"Clockwork Orange No. 1" stumbled its way onto the path of mass production.
As the first-generation hardware for uploading online courses, it differed somewhat from the previous prototype.
The most obvious difference was its appearance. Since the prerequisite for uploading online courses was having content worth uploading in the first place, anyone buying Clockwork Orange No. 1 first needed Phantom recording equipment.
To make the two look connected, its shape and color scheme had been brought closer to the recording equipment's design, and it could directly connect to the crystal that stored Phantoms.
The part that held the eyelids open had been fitted with something resembling telescope barrels, so that it would at least look less like an instrument of torture.
A converter had also been added. It transformed the audio stored in the crystal into magical fluctuations capable of forming sound-producing rune configurations, then merged them with the uploaded content.
Because it used several spells, even after costs had been cut as much as possible, the manufacturing cost was still far from low. To be precise, it was not cheap even for somewhat capable spellcasters, while for lower-level apprentices or ordinary people earning wages, it was basically impossible to afford.
Jia Xiu planned to sell the basic model at almost cost price. He could choose not to make money from the device itself, using a strategy similar to game consoles—the console itself made little profit, while the games made the money.
The trouble was that Jia Xiu had no games to sell. He only had the special features Daniel had promised to provide. The good news was that part of that promise had already been fulfilled. The otherworldly knowledge organized in the Memory Palace had been replaced once, and the second batch was now being sorted and summarized. The