"This not only has storage capabilities. For convenience of those with transformation abilities, we added an automatic dressing function to the original ring. The usage is the same as before, you just need to lightly slide your thumb over the ring and use your mind to select the clothes you stored and command them to dress on you," Gao Yaping explained with a smile, standing beside the excited Pei Yan.
"That’s amazing! So thrilling!" Pei Yan responded immediately, and for a moment, his upper body flickered back and forth like a strobe light, wearing and changing a piece of clothing over a dozen times.
Hu Wenjun kicked Pei Yan on the butt as he was about to remove his shoes to do more experiments, and laughed, "Alright, explore this ring’s function on your own later, but let me remind you, theoretically this ring can store up to 3000 pounds of items. But I advise you not to randomly put things in, otherwise, you’ll forget how to select items, and remember, it can’t store living things. Xiaogao, fetch him the next item, the translation device."
Just as Pei Yan was bending over to put his shoes back on, Gao Yaping had already summoned the second item from thin air and handed it to him.
With the first item’s surprise, Pei Yan had high expectations for the second piece of equipment. He hurriedly opened the box and found two items, a thin patch and a device similar to a Bluetooth headset.
Seeing Pei Yan a bit bewildered, Gao Yaping took the patch from the box and said, "Put the headset on your ear and tilt your neck up."
"Oh!" Without much thought, Pei Yan tilted his neck and plugged the headset into his right ear, while Gao Yaping placed the patch onto Pei Yan’s throat.
After doing all this, Pei Yan shook his head and seemed to feel nothing special.
Hu Wenjun instructed from the side, "Just like with the previous item, inject internal energy into these two items!"
"Hiss, aah!" Following Hu Wenjun’s instructions, Pei Yan let out a soft cry. After injecting internal energy into the items, the headset in his right ear emitted a crackling sound, and the patch on his throat, like the ring, extended countless tiny spikes that pierced into his skin, merging and forming a mark.
"What does this thing do?" After the crackling sound disappeared, Pei Yan couldn’t help but remove the headset and scratched his itchy ear as he asked.
Hu Wenjun took the headset from his hand and made a gesture in front of him, saying; "Earlier when you met Xiaoye, didn’t you ask if his world shared the same language as ours? That’s impossible! Even our own world has multiple languages, let alone another dimension! So for situations , we developed this product."
Saying this, he placed the headset back in Pei Yan’s palm and continued, "When you encounter someone from another dimension, wearing this headset will translate what they say into our language for you. Meanwhile, the patch on your throat will translate your words into a language they can understand when you activate it with internal energy. Understand now?"
"Black tech! Synchronous translation, if only I had this during my college entrance exam! This headset must be high-tech, right? Just not sure if I can absorb it!" Pei Yan pinched the headset with his fingers, scrutinizing it closely.
Hu Wenjun paused, an intrigued look on his face, exchanged glances with Gao Yaping, and after she nodded in agreement, he said, "Although it integrates some elements of real-world technology, its core is sourced from the Magic Realm, a collaboration between the two dimensions. You can try to absorb it. If you can’t, it’s fine too."
"Hm? I can really try it?" Pei Yan didn’t expect Hu Wenjun to actually agree, given it was something he said in passing.
Gao Yaping encouraged, "It’s alright, at worst we just damage one. I can file a report to the higher-ups as a loss, no problem, give it a try."
"Alright!" With permission granted, Pei Yan did not hesitate any longer and tried to absorb it using his thoughts.
"Ah!" With a loud bang, Pei Yan held his blood-dripping right hand, bewildered at the parts scattered on the floor.
Gao Yaping quickly came up, grabbed Pei Yan’s hand, and asked, "Are you okay?"
"I’m fine, I’m fine! Why would this thing explode?" Pei Yan exclaimed as he put his finger in his mouth, sucked on it a few times, and expelled the shards embedded in his fingertip. Although it was bleeding a lot, the wound wasn’t big, and after the initial bleeding, it started to heal.
"It seems it doesn’t work still, no worries, as long as you’re okay! Xiaogao, fetch him another one, please." Hu Wenjun shook his head regretfully as he picked up the scattered parts from the floor and put them into his pocket before standing up.
In no time, Gao Yaping handed another translation device headset to Pei Yan. After leaving a mark on the headset and storing it in the ring, Hu Wenjun said, "Take off your shirt!"
Watching Pei Yan strip down to just his shirt, Hu Wenjun gestured, "Keep going, bare chest!"
Pei Yan hesitantly glanced at Gao Yaping, who was holding a clipboard and giggling, took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and removed his shirt, revealing his well-trained torso.
"Wow, didn’t see that coming! Four months and you already have some abs!" Gao Yaping stepped forward, pinching Pei Yan’s abs and teased with a smile.
The cold fingers lightly grazing his skin gave Pei Yan goosebumps all over. He awkwardly sidestepped, giving Gao Yaping an embarrassed smile.
"Don’t tease him; a young man full of vigor can’t handle your teasing. Go prepare the next piece of equipment for him." Upon finishing, Hu Wenjun warned Pei Yan, "It might hurt a bit next, brace yourself!"
Although he said so, when Pei Yan saw Gao Yaping pull out a mango-sized stamp and it began to glow as she was about to press it on his chest, he jumped aside and refused, "Wait! Wait! Are you seriously going to press this on my chest?"
Gao Yaping put down the stamp and asked, "Yes, is there a problem?"
"Not you, Instructor Hu, Sister Gao, I don’t know what this thing does. The finger and throat marks were alright," Pei Yan pointed to the marks on his finger and throat, "When I go home, my parents might not notice, but if you press such a big stamp on my chest, like a tattoo, my dad would kill me when I go home! What kind of kid comes back from military service with tattoos on?"
"Hahahahaha!" Unlike Hu Wenjun, who stifled his laughter, Gao Yaping was already squatting on the ground, laughing and almost running out of breath.
After a long while, Gao Yaping, putting down the stamp, pointed at Pei Yan, chuckling, "I didn’t realize your family was quite strict. Don’t worry, once this stamp is applied, I guarantee your parents won’t notice a thing. Once it’s on, you’ll understand!"