It's okay for me to bully my wife for the sake of the young master's dignity, right?

Chapter 608 [026] Antique CPU meets Apple Nuclear Bomb
No one expected that Xiao Xia made great contributions in the process of Yelonghui building its own network.

"Look, I bought an iPhone from the black market!"

At breakfast time, the red-haired kunoichi gleefully revealed her newly acquired items.

"Wait, you've been cheated, right?" Qin Jiandan, who was sitting across the table, looked suspiciously at the square object in Xiao Xia's hand. "There are no mobile phones in Huanshi City, let alone iPhones?"

"That's why it's so expensive!" Xiao Xia said as she slapped the "phone" on the table, "It cost me half a year's pocket money! It's said that this is the iPhone 18s 100T ultra-limited titanium alloy carbon fiber, crocodile leather inlaid with diamonds, top VIP customization, and the Sharingan recognition gold version signed by Steve Jobs before his death!"

"How can it be called rich gold?" Qin Jiandan complained, "Forget about the Steve Jobs signature and Sharingan recognition. It's just an empty white shell. Can you trust the black market traders? And they said it was crocodile skin inlaid with diamonds. Where is the crocodile skin? Where are the diamonds? Are the diamonds embedded in your smooth cerebral cortex?"

Linlin, who was sitting next to Xiaoxia, picked up the "cell phone" and checked it briefly.

"The screen is broken, but it can be turned on. Let me check the system..."

Qin Jiandan ate the krill food for breakfast without any concern.

"There are more than one or two batches of counterfeit mobile phones in Huanshi City. They just remove the chip from the recorder and put it in the phone case, and finally make a slow and weird phone."

"Not brother!"

Linlin's exclamation almost choked Qin Jiandan.

"What's the matter? Why are you so startled?"

"This phone!" Linlin stood up from her seat excitedly. "The operating speed and system of this phone... It really seems to be an iPhone! This is a very rare item on Earth!"

Feng Jian, who was on Qin Jiandan's left, asked for his phone to check and connected it to his own video recorder with an adapter cable. Qin Jiandan still seemed very insensitive.

"Even if it's an iPhone, it's nothing special. Time passes 10 times faster in Ringstone than on Earth. The spacecraft that crashed 100 years ago was at most 10 years before Earth, and iPhones already existed on Earth 10 years ago."

"But there was no iPhone 10 on Earth 18 years ago." Feng Jian said after a careful inspection, "According to my calculations just now, the CPU of this phone does exceed the computing power that the Earth should have had 10 years ago. This may be an item that has only recently drifted to Ringstone City."

"Is this... possible?" Qin Jiandan frowned. "Although there is a portal leading to the earth hidden at the bottom of the central tower, this portal should be one-way, and the company is trying every means to close it."

On the right side of Qin Jiandan, Mu Yue, who was taking care of Rui Shuang's meal, nodded in agreement: "The warning my mother left on the Dark Crack website, 'The door is closed, and the oppression is eternal', refers to this matter."

Feng Jian continued to use the recorder to test the phone, and Xiao Xia on the other side slammed her hands on the table in disbelief:

"So what? I'm awesome, right? Since I bought something so awesome, shouldn't I be rewarded? For example, triple my pocket money?"

The amount of pocket money for the leader of the Fallen Cherry Blossom Group has to be decided by the staff officer, which is really sad and makes anyone who sees it cry.

The complex code was reflected on Fengjian's glasses like a flowing river of stars.

"Miss, it's not uncommon for you to be deceived. Didn't you buy the 'Psychic Leap Engine', 'Pokémon Depression Treatment Device', and 'Nascent Soul Training Service' before? This time you finally bought a useful product to make up for your mistake. I will mercifully keep your pocket money as it is."

"What? You are just making up excuses! If you don't want to increase my pocket money, just give me back my iPhone 18!"

"That won't work." Feng Jian smiled. "Although Huanshi City doesn't have a supporting network, this phone can neither connect to the Internet nor make calls, but its chip can be removed and installed on the Night Dragon Society's network server after modification, which can greatly improve the computing power we lack."

Ruishuang blinked her innocent eyes and said, "Are we really short of garlic power? Actually, Ruishuang doesn't like garlic. If you like it, you can take it from Ruishuang."

Qin Jiandan half-jokingly took a clove of garlic from Ruishuang. The whole garlic cultivated in the Eco Tower vertical farm is still relatively scarce.

Xiaoxia wanted to rush to Fengjian and snatch the iPhone 18, but considering that Fengjian was pregnant, she didn't dare to act rashly. Fengjian finally agreed to reimburse Xiaoxia for the purchase cost of the iPhone 18 and increase her pocket money by 30%.

"40%! 40% will satisfy me!" Xiao Xia made a V-shape with her hands to represent "4", "I won't spend money recklessly! Even if it looks like I'm spending money recklessly, it's actually for the guild!"

After a period of careful consideration, Fengjian approved Xiaoxia's proposal. The silver-haired loli whispered to herself: "Anyway, there is always a chance to reduce the increase..."

Qin Jiandan asked: "Is the CPU of iPhone 18 faster than the network server of Yelonghui?" When Linlin nodded, the ends of her hair swayed slightly, drawing a sweet arc, and her bun had turned completely pink.

"My brother doesn't have much contact with computer equipment, so he may not know how backward the hardware in Ringstone City is. The computer CPUs available in the outer city are often antique PⅡ-350s. The single-core performance of iPhone18 is 100 times that of iPhone, and the gap between multi-core and acceleration units is even greater."

"Eh? Doesn't that mean we have 100 more servers all of a sudden?"

"Yes." Linlin made a gesture to represent the server. "It is precisely because of the lack of computing power that Fengjian set up the 'Overall Wetware Placement Room' to allow some lawbreakers to serve as computing power supplements. According to the average value, the chip obtained from the iPhone 18 is equivalent to the computing power of 50 people."

"Fufufu~" The more they discussed, the higher Xiao Xia's nose became, and her whole body leaned back, almost falling over in her chair.

"How is it? Now you understand my unique vision, right? I am the legendary high-end combat force that can defeat 50 people by myself!"

Feng Jian sighed: "It may be that a novice businessman picked up this phone, but he didn't know the value of it. Because everyone in the black market knows that the lady is a sucker, so he took the initiative to go to the lady's house and trick her into buying it. It's really a blessing for a fool."

"Who is the fool? I'm just a little bit unintelligent! Aaaaah!"

Xiao Xia wanted to pound the table but lost her balance and fell to the ground along with the chair.

There was a TV hanging on the wall near the dining table, playing a news program at a very low volume. The current news was: the girl group audition program "Ecstasy 101" has established a new competition group for those under 12 years old.

"This is great news for you, young lady. Didn't you decide to become an idol for the Falling Cherry Blossoms? If you pretend to be 12 years old and participate in the competition, you might win first place. After all, your IQ is impeccable."

Xiaoxia, who was helped up by Linlin and Wangyou, had red hair in a ponytail that was as fluffy as a squirrel's tail.

"Isn't it your natural talent to pretend to be a loli? After you give birth to the baby, go to "Elysium 101" to earn the bonus!"

Mu Yue frowned slightly, and her cat ears trembled unconsciously: "It is indeed a good thing that the iPhone 18 can improve the overall computing power of the Night Dragon Society, but we cannot ignore why this phone was lost from the earth to the Ring Stone City. Perhaps the portal at the bottom of the central tower is not completely one-way."

Kazama agreed. "Even if this portal was originally one-way, its exit on the Earth side is probably not invisible. 100 years have passed in Ringstone City, and 10 years have passed on Earth. Wouldn't Earth conduct research on the portal? Moreover, some of the 'First People' have returned to Earth through this portal and learned about the situation in Ringstone City."

Qin Jiandan and Linlin felt sad when they heard the term "the original people". They and their separated parents were one of them.

Xiao Xia supported her cheek with one hand and squeezed her cheek into a cute shape.

"Ringstone City is poor and has bad waters. Many people from other cities pray to the gods and hope to be reborn on Earth in the next life. Why are people from Earth studying portals? Do they want to come to Ringstone City for tourism?"

"Ringstone City is not without its strengths," Fengjian said. "The regeneration chamber can restore severe injuries such as broken limbs, and the prosthetic technology is completely beyond the technology of Earth. The most important point is that the First People have come into contact with the 'Amethyst Spirit Liquid', which is a universal wish-granting machine that can fulfill wishes and is comparable to Aladdin's magic lamp."

Xiao Xia tilted her head in even more confusion, her curly ponytail sweeping over her shoulders.

"But wasn't the Amethyst Spiritual Fluid used up 100 years ago because of the war between the resistance and the company? The people of Earth really can't even keep up with the heat of the shit they eat!"

Kazama's deep silver pupils entered analysis mode.

"We are not sure whether a small amount of amethyst spirit fluid is stored in the company. The mere possibility of 'fulfilling a wish' is enough to drive many Earthlings crazy. The spacecraft was launched from Mexico - you vaguely remember this, right? The portal was created in response to the First People's wish to 'go home', so the Earth exit of the portal should also be in Mexico. Although I know very little about the intelligence on Earth in the past 10 years, the portal is likely to have been controlled by the neighboring United States. Many American tycoons and political leaders are working hard to crack the method of coming to Ringstone City through the portal in order to realize their wishes of 'restoring youth' and 'immortality'."

Qin Jiandan poked his finger at the iPhone 18 lying flat on the table.

"You mean, this phone successfully passed through the portal from the Earth side? Its owner might be a scientist from the US military?"

As Kazama answered, he operated the recorder with one hand, tapping out a crisp rhythm with his fingertips.

"I can't rule out this possibility. Unfortunately, this phone was hit and its memory was damaged. It was also reset to factory settings. I can't recover the data to get information about Earth."

Linlin's gaze drifted away, and the pink hair tips on her bun-like head trembled slightly in the air flow of the ventilation duct.

"The fact that this phone escaped the company's strict scrutiny and ended up on the black market speaks volumes. I guess something has happened on Earth, and my brother's and my parents are probably trying to save us. Of course, the first ones to rush into the portal are probably the U.S. military who want the Amethyst Spiritual Liquid..."

(End of this chapter)