After changing into a dry nightgown, Chen Ligu pulled Jiang Han onto the sofa and took out a rather retro rotary-dial telephone.
Its design was antique and luxurious.
It looked just like a curio.
"What's this?"
Curiously, Jiang Han poked the telephone with her tail, making Chen Ligu hurriedly seize her tail in distress.
"Don't touch it carelessly! This is the fruit of my labor over this period—I got it from the Sleeping Witch."
Ovi, who was playing cards, pricked up her ears and looked over, then resumed that aloof, noble expression.
Jiang Han smiled at her before turning her attention back to the telephone.
She said:
"This thing does look very old, but it seems to have a layer of magical power attached to it. Mm, they seem to be Cat Lamp Runes."
The telephone's speaker-receiver carried a heavy layer of magical power, along with a great many Cat Lamp Runes. However, they were not a Cat Lamp invention.
They had been invented by a witch named Joanna, as something to amplify the power of ley lines. During her experiments, that witch had become friends with a large number of Cat Lamps, which was why she named them Cat Lamp Runes. Using them on a curio centered around ley-line energy made sense.
Still, Jiang Han had a bit of a divination in mind. Joanna had created the Cat Lamp Runes around 1975, and by then, Sleeping Cat had long since entered hibernation... Or rather, had Sha'er Lamp and the other separated entities of the Sleeping Cat Lamps already been wandering all over the world by then?
Jiang Han felt as though she were conducting an archaeological excavation. She studied the curio telephone with great interest.
Its main body was gleaming gold, but it was not made of gold. Instead,