MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 237 Cognitive Differences
Half an hour later, in a somewhat dilapidated apartment.

"I'm back," the red-haired boy calmly called out to the empty house.

Then he turned to Fang Zheng behind him and said, "Come in. If you're bored, you can play some games first, just don't touch my save file. Wait for me a moment, I'll cook dinner first."

About an hour later, a large pot full of beef curry was served.

Yan Chi said, "There wasn't enough time. I used a pressure cooker, so the taste might be a little off. Please bear with it. Next time I invite you to dinner, I'll prepare in advance."

Fang Zheng didn't mind and casually took a few bites: "It tastes pretty good. You cook often, don't you?"

Yan Chi nodded casually: "Yes, after all, I live alone, and I've honed my cooking skills over the years."

Soon after finishing the whole pot of beef curry, the two began to have a formal conversation.

Fang Zheng first grabbed Kyubey from the side, rubbing its face as he did so. Under Yan Chi's furrowed brows and scrutinizing gaze, he asked, "By the way, why did the conversation I overheard between you and Kyubey sound so strange?"

"Why do you call him 'Core'? Is that a nickname you gave him? Why is Kyubey talking to you in such a strange tone? Oh right, you and that Kyubey from Mitakihara City I saw, could you be related? Do you two know each other?"

Fang Zheng pulled out that strange card again. "Also, why do you call the Witch's Barrier a Monster Domain, and the Witch a Monster? Why did this card drop instead of a Lament Seed after I killed it?"

"Wait!" Yan Chi looked bewildered and rubbed his forehead, then said hesitantly, "I already said that I don't know what you mean by 'witch barrier' or anything like that."

His tone was somewhat exasperated, like an otaku seeing his figurine being picked up and broken by a brat: "Also, could you put my Gigacore Partner down first? I know it looks cool, but you don't have to pick it up and rub it like you're petting a puppy!"

"Cool... Huh? Kyubey looks cool?" Fang Zheng was a little stunned. He looked at the furry thing in his hand, which looked like both a cat and a dog. He rubbed its head, which felt great to the touch, and scratched its chin. He squinted his eyes comfortably as he looked at its cat-like face.

"This thing is cool? You call this thing cool?" Fang Zheng suddenly looked around curiously, as if trying to find out if there was any pink doll or something hidden in the room.

After all, if he thinks this thing is cool, it's normal for him to collect more cool things.

However, Fang Zheng immediately realized what was happening. After hesitating for a moment, he poured some tea on the table and used his finger to trace the shape. With the Soul Gem directly controlling his body, the movement of his finger was as precise and detailed as a printer. The lifelike Kyubey shape was completely drawn in just over ten seconds.

He pointed to the image of Kyubey he had drawn and said to Yan Chi, "This is what Kyubey looks like when I see him. Isn't this how you see him too?"

"Huh?" Yan Chi looked at the small animal on the table in confusion and retorted, "How could that be! How could my partner be such a small animal? It's the core of an alien civilization's armor!"

With that, he simply rushed into his room and pulled out a metal sculpture that he had sculpted himself using his fire abilities while in Kamen Rider form.

Having become the Kamen Rider he had always dreamed of, the boy had long abandoned his former name and given himself the codename "Flame Blaze." He was well aware that he might die in battle one day.

If he were to die in battle within the realm of monsters, not only would his body be completely destroyed, but based on his experience, even the traces he left behind in this world, and the people he knew, would gradually forget his existence.

He racked his brains for a long time in order to leave a mark after he died in battle one day.

Finally, he chose to use titanium alloy to create several of his transformed appearances, namely the Kamen Rider with its interweaving of crimson and black, and several strange machines supported by supports and encased in crimson crystals.

He thought to himself, "If I die one day, all the friends I know will gradually forget me. So, before they completely forget me, the sculptures I give them might be my last trace."
(Even if they truly forget me completely one day, seeing the sculptures I left behind might remind them of some memories of me...)
"Khubi?" Fang Zheng examined the sculpture in his hands, his gaze turning to Kubi with a puzzled expression. "Could it be that you appear differently to different people?"

"And there are also Seeds of Lamentation and Energy Cards. Could it be that the form of these things can also change at will?"

Cupid tilted his head, and with his adorable face and childlike, clear voice, said, "Of course, isn't that obvious? Why would you think that we are exactly as you see us?"

It stretched out its furry paws to wash its face, then rolled around on the table like a cat, and said to the other party, "My appearance, at least for most teenage human females, will have an excellent initial impression. Human females' fondness for cute little animals is engraved in their DNA."

"In order to contact you, of course, we must adjust the interactive interface so that you can observe it." "Do you know what wave function collapse is?"

Yan Chi asked, somewhat bewildered, "What is that thing?"

Fang Zheng nodded thoughtfully: "Oh, I think I understand."

Although he didn't know much, Fang Zheng had heard about it from popular science videos. He learned that the wave function of a quantum system, that is, its probability distribution, remains in a superposition state when there is no observation. It's like a cat that is both dead and alive, exhibiting wave-particle duality, which is both a wave and a particle.

Only the intervention of consciousness, the observation of a subjective observer, or the interference, can cause the wave function to collapse, allowing the quantum peptide to be determined, thus confirming wave-particle duality as a wave or a particle, and causing the cat, which is both dead and alive, to either die or live.

Kyubey explained, “Humans cannot observe us directly. Even the interfaces we use to interact with humans are like wave-particle duality. The true form is something that humans cannot observe. What humans can observe are always just different aspects.”

"And what you see is often what you want to see."

“Young human women, such as Mami Tomoe and Kyoko Sakura, often see small animal forms that suit their preferences.”

"As for Yan Chi, what he sees is naturally the mechanical core form that is more in line with his preferences."

"Sigh, that's not right." Fang Zheng scratched his head, pointed to himself, and said somewhat awkwardly, "Then why am I seeing small animals too? Although I also like cats and dogs, I don't think I like your appearance more, do I?"

"Because of Mami Tomoe and Kyoko Sakura's observations, they have already observed and shrunk my form."

“Oh, I understand,” Fang Zheng nodded. “If I were alone and saw you, then what I would see would naturally be what I most want to see.”

"With Mami and the others present, they had already observed your form beforehand, so what I saw would be a collapsed form, right?"

"Huh? Something still doesn't feel right!" Fang Zheng looked at Yan Chi, who was completely oblivious, and said, "But why is it that when I'm with him, I see the little animal Cupid, while he sees the mechanical core?"

“If the two of us are present, our observations should be equal… Oh, I see.” Fang Zheng suddenly realized: “It’s like a cat that’s both dead and alive, right? It can appear in different forms in our eyes at the same time.”

Fang Zheng clapped his hands, grabbed Kyubey, and asked, "And magical girls, magical warriors, monster domains, and energy cards, I know that too. They're all probably based on the same principle, right?"

“When you make a contract with Mami and the others, you call them magical girls; when you make a contract with me, you call them magical warriors,” Fang Zheng looked at Yan Chi. “When you make a contract with him, you call him a Kamen Rider. Isn’t that exactly the same? There’s no difference at all?”

“Although it’s still not correct, your explanation isn’t far off,” Cupid nodded in response.

"Wait a minute!" Fang Zheng suddenly frowned and asked in confusion, "This doesn't make sense! Kyubey, I remember Mami Tomoe telling me that she saw other magical girls while patrolling the city, and it wasn't Kyoko Sakura, but another magical girl from a city around Mitakihara."

“In that case, according to your statement, different people will have different observations of you, and this guy…” Fang Zheng pointed at Yan Chi: “If he is so close to Mitakihara, what he sees after you is the mechanical core, and after signing the contract, he becomes a Kamen Rider.”

"Then why is Sakura Kyoko also a magical girl? Didn't Sakura Kyoko and Tomoe Mami not know each other at the beginning? Their observations shouldn't be the same."

"If it's Sakura Kyoko, I remember she comes from a religious family. Even if she transforms after the contract, she should become something like an angel, right?"

Fang Zheng was genuinely puzzled: "How exactly did you calculate this observation range? It seems so confusing!"

Cupid replied, "When..."

"Ugh! Wait, wait, wait!" Yan Chi stopped Kyubey's answer, rubbing his forehead with a headache. He looked at Fang Zheng, pointed out the window, and said, "What the hell were you talking about? This is Mitakihara! There are three other Kamen Riders besides me, although we don't usually get along very well."

"But when did two magical girls I don't recognize suddenly appear? How come I didn't know about them?"

(End of this chapter)