Xiao Xun took off his sunglasses and handed them to Mu Jiahe. "These were taken from the Temple of Time."
Mu Jiahe put the sunglasses on. "It's like not wearing anything! There's no color difference at all." He then took them off and looked at the mirrored lenses. "This is amazing, how did they do it?"
Xiao Xun stood up and started to get dressed. "I don't know. I accidentally brought the instruction manual out with me, and it self-destructed."
"Then you can study it yourself!" he said, handing the sunglasses back.
Xiao Xun put on the glasses. "I'll go see what delicious food Yun Mei has prepared for us today."
Yun Mei, timing it perfectly, thought the two should be coming down, so she started serving dishes. She was startled when she saw Xiao Xun. "Little Uncle, what are you doing this early in the morning?"
Xiao Xun put the glasses away. "Nothing, just checking if it looks good."
"How could it look good? It's like wearing a mirror on your face."
Xiao Xun looked at the sunglasses in his hand, feeling that such heavy glasses shouldn't just be sunglasses. He thought of the sci-fi movies he had watched.
Ignoring Yun Mei, Xiao Xun sat down to the side, looking for a switch on the temple of the glasses.
After fumbling for a while, he actually found a small indentation.
He pressed it, but there was no reaction. He thought, "Maybe the battery is dead?"
After pressing it for a while longer, a small red light turned on. Soon, the red light turned green.
He quickly put the glasses on. Sure enough, a screen appeared on them. It was semi-transparent, not hindering his view of other things, yet clearly displaying the image within the glasses.
At that moment, Mu Jiahe walked down. "Still studying? Let's eat first!"
A voice came from the end of the temple of the glasses. "Please select your language."
Xiao Xun saw a small cursor on the glasses. He looked down, and the cursor slid down.
There were all sorts of fonts and languages he had never seen before. Some looked like tadpoles, some like building blocks, some like oracle bone script, and some like pictographs.
It took him five minutes to select the language used in his world from the countless options.
Then, the entire interface transformed into a language he was familiar with. This was much more comfortable to look at.
Next, the screen prompted him to connect to the wireless network to unlock more features. Xiao Xun saw that he could search for the villa's wireless network username, so he tried entering the wireless password.
It surprisingly indicated a successful connection, and indeed, many different functions appeared, including facial recognition, danger level testing, navigation, calculations, web browsing, sending and receiving emails, watching movies, and more.
It was essentially a wearable smart device with VR glasses capabilities. Of course, these did not exist in his time, which was why he found it so novel.
Mu Jiahe saw Xiao Xun shaking his head and not eating properly. "What are you doing here?" he asked.
Xiao Xun took off the glasses and gave them to Mu Jiahe. Mu Jiahe also let out a sound of surprise. "This is too amazing! I'm really curious how it was done."
Xiao Xun glanced at his watch. "Alright, Mr. Mu, stop playing around. It's time to go to work."
Mu Jiahe returned the glasses to him. "Let's go! Things have been quite busy lately, I feel overwhelmed."
Xiao Xun drove Mu Jiahe to the underground parking lot. His mind was now entirely focused on how to counter the Heavenly Calamity Legion, and he paid little attention to this world.
He considered bringing a few people with him, after all, to take over such a large, 'aircraft carrier'-level group, how could he do it without his own people? But if he took people away, and something happened to Saint Roman, Mu Jiahe would definitely blame him. He decided against it, not wanting to court disaster.
He took a Cola from the mini-fridge and took a sip. He was instantly reminded of the cola from that world, which was like medicine, and he couldn't help but sigh, "The 'Happy Water for Otaku' is still better."
Just as he was about to finish it, his phone rang. It was Secretary Fan.
Xiao Xun looked at the number and scratched his head before answering. "Hello! What's up so early?"
"Can't I contact you if there's nothing? I want to congratulate you!"
Xiao Xun took a sip of Cola and rested his feet on the table. "What joy is this?"
"Congratulations, you are about to become a prominent figure across the nation."
His expression turned grim. In fact, after the last incident, he felt quite resistant towards this beautiful woman. "Do you have anything serious to say? If not, I'm hanging up."
"Oh, oh, oh! Who upset our President Xiao so early in the morning? Tell me, and I'll get justice for you immediately."
Xiao Xun directly hung up the phone to avoid further annoyance.
As soon as he put the phone down, the ringtone sounded again. "What's with the madness this morning? What do you actually want?"
"I just arrived downstairs at your company. Didn't you ask me to come?"
Xiao Xun looked at the phone number. It was Zhang Ming.
His expression immediately softened. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I just received a harassing call. I'll come pick you up now. Where are you?"
The other party was silent for a moment. "I'm just downstairs at your company, at the turnstile. They won't let me in."
Xiao Xun said, "Wait a moment, I'll be right down," and hung up, rushing downstairs.
Logically, such matters should be handled by an assistant or secretary, but Xiao Xun's assistant had framed him and then escaped from custody. Xiao Xun's secretary had also been arrested. He wasn't sure if Guan Jiawen had suffered the same fate.
When he reached the first floor, Zhang Ming, dressed in casual clothes, was looking around. Upon seeing Xiao Xun, he waved enthusiastically.
Xiao Xun said to the security guard, "This is my friend, please open the turnstile."
The security guard tilted his head, pretending not to hear Xiao Xun.
Xiao Xun knew that yesterday's events had offended all the security guards. In their eyes, he was worse than an animal.
Xiao Xun felt that since they already considered him a villain, he might as well embrace it fully.
He then pointed at the security guard and shouted, "Are you deaf when I'm talking to you? If you think this job is too easy, take off your uniform and leave immediately."
The security guard hadn't expected the usually approachable Xiao Xun to erupt in such anger. He had intended to be firm, but his demeanor immediately softened, as jobs were indeed hard to come by these days.
"President Xiao, please calm down. I was preoccupied with something and didn't notice you," he said.
Bending over, he swiped his ID card on the turnstile, allowing Zhang Ming to enter.
Xiao Xun intended to continue playing the villain. "You should focus on your work when you're on duty. Why were you thinking about other things? Do you know how much trouble you've caused me? Apologize to me now, immediately!"
Zhang Ming pulled Xiao Xun's arm. The security guard in front of them was older than both of them combined, of their parents' generation. Being yelled at like this by Xiao Xun, with many people around, was quite embarrassing.
Xiao Xun said to Zhang Ming with a poker face, "This has nothing to do with you."
Zhang Ming was not yet part of Saint Roman, and he was somewhat indebted to Xiao Xun, so he didn't say much.
The security guard thought a few words of apology would suffice, but he didn't expect other security guards to gather around. One of them, who looked to be in his thirties, yelled, "He's so old, why should he apologize to you?"
"Who do you think you are? What business is it of yours here?"
That security guard puffed out his chest. "I'm the security team leader. This is my subordinate. You can't bully my people."
"Bullying? Is it bullying to pick up my friend, and he refuses to open the turnstile?"
The security guard pointed at Zhang Ming. "Then did your friend get in?"
"If I hadn't shouted, would he have let my friend in?"
The security guard said with a cold expression, "I'll just ask you, did your friend get in?"