Planetary Museum

"Happy New Year, Shen, Wu."

"Happy New Year, Lao Ye, is he back too?"

"came back."

"Is everything going well there?"

"Everything is going well." Yevgeny tried to stand up twice, but still failed, so he could only continue to press the button and let the electric wheelchair move himself. "Yanxiu asked me to say hello to you."

"Unfortunately, we don't have time to say goodbye to him," Wu Xiaoqing said, "Stop talking here, professor, go back and rest first, you have worked hard enough this trip."

"It's not hard, it's not hard," Yevgeny asked. "I heard that your side has already started the next project. Do you need me to do anything?"

"Don't worry, professor," Wu Xiaoqing said, "it's still just routine preparations. You can go back and rest for a few days... Actually, I suggest you go to the hospital for a comprehensive physical examination."

"The search and rescue team has done it for me before I came here, and my physical condition is quite healthy now," Yevgeny said with a smile. "The robot administrator of the space station said that I can live another 50 years."

The company still has something to do here, otherwise Wu Xiaoqing would send Yevgeny back to the dormitory by himself.But Xu Yan and Wang Youquan are still free now - today is the fifth day of the lunar new year, and Wang Youquan didn't go to a few relatives' houses during the Chinese New Year, so there is no New Year's greetings task.The same is true for Xu Yan—Wu Xiaoqing called them over with a phone call, and simply asked these two people to take Yevgeny to Wang Youquan’s family—Yevgeny is, after all, a quasi-old man in his 60s and [-]s. The environment has just come back alone, whether it is physical or psychological, it is best for someone to take care of it.

Wang Youquan just went to pick up a car in the third year of junior high school. His wife chose a 10,000+ SUV.The car is a good car, but it's not really for driving—it's for the old man to see when the wife brings the child back to her natal home to pay New Year's greetings.Although Wang Youquan's wife has already called his parents a lot, she almost sent money directly to the account of the old couple, saying that Wang Youquan has really messed up now - but they still maintain a high degree of respect for this veteran gambler's son-in-law alert.I didn't promise to let them go back to pay New Year's greetings during the Chinese New Year, but let my daughter and grandson go back...

This car was just the fourth day when my wife came home. I drove it all day, and today is the fifth day. After I returned it, Xu Yan was actually messing with it most of the time.It happened that Yevgeny came back today, and the two happened to drive this car to pick him up.

"Lao Ye," Wang Youquan and Xu Yan said, they haven't even learned how to say "hello" in Russian. Fortunately, Yevgeny has a little knowledge of Chinese, so he can still handle everyday speech, "Happy New Year."

"Happy New Year, Happy New Year," Yevgeny said apologetically, "I wanted to go to your house to celebrate New Year's Eve, but I have something to do, so I'm sorry."

"It's okay, you guys are just trying to have fun anyway, can you go? I'll put the wheelchair in the car..."

"Yes, just give me a hand."

After getting into the car, Yevgeny closed his eyes and rested his mind.He had just gone through a long trek in the Ascension Realm, and was almost carried by Feijian for tens of thousands of kilometers. The only protection for him during this time was a set of motorcycle rider's clothes and helmet that Wu Xiaoqing left in the space station.

This trip allowed Yevgeny to regain some of the passion and impulsiveness of his youth, but after returning, his body immediately appeared in some bad states due to the huge consumption.Although there were no physiological problems in the physical examination, it was a bit uncomfortable in the senses.When he first came out of the portal, the gravity on the earth almost dragged Yevgeny to the ground.

After swimming in the swimming pool for a long time, when returning to the ground, people will suddenly feel that their bodies become heavy because they are used to the existence of buoyancy.

Returning from a gravity-free environment is essentially the same.Not to mention walking, even breathing, Yevgeny felt a little out of breath. Ningzhou is a big city, and here is the main street. The air quality and the concept of the design at the beginning are the ascension environment of civilized nursery schools. No comparison.The car had just driven a few hundred meters, and Yevgeny, who had originally planned to take a breather, now closed the window in a sensible way.

Xu Yan originally planned to play a few songs to liven up the atmosphere, seeing that the old man was going to sleep, he could only hold back.It's just that I have a few words with Wang Youquan occasionally.

Halfway through the car, Yevgeny seemed to remember something, turned on his cell phone, and started making calls.

The other end of the phone should be his son, who is said to be a Russian-American who has taken drugs before.Both Wang Youquan and Xu Yan had heard the news from Wu Xiaoqing, and they both knew that the reason why Yevgeny agreed to "join the gang" was largely because the search and rescue team promised to treat his son.

It can be seen that Yevgeny had a good phone conversation. He was relatively cold at the beginning, but gradually smiled.The phone call didn't take long, only five or six minutes, but after the phone call ended, even if Yevgeny didn't say anything, the atmosphere in the car suddenly became lively.

After getting Yevgeny's consent, Xu Yan began to sing: "Every street, everyone's mouth..."

Yevgeny found it fresh, and soon started humming along with it.

Before a red light that lasted more than a minute, Xu Yan turned his head and met Wang Youquan's eyes.Wang Youquan seemed hesitant, but Xu Yan's eyes encouraged him.

"What's the matter? We're all together." Seeing that Wang Youquan didn't speak for a long time, Xu Yan couldn't help but said, "Sooner or later, it will be better for everyone."

Yevgeny could also see that something was up with them—he could basically guess what it was.

"It's related to the next mission," Yevgeny's Chinese is not very standard, but both of them heard clearly, nodded to confirm, Yevgeny continued, "Wu told me that the next mission, we will We will be divided into three groups, Shen and I will choose one of you. Has Shen already chosen? Or do you have your own ideas?"

"Professor Shen is busy during Chinese New Year, so I haven't found the time to tell him about it." Xu Yan actually went to Shen Changwen's house to pay New Year's greetings on the second day of the Lunar New Year, but only after he went did he realize how busy a famous professor's house is during Chinese New Year. Speaking of the relatives and friends of Shen Changwen's own family, the students he had brought before all lined up to visit.

Downstairs in the community where Shen Changwen lived, more than [-]% of the cars came to visit his family.Xu Yan and Shen Changwen had time to say happy new year, drank tea there for an hour, and finally confirmed that Shen Changwen was really not free, so they took the initiative to retreat.

"I only heard a general idea, and the specific meeting should be held in a week. When we understand the situation, it will not be too late for us to discuss personnel."

"No, you misunderstood," Xu Yan said, "it's not a matter of who is with whom... Don't you know our level? You are two professors, and we are two workers. Just listen to the arrangement. We don't have a place to talk We are thinking, can you teach us more during the mission process. You see, we have done three missions before, but in the end we didn’t know what we did. You also know that Mr. Wu and Professor Shen are very busy... We are I hope you can give us more pointers when you are free."

"Advice?" Yevgeny said after understanding, "It is possible... But, it may be a bit difficult for you. You all have high school degrees, right?"

"Correct."

"The foundation is better than Wu's before," Yevgeny said, "but it won't be much better... I know a general idea about this mission. The direction I'm in charge of will be a civilization that uses a binary language. This kind of The state of civilization is unimaginable to us... Are you psychologically prepared for this?"

Both shook their heads blankly.

"Don't be discouraged," Yevgeny said, "Actually, I am the same as you at this point, we are at the same starting point - at most, we can only say that we are a little more familiar with the runway than you - if you are really right There is a more active willingness to participate in this task, in fact, it is better to go to the company, isn't there preparation work there?"

"We wanted to go there," Wang Youquan said, "but after sitting there for a long time, we didn't understand what they said at all... It's like listening to the scriptures. How about you take us there another day, Professor, and follow us?" Lecture?"

"I come from an engineering background, not linguistics... In the face of linguistics problems, I am actually the same as you. I let you go, not to let you learn any specific knowledge, but to feel that the other party is civilized. atmosphere. At the very least, you should also know what taboos are in the other party’s language habits—this must be something we need to pay attention to in our future work, right?”

When the two of them heard this, they immediately felt refreshed - they drove all the way here today, and with this answer, it's worth it.

……

Yevgeny stayed at Wang Youquan's house for two days, and on the third day he felt that his body had almost recovered, so he followed them to the company at the warm invitation of Wang Youquan and Xu Yan.

Wu Xiaoqing is not in Qinglan Consulting, and Chen She is here to take charge of the company's daily operations—the main job is to buy cigarettes, drinks, and takeaways for this large group of people.

It is said on the Internet that foreigners like Chinese food, but in fact most foreigners are not very cold.Especially takeaway - no matter how good the food is, it won't taste as good when it's delivered a few kilometers away.Chen She has already contacted several western food companies and asked them to deliver a fixed amount every day—it doesn't need to be too delicate, just sandwiches and a few large pots of hot dishes are enough.

When Yevgeny came to Qinglan Consulting, the first thing he smelled was the strong smell of cheese and coffee in the room.

The project has been in progress for more than a week. As the progress progresses, the follow-up work will not require so much personnel.Wu Xiaoqing briefly introduced the whole project to Yevgeny. Yevgeny knew that the purpose of many of the people invited was not to let them do something, but to determine what they could not do through their work.The development of the entire project is actually a process of continuous screening of proposals.

Take the translation of binary languages ​​as an example. For the same translation work, they will be handed over to two or three working teams, and then based on their results, it is determined that a certain team has a more accurate idea-this team will be retained.

The same goes for the experts in linguistics, which is essentially a consultation meeting—different from the previous consultations, this consultation already has an answer, and this round of consultation is essentially more of a paid exam.

The biggest purpose of this kind of examination is, of course, to select a sufficiently good team—after Yevgeny and Shen Changwen carry out specific work, these two teams will be their biggest backing.

In scientific research projects, especially in the face of aliens, such unfamiliar projects with completely zero information, the flexibility and agility of the scientific research team's thinking is often more important than their efficiency.

A few days ago, there were more than 100 people here, and the whole company was packed, but now Yevgeny saw only dozens of people in the office and conference room.

When Xu Yan came to "report on work", he especially emphasized the numbers - there were 39 people in total, roughly divided into three groups, the language group was newly opened, more than 20 people came here yesterday, and there were a dozen people left They are all text groups, among which there are 12 in the binary language, that is, the future belongs to Yevgeny, and there is another one, which is called "geometric text" - because the text contains a large number of specific geometric figures, There are 7 people in total.

People are here, but they are not working.Some people will leave by plane one after another in the past two days. In the future, they will contact Shen Changwen with specific work content through remote video.

Strictly speaking, the language group is also under the responsibility of Shen Changwen, because there is no language in binary characters—no sound samples.

But Yevgeny knew that it was not. These people would join Shen Changwen and himself in the future—the search and rescue team had already revealed to them that the civilizations to which these two scripts belonged used the same language.