Everything went back to normal when the incident involving the black gang members died down. Those exciting days were in the past and the days that followed were peaceful. Xia Lei went to work at the manufacturing plant every day and went home punctually. Other than the time spent at work or the required amount of sleep time, he used all his time on learning electrical engineering and his frame of reference was the intelligent lathe that Josef was researching.

Every time he acquired a new bit of knowledge of electrical engineering, Xia Lei would use it on his stored memory of the intelligent lathe to understand the structure and purpose of those circuits. Him doing so was like re-designing and producing Josef’s intelligent machine. The images of drawings in his head were not just drawings anymore; he could envision them as actual things.

The days were peaceful and fulfilling but he also had a bit of trouble.

This bit of trouble was Annina.

After the whole chain of events, she had found out that he was a ‘married man’ but...