Chapter 5: Take the Subway#
By the time Qi Min returned home after picking up Qi Mi, Anton had already finished teaching the little ghost who was looking for Qi Min's stubble and cooked the meal.
At the dinner table, Qi Min complained casually: "Alas, the evening rush hour of the Third Ring Road is still so blocked, and the brain-like body has not been able to solve many traffic problems." ”
She thought that with the brain-like platform, many people could work online instead, and there would be fewer people who needed to drive to and from work. However, it seems that even if some of the jobs have indeed moved to the virtual world, it is still too early for the rest of the jobs that involve the physical realm to move to the brain-like body.
After all, all virtual entities in the brain-like body need to be created by constructors, and the secrets related to the entities are those units that cannot be disclosed to the brain-like company. Although the brain-like company does not have the intention of making black money, it is difficult to guarantee that the constructor will not leak secrets again.
Moreover, the change of production relations lags behind the economic base, and even if some work is more convenient to do in the brain-like body, whether to move to the brain-like body must also consider many aspects, including the personal wishes of the boss.
"Why don't you take the subway in the future?" Anton proposed. Beijing's subway system is super convenient, especially since the villa they bought after the brain-like company made a profit, right next to the starting station of a suburban line. Even if you have inconvenient legs, there are seats in the subway.
However, these words are particularly unpleasant to Qi fans, with her background, isn't it too faceless to take the subway? It's too much to let her be buried in the midst of ordinary people.
"No, no." Qi Fan retorted with a brief refusal.
Qi Min looked at her daughter, but felt that the little girl was becoming more and more arrogant. She felt that she should explain it to Mimi, not because they didn't want to take her to and from school, but because the traffic jam was too time-consuming. It takes an hour and a half to drive from the suburbs to the city to school in the morning, while the subway only takes an hour, so taking the subway can save half an hour of sleep. If Qi Min herself chooses, she will definitely choose to sleep. And the Internet is fully covered on the subway, which should be somewhat attractive to Mimi, who can't connect to the brain-like body.
But before she could think about what to say, Anton directly repented: "Then forget it." Also, the subway is crowded during rush hour, so why bother. ”
Hearing this, Qi Fan couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart. He said all the good and bad things alone, what else could he do?
Anyway, is he having a good relationship with her mother? It's been so many years, and you still need to brush this favor? Qi Fan silently thought that her mother's usual leisure and entertainment was the upper brain-like body, and she did not look like the CTO of a large monopoly company with a super high value, which was different from the literary works she watched. But Qi fans believe that in Qi Min's position, it is impossible to be completely free of temptation around. Even as a legal spouse, it is necessary to strengthen one's position.
Qi Min obviously doesn't know what her daughter is thinking, she won't take the subway if she doesn't take it, anyway, it's not her who is usually responsible for picking up and dropping off from school. If it was by car, Mimi would have to go out at half past six in the morning, so the little girl would have to get up at six o'clock, and Anton would have to start making breakfast at five o'clock.
In Qi Min's opinion, this is simply a torturous thing. It's a shame to say that she has never gotten up before six o'clock for more than three days in a row in all these years, usually Anton has already sent Mimi out of the house, she has just woken up, and then gets up to eat breakfast slowly. By the time she was ready to get on the brain-like body and start working, it was already nine o'clock.
However, given that after Qi Min started working, Anton could still have time to catch up on sleep, and her guilt was slightly reduced. Before, Qi Min was thinking about opening a restaurant for Anton to be the head chef, but the reality is that it is already very time-consuming just to pick up Mimi, cook and clean up the house every day, and it seems a bit cruel to let him go to work again.
Anyway, it's not bad for money now, and no matter how hard you work, it's not practical. But she did fulfill her promise to install a modern, high-end kitchen for Anton, in the villa where they lived. That's why they don't live in the city, rather than buying a villa in the suburbs – how could an apartment in the city allow such a remodeling.
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After dinner, Qi Mi returned to his room to do his homework, while Qi Min sat back on the sofa, but he was not in a hurry to return to the brain-like body.
Turning on the TV and watching the declining quality of the TV program, Qi Min suddenly said to Anton with some boredom: "Hey, we don't seem to have a ...... for a long time Well, indescribable. ”
Anton was stunned for a moment: "Huh? It wasn't just yesterday ......."
He's referring to doing the indescribable thing in a brain-like body. Because of laziness, Qi Min always likes to do this kind of thing in the brain-like body.
At present, ordinary players can only open one identity in the brain-like body, but before the early commercialization of the brain-like body, people who have entered the brain-like body basically have another initial identity. Qi Min now uses the newly generated "Autumn Harvest" when playing the game, and the "Autumn Harvest" is set to be male; Her initial identity is the image she generated from her self-perception when she first entered the brain-like body.
There is no doubt that she used the same initial identity when she was indescribable to Anton in the brain-like body, and Anton naturally used the initial identity he generated back then. The virtual body used over the years has not changed at all, which is pleasant, but it is also a bit detached from reality.
"Do you want to do it once in reality?" Qi Min proposed.
In the brain-like body, she also proposed it at the beginning, mainly because of Yan Kong, she felt that it was already the peak of Anton's appearance at that time, so it was worth freezing the time to that moment. But after a few years, I found that in fact, Anton's appearance has not declined much, and the slight change is still novel. She thought it would be nice to store a few more sets of physical data, but it was really inconvenient to say for this purpose.
"In reality...... That's fine. Anton hesitated for a moment but agreed. There is no difference between feeling in the brain-like body and feeling it in reality, he just thinks it's not good to do this kind of thing when his daughter is at home.
Qi Min carefully observed his appearance with appreciation. Compared with the appearance of the twenty-five years old that he will always retain in the brain-like body, the thirty-three-year-old Anton in reality is indeed not as youthful as before. Surprisingly, after some of the collagen loss, his eyes appear larger and gentler, making the whole face look more gentle and serene – one would love to see the exact opposite of this.
After having this thought, Qi Min couldn't help but quickly reflect on himself. She's really blind, she still wants to play those tricks at this age. If this is spread by anyone, it will really lose face - so let's play in the brain-like body with tricks, and the real world will be a little simpler.
"I'll see you in the study later?" Qi Min proposed.
"Well, I'll see you in the study." Anton nodded, ready to go and marinate the fish he was going to make tomorrow.