Chapter 21 Opening the Door, Census
Han Yi, who had been addicted to games for several days, finally took advantage of the update of "Ten Continents" to accompany his sister to get her hair done - it was said that she would go to the movies with her sisters in the afternoon and play script-killing games all night, and warned him not to tell her parents.
As the person with the lowest status in the family, Han Yi could only wait with dark circles under his eyes for an hour while Miss Han put on makeup before she came out.
"No, you were just sitting there playing with your phone while you were getting your hair done. Why did you have to ask me to accompany you?"
Han Yi looked puzzled and raised a meaningless protest.
Miss Han didn't even take her eyes off the phone screen, and said as a matter of course: "I'll ask you to pay!"
Han Yi took a deep breath and said, "Okay, okay, I'll pay for you. Can I go back to sleep now?"
Miss Han reluctantly made an ambiguous sound: "Emm..."
Han Yi skillfully clicked on the yellow kangaroo on his phone: "I'll order you another cup of milk tea for takeout, is that okay?"
"OK!"
While placing an order for milk tea, Han Yi couldn't help but mutter, "What sin have I committed to deserve a father like you..."
Miss Han raised her voice and said, "Hmm?"
"Well, I'm so sleepy. I ordered some milk tea for you. I'm going to go back and catch up on my sleep!"
After he finished speaking, Han Yi didn't give his sister any time to react. He walked out of the barber shop in two steps, as if there was a ferocious beast chasing him.
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After finally returning home, Han Yi turned on the air conditioner and just took out an ice cream from the refrigerator when he heard a knock on the door.
It’s strange, normally no one would come to visit, even friends, now who would come over without calling or sending messages in advance!
Although he was confused, Han Yi, a grown man, didn't think of any horror stories, so he asked loudly, "Who is it?"
Then, a faint and unclear strange sound came from outside the door, and then a middle-aged female voice with full energy answered: "Open the door, it's the household census!"
"Household census?"
This was the first time Han Yi had encountered such a thing in his life, but he had heard of it before.
However, household census doesn’t seem to be conducted very often. Han Yi didn’t think much about it and opened the door while holding the ice cream.
But what caught his eye was a middle-aged woman with short hair who looked very kind and amiable. Her temperament was quite similar to that of his professor who taught political science in college. Behind her were three tall and strong young men, all of whom stood straight with their heads held high, just like... just like during a military parade...
"You...you guys," Han Yi instinctively sensed something was wrong and stuttered, "No, no, no, you guys, you guys are taking the census?"
"My dear classmate, we are from... My last name is Wang, and this is my ID. You can call me Aunt Wang." Aunt Wang smiled amiably, then took out a slightly scary ID and said, "We came here specifically to see you. I just made a little joke, I hope you don't mind. It's like this, we have a research project that needs your participation. Of course, it's voluntary, but in addition to the bonus, we will also give you a certain amount of credits, so I still hope you can consider it."
"I, here, up there?"
Han Yi was stunned for a moment, then he became alert again: "Are you guys scammers?" Aunt Wang was amused by Han Yi's straightforward question. She was not angry, and still said with a smile: "Hahaha, little classmate is very vigilant, which is a good thing. In this way, you can call your counselor and ask him. He should have received the notice and can confirm what I said."
"Oh, oh, let me ask..."
Han Yi, who had never experienced such a thing, had a complete brain shutdown. He subconsciously followed Aunt Wang's instructions and took out his cell phone. Unexpectedly, as soon as he turned on the screen, he received a call from his counselor.
The sudden ringing of his cell phone made him very flustered. With a click, the ice cream in his hand fell to the ground.
In an instant, Han Yi was so embarrassed that he wanted to dig a hole and bury himself.
But under the pressure of the urgent ringing, he still pretended to be calm and answered the phone. While talking to the counselor, he threw the ice cream, which he had not even had time to take a bite of, into the trash can with grief.
"Hello? Ah? Ah! Zundujidu? Ah???"
After imitating the goose's call for a while, Han Yi hung up the phone in confusion, and then looked at Aunt Wang even more confusedly, revealing a clear look that seemed uncontaminated by knowledge.
Aunt Wang smiled more cordially, looking a bit like the aunt who changed the bed sheets for Han Yi, who was eight years old and still wet the bed. She said, "How about this, little classmate? Let us in first, and I'll introduce you to the specific content?"
Han Yi seemed to have just woken up from a dream. He pushed the door open and apologized repeatedly: "Excuse me, excuse me, please come in! Um, what would you like to drink? There is... uh,"
Han Yi paused for a moment, then added with a guilty conscience: "There are ice cola, ice orange juice and... um, milk drinks... and Oreos and cucumber chips..."
Aunt Wang sat on the sofa very naturally and waved to Han Yi: "Little classmate, don't be busy yet. We all had lunch before we came here. Let's talk about this project first. Come, sit down first."
"Oh, okay..."
Han Yi sat very stiffly on the sofa, which had usually touched almost every part of his body, with a very standard sitting posture.
Then, Aunt Wang winked at the people who came with her, and two of them immediately opened the two metal boxes they were carrying. In one box was a strange combination of high-tech items that Han Yi had never seen before. They looked very high-end. One of them looked very much like the WIFI router installed at home, but it had a lot more antennas. In the other box, a metal device several dozen centimeters long was taken out. Then, one of the guys took the metal device and began to scan Han Yi's house carefully.
Aunt Wang explained at the right time: "It's like this, the confidentiality level of this project is very high, and not many people in the country know about it, so we have to take all conventional security measures. I hope you can understand."
Han Yi's sitting posture became more and more reserved. He nodded rapidly: "I understand!"
After the man holding the metal device and the man operating the router-like box nodded to Aunt Wang, she pulled out a document from her file bag and said, "Well, we have a basic confidentiality agreement here. You still have to sign it before I explain it to you in detail. Here, take a look."
Han Yi carefully scanned the document, and was so frightened by the long string of scary prefixes that he signed his name without even looking at it. Aunt Wang gently reminded him, "Don't be too nervous, little classmate. Look carefully. This is just a confidentiality agreement for the content of our conversation. There's nothing too exaggerated."
Han Yi obediently looked at the document carefully. As expected, it only mentioned confidentiality instructions such as not to disclose the content of this conversation, etc. The entire document was only two thin pages.
For some reason, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After seeing Han Yi finish reading the documents, Aunt Wang started chatting with him like a neighbor: "Xiao Han should be a sophomore this year, right? It's a good age! I heard that you are good at playing games? Many classmates praised you for your enthusiasm and your ability to play games! I heard from your counselor that even his glory was brought up by you! Many young rabbits (anti-harmony) in our area also play this game,"
As she spoke, she pointed at a serious-looking young man standing beside her and said, "This Xiao Liu is a good breeder. Even though he looks serious now, he often plays with the rabbits in his group (anti-harmony) in private!"
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