Chapter 440 Two people in civilization
But when he heard Macao's complaint, Lawrence had a different view.
"Hey, Macao, let me just talk about you. We can barely make ends meet if we work at this job for the rest of our lives."
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Macao interjected, "But it's really difficult for you to live a good life. Apart from other things, it's okay to have enough food and clothing, but your situation is quite special."< br>
Hearing this, Lawrence also nodded, "Yes, if I just find a good location inside the planet to buy, then it will be quite easy with my income, but once the distance is put into the space city, it will be difficult. .”
"And this space layer is not only expensive, but also has high maintenance costs in the future. After all, you have to pay a part every month, including maintenance funds for the house, maintenance funds for the space layer, and a series of other expenses."
"Including these expenses and the funds to purchase a house in the space city, I estimate that my current income will have to be doubled at least several times to be able to maintain living expenses."
At this time, when he heard Lawrence's words, Macao put his head close to him and whispered to him with a sly look on his face: "In your current situation, if you can't get the money again, I guess you will have to worry about it." It may be yellow.”
Lawrence was helpless after hearing what he said, "Well, I've been mentally prepared for this, but now I think about it, I'm still a little reluctant. If I had known I had studied business, maybe now It’s another situation.”
As he finished speaking, Macao whispered: "Actually, there is still a turning point in this matter."
As he spoke, Macao pointed at himself, "You must have heard about my situation. In fact, by doing this, we can use our current status to make a little extra money."
At this point, Macao glanced at him, "How about it? Do you want to consider working with me? With your connections, mine, and the convenience of our identities, we can do it in less than a year. Buy a house with full payment at will in Space City ”
Upon hearing his suggestion, Lawrence waved his hand quickly, "Spare me, other things are easy to discuss, but this is the only thing I absolutely cannot do."
"To be honest, it's my limit to turn a blind eye to what you do. It's absolutely impossible for you to ask me to follow you to do this."
At this time, Macao was also a little helpless when he heard Lawrence's words, "I say you are just conservative. Look at the people here, at least 80% of them have some kind of Xiaojiujiu."
"Many of these people have even lower incomes than you, but their lives are better than yours. I said, why do you insist on doing so?"
"As long as you use a little bit of privilege, all the difficulties you face will no longer be difficulties."
"And then again, we are just ordinary people in the final analysis. No matter what we do, there will be no change for this planet or this civilization. Instead of living in such poverty every day, why not go Make yourself a little better?”
Although he was very moved by Macao's words at this time, Lawrence was a principled person.
Although many people around him are doing shady things secretly, he still adheres to his principles.
At this moment, Lawrence, who was looking at the resolute attitude, was just when Macao was about to say something, when suddenly the picture on their monitor caught Macao's attention.
"This is..."
At this moment, Macao looked a little confused as he looked at a dozen disruptors floating slowly in space.
"What on earth is such a big thing?" Macao said with some confusion and started the scanning system.
"Scan function activated."
"Start scanning!"
"The scan is over and the results are as follows."
"Preliminary judgment is that the target is a living body. Analysis of the materials that make up life shows that 97% of the elements are unknown and 3% of the elements are known."
Target vital signs judgment: judgment result, death.
At this moment, Macao and Lawrence looked at the results of the scanner with a flash of surprise.
At this time, they all knew what this scan data meant.
More than ninety-seven percent of the constituent substances are unknown. This is not as simple as a number.
This means that if these dead unknown creatures are obtained, their biotechnology will most likely advance again.
At this time, both of them saw the value of these unknown creatures.
What Lawrence sees is how much change and contribution these creatures will bring to the biotechnology of the entire civilization in the future.
What Macao saw was how much wealth this thing would make if sold to those rich grandpas.
Although he also knew very well that it didn't matter if he usually used meteorite fragments or strange space objects, but if something of this level was discovered, his life would most likely be over.
Although this thing is very risky, he also knows very well that if he succeeds in doing this, he will be really prosperous.
This kind of thing is not only very useful for civilization, but also very useful for some rich grandpas.
In order to get these things, those grandpas would definitely charge sky-high prices.
And while he was still thinking about how to do this, Lawrence next to him was about to report the news.
At this moment, Makao was also startled when he saw the movement in his hand. Without any time to think about it, he immediately stepped forward to stop Lawrence's movement.
"Makao, what are you doing?" Looking at Macao's actions, Lawrence looked confused, and randomly thought of a possibility.
"Makao, you are crazy. Don't you know how valuable this kind of thing is?
It's okay for you to secretly do something that analyzes matter more than 99% of the time, but now you actually dare to do this! ”
"The resolution of this thing is only 3% and it is still a living organism. This level of things is the highest level even after civilization. If ten of them are discovered, you will not be able to kill them!"
After hearing Lawrence's words, Macao naturally knew what this thing meant, "Deputy Director Lao, of course I know what you said, but do you know the value of this thing?"
"I mean selling it to grandpas who are also rich. How much is it worth?"
"I can tell you, one billion, no, at least tens of billions. Can you understand how much wealth this is? We only get four thousand per month now, which is just a little higher than the average income level of the entire civilization. .”
"With such a value, even if we started working as primitive people, we might not be able to earn enough until now." Hearing Macao's words, Lawrence naturally knew it very well, especially when he said tens of billions just now, Lawrence felt like His heart stopped for a moment.
The impact of this number was also very big for him, but fortunately, reason defeated desire in the end.
"I know what you said, but no matter what you do, you can't do it!"
"Lawrence, listen to me, just this one vote, just this one vote, as long as this one vote is done, then we will not have to worry about food and drink in this life."
"No, absolutely not, you'd better give up." Lawrence said and was about to start the communication, but he was hugged by Macao just in the middle of the action.
"Lawrence, don't be impulsive. Listen to me. You don't need to do anything about this. Just pretend that you didn't see it and leave it to me to handle it. That way, even if something goes wrong, the higher-ups won't be able to find you. On the head.”
"As long as you report back a little later, I guarantee that I will give you at least 100 million when the matter is completed."
"No, no matter what you say today, I will not agree to it."
"Boss, big brother, this matter is easy for you. Think about the situation you are facing now, aren't you short of money? As long as this vote is passed, you will have everything."
"Besides, you don't need to take any risks in this matter. You just need to pretend not to know. And do you think it can be operated by just the two of us?"
"Let me tell you this, if this matter really wants to operate our system, everyone must join in. If something happens, we will all be together."
"And with everyone involved, do you think this matter will still be exposed?"
But when he heard Macao say this, Lawrence suddenly felt a little moved.
Sometimes it's like this. If a few people are doing a big thing alone, you may be afraid, but when you find that everyone around you is doing it, it's different.
The most important thing is that some of them are still your leaders.
Thinking of this, Lawrence also began to evaluate the risks of this matter. To put it bluntly, he now knew very well that if something happened to him if he participated, it would definitely be related to him.
No matter what he says now, no matter how extravagant it is, he will definitely suffer.
At this time, the small changes in Lawrence's expression were naturally noticed by Macao.
Having been around for many years, he naturally knew that this thing might happen now, so he immediately struck while the iron was hot and said.
"And even if this matter is reported, it will not do you any good. Once you report this matter, you will offend everyone here. How long do you think you can work here?"
"Not wanting to get rich doesn't mean that others don't want to get rich, and it doesn't mean that the people above us don't want to get rich. Your move has obviously cut off their financial path. Do you think they still dare to keep you?"
"And the risk of this matter is really not as high as you think. You must have seen that there are 10 of those creatures just now. We only need to take away one or two of the others, and we can report the rest as normal."
"If you think about it carefully, what is the difference between studying eight and studying ten? In fact, for the promotion of science and technology, only one sample is enough, and we have left him a full eight, which is completely enough.< br>
The remaining two are just our hard work fees. Think about it, we discovered such an important thing, shouldn't we charge a little? ”
After hearing this, Lawrence looked a little worried, "You are right, but you should know very well what those rich grandpas are thinking."
"Now that I have sold this thing to them, if they make progress in their research, then their ambitions may no longer be hidden, and it will cause a lot of turmoil for the entire civilization."< br>
"Management of the University of Labor and Welfare, you are too worried. The research of those people is just a trivial matter to the people above us. Even if they come up with the research, it will not make any waves. You are too underestimated of those people above. of energy.”
"And then again, even if they produce results, it will only be tens or hundreds of years later. By then, we will probably be gone. What's the use of worrying about those things now?"
"Understand that we are just ordinary people. We just need to live a good life as ordinary people. Don't think about noble things like saving the world every day. You can't do these things.
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And think about it, you have persisted in your ideas and things for so many years. Who have you saved? Have you prevented any disaster? Have you become the savior? ”
"You are still an unknown little shrimp until now. Face the reality. We are just ordinary people. Such a great thing as saving the world is not something we can get involved in."
"And then again, how much contribution does what we do to the entire civilization, and how important is it to civilization? We have done so many things, but we just want to do so little Is this too much of a reward? ”
In this way, under Macao's step-by-step temptation, Lawrence completely fell.
Of course, the main reason for the current situation is that he is in urgent need of funds. After working in this position for so many years, his life has been tepid.
Thank God if I can support myself. As for the people at home, I can't even think about taking care of them.
Under such circumstances, it is tantamount to wishful thinking for him to want to start a family.
Although he tried his best to be upright and upright at work, in the end he had to worry about things in life, which was a very distressing thing.
After all, no matter how hard he worked, three meals a day were needed.
In fact, a civilization of their level does not need to go to such trouble at all. It is even said that they can create special food and only need to eat one pill a day.
There is no need to buy even houses and spaceships. You can build as many robots as possible to replace labor.
In this way, they can basically do nothing and enjoy a rich material life. To achieve this is simply a piece of cake for a civilization of this level.
But the reality is very cruel, no one will do this.
The reason is also very simple. Although these things are good things and can provide convenience to everyone, they are not a good product.
No one will allow such a thing to become popular. Once such a thing becomes popular, when everyone stops working, the subsequent impact will be far greater than letting everyone live on the subsistence line.
There is an old saying that goes like this: when you are idle, your balls hurt. If you are too idle, you will start to think about this thing, and start to do things as you think about it.
(End of chapter)