Chapter 407: Chapter 407: Little Fatty Girl and Custard Pie
Of course, Xiang Kun hadnât taught Liu Shiling how to lay a âritual arrayâ with coins, but he knew that based on Little Fatty Girlâs âmagical girlâ logic, upon hearing these words, she would creatively construct a very âseriousâ way to set up the âarrayâ.
Anyway, all he needed to do was place the coins next to the âCustard Pie,â regardless of how they were arranged, it wasnât crucial.
Even if Little Fatty Girl didnât lay them out, as long as those coins and âemotion-infused objectâ chopsticks were in the same room as the âCustard Pie,â Xiang Kun could accurately locate the cat after entering the âSuper Sensory State.â
Yes, what Xiang Kun needs to do now is to determine what the problem with the cat is through the âSuper Sensory Stateâ.
The reason for asking Little Fatty Girl to âarrange the arrayâ is mainly to ease her worries and allow her to rest peacefully.
Sure enough, upon hearing Xiang Kunâs words, Liu Shiling immediately took out the total of five âmagic coinsâ given to her by Xiang Kun and carefully placed them next to the couch cushion where âCustard Pieâ was lying. She took out a box with handmade chopsticks and placed it right in front, then asked Xiang Kun in the video: âUncle Bald, is this okay?â
Xiang Kun gestured an OK sign.
After ending the video call, Little Fatty Girl obediently climbed into bed, covered herself with a blanket, and continued with her nap.
Shilingâs Mom sighed in relief. She was increasingly grateful and impressed with Xiang Kunâs skill in coaxing children. She thought Mr. Xiang would be well suited to be a preschool teacher.
As she reached the room entrance and was about to close the door, she glanced at âCustard Pieâ again.
The cat was still curled up motionless on the cushion. In front of it were the snacks and cat food that Liu Shiling had tried to lure it with, and the five neatly arranged coins, along with a pair of chopsticks in the center, it appeared as ifâŠan offering was being made?
Shilingâs Mom shook her head helplessly and closed the door.
Just as the door was closed, Liu Shiling, who appeared to be preparing for sleep with her blanket over her, immediately sat up, and collapsed at the edge of the bed. Kneeling on the bed, she gripped on the edge of the bed and stared wide-eyed at âCustard Pieâ as well as the coins and chopsticks surrounding it.
She knew that Uncle Bald could definitely cast a spell remotely using those âMagic Coinsââshe had witnessed it before!
Furthermore, after reflecting and perceiving the situation when âCustard Pieâ was brought home from the pet hospital with her mom the night before, she was sure that her reason for worrying about âCustard Pieâ and confirming that its condition was off, were due to the âintuitionâ that the âMagic Wandâ chopsticks and five âMagic Coinsâ had conveyed to her.
Liu Shiling believed that since it has to do with âmagicâ, Uncle Bald will surely have ways of resolving it!
On the other hand, Xiang Kun entered the âSuper Sensory Stateâ, through the descending perception of the chopsticks and locking onto the position of the cat through the âSuper-connected Objectsâ coins. He started to receive perception information representing it.
Compared to observing âCustard Pieâ through video, in the âSuper Sensory Stateâ, Xiang kun had a more direct and clear perception of its abnormalities.
Xiang Kun has received cognitive information of more than one cat in his âSuper Sensory Stateâ. He could distinguish some basic physiological characteristics of the cat through cognitive information. Of course, it wasnât necessary for Custard Pie, because he had already observed its appearance through video multiple times and all that information was familiar.
However, within the cognitive information of âCustard Pie,â there was a part that made Xiang Kun perceive an anomaly â because this part of the cognitive information gave him a strong sense of familiarity. This was cognitive information that had something in common with âSuper-connected Objectsâ!
That is to say, under âSuper Sensory Stateâ, this British short-haired obese cat had similar characteristics to those five âSuper-connected Objectâ coins.
In other words, âCustard Pieâ like âGolden Shineâ ⊠had entered the âSuper Sensory Item Systemâ and become part of the ânetworkâ.
However, Xiang Kun was slightly puzzled. âGolden Shineâ was incorporated into the âSuper Sensory Item Systemâ because it was already his pet and had his âapprovalâ.
It was Xiao Pingguo who linked âGolden Shineâ into the system with her âdevelopmentâ ability, making it one of the âunitsâ in the matrix.
But âCustard Pie,â Xiang Kun had never had direct contact with.
How did it enter the âSuper-connected Systemâ then?
However, Xiang Kun quickly noticed some patterns within the cognitive information, and deduced that it had to do with Little Fatty Girl and two of her âSuper-connected Objectâ coins.
Xiang Kun knew that the connection this cat had, had something to do with Little Fatty Girl.
But it was clear that it hadnât fully âjoined the network,â its connection with the âSuper Sensory Item Systemâ merely extended to Little Fatty Girl.
This likely explained why it had suddenly become so listless and exhausted.
After leaving the Super Sensory State, Xiang Kun began to rearrange his thoughts. He thought for a moment, then sent a QQ message to Little Fatty Girl, asking her how she had found and obtained this cat.
While he was in Super Sensory State just now, he was well aware that Little Fatty Girl hadnât fallen asleep, and that her IPAD was still in her room.
Sure enough, a minute later, he received a voice message from Little Fatty Girl where she was obviously muffling her voice, careful as she sent it from under her blanket.
âCustard Pie came to me on its ownâŠâ
After asking a few questions, Xiang Kun understood the process of how Little Fatty Girl had âsubduedâ Custard Pie. Apparently, one night, she saw Custard Pie being chased by a group of stray dogs. She then tried to use her âmagicâ to help it, but fell asleep as she apparently lacked âsufficient power.â
Although Little Fatty Girl couldnât recall exactly when this happened, Xiang Kun deduced the timing accurately based on her descriptions. It was precisely when he was taking a high-speed train back to Citong for the Lunar New Year the year before.
That was when he suddenly sensed Little Fatty Girlâs chopsticks and thus entered a dreamland sequence that was already halfway through.
That was the first time he had not triggered a dream through âEmotion Infused Objects,â but entered a dream midway.
He later theorized that Little Fatty Girl had utilized her âdevelopedâ ability, directly using the two âSuper-connectedâ coins as power support, to âguideâ the manifestation of that dream.
At that time, Xiang Kun, while in Little Fatty Girlâs dream, focused completely on her. He only had a general observation of the surrounding things and didnât pay much attention to them. After all, Little Fatty Girlâs dream was quite⊠cartoonish. Many elements were from her unbridled imagination, like an imperfect fusion between two and three dimensions.
After leaving the dream, he then shifted his focus onto Little Fatty Girlâs newly âdevelopedâ ability, the application of multiple âsuper-connected Itemsâ to manipulate the surrounding magnetic field, and this ultimately led to his rescue at the station not long after.
But now, upon a more meticulous revisit to his memory, Xiang Kun suddenly remembered a âmonsterâ he had overlooked in that dreamland.
It was a cat with an exceptionally large head and ears!
Even if the cartoonish elements were ignored, its appearance was much different from the real-life Custard Pie. They simply didnât look like the same cat, there were no resemblances except for them both being cats.
Moreover, in that dream of Little Fatty Girl, as the dream host, she herself seemed to pay no attention to that big-headed cat hiding amongst a bunch of white rabbits.
But now, Xiang Kun suddenly realized, that cat was âCustard Pieâ!
That night, Little Fatty Girl unknowingly included âCustard Pieâ into the âSuper Sensory Item System.â
Or, to be precise, she only connected it with her own âSuper Sensory Item System.â Itâs just that the two of them formed a small local network, âCustard Pieâ had not been granted wider system access, and had no authority to call upon or borrow Xiang Kunâs powers.
Perhaps it was for this reason, when Little Fatty Girl received the three new âSuper-connectedâ coins sent by Xiang Kun, changes happened to her power support system, and the âCustard Pieâ was unable to adapt, resulting in its current lethargic state.
Although it was just a hypothesis, Xiang Kun felt that even if he didnât get all the details correct, the overall direction should be right.
Regardless, it was astounding that Little Fatty Girl was able to forcibly pull a creature Xiang Kun wasnât aware of into her own âSuper Sensory Item Systemâ!
What this meant was that Little Fatty Girlâs connection with Xiang Kunâs âSuper Sensory Item Systemâ was already very close to that of âSuper-connected Objectsâ and âEmotion Infused Objects.â She herself was already a basic âunitâ within the entire system.
Her connection with this power system was deeper than that of âAppleâ and Old Xia, who are also in the system.
Though Xiang Kun analyzed a lot, in reality, it only took him two or three seconds. Lastly, when he received the inquiry from Liu Shiling, âBald Uncle, how is Custard Pie doing?â, he responded directly:
âXiao Lingdang, your chicken-wing-sis and I will come to Star City tomorrowâŠno, today. Today, to bring you out for some delicious food, and to check on âCustard Pieâ by the way. Donât worry, I know whatâs wrong with âCustard Pie.â Itâs okay.â