004 Jinghu Central City
In the early morning of autumn, the golden warm sun shines on the quiet lake, and the mist and water vapor rising on the lake gradually disappears without a trace under the warmth of the continuous rise.
Linhu Chang Street, the center of the mottled stone slab Avenue, private carriages and public trams, slowly walking on their respective lanes. The surging crowds on the edge of the avenue are like crowded fish, parading on the narrow walkway.
The sound of footsteps, the sound of buzzing people talking, the sound of horses neighing and the ringing of the tram standing by. The mornings in District 42 of Jinghu City are always so noisy, full of the breath of fireworks of life.
"Brother, have you gotten up, brother? Is there your letter..."
In the clear and pleasant ears, there was a hint of milky voice, which came from the living room downstairs. With a sound of thumping upstairs, the female voice soon stopped in front of An Wen's room on the second floor.
"Bang bang bang..."
A series of sounds of smashing the door were heard, and the door was pushed open. The two little loli, who looked exactly the same, wearing cotton skirts of the same color and tied with ponytails, rushed in from outside the door, rushed to An Wen's desk, with two pairs of beautiful silver eyes open, staring at her brother who was about to start refining a flame bottle.
"Annie! Anna! How many times have you said that you have to wait for me to ask for in order to push the door? Such a rash person is not what a lady should look like."
The two sisters suddenly rushed in. An Wen quickly stopped the work in his hand, and hurriedly sorted out the alchemy tools such as crucibles, beakers, crystal bottles, etc., and hid the crimson mushrooms in his hand on the shelf in front of the desk before looking down at the two troublemakers.
“Where is the letter?”
"Hmph! We kindly give our brother a letter, you are so cruel to us, and I won't tell you."
The two troublemakers had a cunning smile in their eyes, but they looked angry and hummed on their faces. They turned their heads together and glanced at An Wen from the corner of their eyes.
“…”
Tsk, the two sisters have grown up and are not as cute and obedient as before. It's really a headache.
"Well, my little princesses, how much candy do you need to forgive your brother?"
"You need at least 10 pills, and if you don't have 20 pills, you can forgive the bad guy brother..."
Anne on the left hesitated for a moment and offered a condition.
"2 pills, you can't do it if you're too greedy. Sister An Ran found out that you two will be in trouble."
An Wen bargained without hesitation and at the same time he took his sister as a threat. The two sisters resisted their sister's deterrence for the sake of candy. After a fierce bargaining, An Wen paid 10 candies before he got the letter from his sister.
"Be careful to hide it, my sister discovered it. I won't admit that it was me for you."
"I understand, bad brother, we will eat secretly and will not be discovered by my sister."
Seeing the two sisters walking out of the room with candy in their mouths and satisfied, An Wen laughed silently, opened the drawer and found a letter-opening knife, opened the thick paper envelope, took out a printed letter paper from it, and looked carefully in the morning light of the window.
There were only a few lines of text on the letter paper. An Wen glanced at it and almost finished reading it. He folded the letter paper and put it back into the envelope, looking up at the sparkling quiet lake outside the window.
The letter was indeed sent from the Lantern Association branch of the Central City of Jinghu Lake. However, the Little World sinking license that should have come with the letter was gone. According to the letter, if An Wen wants to get the license, he must go to the Lantern Association to receive it himself. This is a bit different from what he knows, which makes An Wen feel a little nervous.
But no matter what the reason is, An Wen must get the license for sinking. Without this license, it would be very difficult for him to let his sisters live a safe and prosperous life. After all, sinking privately is still a matter of time and time, and if he doesn't have the license, he will inevitably be caught if he doesn't.
Sister An Ran is almost 25 years old now. If there is not enough "Dawn Dew" protection, the risk of being involved in the inner world will be greatly increased. An Wen will not accept that this kind of thing happens to her sister. It seems that she will inevitably go to the Lantern Association.
After thinking for a while, An Wen quickly made a decision, put the envelope in his hand on the desk, walked to the clothes rack in front of the door, reached out to take off the long windbreaker and put it on, turned around and looked at the long sword that was placed on the knife stand, hesitated for a while, gave up, pushed open the door and went down the stairs.
He has not obtained the association's license yet, and it is illegal to take a knife to the street. If he is caught by the sheriff, he will not be fined. The key is that he will be detained for three days, which would be a bit embarrassing.
"Sister, I have something to go to the Lantern Association, so I don't have to prepare my lunch."
In the living room downstairs, Sister An Ran was kneeling on the floor and busy cleaning the house. An Wen was tiptoing carefully and quickly slipped over to the wall while her sister was not paying attention. A row of black footprints were left on the wet wooden floor.
"An Wen!!"
When my sister's angry voice sounded, An Wen had already run out of the house and came to the tram platform on the street to prepare for waiting.
From Area 42 by the lake to Area 1 by the Liuhua River, you will cross Area 35, Area 24, Area 18, Area 11, and Area 4. The total distance is nearly 60,000 feet (20 kilometers). Walking through with your feet is not a good idea.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, the tram leading to Area 1 was parked in front of the platform. An Wen spent 5 copper coins to buy tickets and got on the bus. He found a window seat in the second half of the carriage. With a jingling bell, the tram staggered into the platform. An Wen leaned on his chair and looked at the carriages and crowds coming and going outside the window in a daze.
It has been nearly ten years since I traveled to the Blue Star World, and my memories of my previous life, which had not been left, became increasingly blurred. Despite this, An Wen still discovered the strangeness of the Blue Star civilization.
This world did not experience the steam era, but directly pointed out the technology tree of electricity and gunpowder from crystals, runes and alchemy. Compared with the prosperous civilization built on electricity and gunpowder in the previous life, Blue Star’s humans seem to have little interest in studying the deep application of these two technologies.
They focused more on the research of crystals, runes, alchemy, and creation. Electricity and gunpowder were only used as supplementary means of low-end weapons and were limited by the Night Watchmen.
Even the trams that Anwen is now riding on are all using runes and crystal pipes to transmit electricity, and there is not even a serious wire. The development of the entire society has stagnated for thousands of years, and civilization is equivalent to the late Middle Ages in his previous life.
It seems that there is an invisible force that suppresses the thinking of Blue Star humans and makes their civilization development stagnate. It is really a strange thing to think about it carefully.
However, all this has nothing to do with An Wen. He was a time traveler. When he came, he lost 95% of his memory, and almost only had a little self-awareness and promoting the development of civilization. He really couldn't do it, just do whatever he wanted.
The tram swayed along the track for half an hour. When it was approaching 10 o'clock in the morning, it finally passed the White Stone Bridge across the Liuhua River, drove into the central area 1, and stopped on the platform in front of the Lantern Association.
An Wen got off the tram and looked up at the giant building complex in the middle surrounded by green trees and flowers.
Chapter completed!