Chapter 414: The City of Technology
After 500 years of hard work, Caiyi has long since developed from a lonely village on the north bank to a magnificent city straddling both sides of the Zhu River.
Looking at the towers, the pavilions are dense, the rows are stacked, the corridors are hanging high, Lu Ban was stunned to look at the endless city, only to feel dizzy and incredible.
"This is Zhu Cheng." Ghost Wen was not surprised by Lu Ban's shock, even the monks would not believe that this was a city built by mortals.
Of course, it is not a city that can be built by mere mortals, it is also a city of monks, who provide the necessary mana energy for the city to run water and electricity, purify filth, and develop technology. Otherwise, more than a million people would be able to make the Zhu River filthy, but because of the mana purification, the Zhu River has been flowing through Zhu City so clearly.
Zhucheng has no city walls, all of them are based on a square as the basic unit, and the pattern is built by Yunyao imitating Tang City. It looks very neat and consistent, which can make OCD satisfied.
Each square is a small community, and there are all kinds of things inside, including clinics, restaurants, schools, dojos, grocery stores, and yamen. In Zhucheng, everyone's faces are very peaceful, because they are developing technology under the leadership of immortals, and they don't have to worry about natural disasters and wars at all, as long as they live a good life, and the rest are naturally taken care of by the gods.
Lu Ban only felt that the people around him were so strange, and he soon found that everyone wore silk, and the only difference between different clothes was that some clothes had complex embroidery, while some clothes were very simple. This is a scene that cannot be seen in the capital of Chu State, even in the most prosperous city of Chu State, most people only wear linen clothes, and only a few people have silk to wear. Luban also has a few sets of silk clothes, but he is reluctant to wear them on weekdays, and he will only wear them during festivals or important events, but everyone in Zhucheng wears silk.
"This is really not Heavenly Court?" Lu Ban couldn't help but ask, feeling that this situation must be the heavenly court, and it can't be in the mortal world.
"There are still 108,000 miles away from Heavenly Court, and Zhu Cheng still belongs to the mortal world. It's just that Zhucheng is the mining town of the Hundred Flowers God, and it is the technological capital of the Three Realms, and even the Heavenly Court has to purchase goods here. The ghost asked, "I'll take you around first, buy some things by the way, and you'll have to dress up as well." ”
"Warmly celebrate the promotion of textile expert Yunxia Fairy to become the seventh eighth-level textile master, Jiujiang Textile Association calls on everyone to learn from Yunxia Fairy." On the side of the street, a group of fairies pulled up banners to promote the seventh eighth-level textile master in the history of Zhucheng, and this group of fairies obviously learned textile embroidery.
"Today's big news, the star drawing rune machine has overcome the last difficulty, and the three-thousand-year-old rune paper is about to go to the altar." The newspaper seller on the side has a voice that does not lose to Du Niang.
Ghost Wen couldn't help but stop and spent a piece of paper money to buy a newspaper. Reading it with a heavy face, it was clear that this news was not good news for him.
Lu Ban didn't know what was wrong with the ghost question, and he didn't ask, and now his neck seemed to be out of order, constantly turning around to look at strange new things.
The street under my feet is as flat as a lake, and I don't know what the magic weapon is, and the cars driving on the road don't even need to be horse-pulled, and the four wheels are rolling forward, and I don't know how to control the direction. There are also transparent crystals on the house and the car, these priceless treasures can be seen everywhere, Lu Ban carefully touched the window of the shop on the street, and the cold and slippery touch made him tremble.
Lu Ban's strange behavior also attracted a lot of people's attention, but Lu Ban couldn't care about these at all, he only felt that he had come to a dream. No, he could never have dreamed of such a beautiful place.
"Let's go." After reading the newspaper, Ghost Wen's face had returned to normal, and he continued to take Lu Ban around to take a look.
Luban has a lot of questions, why don't cars use horses, why every household has transparent crystals, what is the star drawing machine?
"You'll find out later." As he spoke, Ghost Wen took Lu Ban into a large grocery store.
Lu Ban didn't know the words on the signboard and didn't know what it was. Entering the spacious glass door, he saw a bottomless space, he was shocked, did he enter the bottomless pit?
It's just that the store is too big and there are too many products in it, so it's not so surprising.
First of all, I came to a counter to choose a jade plaque.
"What is this?" Lu Ban asked if he didn't understand, although he didn't expect an answer.
"This is the knowledge jade card, people like you who come to Zhucheng for the first time can immediately learn the words and regulations of Zhucheng as long as they use the knowledge jade card." Ghost Wen stared at the selection of different styles of jade plates on the counter, and finally designated a jade plate and said, "Bring me this jade plate infused by the Xiliang Women's Kingdom." ”
"Okay." The light-makeup female teller politely took out a jade plate, she was also a palace skirt fairy in Lu Ban's opinion.
Ghost asked and took out thirty bills.
This time, Lu Ban saw clearly that there was a very complex pattern painted on the banknote, but if you carefully distinguish it, it seems to be the moon, the rabbit, and the osmanthus. Lu Ban was not mistaken, because this banknote was the first Zhucheng banknote designed by Yunyao to find his godsister Chang'e.
"The jade plate is given to you, as long as you drip blood, you can learn the knowledge inside. Learn quickly, you can understand the text when you learn. The ghost asked.
Lu Ban immediately bit the thumb of his left hand and squeezed out a drop of blood, and when the blood beads fell on the white jade plate, a wave of knowledge rushed into his mind, and he learned a lot of new things. Motionless, his head was slightly swollen and painful, as if he was seasick, but he recovered quickly, and Lu Ban couldn't help but say, "I learned." ”
"These are just the most basic jade cards, they are very safe, if you encounter other jade brands in the future, don't learn them casually, you will become a fool if you don't do it." The ghost asked to remind the other party.
"I see, but what's the difference between these jade plates?" Lu Ban turned to look at the jade plate on the counter, as if it was similar in size and texture except for the different carved patterns.
"The origin is different, what you just used was the jade plate infused by the Xiliang Women's Country, and the others are also infused by the Rakshasa Country and the Yaksha Country. Although the content is the same, the feeling is different when studying, it is like drinking tea, and you never know whether the next bite will be sweet or bitter. The jade plaque of Xiliang Women's Country is generally relatively mild, so I chose this one. ”
"What is tea?" Lu Ban said he hadn't heard of it.
"I can't explain a lot of things now, you can understand it slowly, and I'll help you change your clothes." Ghost Wen took Lu Ban to the ready-to-wear area, where silk clothes of different colors were densely packed.
Zhu Cheng has trade contacts with various Xiuzhen forces, in addition to selling goods to monks, Zhu Cheng will also outsource some work to the Xiuzhen sect, such as pouring jade plates, these jobs need to be completed by monks with a certain degree of cultivation, and the Xiuzhen sect can earn foreign exchange after receiving work, and with foreign exchange, they can come to Zhucheng to purchase, so as to form a balance of trade, so as not to cause dissatisfaction in Zhucheng blindly making money from the Xiuzhen sect.
At the same time, there are also many monk positions in Zhucheng, some monks who go out of the mountain can come to Zhucheng to apply, Zhucheng's slogan is 'blood is better than sweat', out of the mountain experience is to endure hardships, to go through the tribulation of red dust, come to Zhucheng, office politics to meet all the needs of monks.
Monks who have just come out of the mountain will definitely be abused to death by the office politics of their jobs, but as long as they persevere, they will be able to strengthen their will and improve their cultivation.
There are also some positions that require labor, and the monks basically work for ten days and ten nights, sleepless, tired to the point of being unstable on their feet, and hollowing out their mana, which is more cruel than the battle of life and death, and more tempering and cultivation. Of course, the more industrious they are, the more pills they get, and Yun Yao will not treat them badly.
If you want to fight, you can also participate in the monk fighting competition, there are two kinds of single competition and team competition, if you lose, you don't have to worry about dying violently, and if you win, you will have a variety of elixir magic weapons as a reward.