The moment Wen Fan opened his eyes, he found himself standing in a space with total darkness. Countless fluorescent blue digital codes slowly floated past him.

Wen Fan, “???”

He reached out to touch the few strings of codes that were floating in mid-air. They actually coiled around his wrist and wrapped itself around his arm like a bracelet but they did not have any sense of touch. 

At this moment, a cold digital female voice was heard coming from all directions, “Ding! 9th of February, 2020. The Quick Ball System in your mobile needs to be updated. Please press the ‘confirm’ button to update.”

After that voice finished speaking, Wen Fan didn’t see any buttons nor feel any changes to his surroundings. He only saw a circular silver light with heat rising from underneath his feet. It slowly rose along his feet toward the top of his head. He felt that something had cleansed his brain, his vision and memory had become clearer. There was a lot of new data information that was not there before.

Wen Fan only needed to close his eyes and he would be able to hear the content of the messages surrounding the digital codes and download all the sounds. The fluorescence blue digital codes that surrounded him dived into his palms. He saw the image of a dual-color ball rolling and the inner core of the WIFI digital interlock. He saw various programming icons and also…everyone’s information stored on the internet.

This strange yet powerful sensation made his cells shuddered. It lasted for a complete fifteen to sixteen seconds. 

The electronic voice was once again heard, “Ding! Master, you had confirmed the upgrade. Congratulations. The upgrade of your Quick Ball system has been completed. In order to ensure better user experience for the mobile phone user, we shall now begin a forty seconds user guide.” 

‘Master’? 

‘Mobile phone’? 

‘User’?

Wen Fan was very certain that this voice was not talking to him. 

Then who is he? And why is he here?

Wen Fan had a very bad feeling. 

Could it be that he was that…Quick Ball System that had just been updated? That’s impossible!

But at this instant, the surrounding that was as dark as the dark night was like a pair of curtains that had been pulled apart. Wen Fan could actually see a gigantic towering frame appearing in front of him and he was just less than two meters away from the frame. The frame was covered by extremely thick glass. Wen Fan ran toward the frame and knocked hard on the glass. The glass did not move at all.  

Beyond the frame was an office with a minimalist modern design. It was decorated with a black and white main theme and there was a leather sofa and dark brown office table. All of those were real images.

The only thing strange was that, whether if it was the clock in the office wall, the table, the chair or sofa, they were all much bigger than the gigantic frame in front of him. Wen Fan compared himself with the size of the office outside the frame. Compared to the objects outside, he was like a droplet in the ocean.

This is terrifying…

Where exactly is he now?

Wen Fan turned his head around and looked behind him. He felt a gush of cold air rushing from the sole of his feet to the rest of his body, making him shivered in cold. Behind him was a boundless space but not far away, there were countless apps program icons hanging on the wall like a wall clock in mid-air.

The white dove of ‘Xun Lei’ stared at him for two seconds and flew the white cloud of ‘weather forecast’ to bask in the sun.

The gold kangaroo from ‘Meituan Waimai’ winked at him and took out a green onion pancake from its pouch and started to eat. As soon as the debris fell on the floor, Wen Fan saw a white broom with the label ‘Quick Cleaning Tool’ jumped from a green apps at top of the screen. It swept all the debris into the rubbish bin and jumped back into the apps.  

Wen Fan: “…” 

I must be hallucinating.

A black and white penguin was the closest thing to Wen Fan. It had a red scarf on its neck. Wen Fan tried to carry the penguin whose height was around his knees.

The penguin took the initiative to get into his embrace. Its warm tactile sensation was similar to the real object. Wen Fan touched the penguin’s head. The sleek tactile sensation and realistic visual effect made it difficult to tell that this was a fake penguin.

Before Wen Fan could react, the penguin suddenly shook its wings and its mouth made two coughing sounds similar to that of a human. But the two coughs did not come from the penguin’s mouth, it seemed to be coming from outside the glass panel. The vibration and notification sound was heard clearly by him who’s inside the glass panel.

Next, a red dot the size of a fist appeared on the penguin’s head with the number ‘1’ written on it. When the penguin coughed, the number on his head vibrated like an alarm bell sending out a reminder. 

Wen Fan: “…”

Is this meaning to say, ‘you have a new message’?

Could it really be that he’s living…living in a mobile phone?

Wen Fan’s fingertips were slightly trembling.

He was still staring at the red dot above the penguin’s head, pondering. He then heard two sounds ‘thump-thump’ from behind him. It was a loud sound of glass being struck. Wen Fan quickly turned his head and he met with a pair of eyes that were bigger than his head.

In that pair of eyes was the reflection of the bright mobile phone’s screen. Wen Fan even saw his own figure in there. It was a figure that was no taller than a thumb. He looked no different from before, but he was holed up inside the mobile phone’s screen like an imprisoned bird that was shrunk.

Wen Fan suddenly didn’t know if he should be shocked about his surroundings or to be frightened about the pair of ice-cold eyes of the man in front of him. He was standing at the bottom of the mobile phone’s screen in shock. 

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The man slightly lifted his stern eyebrows, staring coldly at him. Perhaps he felt that he was leaning too close, the man leaned back slightly to pull apart the distance with the mobile phone. That handsome face was completely exposed to the screen. He had the eyes of a tiger, flat eyebrow and a mature face that was beyond his actual age. 

Actually, he should be less than twenty-five or twenty-six years old. But his grandeur was even more terrifying than the president of the company that Wen Fan did his internship with. 

Wen Fan who was lost in thought suddenly came to his senses. He was having goosebumps from his stare, “My God!! This is so scary!!”

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