Chapter 14 An Uncovered City (1/2)
In the bedroom, Chen Jin expertly turned the computer on, logged into his LOL account, and played a few rounds. Out of the five rounds he played, he won four and lost one. Having remembered that he was three episodes behind on the Japanese anime drama ”Overlord”, he finished the games, turned on his 65-inch, 4K TV, turned to the right channel, and lay his back on the bed in great comfort as he watched three episodes in a row.
On his left hand side was snacks and chips. On the right was a fruit platter. Under his head was a Takanashi Rikka print throw pillow. The central air conditioning was running at 26 Celsius. The otaku life he was living was too good to be true.
Suddenly, a potato chip crumb fell out of the bag and landed on the floor next to his bed.
”Clang clang clang~” Having detected a sign of rubbish, Wawa rolled its continuous tracks rapidly from the corner near the door to Chen Jin's bed to clean up the crumb. With a couple of quick sweeps, using the white cloth wrapped on its robot arm, Wawa brushed the crumb into its ”tummy”. Only after it made sure the area was clear did it return to the door, where it would wait on standby.
Chen Jin nodded; he was very satisfied with Wawa's performance. His robotic vacuum cleaner, Da Mi, which was said to have the ability to clean 98.5% of the trash, used to be in charge of his bedroom hygiene. At first, it was pretty great, just like how it was advertised.
But within a few months, the performance started to slip. Chen Jin had to wash the dust brush and dustpan fairly often; not only that, he also had to mop the place again after the robotic vacuum cleaner finished its job, as it usually missed some corners here and there.
In the end, Chen Jin realized that the areas that he mopped were apparently much cleaner. ”I can do a much better job than this robotic vacuum cleaner that cost me more than $300. And they call it high technology? Seriously?” This imperfect cleaner had woken Chen Jin up from all the fantasies he had about high technology products - at least the ones for domestic cleaning. The so-called robotic vacuum cleaner still had a long way to go to replace humans.
Yet, Wawa was definitely the best of the best. It took care of the bedroom so well that the floor was sparkly clean and all the corners were spotless. Even someone with OCD in his bedroom would find no flaw, but excellent comfort. Not one germ could possibly survive in his room. Wawa was far more advanced than the robotic vacuum cleaner ever was.
All Chen Jin had to do was to rinse it and wash off the rust spots; the cleaner Wawa was, the more flawless his bedroom would be. In addition, Wawa also took out the trash and washed the rags. Chen Jin never had to worry a thing. He had a home where the floor would be forever clean.
With Wawa's exceptional performance, Chen Jin came up with a bold idea. ”What if we humans developed a vacuum cleaner just like Wawa on Earth…? This is a humongous market. The middle class families in the country, with just a bit of extra money, would consider getting one. People would be happy to spend their money if I could launch a robotic vacuum cleaner with features similar to Wawa's, and save all the housewives from sweeping and mopping. Or I could sell it to the home service companies, and help them reduce the numbers of their employees and their personnel costs. Departments of Public Works in many cities might purchase in large quantities to keep their cities clean. Anyways, this would be an enormous market that's worth thousands of billions of dollars. With a little bit of effort, I could easily make tens of billions per year.”
Chen Jin's mind was racing with all kinds of ideas on how he would join the robotic vacuum cleaner industry. However, the idea was great, but he didn't have the technology. The kind that he needed to produce a high intelligence robotic vacuum cleaner. His idea had to wait a while before it could become a reality. But Chen Jin believed that, on the other side of the portal in his bathroom, he would surely find the said technology on Haierfa. After all, to make a robot like Wawa, who was actually a ”low-end” one, would only require low-end skills. As long as Chen Jin kept his research going, he would find the information he needed.