Los Angeles, West Coast, California, USA.

In February, it was still snowing in New York, but it was already warm as spring.

Peter changed into a floral shirt and beach pants on the plane, pulled flip-flops on his feet, and walked with a swagger, looking at this posture, give him a boat and he will dare to go to sea to be the king of the pirates.

In contrast to the elitist city of New York, the people of Los Angeles prefer nature and simplicity.

Walking through the streets of Manhattan, you will find that most of the people have serious expressions and hurried steps, for fear that if they stop a little, they will be abandoned by the times. And most New Yorkers are very concerned about their appearance, the boys will comb their neat oily hair, go to the gym to train their muscles when they have nothing to do, and only eat a salad at noon in order to stay in shape, and the girls are even crazier, even if they go out for 20 minutes to buy food, they have to spend half an hour to put on makeup. New York, the fashion capital of the United States, is always unique, noble, and unshakable, and this spirit has been integrated into the bone marrow of New Yorkers.

Los Angeles, the second-largest city in the United States, is less of the suffocating oppression of New York and more like a thriving liberal community. There are few skyscrapers here, and small houses of various shapes stretch loosely in all directions, connected by a well-developed road network. Here, it's common to walk into an office building in jeans and sneakers, and it's even more casual for people who don't take their work so seriously. Aesthetic? Sorry, it doesn't exist, but what Angelenos want is comfort, freedom and freedom.

For Peter, this was heaven.

But for Jessica, there are few places in the United States other than New York that are suitable for her survival. The reason is simple, she doesn't drive.

Considering that she lost all her loved ones in a tragic traffic accident, it is completely understandable that she does not want to drive. But in Los Angeles, a city with little public transportation to speak of, not driving means it's hard to get around.

"How bad luck did I have to be dragged into this kind of."

Distraught, Jessica sat in the back seat of the car and gulped down her drink. As long as you smell the strong smell of wine, you can know that the degree is definitely not low. Fortunately, Peter, who drives, has a super high metabolism, and the blood alcohol concentration is always below the critical value, otherwise he can be directly investigated for drunk driving just by smelling this alcohol.

Belle and Jessica sit in the back row together, and the two of them have been sorting through the various clues Jessica has found along the way. This is the most troublesome aspect of investigative work, regardless of whether the clues are reliable or not, they all have to be traced.

It wasn't until Peter drove all the way to 2311 Robles Avenue in North Los Angeles, parked the car, and walked into the apartment building that Alvarez had helped rent in advance, that the two stopped discussing. The partition wall has ears, and discussing these things in the hallway will inevitably be listened to by the neighbors.

"Anyway, what's going on? Why is the elevator still broken? Jessica grumbled.

Peter fiddled with the seal attached to the elevator door, stared at the "faulty" sign for a while, and said, "Look at this, it seems to have been broken for a long time." ”

But fortunately, the place where they live is only on the fifth floor, and climbing the stairs is not a strenuous exercise.

"You can be with Peter during this time," Belle said to Jessica, "and for the sake of secrecy, it's impossible to hire you a chauffeur, and if you take a taxi, it's not so convenient in Los Angeles." ”

"Uh," Jessica hesitated slightly, obviously not much of working with someone with an obvious amount of energy like Peter, "I don't seem to have a choice." ”

"Hey, how do you say I'm like a burden?" Peter grinned and said, "If we can work together happily, we have to try to find out." Have you ever heard of Schrödinger's cat? ”

Judging from Jessica's expression, it was obvious that she hadn't heard of it, but she didn't want to ask Peter, so she just laughed and asked Belle, "Are you sure this kid is okay?" It doesn't look like he's going to have a good brain. ”

"He's just not very good at talking," Belle said, "and in fact, he's pretty brainy." ”

"Are you sure?" Jessica asked.

"Schrödinger's cat, a hypothetical experiment proposed by Alvin Schrödinger in 1935 to explain the Copenhaben School's interpretation of quantum mechanics," Belle explains to Jessica, "a cat is in a box with a bottle of poison that may leak at any time, because it is not known if the poison has leaked or when it will leak, and the only way to know if the cat is still alive is to open the box and see." What Peter means is that you'll have to try it......"

As they spoke, they turned the corner and went up another flight of steps, only to be met by another group of people, all of whom stopped on the stairs looking back, as if listening intently, and Jessica bumped into the short man with the mushroom head, a bright plaid shirt and blue skinny jeans, who was walking at the back of them.

"Ouch!" The mushroom-headed man exclaimed exaggeratedly, "This almost knocked me into space!" ”

"Alright, we're all right, we all know you've been to space." A small, bespectacled man said, "If you could go again, and take Sheldon with you, and then come back with him, I'd replace the letters in Hollywood with 'Howard Wolowitz went to space.'" ”

He said to Jessica, "I'm sorry, my friend has no ill intentions, he's just joking...... Oh......" He wanted to look up and drive Jessica, but Jessica's height of 175cm and the height of his heel made him feel a little overwhelmed by the height of his 165cm, and he shook suddenly, but fortunately the tall man like a thin bamboo pole next to him held him, "Ah, thank you, Sheldon, I just suddenly felt a little dizzy," he whispered, "Don't tell Penny what just happened." ”

"What just happened?" The bamboo pole man known as Sheldon asked with a confused expression, "Leonard, are you asking me to help you keep it a secret?" You know I'm the worst at secrecy! Every time I want to keep it a secret, my facial muscles twitch involuntarily, last time you told me not to tell Raj that his dog ate ...... last time at our house"

"Dada Leonard slipped out of his mouth in a fit of noise and tried to interrupt his companion's unbridled speech, as the Indian named Raj was nearby, his eyes widening.

"If you want to use Morse code, then your few clicks are simply ashamed of my training for so many years!" Sheldon said, a look of disdain.

"Raj?" Belle walked up to Jessica, heard the name, and suddenly asked, "Dr. Rajesh Kusapari?" ”

"You know me?" Raj asked in surprise, forgetting about his dog for a moment, and turned to his friends with a smile, "See?" There's a big beauty here, and she actually knows me! ”

"Not necessarily," Sheldon said earnestly, thinking hard, "I think it's more likely that Howard's robotics research yielded epoch-making results, and then the first thing he did with the new robot was to fix you." ”

Howard cooperated with Sheldon's words, pretended to have the remote control in his hand, pressed Belle, and said, "Hey, Siri, spit on Sheldon!" ”

Belle was very cooperative, mimicking the robot's voice and saying, "Error: 404! Not yet equipped with a digestive system that allows for the use of any digestive juice secretion function. ”

"Oh, I like you!" Sheldon's eyes lit up and he said, "You were the one who explained Schrödinger's cat just now, right?" We can speak in a robotic voice, we know physics, and we have so much to play with! Would you like to go to my room and see my rocket? ”

"Sheldon, I've explained it to you countless times, don't say such strange things, others will misunderstand." Leonard said helplessly, "I'm really sorry, he doesn't mean anything weird, he's just a nerd." ”

"And you've got Amy again," Raj said in a helpful voice, "Take her to see your rocket!" This young lady knows me, and if she likes to watch rockets, she should go to my house to see me. ”

Jessica, the old driver, clearly understood these words beyond the literal meaning, and she looked at Belle with a confused expression, obviously trying to ask something, but she didn't know where to start.

But after all, it's a sitcom role, and Belle doesn't expect them to say anything serious.

She wasn't surprised to see them here, for she had already met Raj eight years ago.

"Dr. Kusapari, I met you in 2008 at a reception hosted by People magazine, 30 under 30 to watch, and you didn't dare to talk to me at the time, at least not before you drank."

……

When acquaintances meet, it is natural to talk more, and Jessica is obviously confused and unhappy, according to the habit since childhood, when the people around him are in a bad mood, Sheldon will definitely prepare a cup of coffee for the other party.

Jessica stood in the living room of apartment 4A with a coffee cup in her hand, looking at the crowded room, and she was a little overwhelmed.

"Where is this?" She whispered to Peter.

"I don't know," Peter and Jessica hid by the wall together, and the two of them chatted quietly: "But this time Belle and I are indeed here as exchange students, and it seems that I am going to Dr. Hofstad's research group, the one who wears glasses, and Belle should be going to the Indian's research group, astrophysics or something." ”

Penny, Amy, and Bernadette were already at home chatting while waiting for a couple of nerds to come back from the comic shop. As a result, they not only waited for their boyfriends, but also waited for three strangers. And Penny, who is familiar with various events in the entertainment industry, recognized Belle at a glance and immediately "exposed" her various public identities.

When she said this, everyone immediately felt that Raj's image was much taller, and no one expected that people at the level of national goddesses would actually remember his name.

"You kid can do it!" Howard teased Raj, "Why didn't I hear you mention that you knew the child star back then?" ”

"She was 11 at the time!" Raj hurriedly defended, his brown face flushed, "I don't want to be taken for a pedophile!" ”

On the other side, Belle is asking Penny how Raj cured selective silence.

"That's interesting," Penny said, "I know a powerful psychic medium, and she gave Raj a magic medicine that can grant wishes," she couldn't help but lower her voice when she said this, "According to Raj, it cost a lot of money, but his family is quite rich, and his father who is an obstetrician and gynecologist pays for it anyway." ”

"A miracle medicine to fulfill wishes?" Belle couldn't help but be interested.

This is different from what is played in the TV series. However, considering that this is the Marvel Universe, maybe there really is such an anti-heaven artifact.

"Well, I haven't bought it either, and it's either very expensive or more expensive than money," Penny said mysteriously, "If I could afford it, I'd be an Oscar-winning actress by now." ”

"I wonder if this medicine is charged according to the difficulty of fulfilling wishes?" Leonard interjected: "I just wanted to grow long, but it turned out to be ridiculously expensive, so I gave up." ”

Although they did not speak loudly, they were heard by Peter, who was unusually sensitive.

"A miracle medicine that can grant wishes? Desire to grow taller? ”

Peter thought to himself.

He remembers that last year, on Independence Eve, on the top floor of the hotel where the group was staying, in Washington, Belle, had said that she would consider Peter his girlfriend as soon as he grew taller than her (chapter 24).

He muttered quietly, "Shouldn't you find a chance to check it out?" ”