Hidden moth

Chapter 66: To exist is to be perceived

The next day, He Kao slept until noon again. Young people have good sleep quality.

He slept too late last night and played too hard, and was almost exhausted. If he were an ordinary person, he would probably be sent to the hospital directly due to exhaustion.

The large bedroom in the southwest corner where he slept was originally occupied by his grandfather. It had its own en suite bathroom, just like a standard hotel room. He had originally wanted Gao Xue'e to live here, but Gao Xue'e insisted on living in the small bedroom where He Kao usually slept.

After washing and dressing, He Kao opened the door and came out, just in time to see Gao Xue'e setting the table. He wondered, "Is this the breakfast you bought...?"

Gao Xue'e said a little embarrassedly, "I got up quite late too. Seeing that you were still sleeping, I went to the old street in town to buy some food. There are quite a lot of shops there."

It was almost midnight when He Kao got up, and Gao Xue'e didn't get up early either, around half past ten. It was supposed to be lunchtime, but she had bought breakfast instead.

There were bubble wontons, freshly fried dough sticks, and the town's specialty, green bean paste-filled rice cakes. She made two more cups of tea, just enough for each of them.

He Kao: "Is this how you go out?"

Gao Xue'e: "I was wearing a hat and a mask, so no one recognized me. Besides, no one here knows me."

He Kao: "The way you're dressed, you're obviously an elite white-collar worker going to work in an office building. I'm afraid everyone would take a second look at you in the old streets of town."

Gao Xue'e rolled her eyes at him and said, "Didn't you get this for me?"

He Kao slapped his head and thought, that's right. The coats he got for Gao Xue'e yesterday were all the ones she wore to work on weekdays.

Gao Xue'e smiled and asked, "You think I'm too conspicuous? If I were to go to the farmers' market here or something, do you have suitable clothes for me to change into... or maybe a plaid shirt?"

"It's a stereotype that programmers only wear plaid shirts. I actually have casual clothes for you to wear to the market. They're right over there in the room. Can't you see it?"

As he spoke, he walked into Gao Xue'e's bedroom and took out a set of clothes from the closet. Gao Xue'e took it and looked at it, laughing so hard that her body shook: "When did you get this clothes?"

He Kao: "This is the school uniform I was given when I first entered high school. Tell me if it fits me well?"

Gao Xue'e: "It's so new, haven't you worn it before?"

He Kao: "Indeed, I have only worn it a few times. There is a story behind it."

Gao Xue'e: "Let's eat first, sit down and talk slowly, I love listening to stories."

Really? He Kao remembered Gao Xue'e scolding her subordinates, often saying, "Don't tell me stories, tell me something practical!" Now she claimed to love listening to stories. Alas, what a fickle woman...

He Kao is 1.82 meters tall, while Gao Xue'e's naked height should be around 1.65 meters, and over 1.7 meters when wearing high heels.

When He Kao started high school, he was as tall as she is now. The so-called school uniforms were just wholesale sportswear, without even a school logo. In rural areas, many things are a bit sloppy.

Although the clothes were provided by the school, parents also had to pay for them. He Kao was very careful with his belongings, so he always washed them very clean. He had already learned how to use a washing machine at home.

The school would issue a new uniform every academic year, requiring students to wear it at the flag-raising ceremony during drills every Monday. By the time he was a sophomore, his freshman uniform was a bit worn, but still in good condition, so he wore it as his daily wear.

He grew very fast at that time, and his clothes were actually too small for him.

It seems that there are always a few bad boys in every middle school class. I don’t know where they learned to bully others, but some of them targeted He Kao.

A bad boy laughed at him for wearing clothes that were too small for him, and even deliberately tore his clothes during physical education class.

As a result, He Kao neither went home to complain nor reported to the teacher. Instead, he blocked him several times on the way home from school, using pond mud balls and cow dung bullets, and each time the boy was left with a mess.

At that time, Huang Xiaopang also helped him cooperate, such as helping to report news, keep watch, and replenish manure.

He Kao didn't have any other requests, just wanted the other party to compensate for the clothes. In fact, he had already shown mercy, after all, there was no big grudge.

The boy came home like this, and his parents must have asked what happened. The boy said that He Kao and Huang Si did it. The parents were not happy when they heard it, and ran to the school to find the teacher, saying that He Kao bullied her child.

Why didn't the other parent file a complaint against Huang Si, knowing they were two different people? It was because He Kao was the main culprit, and Xiao Pang was only an accomplice. It might also be because Huang Si's father was a police officer and the director of the detention center, making him a top figure in several nearby villages.

The interesting thing is that the teacher doesn’t believe it at all!
In the homeroom teacher's impression, He Kao has always been a well-behaved and obedient child. More importantly, He Kao's grades are always among the top in the grade, while the bad boy's grades are always at the bottom of the class.

The head teacher called the bad boy and asked him why he said that He Kao bullied him. The bad boy let the cat out of the bag and had to admit that he was the one who tore He Kao's clothes... Then the teacher asked his parents to pay for it.

In a place like the countryside, everyone knows each other by degrees. When my uncle heard about this, he said forget it. It was just a set of clothes, no need to compensate! He asked my aunt to buy He Kao a new set of clothes: jeans and a plaid shirt.

But my eldest aunt was different. After buying clothes, she ran to the village entrance and cursed in the streets.

Mother Chen also bought a set of clothes for He Kao, saying that Xiaopang had gained weight recently and the clothes she bought for him could no longer fit him. However, no matter how He Kao looked at them, they looked like new clothes.

Later, the other parent compensated him with a new set of sportswear, the same size as before. When He Kao put it on again, it was too small, so he rarely wore it, washed it, and put it away, never throwing it away.

Gao Xue'e listened with great interest, sometimes sighing and sometimes laughing non-stop.

After the story was told and the meal was finished, Gao Xue'e stood up and said, "I'm going to change my clothes. It's getting late and I have to work hard in the afternoon. Those 200 documents need to be mailed out as soon as possible."

Gao Xue'e went into the house to change, while He Kao sat there blinking. He had actually been running various tests since he left the house, but Gao Xue'e hadn't noticed. He opened the bedroom door and saw Gao Xue'e setting the table. The portal to the so-called hidden moth space overlapped with the bedroom door.

He Kao could clearly sense its existence, but Gao Xue'e turned a blind eye to it.

It was normal for her to be blind, but could she also feel it? He Kao put away the door and placed it in several different locations.

Sometimes it was placed next to Gao Xue'e, sometimes it was placed on the route she passed when she walked, and finally it was even placed where Gao Xue'e sat when she ate.

Gao Xue'e passed through the portal back and forth as if passing through the air, and finally even sat on both sides of the portal, but she was unaware of it and did not feel the slightest bit of abnormality.

He Kao was certain of one thing: for Gao Xue'e, this portal was as good as non-existent. The following test gave He Kao a deeper understanding of the concept of "non-existence."

If Gao Xue'e could see him, then the portal would be equivalent to not existing, because even He Kao himself could not open it!

Folding and placing the portal in front of Gao Xue'e, that is, moving the position of the portal, has no effect on her because she cannot detect these operations.

But as long as she looked at He Kao, He Kao couldn't open the door. No matter why, he just couldn't open it!

In this situation, He Kao discovered that he had gained another "superpower", let's call it a superpower, which is the ability to sense whether someone is observing him.

Because when he wanted to open the door but couldn't, even if he didn't know who was observing him or how, he could still realize that he was being observed.

For example, when He Kao turned his back to Gao Xue'e or walked around the room, he knew that Gao Xue'e was always paying attention to him. Even if it was only in the corner of her eyes, Gao Xue'e was always paying attention to him.

This was a new ability, not his previous clairvoyance, which allowed him to sense Gao Xue'e's presence without even looking, but not to detect that she was observing him.

What does it mean? The more you look at him, the more handsome he becomes, and the more handsome he becomes, the more you look at him?

When Gao Xue'e was observing him, he couldn't open the door. So, in another situation, if Gao Xue'e was observing the location of the door, could he get out? He Kao decided to make a risky attempt.

Hearing Gao Xue'e's movements, he knew that she had changed her clothes and was about to come out. He Kao quickly placed the door at the door of the bedroom opposite and then slipped in.

Gao Xue'e came out, but didn't see He Kao, so she called out, "Where are you... Xiao Kao, where are you?"

Unable to hear He Kao's response, Gao Xue'e even went to his bedroom to take a look. When she didn't see anyone, she immediately panicked and quickly turned around and went back into the kitchen...

He Kao was inside the portal and could not sense anything, and of course he could not know the situation outside. He just tried to leave, but found that the portal could not be opened and he could not get out.

After a few more seconds, the feeling that the portal could not be opened disappeared, and he immediately returned to the outside of the portal.

From this he was certain of one thing: even if he was inside the portal and someone outside was observing its location, he would not be able to open the portal and get out.

Anyway, as long as he entered and exited the door, he could not be observed by others, and therefore could not be sensed by others. So, he had to be careful when entering and exiting the door in the future and not choose the wrong place.

If someone outside is watching the location of the portal 24 hours a day, it is equivalent to trapping him inside the portal.

This situation must be avoided until he can open another portal like Huang Xiaopang and go somewhere else... and this weakness of the hidden moth must not be exposed!
Gao Xue'e came out of the kitchen and looked up to see He Kao standing in the main room. She clutched her chest and said, "Where were you just now? I was startled, thinking something had happened again."

"It's okay. I just went to the yard." Seeing Gao Xue'e's voice tinged with tears, he quickly changed the subject. "This school uniform, everyone said it was tacky and ugly back then, how come it looks so good on you?"

"You're annoying! I look better in something else." Even as she said that, Gao Xue'e smiled through her tears, put on her hat and mask, and said, "Can we go now?"

He Kao: "Wait a moment, we haven't decided how to send it yet."

Gao Xue'e: "How do you plan to send the materials?"

He Kao: "Find a hotel, four-star or five-star is fine. You don't have to check in. Just call the courier to pick up the package in the lobby. The delivery address was printed yesterday, so just give it directly to the courier.

We can all wear masks. At least you look like this now, so even if you appear on surveillance, no one will recognize you. "

Gao Xue'e: "You've thought it through quite carefully, but there's a flaw. You have to call, and now you even have to use the official account to make an appointment. Unless you don't use your own phone number and account, whose phone number do you want to use?"

He Kao: "Let me think about it. Even in express lockers, you have to scan the code with your phone now... We can go directly to the express station and fill in the sender's contact information at random."

Gao Xue'e smiled and said, "No need to go through so much trouble. We can just go to the post office, put the envelope in, put a stamp on it, and put it directly in the mailbox."

He Kao: "Ah, does anyone still send letters like this now?"

Gao Xue'e: "Of course there is, you just don't know it! Have you only used email and thought that email doesn't exist in the real world?

The postal system's mailboxes have been preserved, and there are regulations requiring them to be opened and retrieved regularly. Now, they have almost become the only delivery method for letters of complaint... I have also found the addresses of the outlets in various districts of Qiyuan City."

He Kao: "Is that so? Then we can buy envelopes and stamps somewhere else. As for the delivery location, to be on the safe side, let's choose the Qiyuan City Post Office."

This was an empiricist oversight. He Kao had never used a post office box and was now accustomed to sending express mail. He subconsciously thought that this outdated mailing method had long been eliminated, and he even put a lot of thought into sending the materials.

Gao Xue'e had some experience with matters related to letters of complaint, so she understood the situation and used her own strength to overcome all difficulties.

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(End of this chapter)