Qin Miao took Qiu Meng back to the hotel. After digesting what she had eaten at night, Qiu Meng asked Qin Miao to go to the gym downstairs to exercise. She was going to read a book and study the process of applying for a Schengen visa in order to save some money. Time for two.
But at this moment, Qin Miao's cell phone rang.
Qin Miao was a little surprised, because after so many years, few people would contact him in daily life, unless they wanted to borrow money from him.
Taking out his cell phone and taking a look, Qin Miao found that the person contacting him was Zhou Guanyu.
【exist? Do you have time? I’ll treat you to a supper tonight]
Qin Miao raised his eyebrows in surprise, and handed the contents on his phone to Qiu Meng, who was leaning next to him and looking at the screen of his phone.
"Xiao Zhou." After seeing the other party's note, Qiu Meng relaxed and then said, "If you want to go, you can go, but it's still early, so I'll go after you finish exercising."
Qin Miao also knew which was more important, so he nodded and took the phone and replied: [Okay, but I just came back from outside. Today's physical training has not been completed yet. I will have time later]
The other person quickly replied: [Are you working too hard? It made me feel in crisis]
【How about together? (Funny)] Qin Miao smiled and made a joke, then changed clothes and went to the gym downstairs.
【……】
Driving a racing car is an extremely physically demanding sport, and Qin Miao, who has participated in competitions, knows this well.
Therefore, Qin Miao felt that Zhou Guanyu, who ran a total of 50 laps on the track today, would decline his invitation due to lack of physical strength and other reasons.
Unexpectedly...
【OK】
Qin Miao, who was in the elevator, looked at the other party's reply and smacked his lips. Are all these F2 drivers working so hard? After the race, I didn’t take a good rest, but I still had to keep exercising.
[I went downstairs] Qin Miao typed.
[Be there soon] Reply from the other side.
…
The two met again in the gym. Now Zhou Guanyu's mood has obviously adjusted, and he is not as disheartened as he was at the end of the game in the morning.
After the meeting, Zhou Guanyu threw a bottle of mineral water to Qin Miao. Professional drivers basically do not drink carbonated drinks.
Qin Miao did not open it after catching it, but showed Zhou Guanyu the thermos cup in his hand.
This is the bottle of health potion that Qin Miao got in the lottery, and he took it out of the system before entering the elevator.
Although Zhou Guanyu has been living in the UK since he was 14 years old, he is still very familiar with the classic black thermos cup in Qin Miao's hand.
"Why do you feel that after you put on this thermos cup, you have a unique temperament of middle-aged and elderly people?" Zhou Guanyu joked.
Qin Miao rolled his eyes: "What do you know? This is called foresight. Others use a thermos cup to soak wolfberry berries when they are 40 years old. My friend uses a thermos cup to soak wolfberry berries when he is 18 years old. He has made 20 years less detours than others."
But before Zhou Guanyu could say anything, Qin Miao changed the subject and said, "I have good news for you."
Zhou Guanyu found an open space to warm up and said, "You tell me."
"I'm your junior."
Zhou Guanyu looked at Qin Miao in confusion. He didn't understand the meaning of Qin Miao's words for a while: "Junior? What junior?"
Qin Miao said: "Did you belong to the Ferrari Driver Academy before?"
Zhou Guanyu nodded and said: "Yes, I joined the Ferrari Driver Academy in about 2014, when I was only 15 years old."
At this point, Zhou Guanyu's eyes widened suddenly, and then he looked at Qin Miao and asked in disbelief: "Did you also join the Ferrari Driver Academy?"
Qin Miao smiled and snapped her fingers: "Smart."
Zhou Guanyu looked at Qin Miao who was smiling but hesitated to speak.
Zhou Guanyu, who has worked at Ferrari, knows that Ferrari is indeed a team with a profound heritage. It is also the only team that has not missed any F1 Grand Prix so far. Their supercars are even more famous around the world.
But their youth training system is really hard to describe in Zhou Guanyu's opinion.
The reason why Zhou Guanyu switched from the Ferrari youth training to the Renault youth training is mainly because there are too many people in the Ferrari youth training, which has led to a situation within the Ferrari youth training that there is too much and too little.
That's okay, but Ferrari's main resources are all invested in their prince. Ordinary people like myself and Qin Miao who have no backstage at Ferrari are basically studying with the prince to stand out? Without resources to train, how can you get ahead?
Zhou Guanyu deliberately wanted to persuade Qin Miao to leave the fire pit of Ferrari, but at this time, the relationship between Zhou Guanyu and Qin Miao could only be described as friends who could talk to each other, and they would not have any worries if they invited each other to dinner together. .
But when it comes to major life events and practical interests of the other party, with the relationship between Zhou Guanyu and Qin Miao, there is really no way to advise the other party.
So after hesitating for a while, Zhou Guanyu did not express his truest thoughts, but asked: "What's going on? Why did you join Ferrari so well?"
Qin Miao didn't notice the strange look on Zhou Guanyu's face and said triumphantly: "Brother, he's very talented. What's the name of the head of Ferrari's youth training? He's the one with curly hair."
"Lawson, Jacquin Lawson." Zhou Guanyu added on the side.
Qin Miao nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, it's him. When he saw me, he said that I was talented and had the air of a general. I would become a great weapon in the future. I would be the best candidate to revitalize Ferrari. If he caught me, that would be a shame." What a compliment.
Then they pulled me and refused to let me go, insisting that I join their Ferrari Driver Academy. "
Speaking of this, Qin Miao also showed a proud smile on his face: "My friend is also too kind, so he simply joined the Ferrari Driver Academy. If nothing else happens, he will officially start his career as a racing driver soon.
Maybe next season we will be able to compete on the track. Then we two brothers will kill each other on the track and show those silly foreigners how powerful our Chinese drivers are. "
Seeing Qin Miao's confident look, Zhou Guanyu couldn't help pouring cold water on him: "With Ferrari's urination, if you are really capable, they will usually arrange to start the race from F3. Only you Only if you perform well in F3 can you be promoted to F2.
In other words, if you want to compete with me on the same stage, it will probably take 21 years. "
Qin Miao's face, which was originally full of confidence, froze when she heard Zhou Guanyu's words, and then asked tentatively: "Are you kidding?"
Zhou Guanyu pointed at his serious expression: "What do you think?"
Qin Miao took a breath of air. After a while, Qin Miao tried to ask: "If I am strong enough during the test, is it possible to go directly to F2 in the first year?"
Zhou Guanyu said amusedly: "Do you think Ferrari is Red Bull? As long as you have the ability, you can get there.
The management style within the Ferrari team is a bit like that of an old Italian mafia family. They value your qualifications more than your ability.
So after joining Ferrari's youth training, don't think about anything else. Just improve yourself and slowly gain qualifications. "
Qin Miao, who was originally overjoyed because he got the driver's contract from the Ferrari Driver Academy, immediately fell into a low mood.
"Damn it, why is Ferrari still so bureaucratic?"
Zhou Guanyu just smiled when he heard Qin Miao's words.
Then he handed the dumbbells in his hand to Qin Miao and said: "Okay, don't complain. Even if you have to pass the qualifications, you have to be strong enough to survive within Ferrari. Let's train."
Qin Miao sighed and took the dumbbell plate from Zhou Guanyu.
Since there is not enough time today, and Zhou Guanyu's match today did consume a lot of energy, the training volume of the two is not full, only half of the usual amount.
So the two of them took a shower and left the gym an hour later.
"What should I say? What entertainment activities do you recommend?" Qin Miao asked after the two came out.
The two of them had just exercised vigorously, and it was not suitable to eat at this time. What they should do was to rest for a while before eating midnight snacks.
As someone who settled in the UK a long time ago, Zhou Guanyu is actually quite familiar with some entertainment venues in the UK. However, after looking at Qin Miao’s immature face, he did not take him to some places not suitable for children, but asked : "How about going to the movies?"
Qin Miao rolled her eyes: "Brother, I'm an adult. Adults should play some adult things at night! What does watching a movie sound like?"
Zhou Guanyu was surprised: "According to what you said, do you have any ideas?"
Qin Miao smiled and said, "That's right, let's go, my brother will take you to see the world."
Zhou Guanyu cursed in his heart: I have been coming to the UK since I was 14 years old, and it has been almost 6 years now. What part of the world have I not seen?
Twenty minutes later, Zhou Guanyu looked at the sign in front of him with his mouth twitching.
The name of this store is Cyberia.
Many people may not understand the meaning of Cyberia. Literally translated, it means the online world.
Localized translation: Internet cafe.
"Is this what adults should do?" Zhou Guanyu turned to Qin Miao with a look of astonishment on his face.
Qin Miao said matter-of-factly: "Yes, in China, if you are underage, you can't go to an Internet cafe to surf the Internet, let alone stay up all night.
Now that my buddy is an adult, and no one is looking after me abroad, I also want to experience what my classmates say it is like to stay up all night in an Internet cafe. "
Zhou Guanyu felt truly speechless for a moment.
What have these young people in China experienced in recent years, and why do I feel like I can’t keep up with their brain circuits?
But before he could say anything, Qin Miao couldn't wait to open the door and walked in.
Because there are no such things as ID cards in the UK, they do not need to show these things when going online, they can just pay money directly.
Qin Miao was quite generous in this regard. He opened two machines that could last all night, and bought a bottle of coffee for Zhou Guanyu. Anyway, Qin Miao didn't lack the money now.
Zhou Guanyu followed Qin Miao into the Internet cafe with a ridiculous look on his face.
Then the two randomly found two locations and turned on two machines.
In fact, Zhou Guanyu usually plays games. Even because he has relatively few friends abroad, Zhou Guanyu's main entertainment activity on weekdays is also video games.
This is why after Qin Miao brought him to the Internet cafe, he did not choose to leave but followed Qin Miao into the Internet cafe.
Although Qin Miao couldn't understand most of the text on the computer, the Internet cafes all used Microsoft's operating system, and the general operation logic was similar, so Qin Miao didn't have many obstacles in using it.
"What games do you usually play?" Qin Miao asked when choosing a game.
After all, he was abroad. Qin Miao felt that Zhou Guanyu could not enjoy playing domestic games as much as he did before, so he asked casually.
Zhou Guanyu opened Steam and said: "Usually it's "Asseto Corsa" and "F1 2019", but now it's mainly "CSGO"."
Qin Miao raised an eyebrow: "You also play CSGO? Our game libraries overlap quite a lot, and I often play these three games.
But there is no requirement to play Assetto Corsa in the Internet cafe, GO, right? "
Zhou Guanyu is incompetent.
It may be embarrassing to say it, but this is the first time Zhou Guanyu has sat and played games in an Internet cafe with his friends in real life.
After entering the game, Qin Miao couldn't help but marvel at the extremely expensive jewelry in Zhou Guanyu's warehouse.
"How much did these accessories cost?" Qin Miao asked curiously.
"Not much, maybe thirty or forty thousand." Zhou Guanyu acted normally.
Qin Miao was just about to sigh that the other party was really rich, but suddenly he remembered that he seemed to have more than 900,000 yuan in cash in his bank card now...
So Qin Miao shut up.
After entering the game together, the two started killing each other.
After all, both of them are professional drivers. Drivers, like e-sports players, are a profession that requires high reaction speed. They have quick reactions. In addition, they often play games and have good positioning skills.
So the two of them were killing each other along the way to the points, and because they were having so much fun, they gradually forgot about time.
After all, they are both young people. One is 18 years old and has just grown up, and the other is 20 years old and is still a child. These two people happen to be at a particularly playful age.
Both parties discovered that their game tastes were almost exactly the same as the other party's, and it was also the first time that someone played games with them in an Internet cafe.
In the game, you place a package and I set up my gun, you pull me away and I dodge, you are short of money and I shoot you, you bury me with you for free, I laugh at you when you are embarrassed, I cheer you when you win the end game, it’s a short round. After the game, they can fist bump and high-five each other like professional players.
After going back and forth, the relationship between the two people quickly heated up. The cultivation of relationships between men is so simple, rough, and unpretentious.
So when the two of them came to their senses again, it was already more than five hours later.
These five hours and nearly ten games also quickly brought the relationship between the two sides closer, and both sides changed their names for each other.
Qin Miao calls Zhou Guanyu Lao Zhou, and Zhou Guanyu calls Qin Miao Lao Qin.
Although there is a certain age gap between the two of them, they have agreed to discuss things on their own terms.
Moreover, the two of them came back to their senses from the game, not because they were tired from playing, but because Qin Miao's cell phone rang.
He picked it up and saw that it was a call from Qiu Meng.
It was only then that Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu realized belatedly that it was already past 1 a.m.
"Fuck!"
It wasn't until Qiu Meng called him that Qin Miao later recalled that he had not told Qiu Meng that he was going to stay up all night tonight.
Mainly because he didn't expect that time would pass so quickly after being immersed in the game with his friends.
"Lao Zhou, please support me, I'll answer the phone." After patting Zhou Guanyu's shoulder, Qin Miao hung up the phone directly.
(End of chapter)
