Chapter 24: The Seaside City(1/2)
"I want to order candy?"
"Just a little new quilt!"
"Is it really OK? Professor... Then, then I want a new piece of clothing!"
"Director, can you really choose?"
At the Chuyao ship, at the bridge boarding the port, Su Zhou, surrounded by a large group of children, squatted down and listened carefully to what gifts they wanted, and kept all of them in his heart.
The man who took the initiative to ask the children what gifts they needed originally thought he would hear some exaggerated requests, such as the Knight's Sword, which many local children like very much.
But Su Zhou did not expect that the children in the orphanage even had such practical wishes. They did not dare to have any gifts beyond their common sense, and even asked for some candy and clothes. Such things that seemed not "necessary" would feel panic and uneasy.
"Clothes, candy, some spare potion, and flowers that can be planted."
Standing up, Su Zhou repeated the children's wishes, and nodded: "Because the flowers raised in the orphanage didn't have time to bring them out? This is my mistake, Xiao Moxi, this time I will definitely bring you a pot of flowers that are the same as before."
Of course, in addition to these gifts that are still considered normal, Su Zhou also received some special requirements.
Isabella, the girl who had a fever and was cured by Su Zhou, made a wish to him timidly: she hoped that Su Zhou would lift him up and turn around, which was the game her father liked to play with her the most before.
She had never dared to ask for this before, after all, the dean was really slow. Although the girl thought about it, she was really embarrassed.
As for now, as the dean, Su Zhou has no choice but to do so.
After lifting the light little girl up, he walked around the deck of Chuyao amid the other party's laughter, Su Zhou took Gasha and Luoya away from the bridge of the coastal capital.
Gasha was carrying a metal box that looked quite heavy when she was on her back, which was an unbearable burden for ordinary teenagers. However, for the black-haired teenager with dragon blood, this was at most just a warm-up during exercise. He took the initiative to ask Su Zhou for this task.
As for Luoya, holding the list of goods that Su Zhou would buy when he entered the coastal capital this time, he waved goodbye to his friends behind him and made a few faces.
Just like the planes in my previous life, mobile cities and many mobile ships with different specifications cannot be perfectly connected. The port staff used a boarding bridge like a "boarding bridge" to connect. The port of the entire mobile city is in a semicircle with inwardly trapped semicircles, and steel passages extend out from it, leading directly to the deck of the battleship.
Surprisingly, the bridge is automatically run, just like an elevator. As long as you step on it, you don’t need to walk, the turning ladder will drive people forward.
"It's a privilege for VIP channels."
After sighing softly, Su Zhou couldn't help but nodded: "It seems that the industrial level of Aion Continent is quite good. When he was thinking about killing the noble in Ewende City, he did not seriously observe the technological level of this world."
"That's right, if you think about it carefully, you can create a behemoth like a mobile city, and technology cannot be much different."
The seaside is a super large mobile city. Its landing port is essentially a hollow hill made of metal. This is impossible to complete the task without the powerful extraordinary people assisting in construction, and in fact it is indeed the case.
The creator of the coastal capital was a couple of Tianlong nobles and Wingren nobles. Because of the relationship that was not allowed by the family, the two young men made their own family backgrounds to explore the world of Aion, and finally chose the Sanwu District in the southeast as a foundation for building a foundation, and carried out construction for more than a hundred years.
During this process, they repelled the cluster of source energy beasts and faced the pursuers who had seen their families come to clean up the portals. They defeated all the enemies who were peeping at their wealth, and headed for natural disasters, became powerful people in the disaster realm in times of danger, and finally established the greatest mobile city in the south of the mainland in a desert.
Their descendants adhere to the code of "equality and common prosperity" and "trust and tolerance", and rule the coastal capital and have been passed down to this day.
This mobile city has three layers of wall protection, sixteen outer urban areas, eight inner urban areas and two core cities, divided into land structures and sea structures. The overall area is three times larger than that of Ewende. Nearly tens of millions of people live directly in it, and a large number of people who cannot be counted temporarily live in the outer urban areas.
Including other mobile cities with vassals, there are probably more than 30 million people dependent on it, which is comparable to the imperial capital of the Asmodai Empire.
What Su Zhou is now in is the 11th urban area with a land structure.
Leaving the automatic bridge is equivalent to leaving the port area. The crowds of people are rushing to work hard, controlling machinery, and even carrying various materials by themselves, presenting a busy scene.
There are even a lot of energy-powered engineering vehicles and forklifts here, making slight earthquakes.
In order to facilitate visiting merchants and tourists, in this busy port, there is a passage leading directly to the city. After Su Zhou scanned the overall structure of the port, he took his two children directly toward the city.
When Dawn needs to sit in the warship, it is naturally impossible to leave easily. As the only force besides Su Zhou and Dawn, Sui Guang naturally cannot let the warship be left unattended, so he stayed and accompanied Seneca and Aunt Daria to see the children.
As for Gasha and Luoya, their practice path is very smooth and their talents are indeed excellent. They are limited by their past experiences and family backgrounds, and it is difficult to understand some broader concepts and things.
Just like Gasha, he didn't even understand how big the "world" is, and he had no idea about distance and territory.
This is also the common problem for most children who only live in mobile cities.
This doesn't work.
Whether it is saving the world or destroying the world; whether it is the future devil or the savior, at least you must have some understanding of the earth under your feet.
Su Zhou planned to take them out to see the market and see the vast world.
At the end of the passage leading to the city are several city guards. They are covered in armor and even have special anti-virus breathing masks. There is a thick metal purifier behind them, which can be almost used as shields.
After checking the certificate given to Su Zhou by the Wingman receptionist, the two saluted a serious salute, returned to their original place, and continued to inspect the subsequent pedestrians.
There is no blackmail or bribery, which is almost impossible in Svetre's memory - too many people want to be city guards because it is too easy for this profession to get some small gains.
Su Zhou realized that one of the two guards was a demonized person.
It was just that masks and armor covered his characteristics, so no one knew about it.
The coastal capital is indeed a huge city with a huge crowd.
The outer city area alone is already crowded with people, with people from all over the world walking through the streets among the tall buildings, and various strange vehicles are driving in the middle of the avenue.
According to the previous Wingman receptionist, the large-scale trading station of the Seaside Capital is located at the junction of the inner and outer urban areas, while the Seaside Auction Station, which hosts the year-end auction, is located in the second core city next to the sea.
What Su Zhou has to do now is to use the perfect metal he made to mortgage it at the auction house in exchange for some cash and buy some urgent supplies.
Because it was early winter, most people were dressed very tightly and could not see their own characteristics. Following the flow of people, Su Zhou looked around Luoya with curiosity, and seemed too calm and was alert to the dangers in the flow of people around him entering a wide avenue.
As the crowd came and went, Su Zhou noticed some interesting things.
That is, there are indeed a large number of demonized people walking on the streets like normal people.
In other mobile cities in the continent of Aion, demonized people cannot enter the inner city. When they encounter ordinary people on the streets, they need to give in. They hide aside. When they encounter nobles, they must kneel down and retreat. Even if they encounter shadows, they will be considered blasphemy and will be beaten to death.
But in the coastal capital, this is not the case.
Su Zhou took the children and observed the city while walking.
He realized that most of the demonized people were wearing armor or wearing clothes that seemed extremely tight, and a considerable number of them were wearing equipment similar to gas masks.
At the same time, most of the city guards who were patrolling the streets, maintaining order, and stopping disputes and quarrels were demonized.
If the ratio of ordinary people to demonized people is more than one-tenth, then six out of ten demonized people among the city guards.
The guard regiment, the city guards, patrol guards, and guards in front of shops... A considerable number of demonized people are in charge of these grassroots armed forces.
They act and work, and they all look full of confidence.
Unlike the same kind who are discriminated against in the outside world, the demonized people in the coastal capital are friendly and friendly. They will respond to tourists' requests and greet the familiar residents around them. Apart from the masks and clothes that are probably set to avoid the transmission of demonization, they are no different from normal people.
The demonized person does contagious, but if it is not direct source energy contact or negative distance contact, the possibility of contagion is less than one in a hundred thousand.
It is basically impossible to turn a normal person into a demonized person by relying on breathing and skin contact alone. Just like there are children in Xiguang orphanage who are not demonized. They have been with a large number of demonized people for three or four years, but are still healthy.
However, in the coastal capital, most demonized people voluntarily brought breathing masks that can isolate source energy fluctuations and thick clothes.
By making such an almost trivial sacrifice, they have obtained the right to communicate normally with normal people.
"At least in this regard, they have dignity."
Su Zhou looked back and forth and confirmed that this was not a special situation, but a normal situation. He nodded: "The coastal capital is indeed beyond my imagination."
"It's hard to imagine..."
Even Gasha couldn't help but murmur. He, who was also a demonizer, looked at the people walking on the street, and showed a somewhat envious look: "We can... walk on the street openly..."
"There will be a day when the whole world of Aion will be like this."
Su Zhou nodded slightly and continued to walk forward.
The coastal capital is indeed different from the Avende City. Most of the people here, even in the outer city areas, don’t worry about life, and the buildings are basically towering and solemn buildings. Even the hotels and restaurants that are staying at seem extravagant, and even have the shadow of the earth’s metropolis.
No, it is better to say that the coastal capital with tens of millions of permanent populations is the most top-notch group of metropolis even on the earth.
On the road, Su Zhou admired this city that was so prosperous that people would forget that the Holy Day was about to be extinguished. The two children were even more confused and needed to hold Su Zhou's clothes to ensure that they would not get lost.
However, the more prosperous the city, the more likely it is to have an accident.
Just as Su Zhou was about to reach the junction of the inner and outer urban areas, suddenly, a burst of roaring screams came from afar, violent fluctuations in source energy, and a crowd of people retreating in fear.
Obviously, due to some quarrels and conflicts, a battle between professionals began.
"****, you are a dog who raises me, dare to say that my goods are not good? You can't find a purer source energy pearl than this when you search the entire Linya Sea!"
"Laubert, your devil moon's exhaust, the feces of wild beasts, even if I blinded both eyes, you can tell that you are just the most ordinary black clam pearl. It's a layer of source energy film attached to it - well, there are a few real ones, but are you planning to sell me this kind of garbage? I'm ****!"
"Slander me? I won't let you shut up completely today..."
The volatile dispute came from the trade market not far away, and it seemed to be a farce in which the extremely common fraudsters were exposed and fought with the debunkers.
Su Zhou and his party, even Luo Ya, who was already hiding behind Su Zhou, looked in that direction with curiosity.
——When you come, you have to watch the fun.
So the three-person group of two young men went upstream and came over to watch the fun.
It just so happened that many people with good self-supporting strength chose the same action and watched the direction of the market from afar.
"Laubert is the head of the fishermen on the side of Linya Sea. He has great strength and great power. The surrounding fishermen will follow his orders to form a fleet to go out to sea to catch fish. There are also several seafood farms, so there is no need to make fake goods."
"It seems that Batoll over there? I remember that he was a very famous wandering knight. Why did he meet Laubert?"
"Hey, Battore has an adopted daughter who has a demonized disease and needs to use the source energy pearl produced from black clams as the main medicinal herb to relieve the symptoms... Do you know? Care is confusing."
Such discussions can be heard vaguely.
Su Zhou looked up and saw that most of the other vendors had run away inside the market. The two people who were arguing were already on the verge of their heads. The rough-faced fisherman and the sad-looking knight were cursing each other. The person they communicated with had already moved from the other's immediate relative to the cat raised by Grandpa Zeng.
To be continued...