I Have Decided to Go Look for My Father

After dinner, Lin Xi returned to her room and buried herself under her blanket.

She had wanted some quiet time to herself.

But a notification chime interrupted her thought process.

It was from the chat group [Battle at the Summit of Tianchuang]that she thought was already “dead”.

It was still just the three of them and the one talking was the group owner.

[AAA]: Bros, what say we come up with a team name first?

[AAA]: What do you think about AXL?

[AAA]: Do think that is too plain? Or we can just call it Battle at the Summit of Tianchuang?

Watching the group owner’s monologue, Lin Xi, “… …”

They didn’t even have a team and he wanted to come up with a team name already?

[X]: Group Owner, I am just here to chat.

[AAA]: Oh, hahaha, that’s fine too.

[AAA]: We can wait on the team name. Let’s talk about the format of the competition.

The competition is divided up into four different areas – environmental friendliness, medical, artificial intelligence, and future technology.

[AAA]: I have an idea in the medical area today – CNC (computer numerical control) Telemedicine. Meaning to rely on initial scanning technology in obtaining information about the patient and pathogen. Such information will then be sent back and compared with existing data in the database. The patient’s status will be evaluated from the terminal and the most scientifically reasonable treatment options will be provided. Finally, administer precise medications on the patient’s end. Of course, as a redundancy, we can have a treatment simulation before pushing it to the patient’s end.

[AAA]: I have given it some thoughts. We can reference Xingrui’s pet-feeding system on the design of the control chip, except more complicated. I had started on it a little.

He tossed a complicated-looking blue print into the chat group.

Lin Xi finished reading the messages from [AAA] and then at the design blue print that she didn’t quite understand. She was a little surprised. She had assumed that he was just a hack but he actually came across as pretty professional.

[AAA]: So what do you think? @all

[X]: Will we also need a huge medical database to back this up?

[AAA]: Bro! I knew you’d get me!

[X]: If that’s the case, should we have an independent storage space for the data? And we can also increase the channels of data transfer in order to increase the efficiency?

Lin Xi wasn’t too certain. She could only understand a small portion of the design draft.

[AAA]: Is this what you are talking about?

[AAA]: Can you circle the location on the drawing?

[X]: Yes.

[AAA]: Good job, Bro! That’s a wonderful suggestion!

[AAA]: Anything else? Anything else? Keep going.

[AAA] was quite pleasantly surprised. He thought she was just a rando to make up headcount but she really seemed to get this and might even be quite good at it.

Had she known what he was thinking, Lin Xi would have told him that: You overthought it. She merely read some books on it and had a general idea.

That being said, Lin Xi still offered some of her insights.

[X]: From the user’s end, we might be able to tag on capturing of expressions, neurosensing, or something along that line that that would provide more detailed information. That ought to help the terminal in providing more precise analysis…

The group owner didn’t respond for quite a while after Lin Xi’s comment.

A whole minute later.

[AAA]: You in the medical field, Bro?

[X]: No.

Lin Xi felt a little intimidated.

[AAA]: That’s a great suggestion. I’ll go add it in in a little while!

***

The two chatted about some more details.

[AAA]: Oh, right, I have been doing all the talking. Do you have any other ideas, Bro? Maybe in some of the other areas? If you have any good ideas, we don’t have to go with this one.

Mainly, he wanted to see how strong this X truly was.

Lin Xi didn’t know what was on his mind. She thought about it some and replied.

[X]: I thought about it some but they weren’t very mature ideas.

[AAA]: Do share.

[X]: For environmental friendliness, can we integrate the current energy saving techniques and, using scientific central control technology, control the main energy-saving methods and combination modes under different conditions at different times.

[X] As for artificial Intelligence, what I can come up with is a companion-style smart system. We will not finalize all of the settings in the beginning. Contrarily, we will retain and allocate a portion of the system for learning. The smart system will adapt and perfect itself according to the users’ specific habits…

Lin Xi’s idea did not involve the technology side at all but it was very do-able. And they were great ideas!

[AAA] responded with: Those are awesome ideas!

Even [Lin], who had been offline, popped up.

[Lin]: Both ideas are quite good. I think it’s worth giving them a try.

[AAA]: Oh mi! The person who had been missing in action showed up.

[Lin]: I just didn’t want to listen to your rambling is all.

[AAA]: Brother X, you got anything else? Something in the future technology area, perhaps?

[X]: No…

Truth was, Lin Xi didn’t have a good grasp on what future technology really was. She had looked it up online before but had yet to find any good definition of it.

They chatted for a little longer before Lin Xi closed out of the chatting application.

[X]: We will chat next time.

[AAA]: Wait, wait, wait. Where are you going?

Lin Xi, “… …” To work on her English assignment.