Planetary Museum

After Rao Xin left, Shen Changwen asked Wu Xiaoqing thoughtfully: "Just now you said 40 days, you mean the search and rescue team."

"How did you find out?" Wu Xiaoqing said, "Is the trace of my reading the manuscript obvious?"

"It depends," Shen Changwen said, "Most people can't say 40 days when they talk, but they usually say the first month, or one and a half months."

"Every word is so accurate, you people are really tired," Wu Xiaoqing smiled, and wanted to continue to say something, but suddenly there was an obvious pause.After a few seconds, he conveyed the meaning of the search and rescue team: "The search and rescue team said he knew what you wanted to say, but this time you guessed wrong, 40 days is not the time for the next mission to start."

"Then when exactly?" Shen Changwen's expression now is like a child asking when the school will be closed.

"Not sure yet," Wu Xiaoqing said, "The search and rescue team is still learning about the situation of the target civilization. He said that the situation this time is a bit complicated."

"Complicated?" Shen Changwen's curiosity was completely aroused, "Complicated is good, let's talk about it."

"He hasn't made a final decision on the target yet. Whether to act or not to act, let's talk about it after the New Year."

For the next few days, it was much more comfortable for Wu Xiaoqing.The Ascension Realm has been safe and sound, and Wu Xiaoqing has visited it twice. Originally, they were worried that everyone would be dissatisfied with the new order, or would try to resist Yan Xiu, but it turned out that Wu Xiaoqing was overthinking.

In fact, for the vast majority of people in the Ascension to Heaven Realm, cultivation itself is also a kind of useless work that has to be done.Everyone says they like to practice, but in fact, a large part of the reason is that people around them are doing it.

There is some gap between this and Wu Xiaoqing's original imagination. Wu Xiaoqing originally thought that this kind of behavior may have gone so deep that it is similar to a certain religion-everyone has begun to identify with this kind of behavior itself from the spiritual level.

But it turned out that Rao Xin was right—they had discussed this issue.In Rao Xin's view, the most important prerequisite for forming a religious experience is that people have a sense of awe and fear of the unknown world.This is why mainstream religions always create a hell on the level of consciousness.

But for people in the Ascension Realm, they are not even afraid of death, so how can they be afraid of some kind of evil consequences caused by not practicing.

In fact, this kind of practice is just like the college entrance examination. It is essentially a screening mechanism.The college entrance examination is to optimize the efficiency of education through intellectual stratification, while practice is to allocate the resources of the Ascension Realm through force.

In essence, this is a distribution mechanism—but now the entire distribution mechanism has been completely changed. No matter how advanced your practice is, you can’t find flying swords. Learning is useless, so you still need to practice P...All Ascension Realm now has 1000 For legal flying swords, other people have to learn to "swim" with their limbs honestly, even if they are geniuses at practicing swords.

Everyone's overall obedience is not pure superficial civilization. These days, many original sects have voluntarily handed in the flying swords accumulated by their sects.Facts have proved that Ferrari cages, as a means of punishment, are still very deterrent to flyers who are accustomed to freedom.

Back on Earth, because of the festival, whether it was Qinglan Consulting or film projects, they all temporarily stopped. Wu Xiaoqing's schedule suddenly became empty, and he began to have a whole period of time to read and study.

Wu Xiaoqing is very purposeful in learning things, and he rarely looks at things that are too detailed, such as calculus and high-energy physics.

He only tried to understand concepts in many books——Wu Xiaoqing began to realize that in terms of the entire search and rescue operation, the most important part is always the ability to understand unfamiliar concepts.

Every time they go on missions in the future, the civilizations they encounter are likely to be completely new and unfamiliar civilizations. They have completely different cultural backgrounds and social forms... The specific mathematical rules and physical rules are the same in the entire universe. is the easiest part to understand and communicate.And the biggest obstacle in every mission is always the understanding of civilization itself.

In the few days after the operation, Wu Xiaoqing once thought that what he needs to focus on in the future is physics and mathematics, but after seeing Rao Xin's materials and reports, he realized that he was completely wrong.

They are search and rescue teams with responsibilities more like doctors and police.The specific technical details, in fact, the search and rescue team can provide all the details and explanations, even if they can't, they can hire the best brains in the world to help them think through consultation and as long as they spend money.

In the entire mission, the most complicated, subtle, and important part has never been a technical issue, and the most critical thing is always decision-making—just like this time, they finally chose the ecological stability of the entire planet and the future of civilization. To develop the future, the price is to abandon the freedom of a considerable number of people.

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On New Year's Eve, Wang has a whole family.

Wang You's family was very lively today. The originally ordinary family of three had two extra people out of thin air today, and the small two-bedroom and one-living room immediately seemed a little crowded.

Wang Youquan's wife was busy in the kitchen, and Wang Youquan was helping her.Wang Youquan's son was playing games in his room, and Wu Xiaoqing and Xu Yan had nothing to say to each other.

Xu Yan's flattery had been filmed three days before this. Facing Wu Xiaoqing's indifferent appearance, he no longer asked himself to be bored to try, and could only keep a little distance from Mr. Wu.He is facing one TV in the living room, and Wu Xiaoqing is facing the other in the bedroom, watching the same program news broadcast...

"Mr. Wu, you can start eating first," Wang Youquan's wife came out to say hello, "While you eat, serve the food."

"Sister-in-law, let's eat together after everything is ready," Wu Xiaoqing said, "Reunion dinner, eating together will have an atmosphere. I came here to eat with you, so it's so embarrassing to ask you to cook for us."

So waited another 20 minutes.

In winter, it is inconvenient to have too many dishes. To keep it simple, hot pot is the main dish in the middle of the dining table, and a few must-have hard dishes for the Chinese New Year are placed around it.A fish, a chicken, and some meatballs and the like...all of them are pure meat, and the people looking at them are actually very unappetizing.But the vegetables and fat beef on the side of the hot pot look more appetizing.

Before the official start of the meal, everyone picked up the cups and touched each other, wishing each other a happy new year, and then the New Year's Eve dinner began.

To be honest, this was the first New Year's Eve dinner that Wu Xiaoqing had eaten since he could remember.I vaguely seemed to have eaten it when I was a child, but my parents quarreled every time the Chinese New Year came. Looking back now, I must not have dared to eat it at that time.Although it is in someone else's house now, the atmosphere is at least a normal Chinese New Year atmosphere.Lai Wang You Family is actually trying to create such an atmosphere.

Because it was Chinese New Year, everyone present except Wang Youquan's son drank alcohol.Wang Youquan and Xu Yan are white, and Wu Xiaoqing is a quasi-minor - he will not be considered a real adult until after the Chinese New Year, so according to the standard of review, he can only drink some wine with Wang's wife. ——Because of the wife, I can't clink glasses yet.

When pouring wine for Wu Xiaoqing, Wang's wife also mentioned the price of the wine—Wang Youquan bought it from a western restaurant on purpose, and it was very expensive, more than 2000 a bottle.

In fact, Wang Youquan originally asked his wife to buy a bottle of tens of thousands, but this woman was really reluctant.But for Wu Xiaoqing, who has never drunk wine, even if it is 2 yuan, he will not be much different from 20 yuan wine. Wang Youquan's flattery is obviously not in the right place.

Although the wine can't taste good, but he can't hold back his good mood, Wu Xiaoqing is still very happy.There are speakers and microphones in the living room of Wang You's family - his wife likes to sing ktv at home.It was used today, and after eating half of it, six people took turns to fight, torturing the neighbors and the two poor microphones.

This should be put aside in normal times. The howling at night must be complained by upstairs and downstairs. After all, the sound insulation effect of this old building is very poor. Walking upstairs is louder and can be heard downstairs.

But today there is no need to worry - because the noise outside is louder at the moment.If any alien came to China on Earth right now, it would definitely feel like these stupid humans have fallen into a civil war.

After 8 o'clock, Wu Xiaoqing began to receive New Year's greeting text messages from many people in his contacts.

At first, it was Qin Feng and Lu Wanqing, then Director Chen, and then Wu Xiaoqing, who was the account manager of many manufacturers.Next came Yan Yan, Chen Shuai from Qinglan Consulting Company... Wu Xiaoqing found one as his own, and then distributed it to other people. This was considered as the completion of the task.

After 10 o'clock, Wu Xiaoqing and Xu Yan left.Originally, it was agreed to watch the Spring Festival Gala to watch the New Year's Eve, but this show is really boring... Thinking that the two of them didn't drive back, they might be too sleepy to walk any later.Wang You's family's place is too small and it's too inconvenient to sleep, so the two still have to go back to the company's dormitory.

"Mr. Wu," the two of them waited at the gate of the community for about ten minutes, let alone a taxi, they didn't even see a ghost on the road, so they had to walk back.Xu Yan probably couldn't bear it anymore, and started to talk to him, "Actually, we are idle during this period of time. If it's not a year, you can give us a training class. I think you often read books by yourself."

"Training what?"

"Train us whatever you want us to learn," Xu Yan said, "We are not stupid. If you want to talk about Einstein's theory of relativity, we may not understand it, but if it is the same as before, we will have no problem with skydiving and bungee jumping." .”

"Didn't you complain before that it was useless for you to learn it?" This was what was said at the dinner table just now. What Xu Yan meant was that they had practiced bungee jumping for so long in vain - as a result, they didn't have a chance to touch the flying sword or anything.

"Isn't that bragging?" Xu Yan actually meant to euphemistically explain that they are overqualified - according to his idea, if they practice more today, it is not impossible for them to surpass those flying people, "But as long as it is needed for work, we will definitely I will study hard."

"I know you are all concerned about the next mission," Wu Xiaoqing explained for the first time, "I am also very concerned, but the search and rescue team said it will have to wait.

"Also, I mentioned it to you before," Xu Yan said again, "My third uncle's family has a cousin who is an authentic graduate of a prestigious university and has a master's degree... I heard that our company is good."

Wu Xiaoqing was angry and funny: "Why, does anyone in your relatives believe in you? Then he must not be very smart."

Xu Yan said: "When they see real money, they will naturally believe it."

Wu Xiaoqing sighed: "I've said it many times, do you think the search and rescue team will agree?"

"I'm not asking him to come and perform missions with us," Xu Yan said, "I just want to come to the company as an ordinary employee... If it's not possible, how about attending a consultation meeting..."

Wu Xiaoqing simply didn't answer.

A person like Xu Yan who comes from MLM has a thick skin and tongue to a certain extent, and he has said the same thing four or five times over and over again...

But it's not just a promise. At the dinner table just now, Mrs. Wang also intentionally or unintentionally asked if the company wanted to recruit people.Even Yan Yan, He Yuqing, and Chen She have expressed this meaning - because everyone can see that the company will expand in the future, and everyone subconsciously wants to gain a greater voice in this expansion.

But to be honest, let alone them, even Wu Xiaoqing himself will not know what kind of talents he will need in the future when he does not know the specific content of the next mission-but he cannot say this, because every I personally believe that Wu Xiaoqing, as the boss of the company, must have considered the company's future development direction very clearly.

Not only can Wu Xiaoqing not say, but every time he is faced with such a question, he has to show that he has comprehensive consideration and plans.