Brainoid

Qi Min took the subway to the Capital Airport, but his flight arrived an hour earlier than expected.

She was sitting in a fast food restaurant in the T3 terminal of the Capital Airport, waiting and using the WIFI here. The WIFI speed at this point was pretty good. She opened the chicken game and found that Hua Ruiming was also online.

If you catch up with acquaintances online, you must form a team. After forming a team, Qi Min asked Hua Ruiming in the voice: "It's a big weekend, why are you still here playing with your mobile phone?"

"There is no weekend, and we are still in the laboratory." Hua Ruiming said with a smile, "Have you finished the experiment?"

"I didn't schedule much experiments today." Qi Min replied. After listening to Zhang Zhiyong's complaints, she also felt that it was a bit miserable to be a PI and a postdoc at the same time. It seems that she will have to arrange the time plan for animal experiments in the future. She always misses lunch like this, not to mention that Ke Li is always working at a high intensity. Even she, an assistant and fisherman, can't stand it.

"You are so lucky. Now we are doing drug verification. As long as someone uses rats, I have to watch in the animal room." Hua Ruiming said with a smile, "Which picture to choose?"

"Well... let's go to the desert." Qi Min chose casually, "Just jump to a garbage dump."

If playing chicken in a single row or in a double row with two blacks, Qi Min generally tends to first jump to a place with few people to find equipment, and then find a place to hide in order to reduce unnecessary movement. Hua Ruiming didn't insist on dragging her into a fight. They found a car and went to a small house area, hid the car behind the house, and then went to another house next door to sleep on the second floor.

"Here is a six-fold mirror, do you want it?" Hua Ruiming asked Qi Min.

"No need, I have a six-power lens." Qi Min said while dragging his field of view to look out the window.

"Then do you have an eight-fold mirror?" Hua Ruiming asked again.

"No." Qi Min asked, "Why, do you have more?"

"Here you go, I'm an average sniper." Hua Ruiming threw out the eight-power scope.

Qi Min picked it up automatically, but threw it to him again: "You don't have to look for it if you just stay in the house like this. There is no difference between us using a sniper."

Hua Ruiming didn't say anything and picked up the eight-fold mirror again. After a while the circle shrunk, but they were still in the circle. It seems like I'm lucky this time.

"Hey, what are you doing now?" Hua Ruiming asked suddenly.

"I'm waiting for my boyfriend at the airport." Qi Min replied, "But it's early."

"Is your boyfriend coming to Beijing?" Hua Ruiming asked casually.

Isn't this obvious? Qi Min didn't know how to answer: "Yes."

"Why are you so late and you have to pick me up?" Hua Ruiming said with a smile.

Normally, if a boyfriend buys a plane ticket and has to pick him up in the middle of the night, the girl will probably feel a little uncomfortable after hearing this. But Qi Min bought Anton and Mimi's air tickets. She also knew that if she didn't pick them up, she would probably not be able to find her home just by relying on Google Translate and spoken directions. . The subway was out of service in the middle of the night and she had to pick people up at the airport. Didn't she ask for this?

"There's nothing we can do about it. We've come here, so we can't go back." Qi Min said half-jokingly, "There is a vehicle passing by here - don't shoot, let him pass."

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Maybe it’s because at this time of the weekend there are mostly Internet-addicted teenagers playing, so Qi Min and Hua Ruiming only made it into the top five in duo queue. Both of them were shot in the head from a distance during the final lap, and it was obvious that the other was a master.

Because this game lasted so long, Qi Min looked at his watch after the game and saw that it was almost the time for Anton and Mimi's flight to land, so he said, "It's almost time, I'll get off first."

"Well, see you later." Hua Ruiming also said.

Then Qi Min downloaded the game, opened her email interface using the built-in email APP on her phone, and watched the SCIENCE news she subscribed to for a while.

After it was almost time, Qi Min walked to the exit and waited. He casually browsed through his circle of friends out of boredom. After a while, he saw a group of people carrying large and small bags and dragging their luggage out of it.

Anton and Mimi would probably not be the first people to come down. Qi Min waited patiently, and sure enough, after everyone had almost walked out, he saw a tall young man with curly black hair carrying a large mountaineering bag, holding a bunch of pink-blue rice in his right hand, and holding it with his left hand. An incomparably huge piece of luggage, it was quite difficult to get out of it.

Qi Min didn't expect that he would bring such a large piece of luggage. It looked like he had the largest suitcase and a full duffel bag tied together. Sure enough, it’s “just enough money for the consignment”. Isn’t this too much money?

Qi Min stepped forward and said in surprise: "Why did you bring so many things?"

"Shh, Mimi is asleep." Anton warned in a low voice and glared at her.

Qi Min originally wanted to take the airport bus, but now he can only take a taxi.

She took the luggage dragged by Anton's left hand and walked towards the taxi stand, but Anton held her back: "Where to go? Isn't the subway over there - it says SUBWAY."

There were English signs on the airport signs, so he had no trouble reading them.

"The subway has finished get off work, we have to take a taxi back." Qi Min explained.

"How expensive is a taxi?" Anton hesitated.

"If you can afford it," Qi Min said calmly, "Let's go, I'm tired."

The flight had just landed and there were still many people waiting at the taxi stand. It happened that most of the passengers in this wave were returning to their home countries. They were all waiting for the bus home at the airport, and they couldn't wait to chat non-stop.

So Mimi woke up soon after, and when she saw Qi Min, she was very excited and clamored for her mother to hold her. Qi Min had no choice but to hug Mimi and let the little girl freely braid her hair.

"Mom, your hair has grown long." Mimi said in English while playing with Qi Min's hair, "I'll braid it for you."

"Okay...ah." Qi Min was pulled by the hair and touched the little girl's head with some reluctance.

From the corner of her eye, she saw Anton looking at her and smiling. However, when he noticed that she was looking over, he put away his smile and continued to look cold and distrustful.

This detail made Qi Min realize that Anton was not as disappointed in her as he showed.

After all, objectively speaking, everyone has to consider their own interests. From the perspective of evolutionary psychology and economics, Anton has invested too much in her partner. After finally waiting until she had a project and applied for funding, she was finally able to start producing. It would be a huge loss to withdraw at this time.

Moreover - Qi Min thought narcissistically - she is such an interesting and principled, gregarious but original Bolshevik who works seriously and lives a happy life. How can she be denied her whole person just because of one mistake?

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