As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 318 Some daily life

Zheng Li was in a very good mood because the research on the soul had made some progress.

Perhaps the Mage Alliance's research on the soul and higher-dimensional space is more in-depth than Zheng Li's achievements on Blue Star.

But those results will not be open to Zheng Li for free.

It requires a high contribution point to purchase.

The Mage Alliance is good in everything else except that the knowledge is too expensive.

After Zheng Li came to Blue Star, he thought about what would happen if the Mage Alliance also opened up knowledge to everyone, or to all mages, for free.

Then the development of the Mage Alliance will definitely be far beyond its current level.

Later, when Zheng Li learned that traffic was far more valuable than knowledge on Blue Star, he did not think this phenomenon was correct.

Whether they are celebrities or internet celebrities, they are far superior to scientists in terms of making money. In Zheng Li's opinion, it is not that they are worth so much money, but the traffic they represent is valuable.

This term used to be called attention, but now it is called traffic. The earning ability of top internet celebrities is even as good as that of top stars.

In fact, there is no essential difference between the two, both rely on traffic.

The difference is that stars in the past attracted traffic with their works, while stars now attract traffic with marketing. Internet celebrities, on the other hand, attract traffic with certain characteristics.

After seeing the phenomenon that traffic is more valuable than knowledge, Zheng Li feels that the Mage Alliance setting a high price for knowledge can effectively avoid the occurrence of such chaos, which also makes sense.

But it’s because Zheng Li didn’t learn any knowledge related to economics.

If he had a certain degree of understanding of economics, he would realize that the traffic of the Mage Alliance is not valuable because the materials of the Mage Alliance are almost provided for free.

The free supply of materials has led to the concept of merchants in the Mage Alliance being almost all merchants in the virtual world. The entire social structure has led to the demand for marketing being far less than that of Blue Star.

Having made some progress, Zheng wanted to take the opportunity to relax and experience the urban life of Blue Star.

The urban life of Blue Star is a unique feature here, which is completely different from the Mage Alliance.

Zheng Li has lived in Blue Star for too short a time, and the current offline consumer industry has declined significantly compared to before.

The development of the virtual world will lead to the decline of real-world business.

The reason for the Alliance of Mages is that the virtual world is too developed, and the cost-effectiveness of the real world compared to the virtual world is too low.

Especially after the realization of advanced artificial intelligence, the virtual world can be built into what you want at no cost.

The perfect welfare mechanism makes ordinary people unwilling to go out to work.

If you want to build infrastructure like Blue Star, you can only rely on mages, but the number of mages is limited.

Therefore, in this context, the Mage Alliance has almost no real-world offline business.

The only business that can survive in the real world is the catering industry.

The sense of taste that intelligent life has since birth determines that the catering industry can exist even if technology develops further.

Even though China's pre-prepared food industry is developing rapidly, no matter how perfect it develops, it cannot eliminate artificial catering.

Of course, the market share of manual catering will be compressed.

"Would you like to go shopping tonight? Tomorrow is the weekend."

Zheng Li sent a WeChat message to Li Miaomiao.

In fact, for corporate executives, there is no concept of weekends.

Even for them, weekends are busier than weekdays.

Weekends are often filled with dinner parties and social events, and various research activities also tend to be held on weekends.

Normally, as long as there is nothing to do in the company, you can just go for half a day.

Anyway, it’s just the lower-level employees punching in, and at most it’s counted as middle-level management.

Senior executives don’t need to punch in.

"???"

"You're a berry, right?"

Li Miaomiao first sent three question marks, and then sent an emoticon that said "Are you okay?"

"Are you going?" Zheng Li said without further ado.
Li Miaomiao replied immediately: "Okay, I'll pick you up after get off work this afternoon."

"it is good."

At this time, Li Miaomiao was holding a meeting that was not very meaningful.

Given her position, no one would say anything even if she kept looking at her phone.

Subordinates will actively imagine what work matters the other party needs to deal with.

The middle-level managers sitting opposite Li Miaomiao noticed that the other party just picked up his mobile phone and showed a happy smile from the bottom of his heart.

You have to know that this meeting is boring and unproductive. Everyone knows that the smile is obviously not because of the content of the meeting.

For enterprises, it is often necessary to hold some formal meetings. The content of the meetings has already been determined by one or several senior executives and then confirmed with decision makers.

The meeting was just a formality.

Those who noticed this scene were all thinking silently in their hearts, wondering what made Li Miaomiao so happy.

You should know that in the past few years, Li Miaomiao has been serious most of the time at Kechuang Bio.

Li Miaomiao felt happy, but also a little curious and surprised. She wondered why Zheng Li suddenly invited her to go shopping in the evening.

This has never happened before.

When she is in doubt, she asks her sister. In Li Miaomiao's opinion, Li Shuyao has much richer emotional experience than her. If she asks her sister about something she cannot figure out, the chances that she can get an answer are much greater.

Of course, the richness here is just that I had two or three love experiences during college and graduate school.

After I entered a fund company as a fund manager and witnessed the chaos in the financial circle, it became difficult for me to be interested in men in that circle.

"What? Zheng Li asked you out tonight?

Take safety measures.

Forget it, let’s not take any safety measures. If she gets pregnant, she can just use the child’s status as a mother to gain power.

But you are now the general manager of Kechuang Biotechnology, and there is no higher position to move up."

Before Li Shuyao could finish, Li Miaomiao interrupted her: "What are you thinking about!

It’s just a date. It’s not even a date in Zheng Li’s mind. He just wants to find someone to relax with?”

There was uncertainty in her tone.

Compared with Li Shuyao, Li Miaomiao has an independent office of 50 square meters, and the sound insulation effect is specially enhanced, so she doesn't have to consider other people's feelings when speaking.

She's the only one there anyway.

Li Shuyao walked to the window and looked at the scenery of Lujiazui.

She is now a fund manager under Soochow Fund, and Soochow Securities is one of the shareholders of Soochow Fund.

The headquarters of Soochow Fund is located on Yincheng Road, which is next to Lujiazui and is surrounded by many financial institutions.

Opposite Soochow Securities are the buildings of CCB, ICBC and ABC. Apart from the beauty of the steel forest, they look depressing.

"You and Zheng Li have been together for so many years."

"I have never been with Zheng Li. We are just friends and business partners."

"Okay, a spiritual platonic relationship."

"There is no such relationship. You think too much. Please don't add your subjective speculation. What I need is a relatively accurate judgment and some suggestions.

I want to know the real purpose of Zheng Li's appointment with me and what preparations I need to make. "

Li Shuyao stopped joking and said, "Okay, okay, I won't joke anymore.

Maybe Zheng Li just wanted to go out for a walk and the pressure was a bit too much.

He needs someone to go out with him.”

Li Miaomiao didn't want to accept this answer: "No way, this is the first time he took the initiative to ask me out."

Li Shuyao: "I know you don't want to accept this speculation.

But I personally think this is the guess that is closest to the truth.

If Zheng Li had any thoughts about you other than just being friends, you two would have gotten it together long ago.

Judging from what you said, the media, and Zheng Li's performance in official occasions, Zheng Li is most likely under a lot of pressure.

Brain-computer connection technology is already very advanced, and it is very difficult to advance it further.

The more cutting-edge the technology, the more difficult it is to advance.

Zheng Li is now at the forefront of brain-computer connection technology, and Blue Star’s previous research results are of more than enough help to him.

My guess is that he wants to relieve stress by hanging out with you.

What did you do on your last few dates?

Li Miaomiao said without hesitation: "We watched a movie, then walked around the pedestrian street, and then sat down and chatted."

Li Shuyao asked, "You were the one who invited Zheng Li before, right?"

"Yes."

"Then let's go to the movies this time. It's a similar process. It seems that Zheng Li prefers watching movies.

In addition to watching movies, you can also stop talking and go to a quiet bar at night to have a drink. "

Li Shuyao continued, "Anyway, don't put too much pressure on yourself. From what I know about Zheng Li, he just wants to go out for a stroll."

Li Miaomiao was skeptical: Can you understand Zheng Li better than me? It seems that asking my sister is useless.

Li Miaomiao's office is located in the CBD around Jinji Lake, where Ke Chuang Bio has two buildings.

The Suzhou R&D Center where Zheng Li works is a biopharmaceutical industrial park specially built in the Suzhou Industrial Park.

It can be said that the entire biomedical industrial park has been revitalized because of Kechuang Bio.

The headquarters of Ke Chuang Bio is located in Suzhou, which makes Suzhou naturally attractive to bio-pharmaceutical companies in terms of attracting investment.

Many foreign pharmaceutical giants have chosen to establish R&D centers in Suzhou.

After brain-computer VR became popular around the world, Suzhou's Internet industry also developed.

So much so that people on the Internet believe that the development brought by Ke Chuang Biotechnology to Suzhou is no less than the changes that Ali has brought to Hangzhou.

According to official statistics, science and technology enterprises contribute more than half of the total tax revenue to Suzhou every year.

According to rumors, Jinling, Jiangcheng, Shenhai and Pengcheng have all made great efforts to try to persuade Kechuang Bio to relocate its headquarters.

The reason why Ke Chuang Bio chose to stay in Gusu is that the housing prices in Gusu are more friendly than in other places.

Among these cities, the average price in Pengcheng and Shenhai is 90,000, the average price in Hangzhou is 50,000, and the average price in Jinling is more than 40,000.

(Here are the house prices in 2026)

Only the average price in Suzhou has been kept below 30,000.

As for the unit price exceeding 100,000 yuan around Jinji Lake CBD, this is a regional imbalance.

However, when Kechuang Bio was communicating with Suzhou, it mentioned the need to curb housing prices and claimed that this was their only demand.

The logic behind this is very simple. Innovative work such as R&D has a strong correlation with a person's state.

If housing prices are too high, the pressure to buy a house will be great, and those who have not bought a house will also be depressed looking at the sky-high housing prices. This mentality is not conducive to the advancement of R&D work.

At the same time, if a place has low housing prices and good treatment, it can easily attract high-end talents.

Thanks to its first-class treatment, relatively relaxed office environment and relatively low housing prices in Suzhou, Ke Chuang Bio has become the number one company in surveys of ideal companies for graduates in recent years.

As for Suzhou City, its reliance on land finance is relatively weaker thanks to the taxes collected from scientific and technological enterprises.

Local government fiscal revenue generally comes from two sources: taxes and land sales.

For third- and fourth-tier cities, land has been impossible to sell in recent years. This is beside the point.

Suzhou is not so dependent on land sales revenue, so in order to keep scientific and technological innovation and biology companies, they are willing and able to control housing prices.

When the average price in Jinling was more than 20,000 yuan, the average price in Suzhou was around 20,000 yuan. When the average price in Jinling reached 40,000 yuan, the average price in Suzhou was still more than 20,000 yuan.

Of course, Gusu is one of the few places where land prices are particularly expensive.

Wherever there are science and technology enterprises, the surrounding housing prices will definitely be expensive.

For example, the area around Jinji Lake.

Even around the Biotechnology Park, housing prices have exceeded 50,000 yuan. You have to know that it is a very remote place in Gusu.

Only very remote places can afford large tracts of land to build industrial parks.

This phenomenon has led to the fact that the biggest wish of real estate speculators in Suzhou every day is to hear news that science and technology companies are going to buy office buildings near them.

"The sun rose from the west today. This is the first time I see you wanting to go out for a walk." Li Miaomiao asked tentatively after picking up Zheng Li in her car.

Zheng Li didn't beat around the bush: "Because I made a breakthrough on a problem, I was in a good mood and wanted to go out for a walk."

Based on Li Miaomiao's understanding of Zheng Li, this reason was enough to convince her.

For a technology geek like Zheng Li, only breakthroughs in scientific research can make him feel better, Li Miaomiao thought.

Then she felt a little curious about what kind of research breakthrough could make Zheng Lixiang come out for a stroll.

You have to know that when the second generation of brain-computer connection technology was developed, the executives were extremely happy.

That evening, the executives went to a private restaurant in Suzhou for a celebration dinner, and Zheng Li did not attend.

Could it be that virtual reality technology has achieved a breakthrough, Li Miaomiao guessed.

She didn't ask what the specific technology was. This was confidential and she would know it when the time came.

Li Miaomiao asked: "So what are our plans for today?
Do you have any ideas?

If you don't have any ideas, I will arrange it?"

Zheng Li: “You arrange it.

I want to be somewhere crowded, but not too noisy.”

Li Miaomiao was a little speechless. There were many people but noisy. These were two contradictory things.

But on second thought, a movie theater seems to be such a place.

Because there was a movie being shown, it was very quiet, but at the same time there were a lot of people.

As long as it's not a family-friendly movie with a lot of children around, the cinema can still maintain a quiet level.

Li Miaomiao asked: "How about the cinema?"

"It just so happens that the sequel to Harry Potter was released recently."

(End of this chapter)