Li Lin had just stood at the door of the newsstand when the owner was so excited that he even overturned the chair and asked in an incredulous tone: "You, you are Mr. Li Lin, right?!"
"Uh...yes."
Li Lin was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that the boss could even tell the difference between his first name and last name.
The last person who called me Mr. Li seemed to be Cassiopeia, who was killed by me in Azir's tomb and not even a trace of her was left, right?
He thought silently in his heart.
"It's really you?!" The newsstand owner clenched his fists excitedly. "Your invention is truly magnificent!"
Li Lin felt Kassa's gaze fixed on him from behind, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. "You're too kind..."
"No, no, no, this is the truth! Your power armor, and the electricity that's available to every household... Oh, and this!"
The boss pointed to a black, crudely made metal wired telephone on the table.
Kasa, who was standing behind Li Lin, walked forward, took a look at the strange-looking landline phone, and raised her eyebrows slightly. "What is this?"
"It's called a telephone. It allows two people on opposite sides of the city to talk, or even to someone in the city below! It's incredible! I've made a ton of money with it!"
The boss recognized that Kassadin was not Mrs. Piltover, and noticed that she seemed to have a good relationship with Li Lin. He immediately smiled and explained in poor Shurima.
Apparently, he was also a multinational businessman a few years ago before Noxus launched the invasion war.
Upon hearing this, Kassa became excited. "Really? Is this magic? Can I use it to talk to my dad?"
"… This, for now, is not possible."
Li Lin really couldn't bear to dampen Kassadin's enthusiasm.
But this kind of thing is what it is, and if it is not, it is not. It cannot be faked.
"It's connected to the telephone exchange via a telephone line. You tell the staff the number you want to be transferred to, and the staff then connects the two phones through the switch..."
"Hmm... It feels so magical."
Li Lin was silent for a moment.
He completely forgot that Kasha's education level was only enough to recognize words, so she naturally couldn't understand these relatively new nouns and professional terms.
"Simply put, if you want to use it to make calls, you have to go through this line." Li Lin pointed to the telephone line plugged into the landline. "This line has a limited length. Piltover is too far away from Shurima, so it can't connect there."
"Oh, I see..." Kassa seemed a little disappointed.
"But don't worry, I will design a phone that can communicate remotely without wires, so you can talk to your father."
This time, it wasn't Kesa who exclaimed, but the newsstand owner, "Really?!"
He looked shocked, then suddenly realized that this seemed to be a trade secret. He immediately restrained his expression and glanced around slyly.
"Is this the direction of your next research?" The boss leaned over the table and moved closer to Li Lin, covering his mouth with his hands and asking in a voice as low as possible.
As if afraid that Li Lin might misunderstand something, he immediately added: "Don't worry, the gears are moving. I just want to understand it. I will never leak such things!"
"Well... sort of."
Li Lin nodded, not intending to hide anything about this matter.
Anyway, the most important thing about mobile phones is the signal base station. Even if this matter is leaked, other families will not be able to find out anything if they want to seize the initiative to research it.
The radio technology is completely controlled by the Gilaman family, and they have only reached cooperation with other families in the production of some basic components.
Those cunning people don’t even understand the principles of radio, yet they want to study mobile phones?
Li Lin could only give them five words: It's a fool's dream.
"I almost forgot about the important matter." Li Lin shook his head, putting aside the chaotic thoughts in his mind, "Give me a newspaper."
"Okay!" The boss smiled brightly, the fat on his face trembling a few times. "Do you want the latest one?"
Li Lin thought for a moment, "Is there any newspaper about me recently?"
"Yes! Of course I have! I have a collection of newspapers about you from the past few months!"
The newsstand owner's eyes lit up, and he immediately bent down with great effort, moved a blue Hextech box from under his feet, took out the key to the mechanism lock, opened it, and took out a dozen newspapers from it.
Good man, you're using a Hextech chest to store newspapers, and they're about me...
Isn’t that too luxurious?
Li Lin subconsciously took a step back. This newspaper owner was a bit scary.
"Look, there's a description of you in the daily newspapers these past few issues. You're currently ranked 7th on the Piltover personal wealth list!"
The boss handed Li Lin a newspaper from two months ago.
He casually flipped through the book with a skeptical attitude and was immediately dumbfounded. "When did I become so rich?!"
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