Just Missing Home

Lin Xiaowei felt a little embarrassed.

But she was an honest person, so she still replied bluntly, "No, I just miss home."

Li Yao: "..."

He really wanted to give that idiot the full blacklist treatment.

But when he thought of her all alone in another world, telling him she missed home, Li Yao felt a little sad.

He rubbed his nose and replied, "Yeah. Keep in touch when you can. Do you want to tell Uncle and Auntie about this?"

Lin Xiaowei: "Better not. What if it scares them? Just visit my house more often when you have time and send me some short videos of home."

Li Yao: "No problem!"

Lin Xiaowei: "Oh, right. I'm sending you some things. See if you can use them. If you can, then you'll be able to help me."

Soon after, he received several documents—"Meditation Technique Detailed Explanation," "Summoning Array Detailed Explanation," "Correct Guiding Posture of Meditation Technique," "Common Problems of Meditation Technique Detailed Explanation," "The Way of Cultivation for Summoners"...

Li Yao: "???"

What the hell?

Lin Xiaowei: "Meditation Technique is the foundation of mages. It was invented by the legendary Saint Mage Tara Yang, and because of it, mages stood out among the many spellcaster classes and became the strongest existence on the continent today. The documents I sent you are all enhanced premium versions improved over the years by countless Legendary Mages. I don't know whether they'll work on Earth. If they do, study those summoning spells and arrays more. I'm missing a lot of information, and I've discovered that many things on Earth are treasures that have long vanished from this world. If you can send them over, I can earn a ton of Points from the association!"

Since when had this girl become such a money-grubber?

Lin Xiaowei continued, "Then I'll send resources from this side over to you too. You'll soon reach the peak of life and marry a beautiful, rich woman! So why aren't you calling me Dad yet?"

You're getting way too spoiled!

Li Yao rolled his eyes. "No, what kind of phone do you have? It can even upload documents? Holy crap, don't tell me your world has computers too?"

Lin Xiaowei: "..."

Your focus is a little weird, bro!

I'm your cheat code! Shouldn't you be ecstatic right now, bowing to me and calling me Dad? I desperately want to enjoy your worship!

Lin Xiaowei clenched her phone. "This phone transmigrated with my soul. I didn't notice it at first. It wasn't until my teacher found me and I began practicing Meditation Technique that I saw the phone deep in my consciousness. Only after I officially advanced to an entry-level mage could I materialize it... So, the phone can turn the knowledge stored in my mind into documents and export them."

Li Yao: "66666!"

This phone was freaking awesome. It was practically unbeatable for cheating.

He suddenly thought of something and asked, "Does that mean your phone and memories are connected? Do you have photographic memory or something?"

Lin Xiaowei: "More than photographic memory. It can store audio and video, interpret documents, and even increase the processing speed of my thoughts and consciousness..."

Li Yao: "As expected of a transmigrator. What an overpowered cheat!"

Lin Xiaowei: "Enough, I'm not chatting with you anymore. My phone's almost out of battery. Cross-world chatting uses way too much power!"

Li Yao was shocked. "Holy crap, right! How do you usually charge it? Do you specialize in lightning magic and generate electricity with mana?"

Lin Xiaowei: "...Your imagination is even wilder than mine. This is my companion phone from transmigration. What it consumes is my soul energy!"

Li Yao felt awkward. "Oh, oh, oh!"

Transmigrators really were badass! Li Yao: "The soul energy it consumes won't harm you, right?"

Lin Xiaowei: "It's fine. Meditation Technique can restore soul energy, but it takes a long time. It needs two or three days to fully charge."

Li Yao: "Then you really charge for two or three days just to talk for five minutes... Next time, I recommend trying a domestic phone. Those things have plenty of battery life!"

He remembered that Lin Xiaowei's phone was an iPhone X. Apple products really weren't built to last.

Lin Xiaowei suddenly had the urge to strangle that bastard on the other end.

And he said next time! Was there even going to be a next time?

Besides, she liked using Apple because she had money! What business was it of his?!

Lin Xiaowei: "Bye, you bastard!"

With that, her profile picture went gray.

Looking at the grayed-out profile picture, Li Yao suddenly felt a little lost.

That casual chatting made him feel as though Lin Xiaowei were still alive... No, that wasn't right. She really was alive. She was just far away in another world, beyond his reach.

He hoped that in that world, she...

Well, she really was doing quite well. She had become a mage, and she even wanted to turn him into an overpowered cheat too... That was true love, damn it.

Li Yao shook his head. What the hell was he even thinking?

Thinking back on what had just happened, if the chat history were not still there, he would have thought it had all been some absurd dream.

The most fucking amazing thing was that he had simply accepted it... He was even a little excited? Li Yao picked up his phone again, opened the documents Lin Xiaowei had just sent him, and tapped one open—at that instant, his phone seemed to leak electricity. A numbing sensation surged from it, raced up his arm, and shot straight into his head!

Holy crap!

Li Yao's vision went dark. Countless illusions emerged from the void in every direction. It felt like Doctor Strange's soul being blasted out of his body by Supreme Mage Ancient One, letting him glimpse the endlessly intricate mysteries of infinite worlds in an instant.

After quite a while, Li Yao suddenly came back to his senses. He sneezed loudly and shook his head hard.

Intense!

Fucking intense!

That icy, overwhelming impact was like a construction worker shoving an impact drill up your nostril and going brrr-brrr-brrr while performing a frontal lobotomy!

Li Yao calmed himself down and began reviewing his memories.

Just moments ago, the information from Meditation Technique Detailed Explanation had been imprinted directly into his memory.

Like an initiation.

That proved the things Lin Xiaowei had sent him were genuine.

He looked at the two documents below it...

They seemed a little intimidating.

Still, he kind of missed that intense sensation from before.

He licked his lips and decisively tapped one open. "Aaaaaahhh..."

Li Yao sat on his bed, trembling as though he had been plugged into an outlet.

That evening, Li Yao's roommates returned from the internet café. When they saw Li Yao sitting cross-legged on his bed in meditation, they could not help but freeze.

"What's wrong with him?"

"Probably heartbroken. If you lost a childhood sweetheart who was a School Beauty, you'd be like this too. They were together all day long. She was practically his future wife."

"Yeah. You might be even worse than him."

The roommates chatted idly for a few moments, then returned to their desks, turned on their computers, and continued their all-night cultivation.

As for Li Yao...

Fuck your "future wife"! —Negative emotions from Li Yao +748!!!

The sapling has sprouted. Please show it plenty of care, everyone.