Qi Min followed Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan and found a place to sit in the cafeteria of the "Nimbus" computing center.

At first, Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan did not speak, but just quietly ate the small flat fish on the plate. Qi Min felt that the atmosphere was a little awkward, and he didn't dare to take out his mobile phone to play in front of others, so he had to carefully chew the boiled cauliflower as a side dish.

After a while, Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan spoke: "Girl, why are you so nervous?" You're also a PI person, and there will be more things to find people to cooperate with in the future. ”

"I am...... Not very used to it. Qi Min whispered.

"You'll get used to it." Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan said gently, "In fact, when you are studying for a doctorate, you should get used to dealing with other people in the academic world. ”

There is nothing wrong with this, but Qi Min just didn't learn how to deal with people in formal settings, so he didn't take the initiative to find a mentor's acquaintance for peer review when he submitted articles N times, and failed to find a teaching position after returning to China N times of interviews. She gets along well with her classmates and anyone else who isn't PI, but she gets frustrated when she actually sees her boss, whoever it is.

"That'...... Then I'll try to get used to it......" Qi Min said with some embarrassment.

"Well, I think you can communicate more with Zheng Lao's research group over there." Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan advised her, "Our main focus here is to maintain 'rain clouds', and research projects have just begun. And I don't know very well, but it doesn't seem that the research in biology at the Chinese Technical University is not very strong, and if you want to have a better development, you still have to cooperate with the groups of other institutions. ”

Qi Min nodded, if it weren't for the fact that the biology department of China Technical University was not strong, they wouldn't want her to be a weak scumbag. And she secretly felt that she was at the level of the Department of Biology of China Technical University, and at most she would have the title of a gangster in the future.

——

Qi Min returned to his office at the school, opened his notebook, and saw that researcher Zhou Xiaoshan had already emailed her the access method of "Nimbus".

She followed the instructions to rehook the suspended code to the "rain cloud", and the test set that had been running for a night at the school's computing center ran out in less than two minutes.

Refreshing.

Qi Min stopped the code for testing machine learning and restarted running 1024×1024×1024 brain-like bodies. The code ran for five minutes, and she saw that there should be no problem, so she closed the Jupyter page.

By surprise, Qi Min clicked on Skype again, only to find that because she had turned off her phone before, Skype didn't start when she turned on the computer again, and now the conversation with Anton shows that he sent her a total of seven video invitations.

Qi Min chuckled in his heart. Could it be that something happened to Mimi?

She hurriedly sent a video invitation to Anton, but no one answered. I sent another voice invitation, but no one answered yet. Qi Min was a little panicked, and sent him N messages one after another to ask about the situation.

Almost an hour later, no one returned. Only then did she remember that it was afternoon for her, and it was early morning on Anton's side. Although Skype is online, most of the time it is just that the computer forgot to turn it off.

But why did he send her a video invitation in the middle of the night? Is there really something going on, or is there nothing to do...... She hoped that Anton was idle, of course it was good that he was fine, and he could still contact her when he was fine, which showed that the two of them were not yellow anymore.

Because of this, Qi Min didn't have the heart to look at the code anymore.

When she first returned home, she thought that Anton was completely holding her back, but now she just wants to see him and Mimi again. Besides, Qi Min and Anton originally used the salaries of two people to support Mimi, and now Mimi can't walk normally, Qi Min has returned to China, and I don't know how Anton earned enough money to take care of her.

Qi Min felt that she had to find a time to go back, at least to see how they were doing. But if she still doesn't have any money, it won't help Anton and Mimi.

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Qi Min's entanglement lasted until the evening. At about ten o'clock, she had already returned to the small bedroom where Yan Zhaolan's family was temporarily staying, and suddenly saw Anton send her a message on Skype.

"Nothing, don't bother us." So is his message.

Qi Min immediately sent out a video invitation, but was immediately rejected by the other party. She didn't give up on the invitation again, and this time Anton picked it up, and the face that he used to see every day when he opened his eyes appeared on the screen.

It's just a little different from what Qi Min remembers. His hair had grown, the front strand of blue bangs had almost lost color, and the hair on the back had grown long enough to tie up. His complexion was even paler, and the dark circles under his eyes made those brown eyes look surprisingly large, but there was a rather strong contempt and rejection in his gaze.

"Why are you calling me for Skype? Do I have anything to do with you? Because the Chinese restaurateur who adopted him was a northerner, Anton spoke Chinese with a slight northern accent.

Qi Min was originally very worried about him and Mimi, but seeing his attitude of rejecting people thousands of miles away, he felt angry: "What doesn't matter? Anyway, I'm still Mimi's mother. ”

The single mother has a subsidy in the United States, so Mimi is still Qi Min's daughter legally anyway, which Anton can't change on his own.

"Hurry up and send your article!" Sure enough, Anton immediately scolded, "Mimi's mother, are you worthy?" ”

"Is Mimi alright?" Qi Min took the opportunity to ask, "Where is she now?" ”

"Mimi is disabled, that's called 'It's okay'?" Anton asked her, "You have a conscience!" ”

When he said this, he showed that Mimi hadn't had any major incidents lately. Qi Min breathed a sigh of relief, since this is the case, there is no need to worry too much.

However, she still wanted to choke him: "I posted articles to find a teaching position to make money, but you just earned so much money and didn't let me see Mimi, because I didn't want to see others!" ”

"Fuck you!" Anton scolded this Beijing curse that he had learned from Qi Min before, and then slammed on the keyboard and turned to leave.

He was about to end the video, but pressed the wrong shortcut in a hurry. Qi Min saw him from the camera and walked to the sofa and sat down quite angrily, and then cried with a headache.

It's been more than six years since I met Anton, and Qi Min has never seen him cry. Sitting in front of the computer at this time, Qi Min actually felt overwhelmed.

She actually doesn't resent Anton, after all, it's basically her own fault. And now she wants to comfort him, but she is a Pacific Ocean away.

In the end, Qi Min just ended the video silently.

She knew that Anton didn't want him to be seen like this, and she realized that she was a little too mean to mock his income.