Chapter 173: Mountain City in the Clouds: Changes in the World
"Please note that the terminal of this trip is Chengdu Fuyundu Wharf, and the cloud boat is about to land, please prepare to get off the ship......"
With a pleasant female voice sounding in the cloud boat, all the passengers only felt that their bodies were slightly light, and the cloud boat, which was crossing the air at a high altitude, turned around slightly and landed below the clouds.
The cloud boat descended, through layer after layer of dense clouds, after a while, the passengers in the cloud boat suddenly saw a large cliff corner stretching out from the cliff below, the strange stones on it were like swords and swords, sharp scales, almost with the cloud boat inserted, so that many passengers who took the cloud boat for the first time couldn't help but exclaim, almost scared out of a cold sweat.
"Fortunately, the landing of Yunzhou is much smoother than that of the plane in the other world!"
Dugu Feng and Shenggu Jiayin held hands and stood side by side on the deck, watching the cloud boat land leisurely, while not forgetting to compare their heads.
Compared with another purely technological product of the aircraft, the cloud boat does not rely on jet power to fly, the cloud boat engraved on the cloud boat cloud gathering charm, also has the function of providing buoyancy, so the cloud boat up and down flight is very stable, and when landing, it can directly levitate and land, without running to taxi.
The cloud boat was wrapped in a cloud of mist and slowly descended, but there were circles of blue light in the corresponding berth below, but it was the yuan magnetic talisman on the berth, which was emitting a magnetic force to dock and pull with the cloud boat, so as not to stop the cloud boat in the wrong position and disturb the order of the dock.
Under the traction of magnetic force, the cloud boat docked steadily on the berth. And the passengers who couldn't wait for a long time, as soon as the cabin door opened, picked up their luggage one after another, rushed up, and swarmed out along the trestle that had just been lowered.
Li Yingqiong is still taking a cloud boat for the first time, and at this time, everything is naturally fresh, so while following her father and following the flow of people, she looked around excitedly.
Yunzhou Wharf, said to be a ferry wharf, but it is dozens or hundreds of times larger than the port wharf that Li Yingqiong has ever seen. The shuttle-shaped flying boats, which are taller than a three-story restaurant and very similar to the cloud boat she is on, are taking off and landing on this flat land, which is extremely spectacular.
The entire Yunzhou Pier is very busy, and from time to time there is a blue circle of light on the berth, and every flash of light has a song of Yunzhou taking off or landing. And in the sky above Li Yingqiong's head, you can see a large cloud and mist wrapping the cloud boat and flying into the sky, up and down for a while, almost covering the sky and the sun, and Li Yingqiong is dizzying.
"Yingqiong!"
When Li Yingqiong was looking left and right, she was very happy to watch. But when he heard the call of his father Li Ning, he hurriedly turned around, but found that he was several steps behind because he was greedy for the scenery, and his father was greeting himself in the trestle at the end of the trestle!
Li Yingqiong hurriedly ran in small steps and followed forward, but saw that the old father was holding fists with a man in white to catch up!
The reunion of old friends, whether it is Li Ning or the man in white, they are all in tears and excited, if it weren't for the fact that this place is in front of the public, I am afraid that the two of them will cry with their heads in their arms.
Li Ning said: "In the past, Chang'an was goodbye, who would have thought that we would meet here again today!" It's a pity that the mountains and rivers are still the same, and the characters are all out of the ordinary, how can it not be heartbroken! ”
The man in white also sighed and said, "The battle of Jiugong Mountain, I heard that ...... Hey, today you and I meet in a foreign land, and it can be said that the end of the world has fallen at the same time. It is also the pity of heaven, so that I am not lonely. After a pause, he looked at Li Yingqiong again and said, "This girl, I think it's Ling Yuan, right?" ”
Li Ning hurriedly called Li Yingqiong and introduced: "When I saw my virtuous brother, I was pleasantly surprised, and I forgot to teach my little girl Yingqiong to meet her." As he spoke, he said to Li Yingqiong: "Yingqiong come over and greet your Uncle Zhou." ”
Li Yingqiong listened to her father's words and came over to bow down. The man in white returned a half-salute, and said to Li Ning: "I see that the virtuous niece is full of heroic faces, the daughter of Jiangmen, the eldest brother's mastery must have a successor." ”
When the old man heard this, he immediately shook his head again and again, and said, "Brother Xian doesn't know anything. Because the foolish brother knows a little about martial arts, he made a fuss. Moreover, as soon as she was born, her mother died with me in the chaos, and for ten years she ran and fled, and there was no place to live. I have the idea that mediocrity is more blessed, and this kid's eyes are too angry, and he has learned martial arts, and he will definitely have many things in the future. My martial arts are only normal, there are many strangers in the world, and if I don't learn well, I will kill myself. The foolish brother is only one girl, and he can't rest assured, so he didn't teach her at all. I hope that in the future, I will recruit a reading seed and send me back to the West, which is enough. ”
The man in white glanced at Li Yingqiong again, and saw that she had a clear skeleton and a handsome style, and she was really a first-class talent who practiced martial arts and cultivation, and couldn't help but say: "That being said, I look at the appearance of my virtuous niece, and I must not end up with a girl's horn, my brother should think about it more, and I will see it in the future." ”
Li Yingqiong listened to the words of the man in white to persuade her father, and she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and be overjoyed. But when she saw her father's unmoved appearance, she couldn't help but show a little resentment.
And at this moment, a deafening muffled thunder suddenly rolled from the sky. The whole sky, in the midst of this sudden roar, darkened.
The hall of the tower is very wide, and the four sides and the dome are all transparent glass, so when everyone looks up, they can see every qiē in the sky clearly.
I saw that above the cloudy sky, the clouds were dense and layered, as if the sky had collapsed, and the black pressure was covered above the Yunzhou wharf.
"That's ......"
"Cloudsdale!"
"Move mountains and clouds!"
Before Li Yingqiong could see what was in the sky, she heard the screams in the trestle building, and it was a mess!
"That's the Four Seas Society's Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat!"
Seeing that Li Yingqiong and Li Ning both looked surprised, the man in white took the initiative to introduce: "The cloud boat that moves mountains is as big as a mountain and as wide as a city, it is said that it is the largest model of cloud boat specially invited by the immortals of the overseas Biyou Palace specially invited by the Four Seas Society, and it has 10,000 mansions inside, enough to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people, and because it is always wrapped in clouds and never lands, it is also called Cloud City!" ”
"It turns out that this is the legendary Cloud City, it's really big!" Li Yingqiong has also heard of the name of Cloudsdale since she was a child, but today is the first time to see it, although the entire Cloudsdale is wrapped in thick clouds, and it is not clear from the ground at all, but just looking at the clouds that are black and oppressive covering the entire sky, almost as if the sky has fallen, you can imagine how huge the Cloudsdale behind it is!
"Cloudsdale? Hasn't this behemoth always sailed only between the coastal states and overseas countries? How did it appear in Shuzhong? ”
Li Ning looked at the black and oppressive side thing in the sky, and couldn't help frowning slightly, the moving mountains and cloud boats were huge, almost the same as a floating city, and ordinary flying cloud boats were not the same as them at all. Such a behemoth cannot be made by warlocks and mechanics in the mortal world at all, and only those large sects and chambers of commerce alliances backed by immortals have the ability to make them. And because of some of his own experiences, he didn't have much affection for this thing at all.
"Cloudsdale appeared, what else could I do? Absorb the homeless people to the sea! The man in white shook his head slightly, stretched out his hand and pointed to a row of cloud boat berths not far away, and said: "Chengdu Mansion issued an edict half a month ago to gather the unemployed and landless people in the entire Shu and transport them by cloud boats to open up the wilderness and colonize!" ”
Li Ning and Li Yingqiong looked in the direction pointed by the man in white, and sure enough, before they saw the rows of Yunzhou berths, there was already a long queue of people, and people in ragged clothes and dragged their families were gathering together in a chaotic manner, barely maintaining basic order under the scolding and scolding of the government soap officials holding short sticks and wearing blue shirts and short coats.
"Sure enough, immigrants, immigrants again!" Li Ning took a deep breath and said in a muffled voice: "Shanxi, Qilu, Youyan, Henan, two lakes...... In today's world, in addition to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangzhou, where are there no immigrants? Hmph, now in this world, jackals are in charge, mergers are rampant, the rich have a place to reach the sky, and the poor have no place to stand and stand in, the court does not think about benevolent government, inhibits mergers, but forces the people to leave their hometowns and go overseas! What kind of heavenly kingdom is this, and what kind of prosperous world is it? ”
"Shhhh Brother be careful! ”
Seeing that Li Ning was in public, the more he talked, the more indignant he became, and the man in white hurriedly hinted that Li Ning should not speak falsely, and at the same time let out a long sigh and said with a wry smile: "What the eldest brother said is the truth. It's just that the world is changing, changing with each passing day, and some things are forced to do so! Big brother, you should know that in this land of Shuzhong, since I expelled the Tartars from the Taizu Dynasty and set the mountains and rivers of Dingding, there has been no war for more than 300 years! Among them, the material is prosperous and the population is multiplying, I don't know how many times it has increased in the past three hundred years! Especially in the past 100 years, Huairentang has spread all over the world! I don't know how many lives have been saved, in the past, there were seven or eight children in the family, and only two or three people could really grow up, but now, if there is no accident, there is almost no young child who dies! In this way, there are more people and less land, and even if there is no strong annexation, the land in Kyushu in the world is not enough to feed everyone. Therefore, it is also a last resort to open up the wilderness and colonize overseas! ”
When Li Ning heard this, he was silent for a moment, nodded slightly, and said, "What the virtuous brother said is also reasonable. Three hundred years of peace, this dynasty has actually been in the extreme, in fact, these hundreds of years, overseas continue to have sweet potato, Jiahe, corn, bamboo, steamed bread trees and other high-yield crops into the Central Plains, if the land of Kyushu concentrates on farming, to the world of Qianmo widely planted these high-yield crops, even if the population is now several times larger, what to worry about! I only hate that today is impetuous, people's hearts are not ancient, the world values profit over righteousness, business over agriculture, fire spirit organs are all over the world, and they are popular in the world, I don't know how many people's jobs and food have been taken away, and I don't know how many family farmers have been destroyed. Shanxi, Gansu, and the northwest, there is a thing of 'sheep eating people'...... If it weren't for the schedule, how could there be another righteous act of breaking into the king! It's a pity ......"