Planetary Museum

At 2 o'clock in the morning in Ningzhou, there are very few vehicles on the streets, and most of them are taxis.

Wu Xiaoqing stood on the side of the road and waited for more than ten minutes. He had already missed three cars with empty signs.

This kind of seemingly dazed and stupid behavior would never have appeared in Wu Xiaoqing before.If he saw it, maybe he would secretly say in his heart: "Fool."

Now he himself has become a fool, but he has no emotion for himself.

Compared with the state of being able to completely indulge in thinking, being a little slower to react to the surrounding things and staying a little longer is not a disadvantage at all.

Fortunately, just when Wu Xiaoqing came to an end of this thought, a fourth car came in front of him, and the distance was just enough for him to raise his hand to stop in time.

He habitually sat in the co-pilot, but regretted it the moment the door was closed—yes, he should have sat in the back.

"Master, Ninggang Hotel. I'll talk to others," Wu Xiaoqing said briefly to the driver, and then began to answer the search and rescue team.

"Brother, if you ask me to guess, there is only one possibility. That is, the logic of this person's description of civilization is very to your liking... Or, you think he is right."

The fortune-teller on the street will also talk empty words, but to be convincing, the biggest possibility is that this fortune-teller has won the trust of other people in terms of specific details.

As far as the search and rescue team is concerned, it must be that Rao Xin was right about some points or part of the content when describing the state of civilization.

These contents are most likely not limited to the meetings that Rao Xinlai has attended. Wu Xiaoqing is very familiar with the search and rescue team’s information gathering capabilities—the search and rescue team may have seen other works of his before. —Even if you didn’t watch it then, you must have seen it now.

Since it is a novel, there must be specific works.

"What's his pseudonym?"

"You reacted very quickly," the search and rescue team was not surprised by Wu Xiaoqing's reaction, "It's too late for you to read his works now... Let's talk with him later. By the way, do you like reading novels?"

"I liked it," Wu Xiaoqing nodded, recalling the online novels he had secretly read in class, and then shook his head, "I probably don't like it now...I don't read many novels."

"Then take some time to read some," the search and rescue team said, "there are quite a few very good ones."

"Do you like reading novels too?"

"Of course, otherwise, do you think that I am a machine that can only calculate formulas?"

Wu Xiaoqing smiled. Before his operation, he also thought that his appearance after the operation would be like this.High IQ, smart - in his mind, it seems to be a machine that can understand calculation formulas.

The road conditions in Ningzhou were comfortable at night, and Wu Xiaoqing was also lucky, almost getting a green light all the way.

During the half hour, Wu Xiaoqing read the novel written by Rao Xin according to the suggestion of the search and rescue site.

To be honest, it feels very average.

Wu Xiaoqing doesn't know much about science fiction. If he hadn't met the search and rescue team, he might not have had the chance to come across such works in his life.

As far as what Wu Xiaoqing saw in the past half hour, the themes of Rao Xin's works are not new.

Some kind of aliens occupy the body of the earthlings, and travel to other worlds... Novels are nothing more than making up.Readers are comfortable with it.

But this Rao Xin doesn't seem to be doing very well with this standard.

He started to take the content of many novels seriously while he was writing, so he didn't even please the readers in the end. The plot design was very bad, and he just wrote some details every day to fool the audience.In the end, the only one who can be comfortable in these novels may be himself, completely venting the whimsical thoughts in his mind.

But Wu Xiaoqing has to admit that his strange ideas are quite attractive to Wu Xiaoqing.

In the few fragments of this novel that Wu Xiaoqing saw, Rao Xin used the work to describe the rules of the universe in his imagination—the universe is like another larger society.Here, he predicts that a certain civilization will definitely assume the duty of a doctor, and when certain civilizations encounter difficulties, they will save lives and heal the wounded.

This setting itself is just the background of the novel, but there is no doubt that it accurately hits the facts. ——Although even Rao Xin himself didn't know this.

What Wu Xiaoqing and the search and rescue team have been doing is actually such a job.

After explaining his purpose of coming and Rao Xin's room number to the front desk of the hotel, the hotel waiter told Wu Xiaoqing that Rao Xin was waiting for him in the room.

Wu Xiaoqing had already contacted a five-star hotel once before, that is, when he went to Hawaii to find Yevgeny.

At that time, the hotel's resort swimming pool, restaurants, and the prices on the menu all left a deep impression on Wu Xiaoqing.It took only two days to stay there, but the money spent was more than the sum of the first 17 years of Wu Xiaoqing's life.

It has been several days since Rao Xin returned to Ningzhou from Europe, and the money he spent would not be too small.

Thinking of this, Wu Xiaoqing didn't feel sorry for the money, he was just curious about what kind of reason could make the search and rescue team agree to Rao Xin's way of spending money.

Wu Xiaoqing has been with the search and rescue team for so long. He knows that the search and rescue team is not someone who pays too much attention to money, but he will never allow it to be wasted at will.They have done so many projects on the earth, especially the consulting business, and don't know how many people they have sent money to.

At that time, when Wu Xiaoqing looked at those people who could get so much money just by talking about it, he also had thoughts in his heart-he couldn't help thinking whether he gave too much and was taken advantage of.

But the search and rescue team never minded to use detailed data to tell Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen, who contributed in the early stage—mainly Shen Changwen at the time—the rationality of these different treatment.The most important factor of these rational elements is of course the time cost of the person being consulted, and the second is the need for the degree of confidentiality of the consultation information.

Generally speaking, the more confidential the content is, the more valuable the other party's time is, and the higher the consulting fee the search and rescue team is willing to pay.

Taking this rationality as a reference standard, Rao Xin is obviously an outlier—his income from writing novels is obviously not very good, and in some novel chapters, he even wrote embarrassing stories about him being too poor to pay the rent.

For a person whose rent is a problem, Rao Xin's time is undoubtedly relatively cheap.

Then, the remaining reason is undoubtedly only confidentiality-the confidentiality fee itself is floating on the basis of the former. For a 100 million order, if absolute confidentiality is required, an additional 20 to 30 may be required. million additional confidentiality fees.

But for people like Rao Xin whose previous consulting fees were only in the low tens of thousands, even if the confidentiality fee is calculated according to the highest model, it is nothing more than a tussle. ——And the combination of the two may not be enough for Rao Xin to go to Denmark for a round-trip air ticket.

With such doubts, Wu Xiaoqing knocked on the door.

"You are...Wu...Yes, Wu Xiaoqing, Mr. Wu?" Wu Xiaoqing still remembered Rao Xin clearly, but the other party obviously didn't have a deep impression of him, "Please come in."

When entering the door, Wu Xiaoqing noticed that Rao Xin was wearing very casual clothes, just T-shirts and beach shorts that are common in late summer and early autumn.This kind of attire might be more suitable in Hawaii, which is a holiday, but it is not so suitable for Ningzhou Hotel, which is obviously more business-oriented.

After Rao Xin entered the room, he didn't continue to greet Wu Xiaoqing, but quickly sat down in front of the table and typed on a laptop above it.The keyboard he used should be a mechanical keyboard specially designed for high-speed input. Wu Xiaoqing has heard several employees in the company use it—the sound is very crisp, but it is also very loud.

In this quiet room, the sound of typing is the only sound, as dense as raindrops.

Wu Xiaoqing didn't mind, he waited patiently for a while, then went to the refrigerator in the room and took out a can of iced coffee to drink - Wu Xiaoqing didn't like the taste of coffee before, but now he wanted to try it.

Halfway through my coffee, the typing stopped.

Rao Xin also walked to the refrigerator, took out a bottle of beer, took another plate of salted peanuts, put them on the small coffee table in the middle of the sofa, and said while eating: "Mr. Something. Is Professor Shen not here?"

"Professor Shen?" Wu Xiaoqing was a little puzzled, "Did he say he would come?"

At this time, Shen Changwen's voice suddenly appeared in the speaker next to the laptop: "I have something to do, I can't come, you can talk."

Wu Xiaoqing immediately understood what was going on.

How could Shen Changwen, who was still performing missions in the space station, return to Earth without telling Wu Xiaoqing.The only explanation is that this "Shen Changwen" was actually faked by the search and rescue team using his voice.It's just like the search and rescue team has been using Wu Xiaoqing's voice to complete the daily communication work on the earth.

"Professor Shen told me, you also like science fiction?"

Wu Xiaoqing habitually looked at the empty subtitle display area in the glasses, and after confirming that the search and rescue team hadn't given him a single word of advice, he nodded and said, "That's right, but I haven't seen much."

"What type do you like? Space opera? Pure technical flow? Do you prefer the plot or the setting?"

These terms are quite unfamiliar to Wu Xiaoqing.No matter how smart he is now, he is still at a loss when faced with information that he has never had access to.

Rao Xin saw Wu Xiaoqing's attitude, and said with a smile: "Mr. Wu should only be here for the Utopia project."

"Utopia?" Wu Xiaoqing knew the term and its meaning, but he didn't know the project referred to by this word.However, the abnormal performance of the search and rescue team made Wu Xiaoqing highly interested in this, "It's okay, can we talk?"

"Of course no problem," Rao Xin smiled, "This is the money spent by Qinglan Consulting."

Rao Xin said, went to the computer to operate for a while, and then turned on the huge display screen in the bedroom.

Wu Xiaoqing subconsciously thought that this would be the beginning of another report, just like the one he had participated in before, the difference was that only Rao Xin was the one who reported this time.

But after turning on the TV, Wu Xiaoqing realized that it was not.

There are no reports, no data, not even a project purpose, not even a written explanation.

Some only have a picture, a video, and a few brief introductions from Rao Xin.

"These are all raw materials, and I haven't had time to classify and count them...Professor Shen said that they will be handed over to Qinglan Consulting." Rao Xin is obviously not a qualified reporter, and the switching speed of these photos is too fast. Wu Xiaoqing was a little dazzled.

The main information of the material Wu Xiaoqing can only hear from Rao Xin's introduction, "These are all made in Denmark, these are from Switzerland, and this is from Sweden..."

It looks like photos of people traveling abroad. Most of the pictures are single foreign men and women. They look very ordinary, and there seems to be nothing special about the photos themselves.

"These are all question surveys, sorted by content, all are level 1, and level 2 is increasing..."

"The project itself can be regarded as a questionnaire. The object of the survey is the high-level intellectual class in these highly developed countries..."

"We first use the first-level questions, answer the object, get the first-level discrete answers, and then screen and raise the second-level questions to the qualified people...just like the pyramid..."

Wu Xiaoqing finally saw the still text after the dazzling image switching: "The first-level question, if there are other civilizations in the universe, will they exist in an ultimate reasonable state? If they exist, please describe them. If they do not exist ,please explain."

This first-level question is like the title of a post in a forum, and the answer behind it is the answer to this floor.

These answers in the picture in front of me only use a simple number: "The total text of the answer is 60 words."