He reached out to grab it, seemingly ‘grasping’ it, but his palm went through it as if it were empty air. Although he could see it, he couldn’t touch it, which was quite shocking to him. Gathering courage, he tried to touch the ‘phone’ with other objects, but all passed through it like it was air. Even when he wrapped his arm tightly with his jacket, the ‘phone’ still stubbornly appeared on his left forearm.
The phone was visually appealing, making one want to play with it, but it seemed like a 3D hologram, appearing different from various angles, giving off an illusionary vibe. If this had happened in a specific environment like a tech museum’s exhibit, it would have merely amazed onlookers about the advancement of technology, perhaps fueling their desire to own such high-tech gadgets one day. However, now it was stuck on the arm of a high school student, Lin Feng, and no matter how he tried to shake it off, the phone remained, as if it had become an inherent part of his body.
“Damn, I’ve won a prize, but why is it so troublesome?” Lin Feng couldn’t figure out what was wrong, feeling there was something he had missed. This ghostly thing indeed fell out when he was tapping on his monitor, and the computer seemed to crash then, but what was with that winning prompt… Could this ‘darling’ really be some sort of… super gift pack from a game system? But he had never heard of any online game company with such advanced technology to gift players directly like this! And what use was this mysterious thing that you can see but not touch? What if someone on the street wanted to borrow his phone out of curiosity? What if some pickpocket tried to steal it but couldn’t, getting spooked in the process?
“Maybe I should show it to mom, she might know how to remove it!” He gathered his courage to seek help from his mother, but the thought of facing her endless nagging made him back out. Just as he was scratching his head, not knowing what to do, a crisp ‘ding’ sounded in his mind, and the synthesized electronic voice played again: “Congratulations, player ‘Merciless Ghost Hand’, the intelligent system has finished rebuilding. Now, please proceed with the system settings according to the prompts…”
