I Will Never Submit to Miss Grim Reaper - Chapter 244

Chapter 244: Silly Cat, Clever Cat, and Quantum Nuo’er

 

Coming out of the café with Xiao Mo, we walked along the shaded path towards the sea for a while. Carefully, we made our way through a small forest path next to it and arrived at a relatively flat and deserted area.

 

This place was the route we took every evening to the seaside to “relax” with Xiao Mo during this period. Strictly speaking, there wasn’t really a path here, just that the trees planted alongside the path we descended from were a bit sparse, allowing individuals like Xiao Mo and me to bend down and pass through, then stand on the grassy lawn behind the trees.

 

The scenery here was actually quite nice, surrounded by trees on all sides, with fresh grass and the scent of soil mixed together everywhere. And since it was early morning, we could hear the chirping of birds, which immediately stirred up the elven genes within me, making me feel refreshed and happy.

 

“Come.”

 

Just like that night, Yin Xiamo summoned a hovering magic circle several tens of centimeters above the grass and gestured for me to step onto it.

 

“If that angel comes and plans to stay on Earth like Fei Luo, how do you intend to deal with it?”

 

Stepping lightly beside the magic circle, I sat on the edge of this delicate five-pointed star pattern like glass, bringing my legs together and swinging my little feet lazily on the magic circle.

 

“Continue to process her new ID?”

 

“Wait a moment.”

 

The girl in front of me walked over, looking at me with a rather strange expression, then approached, encircling her hands around my waist and lifting me off the magic circle.

 

“What’s wrong?”

 

I was a little puzzled, looked at the magic circle, then at Xiao Mo. “Is there something wrong with the spell’s structure?”

 

“No, I just find it very cute…”

 

“What is cute?”

 

Speaking, Yin Xiamo stepped onto the magic circle and lifted me up as if picking up a kitten, her hands sliding up my armpits effortlessly, lifting my feet off the ground.

 

“Huh?”

 

I tilted my head, not sure what this person in front of me was up to again.

 

“Aren’t you struggling, Nuo’er?”

 

Yin Xiamo looked at me being lifted off the ground by her hands, puzzled. “Or… should I lift my feet a little?”

 

“Should I… be struggling?”

 

I glanced at Yin Xiamo, then looked down at my legs wearing short socks and little shoes under my skirt. “How am I supposed to lift my feet like this?”

 

By the way, Xiao Mo, you’re so strong. Even if I weigh… I’m just about as heavy as two small kittens. Even for an average person, it’s not possible to lift me up like this with both hands extended, let alone holding me up straight overhead! Twenty-eight kilograms, nearly sixty pounds, even for adults…

No, even for someone who exercises regularly, it’s considered quite heavy. Besides, I usually have to lift Dingman up a bit by first holding its chest slightly and then quickly supporting its bottom with my other hand just to barely hold it in my arms, and most cats I can’t manage to hold them up like this with both hands stretched out flat in mid-air. But here comes Xiao Mo, standing on the magic circle and lifting me up straight overhead. And she’s asking me why I’m not struggling?”

 

“Because I watched a video on Tongmeng Network before. They said that clever cats, when lifted up, curl both their legs, while silly cats just let their whole body go without caring…”

 

Under my gaze, the girl explained, “And if you lift a cat like this in front of a wall, a silly cat won’t react at all, just letting its belly stick to the wall, while a clever cat will extend its limbs to push against the wall.”

 

With that, Yin Xiamo turned her head and glanced at a nearby tree. “How about it, Nuo’er…”

 

“No need!”

 

I felt the hairs on my head stand up again. “Why would you watch such messy videos, and I’m not a cat!”

 

I instinctively struggled. “Put me down!”

 

As if dealing with an emotional little pet, Yin Xiamo lifted me onto the magic circle and then placed me at its edge.

 

I patted my skirt as before, sitting with my legs together, continuing to swing my feet.

 

“Vroom vroom, Xiao Mo driver, drive.”

 

“Chirp”—someone let out a knowing smile.

 

“What’s with that look this time?”

 

“Nuo’er, it seems like you’ve completely gotten used to sitting like a girl.”

 

Yin Xiamo gestured towards me sitting beside the magic circle. “This well-behaved… no, I mean, lady-like sitting posture, so cute.”

 

I raised a small fist. “We’re all girls, why do we have to sit like girls?”

 

“No big deal, hehe…”

 

Seeming to be in a good mood, the girl beside me sat down with a “whoosh” and planted a kiss on my face. Then, extending her hand filled with magical energy, she said, “Alright, no more teasing Nuo’er, let’s go!”

 

Whoosh—

 

With a gust of wind, the magic circle quickly ascended, making me instinctively cover my skirt.

 

Similar things had happened with Xiao Mo that night. Earth wasn’t a world of pretty girls’ anime nor an invincible domain of cats and mice. Even with magic here, it would still follow various laws of physics.

 

Ascending was fine, but once the magic circle descended, the updraft would cause the skirt to flip up, like an umbrella flipped inside out in a strong wind.

 

And then my underwear would be exposed.

 

Even if there was no one around, instinct would make me cover my skirt in advance, lest Xiao Mo, the one controlling the magic circle, play a trick.

 

During these days of menstruation, I stayed at home typing, and during breaks, I specifically searched for relevant knowledge online. Then this morning, I went to the newly opened supermarket and tried buying sanitary pads.

 

This summer, the weather in Shenzhen City was unusually hot, and I was still in this special period. Adding a thick layer of cloth inside my underwear would make it even more uncomfortable to endure all day. So, I wanted to try this thing that many women online recommended.

 

The structure of sanitary pads is very simple: it’s a sterile, absorbent cotton stick. You just push it into your body when you use it, and the small string connected to the cotton stick is left outside the body. Change it every three to four hours to avoid feeling stuffy in the summer.

 

After my first menstrual period, I roughly understood that I belonged to the type with less volume, so sanitary pads were sufficient. Although this thing is smaller in volume compared to sanitary napkins and doesn’t feel stuffy in the summer, the first time using it… to be honest, it was very uncomfortable.

It took me almost half an hour to push it in, and even now, I still feel something strange there. There’s a vague sense of foreign object, always feeling like it might fall out at any moment. And having the string outside pressed tightly against the underwear… it’s uncomfortable for someone with OCD, but it’s not too severe to affect daily activities. I guess I’ll get used to it better in the future.

 

Speaking of which, I owe my adaptation to sanitary pads to Xiao Mo. If it weren’t for her intermittent “attacks” on me these days, I probably wouldn’t have known that a girl’s anatomy was structured like this…

 

“What are you thinking about?”

 

After ascending to a certain height, Yin Xiamo controlled the magic circle and flew us towards “Moon Orchid Island”. She leaned close to my ear and nibbled on it.

 

“Is the little kitty troubled?”

 

“Ah!”

 

The sudden sensation made me tremble involuntarily. “N-No… there’s no trouble. Don’t think too much. I was just… thinking about the setting of ‘Age of Aquarius’.”

 

When Xiao Mo and I went to see the movie together, after returning home, I finished my typing and dealt with online matters before starting to catch up on the background setting of this game and movie.

 

This is a story set in the future, supposedly hundreds of years after the world war predicted by the Maya People in 2012. I haven’t looked up the exact number of years, but I know that in the game’s Earth, the third world war happened in 2012, resulting in the deaths of many people.

The battlefield lasted for decades, and nuclear radiation made the Earth almost equivalent to a dead star. The concept of nations almost ceased to exist, leaving only the “Salvation Faction” and the “Control Faction”, with the “Control Faction” dominating the entire planet with overwhelming numbers.

 

Then came the economic and technological recovery. This war made humanity realize the crisis, and after the war, a whole new world emerged. Technology began to develop rapidly, and hundreds of years later, humans could freely travel to most planets in the solar system. It was during this period that the Salvation Faction obtained a spaceship and sent all their cloned “embryos” on the ship, flying out of the solar system in search of new planets.

 

The constellation mentioned in the game—Aquarius, also known as the Water Bearer, contains a nebula observed by Earth telescopes long ago: the “Eye of God” spiral nebula. The “Aquarius Palace Planet,” suitable for human habitation, is inside this nebula.

 

This nebula is a whopping 700 light-years away from Earth. It is said that the spaceship took 58 years to reach this planet using technologies like wormhole jumps and space collapse. Upon landing, the spaceship quickly hatched the cloned embryos and accelerated their growth into adults. The consciousness of the people sleeping in the hibernation chambers on Earth is connected to these cloned bodies’ blank brains through quantum technology, achieving “hyperspace control” technology.

 

Anyway, when in doubt, quantum mechanics.

 

I also delved into understanding this thing. The principle is similar to when we play games on our computers or use VR devices. We, the humans, are the “originals,” and the computers and VR devices are the “clones.” Here on Earth, there are people responsible for maintaining the “originals” of those lying in the hibernation chambers.

They provide energy to the brain regularly, sever the connection between the body and their brains, and then use a special method to send various signals from their brains through quantum technology to the “clones” on the Aquarius Palace planet, which is 700 light-years away.

When the clone’s skin is touched, they feel it. When they see something, visual signals appear. When they hear something, they receive sound wave signals… All this information is transmitted back to Earth and into the brains of the people in the cultivation chamber. This makes the people in the cultivation chamber feel as if they are really on the Aquarius Palace planet.

 

Online gaming companies have specially explained this “zero-delay” brain transmission technology as a “quantum entanglement” superdomain technology. Quantum entanglement refers to the phenomenon that occurs when two or more particles in a particle system affect each other. In simpler terms… two particles can affect each other, and they are not limited by space and distance. If an example of mutual influence is placed on Earth and in the Age of Aquarius, when the state of the particles on Earth changes, the particles in the Age of Aquarius will also change instantly.

 

That’s roughly the idea. However, in reality, quantum entanglement theory cannot transmit information like this through light beams. But since the game setting already involves wormholes and space collapse, adding quantum entanglement is no big deal—it’s a sci-fi world after all.

 

The general game setting of “Age of Aquarius” is like this: everyone’s originals are kept in secret places, managed by professionals. When a human is born, they need to register with the “Apocalypse,” and then the newborn baby is placed in a cultivation chamber. The “children” adopted by couples in reality are just clones of babies. Of course, everyone is a clone, and all people in the world are “playing the game” to build a world where almost no one gets hurt.

 

Actually, this matter is somewhat terrifying when thought about deeply—could it be that the Earth world is actually a kind of game, and our “originals” are on some planet or in some dimension? Like in “The Matrix”?

 

“It’s rare to see Nuo’er so concerned about something.”

 

On the way to Moon Orchid Island, Yin Xiamo remarked, “I’ll try to get Gabriel to get involved in our cartel when she comes.”

 

“Where did you learn that phrase from?”

 

“You make it sound like we’re doing some shady business.”

 

“For us ordinary people, it’s nothing, after all, any entertainment as long as it’s not excessive is a normal desire and need. But for angels… yes.”

 

Yin Xiamo took out an identity card and a passport from her pocket. I saw that it was written on it, “Gabriel,” and on the back… a foreigner’s permanent residence permit.

 

“You’ve got everything sorted?!”

 

I was surprised, “So fast?”

 

“I’ve become quite adept at it now.”

 

Yin Xiamo smiled bitterly, “When the queen comes, I’ll help her get one too. Oh, and if the queen of the Elves is coming, those two elves will probably come as well…”

 

“Are there really elves coming?”

 

I turned to meet Yin Xiamo’s eyes. “Hey, Xiao Mo, you’re joking, right?”

 

“No, I’m not. Gabriel and the queen of the Elves are very close. I can already feel the queen’s presence on the other side of the portal. They both plan to try using this forbidden spell together, but Gabriel’s light magic will make her much more efficient in mastering the spell.”

 

The girl spoke seriously. “Although Fei Luo is a black dragon, she’s actually a very powerful light magician.”

 

“Why would the queen of the Elves come… come here?”

I glanced at Moon Orchid Island, which was getting closer and closer. “The Earth’s environment isn’t suitable for them to live in, right?”

 

“The biggest characteristic of the Elves is their curiosity. If Gabriel is coming and she’s so close to them, it’s impossible for the Elves not to come. It’s just a matter of time.”

 

Facing the sea, Yin Xiamo sighed softly. “I didn’t expect it to turn out like this. I originally thought… they wouldn’t notice I was gone for at least several years.”

 

“Then wouldn’t Earth become a tourist destination for people from other worlds…”

I looked at Xiao Mo. “Will you be able to handle it?”

 

“No problem. Originally, when I constructed that coordinate, it was for this purpose.” Xiao Mo on the magic array yawned.

 

“Alright, we’re almost there. Although this angel named Gabriel may not be very familiar with the hero, but she has heard a lot about the hero’s glorious deeds. Unlike Fei Luo, she is a very serious and earnest angel.”

 

“Later, Nuo’er, think about how you’ll introduce yourself.”

 

“……”

 

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