Chapter 1321 Valley Village

Joan could see that most of the locals in the Far East who were in the car with him felt happy from the bottom of their hearts. They were not "ravaged and squeezed by the rebels" and "lived in dire straits" as the imperial authorities declared in the newspapers. .

The local people's attitude towards the former suzerain country is also very clear, full of contempt and hatred, wishing that the imperial forces and the Church of the Holy Light will get out of the Far East and stay away from their lives. It is not like the official media reports of the empire, "Looking forward to the rescue of the master day and night."

The train whistled again and slowly stopped at the platform.

Joan, Medea, and Ruby got out of the car with the crowd, and the moment they stepped on the platform, their eyes suddenly brightened.

The train platform in Gudi Village is wider and neater than that in Wufeng Township, and the waiting room looks like a "country club" in the northern part of the New World.

Passengers can sit in the armchairs in the waiting hall for a short rest, enjoy beer, tea, fruit and tobacco for a small fee, or try their skills in the billiard room next door.

Qiao An and his party left the station and walked into the entrance of the village. The clean streets stretched out in front of their eyes, and the buildings on both sides of the street were also beautifully built, as if they had entered a fairy tale world.

What surprised Joan even more was the complete public facilities in Gudi Village. Just near the village office, you can find commune hospitals, animal husbandry stations, primary schools, churches, warehouses, public security offices, tax and savings offices, and what the locals call "supply and marketing Society" grocery store.

The total number of residents in Gudi Village is less than 2,000, and the population size is not as large as that of Joan's hometown, Delin Town. However, compared with the convenience and completeness of public service facilities, Joan has to admit that Delin Township will not be able to catch up with Gudi after 20 years of development. village.

How does this look like a small village in the middle of nowhere?

No one would object to moving to the New World, saying that it was a bustling small city.

Residents of Valley Village are justifiably proud of their lives.

With a hint of curiosity, Qiao An and two female companions walked into a tavern at the entrance of the village, hoping to find out the news about the Snake Chicken from the locals.

When I entered the door, I saw that the tavern was surprisingly deserted, and there were not many people in it. The waiter was very polite, greeted them to sit down with a smile on his face, and asked them casually whether they were tourists, businessmen, or adventurers.

Qiao An was used to being seen as a foreigner at a glance. After thinking about it for a while, he replied that he and his companions were adventurers and were hunting for a monster called "cockatrice".

This topic aroused the interest of the tavern clerk, who told Joan that in the shrubbery area in the north of the village near the "Mist Swamp", people said that there were monsters that could turn people into stone statues.

However, since the Northern Railway was built, the monsters running rampant in the forest were either scared by the roaring trains and hid in the deep mountains, or were hunted down by the commune security team. It's too dangerous to go deep into the primeval jungle!

The tavern clerk seemed to see that Joan didn't want to give up on chasing the cockatrice, so he kindly told him that if he had to go into the mountains, he had better talk to the sheriff of the village, the village druid, and the pastor brother—— These three are powerful people in this village, and there is no problem that they cannot solve.

Joan took note of the tavern clerk's instructions carefully, and was about to continue asking him for news, when a bell rang outside the window.

Joan looked at his pocket watch, and the time was exactly six o'clock in the evening.

The sound of the bell seemed to be a signal. Not long after, the door of the tavern was pushed open, and a group of men who looked like farmers rushed in. In a blink of an eye, the tavern, which seemed deserted just now, was full of people. The beer with white foam was served cup by cup, and the sound of laughter and the aroma of malt permeated the entire tavern.

"I'm sorry, it's time for the farm to go off work. I have to greet the folks, so excuse me."

The tavern clerk smiled apologetically and turned around to get busy.

Joan and Medea looked at each other, and then realized that the state-owned farm in Gudi Village is like a factory with regular commutes. After get off work, the workers on the farm meet in the tavern for a drink to relieve the fatigue accumulated from a whole day's work, and the tavern ushers in a peak business period.

More and more customers poured into the tavern, almost bursting the bar. Customers who couldn't find a seat simply picked up a glass of beer and stood with their backs to the bar to drink, while chatting loudly with their companions crowded beside them, the atmosphere was quite lively.

Joan soon noticed that in such a crowded tavern, an open space was cleared in the center of the hall and a chair was placed. This area seems to be some kind of forbidden area, surrounded by crowds, as if expecting something.

"Who knows where the little brother who read the newspaper went?"

"Hey! Ivan! Come and tell us, what's the news today!"

Amid the urging of the crowd, the young man who was chatting with Joan just now squeezed out of the crowd with a roll of newspaper. He didn't care to wipe off the sweat on his face, jumped to the center of the hall with a single stride, flipped the chair upside down and sat on it expertly. Resting his chin on the back of the chair, he opened the newspaper and read aloud from the first page.

The literacy rate of rural residents is generally not high, and they cannot read books and newspapers by themselves. It is not uncommon for the tavern to arrange for some ink-stained guys to read newspapers for customers and convey interesting news. Taverns have seen similar scenes.

However, Port Layton and Midgard are, after all, the largest cities in the New World. The country taverns in Derling Town do not have this kind of newspaper reading service. To be honest, the country people don't care much about any news reports.

These are nothing, what shocked Joan even more was that the newspaper that the tavern clerk was reading aloud was actually the "Motherland Daily" that was just released today.

"Motherland Daily" is the official newspaper of Kolas Kingdom. It is typeset and printed every morning in the capital, Kolas Fort. You can get this fresh newspaper!

how did you do that?

As a mage, Joan certainly knows that using magic such as "item teleportation" can transmit documents across thousands of miles, but only one document can be transmitted at a time. If it is used to transport tens of thousands of newspapers and periodicals , the cost is too high!

In the Far East, remote villages like Valley Village can easily obtain the newspapers published on the day. The Kolas government will never hire tens of thousands of spellcasters to act as "newsboys" to distribute and deliver newspapers. How is it established in reality? What about the newspaper delivery network covering more than 4 million square kilometers across the country?

The genius mind of the young mage whose intelligence attribute is as high as 33 is currently unable to conceive a practical solution to this problem.