Chapter 37 – The Sinking Fish in the Forum

“Eh? We’re home!”

Asaba Rika was surprised to see her at home. She felt like a little train, walking around eating and eating and then walking home without noticing.

“Now that you’ve been dropped back at school, you should be able to walk back yourself, right?”

Shen Yu has never been so tired. His dad always wanted him to be a teacher, but he didn’t want to do this hard work. The main reason is that he is too smart to teach silly students, because he can write the answer to a simple equation at a glance, but if he teaches others, he has to break it down to each step.

It is a very awkward thing for a learner to do. For example, 12345612, in Shen Yu’s opinion, is no different from 22, both are straightforward to write the answer for, and you asking him to give the process of solving the problem is as troublesome as asking him why 22 would equal 4.

“On my own? Walking home from school?”

“Is there a problem?”

“Mmm.”

Asaba Rika’s face is stony.

Shen Yu is deep in thought.

Trying to control his emotions, he asked a different question, “So do you know how to get from the school gate to the place where the sugar cane is sold?”

Asaba Rika immediately perked up and Shen Yu felt as if a small light bulb had gone off above her head as she snapped a finger and exclaimed, “I know this one!”

“What about walking from the place where they sell sugar cane to the place where they sell duck necks?”

“I know this one too!”

Shen Yu asked down in turn, and it was good to see that Asaba Rika still had a chance to salvage her memory, at least from each place she ate to each place she ate.

But if you ask her, in her mind, to string these places together to form a conscious map of space from school to home, she can’t do it.

This confusing sense of map is also reflected in her cartoons, for example, in the story of the Qin Dynasty, it is clear that she is going north from Qian Zhong to Xian Yang, but when Xian Yang returns to Qian Zhong, she is still going north, and she has falsely created a multi-dimensional spatial and temporal location in a two-dimensional world.

But the good news is that Asaba Rika’s fans are just as dumb as she is, so naturally no one would notice such details, and even if they did, it doesn’t matter, the earth is round after all.

The gate to the courtyard opens and Shen Yu and Asaba Rika walk in.

It was a nice day, a cloudy September day with sunshine and cloud shadows intermingling.

Bai Xiaomeng is lying on a stone table in the courtyard, sunbathing for a little while, about to melt, when he hears the door open and lifts his head to glance at it, meowing lazily, waiting for him to carry the sunburned kitten inside.

“You’re still in the sun, you’re suffering from heat stroke!”

“Meow.”

Shen Yu picks Bai Xiaomeng up off the table and carries him inside.

When I came out I took a broom and swept the broken weeds from the yard into a pile along with yesterday’s.

Su Zhifu must have been here in the morning after school because she hadn’t finished pulling the weeds yesterday, but today she worked for another hour and got the yard cleaned up.

“Wow, Puffs is amazing, it’s all plucked clean!”

Asaba Rika also took a look at some of the corners and there was not a single weed to be seen, except for some fluffy moss.

“She’s also the most active in farm work.”

Shen Yu washed his face, rinsed his mouth and went to the hall on the ground floor to start work.

A while ago, I took on a small project to help a company to do an app to assist in face recognition function module, mainly about the precise positioning and tracking of facial area location, when the deadline was quoted as seven days, 20,000 yuan, but Shen Yu less than two days to get it done, not in a hurry to deliver, only yesterday submitted on.

After all, if the time is too short, the other party will inevitably feel that the price is not worth it and that it is a job taken by an individual who will more or less pressurise the price next time.

The company there tested it and was satisfied, and the final payment was settled in the morning.

Seeing Shen Yu at work, Asaba Rika left him alone, having already placed an order online for some goldfish and marigold seeds and some other flowering plants suitable for autumn sowing.

Looking at the delivery information, it will probably arrive this afternoon, and I’m in the yard at the moment thinking about how to plan the location of the planting.

There are flower ponds in the courtyard, but they are all empty now, except for the walking paths, and the perimeter of the fence is all bare ground, so large that it would be good to grow vegetables, not to mention flowers.

The clouds in the sky drifted away again, and the afternoon sun fell, so Asaba Rika’s face was red and hot after a while, so she had to go upstairs to draw cartoons.

“Shen Yu, I’m going up.”

Asaba Rika speaks softly to Shen Yu at the door of the ground floor.

Shen Yu didn’t look up, but gave a low muffled response and she went upstairs on her own.

Asaba Rika is not used to taking a nap, sometimes she gets very sleepy and will just lie on the table and doze off. Unlike many people who are involved in art, she prefers to work in the quiet of her room in the afternoon.

Bai Xiaomeng also followed her upstairs to look at the book.

Shen Yu rarely looks at his phone when he is working, the vibrate and ringer are off and only the breathing light is on, but generally he works with his phone on his desk on the reverse side.

It was nearing the time when he had to go to class in the afternoon before he picked his phone up, the breathing light blinking.

It’s an qq message.

Mr. Lee, Character Technology: Mr. Sinker, are you free lately? I have a rather large job, can you take it?

Shen Yu is a nickname used by Shen Yu on the forum, and no one knows that this well-known big shot is actually just a twenty-year-old sophomore.

Shen Yu is only a sophomore this year and was a senior when he first became known on the forum.

Judging from the technical chapters posted by the sinking fish, and the occasional bubble to answer some of the difficult questions debated on the forum, the general consensus among forum members is that this is at least a thirty-something, not a hair out of place, plaid-shirted bigot who hasn’t had to change in a year.

Shen Yu has received many private messages asking him to work in the forum, and he is paid a lot of money to do so.

But until now, no one on the forum has heard of a major factory where the sinker has gone to work.

In the past five years, the forum has seen a succession of gods, and only the reputation of the sinking fish has grown.

For example, two forum members were arguing about whether the question was a or b. Then someone said that they would know if they asked the sinking fish, and then they all ate him out together, and the sinking fish said it was c. It dawned on everyone that it was c!

This is not an exaggeration, at first Shen Yu’s first year of high school when the forum is very active, after all, at that time he can still learn here, but gradually, as his skills have increased, the people in this have not been able to keep up with him, Shen Yu sent to the question basically no one can give to get help, so the time to soak in the forum is less and less.

Many programmers on the forum take on private work here, and Sinker is no exception. Although he is an all-rounder, he doesn’t take on everything, and some people have counted his next private posts, which are basically AI-related.

The AI field naturally needs no introduction, and the sinking fish in the eyes of the crowd is becoming more and more mysterious and cavalier.

If one day there is a news item about some sensational over-the-top AI product launch and then some man in his thirties but looking like he’s fifty, wearing a plaid shirt and with a bald head, tells everyone on camera that I’m a sinker.

The altar boys won’t be surprised at all.