In the venue, with Fan Xiaoming's shouting, it instantly became lively.

The elders, like Fan Xiaoming, exclaimed in disbelief and called one after another to confirm the authenticity of the matter.

"Extraterrestrial life?" Su Zhe looked at the excited Ning Qiaoqiao.

"Yes! We found life in the ocean beneath Europa's ice. Ning Qiaoqiao said excitedly.

"Europa! I didn't expect that there really was life in Europa...... Big Discovery! This is a major discovery! Fan Xiaoming shouted loudly.

Su Zhe glanced at Fan Xiaoming, who was extremely excited, turned his head and asked, "Senior sister!" What type of life was discovered? ”

"I didn't say anything in the message I received, so I'll check the analyzed data." Ning Qiaoqiao said and began to operate the laptop.

When Ning Qiaoqiao looked at the analyzed data, some of the elders dialed the phone, and these people asked excitedly.

Those who didn't dial the phone were in a hurry.

Soon, a black and white picture appeared on Ning Qiaoqiao's laptop screen.

In the picture, a large whale-like creature with two small whale-like creatures.

"This ...... This is parsed from anomalous data, is there a mistake? ”

"I can't believe it, I don't believe that Europa's oceans can breed such advanced creatures."

"This creature is too similar to the whales on our earth, could it be that this creature has something to do with the earth?"

……

Just when there were more and more onlookers around, Kang Jianming's voice rang out, "Quiet! Everyone, be quiet! Everyone sat back in their seats. ”

The elders are excited, but they are still sensible.

After the elders sat down, the same picture appeared on the big screen of the venue as on Ning Qiaoqiao's laptop.

Seeing this photo, the elders shouted disbelief.

"Humph! To be honest, I couldn't believe it when I first saw this image, but after I made sure it was indeed parsed from anomalous data, and that it came from somewhere in the ocean under Europa. Kang Jianming said with certainty.

The elders exclaimed again.

"That's right! This image is only preliminarily parsed, and now we are calling more computing power to parse the relevant data, I estimate that in another ten minutes we will be able to see a clearer color picture, and in half an hour we will be able to see a color video...... At that point, we'll be able to see the creatures on Europa more clearly. Kang Jianming reminded excitedly.

For a while, the elders jumped up excitedly.

Kang Jianming looked at the time, coughed lightly and said, "It's about to reach zero o'clock, I think I'll be here today!" Let's go back and wash and sleep! This closed-door meeting will continue tomorrow. ”

Hearing Kang Jianming say this, the elders were reluctant and complained one after another.

"Lao Kang! What do you mean? Sincerely don't want me to sleep peacefully, right? ”

"Can I fall asleep without looking at the pictures and videos in the back?"

"Deliberately, absolutely deliberately."

……

"Since you don't want to go back, let's continue." Kang Jianming thought for a moment and said, "In your free time, let's discuss whether we should make public the discovery of extraterrestrial life on Europa?" If there is a result, the closed-door meeting will be over today, and everyone will be able to go about their jobs tomorrow. ”

In an instant, the venue was lively.

"Here's how I set it up, we spend 10 minutes discussing this issue, then we look at the color pictures, we see the pictures, we speak, then we watch the video, and finally we vote on whether to make it public." Kang Jianming said with a smile.

The elders nodded one after another.

Then no one paid attention to Kang Jianming, and they gathered in groups to discuss.

"Public! Must be public! ”

"Can't! As we said earlier, the sky map and related data in the solar system are not publicly available. ”

"This is a great discovery, a great discovery related to the whole of humanity, and we should make it public."

……

Su Zhe and Ning Qiaoqiao were surrounded by a bunch of people, and everyone looked at each other.

"I'll start with that! I'm in favor of making it public that we found life on Europa. Ning Changsheng smiled and said, "Since such advanced creatures as cetaceans have evolved in Europa's ocean, it means that there is such a complete ecosystem on Europa, which must contain thousands of creatures, and maybe intelligent life like humans has evolved...... Disclosure allows more people to understand these and at the same time enables human exploration of the stars...... Of course, we are still selective. ”

After listening to Ning Changsheng, everyone nodded with a smile.

"Considering Europa's distance from Earth, coupled with Europa's thick ice, it is almost impossible to explore Europa in a short period of time......," Pao said, after a moment's thought, "it is good for us and for humanity to be open." ”

“……”

After a while, Su Zhe and the others agreed to disclose the discovery of life on Europa, and that they could further selectively disclose it.

"Actually, we can plan well and make Europa sea creatures into a big IP, documentaries, movies, games, animations, dolls, etc., so that we can make a lot of money...... That's right! Aren't we going to open up the Proxima Centauri star system? In the same way, Proxima Centauri was made into an IP ...... In this way, we can continue to create new IPs, and then we will have endless money. Fan Xiaoming said excitedly.

In an instant, except for Su Zhe and Bao Zhengyi, everyone else around looked at Fan Xiaoming with strange eyes.

"What are you looking at me like that? It's not that I think it's cheesy to talk about money! Fan Xiaoming said disapprehantly.

Everyone hurriedly shook their heads and said one after another.

"How can you do scientific research without money!"

"That's a good idea!"

"Agreed! I totally agree with you. ”

……

Ten minutes later, a color picture appeared on the big screen in the venue.

This image is much clearer than the previous black and white image.

"The picture that you see is rendered, and it's the real picture in visible light." Kang Jianming explained, "The large whale creature in the picture is 60 meters long, and the two small ones are about 10 meters long, with black and white stripes on their bodies......"

In the picture, the water is dark blue, and the size of the whale-like creatures is very similar to the blue whale on Earth.

"Let me mention that this whale-like creature is carbon-based like like us." Kang Jianming smiled and said, "That's right! There is another picture that I haven't shown you, this picture is a diagram of the body structure of whale creatures, and to be honest, the body structure of this kind of whale creatures has a lot in common with cetaceans on Earth. ”

When Kang Jianming was explaining, a diagram of the body structure of whale-like creatures appeared on the big screen at the venue.

After seeing the body structure of the whale-like creature, the elders became uncertain.

They shouted that whale-like creatures were related to the earth.

"That's a coincidence!"

"A layman like me knows it has something to do with the earth."

"It's a real hammer!"

……

"Humph! Is it related to the Earth later, but now let's talk about whether we want to disclose the discovery of extraterrestrial life on Europa, and how to make it public? Kang Jianming said with a smile.

The venue was quiet for a while, and the elders spoke one after another.

This time, the elders were surprisingly unanimous in agreeing to make public the discovery of extraterrestrial life, and to selectively disclose data on Europa's ice.

In the end, when it was Fan Xiaoming's turn to speak, he put forward the idea of creating IP, using the money earned from these IPs to subsidize scientific research funds, of which 50% of the proceeds were given to the Academy of Sciences.

And it is clearly proposed that the creation of IP projects will be led by Jiutian Research Center.

For a moment, the venue was quiet again.

Soon after, a group of elders began to discuss.

Then the elders spoke one after another.

Xu Zhengping, Bao Zhengyi, Ning Changsheng, Huang Weicai, Zhang Gaoming, and others all expressed their support.

Finally, Ning Qiaoqiao spoke, clearly supporting the Nine Days Research Center to lead the creation of Europa and Proxima Centauri-related IP.

Su Zhe smiled.

In his opinion, Fan Xiaoming came up with such a way to make money so quickly.

In the previous negotiations, Fan Xiaoming first persuaded the senior sister Ning Qiaoqiao.

In the matter of creating IP, as long as he and Ning Qiaoqiao agree, plus the nod of the Academy of Sciences, other people's opinions are not important.

"Good! Next, everyone watched a 30-second short video, and after 10 minutes, we voted on whether to publicly discover extraterrestrial life and the Nine Heavens Research Center to lead the creation of IP. Kang Jianming said with a smile.

On the big screen of the venue, the silent video began to play.

In the video, a large and two small whale-like creatures roam freely in the deep blue waters.

Like a naughty child, two small whale-like creatures began swimming in the belly of the large whale creature and swam to the back of the large whale creature.

At this point, the thirty-second video ends.

The elders shouted.

"Gone? How only that. ”

"Too little!"

"Replay!"

……

The elders watched it over and over again.

Ten minutes passed, Kang Jianming pressed the pause, and said with a smile: "You can go back and watch the video slowly, and then I will introduce the two issues of whether to publicly discover extraterrestrial life and the Nine Days Research Center to lead the creation of IP, so that everyone can fully understand, and then vote and ...... the public."

The former is the public discovery of extraterrestrial life, and the selective disclosure of data related to Europa's oceans.

The latter is led by the Jiutian Research Center to create IP, of which 50% of the proceeds are handed over to the Academy of Sciences, and the rest is distributed by the laboratories and related institutions established by the Jiutian Research Center and Ning Qiaoqiao.

A quarter of an hour later, Kang Jianming finished introducing the two issues of whether to publicly discover extraterrestrial life and the creation of IP led by the Nine Heavens Research Center, and asked with a smile: "Do you still have any opinions, and if you have opinions, you can put them forward?" ”

The elders shook their heads.

"Everyone votes directly on the two issues, votes for those who support it, and don't vote for those who don't support it." Kang Jianming reminded with a smile.

……

A quarter of an hour later, the results of the vote were in.

The issue of public discovery of extraterrestrial life was unanimously approved, and 90% of the votes on the topic of IP creation led by the Nine Days Research Center were passed.

After the voting results came out, the venue burst into warm applause and cheers.

After the cheers and applause stopped, Kang Jianming glanced at the three whale-like creatures on the big screen and said with a smile: "At the moment before the closed-door meeting ended, we gave a name to the first extraterrestrial creature discovered by humans. ”

"Good!"

"Great!"

"This is a moment to remember history!"

……

The elders cheered and looked at Su Zhe and Ning Qiaoqiao.

"Director Su! Associate Professor Ning! The two of you are talking about giving this whale creature a name! Kang Jianming reminded.

"Senior sister! You come and get it! Su Zhe looked at Ning Qiaoqiao with a smile.

"Good!" Ning Qiaoqiao thought for a while and said, "Since this is a whale-like creature, how about we call it a spotted whale?" ”

"Good!"

"Spotted whales are good!"

"This name is easy to remember, unlike foreigners who like to use their own names when giving a name, if foreigners choose names, then this kind of whale creature is called James Whale and Jack Whale."

……

The hall burst into laughter.

"Good! Then we officially named this whale-like creature the spotted whale. Kang Jianming smiled, "That's right! At 3 p.m., we will hold a public press conference on extraterrestrial life in the auditorium of the West District of HKUST, and the conference will be broadcast live on the whole network, and everyone who is interested can sign up to participate. ”

"There's a whole lot to do, who has time for such boring launches."

"That's it! It is! Only those who are idle and have nothing to do will attend such a conference. ”

"I'm in a hurry to go back to school, I don't have time or interest."

……

A group of elders complained one after another.

"Su Zhe! Are you going to attend this event? Ning Qiaoqiao asked with a smile.

"No!" Su Zhe shook his head.

"Our high-speed rail at ten in the morning." Fan Xiaoming explained.

"Got it!" Ning Qiaoqiao smiled and nodded.

"Senior Brother Fan! After you go back, you have to pay more attention to building IP, we can count on you to use IP to earn money for us to do scientific research, and improve the treatment of us scientific research workers. Huang Weicai looked at Fan Xiaoming and said.

"Rest assured, the task will definitely be completed." Fan Xiaoming assured.

Kang Jianming ignored these complaining elders, looked at the time and shouted: "I announce that the closed-door meeting has ended successfully." ”

The elders applauded while complaining.

"Everyone, don't ink, it's three o'clock in the morning, hurry back and wash and sleep!" Kang Jianming said and stood up.

The elders stood up one after another, and they didn't forget to complain.

"Time flies! It's early in the morning. ”

"No wonder I'm tired."

"I'm a little sleepy."

……

Su Zhe and his entourage followed the army to the downstairs of the comprehensive office of the University of Science and Technology, and found that the downstairs was full of these old students and assistants.

These students and assistants were tired and complaining.

Kang Jianming didn't know where to find a loudspeaker, and shouted to these people: "Everyone has worked hard, due to emergencies, the closed-door meeting was forced to be postponed, as for what emergencies have been encountered, I can tell you that we have discovered extraterrestrial life, I will say it at the press conference held in the auditorium at three o'clock in the afternoon...... Everyone dispersed, and hurried back to sleep. ”

After speaking, Kang Jianming quietly left with a group of people.

Leaving a group of unresponsive students and assistants standing under the street lamp.