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She pushed open the door first, and with the tinkling of wind chimes, a scene of earth-shattering change came into view.

Shi Huaiya's expression changed drastically. She immediately pushed Yun Yi inside, followed closely behind, and slammed the door shut with a bang.

The one-way glass door faithfully blocked all prying eyes from the outside.

“Every time I come back, it’s different…” After doing all this, Swire looked helplessly at the coffee shop, which had changed a bit too much: “Is it the Manju? Did they do this on their own, or did you give them an order?”

"Uh, it should be, perhaps it's because I gave the order." Yun Yi walked inside guiltily.

The coffee shop could no longer be called a coffee shop at this point.

Its hall was hollowed out and replaced with a futuristic, rugged cylindrical machine that ran from top to bottom. Countless cables, glowing with blue light, hung from spikes on its body and extended in all directions. Smaller cylinders on the ground connected the cables, sending them deeper into the space.

Several large screens, seemingly stolen from somewhere, were now placed around the large cylinder, flashing data streams with a "beep beep" sound.

Yun Yi couldn't understand it, but he could clearly feel the blue light of the cable, which seemed to flicker and flow with the changes in these data streams.

“This is… a signal tower?” The more experienced Swire recognized the true form of the cylinder.

She frowned and said, "What a strange signal tower. A signal tower is placed indoors? And it's designed like this?"

"Could it be 002's ingenious idea?" Yun Yi guessed.

“In the background story of Manju, they often create all sorts of useful but strange things. At least you can recognize that 002 is a signal tower.”

Swire looked puzzled upon hearing this: "Why would you think of building a signal tower?"

"The terminal you gave me... doesn't quite suit my taste." Yun Yi scratched his head. "I'll have 002 study it and try to make the good things that I remember."

"As for the signal tower, it's possible that the signal tower in Longmen was not good enough, so 002 made one himself to meet my requirements."

"What exactly have you asked for?" Swire's ears perked up in surprise: "Longmen's signal towers are among the best in any country, and this isn't acceptable?"

“It’s just a normal social networking app—a chat app.” Yun Yi was also confused, but she was too lazy to think about it herself, so she suggested, “If you don’t understand, why don’t you just ask 002?”

"Yeah, ask me directly, 'This chicken?' It'll be faster."

Swire looked up and around: "So, where's 002, the human, no, the chicken?"

"I don't know," Yun Yi said with a bitter face. "Wait a minute, let me ask the system."

'system? '

"[The room where the main body slept before]" the system yawned.

"The system said it's in the room I slept in before," Yun Yi immediately relayed.

Such a coincidence?

Swire took her bag and chain hammer from Yunyi, slung them over her shoulder, and let her fluffy tail sway lazily behind her: "Perfect, we can rest while we go to find it."

“Indeed, I remember that room was converted into a bedroom by 001, which would be perfect for us to take a nap.” Yun Yi followed Swire through the cables scattered everywhere and walked into the dark corridor behind the large column.

Along the way, small cylinders and interconnected cables were everywhere, and Yunyi had to walk slowly and carefully to avoid tripping over them.

"Isn't this too much?" Yun Yi raised his leg high and struggled to dodge another small cylinder that was stuck in the wrong place, like a damp landmine. He then pushed aside a cable that had been stretched out to the side, looking disgusted.

"Perfect, you can use this opportunity to practice how to quickly navigate through such complicated paths."

As Swire said this, he easily pushed aside the cables with his tactical shoulder bag. Under the blue light that occasionally surged from the cables, his green eyes clearly reflected everything around him, and he walked without hesitation.

Clearly, compared to Yunyi's hesitant and awkward movements, Shihuaiya's movements were much more swift and decisive, which is worth learning from.

“I think it’s because you have good eyesight that you can walk so smoothly. I can’t train something like that,” Yun Yi said, drawing out his words in refusal.

"Look closely, is it really just because I can see clearly?"

As Swire spoke, she first raised her hand to smooth her long, curly hair, which had become somewhat messy from all the movement, so that it wouldn't interfere with her next actions.

When Yun Yi looked over, Shi Huaiya closed her eyes and took a few steps forward.

Just before she was about to land, she skillfully moved to a place away from the cables and cylinders, her tiger ears and tail nimbly swaying left and right to successfully avoid the moving cables.

Seemingly in order to present a more comprehensive view, Swire took several more quick steps forward.

The result was the same: smoothly avoiding all obstacles and reaching the next area without incident.

After finishing the demonstration, Swire opened her eyes and looked back: "How was it? This time I didn't rely on my natural vision. Want to try practicing?"

"...You think too highly of me." Yun Yi was speechless.

Who could learn that immediately and practice it? She certainly couldn't.

"I'll talk about it when I have time later."

Swire sighed, "You better not be using this as an excuse to stall for time."

Having sharp hearing and keen eyesight, along with excellent body control, is very useful for combat, stealth, and even survival and daily life.

You should learn and practice—of course, you don't need to if you buy something that can completely replace it.

"Well, don't we have other things to do?" Yun Yi awkwardly changed the subject, supporting the dangling cable with one elbow as he bent down to pass underneath.

After that, Yunyi caught up with Shi Huaiya and stood beside her.

"Look, we're almost there." Yun Yi pointed ahead, and the light from the incandescent bulbs, unlike the blue light, radiated from the corner, illuminating a large area of ​​the corridor.

Yunyi always followed the remnants of her body's memory when she tried to find her way back. That memory told her that the bedroom was behind the bright lights.

Swire turned around and saw the unusually bright light. The thought of instructing Yunyi faded away, replaced by a strong urge to complain.

She paused for a moment, then tucked her ears behind her back and whispered, "...Is bright light popular now?"

It's so popular that the three people in the interrogation room and the two savage birds in the bedroom, standing far apart, tacitly torture their own eyes.

Shi Huaiya's voice was too soft, and Yun Yi didn't hear it.

But Yunyi didn't want to be blinded by the spotlight again.

After Swire finished looking at the situation, she simply shouted, "001, 002, I'm back! Turn down the lights and let us in!"

Yun Yi's clear voice struggled to travel through the corridor filled with all sorts of things. After a short while, it finally reached the brightly lit area, causing it to flicker a few times before dimming.

—It's basically just returning to normal light brightness.

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"This is the normal brightness," Yun Yi couldn't help but complain before walking towards the bedroom door that had been revealed after the brightness returned to normal.

Swire, who was a step behind, was still struggling with his decision.

The fact that Hoshiguma turned on the bright lights was probably caused by the two mischievous people from Penguin Logistics.

What is Manjuu's purpose here?

Even though she could ask the chicken in a moment, Swire still refused to give up and wanted to guess the answer in advance.

Swire, chin in hand, followed Yun Yi into the bedroom, muttering to herself, "Perhaps Manjiu's eyes are different from others; he thinks high brightness..."

At this moment, a series of chirping sounds interrupted Swire's thoughts.

The enormous 002 and the tiny 001 cheered and pounced on Yunyi as he entered the bedroom.

Yunyi happily hugged the two fluffy little cuties back.

The excessively soft touch of Manjiu lying on her body and the comfortable feeling of being wrapped in warm fur made Yunyi's voice unconsciously rise: "Hello, everyone~"

Never mind, it's not an important matter anyway.

Swire thought to herself as she looked at Yun Yi, whose expression softened in an instant.

Seeing the clouds; Erling Er Er (three) Long Ba% Er Jun Yi looked very happy, rubbing the fluffy fur for a while without stopping.

Shi Huaiya took the opportunity to close his eyes and rest.

After a while, she exhaled and opened her eyes.

Yunyi is now burying his face in 002's body and rubbing against it back and forth.

Swire tapped the back of her other hand with her fingers, and only after Yun Yi had rubbed against her fur enough and finally let go did she say, "Yun Yi, ask 002 what the signal tower outside is for."

As for why she didn't just ask 002 directly, even though they were face to face...

Swire hasn't forgotten how wary 002 was of her before.

Yun Yi gave an "OK" sign and took it upon himself to act as a messenger: "002, what's that signal tower outside for?"

"Chirp chirp! Chirp chirp chirp..." In response to Yun Yi's question, 002 chattered on and on.

With the help of a telepathic translator, Yun Yi barely understood: "I see, thank you 002."

"Chirp! Chirp chirp!"

You're welcome! For the Commander! 002 smiled, his beady eyes narrowing.

Yun Yi touched 002's wings in response, then turned to Swire and explained, "002 said that the signal towers that the terminal was originally connected to cannot break through this area at all, and will also be interfered with by some substances in the air."

"In short, its performance was too poor, making it unable to achieve smooth, real-time high-definition video communication. Communication and text chat were also easily interrupted and interfered with, so it had to find something in a coffee shop to build a new signal tower to replace it."

"The signal is in a localized area, and it's really inconvenient that we can't break through... But can this be solved?" Swire asked in surprise, her tail wagging behind her in a question mark.

On the continent of Terra, local communication has always been the norm because the air is always mixed with impurities such as Originium fragments that interfere with signals, and various natural disasters block roads, making it impossible to lay signal base stations.

It's not that nobody wants to solve it.

But if the Terrans can solve natural disasters, Originium, and all sorts of miscellaneous energy substances.

Mobile cities wouldn't exist in large numbers by now, infected people wouldn't be so universally disliked, and the borders of major countries wouldn't be in a state of constant tension.

It's difficult, extremely difficult, so difficult that there's no clear solution for Terra on the surface, and they can only maintain the status quo.

As a result… Swire couldn’t help but look back at the road he had come from. At the boundary between light and darkness, cables with a shimmering blue glow were laid out neatly yet haphazardly.

Judging from 002's statement, can this problem be solved?

Swire couldn't help but ask 002 directly: "Natural disasters can cut off roads between cities, making it impossible to lay signals. Can this signal tower alone, when connected, provide signal coverage?"

"Chirp, chirp chirp," 002 replied calmly.

"002 said that although he did not know why satellites could not be launched here during the simulation test, the short-distance high-speed signal tower could not be used."

As Yunyi translated, he pondered the meaning of 002's words.

The satellite cannot be launched?

"Chirp chirp..." 002 spread its wings and pulled out a four-winged machine resembling a drone from the void.

"But as long as it regularly launches the flight communication repeaters it has developed, then a city can achieve global communication by setting up a large cluster of signal towers. Ah, global means the whole continent."

After Yun Yi finished translating, he became even more agitated than Swire and quickly asked, "Wait, is the signal issue something that can be resolved so easily??"

She vaguely remembered that in her previous life, her country not only developed and launched dozens of satellites into space to ensure smooth communication, but also laid out communication base stations all over the ground.

Let alone between cities, even within a city, you'd need to deploy a lot of signal towers and repeaters to communicate, right?

002, however, said that a cluster of signal towers plus some small flying objects could solve the problem.

It sounds so magical.

Yunyi's question is also part of Shi Huaiya's question.

Swire, with his animal ears drooping, rubbed his temples, which were throbbing from fatigue, feeling both lucky and unlucky.

She had only come back to rest and exchange information with Yun Yi, but she encountered a powerful technology that seemed capable of changing the way the entire social network operates.

If this can really be achieved, it would be fantastic news for Lungmen.

This is very good for her, but the rest she needed has also left her.

Swire took a deep breath and mustered his energy, straining to listen to 002's "chirp chirp" explanation and Yunyi's synchronized translation.

002 Thanks to Yunyi's translation, the amount of technical jargon in the speech was greatly reduced.

Swire quickly understood. Excluding the part, she couldn't comprehend the principle at all. The black technology signal that could maintain stable communication even across time and space and in the presence of air impurities had no problems with its overall operating logic.

If the cutting-edge signal technology can be successfully developed, full-scale communication across Terra will be just around the corner.

"..." Shi Huaiya's ears were tucked behind his head, and his tail was stiff.

No, it's really solved?