Schrödinger of the Cat [Interstellar]

Chapter 23

Thinking of the tabby next door, Xue Yi stretched his head over the major general's shoulder, and looked at the wooden fence beside him.

The two front yards share the same wooden fence, and the yard is so small that it can barely fit a set of outdoor tables and chairs, or plant a small piece of vines.The neighbor’s house happened to have a small table next to the wooden fence. Now, there was a tabby cat sitting on the small table with its ears lowered and its eyes slightly protruding from the edge of the wooden fence, observing the situation here secretly.Seeing Xue Yi looking at it, the cat lowered its ears lower, pretending that the other party couldn't see itself.

Seeing Xue Yi holding onto his shoulder all the time, Ares turned his head and looked over strangely, and happened to meet the eyes of the neighbor's tabby cat.The tabby cat seemed to be taken aback, pressed its body and jumped off the wooden table quickly, and disappeared into the bushes beside it.

Ares frowned slightly, thinking how someone from Tabby's family would move here, and then he thought of the person in charge of God's Domain technology at Fort Fourteen, Tweer Tabby.He guessed that the people living here were probably the family members of that person, and the female cub just now was probably Tver's daughter.

"Aris, let me down." Xue Yi was so engrossed in the neighbor's cat that he didn't realize that his adoptive father was thinking about it.He is now able to restrain his mental power, and he is usually too lazy to let it out, so he can't feel the emotions of others at any time.

"It's too cold outside." Ares didn't want the cub to have any contact with Tabby's house, so he took it back to the small building without any explanation.

Xue Yi curled his lips in his heart, and slandered: If you have the ability, you keep staring at me. The major general is always busy, so I am afraid that I will not find a chance to play with the cat next door!

Yes, it is impossible for Ares to stay in the small building all the time. After all, he brought thousands of soldiers to Kerr to station, not for vacation. Except for the free time when he arrived on the first day, he spent the whole week thereafter. Busy with military affairs, leave early and return late.And Xue Yi finally found an opportunity to have a "talk" with the little tabby cat next door.

The cats here will always master the ability of spiritual communication at a certain age, Xue Yi has now confirmed this.

His new playmate, the neighbor's soon-to-be-adult female tabby cat, is named Shirley Tabby.According to her own introduction, she has lived here with the servants for more than two years. Xue Lisi told Xue Yi that she can call her Little Cherry, because all the people close to her call her that, and only the servants will call her name.

Little Cherry is seven years old this year, and Xue Yi is already able to accept kittens who can be several years old in this world. After all, his own body is said to be more than three years old, but he still looks like a half-grown kitten.

At Little Cherry's request, Xue Yi played hunting games with her all afternoon. The prey was a tattered rag doll.He also played the role of Little Cherry's elder brother all afternoon, and gave all the prey he "hunted" to Little Cherry.

According to Little Cherry, she has a very powerful brother who is currently studying in the thirteenth province of Kerxing, and will only come back during the holidays. Every time he goes home, he will buy her toys.Little Cherry admires this brother very much, because he knows a lot of words - Xue Yi guesses that this little guy probably hasn't distinguished the difference between a human and a cat.

In the process of playing with Little Cherry, Xue Yicai just realized that even if the kittens here have learned to communicate spiritually, their intellectual development is by no means high, just like the seven-year-old Little Cherry, whose IQ is only about three or four years old now. children.

Thinking of this, Xue Yi suddenly felt that he was too careless, thinking that he could no longer cover up after learning spiritual communication, but he didn't think that he might have been seen through in front of the major general.

Fortunately, the major general didn't seem to care, he didn't get to the bottom of it, and he usually doesn't communicate much with other humans, so for the time being...he won't be regarded as a ghost possessed or something different.

It's getting late, and the artificial sun surrounding Kerr's star has gradually turned to the horizon, and it's about to set.

In the distance, where the sky began to turn dark blue, two white shimmers could be seen faintly. They were the real stars of the original galaxy, but they seemed to be just two slightly larger stars in the night.As dusk approached, it meant that Ares was coming back soon. Xue Yi bid farewell to Little Cherry, climbed over the fence and returned to his small courtyard.

Amin, who had stood in front of the bedroom window on the second floor of the small building for a whole afternoon, saw that the cub had come home, so he turned his sore ankle, fastened the window, and walked downstairs.

In fact, Ares already knew all about Xue Yi's actions this week from Amin.Although he was extremely reluctant to see the cub interacting with Tabby's family, he couldn't restrain it too much, so he had to ask Amin to keep an eye on the cub. If an adult from Tabby's family came back, he must stop the cub from going to play again. partner's behavior.

Although Amin didn't know why, she always ordered and prohibited, and the imperial concubine had ordered, so she never slacked off.

Ten minutes later, Ares returned to the small courtyard as expected.

Xue Yi went up to him as fast as he could, rubbing his body on the major general's military boots.He's been trying to behave more like a cat than a human recently. Fortunately, he has raised a yard of cats before, and he is very familiar with their behavior, and he also knows what kind of actions can best arouse a good mood in humans.

Sure enough, the major general smiled when he saw him being so intimate, and leaned over to hold him in his arms.

"Tomorrow is the weekend, I will take you to a place." Ares said casually.

Xue Yi was taken aback, Major General is taking him out?He thought that after staying here, his life would return to the way he was in Fanxing 37, and the major general would confine his activities to his home.He was already ready for self-entertainment and self-cultivation, but he didn't expect the Major General to take him out.

"Where are you going?" Xue Yi asked.

"You will know tomorrow." Ares smiled and stroked the cub's head.

A night without dreams.Early the next morning, Ares took Xue Yi and the two war envoys out, and Wei Yi was left to watch the house.

During this trip, Xue Yi finally boarded the private battleship he once boarded again, and according to what Amin once said, this battleship belonged to the major general's cat.

Thinking of His Highness, Xue Yi couldn't help feeling a little dazed.I haven't seen it for a long time, I don't know if it is doing well alone in Fanxing 37...Stupid!How could it be possible to have a good time!Xue Yi felt a little depressed, thinking that if the major general took back a kitten in the future, and then ignored him like his Highness, he would be very sad.

But... It seems that he has never seen His Highness getting tired of the Major General.

Xue Yi thought about it carefully, and finally decided: Yes, as long as he is present, His Highness will never appear in front of the major general.And His Highness didn't seem to have any jealousy or dissatisfaction with himself, instead, he was like a real elder, protecting and teaching himself with extra patience.Sometimes Xue Yi even felt that His Highness was more like his adoptive father than the Major General.

"What are you thinking?" Ares asked suddenly.The cub has been in a daze since he boarded the battleship, and he looks a little sad. I don't know if he is feeling emotional, thinking of the chase.Ares was a little worried.

"I was thinking, I'm such a scum." Xue Yi said dejectedly, "Your Highness treats me so well, but I robbed its owner..."

Ares was taken aback for a moment, and then realized the meaning of the cub's words, quite dumbfounded.At the beginning, he didn't intend to hide the cub, but he just wanted to play tricks on it because he saw it was ignorant.Unexpectedly, the cub who spends every day in the database and network information has never discovered the secret of spiritual awakening. Later, he wanted to explain it, but he always felt that it was too strange to mention it suddenly, and he couldn't find a good time.

Of course, the most important thing is that every time the phrase "I am Your Highness" came to his lips, he swallowed it back for some reason.

Ares had a headache and thought to himself: Forget it, let’s explain it to the cub when we go back to the small building this time.

After a three-hour flight, they are finally about to reach their destination—the No.14 province of Kerr Star.

The wings on both sides of the battleship spread out, the speed slowly decreased, and soon landed to a height high enough to see the surface buildings clearly.Xue Yi looked out from the porthole, and saw an extremely familiar giant hub port slowly approaching.As the battleship turned, the hub tower disappeared towards the head of the battleship, but Xue Yi lay motionless on the window.

Hub Tower.Ghost drone.Tabby cat.bottom of alley.

Memories from the past flooded up like a tide, and the fear that had been hidden in his heart for a long time gradually spread to Xue Yi's limbs and bones.He didn't expect the major general to bring him back here, no, he should have thought of it, he had thought of it as early as when he landed with the garrison on Planet Kerr.It's just that he didn't want to face it at the time, so he deliberately didn't think deeply.

When he learned to communicate spiritually and was asked about his past life by the major general, he once told the major general that he was chased and killed by a ghost drone all the way.At that time, he had a faint premonition that one day, the major general would bring him here again.

A pair of slightly warm hands pulled Xue Yi away from the window and held him tightly in his arms, followed by a shock of the aircraft landing.Xue Yi regained his composure, looked up at the major general who was watching him, and suddenly felt at ease.His domineering adoptive father is here, what else is there to be afraid of!

A group of people got off the battleship, walked out of the covered bridge, and merged into the bustling passenger flow in the hub tower.Ares wore a pair of sunglasses that almost covered half of his face, and his hair was loose behind him, restraining his military temperament as much as possible.Amin and Keke also put on the most common casual clothes among the civilians of Star Kerr, and the group almost completely blended into the crowd without being obtrusive at all.

The [-]th province is not big, but it is really not small. It is next to the education area of ​​the [-]th province, and it is one of the few civilian-inhabited areas in Kerr Star.Although the entire empire is under the shadow of war, and Star Kerr is at the front line, what the common people care most about is still their own small family life.Therefore, there are still relatively prosperous commercial districts in the fourteen provinces, and there are also many entertainment venues that are still in operation.

It's just that this kind of prosperity cannot be seen on the street.

Probably due to the influence of the climate of Kerr, residents in cities and towns seldom go out on foot. The metropolis chooses the empty rail cars that extend in all directions, and directly enters the buildings in the commercial district from their own rooms, so it is impossible to see them on the roads of this city. Pedestrian.

In order not to be too conspicuous, Ares and his party rented the most common household empty rail car according to local customs, and drove away from the hub tower.

Sitting in the driver's seat and adjusting the electronic map, Amin reported: "According to my investigation, there are not many buildings with masonry walls within 5000 meters from the hub tower, and the most likely one is in the poor neighborhood of thirteen provinces District. Let’s go there first.”

Ares nodded in agreement.

"Let me know if you see a familiar scene." He reminded the cub in his arms, "We will find a way to come from the ground later."

Xue Yi nodded, lying on the window of the empty rail car and looking down.

The area that the empty rail car is currently passing looks very similar to the city in the previous Brahma Star 37 Fortress. The surrounding buildings are almost made of the same mold, with glass exterior walls towering into the sky.

As the empty rail car turned several forks and headed towards the junction of the thirteen provinces, the surrounding scenery was also slowly changing.First, it shifted from a commercial center lined with glass-walled high-rise buildings to fairly glamorous high-rise residential buildings, and then from high-rise residential buildings to large tracts of low-rise villas, and soon came to the messy arrangement of concrete high-rise buildings.

Suddenly, a raised eaves corner appeared in the shade of green trees, and as the empty rail car slowly turned, a group of buildings that were incompatible with the surrounding tall buildings were gradually revealed.

Seeing the building group gradually revealing the whole picture outside the window, Xue Yi felt his heart beating almost out of his throat: This building... This building is clearly the pavilions, towers, pavilions, carved beams and painted buildings in ancient China in his world!This small piece of vermilion walls and green tiles is hidden in a group of dirty concrete buildings, like a carefully hidden pearl.The buildings are low, and most of the structures are covered by overgrown green vegetation, which can only be glimpsed even from the empty rail car.

"Where is this...?" Xue Yi was a little lost.

Ares looked at the somewhat dilapidated unique building outside the window, and said: "This was originally the residence of the branch of the Li family in the origin galaxy. Later, the Li family moved to other star systems, and only stayed here on Kerr planet. The galaxy that the Li family moved to fell more than 100 years ago and was occupied by ghosts. I thought that at least this branch was left behind. It’s a pity that this branch has long been sparsely populated and failed to be passed down in the end.”

plum.Xue Yi thought silently, what a kind surname.