After taking a sip of tea and moistening his throat, Yang Yu said:
“Magicians communicate with each other through crystal balls.
High-level magicians can project their own images directly onto the opponent's crystal ball and communicate in real time.
Slightly inferior magicians can only rely on words.
From what I have learned, it is time-consuming and laborious for low-level magicians to pass messages to each other.
Send a text message from one crystal ball to another. Once sent, it cannot be changed.
In order to avoid misunderstandings to the greatest extent possible, every input must be carefully checked, which greatly reduces the efficiency of communication.
That's why you came up with the idea of stuffing emoticons into the crystal ball, making the emoticons a part of the crystal ball.
When you want to communicate, just call up emoticons from the crystal ball.
This greatly reduces the communication barriers between low-level magicians."
Fall did not deny that this was his purpose from the beginning.
He has no talent for magic and knows the pain of people with low magic power, so he thought of using emoticons instead of words.
“I’m just standing on the shoulders of giants.”
With his hand on the teacup, the black tea in the cup reflected Fore's helpless expression.
“People like me with little magic power are the main theme of the Library of Everything. There must be thousands of people who suffer from the same troubles as me, and they must want to find ways to reduce the obstacles to remote communication.
Historically, there has been an idea to record frequently used phrases in a crystal ball and call them out when needed.
However, due to the magic technology at the time, it was not realized.
The ability to project images is now possible, thanks to the development of magic to a certain extent.
This is how we completed the emoji crystal ball."
Yang Yu threw a few cookies into his mouth and smiled.
“There’s nothing wrong with standing on the shoulders of giants.
Throughout history, there may be many people who hold the same idea as you, but you are the first one to take practical action and succeed. You deserve to be proud of yourself.
But we should not be too proud, which would lead to standing still and not making any progress.
Although we now have the emoji crystal ball, many people certainly don’t want to be limited to communicating using emojis.
In an emergency, emoticons are of little use, and using emoticons for entertainment purposes in such a situation seems somewhat inappropriate.
We need more timely, faster and more convenient communication tools.
Only in this way can the information be exchanged accurately without any errors.
Instead of blindly expanding the number of emoticon packs and letting users search for the emoticons they want in a huge emoticon pack library, it is better to treat emoticons as a pure by-product.
The cake that really needs to be made bigger and stronger is actually instant messaging.
It allows people to express their opinions freely and communicate with whomever they want, anytime, anywhere."
This, Fore also knew, but
“In fact, I have had similar thoughts as you, but this road is full of thorns.
It is a rather fantastic idea to achieve unimpeded communication between people.
First of all, everyone's magic power reserves are different, and it is impossible to bridge this gap.
People who are not talented enough simply cannot use a crystal ball skillfully."
“Why limit yourself to a crystal ball? Why not just launch a new instant messaging tool? As long as you are the first to make that instant messaging tool, you can subvert the entire industry and become the industry rule maker.”
Interrupting For's words, Yang Yu looked at the round crystal ball on the coffee table with disdain in his eyes.
“I’ve always thought that using a crystal ball for communication is really stupid.
A crystal ball that big is not convenient to carry.
Besides, civilians have no way to use magic to communicate, which limits the use of the crystal ball to magicians.
According to what you said, there are certain obstacles in communication between different magicians.
In my opinion, a crystal ball is just a prop used to show a person's side strength.
It’s far from our ideal prop.”
The crystal ball is a communication tool that has been passed down for who knows how many generations. Now Yang Yu has made it clear that the crystal ball is useless except for being used to show off to the big guys.
This shocked Fore.
"Then what do you think can completely replace the crystal ball?"
“I think that thing is small enough and square enough to fit directly into a pocket. It is extremely easy for ordinary people to carry and even someone like me who can’t use magic can use it easily.
Just tap the screen and two people who are far apart can communicate anytime and anywhere."
Hearing Yang Yu's description, For frowned.
"Can something like that really be made? If there is no magic to support it, it needs something to operate."
"How should I put it? You can still use magic power, or you can switch to some other energy source.
In this world, there is already technology that can store magic power.
So can you make the thing I mentioned into a split version
Can there be a special section that can be used to store magic power, to continuously provide magic power to the communication tool and keep it running?"
Fore thought for a moment and said:
"Are you talking about a magic energy storage device? I've seen that kind of thing in a book. It's one of the necessary tools to keep the machine running.
But that thing was too huge. Even the part that made the magic lamp was the size of an egg and spherical in shape. It was not at all the square shape you mentioned.
The technology for storing magic power is very complicated. It is too difficult for us to store it and extract it for use."
“It’s true for us, but it doesn’t mean that others can’t do it.
Didn’t you also collaborate with Tiko on your emoticon package Crystal Ball
Try to find someone more capable.
Besides, how can you make any progress if you just stand still
Only by doing it can you make a breakthrough.
You know magic scrolls, and you also know magic storage devices. Can you combine the two to create a small and portable magic battery
As long as there is a magic battery, even if the user cannot use magic, he or she can use our communication props."
For was silent for a moment, and soon raised a new question. This time it was about collecting magic power. If too many people used the props that Yang Yu mentioned, replenishing magic power would become a huge problem.
In response to this question, Yang Yu said that artificial intelligence was only in the early stages, and once a certain amount of wealth had been accumulated, he would be able to study the technology of continuously extracting magic power from the air and make various equipment to replenish the magic power for the communication tools.
(End of this chapter)