every time someone in the meeting finished speaking—but this kind of attempt was just like his learning physics, and he quickly gave up obediently.

Most of the remaining time, in Wu Xiaoqing's view, is not too different from the scene when he patiently listened to the teacher's lecture in junior high school. ——If there is any difference to be found, it is that in this scene, he has a search and rescue team watching, so that he can't feel at ease to do some small movements.

It's like a movie, but the movie has been heavily mosaiced, and most of the dialogues are in the bird language of an unknown country.

But now, the film seems to have been treated.

The mosaic is gone, and instead, Wu Xiaoqing can see timely close-ups of the film in almost every detail that needs to be seen.Not only Chinese subtitles are given below the movie, but there are even simple demonstration animations beside the subtitles to help understand.

Those professional vocabulary and boring numbers can almost automatically assemble pictures in Wu Xiaoqing's mind.

And in this movie, the only thing that hasn't changed seems to be the Rao Xin they were talking about.

What he said was empty words in the previous context, but now in retrospect, they are still empty words.

But the definition of empty talk is different from empty talk.

Wu Xiaoqing used to say that he was empty words because he relied on his intuition to understand the content of Rao Xin’s words and could not understand; now Wu Xiaoqing still says it is empty words because he knows that a writer of novels would say on such an occasion In this case, only imagination is provided, but there is no need to consider realization-itself is not practical and opportunistic.

The consultation meeting is not a script creation meeting. What they care about is the solution to specific problems, and Rao Xin seems to be better at asking questions.

The last meeting that Rao Xin attended at Qinglan Consulting was with an American, Colander, to discuss the issue of weapons against flying people.

At the end of that meeting, Rao Xin's surprised attitude clearly showed that this person's mentality was not particularly good - he was completely taken aback by Kelland's indifference when he described the weapon.

Since then, Rao Xin has never been seen in Qinglan Consulting again.