Chapter 10 - Empress's First Cell Phone
In the early morning, the dazzling morning light spilled onto the curtains, and the faint, gentle, warm sun shone into the room.
Longyue moved her sleepy eyes and dazedly hugged the ‘pillow’ beside her, her palm habitually stroking back and forth over the ‘pillow’.
However, very soon, she gradually noticed a sense of dissonance. The sensation from her palm was not the soft pillow she was familiar with, but a hard feeling…
Longyue slowly opened her eyes. What greeted her was a handsome and elegant face with a helpless, wry smile.
“Good morning, Empress. Could you let go of me now?”
“Hmm…?”
Not yet fully awake, Longyue’s pretty face showed a stunned expression. She looked down, only to discover that at some point she had wrapped her arms around the Demon Sovereign’s arm. One of her legs was even draped over his body, and her palm was resting on his chest.
What she had been stroking just now was not a soft pillow, but the Demon Sovereign’s body!
“De-Demon Sovereign! Who allowed you to get so close to this Empress?!”
“You really did sneakily do something to this Empress while I was asleep, didn’t you?!”
Coming back to her senses, Longyue’s pretty face turned red, and she subconsciously threw a punch at Lin Fan.
Lin Fan raised a hand and steadily caught the delicate fist flying at his face, looking completely innocent.
“Empress, in all matters, one must rely on evidence. Before resorting to violence, one must also distinguish right from wrong.”
“This sovereign did not do anything to you. It was you who crossed the dividing line last night and insisted on squeezing over.”
“Because you were hugging me, not only could I not get up, but I was also pushed to the very edge of the bed, almost about to fall off.”
As he spoke, Lin Fan turned his head and glanced at the empty edge of the bed beside him. Half of his butt had already been squeezed off the bed.
Looking at Lin Fan, who was on the verge of falling off the edge of the bed, and then turning her head to look at the empty space behind her, Longyue immediately blushed with embarrassment.
It was very obvious that the person who had crossed the dividing line last night was not the Demon Sovereign, but her…
And yet she had almost hit him…
“S-Sorry, this Empress wrongly accused you…”
Longyue hurriedly made room and said apologetically with a red face.
Back in the Immortal Realm, when she occasionally needed to sleep and rest, she liked to sleep while hugging a cool, soft pillow.
Last night, it seemed she had accidentally and habitually treated the Demon Sovereign beside her as a pillow.
Just last night I swore that I would absolutely never cross the line. This is truly humiliating…
Ding-dong.
At that moment, the doorbell from outside the room rang, breaking the awkwardness in the room.
Longyue’s fine brows knitted together, and she looked vigilantly in the direction of the door.
“Demon Sovereign, it seems someone is here!”
“Oh, that should be the delivery I ordered yesterday.”
Lin Fan said nonchalantly, getting up to open the door.
As expected, a courier holding a package was standing at the door.
“Hello, may I ask if this is Mr. Lin? This is your delivery.”
“Okay, thank you.”
Lin Fan said thanks, took the package from the courier's hands, and then, without a moment's pause, unsealed it in the living room.
In a little while, two brand-new cell phones were placed on the table.
“What is this thing?”
Longyue came closer and repeatedly examined the cell phones on the table, her eyes filled with curiosity and doubt.
With her thousand years of experience, she was still unable to figure out what the object before her was.
“This thing is called a cell phone. It’s an indispensable tool in this era.”
“For the people of this world, you can have nothing on you, but you absolutely cannot be without a cell phone!”
Lin Fan picked up one of the phones, his eyes full of nostalgia.
Touching a cell phone again after several hundred years, it still felt so familiar...
“Is this thing that important?” Longyue asked curiously.
“Of course. I will give you a simple demonstration.”
Lin Fan activated the phone and took a picture of Longyue, who was standing before him in her cute Pikachu pajamas.
Longyue had a blank look on her face. Watching Lin Fan holding the phone and pointing it at her, her brows couldn't help but furrow slightly, her face showing wariness.
“What are you doing to this Empress?”
“Taking a picture~”
Lin Fan smiled slightly and handed the photo he had just taken to Longyue.
Longyue fixed her eyes on it, and her expression immediately showed shock.
“Th-This is this Empress!?”
“Could it be that this thing is an image-recording stone that records people and scenes? No! An image-recording stone is incapable of recording such a realistic picture!”
In the Immortal Demon Continent, there was a type of single-use treasure called an image-recording stone. As long as one activated it with spiritual energy, it could imprint the image before it. However, the imprinted scene had no color, only a rough, blurry phantom image.
But the photo before her had distinct and clear colors, and even the expression on her face was recorded with perfect clarity!
Seeing Longyue’s shocked look, Lin Fan couldn't help but smile with pride.
“An image-recording stone can’t compare to this.”
As he spoke, Lin Fan enlarged and rotated the photo on the phone, and even Photoshopped a pair of cat ears onto it on the spot.
“Th-This…! Is this still this Empress? How have I become a member of the Beast-folk…?”
Longyue looked at the picture of herself with added cat ears, momentarily stunned.
She had never seen an ‘image-recording stone’ that could alter the image!
“Taking pictures is just the most basic function of a cell phone. It can also allow people thousands of miles apart to communicate with each other by voice.”
Lin Fan took out two old SIM cards he had prepared and inserted them into the phones. Then, he used one phone to call the other.
Soon, the other phone began to ring and vibrate.
“Empress, try pressing that green button on the phone screen.”
“Oh…”
Following Lin Fan’s instructions, Longyue picked up the other phone and pressed the answer button on the screen.
In the next second, Lin Fan’s voice came from the other end of the phone:
“Hello hello~”
“I can hear your voice!”
“This thing also has the function of a voice-transmitting stone?!”
Hearing the voice from the other end of the phone, Longyue was greatly shocked.
This was not all. Lin Fan then opened the flashlight in front of her, followed immediately by the music player, and randomly played a song.
When the melodious singing flowed from the phone, Longyue was already completely stunned on the spot.
In just a few short minutes, she had been shocked several times.
This unremarkable thing before her actually contained so many functions!
The Immortal Realm had countless magic treasures, but their functions and effects were often quite singular. Even looking across the entire Immortal Realm, she had never seen a magic treasure that could integrate so many rich functions together!
Even the most famous skilled craftsmen and ingenious artisans of the Immortal Realm might not be able to invent such a magic treasure!
It was unbelievable that such a thing was actually made by the hands of mortals!
“These things this sovereign demonstrated are just the most basic functions of this cell phone. Its uses go far beyond this; you’ll slowly find out in the future.”
“Just the most basic abilities?!”
Longyue couldn't help but pick up the phone, her eyes filled with amazement and reverence.
“The mortal who invented this thing must be an incredible fellow!”
“Can this Empress meet him?!”
As she spoke, Longyue looked at Lin Fan with a face full of anticipation.
Lin Fan showed a troubled expression.
“Er… that might not be possible...”
“Is that so? That’s truly a pity…”
Hearing this, Longyue’s face couldn’t help but show sadness and regret.
If such a talent could be recruited under her command to serve her Immortal Realm, how wonderful would that be…
“Demon Sovereign, here you go.”
Longyue reluctantly handed the cell phone in her hand back to Lin Fan.
If such a treasure, with such rich and complete functions, could be kept by her side, perhaps it could be of some help to the future of artifact refinement in the Immortal Realm if she brought it back for research…
Lin Fan did not take the phone Longyue offered, but instead shook his head lightly.
“This sovereign has already said, in this world, a cell phone is indispensable. This phone is specifically for you.”
“For, for this Empress?! Such a precious thing...?”
Longyue’s expression showed her shock; she even suspected for a moment that she had misheard.
Lin Fan was unconcerned.
“This thing isn’t actually that precious. It’s just a budget phone.”
“You and I both have very little spiritual energy left and can’t communicate through voice transmission. Having a cell phone will make it convenient for us to contact each other in the future.”
“Th-Then, thank you…”
Longyue looked at Lin Fan gratefully, the corners of her mouth unable to stop rising in a slight smile. Looking at the cell phone in her hands, her eyes were shining, just like a child who had received some incredible treasure.
Lin Fan didn't know whether to laugh or cry at the sight.
But it makes sense when you think about it. This is the Empress’s first cell phone in her life. Back then, when he got his first cell phone, he was just as happy. It's inevitable to be a little excited…