Let you be the wall-facer: you turn around and join the Three-Body Problem?

"Boss, I come to work for your salary, but you are planning to make me sell my body!"

"What's wrong with that? You've had more than one boyfriend before, so this one won't make a difference. Just treat it as a one-night stand."

It was not the first time that Ai AA heard Wei De say something shocking. She had long been accustomed to her boss. If it were in the past, Ai AA would probably record Wei De's words and report them to the Municipal Supervision Bureau.

Suddenly, a playful smile flashed in Ai AA's eyes.

"Boss, you speak of selling your body as if it were a matter of course. What if the other person likes men? Are you willing to go?"

Upon hearing this, Wade was silent for a moment.

"I can send you there dressed as a man."

AA: ???

……

"This will be your office from now on."

Under the guidance of Wang Haisheng, Cheng Xin came to her workstation and sat down.

"To put it simply, the full name of our department is the Earth Alliance Research Investment Department. Our main job is to coordinate the funding of various research companies, as well as to supervise and acquire the research products they produce."

"This job is actually not that difficult. You just need to understand some basic technical principles and analyze market demand. Of course, you also need to have certain social skills. After all, our department's future work will inevitably involve dealing with some high-tech bosses."

Wang Haisheng is Cheng Xin's supervisor, and he is responsible for leading Cheng Xin to complete some daily work.

But his attitude towards Cheng Xin seemed extremely cold.

There are two main reasons. First, Cheng Xin is very beautiful, and beautiful women must be very dangerous.

Second, Cheng Xin entered the Dilian through the back door.

When these two reasons were combined, Wang Haisheng naturally knew what was going on.

This woman... might be the lover of a high-ranking local official or something else, otherwise she would not be assigned to their department.

Although the tasks they are responsible for in the Research Department are the least related to scientific research, it is still a department directly under the Local Federation. It is still quite difficult for ordinary people to get in through formal channels.

So this place has become a holy land for some high-ranking officials who use backdoors to dump their garbage. Every year, a large number of extremely beautiful women are inexplicably arranged to stay here. It is no wonder that Wang Haisheng would think too much after seeing Cheng Xin.

However, this does not mean that all of them are good-for-nothings. Some retired technicians and scientific researchers also like to come to their department.

It's pleasing to the eyes. I used to work in the research department. I was busy all day long. It was so miserable that I couldn't even see a woman.

But here, there are beautiful women in gorgeous clothes for them to admire every day.

Their daily work is just to negotiate with business owners and there is almost no difficulty in the work.

But if they were asked to take the initiative to provoke the women in the department, they would not dare to do so even if they had ten times the courage.

After all, who knows which high-ranking officials are backing these women?

There was once a technician who was not very smart. He made a few jokes to a woman, and his body was found the next day mixed with concrete and hammered into a human stake.

So, when Cheng Xin came to her workstation, people around her would look at her from time to time, wondering who was behind her.

Being able to arrange things to this point is already the limit of Sophon's ability.

This was an arrangement she made behind the scenes, and in fact, there was no one behind Cheng Xin.

In fact, with Zhizi's influence in the Earth Union, it would not be difficult for Cheng Xin to become the spokesperson of the Trisolarans and suddenly occupy a high position. However, doing so would inevitably arouse Luo Congmin's vigilance.

So, you have to eat one bite at a time and get promotions little by little.

As long as Cheng Xin is successfully controlled, then controlling Lin Xuan will not be a difficult task... at least that's what the Trisolarans think.

Chieko stood on the roof of a building in the distance, looking at Cheng Xin who was packing up to get ready for work, her face still expressionless.

"Lin Xuan likes to help humans, so let him see how the person he loves the most is killed step by step by humans."

Chapter 179 Same kind?

Ai AA got on the shuttle very reluctantly. In her hand, she was holding a stack of information about curvature drive technology given to her by Wade.

"You can just transmit this to me directly through the brain network. Why print a paper version?" Ai AA was puzzled.

But the explanation Vader gave her was very interesting.

"We need to take all the circumstances into consideration. You never know who the negotiator you are about to meet will be. The other party may be a person from the AD century. In the AD century, paper documents will make people feel more valued."

Ai AA curled his lips.

"No wonder. My doctoral supervisor is a Gongyuan person. Every time he asked me to report on my work, he liked to look at the paper version of the document. You Gongyuan people are really weird. You actually still keep such a tradition."

"I simply don't trust the Mewtwo Project. I feel like using that thing too much will make your brain dumber."

"That's because you don't know how to use it!" Ai AA retorted.

But Wade was too lazy to waste time talking to her. He threw a bunch of printed materials at her and let her go to the negotiation site.

The Earth Alliance's Research and Investment Department is located in Jinan, China.

Or to be more precise, its headquarters is located in the entire Qilu Province.

This is a very interesting thing. Qilu, as a former war-preparation province of China, generally seldom participates in some commercial activities. Even the advertisements on its TV stations are either fertilizers or excavators, which always give people a feeling of being out of touch with the times.

But later, in the era of deterrence, the concept of the country no longer existed, and naturally there was no so-called war preparedness province.

However, Qilu Province has been a rural province for so many years. You can't expect it to become a major economic province all of a sudden, right?

Therefore, its economic recovery can only be carried out step by step. The original intention of setting up the investment department of the local union here was to take the opportunity to boost the economy of the entire province.

After getting off the shuttle, Ai AA saw the representative in charge of the negotiations with Star Ring Group.

It was a woman wearing a black suit with a white short-sleeved shirt underneath. Her appearance had obvious characteristics of a human in the AD era, with distinct facial features and a pretty face. This kind of appearance was very popular among people in the Deterrence Era.

"Stable!"

Ai AA suddenly began to feel fortunate that she had listened to Wade and let her boss guess correctly that the person negotiating with her was indeed a Gongren, and that the other party was a woman. When it comes to dealing with women, Ai AA has a whole set of experiences that she has summed up, and this time she can be said to have won the battle firmly.

The Earth Alliance representative in charge of negotiations with AI AA was none other than Cheng Xin, who worked in the Earth Alliance's Scientific Research and Investment Department.

The reason why she was sent alone to carry out this mission was completely opposite to that of Ai AA.

She is because it is too simple!

Before leaving, Wang Haisheng told Cheng Xin that the research and development of the curvature engine has always been one of Luo Congmin's support projects.

This is not the era of two great international powers, and building faster spacecraft will not be labeled as so-called "escapism". After experiencing the tragedy of the Doomsday War, mankind has learned a lesson and will no longer actively interfere with the research and development of interstellar spacecraft.

This is also the reason why the same deception plan as in the original plot did not happen.

The research and development projects of StarRing Group have always been in the focus of Dilian, but Dilian does not want to develop this technology at the original price, which would make the already tight financial expenditure even worse.

Therefore, they have been watching the situation and waiting for StarRing Group to contact Dilian proactively. Only by making it appear that the other party does not notice Dilian's anxiety can they lower the price of the project.

"Hello, my name is Ai AA, a representative of Star Ring Group. What's your name?"

Ai AA was very lively. As soon as he came up, he took the initiative to hold Cheng Xin's hand and said with a smile.

"Cheng Xin, junior agent of the Geo-Union Technology Department."

Cheng Xin tried to make her expression look as gentle as possible. Although the Earth Alliance was the one who most urgently needed the curvature technology, she couldn't show it.

However, Cheng Xin soon felt something was wrong. She discovered that the hand that Ai AA was holding hers was touching the back of her hand intentionally or unintentionally. Subconsciously, she withdrew her hand.

"Um... sorry sorry."

Ai AA then realized his own gaffe and smiled as he shook the pile of documents in his hand.

"Our boss said that you should be more receptive to paper materials, so why don't we find a place to discuss this project in detail? How about going to a cafe?"

Cheng Xin nodded slightly, and she subconsciously walked behind Ai AA. The other party's sudden action just now gave her a bad feeling.

"This guy...could he like women?"

Since the beginning of the Deterrence Era, Luo Congmin has never stopped attaching importance to humanistic education, so the gender distinction still exists and is not as confusing as in the original plot.

But open-mindedness still allows a large number of people to choose to form same-sex partnerships.

Ai AA is one of them. Compared with men, her sexual orientation is more like Cheng Xin.

So when he saw Cheng Xin for the first time, Ai AA inexplicably developed a different feeling towards Cheng Xin.

This is also the reason why she is no less beautiful than Cheng Xin, but still cannot find a job.

After all, the secretaries recruited by other bosses are all secretaries who have things to do and secretaries who have nothing to do. Ai AA is not interested in men, so naturally no male boss would choose to find someone like her, except for Wade, who is an exception. He doesn't care whether Ai AA likes men or women, as long as she is convenient to use.

If Lin Xuan knew about Ai AA's transformation at this moment, she would definitely be shocked.

"As expected, it has to be you. Whether in the original plot or now, the character of Ai AA is quite explosive."

And Ai AA's action just now was actually to test Cheng Xin to see if the other party was of the same kind as himself.

Because Cheng Xin was wearing a pair of straight slim-fitting trousers today, which made her legs look straight, but married women or women with partners would never wear such trousers.

Considering Cheng Xin's age, Ai AA inferred that Cheng Xin should have never had a male partner.

If he still hasn't had a male partner at such an old age, then he must be the same kind as me!

If Cheng Xin knew that this was how Ai AA came to his conclusion, she would probably be so angry that she would die on the spot.

She has indeed been single since she was a child, which is very incredible to the people of the Deterrence Era. After all, in their era, a person will have at least 3-4 opposite-sex partners before getting married, which means that there are sea kings per capita.

It is obviously unacceptable that Cheng Xin is so beautiful and still single.

So the moment he saw Cheng Xin, Ai AA understood instantly!

Chapter 180 Not a big problem

"At present, the Star Ring Group has come up with a basic model of curvature drive, which at least proves the correctness of this theory."

Ai AA and Cheng Xin sat opposite each other in a coffee shop, and Cheng Xin kept flipping through the information that the other party brought.

Cheng Xin's professional ability at work is worthy of recognition, which is one of the reasons why Wang Haisheng let her come out to be responsible for this negotiation.

He had thought that Cheng Xin was just a useless vase like the other people in the department. But now it seems that she is still somewhat useful, which makes Wang Haisheng somewhat happy.

Cheng Xin shook the materials on the table and let out a long sigh.

"It's good news, but it will take a long time to complete. The Earth Union is quite satisfied with this project, but..."

Generally speaking, this is the prelude to lowering the price.

"But you also know that the Earth Union has been developing vacuum zero-point energy. The Sun Ring Accelerator has now been built. We are just one step away from vacuum zero-point energy."

"As long as vacuum zero-point energy is discovered and applied to the existing technological system, the theoretical speed of a spacecraft will reach the speed of light. In this light, the effect of curvature drive does not seem to be as great as imagined."

"But how many years do you plan to take for this finishing touch? Ten years, a hundred years, or a thousand years?" Ai AA said with a smile.

Before coming here, she specifically sought Wade's help for her research, so she naturally knew that vacuum zero-point energy was still out of reach for current human technology. Even the Trisolarans, who had reached the second-level civilization, chose curvature over vacuum. This showed that the research and development of vacuum energy was indeed not something that could be accomplished in a short period of time.

"Curvature drive and new energy sources do not conflict. Even if you really discover vacuum zero-point energy in the future, it will not affect the normal use of the spacecraft. On the contrary, curvature drive is currently the only technology that can achieve the fastest light-speed flight. Why not do it?"

Ai AA turned the materials on the table to the data section, which clearly recorded the speed data obtained after the experiment.

"Other companies don't understand what lightspeed travel means, but doesn't Earth Union know it? Once humans master the method of lightspeed travel, it will also greatly promote the research of vacuum zero-point energy."

According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, when a spacecraft travels at the speed of light, the time inside the spacecraft is zero, but the flow of time outside the spacecraft is accelerated, and any object with mass cannot exceed the speed of light.

People can only travel into the future, but can never go back to the past.

Because the concept of time is not just the speed of light, but also involves causality, as the grandfather paradox has proven.

Even the expansion of the universe is constrained by the speed of light.

The theory of cosmic expansion is a hypothesis proposed in the century AD, which scientists inferred based on the spectral characteristics of extragalactic galaxies.

The light from extragalactic galaxies that reaches the earth has a clear tendency to move toward the red end of the spectrum, and the greater the distance, the more obvious the redshift phenomenon is.

According to the Doppler effect, the farther the observer is from the observed target, the lower the frequency of light and the longer the wavelength in the observer's spectrum, and vice versa.

So people came to the conclusion that the universe is not static, and other galaxies outside the Milky Way are gradually moving away from them. Therefore, the hypothesis of the theory of cosmic expansion came into being, proving that the universe is not static.

Based on the hypothesis of the theory of cosmic expansion, the AD people used the recession speed of the target galaxy relative to the earth to define the Hubble constant.

With the Hubble constant, the next work becomes much easier. People can easily calculate that at a distance of about 144 billion light-years from the Earth, light from beyond this point will no longer be able to reach the Earth.

Later, people calculated the lifespan of the universe based on this. However, in the Deterrence Era, after the construction of a newer generation of the Webb telescope, six special galaxies were observed, which overturned this hypothesis.

People also discovered that the originally calculated concept was wrong, and the lifespan of the universe after its birth was far more than 140 billion years, but much longer.

The expansion speed of the universe is naturally limited to the speed of light...at least that's the case for now.