Chapter 2 Humans in the eyes of mice

Author: Huozhongwu

Chapter 2 Humans in the eyes of mice

When poor novelists describe new characters, they will habitually start from the description of appearance, and in the description of appearance, the most intuitive parameter is height.

This kind of writer can only draw in blank lines, so it is clumsy.

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The total amount of matter on the earth is limited.

The total amount of matter in the solar system is also limited.

The sun can continue to burn for another four billion years, but the time left for humans is actually much shorter.

Suppose that humans have never been able to master key technologies for interstellar navigation such as unlimited energy and cryonics, but are forced to face the situation of forcibly emigrating to another planetary system.

Or if humans must build an ecological cycle spacecraft powered by a working fluid engine to span the 4.2 light-year distance between the Earth and Proxima Centauri.

This spacecraft must also carry enough technology and materials to help at least 160 people take root on a planet with an unknown environment.

At the same time, this immigrant tribe must be able to reproduce from generation to generation in a closed space with difficulty until it takes root.

Then the size of this spacecraft carrying the fire of civilization will be unimaginable. To propel it like a snail across the starry sky will consume an unimaginable amount of energy and mass.

Is it possible to build such a spacecraft in the lifetime of human civilization?

Will this spacecraft use up all the metal in the solar system and use up the last bit of productivity that the entire human civilization needs to move forward?

But what if humans were reduced to the size of a mouse?

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Zhou You, height 172.9cm, male, age 24, bachelor's degree.

He is an ordinary person who will be drowned on the spot if he is thrown into a crowd.

The height of less than 1.73 meters is indeed not considered tall in today's era, but it is not too short either.

Zhou You shouldn't be particularly concerned about this matter, but...

He didn't understand why after combining the genes of his father, who was 1.83 meters tall, and his mother, who was 1.67 meters tall, they would condense into a 1.73 meter self.

If it weren't for the stubble and slightly naturally curly hair inherited from his father, and the fact that his mother and grandfather had gray hair at a young age, which proved his pure bloodline, he really wanted to secretly take a paternity test to verify it.

Are you your own biological child?

Because of his obsession with height, Zhou You has developed a habit since he was sixteen years old, measuring his height every day after getting up.

He longs for miracles and longs to encounter the legendary secondary development.

But in the blink of an eye, he had graduated from college and was over 24 years old, and the miracle did not happen.

Since he passed the growth period and was admitted to college at the age of nineteen, his height has not increased by even 1 millimeter.

Despite this, he has continued this habit to this day.

This morning, he got up early, washed and dried his hair, and prepared to walk out of the room with full enthusiasm and go to the company.

By the way, although he is just an undergraduate who has just graduated and has been working for less than a year, this house belongs to him.

In his junior year of college, my traveling father came to Rongcheng with 430,000 yuan. He paid 50% of the down payment and bought a house in Nuanshui District, a satellite city 15 kilometers away from Rongcheng, for a total price of 860,000 yuan.

This is a small set of 90 square meters.

The decoration of this house cost 160,000 yuan, and he handled the entire decoration process by himself, including design, purchasing materials, finding workers, supervising work, and acceptance inspection.

While Zhou You was studying in his senior year, he often rode a battery-powered scooter to the construction sites. He worked for seven or eight months, barely finishing the project three months before graduation, but he moved in right after graduation.

Decoration may be a problem for ordinary college students, but as long as they are willing to use their brains, check the information on their own, visit several decoration companies and building materials stores, and talk pretentiously for a few rounds, they can always get what they want.

You need the information you need, and then integrate the information in tables, analyze it piece by piece, integrate your thinking, and then go online to read more tips on decorating pitfalls shared by self-media people, and you can always get it done.

This is exactly what Zhouyou is good at.

For Zhou You, who has been very independent since he was a child, simple decoration is nothing. After all, he has been away from home to study abroad since he was eleven years old. He became self-reliant too early and matured too early. It is hard to say whether he is lucky or unlucky.

He has lived there for nearly a year now, and apart from the slightly longer commute to work, there are no other shortcomings.

Before going out, Zhou You turned his head and saw the vertical height and weight scale placed next to the dressing mirror at the door.

This thing has been listed on a second-hand website by him.

Yes, he was desperate.

He decided to let go and accept the tragic fate of being short and short.

Forget it, the last time.

Zhou You gritted his teeth and made up his mind.

From now on, I will never measure my height again.

He took off his shoes and socks, stood on the weighing platform, picked up the height ruler, raised it above his head, and slowly pressed it down until his hair was flattened.

Then, he didn't even want to look up at the data.

There is no doubt that it is still 172.9.

It has been like this since four years ago.

What's the suspense? What's the difference between watching and not watching? He has this confidence in himself!

But his long-standing habit still made him raise his eyelids a little.

Um?

There are changes.

But why is it 172.8?

Zhou You pressed his fingers firmly on the height ruler and shook his head violently, thinking that he had made a mistake. After calming down for a while, he stared at it again.

Instead of growing even a little taller, I actually became a millimeter shorter.

There must be something wrong!

Zhou You is actually a very calm person at ordinary times, and he can always handle things properly and analytically.

He also has a very careful plan for his life, and so far every step has been taken steadily. However, due to his parents, height has become his obsession, and he cannot get rid of it or throw it away.

Lose.

Now he had made up his mind to quit his only bad habit, but unexpectedly he got a slap in the face.

This was really hard for him to understand and he couldn't let it go for a long time.

Finally, before going out, I sighed and thought to myself that it might be an accidental error, and I will measure it again tomorrow.

He took the scale off a second-hand website.

Fifteen minutes later, the traveling car drove out of the community and parked on the side of the road.

As soon as it came to a stop, the passenger door opened and a girl with a ponytail sat in.

The girl is wearing a white bud collared shirt, black slim-fitting pants, and a pair of red running shoes today.

Her name is Shen Ling, she is not Youyou’s girlfriend, but a colleague.

After Shen Ling got in the car, she stood up and put a large square box in the back from the gap between the driver's seat and the passenger seat.

Zhou You glanced sideways and said while starting the car: "Oh, business is booming! I sent another one. Wow! 3080Ti! Flagship card, you made a lot of money, right?"

Shen Ling put on her seat belt and raised her eyebrows, "Of course, what's wrong with the recent mining disaster? It's inevitable that someone will overturn when buying a mining card, and there's no warranty, so it's easy to get into trouble. I'm here to help these people solve their problems."

"Besides, if I don't use my spare time to make some money, how can I support you?" As she said that, Shen Ling took out her mobile phone and transferred two hundred yuan to Zhouyou's WeChat, and then said: "I transferred you, and you can use WeChat later. Remember to collect it.”

"It's okay!" Zhou Youlian rolled his eyes, "This is the fare! It's the sharing economy, shared gas money! What does it mean to support me?"

"Friend, your extended-range hybrid electric vehicle only costs more than 10 cents per kilometer, and it costs less than 10 yuan for a round trip a day. I'll cover it for you."

Zhou You smiled and said: "Last month I said I would take you one hundred a month, but you have to pay two hundred yourself. It's too late to regret it now."

"I'm kidding you, taking the bus to the subway costs 16 yuan for a round trip a day, which works out to more than 300 yuan a month. It's faster to take your car, so I'm embarrassed to pay only 100 yuan."

"You have a conscience," Zhou You hummed, and then asked, "By the way, Shen Ling, do you think repairing a graphics card is difficult?"

"Why, you want to eat this food too?" Shen Ling shook her head, "It's not difficult, it's quite easy."

Zhou You: "Actually, sometimes I feel quite puzzled. You said that you are a lesbian and you did not study this major, so why do you like to do this?"

What you said about Zhou You actually didn’t tell the whole story.

Although Shen Ling has always been bare-faced, she is close to 1.7 meters tall and has delicate facial features. She looks like those bourgeoisie white-collar workers in TV dramas who sit in cafes and drink coffee with their orchid fingers. Who would have thought that this person would look like that? It's against the rules to stay at home after work and work on integrated circuit boards with a soldering iron.

What's even more outrageous is that although Shen Ling is the same age as Zhou You, she is an academic beast who completed her undergraduate degree in three years and her graduate degree in two years.

I heard that she is planning to get a doctorate degree from the University of California, but it is unlikely that she will go abroad to study in two years.

Shen Ling seemed to be recalling something, and said with a smile, "Because my dad, since he was a child, he liked to tinker with radios, TVs, washing machines and the like. Whenever he saw a broken machine, he wanted to fix it himself. My mom often I joked with him, saying that he shouldn't be sitting in an office in a bank, but should be working on chips or something. With his help, maybe our country can overcome the foreign chip blockade!"

Zhou Youyue was happy and asked: "Then what did your father answer?"
To be continued...