Two days later, while browsing through a messy stack of reports from his subordinates, a voice suddenly sounded from nearby, "Hey, hey, hey! Ashan, Ashan! Can you hear me, Ashan?"
Ashan jumped in fright. The voice sounded somewhat like Boss Wei's, but it was indistinct, and the overall feeling was very bizarre.
Ashan raised his head and looked left and right, but did not spot Boss Wei's figure anywhere.
He asked doubtfully, "Boss Wei?"
A voice resembling Boss Wei's suddenly came from the floor ahead again, "Can you hear me, Ashan? Answer quickly, speak a bit louder."
Ashan immediately said in a loud voice, "I hear you, Boss Wei!"
He pushed his chair back and looked down, only to see that two palm-sized patches on the ground had turned a metallic luster. He couldn't help wondering, wasn't this assimilation steel? It had to be Boss Wei's assimilation steel.
At that moment, Ashan clearly heard Boss Wei's voice coming from that piece of assimilation steel, "You can hear me? That means it worked!"
Ashan was immensely amazed for a moment. Assimilation steel had this function too? Why didn't his own have it? He said loudly, "Boss Wei, what is this?"
Boss Wei's voice came out again, "This is a sound transmitter. It can transmit speech over a fairly long distance. In the future, if you want to find someone to talk to about something, you won't need to run back and forth."
Ashan's head was full of question marks, "A sound transmitter? Where are you right now, Boss Wei?"
"I'm in my laboratory! Don't ask. If I were to explain this thing in detail, you wouldn't understand it anyway, and you don't need to dwell on it either—your assimilation steel can't do this."
Ashan scratched his head awkwardly, saying with a