Sky Curtain: With a vermilion mirror, Jing travels through the modern world, shaking all dynasties.

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"Xiaoyu, what happened?"

Jiang Chuan opened the door upon hearing the noise, his brows furrowing slightly. "You're usually so composed, why are you so flustered today?"

"My phone is missing! How can I not panic?" Lin Xiaoyu said urgently, her eyes filled with anxiety.

Jiang Chuan suddenly realized why she hadn't called but had come directly to his door.

He picked up his phone, ready to call and try.

"It's no use, I've tried! The phone is off, it must be out of battery..." Lin Xiaoyu said anxiously.

"So what if it's lost? Just buy another one." Jiang Chuan waved his hand dismissively. "With your financial means, losing a phone is no big deal."

Lin Xiaoyu rolled her eyes at him. "Money is no problem, and the data has been backed up, but that phone case..."

Jiang Chuan was taken aback. He suddenly remembered that Lin Xiaoyu's phone case was a birthday gift he had given her last year. He had personally selected the materials and sewed it stitch by stitch!

"It's no big deal, it's just a phone case." Jiang Chuan shrugged, his tone relaxed. "If it really doesn't work, I'll just make you another one!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiaoyu's pretty face turned cold, and her tone suddenly became icy, "I don't care! I want that phone case! It was the first birthday present you ever gave me, it has a special meaning! You have to find a way to get it for me!"

"Brother, please help Xiaoyu!" Zhu Jingjing stepped forward to speak up for Lin Xiaoyu. "Birthday gifts are very important. I carefully keep the ones Mother gives me every year!"

Jiang Chuan sighed softly and shook his head helplessly: "Alright, then try to recall carefully when exactly you discovered your phone was missing?"

Lin Xiaoyu frowned in deep thought, her fingers gripping the hem of her clothes tightly. She murmured, "I remember when we came back, I was going to call a taxi, but I found that my phone was dead. I still had my phone in my hand, but when I got home, my pockets were empty..."

At this point, she suddenly slapped her forehead, exclaiming in frustration, "It must have fallen into the car!"

Jiang Chuan pursed his lips and couldn't help but complain, "You usually drive yourself, and you're used to just tossing your phone on the cup holder as soon as you get in the car. I bet this time it's just your old habit again!"

Lin Xiaoyu pouted, grabbed Jiang Chuan's arm tightly with both hands and shook it, saying coquettishly, "Oh, stop worrying about this, just think of a solution for me!"

Jiang Chuan shrugged, grabbed his coat from the sofa and draped it over his shoulders. "What other way is there? Check the security footage! As long as we know the license plate number, it'll be easy to find the car, right?"

He said to Zhu Jingjing, "Jingjing, you eat your potatoes first. Xiaoyu and I will go eat together when we get back."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Jingjing immediately put down her chopsticks and rushed to Jiang Chuan's side in a few steps.

Without a word, she opened her arms and hugged Jiang Chuan tightly around the waist, saying in a slightly coquettish, nasal voice, "No! Jingjing wants to come too!"

Jiang Chuan looked at her like this and sighed helplessly, but his eyes were full of doting affection.

He raised his hand and gently wiped away a bit of butter from the corner of her mouth with his fingertips, saying softly, "You little rascal, why do you always want to follow me everywhere? You're such a little tagalong!"

The Great Ming Dynasty, Fengtian Hall.

"How can this thing be found?"

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned. "If someone accidentally leaves something on a carriage within the territory of our Great Ming, there might be some hope if they know the driver. But if they don't, it's like searching for a needle in a haystack—a hopeless endeavor!"

Empress Ma nodded slightly and asked softly, "Chongba, if you were the one who lost something, how would you find it?"

Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a moment, then slowly said, "If this were today, I would order the blockade of all major roads and check every passing vehicle and horse, searching high and low to find them! But before I ascended the throne, I can only accept my bad luck!"

Three Kingdoms, new fields.

"Strategist, if it were you, would you have a good plan?" Liu Bei frowned slightly.

Zhuge Liang gently shook his feather fan, slowly put it down, and cupped his hands, saying, "I truly have no good plan. Even if we were to find the coachman by chance, without any proof, and if he insists on not returning the coachman, I would be helpless."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Zhang Fei's eyes widened, and he stepped forward, saying, "Strategist, what's so difficult about that! You just need to call me, Old Zhang, and I'll stand in front of that coachman and see if he dares not to return it!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Bei's face darkened. He glared at Zhang Fei and sternly rebuked him, "Third brother, stop talking nonsense! If I hear of you abusing your power to oppress the people, I will not let you off easily!"

Zhang Fei quickly clasped his hands in a fist and bowed his head apologetically, saying, "Brother, please calm down. I was just saying it; I have never oppressed the people!"

Modern-day security guard room in a residential community.

Looking at the densely segmented surveillance footage on the screen, Zhu Jingjing's mouth gaped slightly in surprise, her eyes filled with wonder.

Jiang Chuan quickly calculated the time and skillfully dragged the progress bar back. The scene rewound rapidly, finally freezing on the moment they got off the bus.

"Brother, we rode in this car when we came back!" Zhu Jingjing pointed to the black sedan on the screen and shouted first.

Before she finished speaking, she turned around and made as if to rush out.

Jiang Chuan reacted quickly, grabbing her by the back of her collar and saying helplessly, "Where are you rushing off to? In a hurry to pee?"

Zhu Jingjing shook her head vigorously, her face serious: "Of course we should stop that car and get Xiaoyu's phone back!"

Jiang Chuan chuckled in exasperation, releasing his grip and explaining, "Silly girl, we're checking the recordings, not watching a live stream!"

Zhu Jingjing tilted her head, blinked her big eyes, and asked in confusion, "Brother, what exactly is a surveillance camera?"

Jiang Chuan pointed to the running hard disk recorder and explained in the simplest terms possible: "This thing is like a tireless painter. The cameras you see are its eyes. It draws all the images that the eyes see, frame by frame, and then stores them in this black box."

"Then..." Zhu Jingjing's eyes darted around, "How long can this 'painter' remember? What if it has a bad memory and forgets everything as soon as it's done?"

Jiang Chuan gave her an approving look. "The 'artist's' memory depends entirely on the size of this black box. The bigger the box, the more 'paintings' it can hold, and the longer it can remember them. However, once the box is full, it will erase the oldest 'paintings' and start drawing new ones."

The Qin Dynasty, Xianyang Palace.

Ying Zheng stood with his hands behind his back in the hall, staring intently at the image on the sky, which was divided into dozens of sections.

"If such a divine object exists," his voice was deep and authoritative without being angry, "then all the people of the world will be under my control, with nowhere to hide!"

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Gao immediately prostrated himself on the ground, his voice filled with flattery and awe, "If my Great Qin possessed such a thing, then even the remnants of the six states and the unruly peasants, though harboring rebellious intentions, would not dare to make the slightest move! This is a divine weapon to protect the nation!"

Ying Zheng ignored him and paced slowly, his gaze sweeping over Zhao Gao with a hint of barely perceptible coldness.

"Not just the rioters." He spoke calmly, his voice not loud, but it made the temperature in the hall drop sharply. "Those ministers who usually appear righteous and respectable, if they knew that I could see their words and actions at any time, they probably wouldn't dare to do those shady things behind my back."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Gao trembled violently, shaking like a leaf.