When Rao Xin woke up, there was no one in the room.

When Wu Xiaoqing left the room, Rao Xin had no impression at all.

As a standard nocturnal animal, Rao Xin's biggest advantage is that he has a high quality of sleep during the day - as long as he is asleep, even if it is an earthquake, he will not wake up.

Rao Xin habitually picked up the service phone, intending to ask for a lunch - and then the other party told him on the phone that it was dinner time.

Did you sleep all day? He remembers sleeping at eight o'clock......

After brushing his teeth, Rao Xin habitually looked at his mobile phone, and Wu Xiaoqing left him two messages at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the first one was very simple, only eight words: "Listening to you for one night is better than reading for ten years." ”

Rao Xin smiled - blowing B in front of the boss, and blowing B successfully feels pretty good.

The second one is also very simple: "I have brought all the materials back, if it is convenient, please come to the company tomorrow morning." ”

The following are the usual payment messages - when Rao Xin was in Europe before, every time the project needed to use funds, the company would transfer money to a special account, and every once in a while would also make money to his personal account.

These funds are more or less, sometimes hundreds of thousands of euros at a time, that is, millions of yuan, and the few are thousands of euros.

According to the contract provided by Professor Shen to Rao Xin, in the contract he signed with Qinglan Consulting, these expenses have many names: consulting fees, travel subsidies, special subsidies for high consumption, and special funds for Utopia projects......

When he first collected money, Rao Xin would secretly calculate how much money he could get in the end, but after going to Europe for more than a month, he gave up calculating - because no matter how he calculated, after he came back from this trip, he would be a millionaire at least.

When he first received this project, Rao Xin once wondered if it would be some kind of money laundering scam - to make a name for himself to go to Europe to launder money. - I have to say that the imagination of the guy who writes the novel is rich, so Rao Xin also went to check Shen Changwen's resume and the legitimacy of Qinglan information.

The results of the investigation surprised him a little - it turned out to be not a hoax.

When he first started writing novels, Rao Xin always dreamed of becoming famous overnight and getting rich overnight, but after a few years of writing, he knew that the reason why dreams are dreams is because dreams are far away from most people.

To be honest, in terms of writing, Rao Xin really doesn't have much talent, and sometimes when he looks back at the things he has written, he feels embarrassed, and he can't accept that it was something he typed out.

The reason why I can make a living on this thing is just to rely on a little imagination, barely making ends meet. But no one would have imagined that someone would be interested in the setting in his novel before writing a novel, and he would prepare a humanities investigation project to give him money.

Rao Xin can still remember that before he got on the plane at the airport, he was still talking to the other party about this topic in the last hour.

"Why?" Rao Xin has always thought that he is a brain-hole author, but he still can't figure out the other party's behavior of stuffing money into his arms.

This was probably the hundredth reason he asked.

The other party also answered him this question for the hundredth time, as he did 99 times before: "Because I think it's worth it." ”

"Value?" Rao Xin laughed, "You just need to invite my former editor to a meal, and you can eat, and I may not be able to earn this money for writing a book for a lifetime." You just have to give one percent of that price...... No, even you just don't give money! As long as you pay for the journey, I will be willing to do this job. ”

"That's just what you think."

"Am I wrong about this feeling?"

"Yes, it makes sense," Rao Xin can still remember every word in the chat log, "but I also have a feeling." ”

"You think I'm worth so much money?"

"No," said the other man, "I feel that this is the reason that is wrong." ”

Rao Xin didn't speak at the time.

The other person said, "Do you know why you want to go to Europe?" ”

"I thought about it because it's very well developed," Rao said, "and it's only in those countries that you can find good answers to these questions in this project." If it's domestic...... No one will be interested in these questions at all, and even if they pay for answers, most of them will be answered. ”

After all, Rao Xin had only added a few meetings, and he knew what some of the most mainstream views at the consultation meeting were. In terms of technology, the Chinese people may not have the slightest problem, but at the level of imagination...... In particular, to imagine and deduce a completely illusory thing so seriously......

This kind of environment is almost non-existent in China.

But imagination is the foundation of this project. At the same time, this imagination cannot be completely made up in a vacuum, but to a large extent requires the accumulation of considerable scientific literacy, and most importantly, the enthusiasm and atmosphere for discussing such topics.

Shen Changwen's remarks Rao Xin can't refute, because deep down, he also agrees with this point of view - otherwise, how can he deal with himself?

For Rao Xin, the only thing he can do is to be as dedicated and serious as possible in his work - he is a lazy person, because of this project, he has been in Europe for more than two months - it sounds like a high-welfare state, but in fact, most of the Nordic countries have a ...... diet It's all bad. After this trip, Rao Xin came back and lost more than 20 pounds, and got rid of all the fat he had raised by writing novels at home for several years.

But the harvest is also huge, the ancients said, it is better to read 10,000 books, than to travel 10,000 miles.

Rao Xin used to be a little dismissive of this - the amount of information that modern people are exposed to every day at home may be more than the ancients who have seen it all their lives when they go out, what is the point of relying on going out to collect information in such an era?

Actually, there are still some of them.

At the very least, Rao Xin saw a different way of living for those young people in those countries.

Rao Xin remembers that when he was in college, he spent all day in Internet cafes, playing games, and three years of hard study in high school was like a prison sentence, at the cost of four years of paid leave. If you think about it carefully, it's actually a loss - the most precious years of life have been wasted in this way.

When Rao Xin was in college, if anyone came over to discuss science fiction topics with Rao Xin, it was estimated that Rao Xin would roll his eyes a few times at that time.

But in Denmark and Sweden, he can easily find students at many universities who are interested in such topics. When everyone chats happily, they can even chat all night.

This phenomenon is not only seen in universities, but also among those who are interested in their topic, many of whom are currently working, but they also participate in salons to discuss related topics in their spare time.

Before he went, Rao Xin had already expected this phenomenon - it's just that, before that, he thought that the reason for this phenomenon was only because of money. Danes are rich, developed, and have high welfare, and everyone does not worry about work, life, or performance, so they are more free and romantic in their attitude towards life, which is a matter of course.

But after he went, he realized that money is of course a very important reason, but it is not entirely because of money.

There are also many foreign students from China, as well as many Chinese who go to travel, and Rao Xin has also had a lot of exchanges with them.

But the impression that Chinese people give themselves is that the richer they are, the more they have no time to talk about these topics, because everyone's attention is on the more pragmatic aspects, students think about grades and majors, tourists think about taking pictures and scenic routes, and the prices of hotels around, and the bosses who are not short of money are paying attention to their own careers. - Comparatively speaking, the Chinese people are still more pragmatic.

There's nothing inherently wrong with pragmatism, it's just ......

In his original words, it was the Chinese civilization itself that was a little too orderly.

His breakfast arrived, milk, fritters, xiao long bao. The main meal in Changzhou Hotel is not very good, but the simple combination of breakfast is still very appetizing to Rao Xin. He took the milk and, as was customary, sat down in front of his computer and began to eat as he prepared to organize his thoughts.

When eating, it is often when a person is most relaxed. As far as Rao Xin's personal experience is concerned, most of the good ideas in his writing process come to mind during meals, before going to bed, going to the toilet and taking a bath. If the college entrance examination had allowed him to take a bath while eating to answer the questions, maybe he could have gone to Tsinghua University and Peking University......

The milk is too hot, so I drank it a few sips, and the xiaolongbao tasted good...... But......

But something seems wrong.

When Rao Xin opened the file on his computer, he noticed a large number of differences just by scanning it.

In the original document, all the written material was in English format.

After all, these materials were all typed by Rao Xin in the name of the project when he was abroad—many of the discussions were actually just audio materials.

The information of these hand-typed versions itself comes from different people, but when they came to Wu Xiaoqing, they were copied uniformly. Wu Xiaoqing uses a word document, and because different people use different fonts, the whole document looks very messy.

In the document, many of the conversations are content-only and do not have the identity of the speaker - that is, if you only look at the document and do not listen to the original audio material, you will not understand a lot of the things in the document.

But now, right in front of Rao Xin, the entire document has become neat. The person to whom each sound belongs and who is speaking is clearly marked......

The fonts of the entire document have also been carefully arranged. The content of the notes belonging to Rao Xin, the recorder, is marked with a separate font, and the content belonging to the respondent is marked in another font, which comes from the information found on the Internet, and the information is accurate and uncertain...... They are all specially distinguished with different font sizes and fonts.

Rao Xin quickly flipped through it, and all the documents he brought back had accumulated and were estimated to be more than one or two million words...... All of this has been changed.

That is to say, during the time he was sleeping, Wu Xiaoqing watched these contents, and in just eight or nine hours—no, Wu Xiaoqing should have left before two o'clock in the afternoon, that is, in just four or five hours, he finished reading all the content, listened to all the recordings, and compared everything......

These recordings and texts contain seven or eight completely different languages, and many people speak in one or two languages, but the recorder often uses another language that the recorder himself is better at......

These are complicated and can easily lead to errors in information......

Rao Xin checked it, he checked it for a full ten minutes, and found dozens of places, where he probably had an impression, he didn't find any mistakes or omissions.

You must know that when these documents and information were in Europe, Rao Xin also found a special document processing company, and wanted to spend some money to let them sort it out on the spot and bring it back by himself.

At that time, Rao Xin didn't know much about business information in terms of information, and thought that these jobs would not cost much money and time - but the price offered by the other party and the deadline given made Rao Xin know his naivety.

Just processing these documents, if you find a professional company to do it, will cost hundreds of thousands, euros! In addition, it is necessary to wait for at least half a month to a month, and this is not reflected in the contract - that is, it is not guaranteed.

And now, Wu Xiaoqing, or rather, the Qinglan consultation behind Wu Xiaoqing, only took five hours.

Five hours, even if translated into Chinese, at the speed of reading online novels, I am afraid it is too late - how did their company do it? Or is the current automatic translation software so advanced?