What should I do if my pet loves watching anime?

At four o'clock in the morning, the lights of the Qingzhu Town Library were already appearing as double images in Gu Beiri's eyes.

He rubbed his dry eyes and closed the thick, eight-hundred-page book in front of him, "The Science of Pokémon Characteristics: From Basics to the Cutting Edge."

The edges of the book pages were covered with sticky notes, and the notebook was already filled with twenty-seven pages of notes.

This is his seventh consecutive day visiting the library.

The day after returning from Linhai City, Gu Beiri devised a rigorous, almost self-torturing, study plan:

I get up at 5 a.m. and help with farm work for two hours; from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m., I study at the library; I go home for lunch and rest for an hour; from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., I continue at the library; from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., I organize my notes and preview the next day's material.

I study for more than twelve hours every day.

"The scope of the preparatory exam for researchers... is simply making things difficult for people." Gu Beiri smiled wryly as he flipped through the exam syllabus.

The written exam includes twelve subjects: Pokémon ecology, attribute theory, evolution mechanism, characteristic analysis, battle psychology, basic breeding science, etc.

The interview will require you to analyze case studies of sprites on the spot, design research solutions, and may even involve simple practical tests.

There are less than three months left until the next preparatory class entrance exam.

"We need to speed things up." Gu Beiri glanced at the clock on the wall and packed his schoolbag.

He borrowed more than a dozen books from the town library and also downloaded a large number of papers from the paid resource library shared by Su Wenya.

This level of intensity was something I had never experienced even when preparing for the postgraduate entrance exam in my previous life.

But Gu Beiri found joy in it—with each new lesson he learned, he drew closer to that fantastical world of elves.

It's just that poor sheep like Mali suffer.

The little guy was kept in the room by Gu Beiri (with his parents' consent). He originally thought he could play with his trainer all day long, but most of the time he could only lie on the soft mat in the corner and watch Gu Beiri's back.

"Meow..."

One evening, out of boredom, it nudged Gu Beiri's calf with its horn.

"Good boy, play by yourself for a while." Gu Beiri didn't turn his head, and was calculating a problem about "energy conversion efficiency of electric skills".

Mali sheep lay back down on the mat, feeling wronged.

The only sounds in the room were turning pages and writing.

…………

That evening, Gu Beiri encountered a bottleneck in his studies.

He was researching literature on "character awakening" and found that the world's academic community knew very little about this phenomenon.

"Cases are rare, the mechanisms are unclear, and they cannot be replicated..." Gu Beiri rubbed his temples. "No wonder Miss Joey was so surprised."

He glanced at the time; it was 11:30 p.m.

Mare the sheep was already asleep, its little belly rising and falling with its breath.

Gu Beiri stretched and decided to rest for ten minutes.

He opened the old laptop.

The computer was a second-hand item that the original owner bought in high school. Its performance was barely enough to browse the internet and search for information, and it would lag when watching videos.

But Gu Beiri still habitually opened a folder containing classic anime collected by his predecessor.

Although Gu Beiri didn't know why there was anime here, he could only attribute it to a parallel world.

The icon for "A Certain Scientific Railgun" lies there quietly.

"Bilibili? It's been a long time since I've watched it."

Driven purely by memories, Gu Beiri clicked on the first episode.

Buffering, stuttering, and blurry images.

But when the girl with short brown hair appeared on the screen, Gu Beiri still felt a sense of familiarity—it was a memory of staying up all night to watch anime in his previous life.

He put on his headphones, intending to watch for a few minutes before continuing his studies.

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What Gu Beiri didn't notice was that the moment he clicked on the video, the sheep that should have been sleeping quietly opened its eyes.

The little guy was very curious about the light emitted from the computer screen.

It tiptoed to its feet, moved closer to Gu Beiri's legs, and looked up at the glowing cube.

On the screen, Misaka Mikoto is standing on a street at night.

She took out a coin and flicked it with her thumb.

Golden arcs of electricity danced and converged at her fingertips, eventually coalescing into a dazzling plasma ball.

"Railgun (Super Railgun) -"

With a clear shout, the coin transformed into an orange-red beam of light, tearing through the night sky and exploding into dazzling sparks on a distant water tower.

"Bilibili..." Mare the sheep was so engrossed in watching that it unconsciously imitated the electrical sound effects from the animation.

Static electricity began to stir on its body, and tiny golden arcs of electricity coursed through its fur.

But Gu Beiri was wearing headphones and completely absorbed in solving the problem, so he didn't notice anything unusual around him.

…………

The video continues playing.

Misaka Mikoto manipulates iron sand with electromagnetic force, forming a giant iron sand giant; she deploys an electromagnetic barrier to deflect enemy attacks...

Mare the sheep's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

It couldn't understand the plot or the dialogue, but those images—the form of electric current, the use of electromagnetic fields, and the way in which intangible forces were transformed into tangible power—were deeply imprinted on its nascent intelligence.

So this is how electricity can be used!

So handsome...

The longing for that dashing figure on the screen was undisguisedly etched in the black, beady eyes of Mali Sheep.

…………

At 2 a.m., Gu Beiri finally solved the difficult problem.

He let out a long sigh, took off his headphones, and then discovered that Mare the Sheep was lying next to his legs, staring intently at the ending theme song of the cartoon that had just finished playing.

"Huh? When did you wake up?" Gu Beiri smiled and patted its head. "Was the cartoon good?"

"Baa!" MaaLi bleated excitedly, and a cluster of sparks, brighter than usual, appeared on its body.

Gu Beiri didn't pay much attention, assuming the little guy was just full of energy after waking up.

"Okay, time to sleep." He turned off the computer and prepared to wash up.

Just as he turned to walk towards the door—

"Bilibili...Bilibili!"

Suddenly, the sheep let out a strange bleating.

The sound was no longer a gentle "baa," but a rhythmic, imitative electrical sound.

Gu Beiri subconsciously turned around.

Then, he witnessed a scene he would never forget.

Mare the sheep stood in the center of the room and closed its eyes.

The static electricity on its body began to emerge on an unprecedented scale—not scattered sparks, but patches of flowing golden light.

Those streams of light peeled off its surface, rose into the air, and swirled and intertwined as if they were alive.

The air in the room began to vibrate.

The papers on the desk moved on their own without any wind, and the pencil rolled to the floor. The light bulb of the old desk lamp flickered on and off, emitting a buzzing sound.

"Mary sheep?!" Gu Beiri exclaimed in surprise.

But Mali did not respond.

It was completely immersed in a state of enlightenment.

Deep within its consciousness, the images from the animation and its own power are merging.

Electric arcs dancing on Mikoto's fingertips...

That feeling of condensing, compressing, and then unleashing electricity...

"Bilibili—!!!"

Mare the sheep suddenly opened its eyes!

The brown pupils in his eyes now shimmered with a faint golden luster!

The instant it opened its eyes, a visible golden electric net suddenly unfolded around the spot where it was standing!

That wasn't an attack, nor a skill, but a "field".

A golden field made entirely of electricity that covers the entire room!

Electrical site!