Chapter 25 Buying Books
Staying in the town for a night, the next day, Ling Qi and Ling Ying took the carriage in the front and headed to Nangang City a few kilometers away.
"This carriage is really bumpy! It's better to have a dragon car. I really want to ride a dragon car!" Ling Ying complained again.
"Dragon car? Is the dragon pull car?"
"How is it possible? The dragon car is the head of a steamer, with carriages connected behind it, and the shape looks like a dragon..."
"Oh, it's the train!" Ling Qi immediately understood when he heard her description, and then reached out and pushed his sunglasses.
Yes, he reached out.
However, this is an inflatable arm. Yunsha can be used as a hand, provided that his identity cannot be exposed, so he put on gloves.
In order to be less eye-catching and not look abrupt in wearing gloves, he specially changed his outfit.
It's normal to have a plaid jacket, black-framed glasses, a one-sided hat, and gloves, it's a bit like an otaku who's going to a comic exhibition.
Thanks to this small town with an old style, there is a foreign clothing store that allows him to complete this outfit.
"After entering the city, you can't take off your hat and gloves..." He reminded himself secretly.
Once you take off your gloves, the empty interior will be exposed; if you take off your hat, the birthmark "cloud seal" on your forehead will be exposed.
Because of manipulating the cloud evil and imitating the arms, the birthmark will appear.
In less cold weather, wearing gloves and hats is a little inconsistent, but the risk of being seen is reduced.
Ling Qi also cut his hair into short hair, but he could control the growth of the shed corpse hair and could change back to its previous length at any time.
"Wow——" The carriagekeeper stopped the carriage and gently lifted a corner of the curtain. "Two guests, Nangang City has arrived."
The towering blue brick walls are not visible at both ends, but there are no towers and gates. Instead, it is a building that looks like a security passage.
Ling Qi felt that its shape was a bit like a toll station on the highway, and it was several times larger.
The sea blue sign on the top has three big words "Nangang City".
"Let's go, come into the city!"
Ling Ying jumped out of the carriage and held Ling Qi's gloves. The feeling came from her was like a real palm. With the bustling crowd, the two of them walked through the passage, and no one checked anything, but a sheriff was scanning the crowd.
Ling Qi noticed that there were a lot of merchants nearby, almost all of them were sea merchants, with the salty smell of sea breeze on them.
"What exactly does this big city look like in this world?"
The crowd flocked into the city, gradually spreading, revealing the scenery ahead, and Ling Qi looked forward curiously.
A wide asphalt road stretches into the distance, until the Sanchao Road intersection in the far distance. On both sides of the road, there are rows of shops, elegantly decorated theaters, crowded restaurants, Western-style cafes, and flashing colorful street lights.
The simple newsstand, the newspaper boys shouting beside him, the antique shop on the corner of the street, and even further away, you can even see the outlines of the building as high as ten floors, interlaced like mountains.
"Wow, it's more like a city than I thought! It's just a little older."
Ling Qi felt that he had seen such streets in some retro foreign movies and anti-Japanese TV series.
The style of the early 19th century, or rather, has a bit of the Republic of China flavor.
“Those are… cars?”
Ling Qi then found that the road was full of familiar vehicles, similar to Hyundai Motor, but no matter how big or small, each car was surrounded by a chimney. Steam and smoke kept coming out. From a distance, the street was filled with fog, adding a lot of warmth.
"The power equipment in this world is still the world of external combustion engines, the so-called steam generation!"
He knew that internal combustion engines have not replaced external combustion engines, and the key is that they have strict fuel requirements, unlike external combustion engines that burn boilers.
Therefore, the size of a steam car is generally larger than the size, and except for the wheels, the whole is square.
"Well, there are rickshaws? Yes, the car is too big and it is inconvenient to walk through the streets and alleys."
Ling Qi saw that among the various cars, there were some rickshaws pulled by coachmen, just like the rickshaws in the Shanghai Beach movies.
People's dresses are also mixed, including suits, ties, dresses, silk silk clothes, leather pants and cloth shirts.
Ling Qi asked Ling Ying last night and knew that this was a coastal city that was gradually westernizing.
The traffic is full of traffic and colorful, which is perfect for describing it.
"Ling Ying, where is the bookstore?" The first impression of Nangang City made Ling Qi full of curiosity about the world.
If you want to understand something, the best way is to read. This is the truth he has accepted since he was a child, and it is as effective as coming to another world.
Three hours later, dozens of books were already placed in Ling Qi's basket, the largest bookstore in Nangang City.
After receiving gold bars at the bank at the entrance of the city, the two went straight to the bookstore, and they didn't appreciate the scenery along the way.
"Ling Qi, are you a nerd? But I haven't heard of any other person who loves reading?" Ling Ying was very surprised.
"Knowledge is power..." Ling Qi threw out a slogan from his hometown, but he meditated in his heart, "Money is power!"
He now threw it into the stronghold on the moon with hundreds of thousands of cash and millions of dollars in his arms.
Binglong, who was staying at the other end of the Star Gate, was just bored and counting money and playing with the Yin Ling.
The value of this batch of gold bars is similar to what Ling Ying estimates. In short, Ling Qi became rich overnight.
It is not a problem to buy any book. The books he chose are mainly introduced and popular science, including customs, history, geography, religion, culture, science and technology... which can help him quickly obtain relevant information about the world.
In fact, he used to like to chew more professional hardcore publications, but as a visitor to another world, he also had self-knowledge.
I only bought a few books about steam engines and machinery, which involve a deeper and well-founded engineering foundation, so I might be able to study it.
When it was about to check out, Ling Qi remembered something: "Is there any magic trick in such a bookstore?"
When he was still a sowing spirit, he learned that the popularity of modern sowing art was no different from eating, drinking, and exercising early.
Almost nine out of ten people were practicing the magic technique, which caused the spread of the magic spirits and the number became a mystery.
He suddenly had a whim about whether there would be any magic tricks for people to buy in folk bookstores.
"Yes, every bookstore sells the best books and magazines. Do you want to buy them? But you can't practice them." Ling Ying gave a positive answer.
"Uh, no matter how I say it is, I am also produced by the Demonic Art. I have to understand it!"
"On the shelves on that side are all the best-selling books and magazines, you can choose them yourself." Ling Ying pointed to the counter.
"Shegemony! The magical technique that is not on earth can finally see the true face!"
Ling Qi walked over excitedly with a pious mood towards those "treasure books" and then looked at the bookshelf:
"How to Get rid of being a licking dog - "The "spiritual castration method" that 200 million unrequited lovers are learning"
"Professor Tuding helps you improve your attention"
"Guide to Commonly Used Descendants of Housewives"
"If you are in love, just melt your love!"
......
"What the hell are these?" Although Ling Qi was speechless, he still swept away the books and magazines on the shelf.
Check out, go out, go out.
"Don't be disappointed. What is sold in bookstores must be civilian arts for life! Even the lowest level of arts for practice, you have to go to the practice hall to become a disciple, or hire a personal trainer to teach it. Only arts for practice can produce wise arts. You are smarter than me, and must be born from top skills!"
Ling Ying thought his frustration was because he was misunderstood that he was created by these messy metamorphosis techniques.
Chapter completed!