Clicking on the time in the lower right corner of the computer screen, the system's calendar popped up, and seeing that it was already Sunday, Bai Zhongqi couldn't help but sigh lazily, and said to himself: "This Thanksgiving holiday is really short, I feel like I haven't done anything yet, it's about to pass." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Bai Zhongqi, who is already twenty-five years old, lives in San Francisco, USA, an ordinary North American study dog, and after graduating from a bachelor's degree in China, he came to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) on the other side of the ocean, and mixed a master's degree in economics. Bai Zhongqi's temperament is relatively slow, greedy and lazy, and even says that he has no special ambitions. In the summer before his junior year, his mother told him that it was advantageous for him to get a master's degree abroad and return to China to find a job, and Bai Zhongqi, who didn't think much about stepping into the workplace so quickly, honestly took the TOEFL and GRE, dragged two big boxes, and even the pots and pans stuffed by his mother, and came to San Francisco.

At first glance, Bai Zhongqi seems to be a typical mother's treasure man, but this is not the case. Bai Zhongqi is loose and saggy, looking gentle and pure under the appearance, but he is not a person who lacks assertiveness. This young man in his twenties, who has already spent half of his life, is so precocious that he lacks interest in real life. In his view, society is a slimy net in which no matter how hard he struggles, he can't break out. Successful people are complacent, and the bottom of society is indignant and mediocre, but under Bai Zhongqi's slightly indifferent eyes, there is no difference between these people. Times have never changed because of the actions of these people, and there is nothing saddest about being no different from these people. Get a glorious diploma, use some meager connections at home, be a small local civil servant, or hold an iron job bowl in the enterprise and institution. In my mother's opinion, this life is stable and has face in the eyes of others. As for what her son really wants, the mother will feel that the child is still young and does not understand the experience of their predecessors. Instead of letting him wrestle and suffer for a few years, it is better to pave a decent Cotai Avenue for him early.

Having said this, what does Bai Zhongqi like?

The starry sky, the sea, everything that seems to be infinite and full of possibilities are his favorites. When he was a child, he liked astronomy, and even saved 10 yuan to buy a photo of the so-called nebula at the Pit Daddy Planetarium when his classmates used five cents to buy crispy noodles with their own glitter anime character cards. When he was in middle school, Bai Zhongqi began to like military affairs, love naval models, and indulge in military games.

After going abroad, Bai Zhongqi felt more freedom. Although it is extremely troublesome for many international students to leave the familiar set of operations and set up a phone plan, install wireless networks, and purchase various visa documents, these are not stressful for Bai Zhongqi. He is a very well-planned and organized person, and he is able to peel back the cocoon and do things properly that others may seem clueless. And without some overly controlling mothers, Bai Zhongqi can do a lot of things he likes.

For example, I have a few naval warships and gunpla models at home, and I can crouch in front of a computer and play some time-consuming and labor-intensive strategy games.

Unlike many of his classmates, who are keen on e-sports games, Bai Zhongqi, who likes to be slow-paced and more possessive, loves some strategy and management games. He didn't let go of several of the top cards of the P Society, and he also had a preference for the Civilization series, and even playing some RTS games could save a lot of units, which were placed there for good looks, rather than ending the task quickly.

"I haven't written a paper during a vacation, and I'm probably going to have a hard liver the day before the deadline, so I'm not in the mood to write that thing now, so let's play games." Bai Zhongqi thought about it, pouted and scratched his mouth and chin with his fingers, and then opened an icon on the desktop that looked like a sea of stars.

This game is Bai Zhongqi's favorite game for a while, called "Guide to Galaxy Domination". Speaking of which, it was a complete accident that he found this game, and Bai Zhongqi found this indie game in the Star Wars games section of a not-so-well-known game forum area, which is available for free download, and no one has replied. Bai Zhongqi saw that it took up a lot of hard disk space, and he was a little curious, so he downloaded this game.

After the game was downloaded and installed successfully, Bai Zhongqi opened the game, and was slightly disappointed at first, because the game screen was not as expected. But think about it as an indie game, there won't be any super game engine to support super graphics. But soon Bai Zhongqi became addicted. Beneath the mediocre graphics of this game, it has a surprising content core, this is an interstellar war strategy game that dominates the galaxy and the universe by developing technology, governing the star field, and forming a starfleet. The operation is very simple and intuitive, but it has an almost infinite world view, detailed and detailed scientific and technological items, and disturbing and interesting emergencies. As a result, this game completely occupied almost all of Bai Zhongqi's spare time.

At the beginning of the game, Bai Zhongqi set the difficulty to the lowest, named his dynasty "Iridium United Empire", and chose a golden three-way lightning coat of arms as a marker, and began the exploration of the universe in the game. Thanks to his good fortune, the star system in which the United Empire of Iridium is located and the abundant resources around it, as well as opponents who are not too strong and not too weak, the United Empire has grown quickly.

After half a year in the game, the Iridium United Empire established by Bai Zhongqi in the game has occupied 171 star systems, has 205 administrative planets, the largest fleet in the galaxy, and is extremely proud of its technological prowess. And this game only showed its charm at this time, even with so many planets and units, the game still runs relatively fast, and Bai Zhongqi can still find interesting things in the game from time to time, including the exploration of outer space, new and interesting cosmic civilizations, and some events within the empire.

Bai Zhongqi, who has a good patience, just keeps playing, the vast galaxy has hundreds of billions of stars, maybe Bai Zhongqi will not be able to completely dominate the galaxy like the name of this game in his life, but Bai Zhongqi is very curious and wants to know when he will get tired of playing this game.

After defeating the Snail Mosquito Star civilization, the Iridium people have become invincible in their own star domain, and Bai Zhongqi, who farmed the fields, has been constantly expanding the territory of the United Empire, establishing Iridium colonies on habitable planets one by one. He sent a large number of exploration fleets to search for new star systems that were valuable for colonization or development. This is also an activity that excites him, because no one knows what kind of places these exploration fleets will go, what civilizations they will encounter, and what kind of stories will happen.

Even though the exploration operation was carried out hundreds of times, surprises kept appearing, which made Bai Zhongqi can't help but look forward to the next surprise being even bigger.

"Ding, Führer, I regret to report to you that the R19 exploration fleet sent by the Empire has lost contact with its home planet after passing through a strange wormhole, and pays tribute to the loyal soldiers and pioneers of the Empire."

Bai Zhongqi saw this system prompt and felt a little novel. He opened the fleet panel, and sure enough, there was one less in the exploration fleet group, of course, this was only a small part of the huge starfleet of the Iridium United Empire, although it included a capital ship built by the Empire's latest technology, but for Bai Zhongqi, even the capital ship was a simple consumable. In the previous war with Snail Mosquito, in two hundred planetary years, the Iridium United Empire lost a total of more than 300 capital ships, and even lost a Titan ship. Of course, the losses suffered by Snail Mosquito were even greater, the entire civilization was destroyed, more than 2,000 capital ships were destroyed, and hundreds more ended up as trophies of Iridium, and most of them were eventually demolished.

Being sunk by enemy ships, encountering cosmic astronomical disasters, and even being robbed by interstellar pirates, Bai Zhongqi has seen all these things, but he has never seen the situation of losing contact with the home planet. You must know that as early as the early stage of the Snail Star War, Bai Zhongqi had already pointed out the technology tree of quantum communication to the United Empire, and a large amount of information and intelligence were transmitted in a quantum entangled state in the universe, no matter how many light years apart, the information sender and receiver transmitted information synchronously, there was no time delay, and there was no situation that could not be transmitted. It is precisely because of this technology that the United Empire of Iridium has been able to rule hundreds of star systems and tens of thousands of colonies under different names and situations more firmly than ever.

Bai Zhongqi inquired curiously, but he didn't have a clue, and no follow-up events were triggered, so Bai Zhongqi gradually lost interest.

At this time, the doorbell of Bai Zhongqi's house rang.

Bai Zhongqi frowned, unswerving. As a person with a big homely nature, I don't like strangers to come to the door, and the sound of the doorbell is very loud, which will startle Bai Zhongqi, who focuses on liver games or writing papers. In this neighborhood, the guy who usually rings the doorbell is either a Salvation Army missionary who pouts "God and Science," a politician who asks you to vote for him during the election, or a salesman who sells a mess.

Of course, there may also be a courier guy.

Bai Zhongqi jumped out of his swivel chair and walked to the living room to open the door. The moment he opened the door, Bai Zhongqi regretted a little, regretting that he was too sloppy in his dress. Bai Zhongqi himself is not thin, he belongs to the slightly fat world, although he does not have a big belly, and his body is thick and well-proportioned, but the whole person looks soft and soft. His half-length hair was too haphazard, not much of a hairstyle, he wore a large old T-shirt with a little stain on his stomach that could not be washed off, a pair of big shorts with the same big Batman pattern, and a pair of flip-flops on his feet...... (Cover your face.)

If it weren't for Bai Zhongqi's relatively white skin and delicate facial features, this person's appearance would simply not be commendable.

Faced with any courier brother or Democratic Party congressional candidate, Bai Zhongqi didn't bother to care about his image. But in front of him is his own goddess, the school girl who lives next door, the girl who has been secretly in love for a year.

It is not for nothing that Bai Zhongqi is ashamed of himself, even if the school girl in front of him is dressed very homely, it is difficult to hide her appearance. She is about 1.68 meters tall, neither tall nor short, but her body proportion is abnormally good, plus she is wearing a pair of relatively short sports shorts, and two white straight long legs are dangling in front of her. is also a T-shirt that looks a little big, the school girl is dressed very decently, and even wears a hint of laziness, the loose clothes are slightly tightened on the chest, and an incomplacent curve appears, Bai Zhongqi is difficult not to pay attention to. And the pretty face of the school girl made Bai Zhongqi, a boy who was not young and had a little love experience, still couldn't help but beat faster.

A goose egg face that is suitable for disgust and joy, the eyes are not particularly big, and the natural lying silkworm is lined with round apricot eyes, shining, and the crescent moon is completed when you smile, which makes people drunk. The straight nose is neither high nor low, and it looks very soft. A little lip without lip gloss is bright and charming. The skin is white and delicate, and it seems that even the pores cannot be seen. is different from those bewitching Internet celebrity faces on the Internet, everything is so natural and kind, there is no trace of carving, and it is so clean that people are only willing to hold it carefully in their hands, like precious porcelain for fear of bumping.

At this time, the younger sister was wearing anti-scald gloves in both hands, holding a big baking tray, looking cute, and greeted Bai Zhongqi with a smile.

"Senior, haha, I didn't go out to play during the holidays, just right, I baked a lot of biscuits, and I definitely can't solve it myself, so I ask the senior to help me eat some." Her mouth is crisp and delicate, and just listening to the voice seems to feel her voice laughing.

What kind of girl is more attractive than a good-looking girl?

The answer is a good-looking girl who is particularly virtuous and likes to bake.

Bai Zhongqi was a little embarrassed to reach out to pick it up, and the senior sister shouted: "It's hot, don't take it, I'll bring it in for you." ”

Bai Zhongqi was slightly embarrassed, and turned sideways to let the younger sister in from outside the door, and his nose smelled a fragrant wind caressing.

The school girl carefully placed the baking tray on top of the electric stove, because the surface was not afraid of burning. Then he took off his gloves and casually glanced at the living room of Bai Zhongqi's house, his crescent eyes were crooked, and he smiled: "Senior, your house is really clean, it doesn't look like a boy's house." ”

Even if Bai Zhongqi has twelve points of cleverness at this time, he only has half a point left in front of the girl he likes, and he doesn't know much about talking at all, so he can only continue: "Ah, I'll just clean up when it's dirty." ”

And then.

No more, Bai Zhongqi couldn't continue talking, and the senior sister was not a particularly talkative girl, the two appeared for about four or five seconds of embarrassing time, and then the senior sister said: "Senior, eat while it's hot, I'll go back." ”

"Hey, okay, thank you, Kathy." Bai Zhongqi thanked him, and it is more common for international students to call English names than Chinese names, and the younger sister is called Han Jiaxue, English name Katherine, nickname Kathy.

The younger sister walked out of the door with a smile, and Bai Zhongqi sent her out, still quite wooden. They are completely next door, on the second floor of a low-rise apartment, and because the terraces are connected, they can't look up and look down.

Seeing the schoolgirl enter his apartment, Bai Zhongqi's remorse immediately overflowed. He likes Han Jiaxue for more than a day or two, but he lacks the courage to ask this girl every time. In his opinion, Han Jiaxue has a good appearance, good figure, and even a good family background, and can use some luxury goods that are not particularly outrageous, but he is an ordinary boy from an ordinary middle-class family, and he is not very tall or handsome, no matter how he thinks Han Jiaxue, he should not be able to take a fancy to himself.

Bai Zhongqi looked at the cookies that were still steaming, shook his head, and said in his heart: "In the end, I just like people to be good-looking, and she has a gentle personality, a good temper, and can cook, that's all an excuse." Such a girl, it's not something I can catch up, so don't humiliate yourself.

Thinking about these somewhat stuffing things, he reached out and grabbed a hot biscuit and stuffed it into his mouth, and his mood became worse.

Because the biscuits are delicious, the schoolgirl's craftsmanship is really good. Thinking that such a good girl will never get it herself, there is really nothing more heart-wrenching than this.