The next morning, Zheng Li went to the cafeteria after breakfast as usual, and planned to go to the public experiment area.
He has a feeling that he used to lead a mage apprentice in his mage tower.
After graduating from the Mage Academy, most of the mages of the Mage Alliance need to study and work in the Mage Tower.
From implanting the magic brain with the ability to cast spells to having your own mage tower, the probability of this is probably less than one in a hundred thousand.
Most mages choose to lie flat after realizing that it is impossible for them to have their own mage tower in their lifetime.
Abundant resources and a highly intelligent social system allow people who lie flat to have basic living security.
A few people are responsible for breaking through the upper limit of magic and science, most people lie flat, and fully automatic machinery is responsible for the basic operation of society.
Even the reproduction of life is carried out by fully automated factories with artificial wombs. Most people have no concept of offspring. They only need to donate their genes when they reach a certain age.
The longer he stayed in Blue Star, Zheng Li liked to communicate with people, which was a feeling he hadn't experienced for a long time.
"Wan Qing, what's the progress of the experiment recently?" Zheng Li asked.
Li Wanqing has been distracted recently. His former colleagues at Neuralink found him and said that Neuralink hoped that he could go back.
Neuralink also expressed its willingness to pay full liquidated damages for him.
A scientific researcher of Li Wanqing's level usually signs a relevant peer ban agreement when he joins the job, which means that he is not allowed to work in the same industry for at least a certain period of time after leaving Kechuang Biology.
Li Wanqing was only the leader of the research and development team at Neuralink before, and he also signed a related peer ban agreement, so he returned to the Lion City from California and entered the school as a researcher.
Li Wanqing came back to his senses and replied: "Due to the impact of the epidemic, the number of whites and blacks in Lion City has decreased a lot, so it is difficult to find whites and blacks in the English Department."
"I think we can outsource this part of the experiment."
" We can outsource the experiments of English-speaking whites to American CRO companies, and the experiments of English-speaking blacks to South African CRO companies." The
full name of CRO is Contract Research Organization, which is a contract research and development organization, which is equivalent to some large companies through Part of the research and development work is outsourced by way of contract.
CRO companies began to emerge in American in the 1970s, and domestic CRO companies generally began to emerge from 2000 to 2004, such as WuXi AppTec and Tigermed.
Li Wanqing hopes to outsource some of the slow-moving experiments in Lion City to professional CRO companies.
Zheng Li thinks it is a good idea, but he also has doubts about outsourcing:
"It can be outsourced to CRO companies in American and South Africa, or even all of them can be outsourced to American."
Li Wanqing: "It will be cheaper to outsource to South Africa. In addition, there are not many blacks in American who are willing to participate in the experiment to make money in this form, you know."
Affected by the epidemic, American has distributed money a lot, and it is no problem for many blacks to rely on government benefits to not work to support themselves.
Zheng Li asked: "The epidemic situation in American and South Africa is much more severe than that in Lion City. Can their CRO companies still operate normally?"
Li Wanqing nodded and said, "No problem. I care too much."
"And we are a brain-computer connection experiment."
Zheng Li: "That's no problem, you can contact the relevant departments of the Gusu headquarters, and you have gone through the process in the enterprise office management system."
Kechuang Most of the management functions of Biology are placed in Gusu, and the Lion City only has the function of recruitment.
After a long ideological struggle, Li Wanqing said: "Boss Zheng, Neuralink came to me, and they want to dig me back." Zheng Li wondered: "Is Neuralink
the company you used to be?"
Li Wanqing had seen this name in his resume.
"Yes."
Zheng Li: "Neuralink still has money, and the liquidated damages of tens of millions of lions was paid so decisively."
Li Wanqing's annual salary is about 700,000 lions. If he continues to work in the same industry after leaving In other words, he would have to compensate Kechuang Biology ten times his ten-year salary.
That is 70 million lion dollars, but generally the compensation will not be based on the maximum amount, and there will be a certain discount in litigation.
Li Wanqing said helplessly: "Director Zheng, I didn't say I was leaving."
Zheng Li: "Then what do you mean by saying this?"
Li Wanqing: "I just want to know whether the company's future research and development plans meet my expectations. "
Because I am a somewhat idealistic person, in addition to the application of brain-computer connection technology on the commercial side, I also hope to develop into medical equipment."
"For example, the combination of brain-computer connection and artificial limbs for the disabled, or brain-computer connection for Blind patients can restore their vision."
"I would like to do some trivial research for patients."
"Neuralink is willing to give me the position of the person in charge of research and development, and I have more autonomy in the research of brain-computer connection."
"And in the scientific research I said that Chuangbio is the R&D director, but in fact, it is more along the R&D route you arranged."
Zheng Li: "After the end of this project, I haven't figured out the development direction of brain-computer connection. The plan you proposed We can discuss and decide."
Zheng Li estimated that he had recovered his ability to cast spells at that time, and the R&D function of Kechuangbiology was not that important to him, and the R&D center in Lion City could be handed over to Li Wanqing.
Zheng Li: "The reason why Neuralink wants you to go back is definitely because they covet your experience in Kechuangbio, and they certainly don't know how to make medical devices, at least not for the time being."
"You know the progress of Kechuangbio, if you go Neuralink starts again, and it will take at least five years for you to be able to do research on the combination of brain-computer connection and medical devices."
It's not that Neuralink can produce products with Li Wanqing's experience, they have to bypass the patents set by Kechuangbiology barrier.
Five years is already the most optimistic estimate.
Li Wanqing is a typical example of high IQ and low EQ. After realizing it, "Dr. Zheng, I understand what you mean. I will do a good job at Kechuang Bio.
" Zheng Li called each of the parents of this body.
Since he came to Blue Star, he has only seen the parents of this body once, and he has never gone back, whether he applied for a leave of absence or founded a scientific and technological innovation.
Zheng Li's parents still learned from the news that their son founded a company with a market value of more than 100 billion yuan.
Only then can they understand why Zheng Li paid a large sum of living expenses every month.
Zheng Li has no way to play the role of son emotionally, he can only make up for the role responsibility he should have played materially.
There will be a two-hour fireworks display on New Year's Eve in Lion City in 2021. In the sky filled with New Year's Eve countdown fireworks, Zheng Li spent his second lunar year in Blue Star.