Linguists' Business

The year following the last communication has arrived.

Today, Yue Yuan was handling routine affairs in his office at the Supreme Command Department Headquarters as usual. He had just received some good news: Controlled Nuclear Fusion had made further progress. After several improvements to the magnetic field confinement algorithm, the output energy gain over the input energy had increased from 300% to 650%, and the continuous stable working time had increased to one month.

It can be said that we are one step closer to true success.

Upon receiving the news, Yue Yuan was planning to go to the Physics Research Institute, which he called the Investigation Institute, after approving the documents, to learn about the specific details.

Unexpectedly, just after approving the last document of the day, he received a special call from Long Xiaolin: "Chief, Dr. Lu Xiaofen and some other language experts said they have an important proposal for you to review. They are already waiting in the office building. Should we let them up?"

Yue Yuan frowned and replied, "Let them follow the normal procedures."

According to the normal procedure, the proposal must first be reviewed by the subordinate department, and then submitted to the Command Department Think Tank for evaluation before it is delivered to Yue Yuan's desk.

After all, although the human population is not large, there are many things to do. If everyone had to go directly to Yue Yuan for everything, he would be exhausted.

"It's supposed to be an important proposal. Oh, and Chief of Staff, Doctor Yi Kai is here too."

I thought Long Xiaolin would say "okay" and hang up as usual, but to my surprise, she didn't.

"Oh?" Yue Yuan was taken aback when he heard that Yi Kai was also there, then replied, "Tell them to come up!"

Yi Kai has been conducting life research. The drug that could extend human lifespan to two hundred years was a phase of successful research. Now that he's here, could it be that there's been further progress? This was Yue Yuan's first thought when he heard that Yi Kai was also here.

So when Yi Kai and the others arrived at the office, Yue Yuan spoke first, saying, "Dean Yi, please have a seat. Is there another breakthrough in Life Science?"

The title "Dean" is used because Yi Kai is now the Dean of the School of Academy of Life Sciences. Yue Yuan usually addresses him as such during work hours or in formal settings. However, in casual conversations, he would usually address him as "Doctor."

However, this is not absolute.

Then Yue Yuan said to the people next to Yi Kai, "Oh, Dr. Lu, please make yourselves at home."

But after saying that, Yue Yuan noticed that Yi Kai seemed a little embarrassed, so he glanced at everyone and finally fixed his gaze on Lu Xiaofen's face.

They noticed that Lu Xiaofen seemed to want to say something but hesitated.

Seeing this, Yue Yuan glanced back and forth between Yi Kai and Lu Xiaofen, and found that Yi Kai's hands were empty, while Lu Xiaofen was holding something.

Hey! Seeing this situation, Yue Yuan guessed what was going on.

It's probably Lu Xiaofen's proposal; what she's holding is likely a storage device containing the proposal documents. Yi Kai was probably brought in by her to go through the 'fast track'.

"So I was wrong," Yue Yuan thought to himself. But he felt that he was wrong because of Yi Kai. If Yi Kai hadn't come, he wouldn't have thought that way.

So Yue Yuan looked at Yi Kai and said leisurely, "This is the last time. Submit a proposal to me according to the normal procedure later."

"Oh, the Commander-in-Chief is wise!" Yi Kai, who had been looking embarrassed, immediately broke into a chrysanthemum-like smile upon hearing Yue Yuan's words.

Then, he nudged Lu Xiaofen, who was still in a daze, with his arm.

"Ah? Ah! This is a proposal, Chief of Staff, please take a look." Lu Xiaofen quickly spread out her hands and handed over the file storage device, but it was taken away by Long Xiaolin, who came with her.

Clearly, Long Xiaolin had realized that she had been subtly tricked and that she shouldn't have said that Yi Kai was also involved, which led Yue Yuan to misunderstand.

Yue Yuan didn't stop him, but instead glanced at Yi Kai, as if to say: See? You love young girls, now you're falling for their charms!

Yi Kai coughed lightly, then looked at the young and beautiful Lu Xiaofen beside him without restraint, as if to say: I'm just thinking of you, Chief. If it weren't for her, who knows how much more serum you would have had to have drawn.

These were indeed Yi Kai's true feelings, but Yue Yuan saw his actions and thought he was saying, "This is exactly what I like, it's so satisfying."

After exchanging a few wrong glances with Yi Kai, Yue Yuan didn't rush to look at the specific content of the proposal. Instead, he turned his gaze to Lu Xiaofen: "Tell me first, what exactly is this important proposal?"

"Chief, it's like this." The one who spoke was not Lu Xiaofen, but the linguist who came with her.

The linguist stood up from the sofa, took a few steps forward to Yue Yuan's desk, and looked at Yue Yuan was sitting in his office chair, with a serious expression. "In our observational research on socio-cultural changes, we have discovered some phenomena that may negatively impact the future development of Human Civilization. This proposal is aimed at these phenomena and represents what we believe to be the best solution to the problems we have identified."

Could it be that there's a problem with the supplementary publicity for the birth policy?

Upon hearing this, Yue Yuan's heart skipped a beat, and the first thing that came to mind was the "Amorous Breeze" propaganda campaign done by the Propaganda Department, assuming that the social problems were caused by such propaganda.

But then I thought about it again and realized that something was wrong. If the problem was with the promotion of "Amorous Breeze", then it should be the Propaganda Department that was talking to me. But now it was a group of linguists.

Perhaps knowing that Yue Yuan hadn't looked at the proposal, the linguist gave the answer, "It's a problem with language communication."

"Language communication?"

Yue Yuan raised his eyelids, somewhat curious.

What problems could there be with language communication? Humanity has long since accepted Chinese as the standard language. Could it be that our foreign friends have objections? Do they want a multilingual system? But that doesn't make sense either. Having objections to this is like trying to stop the tide of history—who would be so foolish!

Moreover, this matter doesn't seem that serious. Faced with Yue Yuan's question, the linguist nodded, his face solemn, and said, "The story begins Great Voyage Era. At that time, I awoke from hibernation and then, according to the 'Great Hibernation Plan' procedure, handed over the duties to the rotating personnel."

During this process, I accidentally discovered that some of the people I was handing over duties with used words that sounded unfamiliar to me, but I could still understand them after thinking about it.

But when I woke up from my third hibernation, someone among the people taking over my shift said something I couldn't understand at all. After asking around, I learned that those words were actually popular phrases that had appeared during my hibernation.

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