Sea Sand Hollow

The sci-fi novel The Ninety-Sixth Revision was quite a good read. Its author had envisioned an Earth with no witches, where all witches lived collectively on an artificial ring built around the planet, secretly influencing the world below through various rituals and props.

Unfortunately, in the first volume, the author had wanted to write about a honeycomb-style folded-space settlement station. But Angelite had already invented such a thing—and had even made a working prototype in the very center of the Coral Sea. According to Article Eight of the Laws of Witch Science Fiction—[Do not write about non-civilian technological products that already have concrete examples in use]—she had to revise it. Yet that setting happened to be the core of the author's entire idea.

What rotten luck!

Jiang Han read the whole book with great interest. When she finally put it down, she let out a long breath.

"Didn't expect it to be this decent."

Witches tended toward a rather traditional writing style, so the translated tone was fairly pronounced. But it was also remarkably crisp—probably because every witch was a multilingual creature.

She closed the book and crawled out from beneath the table, only to find the Fel Cat Lamp sprawled across it, already snoring away.

Taking the opportunity, she kneaded the ears of the Fel Giant Cat she had always wanted to try. Those flame-shaped cat ears were incredibly warm—warm enough to make someone sweat almost immediately.

"Mm-hm, way hotter than an ordinary Cat Lamp."

Jiang Han thought that might be an important reason Fel Cat Lamps were more active than other Cat Lamps. Though Sleeping Cat Lamps also ran quite warm; they were a bit like children, with higher body temperatures as a defining trait.

Thump.

The room door opened, and Chen Ligu walked in from outside. The