The next morning, Zheng Li went to the cafeteria to have breakfast as usual and planned to go around the public experimental area.

He felt like he used to lead a mage apprentice in his own mage tower.

After graduating from the Mage Academy, most of the mages in the Mage Alliance need to study in the Mage Tower.

From being implanted with a magic brain to have the ability to cast spells to having your own mage tower, the probability of this is probably less than one in 100,000.

Most mages choose to lie down after realizing that they will never have their own mage tower in their lifetime.

Abundant resources and a highly intelligent social system allow people who are lying flat to have basic living security.

A few people are responsible for breaking through the upper limits of magic and science, while most people lie flat and completely automatic machines are responsible for the basic operation of society.

Even the reproduction of life is carried out in 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 at Blue Star, the more Zheng Li liked communicating with people. This was a feeling he had not experienced for a long time.

"Wan Qing, how is the progress of the recent experiments?" Zheng Li asked.

Li Wanqing has been distracted recently. His former colleagues at Neuralink came to him and expressed that Neuralink hopes he can return.

Neuralink also expressed its willingness to pay the full liquidated damages on his behalf.

Scientific researchers of Li Wanqing's level will usually sign a relevant non-industry agreement when they join the company, which means that they will not be allowed to work in the same industry for at least a certain period of time after leaving Kechuang Biotechnology.

Li Wanqing was only the leader of the research and development team at Neuralink before, and also signed the relevant industry ban agreement, so he returned to the Lion City from California and joined the school as a researcher.

After Li Wanqing came to his senses, he replied: "Due to the impact of the epidemic, the number of whites and blacks in the Lion City has decreased a lot, so it is difficult to find whites and blacks with English majors."

"I think we can outsource this part of the experiment."

"We can outsource the experiments of white English-speaking people to Amerikan's CRO company, and outsource the experiments of black English-speaking people to CRO companies in South Africa."

Contract Research, or contract research and development organization, is equivalent to some large companies outsourcing part of their research and development work through contracts.

CRO companies began to emerge in Americen in the 1970s. Domestic CRO companies generally began to emerge from 2000 to 2004, such as WuXi AppTec and Tigermed. They all emerged at that time.

Li Wanqing hopes to outsource some of the current slow-progressing experiments in Lion City to professional CRO companies.

Zheng Li thinks it is a good idea, but he also has questions about outsourcing:

“It can be outsourced to American and CRO companies in South Africa, or even all of it can be outsourced to American.”

Li Wanqing: "It will be cheaper to outsource to South Africa. In addition, in this situation, there are not many black people willing to participate in the experiment to make money, you know."

Affected by the epidemic, America is giving out money lavishly. Many black people rely on government benefits and have no problem supporting themselves without working.

Zheng Li asked: "The epidemic situation in America and South Africa is much more serious than that in the Lion City. Can their CRO companies still operate normally?"

Li Wanqing nodded and said: "No problem, the epidemic looks terrible abroad, but in fact they don't care much."

"And we are a brain-computer connection experiment."

Zheng Li: "That's no problem. You can contact the relevant departments at the Suzhou headquarters, and you can clear the process in the corporate office management system."

Most of the management functions of Kechuang Biotechnology are located in Suzhou, while only the recruitment function is in the Lion City.

After a long ideological struggle, Li Wanqing said: "Director Zheng, Neuralink came to see me. They want to poach me back."

Zheng Li asked doubtfully: "Is Neuralink the same company you had before?"

Li Wanqing was interviewed by Zheng Li, and he had seen this name on Li Wanqing's resume.

"Yes."

Zheng Li: "Neuralink is still rich, and it paid tens of millions of lions in liquidated damages so decisively."

Li Wanqing's annual salary is about 700,000 lion yuan. If he continues to work in the same industry after leaving his job, he will have to compensate Kechuang Biotech ten times his salary for ten years.

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 the lawsuit.

Li Wanqing said helplessly: "Director Zheng, I didn't say I was leaving."

Zheng Li: "Then what do you want to express by saying this?"

Li Wanqing: “I just want to know whether the company’s future R&D plans meet my expectations.”

"Because I am a somewhat idealistic person, in addition to applying brain-computer connection technology to the commercial side, I also hope to develop it into medical devices."

“For example, brain-computer connection can be combined with prosthetics for disabled people, or brain-computer connection can restore vision to blind patients.”

"I would rather do some trivial research for patients."

"Neuralink is willing to give me the position of head of R&D, so that I can have more autonomy in research on brain-computer connection."

"At Kechuang Biotechnology, I am said to be the R&D director, but in fact, I am more along the R&D route arranged by you."

Zheng Li: "After the end of this project, I haven't thought about the development direction of brain-computer connection yet. We can discuss and decide on the plan you proposed."

Zheng Li estimated that he had recovered his ability to cast spells by then. The R&D function of science and technology biology was not that important to him. By then, 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 because they covet your experience in Science and Technology Biotechnology. They definitely don't make medical devices, at least not for the time being."

"You know the progress of Science and Technology Biotech. If you go to Neuralink and start over, it will take at least five years before you can do research on brain-computer connection and medical device integration."

It’s not that Neuralink can come up with products with Li Wanqing’s experience, they still have to bypass the patent barriers set by Kechuang Biotechnology.

Five years is already the most optimistic estimate.

Li Wanqing is a typical person with high IQ and low EQ. After reacting, he said: "Director Zheng, I understand what you mean, and I will do a good job in Science and Technology Biotechnology."

Time quickly jumped to 2021. On the night of New Year’s Eve in 2021, Zheng Li called each of the parents of this body.

Since he came to Blue Star, he has only met the parents of this body once, and he has never returned since then, whether it was to take a leave of absence from school or to start a scientific and technological innovation.

Zheng Li's parents still learned from the news that their son had founded a company with a market value of more than 100 billion yuan.

Only then can they understand why Zheng Li pays a large sum of money for living expenses every month.

Zheng Li was emotionally unable to play the role of a son. He could only make up for the role responsibilities he should have fulfilled materially.
Chapter completed!