Chapter 307 - Chapter 307: Chapter 307 Happy New Year!!! (1/2)

Chapter 307: Chapter 307 Happy New Year!!!

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Xiao Pingguo boasted pridefully to Xiang Kun, “I think I can communicate with ‘Sparkly Gold’ now, I mean genuine communication! Whatever I ask him to do, he understands.” Saying this, she called out to ‘Sparkly Gold’, “Come, sit on my shoulder.”

The next moment, the canary ‘Sparkly Gold’ hopped out of the cage with little leaps. As it flapped its wings, it settled on Xiao Pingguo’s shoulder. Both the bird and the girl proudly posed in front of the camera.

Xiang Kun felt an odd sensation communicating with the Minion Wood Carving pendant and the coin he gave her previously. So he casually asked, “Xiao Pingguo, have you made any progress with your ‘object sensing’ ability?”

Xiao Pingguo repeatedly nodded, “Of course, I believe that I communicated with ‘Sparkly Gold’ through that coin you gave me. Uncle Xiang, could you wait before taking ‘Sparkly Gold’ back? I think within some time, I could train him into a guide bird, haha!”

As she spoke, she pulled out the coin Xiang Kun had given her and flicked it into the air.

The next thing, ‘Sparkly Gold’ fluttered his wings, soared several inches into the air, and accurately caught the spinning coin in his beak. He then returned it to Xiao Pingguo’s hand and continued to chirp proudly at the phone screen, chirping twice at Xiang Kun’s face displayed on the screen.

Through his connection with the coin, Xiang Kun seemed to faintly sense a link between ‘Sparkly Gold’ and the coin?

He immediately realised that it wasn’t a direct connection between ‘Sparkly Gold’ and the coin, but rather that ‘Sparkly Gold’ had been incorporated into Xiang Kun’s super sensory item system.

Actually, a long time ago, Xiang Kun had strategically set a perch in ‘Sparkly Gold’s’ cage specially, and established “super sensory contact” with it.

His idea at that time was to test whether ‘Sparkly Gold’ could, like Xiao Pingguo and Little Fatty Girl, establish a special connection with his “super sensory” objects and thus gain special abilities.

Nevertheless, all along, ‘Sparkly Gold’ hadn’t sparked anything special with that perch. Even though Xiang Kun had built a cognitive model for ‘Sparkly Gold’ and got a better understanding of it through extensive observation and contact, it still seemed like an ordinary canary without any apparent changes.

But now, Xiang Kun could clearly sense that ‘Sparkly Gold’ was different, even if he was unsure about what it could accomplish through its connection with the “super-connected objects”.

This connection was extremely faint, significantly weaker than the sensation he got when Xiao Pingguo and Little Fatty Girl established their connections, that’s why he hadn’t noticed until now.

Xiang Kun pondered that it must be Xiao Pingguo’s work that made it possible for the canary to enter his super sensory item system.

In other words, even though Xiang Kun had provided ‘Sparkly Gold’ with ‘network access’ earlier, the canary’s ‘terminal’ was too outdated to install the necessary system and applications.

However, Xiao Pingguo managed to take ‘Sparkly Gold’ into her system first and anticipated it using a simpler system. Then, through her, it was connected to Xiang Kun’s entire super sensory item system.

He sort of understood why ‘Sparkly Gold’ was showing off and expressing pride. The little fella knew that he had established a connection with Xiang Kun’s “super-connected items” and probably thought quite highly of himself.

After Liu Shiling surprised Xiang Kun by ‘developing’ a new ability, Xiao Pingguo also presented him with a ‘New Year’s Gift’.

Having listened to ‘Sparkly Gold’ for a while, Xiang Kun said to Xiao Pingguo, “You can train ‘Sparkly Gold’ as you wish. I trust you. Since I can’t take care of him for some time, I am relying on you to help me do that.”

“No problem at all, I’ll take good care of Golden Sparkle, don’t worry Uncle Xiang!” Xiao Pingguo happily exclaimed.

After ending the video call with Xiao Pingguo, Xiang Kun thought for a moment, then sent a ‘happy new year’ emoji to Shiling’s Mom on WeChat, and asked where she and Liu Shiling spent the New Year’s Eve.

After a while, a video call request from Shiling’s Mom came through.

As soon as he answered, Xiang Kun saw Liu Shiling holding the phone with both hands, eyes wide open, mouth slightly ajar, looking at the front camera.

As soon as she saw Xiang Kun, Liu Shiling gave a loud ‘Ah!’, then cried out: “Uncle Bald! Happy New Year! Good health! Wishing you a fortune as vast as the Eastern sea….”

“Wait! That’s for birthday celebrations! Congratulations on what? Weren’t you just reciting it perfectly just now?” Shiling’s Mom’s voice came from outside the frame with a trace of helplessness.

When Liu Shiling got the reminder, she hurriedly said again: “Wishing you wealth and prosperity, red envelopes…No, may all your wishes come true, um… study hard, make progress every day…” Her eyes moved up again, looking to her mother behind the phone for prompts.

Xiang Kun was laughing so much he couldn’t close his mouth, and on the other end of the video, Shiling’s Mom said helplessly, “Alright, say whatever you want, wish Uncle Xiang a happy New Year.”

So Li Shiling looked directly at the phone and said: “Happy New Year Uncle Bald! I wish you have delicious food and fun every day!”

“Good, thank you Xiao Lingdang, I also wish you always have good food, lots of fun, and your learning gets better and better, you become more and more awesome!” Xiang Kun said with a smile.

Liu Shiling nodded happily, clearly understanding the hint in “becoming more and more awesome”.

“By the way, Uncle Bald, there’s something I don’t understand, and my mom doesn’t know either. My mom told me to ask my teacher after school starts, but kindergarten is still a long way off, I want to ask you.”

“What’s the question, ask away.” Xiang Kun said.

Then Liu Shiling started asking non-stop: “Uncle Bald, what is an electric field, what is a magnetic field, what is electrical energy, what is magnetic energy? What is an electron, what is a neutron, what is a proton? What’s the difference between lightning and the electricity in lights? Why is static electricity called static electricity? Is magnetism magic?”

Liu Shiling’s mother on the other side hurriedly interjected: “Hey? Didn’t we say you were supposed to give Uncle Xiang a festive greeting and wish him a happy New Year? Why are you suddenly asking so many questions? It’s the New Year’s…”

Although Xiang Kun was also taken aback by this barrage of questions, he quickly stopped Shiling’s Mom and said he could answer Liu Shiling’s questions.

He learned from Shiling’s Mom that it was because Liu Shiling was reading the children’s encyclopedia he had sent her that all these questions had come up, and this made him feel quite content and… anticipating.

He could understand Liu Shiling’s cognitive process and thought patterns, so he knew how to explain these concepts in a way she could comprehend.

He didn’t strive to explain the principles at their root or in the most scientifically rigorous way, but instead simplified or even ‘magically’ analogized those scientific concepts, allowing Liu Shiling to grasp the rough operating logic behind them according to her way of understanding things. The more detailed and in-depth knowledge would have to wait until she could read and enter school to systematically learn about it.