"Let me ask a few questions..." Jiu Ming rubbed the tip of his nose...
"What!? With a genius like me right here, you went looking for Yuki first!?"
Hey, hey, hey! Haruhi, you really don't have the word "modesty" in your heart at all!!
"Ahem, weren't you busy figuring out what this thing could do? I thought it wouldn't be good to disturb you." Jiu Ming smiled. He already had several ways of dealing with Haruhi's temper—first and foremost, he absolutely couldn't go against her.
"Mm, that makes sense." Haruhi narrowed her eyes and nodded slightly. She wasn't some naive girl who was so easily fooled, but Jiu Ming's words made her feel better. "Just so happens I have something to ask you. Didn't you say the map's range was supposed to be at least ten kilometers in radius? Why does it stop at 9.999 kilometers now? Everything beyond that is just fog."
Haruhi held up the wristwatch in her hand. Its extremely high-resolution screen displayed the map with perfect clarity. Who knew how Yuki had managed to turn an iron ingot into a display like this—was it some kind of matter reconstruction!?
"9.999 kilometers... that really is a precise number." Jiu Ming spoke with lingering regret. Scratching his head, he had no idea how to explain it properly. After thinking for quite a while, with Haruhi beginning to grow impatient, he finally opened his mouth. "Mm, understand it this way: everything within this range is real, while everything beyond it is real falsehood." "That explanation is vague. You're fooling me, aren't you?" Haruhi planted her hands on her hips and hopped onto a chair. Once she stood taller than Jiu Ming, she looked down at his face. Sure, speaking like that made her seem imposing—but the established fact that