The 600,000-word detailed text file is in the computer that Rao Xin was crackling with just now.

Wu Xiaoqing asked Rao Xin to open part of it directly and read the general content - but he didn't understand it.

Since most of the respondents were Europeans and Americans, many of them were Danish and Swedish, and then German, English, Swiss, and Italian...... This information is also completely unfamiliar to Wu Xiaoqing.

"Professor Shen said that he would find someone to translate these things...... Rao Xin said, "but most of the content is the same." When I was doing the research, I had already asked a few college students to translate it a little......"

"The main thing is to divide into two factions, one group supports and the other group does not support. Europeans are multicultural, so there are more people who don't support it. But I've talked to Professor Shen, and we both support the existence of some kind of rational state......"

Wu Xiaoqing's thinking could keep up, and he could realize why the search and rescue team would put Rao Xin in charge of the project, and why he let himself come.

But Wu Xiaoqing's knowledge reserves have been drained, and he can only try his best to describe his thoughts: "What do you mean...... If there really are extraterrestrial civilizations in the universe, in the end, their civilization states will evolve in the same direction? ”

"Yes," Rao Xin looked at Wu Xiaoqing's surprised eyes and said with a smile, "There is nothing strange about this question, it's an old project with a science fiction theme." ”

Wu Xiaoqing smiled awkwardly: "It seems that you people who write science fiction are very optimistic. ”

"Optimistic?" Rao Xin shook his head, "This question has nothing to do with optimism. ”

"The ultimate rational state, that's another way of saying utopia. Isn't that enough to be called optimism? ”

"......" Rao Xin didn't speak for a while, but just glanced at Wu Xiaoqing deeply.

At this moment, Wu Xiaoqing keenly captured a little surprise in the other party's eyes - he had often seen this kind of look before, that is, when he was in class, when he answered a question, the surrounding classmates and the teachers on the stage would stare at him with such eyes.

Wu Xiaoqing thought that he was immune to this kind of look, but now that he sees it, he still feels very uncomfortable.

After a short silence, Rao Xin began to explain: "Let me explain first, reasonableness here is, in a sense, a philosophical term, not what we often call reasonable, and in translation, it should be called rational ......."

"Our willingness to believe in the establishment of the ultimate rational state is as rational as believing that the universe will eventually die of heat, which is a rational judgment and does not involve optimism......"

"Heat death is definitely not optimistic for the fate of the universe, it is difficult to say, and it can even be said to be the most vicious curse on our ultimate destiny by the definition of physics."

The search and rescue team was obviously also paying attention to the content of their chat, and also paid timely attention to the problems encountered by Wu Xiaoqing during the chat. For example, heat death, which is a completely unfamiliar term for Wu Xiaoqing, the search and rescue team gave a corresponding explanation on the subtitles in time, so that he could barely understand.

With this warm-up general explanation, Rao Xin's thoughts began to become lively, as if he had suddenly entered the state of writing a novel: "The search and rescue team and I are more concerned about the continued deepening of this issue, so our second level of question is to dig further on this basis - if this state exists, do you think it is more inclined to disorder or order." ”

This time the search and rescue team did not prompt, and the question is obviously literal. Orderly, Wu Xiaoqing can be understood, but what about disorder?

"Discord is a hypothetical state of civilization," Rao replied, "and ...... is also touched upon in some novels."

"Let's use a simple analogy, suppose that the final rational state of civilization is the same as the fate of the universe, and eventually move towards discrete ......"

"That means that all the assemblages of order will disintegrate with the progress of technology – just like the multiculturalism on Earth today......"

"Civilization began to become more and more fragmented and discrete, and eventually the state of the entire civilization became as vague as an electronic cloud. - This is of course a reasonable state, but it tends to run more out of order......"

"In fact, in a sense, the current earth civilization is transforming from order to disorder. We no longer advocate a higher will, to participate in wars, or to contribute to the country, and everyone calculates their own one-third of an acre. ”

"Then ......" Wu Xiaoqing struggled to understand what Rao Xin meant: "It sounds like disorder is much stronger than order." ”

"By our current morality, that's true." Rao Xin nodded, but quickly shook his head: "But our current morality, but in China, has only been formed for decades. For most of civilization, we still believed that our lives, our civilization itself, were perpetuated for a greater purpose...... Although this goal has been changing. ”

After reading the book and seeing the inside of the skull*, Wu Xiaoqing was once again surprised to feel that just listening to others could be so enthusiastic.

In just a few words, Rao Xin has almost perfectly connected Wu Xiaoqing's several missions, and even brought the historical knowledge of the earth in Wu Xiaoqing's memory.

For a while, Wu Xiaoqing faintly felt an inexplicable sense of pride that he was on the earth and a human being.

What's more, in Rao Xin's intermittent words, he saw his own future—although this future was still far away, he could feel its enormity.

Rao Xin and him seemed to be two people standing at the door of a huge palace - Rao Xin had already stuck to the door, listened to the movement in the door for a long time, and described the scene inside to him, but Wu Xiaoqing was the one who had already put the door key on his hand.

He is different from Rao Xin, Rao Xin only needs to listen to the movement outside, and then according to his imagination, just talk about it casually - his hearing may be very keen, and there are many things to say. But Wu Xiaoqing is the person who needs to step into this door in the future and really participate in it.

It turned out that for Wu Xiaoqing, the inside of the door was a completely mysterious world. - Although he has already experienced three missions and seen three worlds, these three worlds are of little help to judge future missions.

If the first and second missions made Wu Xiaoqing think that all alien civilizations would develop like the earth, then the third civilization almost completely disrupted this law.

It's like three numbers looking for patterns, 1, 3, and then 12.078814...... The first two numbers seem to be equal difference sequences, but the appearance of the third number directly makes people confused.

Wu Xiaoqing began to realize the significance of Rao Xin's project.

In a sense, he is speculating on a certain state - forming a certain theory based on a certain judgment of the search and rescue team.

It's just two questions, it turns out that for Wu Xiaoqing, the completely vague and unfamiliar world has begun to become clear. And then there's the third, the fourth......

As Wu Xiaoqing guessed, in the following pictures, more questions appear, and they are all further deepening of the previous problems - whether civilization is orderly or not, what is the key to this difference? Can this factor be established by some exact criterion, just like the dispersion and convergence of the series......

If there is order, what about the end state of this order?

If there is disorder, can a certain law be obtained in a large sample of disordered civilization......

Is the technology justified? Disordered? What about morality?

……

Wu Xiaoqing once heard Yan Yan talk about philosophy, but he didn't understand it at all.

Now, when he sees these questions, what can't help but appear in his mind are some philosophical concepts that Yan Yan once said.

These topics may sound very ethereal, but Wu Xiaoqing can faintly feel that they are all faintly connected to the "rescue" cause he is participating in.

Wu Xiaoqing almost subconsciously began to recall the scene when he first saw the search and rescue team.

He followed the search and rescue team into a warship, a warship that could sail in space - and in retrospect, that battleship itself was a civilization. Such a civilization is unimaginably developed for the planet, but ...... He eventually disappeared.

If it weren't for the problems Rao Xin said to describe, Wu Xiaoqing would hardly be able to describe the civilization he had seen in words.

But now, he could almost summarize the civilization in terms of the strange terms he had just recognized—it was certainly reasonable, it was probably orderly, and its end state was decay, which was probably rooted in the internal causes of civilization, so that the captain at that time did not even have the intention of resisting.

And in the same way, in the body of the search and rescue team, Wu Xiaoqing almost felt a very similar quality to the captain - that is, the search and rescue team is also very likely to come from such a civilization.

And one thing can be determined - Wu Xiaoqing now feels like he is following the steps in the textbook to solve the problem, and he begins to subconsciously analyze the problem - the final orderly point determined by the civilization to which the search and rescue team belongs, or in other words, the ultimate meaning, is to save, and salvation is the convergence value of this civilization itself.

Now, he also belongs to this civilization - even if Wu Xiaoqing doesn't even know what this civilization is, he knows that everything he wants to do in the future will be determined by this value.

Unlike Wu Xiaoqing, who is excited about his future, Rao Xin is more of a passion when he tells - these things are so empty, even if they appear in the novel, if there is no large matching plot, they look like idiots talking about dreams. It's as if a primitive person looks at the stars and wonders how the immortals in the sky live. But human beings are like that, the more unattainable it is, the more excited it is.

This project has been going for more than two months in Europe, and the cost of organizing students, professors and corresponding intellectuals to participate is no less than several million euros.

And all this is simply because the owner of a company is interested in the science fiction genre - the plot itself is science fiction enough.

In this process, in fact, Rao Xin has not taken his attitude too seriously - subconsciously, he still sees himself as a freelancer who writes novels, rather than as a concrete project that decides to invest millions of euros or even larger.

These two months were intense, but not hard at all – almost free of charge and free to talk to people about topics of interest.

This feeling is definitely much stronger than writing a novel at home.

Now that he is back in China and interviews with Wu Xiaoqing, the boss, it is almost a matter of making Rao Xin relive the excitement of the past two months - the more Rao Xin talks, the more excited he becomes, and he even begins to stand up, pacing back and forth, talking as he goes.

The conversation between Wu Xiaoqing and Rao Xin lasted almost all night.

It wasn't until the early morning of the next day, after Rao Xin began to feel sleepy, that he slowly stopped.

Anyway, the hotel room is also ready-made, and Wu Xiaoqing will sleep here.

But after lying down, Wu Xiaoqing closed his eyes, but his mind was still spinning uncontrollably. At this moment, his brain was like a new and powerful engine being filled with a full tank of fuel...... Rao Xin was already asleep and snoring, but Wu Xiaoqing couldn't help but stand up and directly use Rao Xin's computer to start checking information and reading.

600,000 words of text...... It doesn't sound that scary.