Tang Chen left the room, but not before he saluted his commander.
As soon as Tang Chen left, the General Commander sat down on his chair and stared at the rectangular object.
Qin Yan frowned and typed, "What is this thing?"
Zhu Feiying saw the message and a confused look appeared on her face.
"Are you talking about the operating system?" She asked, not thinking he was talking about the phone.
Qin Yan read the message and began to type, "Is this thing called an operating system?"
Zhu Feiying thought that this person was definitely a fool, but she still decided to educate him.
"Of course not. How can you not know that this thing is called a phone? Have you not talked to anyone in nearly a millennium?"
Qin Yan thought of a few things, then replied, "Can you help me with something?"
Zhu Feiying thought for a second when she saw his message.
"Okay, tell me what you want to do. I'll help you if I can. But you have to answer my questions after."
"Sure." Qin Yan replied.
"Then ask ahead."
Qin Yan rubbed his chin again and typed, "Tell me about this phone thing. What kind of power does it have and how do you use it?"
Zhu Feiying looked at the message and replied, "Your first question is stupid, but I'll help you understand. The phone has a camera that can take pictures. It has a GPS, which tells you where you are and how to get somewhere. It also has an internet browser, which allows you to access websites from around the world. It can also send text messages which is what we're doing now. It has a lot of functions, but those are the most important ones. Now, answer my question. Where are you from and who are you?"
Qin Yan read the message and frowned.
"The Eastern Heaven." He replied.
Zhu Feiying was furious when she saw the reply, and she typed, "If you won't tell me where you're from, don't ask me anymore questions!"
Qin Yan sat there thinking, then he started typing again.
"I'm being serious. I'm from Eastern Heaven. There are four major empires where I'm from."
"How come I haven't heard of these 'four major empires'? I'm starting to believe that you're just some trick that my roommates set up on my phone."
"How do I prove it?" Qin Yan sent back.
Zhu Feiying looked at the message and thought for a second, then typed, "You can send me a photo of yourself. I'll believe you if you do."
Qin Yan looked at the message and replied, "I don't know how to. Tell me how."
Zhu Feiying slightly started to believe that this was actually someone who hasn't touched a phone. After all, the phone had been around for more than a decade, and most people who owned phones were well versed in their functions and would subconsciously forget to ask such basic questions.
She decided to give this man another chance.
"You see the icon at the bottom left of the message bar? Click that and the camera will pop up. Then just snap a picture by clicking the white button." She explained.
Qin Yan read the message and did as he was told. The screen went black, and then he saw himself in the reflection of the phone's screen.
He clicked the white button and saw the picture appear. He clicked on the picture and saw that it looked exactly like himself.
'So realistic... It's almost like looking into a mirror.'
He then sent the picture to Zhu Feiying.
Zhu Feiying looked at the picture that Qin Yan sent and saw a handsome looking man with black hair and piercing eyes that were a deep emerald green color. He wore silver shoulder armor over a yellow robe, which made him look much more masculine and defined.
She began to blush after staring at the picture a bit too long.
"Hmm, I will believe you for now." Zhu Feiying said.
She saw Qin Yan start to type again.
"Then where is this China place?" Qin Yan sent his message.
"It's not a place, but a country. There are also other countries that aren't China."
"Are there countries besides the four major empires? The only countries I know about are Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western empires."
Zhu Feiying stared blankly at the message. She still had a trace of doubt that it was her roommates setting up some prank and used some editing software or some picture on the internet to mask themselves as a hot guy; nevertheless, she still asked some questions.
"Do you know about magic?" She typed.
Qin Yan's eyes narrowed when he saw her message, and tapped on his desk before he replied, "No, but I know Inner Strength."
Zhu Feiying held her phone tightly as a bold guess started to form in her mind.
"I don't think we're from the same world... And you don't sound like someone from the Underworld either..." Zhu Feiying replied to Qin Yan's message.
Qin Yan started to wonder about the identity of the person he was talking to, and how he was talking to another person through something as small as a phone.
He began typing. "Are you saying that you live on a different planet?"
Zhu Feiying was also perplexed as she sent, "I think so..."
Qin Yan read the message again before he started typing again. "But how come we are still talking then?"
Zhu Feiying typed her response after thinking for a few moments. "It may be due to the technology on my side. There's a lot of magic here too. But the only person capable of doing this would have to be a seventh ranked mage, but no one has been able to reach such a level ever since humans learnt magic..."
Qin Yan sat back in his chair and rubbed his forehead. He had a million questions to ask Zhu Feiying, and there were millions of more questions that Zhu Feiying wanted to ask.
Qin Yan was the first to ask a question. "Is there a way for us to see each other?"
"Tch, you think I can cross the boundaries of time and space?" She typed, smashing the keyboard on the phone.
Qin Yan fell silent on the other side. He naturally didn't know much about time and space, his world hasn't developed much on the science side.
"This phone can make us talk across different worlds right? Then why can't it make us cross between worlds?"
Zhu Feiying wanted to scold him for being a moron, but retracted her words immediately. She thought to herself that this phone really is magical, and she hasn't finished checking out this new operating system.
Thinking of the new operating system, Zhu Feiying quickly typed back: "I don't know, let me check out this operating system which allows the phone to function, then I'll get back to you."
Sending the message, she closed out of the chatting app, making her profile go grey on the Chat app.
When Qin Yan saw that her profile went grey, he immediately knew that she was no longer active so he simply closed out of the Chat app as well and looked through this phone that Zhu Feiying called.