022 Roommate and Hamster
This was a hamster not even as big as a palm, with gray fur and a few dark black stripes. Because it was in a sitting position, its light, almost white chest and belly were exposed. Its charmingly naive and petite appearance was completely different from the disgusting rats in the gutter.
However, it was this little hamster that spoke with a rather domineering tone: “Before you stands the one and only Spacetime Administrator of this plane.”
“You finally jumped out of the screen?”
“No, this is a more advanced method of spacetime supervision. My main body is not in your plane, so there are very strict conditions for exerting influence on this world. For example, I can only do it by manipulating electronic screens with sufficiently complex operating principles, and only you can see it because you are the beacon. But now, it’s different. In the future, besides you, other people in this plane will also be able to see my hamster avatar, and at the same time, I can still understand the overall situation. Do you understand what I’m saying?”
Wang Heng nodded. “I see, Mr. Administrator.”
The hamster blinked its mung bean-sized black eyes, seeming a little surprised. “You don’t have any doubts at all?”
Wang Heng shrugged. “There’s no one else who would call themselves a Spacetime Administrator. Of course, the most crucial point is that a hamster being able to speak human language is just too supernatural. I can’t think of any other possibility.”
The hamster nodded. “Indeed, your mind reacts quite quickly. I had actually prepared some miraculous displays, just waiting for you to shout ‘I don’t believe it’.”
“You underestimate me… but I am a little curious. How were you planning to prove yourself?”
The hamster pointed inside the dormitory. “That roommate of yours named Fu Hanwen is playing a game. In less than five minutes, he will welcome his third consecutive defeat of the day. You can go and see.”
Fu Hanwen was the brother sleeping in the bunk below Wang Heng, his classmate in the computer science department. This guy wore thick glasses for his myopia, was tall and thin, had very fair skin, and wasn’t ugly but was a bit unkempt—the standard image of an otaku. In terms of his worldview and hobbies, he was even more of an otaku. Fu Hanwen’s main interest and specialty was gaming. Of course, in his own words, he wasn’t playing games, but e-sports.
Wang Heng quietly walked into the dormitory and came up behind Fu Hanwen. The guy was still sitting in front of his computer, playing ranked solo queue.
“Top lane, back off, back off… Right, support, put a ward there!”
Fu Hanwen was playing a jungler hero. At this moment, he was sweeping through the enemy’s jungle, coming and going as he pleased, unstoppable. A glance at his score, 15 kills, 3 deaths, 6 assists, showed a very clear advantage.
He noticed Wang Heng behind him and even had the leeway to glance back before saying, “I lost two games today. This one is finally in the bag.”
Wang Heng raised an eyebrow. “You’re that confident?”
“Confidence? Bullshit!” Fu Hanwen laughed loudly. “Look at this bunch of noobs on the other team. They can’t even kill me when they group up… Look, look, their inhibitor tower is about to fall!”
Wang Heng crossed his arms. “Looks like there’s a lot of hope for this game.”
“What do you mean, ‘a lot of hope’? Tell me, how can you lose when the minion wave is already at their inhibitor!”
As he said this, Fu Hanwen got another kill at the edge of the inhibitor and was about to gracefully float out of the inhibitor tower’s attack range… but in that instant, a magic arrow hit the jungler hero, rooting him within the inhibitor tower’s attack range.
And then he died on the spot.
Fu Hanwen was stunned. “Where did that ultimate come from!”
Wang Heng: “To hide in that spot to ambush you, that guy’s thinking is quite unique.”
Fu Hanwen adjusted his glasses, full of confidence. “No panic, no panic. Look at our teammates. They’ll take down Baron right away, and then we’ll win…”
He couldn’t finish his sentence.
He saw his two teammates had gotten Baron down to a sliver of health, only to be hit by the enemy’s skill combo and explode on the spot. The Baron, with only a sliver of health left, naturally became a gift for the other team.
Wang Heng calmly analyzed, “They must have been hiding in the bush. The ward that the support placed just now was in the wrong spot.”
“I know…”
“Your team got wiped.”
“I know…”
“Look, the enemy is pushing your inhibitor tower.”
“I know…”
“Oh, your nexus exploded.”
Fu Hanwen couldn’t even say the words “I know” anymore. His right hand, holding the mouse, was trembling slightly.
Wang Heng really couldn’t bear to watch. He patted his roommate’s shoulder and said, “It’s okay. You’ll definitely win the next one.”
Then he walked out onto the balcony and closed the door between the balcony and the dormitory. This way, the people inside the dormitory would have a hard time hearing his voice. However, the sound of Fu Hanwen’s breakdown and cursing of his teammates was quite penetrating. Wang Heng could hear it even with the door closed.
The hamster was still in the same spot, its little head held high. “How about it? Not a single shred of doubt remains, right?”
Wang Heng’s arms were still crossed. “I know what you’re capable of. Predicting the near future is definitely not a problem for you. But now, I still have a question.”
“What question?”
“What are you going to do in the future? Are you going to stay by my side all the time?”
The hamster’s two small front paws spread out to the sides, making a very human-like shrugging gesture.
It said, “I need you to be alive to accurately locate this world. So of course, I have to stay by your side and be your support.”
“Are you going to be my support or cause trouble for me?”
“What do you think? If it weren’t for my reminder, over a month ago, Han Yixuan would have been seriously injured in a car accident and hospitalized, and you would have known nothing about it. Would you have wanted that? People, no matter which plane they’re in, are all like this. As the saying goes, ‘love the house, love the crow on it,’ they will always hate the innocent messenger who brings bad news.”
The little hamster shook its head, as if sighing.
Wang Heng thought for a moment and said, “Then if you’re going to stay by my side in the future, will you pretend to be my pet to the outside world?”
“It shouldn’t be considered pretending,” the hamster pointed to its light white belly. “You’ll be responsible for buying me food in the future, so in fact, you are the owner of this avatar.”
Wang Heng looked back. His roommates were either playing games or watching new anime. No one had noticed the abnormality on the balcony. But if he were to keep this Spacetime Administrator by his side in the future, it would be impossible not to attract people’s attention.
So he asked, “Then in the future, can you pretend to be an ordinary hamster?”
It spread its little paws again. “Do you even need to say that? Except when I’m alone with you, I will absolutely not speak. So besides food, you also need to buy a whole set of hamster supplies, including a cage with a wheel. Let’s go now, before the pet market closes.”
