I Kidnapped An Alien Civilization

2021-07-07

Chapter 391 The Dothebys Auction House

The fire star base project is a very large project, although its technical The difficulty is not as high as the spaceship project, but the complexity is far more than the spaceship project.

According to the technology mastered by Mozi Technology, it is not difficult to build a fire star base. After all, the “Navigator” is enough to ensure that three astronauts live in the fire star for two months.

But how to build a sustainable large-scale base is very difficult.

In Li Mo’s plan, the fire star base to be established is not only a scientific research base, but also bears the responsibility of the continuation of the human race. After the Earth homeland of mankind suffered a sudden destruction, the remaining human beings in the fire star base will become the only hope for the continuation of the race and civilization.

Due to the problem of genetic assimilation, in order to ensure genetic diversity, the number of people that the base can carry must reach the minimum number of racial reproduction.

Under the premise of ensuring genetic diversity, the minimum number for a mammal species to reproduce without degeneration is 4,000. Below this number will lead to the genetic diversity of offspring after several generations. decrease, and the entire population degenerates.

So Li Mo’s ideal fire star base can carry at least 4,000 Earth humans to survive and reproduce. The number of 4000 is not much on Earth, maybe it is just the number of a small school.

But on the surface of fire star, it is a wasteland and lacks everything needed for life. In this case, the fire star base plan has become a project that seems unrealizable.

It has been two months since the project was established, but the project team composed of 150 elite scientists from Earth has not yet produced even the most basic design plan.

Li Mo knows that this is not to complain about their incompetence, it is because the project is too complicated, so every meeting, in addition to discussing solutions together, is to encourage the team members who are almost in despair them.

Today, Li Mo doesn’t have much time to encourage these scientists who seem very frustrated, because he still has an important meeting to attend, which is a top auction held by Doofby’s.

In fact, Li Mo through childhood never paid respects to any auction. Artwork is the crystallization of the artist’s intellectual labor, and has a unique beauty, but he will not spend tens or even several millions of funds for this beauty. After all, in his eyes, no matter how wonderful a work of art is, it is only the product of pressing plant fibers, firing clay, and refining copper ore, and it does not possess the beauty of science at all.

The reason why he made an exception this time is because he wants to make money, or make big money!

Since Li Mo was crowned as a scientist, he has truly become a pure person, and there are only two hobbys.

The first is scientific research. The mysteries of the universe attract him deeply.

The second is to make money. Most of the scientific research projects are money-burning machines. The Mozi Science and Technology Laboratory now consumes the electricity bill of a house in Yanjing every day. It is difficult to cook without rice.

The auction of Forbes this time is specifically for him to make money. And according to the advice of Auction House experts, if Li Mo appeared at the venue in person, the auction price would be at least 30% higher.

This also makes him, who is about to start a huge spending plan, a little bit of interest.

Dowby’s is the largest Auction House in China, with a history of more than 100 years. In the art exchange circle, Dootheby’s is synonymous with genuine products.

This is important because lines have rules. In the art trading industry, sellers do not guarantee the authenticity of artworks, and they even coined a term for the collection behavior of accidentally buying fakes, called “eye punching”. As the name suggests, it is the buyer who sees it wrong and should hit his own eyes, not the seller.

So most savvy collectors have a pair of “Golden Fire Eyes”. However, with the development of science and technology, the counterfeiting technology is improving day by day, and even the high-tech means of identifying cultural relics such as carbon 14 has corresponding cracking methods, and “Golden Fire Eyes” has become “eye punching” again.

In this way, in the literary and art market, there is a strange phenomenon. The porcelain bowl in the hands of the seller solemnly vowed is from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, but the buyer is afraid to buy the “last week”, and one cannot sell it. out, one dare not buy.

At this time, the gold-lettered signboard of the century-old store Fubi is particularly important, but there are advantages and disadvantages. Behind this credit guarantee is the high handling fee! Very expensive!

At the same time, this kind of expensive handling fee has also made a lot of money for Dofo’s. Otherwise, how could their headquarters be located in the most luxurious CBD area in Yanjing?

When Li Mo stepped on the white marble floor, two slender female staff members had already walked over, bowing slightly at their waists: “Mr. Li, Dofubi Auction House welcomes you. Come.”

Li Mo took the handbag containing the auction items from Zhou Dong. This young man named Zhou Dong is the new assistant and bodyguard he personally selected, and he is also a warrior who retired from the “black uniform”.

“Mr. Li, my name is Xie An, I’m the vice president of Dofubi and your auction consultant this time.” Li Mo was about to thank him when a man with meticulously groomed hair was dressed in hidden clothes. A middle-aged man in an azure suit has appeared at the door.

Sure enough, he believed that the vice president must have been waiting for a long time.

“Mr. Xie, thank you!”

“Please call me a professor.” Li Mo may have been assimilated by the ivory tower, and he is a common name for “Mr.” It was a little uncomfortable.

Xie An smiled: “Okay, Professor Li.”

“Auction is about to start, don’t we?”

Li Mo understands What he meant, with a hand-clapped handbag, under the guidance of the hostess, he stepped into the Dufobi headquarters.

Plain

Compared with the luxurious decorations outside the building, it is extremely plain here.

Li Mo didn’t expect that this auction company, which even smelled of money in the air it breathed, would be so simple. There are several printed landscape paintings hanging on the walls, and two imitation blue-and-white porcelain retorts over one meter high on the ground. Only a few golden characters on the plaque behind the reception desk can show its true identity.

The owner of the hall did not feel any embarrassment because of this simplicity, but instead looked happy: “Professor Li, so far, more than 20 guests have come to the auction.”

Li Mo was startled for a moment:

“More than 20 people?”

“A lot?”

He didn’t know that this was the vice president of Forbes Where does the look of joy come from, is this century-old store, Fubei, ready to open dark?

There are more than 7 billion people on Earth, and 20 trifling people are not worth mentioning.

“Oh”

“You seem to have misunderstood.” Xie An has been in the Auction House industry for more than 30 years. Since he took over the legacy of the father and entered this industry, the father who worked hard for most of his life has also taught him his life-long efforts, which is a sentence: “Auction House, the auction is for people’s hearts, understand people’s hearts, You can get a foothold in this industry.”

For 30 years, Xie An has kept this motto in mind. In order to better guess the heart of the guests, he even obtained a master’s degree in psychology. Of course, God always favors people with innate talent and diligence. Xie An was able to ascend to the high position of vice president at the age of less than 50 years old. This motto is indispensable.

Naturally, he was also keenly aware of the dissatisfaction in the professor’s tone.

(End of this chapter)