Chapter 8 About the World
"Well, did you sleep well yesterday?" Mrs. Ode looked at the three teenagers in front of her.
"Yes, very good aunt."
"It's comfortable, Auntie."
"It's okay aunt"
The three teenagers said.
"Huh?" Xin was surprised, "Why do you call you aunt?" ”
"Because they are my adopted children, Cinch," said Mrs. Oder, laughing.
"That's great, I've got a brother again." Xin was a little happy.
"Yes, but why do you say again? Xin, do you remember something? Silver hurriedly asked.
"Hmm~ I still can't remember, but I feel like there were always a lot of people my age playing with me before." Xin frowned.
"That's right."
"Okay kids, let's talk about the extra words when we get in the car." Mrs. Oude looked at Xin's efforts to reminisce and said, "We have to take a train to the edge of the Western Continent today, and then take a passenger ship to the Eastern Continent, and it will take almost a month to arrive, and in this month's time, you will not only have to understand the knowledge of the continent, but also learn some commonly used languages in the Eastern Continent, so it will be a little harder." ”
"Yes, yes," the children said together.
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On the train, Mrs. Odd booked two rooms, one for herself and the other for her three children.
"So where do you start?" Mrs. Oude was a little confused, after all, things in this world could not be explained in a few words.
"Well, aunt, let's talk about how many continents there are first." Yin was the first to speak, Yin usually likes to listen to stories, so he knows more, and generally the books that introduce the mainland start from the differentiation of the continent.
"Then we'll start talking about it from the mainland." Mrs. Oude paused, and blushed a little when she saw several children looking at her together, God knows that as the goddess of the forest, she has only been to the Eastern Continent once or twice, and usually stays in the Forest of Beginnings.
"Well, this world is divided into two major civilizations, do you know this?" Mrs. Odd asked.
"I know that." Silver said, "It is divided into technological and magical civilizations, the technological civilization has an extremely high level of technology, and the magical world has a very high level of magic. ”
"That's right," Mrs. Odd nodded, "This world is divided into two different civilizations, and the two civilizations that this world is divided into occupy the north and south sides of this planet respectively, and in the middle is the Red Ridge, which everyone knows and cannot climb and set foot in. ”
"I've heard of that." Jin replied, "Legend has it that the gods have issued an edict to tell the world that the world is a sphere, and in the middle is the Chiling that we can't set foot on. ”
"That's right, this is the dividing line between the two civilizations, and it is also the culprit that the two civilizations will never be able to completely merge." Mrs. Oude said, "Legend has it that a long, long time ago, countless people tried to cross the Red Ridge but failed, and the strong people who were strong enough to reach the ninth order could not cross the Red Ridge, because when we reach a certain height, our body will be under a certain pressure, and this pressure will be stronger the closer to the height of the Red Ridge, so until now no one has been able to surpass themselves to climb the Red Ridge, let alone climb the Red Ridge to the other side of the technological civilization." ”
"Ahem, there was once a ninth-order physical cultivator in history, who was drinking with a friend once, and he boasted that his physical strength was comparable to that of a spare, and his friend who drank with him asked, Can you cross the Chiling? As a result, this strong man took advantage of the wine to agree, and the result can be imagined, the strong man who was as strong as the ninth order could not cross the Chiling, and I heard that in the end, all the organs were split and died. Saying this, Mrs. Oude stopped, looked at the three little ghosts in front of her and smiled, "But don't worry, Chiling is indeed not something we can cross, but since then, the gods among the gods have descended miracles, as long as they pass through the teleportation near Chiling, they can pass through Chiling, but there are several rules, first: people from the Science and Technology Continent can enter the Magic Continent with technology, but they can't bring anything from the Magic Continent back to the Technology Continent." ”
"This is to protect the people of the Continent of Science and Technology, none of them can use magic, so if someone with ill intentions returns to the Continent of Science and Technology with magic props from the Continent of Magic, then it will inevitably make the people fall into a panic, think about it, if something can kill us invisibly, and it will not be discovered by others, then we will also be afraid."
"Two: People from the Science and Technology Continent can enter and exit the Magic Continent at will, but people from the Magic Continent cannot enter and exit the Technology Continent at will, and the people from the Magic Continent who pass through the teleportation array will have their own magic eliminated, and they will not be able to set foot in the Magic Continent for life." Mrs. Oude said the second point, "This is for the sake of the people of the Magic Continent, if the people of the Magic Continent go to the Technology Continent, they will inevitably be regarded as guinea pigs by the people of the Science and Technology Continent, and it is only a matter of time before they are caught and studied." Moreover, the people of the Technology Continent do not know how to use magic, so it is also a disguised protection for the people of the Technology Continent from being harmed by the people of the Magic Continent. There is a kind of criminal law called exile, which is to force the most heinous people to pass through the Chiling Crossing Point to the Science and Technology Continent, abolish their skills, and be unable to set foot in the territory of their hometown for life, and can only do the lowest work in the Science and Technology Continent until the end of their lives. ”
"Indeed, there is such a saying, and there are many people in history who have been exiled to the technology continent, and I heard those people in the technology continent say that few exiled people can survive in that situation, and most of them die after not holding out for two years." Silver said what he had learned from books.
"Yes, but this kind of criminal law is for the most heinous people." Mrs. Oude nodded affirmatively, "Three: If any person from the Technology Continent uses a technology weapon to harm someone from the Magic Continent, then no matter what, this person from the Technology Continent will be directly executed on the spot." ”
"The main effect of this is for the sake of the people of the Magic Continent, because although the people of the Magic Continent do not know magic, the technology is extremely powerful, and some technologies can even emit forbidden spell-like energy, which can flatten a city to the ground in an instant. Moreover, the people who go to the technology continent of the Magic Continent are generally high-ranking officials and nobles, and they are generally protected by the local mercenary association here, and there will be no major danger, unless they want to die themselves, and they have to go to that dangerous place. Mrs. Oude said with a fierce expression, "Remember, although technology is easy to use, the people in the technology continent are almost not good people, if they don't have a plan, they won't easily set foot in this land, so if you meet someone from the science and technology continent, you must not have a deep relationship with him, often he has a plan for you to get closer to you." ”
"Well, we know," Xin replied obediently, "is there anything else?" ”
"And one last one: this world is always watched by our gods, please don't play some tricks." Mrs. Oude smiled, "This is written by the human god himself on the boulder near the teleportation array, and everyone who comes here to the technology continent will see it, and after so many years, there is indeed nothing terrible happening." ”
"That's right." Xin's eyes widened, "This god doesn't seem to be partial to people from any continent, and it's also very interesting." ”
"Yes, the original decree said that this continent was a sphere, that is, the man and the god said." Mrs. Oude said, "Okay, well, these have almost nothing to do with us, we just need to know that the technology we use now is from the other half of the planet." ”
"The next thing I'm going to talk about is about our own continent, you have to listen carefully." Madame Ode touched Xin's soft hair for a while.
"It is inaccurate that the magical continent is divided into two continents, but it is precisely divided into two halves, one half with symbols as language and the other half as language with words, and that is the main difference between the two. The one that uses symbols as the language is our Western Continent, and the one that uses words as the language is the Eastern Continent that we happen to be heading to. Our Magic Continent is located in the north, so there is a special wild land in our north, where it is cold all year round, and every winter there will be a sky full of ice blades and snow knives fluttering in the wind, which ordinary people can't bear at all. In the south, the area near Chiling is hot all year round, and the closer we are to Chiling, the worse this feeling becomes, so the seasonal differentiation is generally not obvious in the southernmost and northernmost areas. The Makahi Orphanage is located in a typical southern area, I'm right. ”
"Mm-hmm, yes, it's hot all year round, and we haven't seen anything like snow in a book." Kim said, his eyes full of yearning for snow, "I've heard that there are a lot of fun things to do when it snows." ”
"Huh." Mrs. Oude smiled, "Yes, the school we are going to in the Eastern Continent is near the north, where it will snow in winter, and it will be autumn now, and when we arrive, we can see the snow directly." ”
"Huh? Are you sure? It's so good that "Kim is so happy that Silver, do you hear that?" We can see the snow, not the kind of snow in the books. ”
"Uh-huh, I see, you don't shake it anymore." Silver looked at his brother helplessly, although he was not much older than himself, but this kind of personality really made him a little helpless.
"Okay, okay, Kim, sit down, I'm not done yet." Madame Odd tried to hide the smile from the corner of her eye, and she succeeded.
"The Western Continent is divided into several countries, and in addition to the large country of Michelle, there are several small countries scattered around Michelle." Mrs. Oude introduced.
"That, aunt, why is the country of Michel so big and unifying the Western Continent?" Xin wondered.
"As I said just now, although Michelle is big, but it is between several small countries, as the so-called spark can start a prairie fire, not to mention that these small countries are not fuel-efficient lamps, if Michelle attacks a country, it will inevitably cause other countries to besiege." Mrs. Oude explained.
"Then, why don't those small countries unite against the Mitchell country?" Xin raised new questions.
"Because they don't dare and won't, if you want to fight, you must have a striker, you must have a backup, then who will be the striker and who will be the backup becomes a problem, no country wants to act as a striker, if Michelle loses, it is good that you can get a piece of the pie, but if not, wouldn't it be a loss to your wife and a soldier." Mrs. Oude said, "Historically, Michel was also a small country, and it was only with the strong command ability of the current generation of kings that it was able to unify to the extent it is today, and the remaining small countries also discovered the ambition of Michel, so they united their efforts to maintain the current Western Continent as it is now." ”
"I see, Aunt Oude, you know a lot." Sheen complimented Madame Odd.
"It's okay, Auntie, I've learned a lot." Lady Oude said, "The eastern continent is simpler than the western continent, in the middle is the same human race as the western continent, but to the north is the territory of the elves, and the two islands to the east are the famous fairy archipelago, and the other is the orc country that has always intersected with humans. ”
"The elf territory in the north has always been relatively mysterious, so there is not much information, but I heard that most of the elves like flowers and plants, and live a peach orchard life without any quarrel with the world. The fairy archipelago is more special, there are many goblins who travel to the Eastern Continent every year, and I heard that the goblins are very good-looking, and I heard that this is related to the goddess spring water they take. As for the orc country, this is much simpler, they are almost the same as the people of the Eastern Continent, but they worship the beast god and each of them almost has two forms, one is the human type, which is similar to the human race, but there are some beast organs, but they can be hidden by some special means, and the second is the orc form, which fully highlights its own orc parts, such as hair, scales, etc., and when transforming from human form to orc form, it will receive the blessing of the beast god, and temporarily obtain an almost invincible protection, It does not disappear until the second form is fully completed. Mrs. Oude stopped, "That's right, that famous star singer, called Gu Mingquan, is an orc country, I heard that he was able to reach today's height after a lot of his own efforts, which can be said to be very powerful." ”
"Well, I'm so sleepy." Kim said a little confused.
"yes, yes, I'm so sleepy." Silver also said.
"Auntie, I'm so sleepy." Xin watched Madame Odd shake.
"Okay, okay, you guys rest early, let's continue tomorrow." Mrs. Oude looked at the wobbly children and said softly, and after settling the children, she went back to her room.