At 2 o'clock in the morning, there are very few vehicles on the streets, most of which are taxis.

Wu Xiaoqing stood on the side of the road and waited for more than ten minutes, and had already missed three cars with empty car signs.

This kind of seemingly stupid behavior in a daze would never have appeared in Wu Xiaoqing before. If he sees it, he may have to secretly say in his heart: "Fool." ”

Now he himself has become a fool, but he has no emotions for himself.

Compared to being able to completely immerse yourself in thinking, being a little sluggish and staying in the world around you is not a disadvantage at all.

Fortunately, just when Wu Xiaoqing was at the end of this thought, a fourth car came in front of him, and the distance was just enough for him to raise his hand in time to stop.

He habitually sat in the passenger seat, but regretted it the moment he closed the door - yes, he should have sat in the back.

"Master, Ninggang Hotel. I'm talking to someone else," Wu Xiaoqing said briefly to the driver, and then began to answer the search and rescue team.

"Big brother, if you let me guess, there is only one possibility. That's the logic of this person's description of civilization, which is very appealing to you...... Or, you think he's right. ”

The fortune teller on the street will also talk empty words, but to be convincing, the greatest possibility is that this fortune teller has won the trust of others in specific details.

As far as the search and rescue team is concerned, it must be Rao Xin who is right on some points in describing the state of civilization, or part of the content.

It's highly likely that this content is not limited to the few meetings that Rao Xinlai has attended, and Wu Xiaoqing is well aware of the search and rescue team's ability to gather information—and the search and rescue team may have seen some of his other previous works. - Even if I didn't watch it at the time, I'm sure I've seen it now.

Since it is a novel, there must be specific works.

"What's his pen name?"

"You reacted quickly," the search and rescue team was not surprised by Wu Xiaoqing's reaction, "It's too late for you to read his works now...... Let's talk to him later. By the way, do you like to read novels? ”

"I liked it," Wu Xiaoqing nodded, recalling the online novels he had secretly read in class, and then shook his head, "I shouldn't like it now...... I don't read many novels. ”

"Then take the time to look at some," the search and rescue team said, "and there are quite a few very good." ”

"Do you like to read novels too?"

"Of course, do you think I'm a machine that only calculates formulas?"

Wu Xiaoqing smiled, before his operation, he also thought that his appearance after the operation would become this image. High IQ, intelligence - in his mind, it seems to be a machine that can know how to calculate formulas.

The road conditions in Ningzhou at night are comfortable, and Wu Xiaoqing is also lucky, almost all the way to the green light.

In this half an hour, Wu Xiaoqing followed the suggestions of the search and rescue site and probably read the novel written by this Rao Xin.

Honestly, it feels pretty average.

Wu Xiaoqing didn't know much about science fiction, and if he hadn't encountered a search and rescue team, he might not have had the opportunity to come into contact with this kind of work in his life.

As far as what Wu Xiaoqing saw in the past half an hour, the subject matter of Rao Xin's works is not new.

What aliens occupy the bodies of earthlings and travel to other worlds...... Novels are nothing more than fabrications. The reader should be comfortable with it.

But this Rao Xin doesn't even seem to be doing a good job of this standard.

A lot of the content in the novel, he wrote it himself and began to take it seriously, so in the end, he didn't even please the readers, the plot design was very bad, and every day he just wrote some details to fool the audience. In the end, the only thing he could be comfortable with in these novels was himself, who completely vented the whimsical ideas in his head.

But Wu Xiaoqing had to admit that his whimsical ideas were quite attractive to Wu Xiaoqing.

In Wu Xiaoqing's view, in several fragments of this novel, Rao Xin borrowed the work to describe the rules of the universe in his imagination - the universe is like another larger society. Here, he prophesied that a certain civilization would certainly take on the role of a doctor, saving the lives of certain civilizations when they were in trouble.

The premise itself is only the backdrop of the novel, but there is no doubt that it hits the ground running. - Although even Rao Xin himself does not know this.

Wu Xiaoqing and the search and rescue team have been doing it, in fact, it is such a job.

After explaining his intention and Rao Xin's room number to the hotel front desk, the hotel waiter told Wu Xiaoqing that Rao Xin was waiting for him in the room.

Wu Xiaoqing had already come into contact with a five-star hotel once, when he went to Hawaii to find Yevgeny.

At that time, Wu Xiaoqing was deeply impressed by the resort pool, restaurant, and prices on the menu. He stayed there for only two days, but he spent more money than the first 17 years of Wu Xiaoqing's previous life combined.

This Rao Xin has been back to Ningzhou from Europe for several days, and the money he wants to spend will not be less.

Thinking of this, Wu Xiaoqing didn't feel sorry for money, he was just curious about what kind of reason could make the search and rescue team agree to Rao Xin's way of spending money.

Wu Xiaoqing has been with the search and rescue team for so long, and he knows that the search and rescue team is not a person who pays too much attention to money, but he will never allow it to be wasted at will. They have done so many projects on the planet, especially in the consulting business, and I don't know how many people have been paid.

At that time, when Wu Xiaoqing looked at those people, when he could get so much money with his mouth, he also had an idea in his heart - he always couldn't help but wonder if he would give too much and be wronged.

But the search and rescue team always didn't mind using detailed data to tell Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen, who had previously funded it, mainly Shen Changwen at the time, the reasonableness of these different treatments. The most important factor of these reasonable elements is, of course, the time cost of the person being consulted, and the second is the need for confidentiality of the consulting information.

Generally speaking, the more confidential the content, the more valuable the other party's time, and the higher the consultation fee that the search and rescue team is willing to pay.

Using this rationality as a reference criterion, Rao Xin is clearly an outlier - his income from writing novels is obviously not very good, and in some novel chapters, he also writes about the embarrassment of being poor and unable to pay rent.

For a person whose rent is a problem, Rao Xin's time is undoubtedly relatively cheap.

Then, the remaining reason is undoubtedly only secrecy - but the secrecy fee itself is floating on the basis of the former, a list of one million, if absolute secrecy is required, it may need to add an additional secrecy fee of 200,000 to 300,000.

But for people like Rao Xin, whose previous consulting fees were only more than 10,000 yuan, the confidentiality fee is just a flip even if it is calculated according to the highest model. - And the combination of these two may not be enough for Rao Xin to go to Denmark for a round-trip air ticket.

With such a question, Wu Xiaoqing knocked on the door.

"Are you...... Wu...... Yes, Wu Xiaoqing, Mr. Wu? Wu Xiaoqing still remembered Rao Xin clearly, but the other party was obviously not very impressed with him, "Please come in." ”

When he entered the door, Wu Xiaoqing paid attention to it, Rao Xin was wearing very casually, just a T-shirt and beach pants that were common in late summer and early autumn. Such an outfit may be more appropriate in Hawaii, which is a vacation, but it is not so suitable in the obviously business-oriented Ningzhou Hotel.

After Rao Xin entered the room, he did not continue to greet Wu Xiaoqing, but quickly sat down at the table and crackled and typed on a laptop above. The keyboard he uses should be a mechanical keyboard specially designed for high-speed input, and Wu Xiaoqing has heard several employees use it in the company - the sound is very brittle, but it is also very loud.

In this quiet room, the sound of typing was the only sound, dense like raindrops.

Wu Xiaoqing didn't mind, he waited patiently on the side for a while, and then went to the refrigerator in the room and took out a can of iced coffee to drink - Wu Xiaoqing didn't like the taste of coffee before, but now he wants to try it.

Halfway through the coffee, the sound of typing stopped.

Rao Xin also walked to the side of the refrigerator, turned over a bottle of beer from it, took another plate of salted peanuts, put it on the small coffee table in the middle of the sofa, and then said while eating: "Mr. Wu, I'm sorry, there was something wrong just now." Didn't Professor Shen come? ”

"Professor Shen?" Wu Xiaoqing was a little puzzled, "Did he say he wanted to come?" ”

At this time, in the speaker next to the laptop, Shen Changwen's voice suddenly appeared: "I have something to do, I can't come, let's talk." ”

Wu Xiaoqing immediately understood what was going on.

Shen Changming was still on a mission in the space station, how could he return to Earth, and he didn't tell Wu Xiaoqing. The only explanation is that this "Shen Changwen" was actually used by the search and rescue team in his voice. It's just like the search and rescue team has been using Wu Xiaoqing's voice to complete the daily communication work on the earth.

"Professor Shen said to me, you also like science fiction?"

Wu Xiaoqing habitually looked at the empty subtitle display area in his glasses, and made sure that the search and rescue team didn't give him a word of advice, so he nodded and said, "It's okay, but I don't see much." ”

"What type do you like? Space opera? Pure technology stream? Do you appreciate the plot or the aspect of the setting? ”

These terms are quite unfamiliar to Wu Xiaoqing. No matter how smart he is now, he is still at a loss in the face of information that he has not been exposed to.

Rao Xin saw Wu Xiaoqing's attitude, and said with a smile: "Mr. Wu should have only come for the Utopia project." ”

"Utopia?" Wu Xiaoqing knows this noun and knows its meaning, but he doesn't know the project it refers to. But the abnormal performance of the search and rescue team made Wu Xiaoqing highly interested in it, "Sort of, can you talk about it?" ”

"Of course it's no problem," Rao Xin smiled, "This is the money spent by Qinglan Consulting." ”

Rao Xin said, went to the computer to operate for a while, and then turned on the huge display screen in the bedroom.

Wu Xiaoqing subconsciously thought that this would be the beginning of another report, just like he had participated in before, the difference was that only Rao Xin was the only one who reported this time.

But after the TV was turned on, Wu Xiaoqing found that it was not.

There were no reports, no data, not even the purpose of the project, not even a minimal literal explanation.

Some only have a photo, a video, and a few brief introductions from Rao Xin on the side.

"These are all raw materials, and we haven't had time to classify them yet...... Professor Shen said that he would leave it to Qinglan Consulting to do it, "Rao Xin is obviously not a qualified reporter, the speed of switching these photos is too fast, and Wu Xiaoqing is a little dazzled to see it."

The main information of the material Wu Xiaoqing can only be heard from Rao Xin's introduction, "These are all made by Denmark, these are Switzerland, and here is Sweden ......"

It looks like a photo of a person traveling abroad, and most of the pictures are individual foreign men and women, who look very ordinary, and there seems to be nothing special about the photos themselves.

"These are all problem surveys, sorted by content, all of them are level 1, level 2 increasing ......"

"The project itself can be seen as a questionnaire. The survey was conducted among the highly educated ...... in these highly developed countries."

"We first take the first level of questions, target the answers of the object, get the first level of discrete answers, and then screen and ask the second level of questions to the qualified people...... It's like a pyramid......"

Wu Xiaoqing finally saw the still text screen after the dazzling image switching: "The first level question, if there are other civilizations in the universe, will they exist in an ultimate reasonable state, if they exist, please describe, if they do not exist, please explain." ”

This first level of question is like the title of a post in the forum, and the answer that follows is the answer to this floor.

In the picture in front of you, these answers use only a simple number: "The total text of the answers is 600,000 words." ”