Chapter 67: Balancing Work

Qi Min wiped away his tears and rushed to the "Rain Cloud" computing center in the afternoon. Although Anton saw that she was stimulated by Qin Zhenjun, as a proletariat, he had no right not to work, so he silently watched her take the subway in the other direction.

However, fortunately, the cynomolgus monkey experiment went smoothly, and the decoration and instrument layout of the laboratory were completed as scheduled, and then the company's technicians could be invited to bring the monkeys with them. It's just that once he starts doing cynomolgus monkey experiments, Qi Min has to go to the "Nimbus" center every day to watch, which is a bit fatal to take the subway for nearly two hours.

Although it stands to reason that it is not a big deal to let Ke Li take a look over there, as the person in charge of the project, he should not let the company's technicians be too laissez-faire. After all, this is really paying people to do the work, and according to the capitalist mode of operation, managers have to watch the progress of the task every day to ensure that the staff does not grind foreign workers. Of course, technicians will certainly not feel good when they are inspected every day - this is also the helplessness of the boss model of the scientific research system.

But in any case, the development of the cynomolgus monkey oath did bring a lot of commuting pressure to Qi Min. She basically went to her own laboratory at the Chinese Technical University early in the morning to solve the problems of Wang Xin and Chen Linyou's experiments, and then had to go to the "Nimbus" supercomputing center on the subway non-stop. It was already lunch time when he got there, and Qi Min had lunch at the center of "Nimbus", and then went to see the experiment of cynomolgus monkeys.

THE EXPERIMENTS OF PRIMATES ARE INDEED BEYOND THE SCOPE OF QI MIN'S KNOWLEDGE, AND ALTHOUGH THE PROTOCOL HAS BEEN DESIGNED BEFORE, THERE ARE STILL MANY UNCERTAINTIES ABOUT THE ACTUAL EXPERIMENTAL OPERATION. In particular, the first attempt to install the callosum interface found that the integrated interface chip made according to Qi Min's idea was not strong enough to withstand the pressure pressed into the skull of the cynomolgus monkey, and the material of the interface may need to be improved.

Qi Min originally wanted to ask the research group of the Paris Polytechnic University first, but Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan said that this was too troublesome, so she could find a laboratory doing biomaterials research first.

Fortunately, Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan still has a lot of acquaintances in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and soon asked a research group that makes graphene carbon fiber tubes. The materials science PI named He Benhui believes that if the previous titanium steel microneedles are replaced by carbon fiber tubes, the microneedles can be made thinner on the premise of doubling the strength of the interface. Since they have this technology and are acquaintances of Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan, the cooperation was quickly negotiated.

After replacing titanium steel with carbon nanotubes, the integrated interface chip is finally available. However, this also caused Qi Min to stay longer in the center of the "rain clouds" every day.

Before, she went to China Technical University after breakfast, came back to have dinner with Anton and Mimi, and then she could play with the little girl for a while. And now because of the length of each experiment and the time spent on the road, Qi Min often returns home at more than ten o'clock.

She came home late when she was doing her PhD, but Mimi didn't remember it at the time. And now the little girl needs someone to accompany her, only her father is not happy, and she wants her mother to come back and play with her.

Mimi clamored for Qi Min to go home early, and Qi Min felt very helpless. Such a young child still does not understand why the "proletariat" must go to work, and Qi Min and Anton do not want to let her know too much about the pressures of life at this time.

Qi Min wanted Anton to coax Mimi well, thinking that as long as her father was tired of playing with her, the little girl would not come to her mother again. However, Anton did not reach a consensus with her on this issue: "Can't you put more thought into Mimi?" ”

"I'm so busy, do you still want me to stay up all night to play with her?" Qi Min frowned dissatisfiedly. Even if she can stay up late, Mimi can't stay up late.

"You can always come up with a solution." Anton said, "Anyway, don't you think your sense of responsibility is a little too low now?" ”

Qi Min also feels that she is now a bit of a shopkeeper. It's said that it's very busy, but it's not completely unsolvable. Anton also had to go to work when Qi Min was studying for a doctorate before, and he was busier at that time, but he still forcibly arranged the time. But at that time, Anton was asked to take Mimi to work - if that was the case, in fact, Qi Min could also try to take Mimi to work.

Of course, it doesn't mean that she will have to take Mimi to work with her in the future, but now Mimi asks her mother to accompany her, and taking her to work is just enough to satisfy the little girl's curiosity.

"Then I'll take Mimi to work tomorrow, so I should be able to make up for this long time together, right?" Qi Min asked.

But Anton gave her an important reminder: "Tomorrow is Saturday, and you don't have to go to work." ”

Although according to a certain "tradition" of struggle X, there are no weekends in the biology department laboratory in the university, Qi Min, as the PI, does not need to go to the laboratory on Saturdays. She herself was not happy to ignore the rules of the labor law, so she did not force Wang Xin and Chen Linyou to do experiments on weekends. And for the "Nimbus" center, in addition to taking turns on duty, there are also weekends off, and the company's technicians will definitely not be doing experiments on weekends.

"And I'll take Mimi next Monday?" Qi Min proposed.

She thought very well, the next experiment was to arrange to connect the cynomolgus monkey connected to the interface of the corpus callosum into the full-scale brain-like body in an instant, which does not require too many delicate operations, and it should not be delayed until very late. Qi Min felt that she should have no problem coping with Mimi for four or five hours.

However, Anton still poured cold water on her: "You want to take Mimi to the laboratory?" It's not that I don't trust you, how many floors are you over there? ”

Mimi fell from the laboratory-colored balcony before, so even if Anton regained his trust in Qi Min, objectively he couldn't rest assured that she would take Mimi to the laboratory again - although he believed in Qi Min's sense of responsibility, he didn't believe in her ability to objectively control children.

"Second floor-I'm sure I'm not going to let Mimi have an accident anymore, so many people are watching." Qi Min said immediately.

"There were so many people watching before." Anton sneered, "Especially with your Yelena watching." ”

When Qi Min was studying for a doctorate, Anton rarely participated in her professional affairs. In her Ph.D. laboratory, Anton only knew Yelena Andreevna Sakharova, who had the best relationship with Qi Min, but he couldn't get along with her the first time he saw the girl. Qi Min didn't know why, but she knew that Yelena didn't look down on Anton very much.

Yelena thinks that Anton is a beach boy. It's no wonder, after all, her family has a small business, and her economic conditions are much stronger than Qi Min's family, and she has also seen all kinds of temptations. But Yelena can't understand that in Yan Kong's eyes, appearance can cover up too many shortcomings - although it turns out later that Anton was only reduced to food delivery because of bad luck.

But even if Yelena was prejudiced against her boyfriend, Qi Min still had to clarify for Yelena: "This has nothing to do with Lianna, at that time her visa was denied, and no one was in the United States." ”