"Ha, hahaha...it looks like we came a little early."
Frank rubbed the back of his head, turned his head to look at Alex behind him, and let out an awkward laugh.
"...Indeed, it's a little early, one o'clock."
Alexei glanced at the row of clocks hanging behind the goblin and sighed helplessly.
"It's only six hours ahead of London time. Frank, I think you'd better catch up on some basic knowledge in the future, otherwise I'm worried that sooner or later you will stumble on these small details, even if you are wizards."
"Sorry, this is my first time to go on an independent mission, so I'm a little nervous..."
Like an eggplant beaten by frost, Frank explained in a low voice to Alexey, looking a little embarrassed.
These young people still have too simple ideas...
Alexey smiled and waved his hand nonchalantly.
Although he has not had any contact with other wizards, it seems that besides mastering some strange magic, Frank seems to be similar to the stupid young students who came to his institute for internship.
"It's okay. If you can, tell me more about the magical world - as a world independent of those of us without magical talents, I need to learn a lot of basic life lessons. Just learn from each other.
"
"Uh, okay."
Frank took a look at Alex's face and made sure he didn't see any anger or impatience on his face. He felt relieved a little, waved his wand, summoned two chairs to sit against the wall, and said nothing.
They started chatting one by one.
"Actually, I just graduated not long ago. I graduated from Durmstrang. Oh, this is a wizarding school, just like a school in the non-magical world, but it is specifically aimed at young wizards..."
"... Later, our family moved to Salzburg, Austria, and lived very close to my uncle's family... When I was a child, my dream was to become a general, but later, I received an owl letter..."
"The magic world does not use the currency of the Muggle world. Wizards use gold Galleons and silver Sickles to buy things..."
"..."
Frank was originally a very talkative person, or rather a talkative person.
It's just that I had to pretend to be calm due to work before, but now I can finally open up my chat box and have a natural chat. Although it is a bit unfinished and occasionally the logic is a bit confusing, for Alexei
He said that all this was considered interesting, so he naturally would not interrupt Frank's interest.
Even, influenced by Frank, Alexey later began to tell stories about himself.
For example, how he met his wife Natasha, and how he later had a young daughter, Danilova; and how he entered the Budeker Nuclear Physics Laboratory, and how he gradually reached the position of deputy director...
…
Unconsciously, time passed slowly as the two chatted more and more happily.
until……
………
"Ahem, I'm sorry to interrupt you temporarily."
Just when Alex started to talk about how he resolutely "defected" from the mathematics department under the temptation of a few bottles of vodka when he was in college, a crisp girl's voice appeared in their ears.
side.
The two of them were stunned for a moment, subconsciously stopped their conversation, and turned their heads to look in the direction from which the sound came.
I saw a little girl with a delicate face and silver-white hair who had come to the two of them at some point. Her lake-blue eyes were shining with bright stars. In a trance, Alexei felt as if he had seen an angel.
Just like coming.
But the next moment, Alexey was brought back to reality by Frank's series of exclamations.
"Uncle Miles?! Mr. Apokalis?! Miss Theresa?!"
Alexey's eyes moved away from the girl's face, and then he realized that behind the little girl, there was an old man with playful eyes and good spirits standing, and behind the two people, they stood neatly
There were about a dozen middle-aged and elderly people wearing neat black suits and not smiling.
One of the old men was glaring at Frank with bulging eyes and his lips moved slightly threateningly.
If nothing else, it should be the legendary, seemingly omnipotent wizard uncle Kurt Meyer from Frank's previous story. However, judging from where he is standing, today's protagonist is not Meyer.
gentlemen.
"Mr. Alexey? Hello, welcome to the magical world."
Elena smiled slightly, took the initiative to extend her hand forward, and said in an extremely formal manner.
"Introduce yourself, Theresa, Theresa Apokalis, the current CEO of Tianming Group, and the person directly responsible for this operation and the signing of the contract. In the following time, I will introduce it to you.
Let’s clear up the confusion.”
In fact, Elena is quite interested in Alexei's story.
If Grindelwald hadn't kept urging her, she would still have wanted to hear more about the growth history of this master of nuclear physics.
This experience is much more interesting than boring contract negotiations, especially after she has repeated a similar explanation process more than a dozen times these days, there is almost no interest left.
But her time was limited. She took advantage of her early morning break to sneak in through the fireplace in Grindelwald's office. Naturally, she didn't have much free time to waste.
If she doesn't show up by the time of class, the old carrot might come directly to arrest the person - even if all this is done with Dumbledore's permission, she can only use her spare time to poach people instead of openly cheating.
class.
To be fair, in this era, Elena may not be a little worse than these big names in terms of academic expertise, but when it comes to looking into the future, predicting scientific development, and making some specious scientific conclusions, even Einstein's new
Come to life, you may be stunned by her for a while.
Not to mention, generally speaking, all the scientific researchers who come here have actually made up their minds. Most of what they need is a commitment, a direction, and some specific materials to solve their worries.
What Elena really did was just "honest".
This aspect alone is precisely the quality that those high-IQ scientific researchers who have almost become adults value most, which is why she doesn't mind letting some interns come into contact with those old guys.
After all, words, interests, and accumulated qualities and attitudes cannot move people's hearts. She is not trying to show those scientific research experts who have already succeeded once how mature the magic world is, and what they will get after coming to this magic world.
How convenient and how easy it is to succeed.
In this regard, those human social brains with unique perspectives and wisdom beyond ordinary people do not need her to provide specific guidance and divergence at all. They only need to see one or two magics, and they can make associations on their own.
What she needs is to show some not-so-good, immature buds of civilization in advance. Once she accepts these settings, the chances of conflicts and gaps in the future will be much less. It is easiest to convince a person
, always only himself.
Of course, in addition to this, she also has a large number of secret weapons for persuasion and seduction.
Whether it is the confidentiality regulations of the magical world, paving the way for the integration of civilizations in the non-magical world and the magical world, the massive potatoes prepared by the Destiny Group and Hogwarts to aid the people of the former Soviet Union, including food, accommodation and five insurances during the contract period