Chapter 5037 — So It Was You Two
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"Er—of course you can't get online with that net of yours. You could use it to catch fish, though." Wei Zhao shook his head with a helpless laugh. The little ice queen had probably picked up somewhere that people could go online to look things up, but she had no grasp of the internet as modern technology at all; she simply took it for the kind of fishing net she knew. How was anyone supposed to get on that thing—by crawling up it like a spider?
"Catch fish? But I distinctly heard one can go online to look things up..." Leng Leng's expression turned a little awkward.
"Going online is going online, but that means the internet, not that fishing net of yours. Speaking of which, what is it you want to look up?" Wei Zhao asked.
"I just want to check whether there's a jade market nearby. I'd like to try my luck myself, since not every piece of jade is one I want—the kind I'm after is very rare," Leng Leng answered.
Wei Zhao laughed to himself. The spirit jade she wanted was more than merely rare; in this secular world it simply could not be found. Never mind the jade markets of some backwater town—turn every jade market in the whole secular world upside down and one would be hard put to find a single piece.
But Wei Zhao did not call her out on it then and there. Earlier, when there had been no progress, he had grown a little impatient and had even considered laying all his cards on the table; now that matters had come this far, however, he was in no hurry at all.
If things were simply allowed to run their natural course, the day would come when she reasoned out his identity on her own. That way it would not be too abrupt, nor would it lead to anything beyond his control; there was no need to rush ahead out of mere impatience. After all, from what he could see, those masters of the Heavenly Dao stage had no intention of disrupting the order of the secular world's cultivators for the time being, so the situation was not so urgent.
"Tell you what, I'll teach you." With that, Wei Zhao took out his phone and began explaining the secular world's internet to the little ice queen.
To be honest, this sort of thing was sheer fantasy to a cultivator with no modern knowledge whatsoever; it simply could not be grasped in a moment. Even after Wei Zhao had talked his mouth dry, the little ice queen remained utterly baffled and simply could not comprehend what on earth this virtual network was.
Seeing that blank, innocent look on her face, Wei Zhao gave up with a sigh and said, "Forget it. It's fine if you don't understand the thing itself—you just need a rough idea of how to use it. I'll teach you how to search. Look here. You just open this browser and type in whatever it is you want to find."
Wei Zhao demonstrated it for her hand over hand, and though Leng Leng still did not really understand any of it, it was at least far simpler than grasping the concept of the internet. Her eyes could not help lighting up. "This thing really is convenient. But why do these characters look so strange? It's as if a lot of strokes are missing—they're quite uncomfortable to look at."
"Oh, these are modern simplified characters, a simplified version of the ancient traditional ones. If you're not used to them, just set it to traditional." Wei Zhao promptly set it to traditional for her.
"That's much easier on the eyes." Leng Leng nodded, and she did not seem to grow suspicious; seeing that Wei Zhao could change the setting, she simply assumed both character forms were used throughout the secular world.