Brainoid

It was originally stipulated that students should participate in sports activities during parent-teacher meetings, which was also a way to relax after mid-term. Although Qi Mi can beat most people in her grade when playing table tennis, the school cannot force her to participate in sports activities because of her ankle. Therefore, Qi Mi had time to go out to campus.

She used WeChat to contact Ji Lian and discuss how to find him at their school.

Ji Lian replied: "We are also having a parent-teacher meeting." He sent the location of a fast food restaurant that is about the midpoint of the connection between the two schools, "Make an appointment to meet here?"

Qi Mi replied "OK" and started walking that way.

When she arrived, Ji Lian had been waiting nearby on his bicycle for a while. When he saw Qi Mi coming, he got off the car and locked his bicycle, and then said, "Hey, your school uniforms are quite... um, fashionable."

The brick-and-mortar school that Qi was fascinated by was already quite wealthy twenty years ago. The school uniforms were customized in cooperation with brand manufacturers and came in various styles, many of which were the same as normal clothes except for the LOGO.

But it was still far from what she imagined the upper class would wear. And although their school also has standard uniforms, the quality is really incomparable with the standard uniforms of aristocratic private schools in literary and artistic works that often cost tens of thousands of sets.

It's just that Ji Lian is a child from a working-class family, and the school he attends pursues a retro style of diligence and hard work. When he sees the trendy uniforms of other schools, he is a little envious.

"Let's put this aside, have you been to a brain-like body recently?" Qi Mi asked.

"Of course I have, I go there every day," Ji Lian said, "My mother doesn't care about me anyway."

"What about the black market..." Qi Mi asked quickly.

"Oh, don't worry, there's no need to rush this matter." Ji Lian said in a pretentious manner, and then walked to the door of the fast food restaurant, "Let's go in and talk."

"You want to eat this?" Qi Mi blurted out, having hardly eaten fast food since she could remember, "Eating junk food is not healthy."

Ji Lian had already opened the door, but when he heard what she said, he turned to look at her: "What's wrong with being unhealthy? You are really a young lady, have you never eaten before?"

Being provoked by him, Qi Mi forcefully defended: "Tsk, this is not everywhere on the street, I just don't want to eat it. And eating too much fried food will cause acne."

Qi Mi and Ji Lian walked into the fast food restaurant and sat down, concealing themselves and ordering two cups of ice cream and milk tea. Then Ji Lian said at a volume that only the other party could hear clearly: "I haven't encountered Qiu Harvest online in the past two days, but seeing changes in the standings, Qiu Harvest may have already connected with Eqianse."

"Hua Qianshi?" Qi Mi asked.

"Oh, Eqianshi is the number one in the standings who suddenly appeared before. He should be advertising." Ji Lian explained.

"Well, when will the results be available?" Qi Mi asked.

"Hey, miss, don't worry." Ji Lian waved his hand and said, "You can't find anyone to do this full-time for you now. Besides, when it comes to investigating the black market, whether you can get it depends on luck."

He paused and then said: "How about we change it to someone else. The black market is a bit too dangerous, and the Qiu Harvest guy... I really don't know how to deal with it. In my opinion, this kind of thing should be left to professionals. Handled better.”

"Then besides this, can you think of anything else?" Qi Mi asked him.

Ji Lian was silent for a while, but still said: "I don't have anything else for the time being, but this is too...and you are not online, so I really can't do it myself..."

"Come on," Qi Mi said, "You just don't dare to have contact with others."

As soon as she heard this, she knew that Ji Lian was not afraid, but that he didn't know how to deal with Qiu Shuang. It can be seen that Ji Lian is the kind of person who has a hidden social fear when it comes to playing with the keyboard and making waves online, but when it comes to face-to-face social interactions, his head can hardly move.

"You put it lightly. The public areas of the brain-like bodies are full of social people. I don't know where they came from." Ji Lian blushed and retorted, "You will definitely suffer from dealing with them."

Ji Lian's family lived in an old community. When those places were built, class consolidation in China was not so serious. There were middle- and upper-middle-class families living there, some working-class people, and some mixed-race people with little education. He thought he had met all kinds of people, and felt that as long as they were not students or office workers, it was best to stay away.

But Qi Mi has never seen these. The terms "social people" and "three religions and nine streams" activate in her mind the impressions related to other Internet literary works more than 20 years ago. She really wanted to see what real society was like.

"I want to go to the brain-like body. Last time you said I could go to your house?" Qi Mi asked.

Ji Lian hesitated for a moment, wondering if it would be bad for him to take a girl to a bloody place like the Old City: "Well...it doesn't matter if you want to go to the brainoid, but...I suggest you not go to the Old City."

"Why?" Qi Mi asked.

"It was a zombie-fighting game, very bloody." Ji Lian said, "The people who played there were bloody and violent people."

Qi Mi didn't like hearing what he said. Her mother was the first person to go to that place to fight zombies. Qi Mi said a little unhappy: "It's not that bloody. Isn't it just a shooting game?"

"You really want to go?" Ji Lian was a little surprised.

"Of course." Qi Mi wanted to say something like "my mother is a sniper" out of habit, but she couldn't. "I've played a lot of shooting games."

Ji Lian thought that Qi Mi might not be an ordinary person. If he can help Qi Mi ascend to the "Great Unification", can he also be the chief minister of the cabinet in the future?

"Well, I'll take you to my house to play with the brainoid for a while." Ji Lian said, "Anyway, the parent-teacher conference has to be held for a while."

——

Ji Lian took Qi Mi to his home on his bicycle.

Compared with Qi Mi's house, Ji Lian's home is indeed smaller and dilapidated. However, he also said that although it is a second-hand house, the location within the third ring road is not bad. His stepfather always boasts that he bought it right.

"Anyway, this house won't be given to me in the future." Ji Lian pretended to be mature and said, "It must all belong to my brother."

"Hey, where is your brother?" Qi Mi asked, "Isn't he at home now?"

"His grandma takes care of him from Monday to Friday. It is said that it is to be close to the kindergarten." Ji Lian shrugged.

Qi Mi thought about it for a moment. He lived in this house with his mother and stepfather, and his half-brother was given to his grandmother. It was actually not bad. In particular, although this house looks old and small, it is actually of high value and is close to the school. It is the most beneficial to him, but not of much value to his younger brother. But even so, his mother and stepfather still let him live here, so it doesn't seem so bad?

However, Qi Mi did not express this idea, but intuitively thought that his mother might not be that indifferent to him.

Qi Mi looked at Ji Lian’s parents: It feels okay...

Ji Lian looked at Qi Mi's parents: What's wrong? ? ?

One of the four essences of human beings (mistaken)