7: Chapter 7: The Divine Artifact Appears! Beautiful Teacher Blocks the Door

Buzz—!

A faint electric hum sounded, and the high-voltage transformer began to work.

The two red laser diodes connected in parallel instantly lit up, shooting out two eerie red beams finer than a strand of hair!

The red light passed through the crude focusing lens, precisely converging on the fragment that had been chipped off the crystal ball!

In the livestream, everyone held their breath.

There was no explosion.

No flash of fire.

There wasn't even a sound.

Just as everyone thought it was another failed attempt at showing off, a bizarre scene unfolded!

The crystal fragment illuminated by the laser seemed to come alive.

It didn't glow, nor did it heat up, but the surrounding air began to slightly distort and ripple like boiling water!

A faint purple halo, almost impossible to capture with the naked eye, diffused from the crystal, silently enveloping the entire workbench.

Su Che wore goggles and couldn't see clearly, but the system panel in his mind was refreshing frantically!

[Entangled photon pair generation detected... Efficiency 0.01%...]

[Severe photon dissipation... Attempting to establish a quantum link with an external signal source...]

[Link failed... Signal source intensity too low...]

"Damn it, not enough power!" Su Che cursed under his breath and reached directly for the voltage adjustment knob on the high-voltage transformer.

"Brother! What are you doing! That thing has electricity!" Su Hao yelped in fright.

Su Che ignored him, pinched the knob, and twisted it all the way to the end!

Crackle—!

A harsh arc of electricity crackled, and the output power of the high-voltage transformer was instantly maxed out!

The two red laser beams suddenly became as bright as daylight!

The air around the crystal fragment on the workbench distorted even more violently, and that layer of purple halo seemed to turn into a thick, constantly writhing gelatinous mass!

[Warning! Energy input overload! Crystal structure about to collapse!]

[Strong signal source detected... Forcing establishment of quantum link...]

[Link successful! Quantum channel established!]

[Civilian-grade quantum network router (first edition) is online!]

It worked!

Su Che abruptly cut the power and excitedly took off his goggles.

He looked at the crude device on the table that was still softly "humming" and grinned.

Although crude and rough, this was the world's first quantum router made from junkyard scraps!

The livestream chat had been completely silent for three seconds.

Three seconds later, it erupted like a flash flood!

[Holy crap! What did I just see? The air... is the air shaking?]

[What kind of special effect is this? A hologram? The streamer is awesome! This technology could buy out Kuaishou!]

[The guy above doesn't know anything! This isn't a special effect! This is the Kerr effect! A high-intensity electric field causes a change in the refractive index of the medium!]

[My god! He actually used two broken laser heads to achieve lab-level results! What kind of god-tier operation is this?]

[Kerr effect my ass! Does your Kerr effect produce purple light? This is clearly... I can't make this up anymore...]

Su Che couldn't be bothered to look at the chat; he only wanted to verify the results now.

He dragged over the rusty satellite dish, connected it to his "quantum core" with a data cable, and then aimed the dish out the window, roughly targeting the solitary signal tower behind the mountain in the village.

"Xiao Hao!" he shouted, turning back. "Connect to the Wi-Fi!"

"Ah? Oh!" Su Hao scrambled to pull out his phone, the screen shattered like a spiderweb.

He opened the WLAN list, and a brand-new, full-signal Wi-Fi name appeared prominently at the top of the list.

[Taishang Laojun's 5G-VIP Dedicated Channel]

Su Hao looked at this name, feeling a bit annoyed.

My brother's naming skills are as cringe-worthy as ever.

He tentatively clicked connect; there was actually no password!

The next second, the signal icon at the top of the phone instantly changed from a weak single bar of "E" to a full-signal "Wi-Fi"!

"It... it connected!" Su Hao shouted excitedly.

"Open your crappy game and take a look." Su Che crossed his arms, looking nonchalant.

Su Hao hurriedly opened Honor of Kings and entered the game.

The loading screen flashed by in an instant!

After entering the game, he glanced at the network latency in the top right corner of the screen.

There, a bright red number had been stuck at "460ms" for years.

But now, in that spot, there was only a glowing green number.

1ms!

It wasn't jumping, it wasn't fluctuating; it was just a steady "1"!

Su Hao was completely stunned.

He rubbed his eyes, thinking he had misread it.

It was still 1ms!

He controlled his short-legged Luban, spinning wildly in the fountain, casting skills—it was silky smooth, without the slightest lag!

"I... holy crap!"

Su Hao looked up, staring at Su Che like he was a monster. "Brother! How... how did you do this?!"

"Routine operation, don't be surprised." Su Che said nonchalantly, showing off.

The viewers in the livestream also clearly saw the jarring "1ms" through Su Hao's phone screen!

If the air distortion from earlier could be explained by special effects.

Then how the hell do you explain this drop from 4s latency?!

This is more magical than magic!

Just then, a crisp, melodious female voice, tinged with uncertainty and surprise, came from the studio doorway.

"Excuse me... is Su Che home?"

Su Che and Su Hao turned around in unison.

Standing in the doorway was a young woman wearing a light gray down jacket over a white turtleneck, holding a thick stack of lesson plans.

The woman was very young, wearing her hair in a simple bun. She wore no makeup, yet her skin was as fair as milk.

A pair of thin-rimmed metal glasses added a touch of scholarly air to her.

She wasn't the kind of stunning beauty that catches your eye, but rather like a cup of warm water—pleasant to look at and comforting.

It was the village elementary school teacher, Teacher Lin, Lin Waner.

Lin Waner was a university graduate assigned to the village school two years ago.

A city girl, beautiful, and soft-spoken; she was the "ideal daughter-in-law" candidate in the eyes of all the village elders.

At this moment, her clear eyes were curiously examining the pile of messy "junk" in the room.

When her gaze fell on the glowing green "1ms" on Su Hao's phone screen, her pretty brows knitted slightly, seemingly in disbelief.

"Teacher Lin?" Su Che was taken aback, then reacted immediately and stood up quickly. "Why are you here?"

"I... I was passing by, heard Xiao Hao shouting, and came over to check."

Lin Waner's gaze shifted from the phone and landed on Su Che, with a hint of embarrassment on her face. "And... I actually have something I'd like to ask for your help with."

She said, shaking the lesson plans in her hand a bit sheepishly.

"The school's internet went down completely this afternoon. I wanted to download some teaching videos for the children's class tomorrow, but my phone has no signal at all... I heard you know how to fix things, so I wanted to ask..."

While Lin Waner spoke, her body leaned slightly forward because she was holding the lesson plans.

The white turtleneck was form-fitting, and although she was covered up, the swell at her chest was enough to make a reader want to reach out.

A mature and intellectual feminine charm made Su Che, a hot-blooded young man, involuntarily take a few extra looks.

This girl looks quiet, but she's got it going on.

"Ahem." Su Che cleared his throat, masking his momentary distraction, and pointed to Su Hao's phone with a grin.

"Teacher Lin, you want to download videos, right?"

"Easy."

He gave Su Hao a look.

Su Hao understood immediately and immediately held the phone up to Lin Waner, showing it off like a treasure: "Teacher Lin, look! This is the divine artifact my brother just made! The internet speed is super fast!"

Lin Waner lowered her head to get a closer look.

She leaned in so close that Su Hao could clearly see her long, curled eyelashes and the eyes behind her lenses, which were slightly widened in surprise.

"1ms... how is this possible?"

Lin Waner adjusted her glasses, her tone filled with disbelief.

"The signal in the village is so bad that even opening a webpage is difficult..."

Before she could finish, Su Che had already picked up her phone, tapped it a few times, and connected to that "Taishang Laojun" Wi-Fi.

Then, he opened a video app and casually tapped on a 1080P documentary.

The progress bar didn't even get a chance to appear; it loaded instantly.

It was impossibly smooth!

Lin Waner was stunned.

She took the phone and tried dragging the progress bar herself; no matter where she dragged it to, the video played instantly without a shred of lag!

This... this was beyond her scope of understanding!

"Su Che, how... how did you do this?"

She looked up, her beautiful eyes filled with admiration for a student for the first time.

Meanwhile, dozens of kilometers away.

In a black off-road vehicle parked in a hidden spot, Captain Li Jun was staring at a red alert on the screen in front of him.

[Warning: Continuous, highly stable quantum entanglement signal detected in the target area. Signal characteristics unrecognizable, undecipherable, and uninterferable.]

The technician next to him was typing furiously on the keyboard.

"Captain... what... what is this situation? What kind of mischief is that kid up to now?"

Captain Li Jun did not answer.

In his mind, there was only Su Che's harmless-looking face and his line about "ancient Taoist alchemy texts."

The electromagnetic pulse was "Boundless Golden Light."

Then what the hell is this incomprehensible, continuously stable quantum signal?

Could it be...

The legendary "Thousand-Mile Voice Transmission"?