Chapter 147 New Structure (Updated)

The journey was unusually calm.

In this calm, the sky gradually darkened and the autumn wind gradually rose.

The escort team arrived at their first stop, a transit town, before nightfall.

After checking the documents, the city defense army let them in.

It was a fairly prosperous classical town with wine shops, teahouses, hotels, and various shops. There was even a small river running through the town. It could be said that it was small but complete.

From the city gate, the long street running through the front and back of the town was not crowded, but it was somewhat busy.

Most of them were dressed simply, there were a few beggars on the roadside, and there were also a few officials and merchants dressed gorgeously, and groups of young men and women were chatting and laughing on the bluestone road.

When the common people saw their group of gray-armored rangers, they avoided them from a distance, while those dressed gorgeously regarded them as the topic of today's conversation, and walked and laughed as they passed by the rangers.

"Alas, the world has not been peaceful recently. Even transporting goods requires so many rangers... There must be at least a hundred of them."

A young master in green said to his friends beside him when he saw these rangers stationed at the city gate.

"Isn't it true? I heard that there was another earth dragon turning over a hundred miles away from here. The death was so tragic. I heard that only one out of ten households survived."

Another noble in green responded, laughing from time to time.

"Isn't this earth vein tower said that it can adjust the sky and stop natural disasters? Ha, I am just a joke that those star vein magicians use to deceive us. My father said that we should just demolish these towers. This year's earth vein tax is 10% heavier than last year. I don't know if those star vein magicians are just eating for free."

Hearing them talking about earthquakes and earth vein towers, a noble immediately showed a gloomy expression and changed the subject.

"What's the point of talking about these things? It's better to think about which building to go to tonight."

It doesn't concern me, so I don't care.

The common people are not rich, but the nobles still live comfortably.

The voices of this small group of nobles gradually became weaker and farther away. They seemed not afraid of the gray-armored rangers, but their steps also quickened. Walking past these rangers made them feel courageous.

Ji Lin retracted his attention. He learned two new words from these people, astrologer and earth vein tower.

Ji Lin's eyes fell on the center of the town, where there was a six-sided tower. Countless streams of light flowed along the prisms. The tower was six stories high, and each floor extended outward with wooden brown eaves. The vigorous energy overflowing from the tower could almost be observed by his eyes, and the pure light mist that ordinary people could not see surrounded and lingered.

It was really amazing power.

This tower was undoubtedly the real core of the town.

Recalling what the noble who just passed by him said, the earth vein tower should be the building in front of him that seemed out of place in the building. The tallest building that could be seen was only half its height.

Due to his status, Ji Lin naturally couldn't get off his horse to grab a passerby and ask in detail what the earth vein tower they mentioned was used for. From their tone, it seemed that the tower had been standing here for a long time and everyone was used to it.

No one noticed that he focused too much on the earth vein tower in the center of the town.

"Sir... this carriage..."

The county magistrate who greeted them looked at the group of rangers and tried his best to control his body to stand up straight in front of this group of soldiers.

The county magistrate looked at the heavy four-wheeled carriage that could pull a deep gully on the road, fearing that the road he had just renovated would also suffer the same fate. He took a lot of kickbacks for this road, but how could he have known that he would encounter a marching team passing through it not long after it was repaired.

Others didn't know, but he knew it clearly in his heart. In order to get kickbacks, the stone bricks used were all cheaper and inferior.

It would definitely not be able to withstand these carriages going back and forth on the bluestone road.

"What's wrong?"

Ji Lin threw the question back to the county magistrate, controlling his tone to be gentle.

But the county magistrate looked at the shining chain mail on his body, and felt weak in his heart. Obviously, he did not understand Ji Lin's good intentions, and he was still trembling.

"No, no problem."

The county magistrate swallowed the words he wanted to say. Let them pass through the city road. At most, the road surface would be damaged, but it would hinder the military order, and it might cost his life.

Before the county magistrate could add his next sentence, the leader of the city defense army who had been waiting for a long time hurried to Ji Lin and saluted him, causing Ji Lin to look at the leader.

"Centurion, can the supplies on this car be reported?"

"It is clearly stipulated that all supplies entering the city must be reported, such as gunpowder, weapons, etc., which cannot enter the city."

Ji Lin put on a poker face and used military secrets to prevaricate. Even he himself did not know what these cars were carrying.

"Military secrets."

It was obviously impossible not to pass through this town. As the leader, he was naturally given a detailed marching route map. The surveyed map marked all the checkpoints and mountain gorges along the way. According to the map, it was not possible to go directly through the town, but to go around in a big circle.

"Just give me a route map. I won't go through the center of the town."

Ji Lin did not make things difficult for the city defense leader. Moreover, the main roads in the town were full of people of all kinds. It was not convenient for them to go this way. Now it was late, and these rangers needed to rest after a day of hard work and set off tomorrow.

They had plenty of time.

When the county magistrate heard that they could not take the main road, he immediately smiled and came to greet them, talking and laughing about how well his town had developed and how prosperous it was.

Even the inn and expenses were arranged for these cavalry passers-by. The food and wine expenses of more than a hundred people were not a small number. People needed to drink and eat, and horses needed to drink water and eat grass. These strong men could not handle them without a few bowls of good wine and a few pieces of good meat.

But compared with rebuilding the road, it seemed so cheap.

Ji Lin sighed lightly.

Wearing this set of clothes, it was not easy for him to understand the situation here.

As a centurion, he couldn't ask others about things that seemed like common sense in this world.

The system would not give them a direction to change, but just threw him into this world - and even refused to give him a little basic memory of this place.

Ji Lin smacked his lips.

Arriving at the inn arranged by the county magistrate for them, Ji Lin's pupils shrank slightly.

He finally knew why this copy could be rated as X-level.

A mechanical man made entirely of wood walked out of the tavern and followed the waiter to take the horses they led into the stable.

The wood blocks on the mechanical man were a little old, and there was a lot of wear and tear on the thick wooden fingers. It was obvious that he had been working here for a long time.

There were no gears, no banging steam engines, as if a few pieces of wood and balls made of unknown materials were linked together with complex patterns and mechanisms, emitting a different glow from the normal operation of runes, as if it had achieved a perfect cycle of self and energy flow.

Then it was able to move, more flexible than the steam machine soldiers he had seen.

Not as good as humans, but not far behind.

Light and sensitive.

This scene, which is almost impossible in modern physics, seemed to be commonplace for the rangers behind him. They treated the mechanical man as normal. Like the earth vein tower, it was a part of their lives.

The rangers who dismounted breathed a sigh of relief and secretly looked at their new centurion. Ji Lin smiled at them and indicated that there was no problem.

The rangers walked into the inn with laughter.

But Ji Lin was still looking at the wooden man working under the command of the waiter.

Mechanical technology.

Such wooden mechanical men, using various variations of the same technology, are spread all over this town, this world, and build the civilization of this world.

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