"Teacher, why can observation affect the results? Sorry, teacher... am I too stupid to learn quantum physics?"

"It doesn't matter, you are not stupid. Quantum theory is not something that ordinary people can understand, but that the two results exist at the same time. Only when you observe can you know what happened. Imagine Schrödinger's classic thought experiment, locking a cat in an absolutely sealed black box, and then putting it into a poison bottle controlled by a radioactive switch, filled with highly toxic cyanide. The decay rate of radioactive substances is uncertain. You never know when the switch will be triggered. Before you open the black box to observe, the cat may be alive or dead, right?"

"Well... I seem to understand a little, but teacher, why should I use a cat to do this experiment? Isn't it cruel?"

"No one has done this experiment in fact... Probably not. This is just a thought experiment. That cat is only in our imagination, and it is not very cruel. Besides, Schrödinger's cat is better than Schrödinger's cockroach, right?"

"Haha, teacher, you are right, then I'll try to think about it again."

"Well, think about it slowly, it doesn't matter if you think about it a few more times."

...

Its ears moved and woke up.

Some inexplicable conversations seemed to float outside, nothingness, as if it was close to you, and as if it was far away in the sky. Before the thought of shouting for help came, the outside quickly became quiet.

What is this place?

The metallic cold and hard touch came from under the body, which was a little familiar.

Wait! Am I dead?

It shivered and remembered it! It was locked in an unbreakable metal black box and was locked up with a strange black and white kitten. Then... it seemed like it accidentally knocked over a bottle.

Bottle? What is in the bottle?

The bottle seemed to contain something that made it feel extremely terrifying, and even the devil of hell was not so terrifying!

The bottle was knocked over by it, and the faint smell of bitter almonds was still imprinted in its mind, with headaches, nausea, stuffiness, teeth clenched, whole body twitching, loss of consciousness, entering the eternal dark country...

No, this must be a dream, it must be a nightmare! As long as you open your eyes, the dream will end, and I will still return to the wax museum and squat in front of the wax statue of the angel.

Things went against their wishes. It opened its eyes and was still dark around it.

It has never been so panicked, what is going on? This weird metal wall, the terrible darkness, the memory of itself that it seemed to have died once and then lived...

It stood up all of a sudden, desperate to do something, and must not sit still and wait for death!

“Meow~ Don’t move around~”

It heard the sound again, and its body suddenly froze like a conditioned reflex. Not long ago, it seemed that it accidentally touched something, and then the smell of bitter almonds scattered...

"I don't move," it said, after several ideological struggles, it stretched its body as though it was still as wax. "Can you tell me what's going on? Am I dreaming? If I bite myself hard, can I wake up?"

"Meow~ I don't know what's going on, I was born here anyway."

"Born here?" it smiled miserably, "Don't joke, no one will be born here! What about your parents? What about your brothers and sisters? What about your master? Did your master lock you up here?"

"Meow~ I don't know. I have never met my parents, my brothers and sisters, and I have been here since I have memories... By the way, what is the master you are talking about?"

It was a little stuttering when asked, "Master...Master is the one who gives you something delicious, so that you can have a warm place to sleep, and play with you... I understand. It must be you who made your master angry that he locked you here and taught you a lesson!"

"Meow~ Is that true?" The black and white kitten's voice was full of confusion and uncertainty.

It seemed to find a feasible way to escape from here, and squirted excitedly, "Yes! It must be like this! Once I bit the boss, my master locked me in a small dark room and punished me... Your master, what is his name? He always has a name? Can you tell me?"

"Meow~name... The name I heard the most mentioned is Schrödinger. Is he my master?"

"I probably can't make a mistake... Hey! The owner of the black and white kitten! Hey! Schrödinger! Where are you? You made a mistake! I'm not your cat. If you want to punish it, punish it. I did not make any mistakes. Don't punish me! Please be fine and let me go!" It whistled to the sky, and almost cried until the end.

It shouted countless times, but no one responded, and it stopped to breathe until it was so hoarse that it could no longer shout.

"Meow~name...I want a name too." The black and white kitten said in the dark.

It swallowed its saliva and lubricated its throat, and said hoarsely: "I said, you have a name, you call yourself Xinghai, I met you in a wax museum, and you even asked me if I played hide and seek, and then I didn't know what happened and appeared in this ghost place..."

"Meow~ Xinghai...Is this my name?"

"Probably," it said sarcastically, "Your name is quite big. The ocean of stars is the universe? It's much bigger than this ghost place!"

The black and white kitten said again: "Meow~ Then I'll call it Xinghai... What is hide and seek? Is it fun?"

It roared and said angrily: "It's just a person who hides and looks for it. In my opinion, the fun is just average... But I really liked it at that time."

"Meow~ Xinghai wants to play hide-and-seek~" The tone of the black and white kitten was full of longing.

"Save it, wait until you can leave here. Play hide-and-seek here, what if you touch the bottle again?" It said coldly. It was already silent about the bottle, playing hide-and-seek in this narrow black box? Forget it, it doesn't want to die again...

Wait a moment!

Death again?

Its head was a little confused.

How many times have I died here?

Why can you think of such a terrible word "death again" so easily...

Why is it so familiar with the touch of that bottle that you can almost outline the shape of the bottle in your heart, as if you have accidentally touched it many times?

The bottle seems to appear anywhere. No matter how you hide, you can't avoid it. Sooner or later, it will touch it over. Even if you don't touch it, the bottle will seem to be overturned by itself...

So that's it... So, how many times has this been my resurrection?

It fell into deep thought, its mind was completely filled with these questions, and even its desire to escape was not so strong...

"Meow~ It doesn't matter, just get used to it! If you get used to it, it won't be so painful... Xinghai wants to play hide-and-seek!"

It woke up from its contemplation and roared loudly like a torture: "Kill me! Kill me quickly! Don't let me resurrect again! OK, don't let me live without dignity!"

No matter how it shouted, it still had no response.

“Meow~What is a wax museum?”

It didn't answer, and the black and white kitten kept asking.

Annoyed by the question, it had to say, "It's just a large room full of wax figures for others to visit. I don't know anything else, anyway, I met you there."

"Meow~ It sounds so fun, but Xinghai has never left here..."

It thought for a while, "Maybe I'll leave in the future. You looked very happy at that time, and you looked carefree and don't say anything wrong. I'm pretty sure it's you, and my nose won't go wrong."

"Meow~ Will Xinghai be very happy?"

It remained silent and carefully recalled the short moment when it met the black and white kitten before.

Thinking of the black and white kitten, thinking of the wax statue, it thought of the angel's wax statue again. The smile on her face was so innocent, and her last words were so selfless...

It was very sure that it could not hold on in this black box like a black and white kitten for a long time.

The black and white kitten can hold on because it is not because of its unique talent, but because it has been here since birth and has been used to loneliness, but it cannot do it. It has seen the world and cannot endure loneliness. It will probably go completely crazy in the future.

It only has one, even if it only has one, it will become an angel, and at least not leave any regrets before losing its mind.

It suddenly calmed down, never so calm.

"You will be very happy." It imagined itself as an angel and said softly: "That wax museum probably does not allow cats to come in. I didn't see anyone else with cats there. You must have been secretly taken in. This means that you will meet a new owner who loves you in the future. He will give you delicious food, let you sleep in a warm bed, play hide-and-seek with you, and in order to make you happy, you will secretly bring you into the wax museum... So, you must hold on. Before the happy days come, no matter how painful it is, don't fall into the darkness before dawn!"

After saying this, it suddenly felt extremely relaxed in its heart, and its body seemed to have lost its weight, and even life and death were no longer important.

It turns out that helping others is so happy.

"Meow~Meow~" The black and white kitten seemed to believe it and screamed happily.

If its few words can help the black and white kitten hold on for a while in the endless cycle of reincarnation, then it may have fulfilled its mission. It can relax, eat a sweet cake, smell the fragrance of flowers, spin around the angel's feet, shake its tail at her, and ask her to touch her head...

It imagined a beautiful picture, quietly lying on the cold metal floor, waiting for its next death.

It accepted fate calmly and died, but it ushered in the dawn of the next moment...

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