People in Mondstadt, starting to develop black technology

“Freight service!!”

"What service?"

"Uncle, please walk slowly."

"Okay! I don't need freight service."

Alves: “…”

A day passed, and Alves only managed to get two small orders destined for Qingquan Town. He could probably earn one thousand Mora from these two orders.

"Sigh..." He sighed and planned to leave Mondstadt and return to the Cider Lake to sleep. After all, he had even sold his house, and he was too embarrassed to sleep in his parents' house.

He passed by the entrance of the Adventurer's Association and saw the poster for tomorrow's terminal bracelet launch conference again, which aroused a hint of curiosity.

What exactly is a terminal bracelet?

Chapter 148 Thousand Miles Away

Although smart bracelets without the shield function have long been popular among the Knights, ordinary people still know very little about it. They only know that it is a new equipment of the Knights. Sometimes they will see the knights pointing and swiping at a virtual screen or talking to the bracelet.

But there is no deeper understanding of it.

However, they all know the name Shen Qin. He was the inventor of products such as flying skateboards and bionic prostheses. He is a genius alchemist in Mondstadt.

Including the grand Academy City construction project and construction machinery launch conference some time ago.

So they were all looking forward to the launch of the terminal bracelet, and couldn't wait to know what magical thing Master Shen Qin had invented.

This morning is the day for the press conference.

Alves, holding a flyer in his hand, also came to the crowded Fountain Square. He was indeed a little curious about Master Shen Qin's new invention, so he asked Old Henry to lead the team to complete yesterday's freight order and came to the press conference himself.

The flyer said that the live broadcast of the press conference could be watched at Angel's Gift, Deer Hunter, Cat's Tail Tavern, the square in front of the church, Fountain Square and other places.

He didn't understand what "live broadcast" meant, but he was a little surprised that he didn't see a stage set up in advance at the scene.

He opened the flyer again to confirm that the four big characters "Fountain Square" were indeed written on it.

"Is there a wrong address on the flyer?" He scratched his head.

There were many people at the scene who had the same idea as him. Some people felt that something was not right and ran to other places written on the flyer, but at the same time, people from other places also ran over.

"Wow! Isn't there a stage here?"

"Where did you come from, brother? I came from the Goethe Hotel. There were a lot of people there, but I didn't see the stage either."

"I came from the Adventurer's Guild, and it's the same situation over there!"

"What's going on? Have we all been tricked by Academy City?"

"Not really, why would they play tricks on us? Besides, this is Master Shen Qin's new product launch conference, he shouldn't do such a thing, right?"

Just when the scene was in chaos, the Knights came in. A team of knights inserted into the center of the fountain square, cleared a circular space with a diameter of ten meters, and then placed a square box the size of a human head on the flat ground.

The team leader opened the terminal and debugged the data, then sent a communication: "Mondstadt Fountain Square is ready."

The same thing was happening in many different places in Mondstadt and Liyue.

With the appearance of the Knights, the people in the Fountain Square finally felt relieved - there would definitely be something exciting to watch later. Some people also noticed the square box held by the Knights and were curious about what it was used for.

A few minutes later, melodious music suddenly sounded in the Fountain Square. Everyone was stunned, and then someone noticed that a three-dimensional, constantly rotating one-minute countdown appeared three meters above the open space surrounded by the knights.

"What is that? Time floating in the air?"

"How magical! It's a bit like the reflection from Fontaine!"

"It seems to be a little more advanced than the reflection. The reflection is just a plane, but this one looks like it really exists in the real world!"

"Is this the new technology invented by Master Shen Qin?"

That's right, this is Shen Qin's improved and upgraded holographic projection 2.0. Unlike the previous holographic projection that could only be seen clearly in a dark environment, its projection would not be affected in any way even in daytime under sunlight.

The countdown attracted everyone's attention, and when the countdown reached zero, everyone's heart was lifted.

The countdown that seemed to exist as a entity stopped rotating, and then turned into ashes and disappeared. At the same time, data streams continued to appear in the air, and they slowly gathered into a human figure. When the face of that person became clear, they all exclaimed.

"It's Master Shen Qin!"

"Master Shen Qin can actually stand in the air!"

"That's something like a shadow, stupid!"

Shen Qin's projection took a few small steps in the air and said with a smile: "Good morning, friends from Mondstadt and Liyue! I am Shen Qin, the founder of Academy City, and also the host of today's terminal bracelet launch conference."

"As for why I want to meet you in this way, it's because what I am showing you now is the latest terminal network technology in Academy City!"

Shen Qin waved his hand, and the picture suddenly turned into a real-time projection of the square in front of Mond Cathedral. After the picture stayed for ten seconds, it turned into a real-time projection inside the Cat's Tail Tavern.

When the projection of the fountain square appeared, many people raised their hands and waved. There were really people waving in the crowd in the projection!

People seemed to quickly understand how the real-time projection worked. When the projection came to where they were, everyone waved and greeted the audience in other places. At the same time, Shen Qin's voice introduced which place was in the projection.

"Liyue Harbor Pier."

"Liyue's Layered Abyss."

"Liyue Qingce Manor."

……

Shen Qin reported out the place names one by one.

Everyone was in a trance. Places that they had only heard of but never been to kept appearing in the projections. Distances of hundreds or thousands of miles seemed to collapse into nothingness at this moment.

Then the excitement in their hearts was instantly ignited, and the terminal network technology of Academy City connected the entire world!

After all the live broadcast locations of the press conference were displayed, Shen Qin reappeared. He opened his arms and said, "And I am now in Academy City, projecting the same live broadcast screen to the entire Mondstadt and Liyue."

The camera zoomed out, and a corner of the scene around Shen Qin emerged. It was the iconic central tower of Academy City!

All the audience watching the live broadcast cheered.

"Awesome! Master Shen Qin is awesome! Academy City is awesome!"

"I can't believe what I saw! I saw Liyue thousands of miles away from Mondstadt!"

"I want to give birth to a child for Master Shen Qin!"

"Get away, pervert! Master Shen Qin is not old enough to get married! But I am different. I can wait until he grows up before giving birth to a child for him!"

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Shen Qin had real-time feedback from various scenes. He waited until the audience had vented their emotions before continuing, "Today, Academy City will release the first product that utilizes terminal network technology - the terminal bracelet!"

He raised his left hand to show the audience a bracelet on his hand that looked like a white jade bracelet. The camera also gave a close-up of the bracelet. At first glance, it was indeed an exquisite and small white jade bracelet, but if you look closely, you will find that the outermost circle of the bracelet is inlaid with a one millimeter thick snow-white metal ring.

This is also the only place on the bracelet that has a sense of technology.

"You must be curious about what the terminal bracelet is used for and how it differs from our ordinary decorative bracelets. Next, I will show you all its current functions."

Shen Qin raised his wrist, and a virtual screen immediately appeared in front of him. There was a time widget on the screen, and six very beautiful APP icons below it——

Camera, Gallery, Memo, Communication, Community, Settings.

Chapter 149: Features Enough to Enter the Female Market

Shen Qin first clicked on the camera app with his finger, and a viewfinder immediately appeared on the screen. He aimed the viewfinder at the tall tower behind him and took a photo. He clicked on the photo thumbnail that appeared in the small right corner, and soon the complete photo appeared on the screen.

He smiled and said, "The camera function is similar to that of a video camera. You should be able to understand it quickly. However, the terminal bracelet is much more convenient than a video camera. After all, it can be easily worn on the hand. You can just raise your hand to take pictures."

"But it also has a function that is not easy for a camera to do, which is taking selfies."

He clicked the shutter button and the lens switch button next to it, and the picture in the viewfinder immediately turned into Shen Qin's big face. He adjusted the angle and took a photo, and then enlarged it again to show everyone.

The audience was not too surprised by this, because taking photos is not a very new function.

But the next small function aroused the interest of many viewers, especially female viewers.

"We have also added an interesting little feature to the camera - beauty. Just click the 'beautify' button and the terminal will beautify the portrait in the photo to a certain extent. You may not understand what I am saying, but it doesn't matter. I will show you this feature directly."

Shen Qin first took a selfie, then took another one with the beauty filter on. He first showed the audience the normal photo, which looked no different from Shen Qin himself, and then he slid his finger to switch to the photo taken with the beauty filter on.

audience:? ? ?

I saw that Shen Qin in the photo was whiter, his face was a little smaller, and his eyes were obviously much bigger.

This alone was not obvious enough, so Shen Qin kept switching back and forth between the two photos so that the audience could see the difference between the two photos.

"Hiss! Although Master Shen Qin is handsome, the photo looks even better after the 'beautification'."

"That's the first time I realized he was my type..."

"Brother, wake up! You are a man!"

At this time, Shen Qin pulled in another female staff member with ordinary looks, and took normal photos of her and photos after beautification. When the two photos were compared, most of the female audiences were deeply moved, because the photo of the girl after beautification was completely different from before. She had transformed from an ordinary person into a beautiful girl who made people's heart beat faster just by looking at her!

"Beauty! I want it so badly! I want to be beautiful too!"

"Master Shen Qin! When will the bracelet be on the market? I want to buy it, I want to buy it!"

"Can I...can I become that beautiful?"

When women go crazy, men have no chance to act. They look at the women around them with fiery eyes in shock, not understanding what is so good about such a beauty function.

Of course, they don’t know that becoming beautiful is something almost every woman desires, whether it is real or fake, and Shen Qin launched the beauty function to meet their needs.

Of course, Shen Qin had no good intentions. His goal was to make the bracelet enter the female market.

After the beauty function comes the mediocre video recording function. Although everyone is curious as to why such a huge camera and projector function can be crammed into such a small bracelet, it seems very reasonable when you think about the fact that this is a product launched by Master Shen Qin.

There is not much to say about the gallery and memo, so Shen Qin just briefly mentioned them and then moved on to the communication APP, which was one of the highlights of the press conference.

Click on the communication interface, and an interface that is almost the same as VX on Earth appears on the screen. At the bottom are four function area buttons: "Communication, Address Book, Moments, and Me".

"Next, let's turn the camera to Mr. Albedo, the head of Academy City's scientific research system."

Following his voice, Albedo appeared in front of everyone. He raised his hand expressionlessly and greeted them: "Hello everyone, I am Albedo. I am now at the entrance of the headquarters of the Knights of Mondstadt."

The camera then zoomed out and the Knights' headquarters appeared behind him.

But something seemed to be wrong with the crowd's focus.

"Woohoo! It's Mr. Albedo! I haven't seen him in a long time, I'm so excited!"

"Is Mr. Albedo's hair thinning again?"

"What do you know? That's ■■■'s fault!"

"Albedo, the blond, three-nothing boy, hiss, hiss!"

"The Knights! Where are the Knights? There's a pervert here, drag him out!"

Albedo was naturally unaware of the noise in the audience. He opened the communication app and said, "Next, Shen Qin and I will demonstrate the instant remote communication function to you. This will be available for every terminal bracelet sold in the future."

He specifically mentioned the last sentence to remind the audience that everyone can enjoy the following functions.

At this time, Shen Qin and Albedo appeared in the projection at the same time, but the audience knew that one of them was in the Knights Templar and the other was in the distant Academy City.

Albedo clicked on Shen Qin's chat box, wrote the words "Shen Qin, I am Albedo", and clicked send. Then Shen Qin immediately sounded a prompt, and a red dot appeared on the chat box with Albedo. Shen** entered, and the words "Shen Qin, I am Albedo" appeared on his screen.

The audience's eyes widened, and for a moment no one made a sound, leaving only the noise coming from the holographic projection.

"I am now in the Knights of Mondstadt." Albedo spoke at a normal distance, and his voice was automatically converted into text. Then he clicked send, and Shen Qin immediately received the same message.

"What's the weather like in Academy City?" Albedo spoke with his mouth close to the bracelet and sent a voice message directly to Shen Qin. Shen Qin clicked on the voice message and Albedo's voice rang on his bracelet.

There was a little noise among the audience, and many people seemed to react. What did Shen Qin and Albedo's demonstration represent? It represented that two people who were hundreds or even thousands of kilometers apart could communicate in real time through the bracelet!

But the two's demonstration was not over yet, so the crowd's voices were suppressed again. Shen Qin directly used the photo function on the chat interface and took a picture of the sky of Academy City for Albedo, and Albedo directly opened the photo that Shen Qin had just taken on his screen.

The next scene that surprised the audience even more was when Albedo clicked on "Video Call" and Shen Qin also clicked on the pop-up call request to accept it. Then their faces appeared on each other's screens! And as their movements changed, the pictures on the screen also kept changing. This was real-time!

"I'm in Academy City now."

"I am in Mondstadt now."

“I wish the press conference goes well.”

"Well, I wish the press conference goes well."