Jiu Ming picked at his ear and calmly shook off the negative buff of his brief tinnitus. "Of course it can. Otherwise, why would there be no internet?"
"You're utterly hopeless!"
Kaguya frowned, wearing the expression of someone looking at a rotten piece of wood that simply could not be carved.
"Fine, what do you want to do?" Jiu Ming grinned helplessly. Kaguya was being utterly unreasonable. Getting angry... he had too good a temper for that, and getting angry at a woman would lower his standards by a whole notch from the outset.
"Simple. As long as there's a network, even for just a few seconds, it'll do. So long as I seize the chance, I can turn those few seconds into eternity!"
Was she proud of that?
Her ability could even be used like this? That was simply absurd!
"Come on, come on. Give me a hand and make this thing into the 'eternity' you mentioned." Jiu Ming dug the small energy conversion furnace out of the ground and set it down before Kaguya.
"I'm not manual labor."
"This thing supplies power to every electrical appliance here."
"Leave such a trivial matter to me!"
She did not seem to exert much effort. All Jiu Ming saw was Kaguya touching the small energy conversion furnace a few times before standing up and clapping her hands. She let out a breath as though she were exhausted. "Done!"
Jiu Ming stared at the small energy conversion furnace Kaguya had worked on for a while. Compared with its former ordinary state, he could now see a kind of "cycle" on it—a very peculiar cycle. It was like the hands of a clock circling around. Though two revolutions each day marked the end of a day, for a clock, every revolution meant returning