Back in his room, Char slowly removed his helmet and the mask concealing his true identity. He placed both on the table, then sat down at his desk and reached into his clothes, pulling out an unfamiliar communicator and a sheet of white paper stuck to his back with writing on it.
The communicator resembled a mobile phone or a small tablet. It bore no markings or symbols, and there were no buttons on the screen. However, there was a row of small buttons on each side, whose functions Char did not yet understand. Although this was the Team Communicator Xiao Ran used within the team, it was essentially also a smartphone. It could connect to the ordinary civilian telephone network in the Mission World, but its functions were far more powerful than any phone or communication device Xiao Ran had ever seen.
Char first picked up the paper attached to the back of the communicator and read it. After memorizing what was written on it, he calmly lit the sheet with a lighter and tossed it into the covered trash bin. Then he picked up the communicator and examined it meticulously from every angle.
Its seamless body, without a single visible gap, made the communicator look like an exquisite work of art. There was nowhere to even begin dismantling it. Its appearance also revealed nothing about its manufacturer, making it impossible to find any clues about Xiao Ran and the others from the communicator itself.
Char was certain he had never seen such a communicator before. Nothing on the market looked remotely like this, which could only mean it was specially manufactured.
Yet the seamless construction itself was, in Char's eyes, a display of Technical Strength. Otherwise, there was no way to explain how all the internal components had