**Ryan Miller**, who left the bathroom, felt that **Ethan Carter** was very abnormal.
Half a minute ago, **Ethan Carter** pointed at the mirror in front of the sink and asked him if he could see anything strange.
Strange things? There were clearly only two sleep-deprived fools in the mirror. **Ryan Miller** shrugged and went to the balcony with a tooth cup and a toothbrush.
**Ethan Carter** stayed in front of the sink in a daze.
He had calmed down from his initial panic. After confirming that **Ryan Miller** could not see the blonde **Amanda Carter** in the mirror, he suddenly felt a magical sense of satisfaction.
The blonde **Amanda Carter** in the mirror belonged to him alone.
"Who are you?"
**Ethan Carter** asked for the second time. His fingers wandered on the mirror, gently stroking the other person's forehead and brow bone, down along the middle line of the nose, and finally stopped on the lips as pure and delicate as cherry blossoms.
The person in the mirror blinked and replied, "I don't know who I am either, but you can call me Shi Xin."
Her answer was not conveyed by sound, but a kind of mental fluctuation that was directly mapped into the mind.
"Shi Xin... why are you in the mirror? Why am I the only one who can see you? Why do you look exactly like my sister?"
A series of questions made Shi Xin in the mirror frown slightly, as if she was thinking about how to answer him.
Her frowning expression was exactly the same as **Amanda Carter**'s, which made **Ethan Carter** want to applaud.
There must be something wrong with my mental state... **Ethan Carter** smiled bitterly to himself.
If **Ryan Miller** was around, he would definitely find it strange that he was talking to a mirror.
But **Ethan Carter** enjoyed it, and he even found a reasonable explanation for all this in his mind.
It must be because **Amanda Carter**'s arrival last night rekindled the feelings hidden in his heart.
Shi Xin in the mirror was a phantom he imagined, and he stopped himself from going on the blind date because of his subconscious attachment to **Amanda Carter**.
**Ethan Carter**, **Ethan Carter**, you are such a big idiot.
He criticized himself a hundred times in his heart.
"First of all, I didn't want to be in the mirror." She said, "but it seems that this is the only way for us to communicate at the moment."
"I don't quite understand..."
"It doesn't matter. Anyway, you just need to know that I'm here to remind you. Tomorrow, absolutely don't go to the appointment!"
**Ethan Carter** turned on the tap and filled the cup with water: "Do you think I want to go? But it's a blind date arranged by the Marriage and Family Planning Bureau. It's illegal to stand up without reason."
"Stand up?" Shi Xin's head tilted to the side. She didn't seem to understand the word.
"Anyway, at least you have to show up." He said optimistically, "Don't worry, it's just a free activity fund from the Marriage and Family Planning Bureau. What's wrong with eating, drinking, and playing for free for a day?"
Shi Xin's expression gradually became sad.
**Ethan Carter** was stunned for a moment and forgot that he was still filling the water.
In his memory, **Amanda Carter**'s eyes are always confident and proud, with hidden rebelliousness and sharpness. When encountering difficulties, she will only think about how to overcome them, instead of being sentimental.
But this also makes her less feminine.
Shi Xin looked like a rose facing frost, pitiful.
"It's deadly," she said.
"It's just a date, how can it be so exaggerated." **Ethan Carter** smiled, "I will always like **Amanda Carter**."
As if some exorcism spell had been triggered, after he said "I will always like **Amanda Carter**" in a joking manner, Shi Xin in the mirror disappeared.
The sound of running water splashing on the sink was heard, and the overflowing clear water flowed down the walls of the tooth cup under the faucet.
Five minutes later, **Ethan Carter** came out of the bathroom and saw **Ryan Miller** holding a briefcase and preparing to go to work.
"**Ryan**, the psychiatrist you saw before..."
"Hmm?" **Ryan Miller** was holding a piece of compressed biscuit in his mouth and pulling the heel of his shoe at the door.
**Ethan Carter** scratched his hair: "Give me her contact information, I want to meet her if there is a chance."
**Ryan Miller** took the biscuit in his hand and asked in surprise: "Do you also have psychological barriers to overcome?"
"Hmm... maybe... probably."
**Ethan Carter** didn't know how to tell him directly.
**Ryan Miller** didn't take it seriously; he was about to be late for work.
**Ethan Carter** doesn't have to work today.
The Marriage and Birth Bureau has the right to give two special holidays to newlyweds who arrange blind dates, including the day of the blind date and the day before.
The day before the holiday is for both men and women to prepare for the date. It can be seen that the blind date activity planners of the Marriage and Birth Bureau are trying hard to promote a marriage.
**Ethan Carter**'s evaluation of this is - purely unrealistic fantasy.
How many young people who get married through blind dates in this era really have feelings for each other?
Most people just want to avoid the high single tax and make do with each other.
It is only wishful thinking for those in power to expect such young couples to get on the right track after having children.
In the past two years since he came to Qidao City to live independently, thanks to the job of Lightning Husky Express, **Ethan Carter** has met all kinds of people, including young men and women who were forcibly brought together by the Marriage and Birth Bureau.
At an age when he didn't even understand himself, he became a husband and wife in a daze, and had a child in a daze. The family of three squeezed into an old rental house, and life seemed to be at an end at a glance.
This is ridiculous.
**Ethan Carter** criticized it in his heart while going downstairs and getting on his beloved car.
Although Lightning Husky Express would not assign him any tasks today, he still had a way to accept private orders.
For a freelancer like him, a holiday is not something to be happy about.
Freelancers believe in more work, more pay.
"Ding Di, the energy is less than 10%, and it is expected to support 50 kilometers. Please recharge as soon as possible."
**Ethan Carter** sighed softly and had to go to the nearby energy recharge station first. It takes 25 SP (Iron Dome Points) to recharge the motorcycle once. Lightning Husky Express will subsidize its riders 5-10 recharge reimbursement opportunities every month based on the number of completed orders. Overall, it is quite conscientious.
While waiting for recharging, **Ethan Carter** checked his bill.
The rent of the residence is 700 SP, which is shared by him and **Ryan Miller**, plus the water, electricity, and energy costs are about 400 SP per month.
Including daily living expenses, he spends about 1,000 SP points a month.
The remuneration paid to him by Lightning Husky Express fluctuates according to the number of completed orders each month, and is also affected by uncertain factors such as user complaints and penalties, but it can basically maintain a balance between income and expenditure.
After two years in Qidao City, he only accumulated a pitiful 2,000 SP points.
Even the deposit when he first joined the company was paid by **Ryan Miller**.
**Ethan Carter** is very self-aware - he is the kind of young man who has not yet figured out how to live.
So he really can't understand why the Marriage and Birth Bureau arranged a blind date for him.
The silver-gray motorcycle turned into the alley in the old city, and **Ethan Carter** stopped in front of an abandoned warehouse with a half-closed roller shutter door and stood up.
"Is anyone there?" He bent down and crawled under the roller shutter door.
Various cardboard boxes filled the warehouse behind the roller shutter door. An unkempt bearded man wearing a VR goggles was lying on an oak rocking chair and swinging back and forth.
"**Derek**, it's almost ten o'clock, and you haven't woken up yet?" **Ethan Carter** looked helpless.
The bearded man's name is **Derek Johnson**. On the surface, he runs a scrap recycling station, but in fact, he is the middleman for various private transactions.
Due to the laws of the park and the existence of the Iron Dome Security Bureau, some goods cannot be delivered by regular logistics companies like Lightning Husky Express, and **Derek Johnson** can only help recruit temporary delivery workers.
Many express riders have worked part-time for him.
Of course, this man is still principled and will not accept some orders that look very dangerous. He is also quite good to his part-time riders, only charging 10% of the labor fee as a middleman.
"**Derek**?"
The bearded man was wearing headphones and did not hear **Ethan Carter**'s voice at all, and he laughed obscenely.
**Ethan Carter** walked up to him and took off his eye mask: "What are you looking at? Let me see."
"Hey! Who is it! Fuck, **Ethan**, you bastard, give it back to me!"
**Ethan Carter** put on the VR eye mask for a few seconds and quickly took it off: "Fuck, you are so shameless to be lewd in broad daylight."
"What do you know, kid? This is a precious video from the old times. I spent 1,000 SP to buy it from a technical geek."
**Ethan Carter** glanced at him: "If you hold and spread this kind of thing, if you get caught, you will be exiled to open up new land, right?"
"It's okay if you don't get caught?" **Derek Johnson** looked indifferent.
It was well-reasoned and irrefutable.
As the saying goes, good words can hardly persuade a damned ghost. **Ethan Carter** was too lazy to talk nonsense with him and went straight to the point: "Give me something to do."
**Derek Johnson** was a little surprised and pointed at the yellow vest of the Lightning Husky on his body: "You don't have to work today?"
"No." **Ethan Carter** scratched his head, thinking that it was too troublesome to explain, and he didn't want to repeat the fact that he was about to be arranged for a blind date.
"I do have some work here that needs help..." **Derek Johnson** took out his mobile phone and looked through the memo, and suddenly looked up at **Ethan Carter**: "Do you know Hongyu Bar?"
Hongyu Bar... **Ethan Carter**'s eyes were stern and nodded.
"It's the bar that can't be found on the map. Do you really know it?"
"I've been there."
"That's good." **Derek Johnson** got up and went to look for the cartons piled up in the warehouse.
After a moment, he found a package: "Take this over."
"Who are you sending it to? Can I just send it to the bar?" **Ethan Carter** took the package in his hand and weighed it. It was not heavy, no more than one kilogram.
"The client just said, give this to the most beautiful woman in the bar today."