Mei Yiqiu has not left the lab for a long time since scientists everywhere have been assassinated, even to attend special sessions of the United Nations, through online video.

The conference room was filled with white smoke, and Mei Yiqiu liked the feeling that the thick smell of smoke made his body more relaxed, as if every pore of his body was smoking, and his brain could focus more calmly on thinking without distracting other aspects of his body.

So, when he was alone, he often turned off the air purification system and the smoke alarm system, allowing clouds of white smoke to fill the room. Of course, this is limited to his office and conference room, and in the laboratory, he still maintains full restraint.

The United Nations Space Management Committee had just convened an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in the South Pacific. Due to the discovery of the wreckage of the scientific research ship and the debris of the submarine, the nerves of many countries have entered a sensitive period, and they have asked to send their own navies to the Pacific region, and even the United States, which has always been strong, can no longer stop the development of the situation, and can only put the entire Pacific Fleet into a state of combat readiness and be ready to deal with possible contingencies at any time.

Mei Yiqiu understood that this was actually just those countries using this matter to compete for control of the Pacific Ocean and peripheral interests, and in addition to a few large countries, many small countries were also involved. Some countries have taken the initiative to join, although they do not have the strength to compete for sea dominance, but their ability to wade into troubled waters is not lagging behind at all, thinking about fishing in troubled waters, how much can be fished; Some countries are forced to get involved because they are in the vicinity of the area where the incident occurred, and they can't get involved if they want to.

Such a meeting lasted for more than four hours, and Mei Yiqiu felt tired and bored. But as an important advisor to the Space Management Committee, he couldn't help but participate.

He is well aware that once there are many countries involved, there is a greater possibility of conflict, and in the context of the general economic downturn in various countries, some people are eager to find a place to engage in military action in order to alleviate domestic contradictions.

Moreover, the world has just experienced a panic caused by the invasion of consciousness, Toxoplasma gondii and the gray brain virus, which is most likely to cause greater chaos.

Some people may think that things like alien invasions and global catastrophes will unite humanity like never before, but Mei Yiqiu knows that such people have not experienced real suffering at all. Suffering never unites us, it only brings out the ugliest side of human nature.

Those in power are obsessed with a never-ending struggle for power, and they cannot stop even if the struggle does not bring them any real benefit. Mei Yiqiu called it the disease of power, this disease can not be cured, because it is rooted in human nature and genes, like a cancer cell that lurks in the depths of the human soul, when the conscience is slightly slackened, it will attack, and it will be difficult to cure from then on.

Mei Yiqiu is a scientist and is powerless to change anything. But he wasn't a hermit, so he had to do something.

It was only after those endless arguments had ceased that Mei Yiqiu solemnly submitted his proposal to the United Nations:

Crack down on Dream Society worldwide, investigate accounts related to the Dream Foundation, and arrest Ronald Cohen.

Because of his proposal, the meeting was extended for another two hours, but in the end less than ten countries agreed, and the rest of the countries said that their laws did not allow it, and that there must be enough evidence to prove that the Dream Society had a relationship with Ronald Cohen and the aliens, and that it could only be tried.

Finally, the Committee proposed an alternative plan whereby the Space Management Committee would establish a special prosecution team to prosecute Cohen before the International Tribunal, and if Cohen was finally convicted by the Tribunal, then all countries could take concerted action to arrest Ronald Cohen worldwide.

The charges were discussed for another hour, because there had never been a single law against aliens and parasitic consciousness. Finally, it was decided that the case would be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

Mei Yiqiu sighed and turned off the remote meeting screen, refilled the pipe with a pot of cigarettes, and lit it with a match. Smoke passed through the lungs, puffed out of the nose, and filled the conference room. His fluffy, stiff white hair spread out in the thick fog, like a snow-covered pine cover in winter.

When another pot of cigarettes was finished, Mei Ziqing knocked on the door and came in. She choked on the thick smoke, coughed and chased her hands away, frowned and asked, "Ah, Professor, why do you smoke so much?" ”

"I smoke so much all the time!" The professor replied.

Mei Ziqing felt that the professor's mood was not good, so she stopped complaining, reached out and pressed it on the wall, and turned on the air circulation purification system.

The smoke soon cleared.

Mei Ziqing poured a glass of water and said, "Professor, you don't have to be angry with those politicians. ”

Mei Yiqiu said: "I'm not angry, they are not worth my anger. I'm just wondering why humanity has developed the social structure it has today, when fate has come to a critical crossroads, and it is a group of stupid politicians who decide where we are going! ”

"Isn't there a good scientist like you?" Mei Ziqing helped him clean the slag in his pipe and explained, "It is because of you that mankind will progress. ”

Mei Yiqiu smiled and said: "You are coaxing a child, and you actually use it to coax me, an old man." Then he asked, "Is there any news from Hans?" ”

Mei Ziqing said: "I just received an email from Professor Hans, the performance test of the second-generation space box is going well, if nothing else, we will be able to access the dream guide game next week." ”

"Well, that's good." Mei Yiqiu rubbed her eyelids, "We have to hurry up, and when the second generation of the product comes out, we will start the dream guide game and conduct an open beta." When it comes to the global distribution of the game, you need to keep an eye on it. ”

Mei Ziqing said: "Professor, don't you have to wait for Aoki and Professor Su to come back for internal testing?" As you said, only if they have tested it, some features can be used with confidence, otherwise there will be a greater risk. ”

Mei Yiqiu said: "It's too late, don't wait for them." You send Hans another email saying that you must speed things up. In addition, contact the Xia family, the promotion of the game also depends on the power of capital, Huanyu International and Changzhou International have entertainment industries, and they also cooperate with the Penguin Group, so they must fully cooperate. In addition, I also want to meet with Mr. Xia, after the promotion of the game, the mass production of the space box is a big deal, and I want to set up another processing base in China. ”

"Aren't you going to let Company H produce it?" Mei Ziqing asked.

"Company H is too big, and parasitic consciousness will definitely penetrate into it, so the core components and game intentions must not be known to them. However, their production conditions are relatively good, the virtual reality part and some related components can be handed over to them for production, and the shell can be assembled temporarily entrusted to FSK company, and we will send someone to supervise. But in the end, we still have to have our own production base. ”

Mei Ziqing wrote down the things one by one, and was about to do it, when she suddenly remembered something and said: "Professor, Bian Ziyuan has been going to the top floor laboratory recently, saying that he is checking the game code, but I always think he is a little strange, and I found that he has secretly used the space box, but you said that no one is allowed to use the space box alone." ”

Mei Yiqiu waved her hand and said, "Let him go!" For talented young people, we shouldn't restrain them too much, let's see what fame he can make, maybe there will be unexpected gains! ”

Mei Ziqing nodded and went out, but she always felt that something was wrong.

What are the windfalls?

The professor clearly said that before the second generation box came out, a person entering the space box would be in danger of not being able to return to consciousness, isn't he afraid that a genius will accidentally become a vegetative person?

Or is he an experiment?

Mei Ziqing suddenly trembled, startled by her own idea.