57: Chapter 0057 Flying News

At the end of winter and the beginning of spring, the Tide of Wood arrived as expected. Lately, Felina had been appearing somewhat restless...

Who told her to specialize in Necromancy Sorcery?

Accustomed to Necromancy System energy particles, she was exceptionally sensitive to wood energy particles that were brimming with the breath of life.

This was a fated opposition at the level of energy attributes:

Desire and loathing...

In the distance, Gray Mist Mountain had already begun to turn green...

Ever since Li Size's little sorcerer donkeys went on sale, a unique scene gradually appeared in the streets and alleys of Gray Mist Mountain Town and Gele City:

A number of colorful little sorcerer donkeys shuttled through the traffic, overtaking riders who were laboriously pedaling their bicycles, drawing bursts of envy and curiosity.

The 'Smooth Ride' brand little sorcerer donkey was something worth having...

Relying on their relationship with Li Size and having learned the specific parameters of the little sorcerer donkey in advance, the Gray Mist Mountain Town Police Station pre-ordered a large quantity of them.

With about three hundred little sorcerer donkeys, the police station took the lead in becoming the department with the highest adoption rate, becoming a star government department in Gray Mist Mountain Town and the surrounding areas, and their efficiency greatly improved.

However, the little sorcerer donkey sometimes had a drawback: it was too conspicuous.

Gelia had assigned several Patrol Officers the task of covertly monitoring the Gray Mist Mountain Town communication center in plain clothes; obviously, it wasn't very convenient to ride a little sorcerer donkey for that.

This made the Patrol Officers, who had grown accustomed to the convenient little sorcerer donkeys, feel exceptional pain at having to go back to riding bicycles.

Gelia ignored the resentful gazes of the six officers, but they hadn't come away empty-handed.

Felina also controlled specters to observe the recent situation at the Gray Mist Mountain Town communication center from a distance.

From three consecutive days of observation, combined with the police station's existing intelligence on the communication center, Gelia and Felina preliminarily confirmed that three new faces had appeared inside the communication center without anyone's knowledge.

Intelligence work was, of course, not such a simple matter...

At Li Size's suggestion, Gelia also tallied the recent meal delivery data for the communication center:

For three consecutive days, the number of meal orders reached 43!

Gelia truly lived up to her role as a Deputy Director with some criminal investigation knowledge; she reacted immediately:

"There are two more people hidden in the dark who have never shown their faces!"

According to the communication center information on file at the police station, the center originally had 38 employees.

Now that there were five extra meal orders every day, there were clearly five extra people.

And...

It wasn't the three people Gelia and Felina had observed; there should be two secrets hidden in the shadows.

If Felina and Gelia really had to complete the mission secretly, they might have failed at the final step because of this small discrepancy.

Well!

In reality, Li Size and Felina already knew about these five people.

They even knew their names clearly.

Even the three members from the Flame Fox Squad inside knew about Felina and Gelia's movements outside.

However, to make the incident seem more realistic and natural, everyone was doing their best to act professionally and playing their parts with great effort.

In fact, this was merely a self-directed and self-acted play performed with mock seriousness by a few people in the know.

Felina and Gelia continued to observe every move of the communication center, making no rash actions.

Because whether it was the Feiting Federation or Viscount Weisman, the communication Domain experts mentioned in the mission had not yet arrived.

Felina and Gelia were also happy not to rush into the next phase of the mission.

On this day, Felina showed Li Size a new product poster posted outside the communication center—"flying message".

It was a small silver box about the size of a palm.

Through this small box, one could connect to the Crimson Soul Duchy's communication network at any time and place to perform real-time messaging with other transmission nodes.

This was essentially the sorcery version of a mobile phone.

The Crimson Soul Duchy Communication Bureau shamelessly copied Li Size's pre-sale method:

Starting today, nationwide pre-orders!

Shipping in the New Year; wishing all citizens of the Crimson Soul Duchy a happy Lunar New Year!

This was the latest communication product developed by the Crimson Soul Communication Bureau, a subsidiary of the Crimson Soul Duchy Intelligence Department.

Like the transmission nodes, the flying message products were divided into six categories from Level 0 to Level 5. Currently, Level 0-3 pre-orders were open to the public.

The invention of the flying message would lead the Niuyah Plane into an era of information explosion, something that had already been proven in the history of Blue Star.

From the appearance of mobile phones to human society entering the information explosion, it only took a few short years as information and communication technology flourished.

This led to the emergence of the Internet, virtual communities, and the online world, profoundly impacting many industries on Blue Star and bringing the distances between worlds closer.

This epoch-making product appeared suddenly, without any prior warning.

But Li Size, combining the recent spy war incidents surrounding wiretapping technology, had a deeper reflection on the essence of this society.

Perhaps the "flying message" had existed for a long time.

It was very simple, according to the laws of technological development.

Even transmission nodes had been popularized for so many years; shouldn't something like the "flying message" have been born long ago?

But those in power both liked and resisted this kind of rapid information transmission that was outside of their control.

As for why those in power disliked the rapid transmission of information?

The essence of human society is a history of struggle between the ruling and the ruled classes.

Accelerating the speed of information transmission makes certain things more uncertain and rapidly raises the public's awareness.

Perhaps the rulers far away in the Imperial Capital didn't want the fact that they wore red underwear in the morning to become a dinner joke in Gray Mist Mountain Town before evening.

A relatively closed communication environment is more conducive to the ruling class controlling the mouthpieces of public opinion and easily erasing information that is unfavorable to them.

Why release a new product now?

Because the rulers had a newer information warfare weapon—wiretapping technology.

They wanted to use this to eavesdrop on more information transmitted in the shadows to satisfy every ruler's perverse voyeuristic desire.

The "Watergate Scandal" and the "US Surveillance Program" originated from this.

Li Size pre-ordered one Level 0 flying message and two Level 1 flying messages for his old man, Felina, and himself.

The Level 0 flying message was priced at 1 gold coin, while the Level 1 flying message already cost 10 gold coins, which might be a lifetime's savings for many poor ordinary people.

As for why he didn't get Level 2 or 3, it was because they still had restrictions on the user, and Li Size didn't meet them.

Ordinary people could only use Level 0 flying messages, Wizard Apprentices could only control Level 1 flying messages, and so on.

However, the Crimson Soul Duchy's communication center nodes were spread throughout the entire Duchy.

Even a Level 0 flying message could send messages to Advanced flying messages whose node IDs were known, step by step through various levels of communication nodes nationwide.

If the other party received it, they could initiate real-time transmission from the Advanced flying message back to the low-level flying message.

This was another huge step forward, different from ordinary transmission nodes.

If Pativ wanted to contact Li Size, he would send "Call back quickly" to Li Size, and once Li Size received it, he could contact Pativ in return.

A few months ago, Pativ, who couldn't even bear to install a Level 0 transmission node at home, was suddenly about to use such an expensive sorcery tool; it felt as if life had undergone earth-shattering changes.

He silently recalled: when did these changes begin?

Hmm.

It seemed to be when Li Size first brought Felina home?

Ha.

She really is a good daughter-in-law who brings prosperity to the family!

She's even a Wizard Apprentice lord, a perfect match for my son!

It's just...

She seems to be the son's mentor.

The legendary teacher-student romance.

It seems to have happened to my own son, this...

Setting aside Pativ's myriad thoughts, even Li Size was full of emotion at the birth of the flying message:

Li Size witnessed the birth of wiretapping technology and the rapid promotion of the flying message.

He felt the breath of civilizational progress from the Wizard civilization blowing in his face and foresaw an explosive, disruptive development about to occur in the field of information.

He had come from another world carrying the crystallization of Blue Star civilization, and he was gradually integrating into this grand world civilization; he was not content to be just a witness.

One day, my, Li Size's, inventions will also shock the world and make the world take notice!