001, the city of chaos
Hua Zhenxing woke up from his dream, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was dark. A gust of wind blew, and he shivered, and his blank expression seemed to ask - who am I and where am I?
It took him a long time to come to his senses, and when he looked up at the starry sky among the low eaves, he was sure that he was still in the streets of Filso Harbour, and the time was still 2020. Last night, he had been taken by the big man Heichar to a bar-frequented by the natives and drunk too much, and when he came back drunk in an alley not far from his home, he fell asleep against the wall.
Hua Zhenxing couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, Feisuo Harbor is not a safe place, and danger is always everywhere in the night when it seems that every family is closed.
It was in this alley that Hua Zhenxing had seen a dead corpse with his own eyes. The nameless deceased was probably shot elsewhere and struggled to escape a long way, eventually dying in a narrow alley where no one was around, only to be found at dawn. Before the police arrived, the deceased's belongings had already been stolen by passers-by.
In a dangerous environment, the most important thing is to keep a clear head and make a correct and timely response, which is the admonition of the old man Yang who has pulled him since he was a child. Although Old Man Yang is only a grocery store, he is the most knowledgeable and capable person Hua Zhenxing has ever known.
Hua Zhenxing began to examine himself seriously, and there was no injury on the surface, and there seemed to be no dull pain in his body. The paratrooper dagger hidden under his left rib, the steel knuckle on his waist, the lighter in his jacket pocket, and even the purse in his right trouser pocket were still there.
If you encounter any vicious guys, it is not easy to deal with or inconvenient to do it directly, just pay the money obediently, in short, you can't let people down too much.
He also had two hidden pockets sewn into his clothes that were not easy to find, and he contained spare cash. Most of the local indigenous bandits have straightforward personalities or lack of heart, and they basically can't think of these seemingly simple tricks.
Port Fesos is a coastal city located a few miles east of the Black Desert Continent. I heard that in the whole world, the country of several miles is a rather poor and backward place, but the people here like to dress up brightly, and many people even if their homes are surrounded by walls and can only get some money, they have to find ways to wear all kinds of famous brands and wear bright gold chains.
Hua Zhenxing once wanted to wear a chain, which could play a similar role as that wallet. But Old Man Yang told him that carrying an invisible wallet in his trouser pocket and wearing an eye-catching chain around his neck had different meanings.
The things that should have been there are still there, and it seems that he has not suffered an accident, but he has drunk too much and sat under the wall and fell asleep, and has not been discovered by passers-by at night and taken away his belongings. Hua Zhenxing finally found a Dong-made Huawei brand smartphone from his jacket, which is his favorite thing on weekdays, through that small screen, it seems to be able to connect the entire universe.
Hua Zhenxing didn't light up the phone screen, but took it back with his hand. After checking his body and things, he said that he should hurry home, but at this moment he was still sitting under the wall and seemed to be a little distracted, and he actually closed his eyes, as if he was reminiscing about something.
He was trying his best to recall the contents of Fang Cai's dream, lest the impression be blurred if he delayed it for a moment. When people first wake up from a dream, they often feel that the dream is very clear, but as soon as time passes for a while, the memory becomes very blurry, and they can only remember a few fragments, and most of them become the content of brain processing when relayed to others.
Hua Zhenxing just had a very special dream, but he didn't realize it in the dream, and after waking up, he recalled that the age in the dream turned out to be 2520. And now it's only 2020, that is to say, he dreamed of the world five hundred years later, and there was a country of joy in the world that did not exist today-
In 2520 A.D., the port of Feso was already the capital and largest city of the Kingdom of Huanxiang, where not only did it have one of the most important universities in the country, but also the production base of Chunrong Dan. Zhenxingbang is one of the twenty-eight administrative regions of the Huanxiang Kingdom on this planet, and it is also the earliest territory of the Huanxiang Kingdom.
Although the raw materials required to process Chunrong Dan are all over the world, more than 300 years ago, its final refining and synthesis production place was only in Feisuo Port. Later, with the development of the new frontier of Huanxiang Country and various other reasons, there are now seven synthesis bases, but the status of Feisuo Port, which was the first to produce Chunrong Dan, is still very important.
It is said that the complete Dan recipe of Chunrong Dan, which is regarded as one of the top secrets of Huanxiang Country, is kept in the Chunrong Dan Production and R&D Center in Feisuo Port. Countless forces in the world have tried to get it, but so far none of them seem to have succeeded.
Chunrong Dan appeared more than 400 years ago, the specific time is no longer available, the name sounds very ordinary, but its magical effect is like the Zhuyan Dan in Xianxia novels, it is said to make people's faces ageless, which can be called the pinnacle of the biopharmaceutical field in human history.
It is not a simple pill, but a large box of formulas, a total of 360 servings, each serving has a different composition, each has a specific date of taking the medicine, take one serving a day.
In other words, once you start taking this elixir, every day should not be missed. The 360 pills in Chunrong Dan have their own contraindications and particularities, and usually need to be taken under the guidance of professionals in specialized medical institutions.
According to the requirements of the instructions to take it in the correct way, according to the clinical observation results of nearly 400 years, it has not been found to have any toxic side effects.
Of course, the so-called agelessness is only a relative concept, according to the clinical summary, taking a box of Chunrong Dan can roughly "stay beautiful" for 30 years. The specific effect can be described as follows: if you are 70 years old, you still look like you are in your 40s.
As a prescription drug that must be taken under the guidance of a doctor, the description of its efficacy in the instructions is very rigorous, but it is written that "this product can improve endocrine and microcirculation, regulate metabolism, and play a role in delaying aging".
As for the statement that a box of Chunrong Dan can "stay in the face for 30 years", it is the result of clinical observation and statistics for hundreds of years, and it is also a fact seen by the public, and it has long been recognized by the whole world.
Since "one box of rejuvenation for thirty years", wouldn't taking a few boxes of it be able to retain rejuvenation for a longer period of time until youth lasts forever? Unfortunately, this is not the case, the effect of Chunrong Dan is decreasing, and its instructions are very clear, each person can not take more than three copies at the same time, and the cumulative amount cannot exceed nine boxes.
Even if the theoretical maximum amount is reached, a total of nine Chunrong Dan pills have been taken, and its effect is roughly equivalent to twice that of one pill. According to popular folk saying, it is roughly the limit of "60 years of rejuvenation".
It's a miraculous effect, but if you think about it, what kind of miracle would it be if someone was in their nineties and still had the face of their thirties? What's even more remarkable is that Chunrong Dan is a commodity that can be industrially produced on a large scale!
The so-called "elixir" may have really appeared in history, and the legendary panacea may really exist, but can they be industrialized on a large scale like vitamin pills and become a daily consumer product for ordinary people?
However, it is a pity that this pill is only effective for women, and it is also specifically emphasized in the instructions - men are forbidden to take it! In professional medical institutions, many users have to do chromosome tests first.
This aroused the strong dissatisfaction of the majority of male compatriots in the world, and despite the strict control of the finished product, many men have secretly taken it secretly through various means for hundreds of years, including many powerful people. However, it has been proved that men who take Chunrong Dan not only have no obvious anti-aging effect, but also have a lot of unhealthy abnormal changes in their body functions.
This made many men even more dissatisfied, and they asked the inventor of Chunrong Dan, that is, Mr. Feng Zibin, the founder of Huanxiang Country, why can't he develop a new drug for men? Feng Zibin replied that he really didn't make it, but this is not his responsibility alone, everyone can work hard to develop it!
As a result, there have been all kinds of new drugs in the world that claim to be able to make men look good, and they have been making a fuss for hundreds of years, and it has been proved that those drugs are not only ineffective, but many of them also have strong side effects, which can be said to have pitted countless male compatriots. If there is no success in research and development, there is none, and science speaks with facts, and there is no room for assumptions.
Although the Chunrong Pill produced in Huanxiang Country can only be taken by women, men are also crazy about it, and the reason is obvious. A box of Chunrong Dan can retain youth for 30 years, what kind of temptation is this? A lot of people are willing to pay crazy for it! Women are crazy, and men are not immune.
However, compared to the almost unlimited demand in the world, Chunrong Dan is produced in limited quantities and is expensive, and once only a small number of people could get it. When it first came out, if converted to the price level in 2020, the price of a box was as high as 3.6 million meters of gold.
Mijin was the currency of Mi Jianguo, the world's largest power at that time, and 3.6 million rice gold was equivalent to almost 20 million yuan in the eastern country.
After the official listing of Chunrong Dan, the price continued to drop year after year, from 3.6 million meters of gold in the first 30 years to the level equivalent to the original 360,000 meters of gold, only one-tenth of the original, and then the price remained relatively stable for a long time. The prices mentioned here are based on the price level in 2020, taking into account inflation.
Even if it is 360,000 meters of gold in 2020, which is equivalent to 2 million Dongguo coins, it is a huge amount of money for many people. The more critical problem is that even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it, and compared to the output of Chunrong Dan, there are many more people who can and are willing to spend this money to buy it.
If you want to buy Chunrong Dan, in addition to special channels, in most countries in the world, you have to make an appointment to register to participate in the annual lottery lottery, and the purchase qualification is similar to winning the lottery, and even changing hands can be sold at a high price. Although almost all countries have officially banned this kind of scalping, in many places this phenomenon of private scalping is still prohibited.
One phenomenon was later even written into textbooks. Although the price of this product continued to decrease after it was launched, and the price was only one-tenth of the original price after 30 years, people still rushed to get it as soon as possible, regardless of whether it became more expensive the sooner it was launched.
Because this is a "rejuvenating" product, its effect is not to rejuvenate people, but only to delay aging, who doesn't want to take it as soon as possible in the prime of youth? Although the price of the product has been reduced, youth can't afford to wait.
Many people, both men and women, will do whatever it takes to get it, causing a series of social problems. Some women abandon their husbands and children for it, and they do not hesitate to sell their bodies and souls, but they are deceived again and again...... Some men take risks for it and do all kinds of illegal things...... The more chaotic the kingdom is, the worse the chaos becomes!
Chunrong Dan, the product, and its inventor and producer, have also received a lot of criticism for this. Some people say that Chunrong Dan has brought turmoil and chaos to this world, because the various incidents caused by it have inspired the ugliness of human nature. However, Chunrong Dan itself is innocent, it is just a drug.
Chunrong Dan is also just Chunrong Dan, it can not rejuvenate people, it can only make the face immortal, maybe there are some effects on improving physical fitness, but there is no obvious effect on prolonging life. And the gospel of men finally appeared decades after the advent of Chunrong Dan, which is a method of exercise called Yangyuan Technique.