vncnus Chapter 56 begins with dyeing.
Chapter 56 begins with dyeing.
Primary school students have limited knowledge and a shallow understanding of the world, yet their emotions are extremely intense. Although their writing may lack complex expressive techniques and profound vocabulary, it often touches the heart directly.
In terms of their understanding of Earth, the Trisolarans are about as knowledgeable as elementary school students, so using an elementary school student's diary is currently the best choice.
Liu Chuan's proposal was unanimously approved by everyone present. Soon, the elementary school students' diary writing competition was launched nationwide, and the submissions poured into the mailbox like snowflakes.
Two days after the deadline, Liu Chuan began his review work with great enthusiasm. However, he studied from day to night, and the cigarette butts in the ashtray piled up higher and higher, and his brows furrowed more and more.
"What the hell is all this?"
Finally, Liu Chuan couldn't hold back any longer and threw a stack of manuscripts on the table. What should have been a diary full of childlike fun had become old-fashioned and completely devoid of childlike innocence after being guided by teachers or adults.
When Liu Chuan read these manuscripts, it was like watching those stage plays where actors wore heavy makeup, forced smiles, and sang about childhood.
The childhood described in the diary is filled with the hypocrisy built up by adults.
"Disgusting, absolutely disgusting."
If Liu Chuan were a dissident within the Three Kingdoms, he would absolutely change course immediately upon receiving something like this.
Feeling suffocated, Liu Chuan went to the balcony and did a set of shoulder and back stretches to help calm himself down.
Half an hour later, he returned to his desk and browsed through the manuscripts.
When he started reviewing the manuscript again, he didn't scrutinize it word by word as he had before. He just glanced at it quickly, felt no emotional fluctuation, and threw the manuscript aside as a discarded piece.
Liu Chuan patiently reviewed the manuscripts until dawn. After reading through thousands of drafts, he felt dizzy and his eyes were blurry. He was furious.
He couldn't find a single usable manuscript.
After sweeping all the manuscripts into the wastebasket and dumping them all on the other judges of the essay competition, Liu Chuan dusted himself off and went out for a walk to clear his head.
Let them fight over this kind of pointless award.
He went to rest on a bench in the open-air park. It happened to be the weekend, and the park's open grass was full of children playing.
Some of them were flying kites, some were playing football, and some were laughing and joking at a blade of grass. Liu Chuan's tired spirit gradually relaxed in this leisurely atmosphere.
He slowly fell asleep and slept until the sun was setting. When he woke up, only elderly people were left in the park taking a walk to digest their food.
Liu Chuan stretched and was about to get up when he suddenly noticed several plastic soldiers standing guard in the empty space next to him.
Upon closer inspection, he noticed that several small pieces of paper were stuck to these toy soldiers.
Uncle, are you sleepy?
Mom says people are most vulnerable when they sleep, so I've placed some good friends here to protect you.
"Uncle, a dog just peed near you. It's Wang Erzhao's dog. His dog is so naughty; it keeps barking at me."
[Liu Xiaobao, you tattletale, I'm not giving you any cookies to eat at school on Monday!]
Liu Chuan was taken aback.
He suddenly realized that he had misunderstood something.
How can childlike innocence exist under the utilitarian nature of essay competitions?
They started from the wrong direction.
Having rediscovered the true meaning of the Dao, Liu Chuan put away his toy figurines, dusted himself off, and went into the school to find the childlike innocence he needed.
The next day, Liu Chuan brought candy and gifts to Wang Erzhao and Liu Xiaobao's school. During a hastily arranged class activity, he had all the children write a diary entry.
The results were surprisingly good, with a rejection rate of less than 10%.
The field staff of the Deep Space Research Department followed suit.
A few weeks later.
This elementary school student's diary, containing over 100,000 words, was converted into electromagnetic waves and emitted by the radar of the Miyun Observatory, traveling four light-years away.
The launch frequency was set at once a month. It would start with sending elementary school students' diaries for six months, then short stories, and finally medium and long novels. The complexity of emotions would gradually decrease from simple to easy, allowing the poison called humanistic spirit to slowly seep into the Trisolarans.
As for the outcome, we'll have to wait until the Trisolarans reply eight years from now to find out.
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Within the same time period.
Ning Shi, who passed the interview, has already participated in new employee training at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
This year, the Chinese Academy of Sciences followed the example of foreign countries and implemented a new employee training program, which aims to help newly hired employees quickly adapt to the shift in mindset between learning and work.
They would arrive at the same time and, after a week of training, be picked up by their respective research institutes.
Today is the last day of training. About ten new employees were called to the auditorium to attend the welcome party.
Before the start time, everyone sat in the audience, chatting with each other out of curiosity about their new work environment.
Ning Shi learned from the conversation that although there is no hierarchy in science, there are differences in quality among the various research institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences due to differences in research funding.
Research institutes with more funding tend to have a higher output rate and more outstanding researchers, making their future prospects easier.
The simplest way to distinguish the quality of a research institute is to look at the number of academicians.
Institutes like the Institute of Systems and Mathematics and the Institute of Plant Sciences, which have a dozen or so academicians, are already considered strong institutions and are basically the pinnacle of their respective disciplines.
The most shining sun among the 100 institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is naturally the Institute of High Energy Physics. It is a legendary place that has made outstanding and remarkable contributions to the fields of hydrogen bombs and atomic bombs, and has produced dozens of academicians of physics.
Everyone was exchanging information about the research institutes they had joined, and those well-known top institutes naturally drew envy from the crowd.
Seeing that Ning Shi didn't speak, someone, wanting to liven things up, asked, "Ning Shi, what about you? We still don't know which research institute you're reporting to."
"Me? I'm going to the Deep Space Research Department."
"The research department?"
All research institutions under the Chinese Academy of Sciences are named "institutes," and I have never heard of a "research department."
As for the qualifier "deep space research" before the department name, no one seemed to remember it.
It might be a relatively unpopular place.
This is everyone's first impression of the Deep Space Research Department.
The person who just asked Ning Shi a question was a girl who had joined the Institute of High Energy Physics. Perhaps worried that her question might have hurt Ning Shi, she quickly changed the subject, saying, "Deep space research is a good direction, astrophysics, nuclear physics...maybe I can come to the Institute of High Energy Physics in the future!"
Ning Shi didn't know how to answer. She hadn't learned anything about the internal workings of the Chinese Academy of Sciences before and had assumed that everyone was in the same group.
Seeing that no one seemed to have heard of the Deep Space Research Department, she couldn't help but think of Li Youyu, whose recruitment efforts had been met with a cold reception.
Could this be one of the reasons?