It stands to reason that this is impossible, and today's "Zhuzhou Daily" will not appear on the market until 6 a.m. at the earliest. Only a few people can know in advance how the front page layout will be arranged, and even Wu Mian himself, as an ordinary front-line reporter, usually doesn't know which news will appear on the front page.

Last night, Wu Mian wrote the manuscript very late, and he only delivered it at the "dead line" of the final deadline, during which the editor-in-chief personally came to urge him several times, so he knew from the editor-in-chief that the two manuscripts were arranged on the front page. It is unreasonable that the crazy professor, as an outsider, can grasp the situation on the front page in advance, and even know the specific content of a certain manuscript.

"Hahaha, how is it? You should believe it, right?" Wu Mian's stunned appearance made the mad professor happy, and he said proudly, "To tell you honestly, as early as nine o'clock last night, I had already seen with my own eyes the newspaper that was about to be published today, and you hadn't even finished writing the manuscript at that time! How do you explain this? Ha, what reasonable explanation can you have other than admitting that I can predict the future?"

Wu Mian turned his head to look at the clock on the bedside table, and the time showed that it was 2:05 in the morning. He knew it in his heart, and said with a smile: "It's the same, and you almost succeeded in deceiving the simple me." ”

"What kind of deception? stinky boy, I've come up with evidence, and you dare to say that I'm cheating!" the mad professor yelled angrily.

"Alright, alright, enough fun. Wu Mian was impatient, reached out and opened the laptop on the table, and entered the homepage of the website of "Zhuzhou Daily".

"What today's front page looks like, anyone can 'predict' in advance before they get the newspaper, because - just look at the electronic version on the Internet and you will see it at a glance!" Wu Mian skillfully opened the web page, and the content of the front page had indeed been updated, with a total of four drafts, two of which were signed by his name.

The mad professor's face turned red and he stammered, "Digital...... This...... How to ...... today? Came out so early?"

"It's this time every day!" Wu Mian couldn't help but laugh.

Although the daily newspaper of the "Zhuzhou Daily" did not begin to sell on the market until 7 o'clock in the morning, as early as 2 o'clock in the morning, an electronic version appeared on the official website of the newspaper.

"Five...... Five minutes, five minutes away. After hearing this, the mad professor complained in frustration, "Why didn't you come back earlier? Even if you arrive home at 1:59, I can prove that I definitely didn't know how the front page was arranged because I had just watched the electronic version! I really knew about it as early as 9 o'clock last night!"

Wu Mian yawned again, euphemistically saying that he was really sleepy and didn't want to listen to his whimsical ideas anymore.

"Wait, I'll show you one more thing!" the mad professor turned and rushed out, sat down in front of the living room TV, and began to tinker with something again.

Wu Mian shook his head, took off his coat and pants and threw them into the washing machine in the kitchen, and then went to the bathroom to take a cold shower.

As soon as I got out of the bathroom after washing, I suddenly heard the exaggerated roar of the mad professor from the living room, and the sound of "ping-pong". He hurriedly walked over to see that the mad professor was gritting his teeth and slapping the shell of the TV series.

"Hey, why can't you get along with the TV?" Wu Mian was worried that he had broken the TV, and although it was dilapidated enough to be classified as an "antique", if it broke, he would have to pay the landlord.

"What a broken TV, messed up all my work!" the mad professor shouted angrily, "I have already tuned it so that you can see the greatest invention in the world, the most irrefutable evidence that I have opened a 'wormhole'......!" It's all ruined. ”

Wu Mian sighed, looking at the mad professor's gaze full of pity. This guy's paranoia is getting worse and worse, and he should be forced to see a doctor one day.

"If it's a problem with the TV, I solemnly recommend that you go and buy a new one. He said mockingly.

"Hmph, I'll buy it tomorrow!" the mad professor glared at him.

"I'm sleeping, good night. By the way, I'm using the washing machine, and you can help me dry my clothes after washing. Wu Mian returned to his room and closed the door, blocking out the nagging and complaining from Wu himself.

He lay in bed, hugged his laptop and played games online for a while, and when his hair dried and he was about to go to bed, the mad professor suddenly knocked on the door again and broke in.

"Xiao Wu, where did you get this thing?" asked the mad professor as he spread out his palm, the half of the crystal bead on his palm reflecting a glimmer of crystal.

Wu Mian patted his head, just now he forgot to take out the half of the crystal bead out of his trouser pocket, and it fell out when it was spinning in the washing machine, and the crazy professor found it when he collected his clothes for him.

"It was given to me by a beautiful woman. Wu Mian told the truth about how he bravely saved the young woman and inadvertently swallowed the crystal beads.

"And half of it in your stomach that didn't spit out?" the mad professor asked with concern, "Don't you have to go to the hospital for a check-up? ”

"No, I think about it now, maybe all I swallowed was half of the crystal beads, and the other half had already cracked and fallen to me when I tore off the necklace. Wu Mian groaned.

The mad professor let out an "um" and looked at the half of the crystal bead into the light: "This thing...... Can you borrow it for a few days?"

"What for?"

"I'm just missing ...... for experiments," the mad professor said as he spat out a string of molecular formula terms that no one could understand, "all in all, it seems to be a fairly rare natural crystal, which of course needs to be confirmed by laboratory testing." ”

"Pure natural crystal, isn't it very valuable?" Wu Mian was a little nervous, "Then I can't give you a random test, and if you break it, the young woman will claim compensation from me!"

"Please, it's not a complete bead now, it's already broken, it can't be broken anymore. If she claims it, she will definitely want a new one, and she won't want this half anymore, so it's better to leave it to me for waste use. ”

"Uh...... All right. Wu Mian agreed. First, because this is reasonable, and secondly, because he thought about it carefully, he felt that it was unlikely to be a pure natural precious crystal. Because if it was really an expensive luxury, the young woman would be quite distressed when she found out that she was gone, and she should have called him to ask about his whereabouts according to the mobile phone number left on his business card. It was probably only a few hundred artificial crystals, so she didn't really care if she lost them.

The mad professor held the half of the crystal bead and ran out in a hurry.

Wu Mian turned off the computer, set the alarm clock to eleven o'clock in the morning, and lay down to sleep. Since he left work late last night, today's interview assignment was scheduled for the afternoon, and according to the usual practice, he could have slept until noon before going to work. However, he wanted to buy a mobile phone first, so he decided to wake up an hour earlier.

This night, Wu Mian didn't sleep very well, and he seemed to have a lot of dreams in a daze. Some are beautiful dreams, in which he re-meets the beautiful young woman and has an affair with her, and some are nightmares, in which he is forced to sit on a time machine invented by the mad professor and is sent as an experimental white mouse to the terrifying flood age......

It wasn't until the sky was completely dawn that Wu Mian finally slept soundly, snorting heavily, and gradually entered a deep sleep.

Ding Bang - Ding Bang - After a rhythmic phone ringing for many times, Wu Mian reluctantly woke up from his sleep and glanced at the alarm clock, it was only a quarter past ten!

He reached out and grabbed the landline microphone on the bedside table, and got up with a stomach to "hey" as a lot of swear words came to his lips.

"Wu Mian, it's me. A muffled woman's voice came.

Wu Mian heard that it was the voice of her female colleague Anya, and most of her anger disappeared suddenly.

Anya is the editor of "Zhuzhou Daily", who joined at about the same time as him, and is known as the "beautiful editor" of the newspaper. In fact, she is not particularly beautiful, but she is better than having a cultural temperament, and she is more good at dressing up, and the whole newspaper is full of aunts and ugly girls, so she is relatively the number one beauty.

There was a time when Wu Mian had pursued him, and after being politely and resolutely refused, he gave up with interest, and he didn't expect that she would call his house today, which was the first time in the world.

"Hey, why did you call me so early? You actually chased my landline...... Did you miss me?" Wu Mian habitually joked. In the entire newspaper, he only told Anya his landline number.

"Are you still in the mood to laugh? Do you know that you have caused a big disaster?" Anya's voice was still very low, obviously holding the microphone and secretly making a phone call.

Wu Mian was stunned: "What's wrong?"

"Why is your mobile phone turned off? Director Guan has been calling you since eight o'clock, and I haven't been able to get through, and I'm like a thunderbolt!"

"My phone is broken, and I haven't had time to buy a new one. Wu Mian's residual sleepiness suddenly disappeared, and he turned over and sat up and asked in surprise, "What are you in a hurry to find me? Is there an urgent interview?"

As a journalist, according to the regulations, the computer should be turned on 24 hours a day in order to cope with the emergency interview tasks assigned at any time, but most reporters will inevitably encounter several accidents in their careers, such as happening to be in the shower, going to the toilet or playing a gun, and the mobile phone is not with you, or the mobile phone is adjusted to a silent state before and forgetting to turn it back, resulting in failure to answer the phone in time and mishap.

"It's worse than that! There was a big mistake in the manuscript you wrote last night, and the Municipal Development and Reform Commission called to protest, and I heard that even the president was scolded. ”

"What?" Wu Mian was shocked and cold sweat broke out all over his body.

For state media reporters, the only thing that is more terrible than "not answering the phone in time" is "making mistakes". If a typical metropolitan newspaper or tabloid newspaper makes a mistake, it can basically pass the test by publishing an apology statement, but a mistake by the official media can evolve into a "political mistake" at any time, which will definitely become a nightmare for a journalist's career, if he can keep this profession.

"I won't tell you more, you hurry up and report to the club to find Director Guan and see how to remedy it." That's it, bye!" As soon as the hurried voice fell, the phone hung up with a "snap".

Wu Mian's heart seemed to be broken in two, he threw down the microphone and jumped out of bed, put on his clothes and pants as fast as he could, went to the bathroom and washed his face, he didn't even bother to brush his teeth, so he hurriedly left home and ran downstairs, beckoned a taxi to jump into the car.

On the way to the newspaper office, Wu Mian forced himself to calm down, carefully recalling what the beautiful editor had just said on the phone, and the more he thought about it, the more puzzled he became.

Listening to Anya, what went wrong was the report about the speech of Xu Jiancheng, director of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, but it didn't make sense, it was the most unlikely to make a mistake.

The high-end forum held by the municipal government yesterday was a semi-closed discussion, and only two state media, Zhuzhou Daily and Zhuzhou TV, were allowed to observe the whole event. At that time, the organizer distributed Xu Jiancheng's speech, so the report written by Wu Mian later had no technical content at all, and was just a copy of "moving words over paper", and it was not a regular interview Q&A, which may misinterpret the other party's meaning and cause the so-called "misreading" error.

Could it be that he accidentally copied something wrong? However, Xu Jiancheng's speech was mainly about the construction plan of Zhuzhou City's science and technology park, and the whole speech was plain and stable, and there was no new idea, and even if there were one or two mistakes or omissions, he would not have called to protest so seriously.

Wu Mian couldn't think of a reason after thinking about it, so he simply didn't think about it, so with a feeling full of doubts and uneasiness, he took a taxi and rushed back to the "Zhuzhou Daily" newspaper office, paid and got off the bus, and rushed into the office building in three steps and two steps.