Chapter 32: Easy to Learn and Practice, Plastic Friendship
After staying in Provence for 5 days, Wutong and his party went to the next tourist destination, Bath, a city in the eastern county of Avon, England.
In fact, Wutong and others’ original plan was to spend a week in Provence. However, the rural scenery there was beautiful, but the slow pace of life was a bit boring, especially for the children headed by Xilin. In this way, after the novelty faded, they couldn't wait to suggest leaving there and wanted to go to a relatively prosperous place.
England, a country with a small land area, has a great influence on the world.
Not only has Shakespeare, Newton, Dickens and other famous figures come out of this place, it is also the place where the Destiny Rebel Army, headed by the Otto and Kaslana families, originated five hundred years ago.
Today, the headquarters of the Kaslana family is still in the UK.
Siegfried and Cecilia did not expect that they had just been out for five days and returned home again...
In fact, Bath is not a particularly prosperous city.
The reason why I came here is not only because Bath is a classical and elegant town surrounded by pastoral scenery, with well-protected large ancient buildings and beautiful scenery, but also because the second largest virtual library branch in the world is located in Therefore, Wutong wants to go shopping.
The largest virtual library branch is located in the Yin Dian world, and is called the Golden Virtual Library Branch. As the name suggests, it was funded and built by Yin Dian.
The virtual library is a knowledge storage space similar to the Void Manzo Grand Library. It is jointly established and maintained by the four major human organizations. There are four "terminals" in total, each at the headquarters of the four major organizations.
By lying in the "virtual knowledge cabin", people can connect and project their consciousness into the virtual library, and experience the feeling of reading in a physical library in the knowledge space.
Even readers can personally participate in and experience a small number of historical events.
Those historical events that can be participated in are "illusions" constructed using the abilities of the Herrscher of Knowledge. People can communicate with a small number of "intelligent" NPCs in the illusion, but no matter what they say or do, they cannot change the fixed development of the story. .
In other words, fantasy is not intelligent enough and can only be experienced. After all, "books" are not games, let alone a place to exercise one's mind.
Notes taken in the virtual library can be printed out through the virtual knowledge cabin "after waking up".
This kind of cabin bed connected to the virtual library is not big, only the size of a double bed, and the price is not expensive. Currently, the highest configuration of the virtual knowledge cabin only costs 10,000 Shenzhou coins, and the price of the ordinary configuration is even lower, and even For less than a thousand Shenzhou coins, basically all families can afford it, and almost everyone has at least one cabin bed in their home.
You can also use it to sleep without visiting the virtual library. If used as a bed, its quality is quite good. It comes with smart support, ridge support, alarm clock and other functions. It can even help people enter deep sleep. Cheap...
Therefore, although there are many virtual library branches around the world and they are widely distributed, none are too large.
Even if this kind of virtual library branch is free and non-profit to the outside world, there is no offline physical library that is popular with people (physical libraries are not popular either).
Everyone can "get online" at home, so naturally fewer people will bother going to "Internet cafes".
As the second largest branch in the world, the Bath Virtual Library branch only has 3,000 virtual knowledge pods.
Three thousand is actually a lot. After all, the total population of Bath is less than 100,000. It is estimated that only a group of idiots like the Kaslana family would spend huge sums of money to build such a branch library.
In normal times, it is very expensive to manage and maintain a branch library of this size. The Kaslana family is not very rich to begin with. They probably do too many such things, so they have no money.
When Wutong arrived at the Bath Virtual Library branch, he found that there were less than a hundred people here, which was very deserted. Moreover, more than 80% of these people had the same purpose as Wutong. They were not here to read books at all, but just came here to admire the reputation. Come, experience and sightsee.
It's still the "peak season" now, and it will probably be even worse when it comes to the "low season".
Wutong didn't know how long the Kaslana family's financial situation could last. Maybe in a few years, he would see news on TV about the sale of second-hand virtual knowledge cabins in the Bath Virtual Library branch.
"Karen is not easy either. Let's take the children to her house for some dinner later." Wutong thought as he walked out of the library.
In this world, the most precious thing is knowledge, but the least valuable thing is also knowledge, because all the knowledge currently possessed by mankind is provided to all mankind for free, and people can easily obtain the knowledge they want. It is the four major organizations that “pay” for knowledge.
However, even so, the proportion of doctoral students is still less than one percent, and there are still very few talents. After all, there are too few people who can overcome laziness and love to learn.
If you don’t believe it, put down your phone right now and go study. I guess not many people can do it.
Knowledge can really change your destiny.
In the evening, Wutong and others left Bath and came to Karen's home.
The arrival of Wutong and his group made Kallen very excited, firstly because Yae Sakura also came, secondly because she likes to play with children, and thirdly because Wutong is a bully... a generous master, and he will definitely pay Ka Lian The considerable remuneration from the Slanna family is used for food, clothing, housing and transportation, and Kallen can make a small fortune from this.
Wutong is really her lucky star.
at the dinner,
Little Rita, who was holding a child's knife and fork, raised her head, looked at the young lady beside her, and said in a childish voice: "Sister Xilin, I want to
Eat chicken legs. "
"First? What first? Oh~ I see, what you want to say is, you know that my sister and I got the first place in the whole grade in the final exam, right?! Hey, it's nothing, I took one It’s easy for me to rank first in the whole grade in actual combat results. I’m the Herrscher after all! But I’m very powerful! Hehe☆~”
Xilin, who seemed to have poor hearing, used her imaginary hand to break off the roasted chicken legs placed far away and put them on Rita's plate, showing off her empty rhythm ability.
Jizi, who was sitting aside and picking up vegetables with a kuaizi, rolled her eyes. She had heard Xilin brag about her "number one" to outsiders no less than thirty times in the past few days. It is estimated that Little Rita had also heard it five times. six times.
People don't understand the joys and sorrows of people. As a top student, Himeko really doesn't understand the joy of "crane tail" winning first place. She only thinks that Xilin is noisy.
What's more, Xilin also took away the first place that should have belonged to her, which made Jizi even more upset.
She planned to graduate from Taixu Middle School every year with the first grade in all courses in her grade. Unexpectedly, she was ended by her best sister.
Although it is a pity, Jizi is more helpless. She is indeed no match for Xilin. Now Xilin can even compete with the teachers.
It is said that Xilin has also obtained a quota for the unlimited group competition. She will be able to participate in the legendary unlimited group competition next year.
This is what Jizi envies the most. She may not be qualified to participate in that kind of competition after working hard all her life.
Siren had unknowingly pushed her away so far.
To be honest, Jizi is very jealous. It is impossible for her not to be jealous, because she is a human being, and as long as a human being faces this kind of thing, her mentality will be unbalanced.
In the past, Xilin was nothing. No matter her family conditions, or her academic and practical performance, she was far inferior to the outstanding Jizi.
However, Xilin became a Herrscher because of her talent. This "crane tail" who doesn't work hard can actually easily surpass Jizi who works extra hard. Not only that, she can also leave her far away. How can God! unfair.
But at the same time, the tangled Jizi knew very well that she should not have such a mentality. Otherwise, what is the difference between her and those people she once hated?
The strong will not be knocked down by the predicament in front of them. Jizi will continue to work hard to become stronger. She will defeat Xilin through hard work and tell her friends that hard work is no less important than talent.
She firmly believes that she will be able to defeat Sirin one day, because her name is Wuliangta Jizi, she is "someone else's child", and she was once a "big mountain" and "nightmare" that all her classmates in the same grade could not overcome. She is not very old. She also has her own pride.
"Thank you, Sister Sirin." Little Rita was very polite. She took a bite of the chicken leg and asked, "Master Herrscher...is he very powerful?"
"Of course☆~"
Siren raised her head very proudly and "looked" at Rita through her nostrils.
"Is it better than Mr. Wutong?"
"..."
Xilin's head was no longer so high. She thought for a while and said: "I am still young and not his opponent, but I will definitely be able to surpass him in the future!"
The last person to say such a thing was Xiaoshi. She has not surpassed Hua yet.
"Then sister Xilin, you must know a lot of knowledge, right?"
"Uh..." Xilin said a little guilty, "If you say it modestly, it's okay."
What Siren said was not modesty.
"Then can I ask my sister a question?"
"Uh...just ask."
Siren thought that Rita was only five years old and had not yet gone to school, so she should not be able to ask such profound questions. She is a middle school student! Solving common elementary school problems is easy!
Little Rita stared at her big, burgundy, watery eyes and asked curiously: "Why do I not like to eat pancakes or potato shreds, but I like to eat pancakes and potato shreds?"
"..."
How could Siren know why?
She was silent for a moment, then smiled awkwardly and said, "How about my sister making you a potato shredded burrito? It's not good to be picky eaters. You can eat whatever vegetables you want!"
"Okay!" Rita smiled so hard that her eyes narrowed into crescent moons. She just wanted Sister Celine to make her a potato shredded burrito.
Although the little girl is not old, she has very deep skills. I don’t know who she learned it from. It may be Wutong, or Sakura, Mebius, Yae Sakura, etc.
Little Rita is only 5 years old this year. She looks innocent and cute, so what bad intentions can she have?
At this time, Jizi put a piece of coriander on Xilin's plate. Xilin didn't like to eat coriander.
"Sister Xilin is right, you can't stir up trouble!" Ji Zi said with a smile.
Xiao Jizi is doing it for the sake of her sisters, so that Xilin's nutritional intake can be more balanced, so what bad intentions can she have?
"..."
The expressionless Siren "accidentally" added the coriander on her plate to the shredded potato burrito when Rita wasn't paying attention.
Siren didn't know if Rita liked coriander, but...children shouldn't be picky eaters.
She thinks that since she is no longer a child, she should not eat things she doesn’t like, right? Although she is only 14 years old this year...
The innocent and lovely Siren also wants to be good for Rita, so what bad intentions can she have?