The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 2521: Xiao Xiao Down (5)

Chapter 2521: Xiao Xiao Down (V)

Watching Merkel leaving, Anna and Victor, who were in Anna's office, stuck their heads out and looked in the direction of Schiller's office.

“Why is Merkel gone?”

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of a vacuum cleaner was heard in Schiller's office. Victor was surprised and asked, "What's going on? Isn't Schiller cleaning by himself?"

"It's hard for me to imagine how he can work in a suit." Anna shook her head and looked away, returning to the office. Victor followed her, took out his phone, looked at it and said, "Nora will come over to bring us lunch later. She packed some food at the seafood restaurant we went to before."

"It seems like your financial situation isn't that bad. You can even afford to eat at a restaurant of that level."

"Because the restaurant is about to close down." Victor said helplessly, "Their boss reduced the price and had a big sale. Since the food was pretty good, we went there a few more times."

Then he looked out the door again and said, "Don't you think our Professor Schiller has changed a lot? Do you think he would have accepted the move so easily before?"

Anna shook her head. The answer was of course no, because Schiller was very uncomfortable when he moved from a collective office to an independent office.

For example, every morning when he arrived at school he had to walk around his original desk in the collective office, like he did countless mornings. He would first fold up a piece of paper that had been placed on the desk the day before, put the pen back into the pen holder, turn around to press the time clock, and when he came back he would pull out a chair and sit down.

But after that he had to stand up and go back to his office, and the only things left on his desk were a piece of paper, a pen and a chair, which he needed to do so.

In order to accommodate his obsessive-compulsive behavior, no one moved his desk, so that because of this, there was an empty space in the office, and another professor who didn't want to squeeze with his original colleagues still had to squeeze with other colleagues after moving in.

It’s not that no one has thought about persuading Schiller, but Schiller seemed to be completely unconscious, and out of consideration for his colleagues, no one brought up the matter.

Before the official move, many professors were worried. Schiller had been able to run back and forth before because the two offices were only separated by a corridor at most, but now the old and new universities are more than an hour's drive apart.

"And 'money'? When have you ever heard Schiller discuss money?" Anna opened her mouth, stared with an exaggerated expression of shock and said, "He even plans to make money himself!"

"If it wasn't so cold, I would have thought it was April Fools' Day." Victor was also obviously shocked. He said: "He does look better. He doesn't look so anxious, which means his obsessive-compulsive behavior has weakened. He can clean the house with a vacuum cleaner by himself, which means his mysophobia has also weakened."

"And he actually plans to open a psychological clinic. Even if he still only accepts a limited number of patients, this is actively establishing connections with strangers. Although I don't know much about psychology, for an autistic patient, this can be called a miracle, right?"

"But I think he still needs help." Anna stroked her chin and said, "He will soon find that the ordinary life he has been pursuing is not that good. It's all trivial and difficult to deal with."

"But it's still a good attempt. If we fail this time, it will be even harder in the future." Victor wiped the dust off the sofa and sat down, then said: "Why do we need to establish connections with others? Isn't it just to help each other when we encounter difficulties? If you don't do this, then being aloof doesn't matter at all."

"If he wants to take the initiative to establish connections with others, he should understand this, and the way is that the people he has established connections with before will help him when he is in trouble. This will make him understand the nature of the connection between ordinary people."

"Maybe it's because we are too weak." Anna sat across from Victor and said, "There is no way to solve a problem by yourself. For example, we have to make time to clean the office and have no time to eat lunch, so we have to rely on your wife to bring us food. This is the simplest example of connecting with others and helping each other."

"Yes, so contact is not just a simple contact. It is not necessary to have contact for a certain goal, but this contact is beneficial to oneself."

"But would it really be good for Schiller to interact with those patients or with us? He seems to be able to handle everything on his own."

"Actually he can't," Victor retorted. "From a macro perspective, he can indeed solve all the big problems, but anyone in this world, even non-human things, maybe angels or something, as long as they live on Earth, can't solve all the problems by themselves, because the entire Earth is a big problem."

"Oh... damn!"

The shout came from Schiller's office. The two men immediately stood up and rushed out. After rushing into Schiller's office, they found that his trouser legs were rolled into the vacuum cleaner.

Friends who have used a vacuum cleaner should know that the handle in front of the vacuum cleaner and the machine itself are connected by a soft tube. In order to facilitate the extension of the front handle and the suction head to various places for cleaning, some tubes can be adjusted in length.

And now, Schiller looked like he had fought with the pipe and lost. The vacuum cleaner head was stuck tightly on his trouser legs, and the poor fabric of his suit pants had been wrinkled.

Anna and Victor rushed over to separate the two of them, and then Schiller was freed. Victor looked back and saw that Schiller was not wearing a suit jacket, but only an ordinary shirt. Just as he said, he had neither suspenders nor cuffs, and the shirt was indeed a little wrinkled.

But it was obvious that Schiller was not in the mood to care about this now. He roughly explained to Victor and Anna what had happened.

Schiller was not so unfamiliar with using a vacuum cleaner, but it had many nozzles, and since he had never used it before, he did not know which cleaning area each nozzle corresponded to.

Of course, judging from the appearance alone, the larger suction head may be used to vacuum the floor, and the smaller one may be used to clean gaps, but there is also the problem that the vacuum cleaner can be adjusted.

The vacuum cleaner used by Merkel is a multi-functional vacuum cleaner specially designed for cleaning manors. It can vacuum both carpets and dirt, but it requires replacing different filters.

The combination of the suction head, gear position and filter is no simpler than a mystical magic circle. It is impossible for someone who uses this thing for the first time to understand it and can only try them one by one.

Schiller didn't clean the room very often, but he knew it was a tiring job. He should clean the sofa first and make a resting space for himself so that he could sit for a while when he was tired of cleaning.

So he picked out a suction head that looked like it could be used on leather sofas, adjusted it to a smaller setting just to be on the safe side, and then started cleaning the dust.

Everything went smoothly at the beginning, and the dust on the surface of the sofa was sucked clean, but the problem was that there were gaps in the sofa, and Schiller had to clean the dust in the gaps, which was the focus of cleaning.

Schiller thought about it, measured the size of the gap, and changed to a smaller brush head, but he forgot to adjust the gear, resulting in a disaster.

As we all know, in unit time, the same amount of air passing through a pipe with a smaller diameter will generate stronger impact and suction. For the large suction head just now, the gear is indeed low, but for this small suction head, to exaggerate a little, even if Jörmungandr gets the scales, it will be pulled out of your hands.

Schiller pushed the suction head into the gap of the sofa, but it wouldn't come out. He didn't dare to pull it hard for fear of damaging the sofa. Finally, after thinking about it, he decided to use the gray mist.

But don’t forget that the normal form of gray fog is weaker than a vacuum cleaner. In the end, the suction head was pulled out, but at that moment, the gray fog was almost completely sucked in.

Fortunately, Schiller reacted quickly and restored his original form, but the result was that his trouser legs were sucked in.

He didn't dare to pull it hard, as the fabric of a suit was much more precious than the surface of a leather sofa. He could only choose to turn off the vacuum cleaner first. However, as the machine was quite far away, he had to walk over with the suction head and the pole at the back, and the tube got tangled in the process. As a result, it looked like he was kidnapped by the vacuum cleaner.

Finally turning off the buzzing vacuum cleaner, Schiller let out a long sigh, then looked at his trouser legs with some heartache.

Although he has quite a few similar suits, considering his current financial situation, the worse the suit, the less he has.

"Are you okay?" Anna supported him and said, "This kind of large vacuum cleaner requires training before use. How dare your housekeeper leave this thing with you?"

"He went back to Moscow," Schiller said, shaking his hands. "I mean, he went back to England to take part in some advanced butler training."

Victor and the others were obviously used to Schiller's occasional nonsense. He walked up and lifted the pole in front of the vacuum cleaner and said, "It's just cleaning an office. There's no need for this kind of industrial vacuum cleaner. It's not your manor. I'll ask Nora to bring a smaller one over later. Let's have lunch first."

Schiller was obviously still a little unwilling, so Victor had to say: "Okay, we can study it together later. I guess it can be used to clean the corridor and the reception area over there."

They went to Anna's office together. Victor and Anna agreed to help her clean the office first, and then clean their own office together when Nora came. So the sofa, tabletop and other things here were cleaned up so that the three of them could rest.

Schiller sighed as he sat on the sofa. Victor smiled and said, "Doesn't it feel good to rest after working so hard?"

"No, not at all." Schiller denied, "It's dirty, tiring and troublesome. I shouldn't have let my butler leave so early."

"Welcome to the world of ordinary people." Anna also laughed and said, "I bet that everything you encounter next will not be simpler than this. Whether you are an ordinary person or not, we are all dealing with the same level of trouble. It's just that the scope of the selection may be larger or smaller, but the difficulty remains the same."

"Look at it in a positive way," Victor said. "Like Anna said, your handling of the vacuum cleaner here is about the same difficulty as Bruce's handling of Congress. It may even be easier for him than for you, because at least he often handles Congress, and this is your first time using a large vacuum cleaner."

Schiller sighed, not because he was sad about not being able to use a certain machine, because he already knew that he could only screw in a light bulb. He was mainly thinking of the giant vacuum cleaner that Stark had taken out before.

He guessed that Stark had been kidnapped by the vacuum cleaner more than once while conducting experiments.

"To be honest, the design of this thing is a bit outdated." Victor said: "I think people may combine its machine and nozzle together in the future."

"Do I have to carry the whole machine to clean it?"

"Maybe the machine can move on its own." Victor gestured and said, "With some intelligent systems, it can clean the places that need to be cleaned by itself. Maybe this is the direction of future development."

Victor just said it casually, but Anna rolled her eyes and said, "Wayne is very busy now, so the mechanical and intelligent laboratory he built before should not be used. Maybe we can try to develop it. I have programming experience, what about you?"

"Me?" Victor pointed at himself and said, "I'm a cryogenics scientist... I'm a theoretical physicist at best. Mechanical engineering? I know nothing about it!"

"But now that Gotham is undergoing massive construction, I think a good cleaning tool is really essential." Schiller said: "This manual vacuum cleaner is really too difficult to use. If we can develop a smarter one, I think many people will be willing to pay for it."

Victor slapped his thigh and said, "Okay, I'll go ask the professors at the Institute of Engineering. I guess they're also worried about money."

(End of this chapter)