Chapter 575 Scam
Chapter 575 Scam
Putting down the walkie-talkie, Catalina and Bearded looked at each other, both of them a little shocked.
"Did he figure it out so quickly?" asked the bearded man.
"No, the letter must have said that it can't be explained." Catalina said she didn't believe it, but her face was uneasy, and she hurriedly turned around and went out.
After a while, she returned with the envelope. The thickness of the envelope was obviously abnormal!
Open it, there are more than a dozen pieces of folded letter paper!
Catalina spread the letter on the table, looked at the densely packed problem-solving steps, and took a breath.
The bearded man was also shocked, "Send the letter here and then back, deducting the time spent on the road, it only took him four or five days to solve it?"
"Are the answers to the steps a priori correct?" Catalina looked shocked.
The two people lay on the table nervously and calculated frantically. Colleagues came to work one after another. When they heard that the answer to the question was available, they hurriedly joined the verification process, and soon the room became busy.
Three hours later, the final step was completed.
Catalina was so shocked that she said, "The answer is right! It's really been solved!"
The room burst into excited applause and the atmosphere was filled with joy!
Catalina hurriedly put away the letter paper, folded the steps to solve the problem in order, left the office in a hurry, walked through the corridor, stopped in front of the door at the end, raised her hand and knocked on the door!
"Please come in!" came an old voice.
Catalina pushed open the door and entered a room filled with books and documents. The air was filled with the smell of the old man.
The bald and dignified old man was sitting behind the table, wearing thick reading glasses and reviewing documents. "You girl, can you please stop being so impatient when you knock on the door? I have a heart condition and I can't hear such sudden movements. I want to send me away." ?”
"I'm so excited, boss!" Catalina sat across the table and shook the letter in her hand, "Guess what this is?"
The old man pushed his reading glasses and said nothing.
"The answer to that question! My colleagues and I just checked it, and it's correct!" Catalina put the letter on the table, "Please take a look!"
The old man picked it up and flipped through the first dozen pages, looking only at the last page and looking at it carefully.
"Well, that's right." The old man nodded, "But it's not your handwriting. Who deciphered it?"
"Song He." Catalina was confused, "Why don't you check it carefully?"
The old man blinked, raised his hand and pointed to the corner, "Open the second box from east to west and look at the black folder."
Catalina was startled, then quickly got up and ran to open the box, took out the black folder, and opened it.
The content stunned her. She looked very familiar. It was the complete solution process of that question!
Looking at the time of signing, it was actually a year ago?
Catalina was confused, completely confused, and looked at the old man at a loss, "Has someone solved this problem a year ago?"
The old man nodded leisurely.
"Then why are we still asked to solve it?" Catalina was dumbfounded. "Didn't you say that this question is about a new rocket engine? Someone solved it a year ago. Where is the new engine?"
"Your group still needs training and learning. This question is a test paper to test your learning." The boss pushed up his glasses, "I'm sorry Catalina, I lied to you. This question can't make any new engines, human beings The current knowledge of materials science cannot yet create such a high-strength structure.”
Catalina was stunned and speechless for a moment.
During this time, she kept sprinting towards this problem day and night, dreaming that the problem would be solved, a new rocket engine would be built, and the country's dream would soar into the sky.
But now that the answer to the question is really available, we get such a result?
A scam? Is this question useless at all? Has anyone done this a year ago?
"Then why did you ask me to write to Song He?" Catalina suddenly thought of something.
"Of course I'm misleading them." The old man calmly picked up the coffee and took a sip.
"Misleading them?" Catalina frowned deeply.
"If they are lucky, if they have never seen this question, they will definitely research what it is related to. They can easily be led to a dead end road and waste a lot of manpower and time." The old man said calmly, "Lucky If not, they already know that this road is blocked, and may mistakenly think that we are focusing our energy on this, thus misjudging our true progress."
Catalina's expression was instantly distorted, a little angry, a little shocked, a little sad, "Song He is my friend! I don't want to deceive him!"
"You didn't lie to him, you just told him a story, didn't you?" said the old man.
Catalina sat down with a look of disbelief on her face, and the hairs on her arms stood up.
"I thought that even if our two countries don't cooperate, at least they're not hostile." Katarina murmured.
"This is not hostility, just some small calculations. This kind of calculations are all in international relations." The old man said calmly, "It is indeed a bit dirty, but it is a last resort."
"I don't think this is forced, just pure malice!" Catalina stared at the old man angrily.
"Katrina, you are too young. Our situation is obviously very sad, but you are complaining about your opponent." The old man took off his reading glasses, his eyes full of fatigue.
"You also know our situation. There is no money, no engineers, and there is a shortage of talents. The most advanced technologies are rotting in the graves with the bones of the older generation. Young people like you have just taken over the work."
"And what is their situation? They have money, a lot of talents, and technology is advancing by leaps and bounds. They have already launched a charge towards the moon, and the next step is to enclose land on the moon!"
"Can we compete directly if we compete directly? Can we catch up in a short time? Do we have to wait until they finish carving up the moon, and then we will pathetically beg for a piece of land?"
Catalina stopped talking and just frowned.
"Think about it." The old man waved his hand. "You have to adapt to this kind of thing. You are very popular in the academic circle. You may be asked to do similar things in the future."
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