The owner of the laboratory hugged the fox and led the guests behind him, and walked slowly towards the depths of the laboratory.

From time to time, the black-robed researchers walked past the two of them, holding heavy papers and a basket of crystal balls the size of their fingers, walking hurriedly and not squinting.

The young public student looked at the wisps of suspicious black gas swirling around those crystal balls, and always felt as if he had overlooked something.

It wasn't until he saw that next to a certain large ball of light, a researcher opened the law book, summoned wisps of new black qi from the void, and stuffed it back into the large ball of light next to him, he finally couldn't hold back the doubts in his heart.

"What's your test piece?"

Although this question was a bit reckless, Zheng Qing still insisted on asking it - seeing the strange scenes around him and listening to Su Da Meinu's previous explanation, if he didn't figure it out thoroughly, this question would be like a thorn in his heart, which made people linger.

Su Shijun held Poseidon in one hand and hung down with the other.

Slender white fingertips tapped the floor.

Zheng Qing lowered his head.

The blue-gray smooth floor was spotless, and not even an ant could be seen except for the dark shadow illuminated by the large ball of light next to it.

Shadow?

Zheng Qing suddenly remembered the warning of the parrot at the front desk of the institute.

"Shadow?" he looked up, his tone a little dry, "You use shadows for experiments?"

"As a projection of three-dimensional lifeforms, it has the characteristics of wave-particle duality, and there is no better test object than shadow to go deep into those two-dimensional worlds and stir up wind and rain. Su Shijun replied casually while arranging new jobs for several researchers.

"No, no, no," Zheng Qing immediately waved his hand again and again, denying, "I mean...... I've always felt that shadows don't seem to have some kind of agility...... It's hard to believe that they are capable of undertaking such an important experimental task. ”

"It's natural. From a wizard's point of view, apart from wizards, what other creature is not stupid and stupid, and has no spirit?...... However, 'life' with two-dimensional attributes is very rare in the first place, not to mention that it is closely related to the concept of 'human'. ”

"We really shouldn't expect too much from the world. ”

After saying that, Su Shijun suddenly turned his head, looked at Zheng Qing, and asked rhetorically, "...... Besides, what kind of world do you think the two-dimensional world is?"

Zheng Qing hesitated.

"Is it the two-dimensional world?" he replied tentatively, "In my hometown, there are some young people who like anime very much, and they are called 'two-dimensional houses'...... The anime world they like may belong to the two-dimensional world?"

"Well, I almost forgot, you're not a pure wizard. Su Shijun waved his hand wistfully, and simply added: "The children of the real wizard family will start from the specific dimensional lines and discuss which two dimensions can build a world, and there is no such crude and simple conclusion as you...... But you're not bad. ”

"Including your concept of anime, movies, even fairy tales, folklore, night tales, etc., these 'worlds' that have a certain concept of the world, but have no world form, are all two-dimensional worlds...... It is the destination of our exploration and experimentation. ”

"What kind of life do you think can enter the two-dimensional world?"

"The protagonist, the supporting role, the protagonist of the TV series. Zheng Qing touched the tip of his nose and said with a smile: "The shadow can also be the protagonist?"

"Creation comes from reality and is higher than reality, and every character in every work has the shadow of the real world. Haven't you heard from readers who see the shadow of a writer in the protagonist of a certain work?"

"Shadows are the most authentic indigenous people in these works...... Their vitality comes from the works, and the height of the works is supported by them. ”

"Wouldn't a work built from shadows alone seem too thin? Zheng Qing questioned: "Shouldn't all true masterpieces have their own souls?"

"Do you want us to experiment with our souls?" Su Shijun scratched Poseidon's chin, watched it flick its tail with a smile, and looked at the public scholarship student in surprise: "...... This is the first university, and if someone reports that a wizard has violated a small half of the terms of the Wizarding Code, I am afraid that this place will become the biggest scandal of the wizarding world this century. ”

"I'm not! I don't! You're talking nonsense!!" Zheng Qing immediately blushed.

Poseidon lay in Su Shijun's arms, laughing straight to the bottom.

"But...... Where did your shadow come from?" Zheng Qing resisted the urge to pull the fox's ears and forcibly changed the subject.

At the same time, he couldn't help but think of many fairy tales he had read - the evil old witch cut off the shadow of the ignorant girl with scissors, so from then on, these children who lost their shadows lived a life without seeing the sun.

He found that he couldn't help but think in the worst possible direction.

Su Shijun's subsequent answer also proves this.

"Oh, the shadows were collected from the world of Hakuding," perhaps because none of the contents were classified, the witch's answer seemed casual: "To be exact, it was traded." ”

"Deal?" immediately came to the minds of the fellow students, with the images of the devils, their laughter, and the burning parchment contracts.

"Hmm...... Do you know computers?"

"Yes. Zheng Qing tugged at the corners of his mouth, and a few black lines appeared on his head.

"Oh, I almost forgot, you have a computer at home," Su Shijun stuck out his tongue, revealing a cute expression.

Zheng Qing's IQ was immediately knocked out by this cute expression.

"The Curse Research Institute of the Institute of Applied Magic helped us get a small 'meme'," as he spoke, Su Shijun took out a laptop computer out of nowhere and put it in front of Zheng Qing: "It's this software......"

Zheng Qing looked at the familiar interface on the computer screen, and suddenly felt a feeling of tears in his eyes.

He doesn't seem to have touched a computer in a long time.

QQ, games, post bars, and various water groups in Zhihu, countless memories immediately filled his brain.

"I miss it so much...... he couldn't help but press the touch screen and click on the webpage with great interest: "The first university even has iFi? Which network are you connected to? Mobile or Unicom? I remember that the signal of Unicom has not been good, but the mobile restrictions are too strong, and many interesting websites can't be accessed......

Su Shijun looked at him with a smile, and didn't seem to have any intention of explaining.

Zheng Qing didn't care, but was engrossed in tapping on the keyboard, moving the cursor, clicking on a certain reading network, and voting a few recommendation votes for his favorite.

Oh, and the monthly pass.

Zheng Qing thought that the next time he turned on the computer, he didn't know when it would be, so he simply voted out all the tickets in his inventory at one time.

Familiar web pages, familiar interfaces...... And the familiar pop-up ads!

A boxy, off-white box pops up in the bottom right corner of the page.

In the small box, there are two rows of bold words in black and bold:

"Want to understand the meaning of life?"

"Want to be really...... Alive?"