After lunch, Xiao Yan glanced at the few girls beside him. Having such charming girls around felt quite comfortable.
"Take out your phones. I'm going to perform an upgrade."
The moment they heard "upgrade," Ning Rongrong was the first to retrieve her phone from the Jade Soul Conduit Device. "After the upgrade, what new functions are there?"
"I'll tell you in a moment." Once the girls had taken out their phones, Xiao Yan's palm burst forth with five streams of faint blue light, shooting into the phones of the five girls.
As the light flickered, their phones became even more exquisite.
After continuously outputting inner force for half an hour, Xiao Yan finally withdrew his energy and took a deep breath.
Picking up her newly upgraded phone, Ning Rongrong lightly touched the dark screen with her finger. "It just… looks prettier, doesn't it…"
With a buzz, the phone screen suddenly lit up. Over ten new buttons appeared, including numbers 0–9, as well as the familiar modern delete and dial keys.
"What's going on? The phone is glowing…" Ning Rongrong looked up at Xiao Yan.
The others noticed the change as well and turned their attention to him.
Xiao Yan smiled slightly. "This is the Blue Silver Phone 2S!"
"Unlike the first-generation phone that only displayed images and sound, the numbers on this phone let you dial and find people."
"Xiaoyi's phone number is 001, Xiaoxue's is 002, Qing'er's is 003…"
"Each of you now has a phone number. Dialing the corresponding number allows you to locate that person."
Hearing Xiao Yan's explanation, Ning Rongrong immediately dialed Xiaoxue's number.
The instant she pressed the dial key, her phone emitted a faint azure light.
"It's consuming my soul power, and even more than before," Ning Rongrong said in surprise.
Xiaoxue, pressing the answer key, noticed a similar change: "This phone is consuming my soul power too, even more than before."
Xiao Yan laughed and condensed a black phone in his hand. "As I said before, the Blue Silver Phone 2S is completely different from the original. It's no longer just a machine; it has a bit of consciousness, almost like a living plant."
"A living plant?" The girls all exclaimed in surprise, not quite understanding.
"Remember the Blue Silver Eternal Tree from last night? The fruit and clothing on it weren't arranged by me; the tree itself processed and combined them using the parameters I set."
"The Blue Silver Phone 2S works similarly. It's like a semi-independent life form. It can draw on the surrounding Heaven and Earth elemental energy to operate. When you make a call, because it needs to load the interface, the energy it draws on from the environment alone isn't enough, so it consumes your soul power."
"The reason it consumes more soul power now is that the display on the Blue Silver Phone 2S is no longer converted by me; it's the phone itself generating the display."
"The phone generates its own display? How is that possible!" Ning Rongrong asked in astonishment.
Xiao Yan nodded slightly. "At first, I thought a phone was just an object. Machines are machines; to improve them you need to add many components. That was the first-generation phone idea. Later, my thinking changed."
Xiao Yan asked, "Do you remember my Blue Silver Domain that can probe information through Blue Silver Grass within the area?"
"Remember." Meng Yiran nodded. "You used that ability to contact your grandfather and grandmother."
With Meng Yiran's reminder, Ning Rongrong recalled Xiao Yan's Blue Silver Domain ability more clearly.
Xiao Yan continued, "The reason I could let you contact the two seniors was because I could know what the Blue Silver Grass sees. If I just represent the images on a screen, it completes the initial video call."
"Recently, I realized something. Every life has its own perspective. Since I can control the Blue Silver Grass, I can make a phone crafted from the grass behave like a living Blue Silver Grass. This saves me a lot of work."
"First, the originally complex image conversion is no longer needed. Your phones don't need me to manipulate them. It's like two Blue Silver Grass exchanging information, then using a special conversion to produce images and sounds you can understand."
"Second, I added a phone card slot on your phones. Each phone card has a unique number, making your phone unique. When you dial the correct number, you can locate the person."
"Of course, Blue Silver Grass has its limitations. When dialing, it's best to be in a dense area of Blue Silver Grass. The denser the grass, the stronger the signal, the less soul power consumed, and the clearer the image and sound."
Blue Silver Grass is still Blue Silver Grass — some limits can't be removed. Fortunately, it's everywhere, so signal issues aren't a big concern.
After hanging up with Xiaoxue, Ning Rongrong thought for a moment. "I have a question."
"What question?"
Ning Rongrong asked, "If you made a new phone with a new number, can our current phones dial it?"
Xiao Yan shook his head regretfully. "No."
"The dialing function essentially uses soul power to stimulate the phone card to emit a special signal wave. If another card can recognize the wave, they can connect. If only one wave exists, it can't work. This is also a direction for the next upgrade."
The beauty of a fantasy world is that many things don't require solid scientific knowledge — you just need clever use of your abilities to achieve extraordinary results. But the downside is obvious when abilities are limited.
To solve Ning Rongrong's question, Xiao Yan came up with an idea.
The new phone contains all previous phone numbers, so it can dial all the old numbers. However, the previous phones don't know the new number, so they won't display who's calling.
If the Blue Silver Phone can capture this new number, it can incorporate it into its database. In the future, it can communicate like the old numbers.
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