After Rao Xin left, Shen Changwen asked Wu Xiaoqing thoughtfully: "You said 40 days just now, which means the search and rescue team." ”

"How do you tell?" Wu Xiaoqing said, "Are the traces of my reading manuscript obvious? ”

"It still needs to be seen," Shen Changwen said, "how can ordinary people speak for 40 days, and they generally say the first month, or a month and a half." ”

"You people are so tired of living a single word," 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 that 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." ”

"When was that?" Shen Changwen's expression now is like a child asking when school will be closed.

"It's not certain yet," Mr. Wu said, "and the search and rescue team is still learning about the situation of the target civilization, and he said that the situation this time is a bit complicated." ”

"Complicated?" Shen Changwen's curiosity was completely aroused, "It's complicated, let's talk about it." ”

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

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

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

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

But it turned out that Rao Xin was more correct - they discussed the issue. In Rao Xin's view, one of the most important prerequisites for the formation of religious experience is that people have a sense of awe and fear of the unknown world. That's why mainstream religions always create a hell at the level of consciousness.

But for people who have ascended to the Heavenly Realm, they are not even afraid of death, so how can they be afraid of some kind of evil consequences caused by not cultivating.

In fact, practicing this kind of thing, just like the college entrance examination, is essentially a screening mechanism. The college entrance examination optimizes the efficiency of education through intellectual stratification, while cultivation is just the allocation of resources for the Ascension Realm through force.

Essentially, this is a distribution mechanism - but now the entire distribution mechanism has completely changed, no matter how high you cultivate, you can't find a flying sword, and it's useless to learn, so you still need to cultivate a P...... There are now 1,000 legal flying swords in the Quansheng Heaven Realm, and even if others are geniuses who practice swords, they have to honestly learn to "swim" with their limbs to act.

Everyone's overall obedience is not simply superficial civilization, these days, there are many original sects that have taken the initiative to hand over the flying swords accumulated by their sects. It turns out that the Ferrari cage, as a means of punishment, is still a great deterrent for the free-spirited flyers.

Back on the earth, because of the holidays, whether it was Qinglan Consulting or the film project, they all came to a temporary pause, Wu Xiaoqing's schedule suddenly became empty, and he began to have a whole period of time to read and study.

Wu Xiaoqing learns things with a very purpose, and he rarely looks at things that are too detailed, such as calculus, high-energy physics and the like.

In many books, he only tries to understand concepts - Wu Xiaoqing began to realize that the most important part of the entire search and rescue operation is always the ability to understand unfamiliar concepts.

Every time they go on a mission in the future, the civilization they encounter is likely to be a completely new and unfamiliar civilization, and they have completely different cultural backgrounds and social forms...... The specific rules of mathematics and physics are the same throughout the universe, and this is precisely the part that is easiest to understand and communicate. And the biggest obstacle to each mission is always the understanding of civilization itself.

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

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

In fact, the most complex, but also the most subtle, and the most important part of the whole mission is never a technical problem, and the most critical thing is always the decision-making - just like this time, they finally chose the ecological stability of the entire planet, and the future development of civilization, at the cost of abandoning the freedom of a considerable part of the people.

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

Wang You's family is very lively today, the original ordinary family of three, today out of thin air two more people, the small two-bedroom living room immediately seemed a little crowded.

Wang Youquan's wife is busy in the kitchen, and Wang Youquan is helping her. Wang Youquan's son was playing games in his room, leaving Wu Xiaoqing and Xu Yan, and they didn't have anything to say to each other.

Xu Yan's sycophants had been filmed three days before, and in the face of Wu Xiaoqing's ignorant appearance, he no longer looked for fun and tried to find himself, so he could only keep a little distance from Mr. Wu. He was in the living room facing a TV, Wu Xiaoqing was in the bedroom, and the other was facing the other, watching the same program news broadcast......

"Mr. Wu, you can start eating first," Wang Youquan's wife came out to greet him, "You eat while serving the food." ”

"Sister-in-law, let's wait until everything is ready to eat together," Wu Xiaoqing said, "Reunion dinner, eating together will have an atmosphere." I was originally here to eat your food, so it's so embarrassing to ask you to cook for us. ”

So I waited another 20 minutes.

In winter, it is not convenient to get too many dishes, in order to make it simple, the middle of the table is dominated by hot pot, and a few hard dishes that must be had for the New Year are placed around. A fish, a chicken, and some meatballs...... It's all pure meat, and people who watch it actually have no appetite. But those vegetable fat cows on the side of the hot pot have a lot of appetite when they look at it.

Before the official meal, everyone picked up the cups and touched them, wished each other a happy New Year, and then the Chinese New Year's Eve meal began.

To be honest, this is the first Chinese New Year's Eve meal Wu Xiaoqing has eaten since he can remember. When I was a child, I vaguely seemed to have eaten it, but my parents quarreled as soon as the Chinese New Year arrived, and now that I think about it, I definitely didn't dare to eat it at that time. Although it is in someone else's house now, the atmosphere is at least a normal New Year's atmosphere. Coming to the king has a whole family, in fact, it is such an atmosphere.

Because it was the Chinese New Year, except for Wang Youquan's son, everyone else here was drinking. Wang Youquan and Xu Yan are white, and Wu Xiaoqing is a quasi-minor - he can't be considered a real adult until the New Year, so according to the 17K audit standard, he can only drink some wine with Wang's wife. - Because of *, I can't clink glasses yet.

When pouring wine for Wu Xiaoqing, Wang's wife also talked about the price of the wine - Wang Youquan specially went to buy it from a Western restaurant, which was very expensive, more than 2,000 per bottle.

In fact, Wang Youquan originally asked his wife to buy a bottle of tens of thousands, but this woman was really reluctant. However, for Wu Xiaoqing, who has never drunk much wine, even if it is 20,000 yuan, there will not be much difference between him and 20 yuan of wine.

Although the wine can't taste good, he can't stand the good mood, and Wu Xiaoqing is still very happy. Wang has a speaker in the living room of the whole family, as well as a microphone - his wife likes to sing KTV at home. I used it today, and after eating half of it, the six of them began to take turns in battle, torturing the neighbors and the two poor microphones.

This should be put on the usual time, the howl at night, must be complained upstairs and downstairs, after all, the sound insulation effect of this old building is very poor, and the footsteps upstairs are a little louder, and they can be heard downstairs.

But today there is no need to scruple – because the noise outside is louder at the moment. If any alien came to China on Earth now, he would definitely think that these stupid humans have been caught in a civil war.

After more than 8 o'clock, Wu Xiaoqing began to receive New Year's messages from many people in the contact.

The first was Qin Feng and Lu Wanqing, then Chen Dao's, and then Wu Xiaoqing's previous addition, the account managers of many manufacturers. followed by Qinglan Consulting Company, Yan Yan and Chen Shuai...... Wu Xiaoqing found one by himself and took it as his own, and then sent it to other people, which was considered to be the completion of the task.

At about 10 o'clock, Wu Xiaoqing and Xu Yan said goodbye. originally said that I wanted to watch the Spring Festival Gala to keep the New Year, but this show is really boring...... Thinking that neither of them drove back, they were afraid that they would be so sleepy that they couldn't even walk. Wang You's family is too small, and it is too inconvenient to sleep, so the two of them still have to go back to the company's dormitory to live.

"Mr. Wu," the two of them waited at the gate of the community for about ten minutes, not to mention the taxi, and they didn't even see a ghost on the road, so they could only walk back. Xu Yan estimated that he couldn't help it again, and began to take the initiative to talk, "Actually, we are idle during this time, or we are not too old, you can hold a training class for us, I see that you often read books alone." ”

"Training what?"

"We can train 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, parachuting and bungee jumping or something, we still have no problem." ”

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

"Isn't that bragging," Xu Yan meant to euphemistically explain that they were overkill—according to his idea, no matter how much they practiced today, it was not impossible to surpass those flying people, "but as long as it is necessary for work, we will definitely learn seriously." ”

"I know you all care about the next mission," Wu Xiaoqing didn't know how many times he explained, "I'm also concerned, but the search and rescue team said they would have to wait a little longer."

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

Wu Xiaoqing was angry and funny: "Why, do any of your relatives still 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 saying that he will come to perform tasks with us," Xu Yan said, "just to come to the company as an ordinary employee...... If you can't really go to a consultation meeting......

Wu Xiaoqing simply didn't answer.

Xu Yan, a person born in a pyramid scheme, has a thick skin and tongue to a certain extent, and he has said the same thing over and over four or five times......

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

But to be honest, don't say it's them, even Wu Xiaoqing himself, when he doesn't know the specific content of the next mission, he won't know what kind of talent he will need in the future - but he can't say this, because everyone believes that Wu Xiaoqing, as the company's CEO, must have considered the company's future development direction very clearly.

Wu Xiaoqing not only can't say that every time he faces this kind of question, he also has to show that he has comprehensive considerations and plans.