How wizards learn science and technology

Unexpectedly, this new Auror is much easier to get along with than the previous one.

Merlin replied her with an email, answered her questions about using the forwarding and attachment functions, and packaged a middle-aged and elderly version of the basic computer operation tutorial by the way.

Judging from the degree of acceptance and curiosity, the Auror's new liaison should be a young girl.This gave Merlin a lot of convenience - of course, it refers to the young part, not the girl.

As a support staff member of a fucking secret service agency, today's Merlin rarely took his first vacation of the year.He fell asleep until the sun rose high, and then sat down in front of the computer with a cup of coffee. As soon as he turned on the computer, he immediately saw the white shadow on the table: "Hey, stop!"

The white long-haired cat immediately stopped its claws.

Merlin immediately brought over the pen that was hanging precariously by the table. He glanced at the white cat. He usually thought it was quite smart, but he didn't expect to be a demon when it should be.

Yes, the white cat moved into Merlin's apartment.

Strictly speaking, it is a temporary residence, because its actions are really elusive.Sometimes the cat would not be seen for several days, and sometimes it would squat at the door until Merlin came back, and then it would swagger in, lie comfortably on the sofa in the study, and wake Merlin up at dawn to get something to eat.

And it doesn't eat cat food or fresh buns. The white cat likes to grab food from Merlin's plate, especially fried fish and French fries.

Merlin felt that this was probably a free-range cat.He considered giving it a name, but no matter what it was called, the white cat didn't respond, so he had to give up. He didn't know if it was really smart enough to become a smart person, or a stupid and mentally retarded person.

Fortunately, in most cases, it still knows how to measure.

For example, when the plot of throwing away the pen to play failed, the white cat was no longer persistent, but came to Merlin's computer on a beautiful catwalk.

After several encounters, Merlin found that it was not curious about the content of the computer, but curious about the behavior of "human beings sitting in front of the screen and concentrating on it".He had also seriously inspected the white cat—and Merlin had gotten a good scratch for holding it down.By the way, he also confirmed that it was a kitten. Of course, the price was a cat's face-breaking claw, and the teasing from Eggsy "Oh, which little girl scratched it" when he went to work the next day.

But Merlin didn't care, his goal was achieved: the white cat didn't wear any monitoring and listening devices.

And the computer on the rest day is nothing to look at, he just scrolls through Twitter and INS, and browses the news on the Internet.As in the past, the white cat quickly lost interest in his operations, walked around behind the notebook, and lay down.

But it was only idle for about 5 minutes.

Five minutes later, white plush paws stretched out from the back of the notebook and began to fiddle with the pen holder and ink box by the table.Merlin stretched out his hand to stop it, and the cat's paw retracted, and when he withdrew his hand, the cat's paw stuck out again.After a long confrontation like this, Merlin finally lost his patience.

He stood up: "Come here."

However, the moment Merlin's hands touched the white cat's body, it jumped under the table like an electric shock, took a few steps back, and then turned to stare at Merlin vigilantly. Bright Claw's posture.

Other cats are obsessed with human touch and cannot extricate themselves, this cat can no longer be described as cold.

There was nothing Merlin could do, since there were indeed no toys around him for cats to play with.He did buy the cat teaser and the toy mouse, but the expression on the white cat when he waved it made Merlin think that he might be mentally retarded.

He looked around, and finally his eyes settled on the tablet placed beside the sofa.

Merlin had a flash of inspiration.With long legs, he walked to the sofa and picked up the tablet, downloaded Fruit Ninja from the app store, started the program, and put the tablet in front of the white cat.

The white cat's attention was indeed attracted by the music and the colorful scenes. It looked at the cartoon fruit flying up on the screen, and its furry head moved up and down as the fruit flew up and down. It waited until the three opportunities were used up and a failure appeared on the screen. typeface.

As soon as the music changed, the white cat raised its head and looked at him innocently with gray eyes, as if asking: What's going on?

Merlin had no choice but to start another round. The moment the fruit flew up, his slender fingers swipe across the screen. The crisp clicking sound made the white cat take half a step back in surprise, but it seemed to understand.

The white claws hanging in the air tentatively landed on the screen, and there was another clanging sound effect, and the fruit was cut in half.

Cat: "Meow!"

Thank goodness.

Merlin watched the white cat start patting the screen with great interest, and felt a sense of relief in his heart: it had occupied his study sofa for so long, and finally found something that could satisfy the new resident.Now Merlin somewhat understands the feelings of those cat slaves on the Internet.

So he simply sat on the sofa, watched the white cat indulge in Fruit Ninja with great interest, and kindly helped it restart the game after death.

One person and one cat played like this for more than an hour.

Merlin couldn't even remember the last time he wasted such a waste of time. Anyway, when he realized that time had passed, the rare rest day had already arrived at noon.He had to interrupt the white cat's entertainment: "It's time to eat, girl. You don't want to be hungry, do you?"

The white cat meowed softly, and Merlin felt that this might be the gentlest greeting it had given since they met each other.

But the difficulty of serving the cat ancestors is far beyond imagination.

Just when Merlin felt that the relationship between the two of them had changed from "who are you" to "friends who played games together", he took out his lunch and returned to the study, only to see an empty room and a door with a small gap open. window.

That afternoon, Merlin received another email from the new Auror, and she sent him an attachment experimentally.After Merlin clicked on the download, the system immediately reported a virus alert.

It's just a few outdated e-mail Trojan horses, which are still aimed at Windows users, and she should be online in a public place.

Merlin thought for a while, then hacked into the sender's IP address, and it turned out to be a coffee shop.He also saw in passing that the young Auror hadn't just signed up for Twitter - not that he was gossiping, but that she hadn't logged out when she left.

Twitter ID is her last name, Lovegood.The brand-new account didn’t make any comments, and only followed a few cat-related accounts, as well as messy users related to “magic”, such as fortune-tellers, metaphysics enthusiasts, fan artists of several fantasy animations, and George RR· Martin.

Merlin: "..."

George RR Martin, is she serious?

Staring at the head portrait of the biggest killer in Westeros for a moment, Merlin casually helped Phoebe Lovegood log out of his account.

There is still one afternoon, he can relax again, and then he has to prepare for tomorrow's work.While throwing the dishes back into the kitchen, Merlin passed by the porch, he paused, and then opened the locked pet door next to the apartment door.