Chapter 21: Xuanwu City
Out of caution, even if the white fox looked down on him, Chu Yun still bypassed the position of the white fox from a distance, and even when he returned to the mountain road again, his actions were much more careful.
If he sees a dark spot ahead, he will use his voyeurism to check the situation remotely before moving on.
I don't know how long he walked, but when he felt tired again, a huge black shadow stood in the distance...... It was a wall.
"Finally see the city......" Chu Yun was so excited that he was about to cry at this moment, and he would only have this feeling after walking alone in the mountains and forests for several days.
But maybe he has experienced too many dangers, even if he came to the vicinity of Xuanwu City, he didn't dare to be careless, and he has been cautiously coming under the city wall, and only after seeing the three words Xuanwu City written on the city gate did he breathe a sigh of relief.
This Xuanwu City is not big, the city wall made of bricks and stones is about five or six meters high, the city wall has long been mottled, there are traces of repair in many places, and even the remaining arrows can be seen on the wall, it is estimated that there have been a lot of wars.
Above the city, several flags fluttered, embroidered with a black animal motif that looked somewhat like a leopard, but was so abstract that it was difficult to determine what kind of beast it was.
In addition to being excited, what made Chu Yun a little frustrated was that this Xuanwu City was still within the range of the Qinling Mountains......
Chu Yun didn't enter the city right away, he was tired enough now, and he needed to quit the game and go home to rest.
Naturally, he didn't dare to quit the game in this city, but found a secluded and uninhabited forest outside the city and quit the game.
When I walked outside the company, I found that the night was deep, and the night breeze blew with a slight coolness.
"Is it going to rain......"
Chu Yun looked up at the dark sky, unconsciously the game had deeply affected him, if it was in the past, it would never have been possible for him not to go home so late.
But what he is more entangled in is tomorrow.
Seeing that it is not easy to get to Xuanwu City, but I have to go to school tomorrow.
When she returned home, Chu Yun unexpectedly found that her sister had fallen asleep on the table, and the food on the table was already cold, obviously she had been waiting for her to come back, and she didn't know how long she had been waiting at this table.
Looking at his sister's increasingly thin face, Chu Yun felt an inexplicable tingling pain in his heart.
"My father is gone, and the responsibility of protecting and caring for this family should be borne by me......"
On the second day, Chu Yun did not go to school, this was his first complete truancy, and it was on Monday.
However, out of proper consideration, he still asked Liu Xuewen to help him ask for a sick leave, and then he rushed to the game company early...... He had to rush to Shu as soon as possible so that he could raise enough money for his sister's surgery as soon as possible.
Entering the game, he is still seen in the secluded woods.
Seeing that there was no one around, Chu Yun hurriedly sorted out his clothes and packages, and then walked quickly to the city gate in the distance.
When the other people who entered the city came to the city gate, Chu Yun realized that he needed to pay money to enter the city.
Two soldiers with spears leaned against the edge of the city wall, looking lazy, and a large jar was placed on the stone next to it, and everyone who entered the city would consciously throw two copper coins into the jar, and if anyone wanted to escape the two copper coins, the lazy spear could accurately stop it in front of the city gate every time.
Chu Yun also had some scattered copper coins in his hand, so he threw down two copper coins like the person in front of him.
But perhaps it was because he had a long knife on his body, and the soldiers defending the city looked at him twice.
Chu Yun hurriedly lowered his head, pretending to be respectful and honest.
When you pass through the dark city gate, you will see a bustling street in front of you.
Of course, this prosperity is relative to the small mountain village before......
Compared with modern society, the business in this small town is not as good as the market in a township.
The sanitation is even worse, with sewage flowing along the roadside, garbage piled up everywhere, and swarms of flies flying and falling.
However, although this Xuanwu City can only be regarded as a small city, it is still like heaven for Chu Yun, who has been wandering around the mountains.
After walking around the city, he already had something more in his hands.
One of the most important is a piece of leather armor, although I don't know what kind of leather it is made of, but the workmanship is not bad, and it can have some defense.
In addition, he bought two pairs of cloth shoes, which had already begun to break after a few days of walking in the mountains.
He also found a bookstore in the city, but unfortunately there were very few books on sale, and most of them were poorly printed Buddhist scriptures, which were very different from those in the real world.
"The social level of this game world seems to be far inferior to the real world." Chu Yun quickly came to such a conclusion.
According to the fat manager, the game world was automatically evolved by supercomputers according to historical developments, but now it seems to be a huge gap compared to the development of the real world.
"Is it true that the development of the world is only driven by a very small number of geniuses? And this game world is so backward is the result of a lack of genius......" Chu Yun couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
In the tens of thousands of years of human history, the real rapid development of science and technology is still in the modern hundreds of years, and the progress of science and technology in the previous tens of thousands of years has been extremely slow and even stagnant for a long time.
In this way, without the emergence of geniuses such as Newton and Einstein, it is indeed impossible for human technology to make a big leap forward, just as those primitive tribes still could not build a wheel even if they were inherited for thousands of years.
The appearance of those amazing geniuses is more like some kind of accident, and there are obviously no such accidents in this game world.
Chu Yun continued to wander around the city, although he was very interested in the goods in the game, but his most urgent task at the moment was to rush to Shudi, so what he needed most was horses.
After inquiring with many people, he finally found out that a carriage or horse was sold at a carriage and horse shop in the south of the city.
To his delight, the in-game carriage should be the equivalent of a real-life bus station.
However, when he hurried to the south of the city and found the carriage and horse, he saw an empty courtyard.
At this moment, there was only a dejected old man in a huge courtyard, staggering and sweeping the fallen leaves on the ground.
Chu Yun was a little puzzled if he was in the wrong place, and hesitated for a moment before asking the old man about the carriage.
"The guest officer wants to buy horses? Alas, our horses have been taken away by the government recently. When the old man heard this, he showed a bitter smile on his face.
Chu Yun couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this: "It's all taken away by the government?" ”
"Yes, there is another fight in the southwest, and the government is collecting horses everywhere, even the mules have been requisitioned, and now there is only one carriage left to throw there." The old man sighed and pointed to a corner of the courtyard.
Chu Yun followed the look, only to see a large number of carriages stacked in the corner, some of which had been damaged, apparently after the horses were requisitioned by the government, these carriages could only be idle.