Jiang Han made a call to Li Li.
"Dee-doo dee-doo!"
The familiar ringtone voiced by a witch made Jiang Han's facial muscles tense involuntarily, her lips forced into an upward curve to keep herself from laughing out loud.
"Dee-doo dee-doo!... Dee... Hello, hello, this is Li Li, this is Li Li, the signal seems to be..."
A burst of cluttered noise came from the other end of the line, and Jiang Han waited patiently.
After roughly two or three seconds, the sound finally became clear.
Li Li's distinctive voice—soft-toned yet paired with an unyielding manner—came through the phone:
"...The signal's fine now. My Bluetooth connected to my fox-ear headphones just now, so..."
"So you were using your fox ears as a microphone?"
Jiang Han's feet, wrapped in cyan tights, clenched tightly inside her shoes, leaving the Big Boss Cat beside her looking thoroughly puzzled.
"They recently added an audio pickup function. They're highly sensitive to low-frequency sound waves. We've received a new batch of Dragon Turtles recently, and their communication channels are very low-frequency, so my grandmother modified the fox-ear headphones to make it easier for us Fox Witches to listen to their conversations... Sorry, I've talked too much about technical matters."
These fox ears really were all-purpose. Cat had a pair of fox-ear headphones too, though Cleya had taken them to play with recently!
Jiang Han glanced at the Big Boss Cat beside her and found the other party fully absorbed in a game.
"It's fine, it's fine. I like hearing you talk about these things—they're really interesting."
She did not force her voice into some sugary sweetness, instead speaking in an entirely ordinary tone.
"It's good that you find them interesting. I really liked the gift you sent me. I didn't expect fox Cat Lamps to actually exist..."