When Wu Xiaoqing walked into the door of the company, Yan Yan noticed at a glance that the face of the company's big boss was not quite right: "Mr. Wu, what's wrong with you?" Sick? ”

Wu Xiaoqing's face couldn't see the slightest blood, his lips were chapped, and his eyes were red, as if he had stayed up all night without rest.

Yan Yan suddenly thought that he hadn't seen Mr. Wu for several days recently.

It's just that the company has been busy recently, and Wu Xiaoqing rarely goes in and out, Yan Yan subconsciously ignored this, but now it seems that Mr. Wu has obviously encountered something.

"Let's have a glass of milk, Mr. Wu," Yan Yan handed him the milk he had just warmed up and was about to drink, "and then go back to sleep." ”

Wu Xiaoqing took it and seemed to want to walk into his office, but he stood at the door for a long time, but only sat down at a workstation at the door of the office.

The original employee at that workstation immediately felt nervous and quickly switched to the work interface. Wu Xiaoqing turned his head to look at his screen while drinking milk...... Just looked at this unlucky employee blankly, and quickly completed the information summary of a consultation meeting at a speed far three or five times faster than usual.

It wasn't until the second summary was almost finished that Wu Xiaoqing's milk was finally drunk before he got up and returned to his office.

15 minutes later, Shen Changwen also walked back, he looked like Wu Xiaoqing, and his whole person was a little depressed...... Even his hair looks a lot grayer.

Yan Yan also poured him a glass of milk, and then went to report the situation to Chen She, Chen She came out to see the teacher's situation, but Shen Changwen had already walked into Wu Xiaoqing's room at this time.

"Are you busy?" Yan Yan said with concern, "How many meetings are there today?" ”

"There aren't many today, there are only two in total, and they don't need to attend, it's just B-level."

Grade B is the company's internal ranking of the importance of the consulting meeting, and it seems that the B grade is definitely behind the A grade. Generally speaking, the consultation content of the A-level consultation meeting will require the participants to maintain confidentiality, and it is usually Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen who personally participate, and some of them are particularly important, and several people will participate together.

But there is not much need for the B-level meeting, they only read the report at most, and sometimes they don't even look at the report, and directly give the conclusions to some of the participants who participated in the A-level discussions, and use the results of these B-level meetings as the technical basis for some kind of discussion.

"It's almost 12 o'clock, go ask them if they want to have lunch at the company...... Or you can have a dinner party. ”

Yan Yan went to ask, and then came back quickly: "They don't eat." ”

Chen She frowned, and at this time, Xu Yan came over, and Chen She walked straight over and motioned to talk to him.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Although Shen Changwen had already explained to Chen She before, don't communicate privately with Xu Yan Wang Youquan...... But he still couldn't help it today.

Xu Yan's face was better than the two of them, but it wasn't much better, he shook his head and said, "Manager Chen, I can't say anything according to the company's regulations." And this has nothing to do with the company's business, you can rest assured. ”

When Xu Yan walked into Wu Xiaoqing's office, Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen were in a daze.

After returning from the spaceship, Xu Yan noticed the expressions of the two of them, and of course he knew that it was because the clones began to carry out the plan and chose to cooperate with the Federation.

Strictly speaking, this mission ends here, and there is basically nothing to do with them.

Next, what the entire search and rescue team needs to do is wait, wait for the cooperation between the Federation and the clones to deepen, wait for the war to develop further, and wait for the two sides to form a temporary stalemate...... After a large number of clones have mastered the Federation's fleet, it is inevitable that they will form a strong political influence.

Compared with the search and rescue ship that Wu Xiaoqing got from Civilization A, this kind of influence from within the other civilization is the key to really promoting the progress of the entire mission.

It's just that in this way, the original idea of relying on the strength of a few people to save two civilizations seems to have completely changed.

What was supposed to be the most difficult mission turned out to be the easiest in the course of several rescue operations. From the beginning, they just went to talk to each other for a few words, and then they were kicked out. But in just one or two days, the contact has been accidental, and it has reached the point of brightness.

But for Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen, this is the most "unacceptable" experience.

Yes, they are relaxed, but they cannot be replaced, but they are the countless individuals who will be copied......

Although the clones had only had a few contacts with them from beginning to end, in these few contacts, Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen had already developed a strong curiosity about each other—they really felt that the other party was very much like their other selves.

But now, until the end of the mission, they may never have a chance to meet again, and when it comes to the next time they meet, Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen dare not imagine what it will be like.

"Take a vacation and rest for a few days." Wu Xiaoqing said to Shen Changwen, "We all need to be calm and adapt to life on the earth." ”

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Having said that, Wu Xiaoqing's lifestyle now really doesn't look like an earthling.

I go back and forth between the company and the basement all day long, and all I think about is the task and the consultation meeting every day...... Busy barely touching the ground.

Now that he is suddenly idle, Wu Xiaoqing even has an illusion - as if he is a replica of himself, the busy Wu Xiaoqing before is real, and now he is idle, just a spare attachment.

Qinglan Consulting has received many guests from abroad, many of whom have relatively high social influence, commonly known as people with status and status. When inviting them to Qinglan Consulting for a meeting, they often take them to the scenic spots around Ningzhou to play.

Wu Xiaoqing was in the company's car today, and under the leadership of a recent employee of the company who was in charge of this area, he came to the urban park in Ningzhou alone.

Before you know it, it's late April, and it's the best time of the year.

Today's weather is surprisingly good, although there is sun, it is mostly covered by clouds, and the wind is blowing.

Although it is a weekday, you can still see pedestrians coming to the park for spring, and in several open areas of the park, there are adults and children flying kites.

Wu Xiaoqing originally wanted Rao Xin to talk to him, but in the end he didn't call him, and brought Rao Xin, and inevitably talked about the consultation meeting and the task......

Now Wu Xiaoqing suddenly felt that he was tired, and he was so tired that he didn't want to think about anything about this mission. He himself didn't understand where this sudden emotion came from and how to avoid it...... But the emotions still completely gripped him.

Looking at the kites flying in the sky, Wu Xiaoqing couldn't help but think that to a large extent, this emotion was probably because they were too confident in themselves.

Especially Wu Xiaoqing.

In the period after the surgery, the passion and confidence that knowledge brought him to this mission made him particularly excited, and this excitement supported him to participate in the consultation sessions all night and maintain a high level of mental work...... It can almost be said that he feels that he has gained a lot of information from every consultation meeting, and every time he chats with people, he feels like he has seen a whole new world.

People like Rao Xin are already everywhere in the current consultation meeting, and they, like Wu Xiaoqing, will be excited and excited about an ethereal technical setting, and they will talk to each other completely forgetful.

For Wu Xiaoqing, this experience is undoubtedly exciting, and there are even times when Wu Xiaoqing thinks that he can live like this for the rest of his life. He felt that his whole being was beginning to undergo a difficult metamorphosis like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly with these works.

But what he didn't expect the most was ...... The result of the transformation is not to become a butterfly, to some extent, Wu Xiaoqing feels that he has become a spider.

A spider that has begun to learn to weave huge webs, trying to control all possibilities.

Probably because the previous smooth rescue operations gave them the illusion that discussing everything with a group of experts and coming up with professional results is the best way to do one thing well.

But this time, it's clearly not.

At the beginning of the mission, they would not have thought of the technology of consciousness replication, let alone the form of war between the mind and the Federation, and the possible connection between this technology. Their imagination of the intellect and the civilization of the Federation at that time was completely empty-to-air......

Even after full contact with the Federation and the Intellectuals, the conclusions reached at the consultation did not show any kind of foresight, and the experts of Earth have always paid attention to the Federation's battery technology, computer technology, starship technology, and cell industry technology...... As for the most critical issue of consciousness digitization, most people will only use a general concept of "AI" to explain it.

For earthlings, technology seems to mean everything.

But in this case, the most important part of the mission is not about technology, from beginning to end, it is only about morality, or rather, how much people accept the way of life.

When they first went to the Federation, they had already heard of the concept of consciousness digitization, but it was not until the concept was actually placed in front of them that they noticed that it was not just a sentence, it was like "democracy and freedom" on the earth, and it was not a simple slogan.

These seemingly trivial and irrelevant things are actually the focus of a civilization's persistence, the driving force and core of civilization's progress.

Technological breakthroughs and advances are easy for earthlings to accept, but morally ......

At least Wu Xiaoqing has not seen any relevant professional books yet, even the most cutting-edge philosophy.

In the movie, earthlings can imagine a civilized world thousands of years later, and they imagine that people in that world will use more cutting-edge technology products than now, and enjoy a more incredible life than now...... It's just that it's hard for all people to imagine what the real possible "moral state" of people in the future will be, and will their attitude towards the world and people be exactly the same as that of people today?

Earthlings admit that technological progress never ends, but morality ...... It seems that everyone thinks that the current moral system is the most perfect and appropriate, and as for some possible form of being more "forward", not many people really think about it.

This is the reason why Wu Xiaoqing feels uncomfortable now, because he, like Shen Changwen, is too deeply bound by the existing morality of the earth, until now, when he thinks of those clones, Wu Xiaoqing still can't help but feel uncomfortable, thinking that he is sorry for them, thinking that they are replacing themselves and exercising a mission that did not belong to them.

"Actually, it's a kind of arrogance," the search and rescue team said of their sentiments, "You always want to believe that you take it for granted to use your values to help others, but more often than not, people are just helping themselves." You think your clones are sacrifices, but in reality, maybe they feel more than that, but that's the best strategy. ”

On this issue, on the contrary, Xu Yan's performance was better than them, and when Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen were still trying to say a few more words to their clones to increase their understanding, Xu Yan actually broke off with the other party decisively.

- He was afraid that the other party would return to Earth to rob him of his deposit.