parasitic son

Teacher Feng said with a smile, "Yan Zhen, I'll leave the poster to you this time."

He was referring to the blackboard at the back of the classroom. Groups of students wrote blackboard newspapers and changed them every two weeks.There is also a grade board competition every week.This week it's Zhen's turn.

According to the rotation rules, Xiaozhen is the team leader.

Xiaozhen asked: "What is written in the blackboard?"

"The content will be discussed and decided by you guys. Come on, our class 2 has not received an excellent board report for a long time." The competition between each class is very fierce, no matter in terms of grades or various activities. Class 2 is currently always at a disadvantage in the class competition.Teacher Feng's tone and expression revealed a tragic life-and-death battle concerning the honor of our class, it all depends on you, but it's a pity that Xiaozhen in front of him was completely unmoved.

It's not that the alien creature Mind Eater doesn't want to give Teacher Feng face, but he thinks this team activity is really a pill.

Xiaozhen looked back at his team members.A boy other than him played basketball and was taken away by the school team.There are only two girls left in his team.

Wei Jingjing, the eldest lady who never looked at people with her eyes.

Chen Yuxin, a quiet school cat lover.

Regarding the blackboard newspaper, the two of them seemed to have no interest at all.Chen Yuxin looked out the window absently.Wei Jingjing was pressing her phone, without even looking at Xiao Zhen.

Xiaozhen took a look at the last issue of the blackboard newspaper. The content was the summer travel experience of several students, and a few rough schematic diagrams of scenic spots were drawn below.According to Xiaozhen's observation, the blackboard newspaper in the school is an information exchange board for human beings, but it is more formal.

"About blackboard newspapers, do you have any good suggestions?" Xiaozhen asked his two female team members.

Chen Yuxin was wandering, Wei Jingjing flicked his phone sideways, but there was no reply.

Xiaozhen didn't even bother to probe their consciousness at the moment.

You can't count on these two crew members at all.

"If you have no idea, I will decide." Xiaozhen said, "The theme of this blackboard newspaper is to solve the mystery of the school cat's disappearance."

"Ah?" Wei Jingjing looked up with a look of disbelief.

Chen Yuxin's eyes glowed: "Really?"

"The school cats have been disappearing one after another. I think it would be a good subject if we can find the reason."

Chen Yuxin nodded vigorously: "I agree!!"

"This is really nonsense." Wei Jingjing looked disdainful, "This topic is too serious."

"Student Wei, it's two votes to one vote now."

Wei Jingjing raised his eyebrows and said, "Who cares about those dirty cats!"

Chen Yuxin said timidly: "Many students in the school like them very much, and many teachers also like them very much. They are part of the school. If they continue to disappear for no apparent reason, there will not be many school cats left.",

Wei Jingjing's attitude softened: "Oh, that's it." Xiaozhen found that this eldest lady is not as arrogant as she first thought, she gets along happily with the girls in the class and has a gentle attitude, only when facing boys, especially Xiaozhen , it becomes extremely sharp.

"Then how are you going to find out why?"

Xiaozhen replied: "I have already planned, we will investigate in groups. Wei Jingjing, you and Chen Yuxin are in a group to consult the teachers and classmates who usually take care of feeding. I am in a separate group to consult the cafeteria and the school security cleaners. After school It’s time to gather information.”

Chen Yuxin nodded excitedly in agreement, while Wei Jingjing snorted, "What can so many people ask?"

"Because the information is too complicated, I have already selected the target. There were 28 cats in the school, but now there are only 8 left. At present, 20 cats are missing."

"How do you ask? Who remembers the day when the cat got lost."

"Chen Yuxin, so far, which cat was the last to disappear?"

Chen Yuxin was taken aback and replied: "It's Ah Hua, that cat."

Xiao Zhen raised his finger: "Okay, our target is only A Hua. The key point of everyone's inquiry is the time and place of the last A Hua you saw."

Chen Yuxin nodded in agreement, and Wei Jingjing seemed to agree by default.

An uninvited guest suddenly stepped in.

"I want to join too!! Yan Zhen, let me be in your team!" Cui Zhizhi said with a smile as he stood at the door of the classroom at some point.Cui Mingzhi is the deputy monitor of Class 1 next door. He has excellent grades and is also an active football team shooter. He has a wide range of interests and is very popular. He is as famous as Liu Xingquan in the school.

Wei Jingjing said: "This is the blackboard newspaper of our Class 2, what does it matter to your Class 1!"

Cui Mingzhi came over and hooked Xiao Zhen's shoulder carelessly: "I will provide support to my friends, can't I?"

"Are you here to check on the enemy's situation or to read our class jokes?" Wei Jingjing sneered, "I remember that your class got the excellent grade report last week, right?"

"I'm stronger than Yan Zhenqing, so I'm willing to help."

Wei Jingjing glared at Cui Zhizhi, while Cui Zhizhi hooked Xiaozhen's shoulder and laughed.

"Yan Zhen, the people in Class 1 are our opponents!! You understand this."

"Yan Zhen~~~~ You won't push me away! I am eager to help!" Cui Mingzhi hugged Xiao Zhen and exaggeratedly called out.

"Cui Mingzhi, are you disgusting!" Wei Jingjing became more and more angry.

Xiaozhen has no objection to Cui Zhizhi's enthusiasm for joining.Ignoring Wei Jingjing's dissatisfaction, he announced the start of the investigation.

The boys and girls acted separately, and started the investigation of the disappearance of the school cat during the break.

The first place Xiaozhen and Cui Mingzhi went to was the school cafeteria.The school cafeteria is the most frequented place for school cats.Every lunch break, they would gather at the entrance of the cafeteria and act like a baby to their classmates to beg for food.

Consultant 1: Aunt Zhang, a canteen worker.

"Missing?" Aunt Zhang who was washing the dishcloth was stunned, "Oh yes, a lot of cats have been missing recently. Are you talking about that fat cat? Tsk tsk, it stole fish before! That kind of fat silver carp! I was dragged away by it!! I chased it to the second floor of the laboratory building, and it disappeared!"

Consultant 2: Chef Sun, a staff member of the canteen.

"That Hua Fat Cat, I gave it a bowl of leftover fish intestines at noon two days ago. It seems to have lost energy these two days. Did it run away? The last time I saw it? Yesterday at noon."

Consultant 3: Teacher Xiao Yuan who eats in the cafeteria.

"Cats are not in my recipe." She glanced at Cui Zhizhi beside Xiaozhen, and smiled gently: "I don't know, teacher, why don't you ask other people?"

Consultant 4: School Patrol Security

"Missing? There are fewer and fewer cats in the school." The security guard scratched his head: "Do you know? There have been disappearances in this school before. A girl disappeared without any reason. At that time, it was a big deal. I haven't found this girl until now. I really don't know about cats."

Consultant 5: School cleaners

"The afternoon before yesterday, I saw that cat wandering by the laboratory building. As soon as it got close, it rushed into the laboratory building."

The two of them walked back to the teaching building, and Cui Mingzhi asked Xiaozhen what conclusion he had drawn with a smile.

Of course there is no conclusion.

On the stairs not far away, Chen Yuxin and Wei Jingjing were waiting for them.Wei Jingjing said unhappily that he basically didn't find out anything.She suspected that the dozen or so cats had moved together.Then Chen Yuxin provided similar investigation information as Xiaozhen.

Xiaozhen sorted out the results:

The last time Ah Hua was seen was noon yesterday.The last place it appeared was the second floor of the laboratory building.

Then the second floor of the laboratory building was his research destination after school.

After school.

Cui Mingzhi looked at Xiaozhen strangely, he was standing on the steps between the second floor and the first floor of the laboratory building.

"Yan Zhen, what's wrong with you?"

"..." Xiao Zhen was silent for a moment, and asked, "Did you see nothing?"

"See what?"

True looked at the flickering patches scattered across the hallway, flickering randomly.Hundreds of black tadpole-like black matter swim in the air.Dissipate, gather, slide out a black line, spread again, like black mist.

A few clusters of black tadpoles swam up to Xiaozhen, and he stepped up the stairs without looking sideways, and replied, "Nothing."

The mind eater's telepathic abilities are well known throughout the galaxy.They can see things that many creatures cannot see.Most intelligent creatures have limited perception and can only read things in a certain band.Mind eaters are often able to perceive many incomprehensible things across many creatures, including afterimages of void space, the passage of time, and even some remnants of consciousness.Even if explained to Homo sapiens, they would not understand.So most of the time, when the situation is not dangerous, he chooses to pretend not to know.

Two-dimensional paper people cannot transcend their dimensions to understand three-dimensional creatures.And even if they are also in the same three-dimensional dimension, human cognition is still very different from them.Xiaozhen doesn't think it's the backwardness of civilization, but just a natural difference in perception.He stretched out his hand, black tadpoles were swimming in his fingertips, he clenched his fist, and the black dots scattered like smoke.If you want to interfere, it's not impossible, but it's meaningless.

It's like telling humans that there may be void projections here, which can neither be understood by the other party nor make sense.In Cui Mingzhi's eyes, from the beginning to the end, it was just Xiaozhen reaching out to the air.

He walked up to the second floor, where black tadpoles roamed wantonly in the air.The abnormal plaque twisted and struggled under the fluorescent light.Fortunately, Xiao Zhen said to himself, it has not yet reached the point of entanglement and conflict in space.This kind of confusion is just an early stage that doesn't need to be taken care of.

The remnants of space disorder, although somewhat cause for concern, but not to the point of danger.

Xiaozhen scanned the classrooms beside the corridor.Most classrooms are empty, with the occasional few students cleaning up.Cui Mingzhi walked to the other end of the corridor one step ahead of him, and he turned his head and said, "It doesn't look like there are cats here."

"The information that can be overlapped all points to the second floor here. Let's look for it again."

There can be no cats in the classroom.For animals, the best hiding place is a hidden dark corner where they can hide.Then there is only-

He went straight to the toilet and opened the utility room.There was a faint meow in the darkness.

He turned on the light, and there was a box on the bundle of pipes not far away.Xiaozhen opened the box, and there was a fat cat lying in the box.It meowed weakly at Xiao Zhen.

"The cat is here!!" Xiaozhen yelled at Cui Mingzhi who was across the corridor.

"Classmate?" A girl ran over, and she came to the box nervously, "Classmate, this is the cat I take care of. I will let it out when it is healthy."

"You take care of?"

"Well, I built a nest for him here." The girl pointed to the box and said, "It was injured before, so I put it in the box to treat it."

"Oh..." Xiaozhen nodded while staring at the cat.Cui Mingzhi came over and yelled, "Hey?? Did you find the cat?"

"But there's only one here." Xiao Zhen asked the girl if she saw any other cats.

When talking about other cats, the girl seemed very excited, "Last semester, it ran to the laboratory building one day, and when I found it, its legs were a little lame. I found a box for it to rest. As a result, the next day , When I came to see it again, there was another little friend of it in the box, and it looked much better. Later, new cats often came to play with it, and they all liked to crowd in this box. Clean up My aunt didn't say anything, and this utility room was used as their temporary residence. When I came in front, there were more than ten cats here."

Xiaozhen looked at the box intently, and asked, "Did you open the door of the utility room to see the dozen or so cats you saw last time?"

"Yes."

"A lot of school cats have disappeared lately."

"I know..." The girl's voice was full of depression, "Its little friends have disappeared recently. Its body doesn't look right..."

Xiaozhen picked up the cat from the box: "I don't think it has much time. It's better to take it to see a doctor."

"Huh? Is it that serious?"

"Well, I have a cat at home, and I am very familiar with the state of the cat. I can't just leave it in this utility room and let it die silently." Xiaozhen stroked the cat's soft fur, and the cat meowed weakly again.

The girl was disturbed by Xiao Zhen's words, and she went to see a doctor with Ah Hua in her arms.The two boys walked down the laboratory building. Cui Zhizhi lamented that he only found one cat, and there was still no news about the whereabouts of the other cats. He decided that the topic of the blackboard newspaper might be a pill.Then his attention shifted to Zhen.

"I said, what are you doing with this box?"

Little really was holding the box he had taken out of the utility room. "Nothing, just take it home."

"Ah? You won't take this box back to make a nest for your cat, will you?"

"If my cat is willing to go in."

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Xiaozhen put the box in front of Mr. Cat and Captain Madara. "This is the reason for the mystery of the missing school cat."

Mr. Cat came over and sniffed the box, and asked, "What is this?"

The chicken shouted, "What? Will this box still eat cats?"

Xiaozhen turned the box around, and both Mr. Cat and the chicken saw a line of text on the inside of the box, which was in the common language of the galaxy, marking the name of the box - "Random Replica Box".

"..."

"No way..." the chicken shouted, "Why is there this here? Isn't this a black box product that is listed as dangerous goods?"

When he said the term "black box meeting", the atmosphere in the room was dull for a few seconds.

Then Xiaozhen began to explain, "Well, the disappearance of the school cat was caused by this box."

This box is a random replica box of dangerous goods circulated privately in the galaxy.It can make another identical copy of the object it puts in.Although it is a copy, due to the instability of the product, random individuals will have slight differences.

In the beginning, the girl picked up Ah Hua.And Ah Hua is the starting point of everything.The girl put A'hua into the reproduction toy box, and on the second day, Ahua was reproduced into another copy Ahua with a different appearance.The girls mistakenly think that the dungeon is Ah Hua's little friend.In the following days, Ah Hua recognized the box as its nest.So are its copies.

Whenever it and its copies are in the box for a certain period of time, the copy box will be automatically forked again.And Ah Hua and its copies will acquiesce that this box is their nest, and they will often huddle together for another night, which will lead to another copy.After such repeated engravings, the number of copies of Ah Hua gradually expanded.

That's why the girl opened the utility room and met more than a dozen cats.

In fact, these cats are all Hua and its copy, and the copy of the copy and so on.

"I also understand." Mr. Cat said, "No wonder the school cats in your school have disappeared a lot."

The chicken asked: "What do you mean? Is the copy of the cat still valid?"

"It's not the expiry date, but the deterioration." Xiao Zhen took out a coin and threw it into the box, "This kind of small thing should be very fast."

After a while, Xiao Zhen poured out two coins from the box. "You see, although it has become two coins, both have become thinner and lighter, and have completely lost the value of currency exchange. When this box is reproduced, the original and the copy will be equally degraded. For non-living bodies , the equal share is quality and shelf life. For organisms, it is lifespan.”

"Tsk."

"Whenever A'hua is reproduced in the box, half of its lifespan will be distributed to the copy. According to the girl's description, there are more than 10 copies of A'hua, which also includes the interaction between the copies. Re-enactment. This leads to the relatively short lifespan of these replica cats."

"I speculate that the missing school cats in the school are copies of Ahua with a very short lifespan. When they are about to die, they find a place and disappear silently. This is the reason why more than 10 cats suddenly disappeared in the school. And now, Ahua The flower will be the last to die."

"What kind of extremely mentally retarded creature would throw this thing around?"

"This is a dangerous item from the Black Box Club. Why did it appear in your school?"

"How would I know." Xiaozhen spread his hands, "And, I suggest that you go to the laboratory building of our school if you have time to take a look. There is a little abnormality there, and I suspect it has something to do with the appearance of this replica box."

the next day.

Teacher Feng looked at Yan Zhen's new blackboard newspaper at the back of the classroom. It perfunctorily painted 8 school cats in the school. Each cat was marked with its own name. To be honest, the drawing was quite abstract. When you see it, you will be thinking about what kind of animal it is.

"..." Teacher Feng felt that his class was completely finished in the excellent selection of the grade board newspaper.