Planetary Museum

When Rao Xin woke up, there was no one in the room.

When Wu Xiaoqing left the room, Rao Xin had no memory at all.

As a standard nocturnal animal, Rao Xin's biggest advantage is that he sleeps very well during the day - as long as he falls asleep, he probably won't wake up even if there is an earthquake.

Rao Xin picked up the service phone habitually, intending to order a lunch—then the other party told him on the phone that it was already dinner time.

Did you sleep all day long?He remembered that he went to bed after eight o'clock...

After brushing his teeth, Rao Xin habitually looked at his phone. Wu Xiaoqing left him two messages at 2:[-] pm. The first one was very simple, only eight words: "Listening to you for one night is better than reading for ten years. "

Rao Xin smiled - it feels good to blow b in front of the boss and succeed in blowing b.

The second is also very simple: "I have brought all the materials back. If it is convenient, please come to the company tomorrow morning."

The following is a few routine payment information - when Rao Xin was in Europe before, every time a project needed funds, the company would transfer funds to a special account, and transfer funds to his personal account every once in a while.

The amount of these funds varies, sometimes hundreds of thousands of euros a time, that is, several million yuan, and even a few thousand euros.

According to the contract provided by Professor Shen to Rao Xin, in the contract he signed with Qinglan Consulting, these expenses have many names: consulting fees, business travel subsidies, special subsidies for high consumption, special funds for Utopia projects...

When he started collecting money, Rao Xin would secretly calculate how much money he could get in the end, but after going to Europe for more than a month, he gave up calculating—because no matter how he calculated, after he came back from this trip, he would not pay much money. Said to be a millionaire.

When he first received this project, Rao Xin once wondered if it might be some kind of money laundering scam—to use a name to let him launder money in Europe. ——It has to be said that the guy who writes novels has a rich imagination. For this reason, Rao Xin specially checked Shen Changwen's resume and the legitimacy of Qinglan Information.

The result of the investigation surprised him a bit—it wasn't a hoax.

When he first started writing novels, Rao Xin always dreamed of becoming famous and getting rich overnight, but after writing for a few years, he realized that the reason why dreams are dreams is because dreams are far away from most people. far away.

To be honest, Rao Xin does not have much talent in writing. Sometimes when I look back at the things I have written, I feel embarrassed, and I can't accept that they are actually typed out by myself.

The reason why he can rely on this thing to maintain his life is just relying on a little imagination to barely maintain it.But no one would have imagined that someone would become interested in the settings in his novel without being famous for writing a novel, and even specially prepared a humanities survey project for this purpose to give him money.

Rao Xin can still remember that he was still talking about this topic with the other party in the last hour before boarding the plane at the airport.

"Why?" Rao Xin always thought that he was an imaginative author, but he still couldn't understand the other party's behavior of stuffing money into his arms.

This was probably the hundredth why he asked.

The other party also answered his question for the hundredth time like the previous 99 times: "Because I think it's worth it."

"Worth it?" Rao Xin laughed, "You just need to treat my former editor to a meal, and you can eat it. I may not be able to earn the money for writing a book for a lifetime. You only need to give a percent of the price One... No, even if you don’t pay for it! As long as you pay for the travel expenses, I will be willing to do this job.”

"That's just what you think."

"Is my feeling wrong?"

"That's right, it's reasonable," Rao Xin can still remember every word in the chat history, "but I also have a feeling."

"Do you think I'm worth so much money?"

"No," said the other party, "I feel that this is the reason that is wrong."

Rao Xin did not speak at that time.

The other party said: "Do you know why you are asked to go to Europe?"

"I have thought about it, because it is very developed there," Rao Xin said, "Only in those countries can we find good answers to these problems in this project. If it is in China... no one will be interested in these problems at all. If you are interested, even if you spend money to answer, most of the answers are irrelevant.”

After all, Rao Xin had only attended a few meetings, so he knew what the most mainstream views were at the consultation meeting.Technically, Chinese people may not have the slightest problem, but at the level of imagination... Especially, to imagine and deduce a completely illusory thing so seriously...

This kind of environment is almost non-existent in China.

But imagination is precisely the root of this project.At the same time, this imagination cannot be completely fabricated out of thin air. To a large extent, it also requires the accumulation of considerable scientific literacy, and most importantly - the enthusiasm and atmosphere for discussing this topic.

Rao Xin couldn't refute Shen Changwen's remarks, because deep down, he also agreed with this point of view - otherwise, how would he deal with himself?

For Rao Xin, the only thing he can do is to devote as much effort and seriousness as possible to his work - he is a lazy person, because of this project, he stayed in Europe for more than two months - it sounds like A high welfare state might seem like a good thing, but in reality, the diet in most of the Nordic countries is... terrible.After this trip, Rao Xin came back and lost more than 20 catties, and shed all the little fat gained from writing novels at home for several years.

But the harvest is also huge. The ancients said that it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books.

Rao Xin used to be a bit dismissive of this statement - the amount of information that modern people are exposed to every day at home may be more than the amount of information that ancient people saw in their entire lives when they went out. In such an era, what is the point of collecting information by going out?

Actually there are.

At the very least, Rao Xin saw the different ways of life of those young people in those countries.

Rao Xin remembers that when he was in college, he spent all day in Internet cafes, playing games. Three years of hard study in high school was like a fixed-term prison sentence, and the price was four years of paid vacation.Thinking about it carefully, it was actually a loss—the most precious years of life were wasted just like that.

When Rao Xin was in college, if anyone came to discuss science fiction with Rao Xin, Rao Xin at that time would probably roll his eyes a few times.

But in Denmark and Sweden, he can easily find students who are interested in this kind of topic in many universities.When everyone chats happily, they can even chat all night.

This phenomenon not only occurs in universities, many of the people who are interested in their topic are working people, but they will also participate in salons discussing related topics after work.

Before going there, Rao Xin had already anticipated this phenomenon—but, before that, he thought that the reason for this phenomenon was only because of money.The Danes are rich, well-off, and have high welfare. Everyone does not worry about work, life, or performance. Therefore, they are more free and romantic in their attitude towards life. This is a matter of course.

But after he went there, he realized that money was of course an important reason, but it wasn't all because of money.

There are also many overseas students from China, as well as many Chinese who go to travel, and Rao Xin has also had a lot of exchanges with them.

But Chinese people give themselves the impression that the richer they are, the less time they have to talk about these topics, because everyone's attention is on more practical aspects. Students think about grades and majors, and tourists think about taking pictures and Scenic routes, surrounding hotel prices, and the bosses who are least short of money are all concerned about their own careers. ——In comparison, Chinese people are more pragmatic.

There's nothing wrong with being pragmatic, it's just that...

In his original words, it was just that the orderliness of Chinese civilization itself was too high.

His breakfast arrived, milk, fried dough sticks, and steamed buns.The dinner in Changzhou Hotel is not very good, but the simple combination of breakfast is still very appetizing to Rao Xin.Holding the milk, he sat in front of his computer according to his usual habit, and began to organize his thoughts while eating.

Eating is often the most relaxing time for a person.As far as Rao Xin's personal experience is concerned, most of the good ideas in his writing process come to him when he is eating, before going to bed, going to the toilet and taking a bath.If the college entrance examination allowed him to answer questions while taking a bath while eating, maybe he could have been admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University...

The milk is too hot, so I drank a few sips, the steamed bun tastes good...but...

But something seems wrong.

When Rao Xin opened his computer file, he just glanced at it and noticed a lot of differences.

In the original document, all text materials are long strings in English format.

After all, these materials were typed by Rao Xin in the name of the project when he was abroad—many discussions were actually only audio data.

These hand-printed versions of the materials themselves came from different people, but they were copied by Wu Xiaoqing.Wu Xiaoqing uses word documents, because different people use different fonts, so the whole document looks very messy.

In the document, many dialogues only have the content without the identity of the speaker—that is to say, if you only read this document and do not listen to the original audio material, many things in the document will not be understood.

But now, right in front of Rao Xin, the entire document became neat and tidy.The owner of each voice, the person who spoke, has made a clear mark...

The fonts throughout the document have also been carefully arranged.The contents of the notes belonging to Rao Xin, the recorder, are marked with a separate font, and those belonging to the interviewee are marked with another font, which comes from the information found on the Internet. The information is accurate and uncertain... They all use different font sizes and fonts to make a special distinction.

Rao Xin flipped through it quickly. All the documents he brought back were accumulated. It is estimated that there are more than 200 million words...these contents have all been redacted.

In other words, during the time when she was sleeping, Wu Xiaoqing read these contents, and in just eight or nine hours—no, Wu Xiaoqing should have left before two o'clock in the afternoon, that is to say, after In just four or five hours, he watched all the content, listened to all the recordings, and compared all the content...

And these recordings and texts contain seven or eight completely different languages. Many people use one or two languages ​​when speaking, but when recording, the recorder often uses another language that the recorder is better at. language……

These complicated and easily lead to errors in information...

Rao Xin checked it. He checked it for a full 10 minutes and searched for dozens of them. He didn't find a single mistake or omission where he probably had an impression.

You know, when these documents and information were in Europe, Rao Xin also found a special document processing company, and wanted to spend some money to have them organize them on the spot and bring them back by himself.

At that time, Rao Xin didn't know much about business information in terms of information, and thought that the work would not cost much money and time—but the price and deadline given by the other party made Rao Xin aware of his naivety.

Just to deal with these documents itself, if you find a professional company to do it, you will spend hundreds of thousands of euros!In addition, it needs to wait at least half a month to a month, and this is not reflected in the contract-that is to say, there is no guarantee.

But now, Wu Xiaoqing, or rather, the Qinglan consultation behind Wu Xiaoqing, only took five hours.

Five hours, even if it is translated into Chinese, it may be too late at the speed of reading online novels—how did their company do it?Or is the current automatic translation software already so advanced?