It's quite a long journey from Gyoshi Town to Masked Hollow Amusement Park.
If an ordinary business traveler were to travel by carriage, it would take about fifteen days, including five days from Huishi Town to Gold Rush Town, five days from Gold Rush Town to Longroar Town, and another five days from Longroar Town to Void Mask Amusement Park.
A journey of five days is a relatively common distance between cities and towns in this world. Why is this distance? Because if they are too far away, it will be more difficult to communicate with each other, and there will be no help. If they are too close, each other's development space will overlap, and various conflicts will inevitably occur in the future.
Therefore, in addition to those towns that are located in prosperous areas and have no choice for a long time, towns like Huishi Town, Gold Rush Town, and Longhou Town that were cultivated in the wilderness will treat each other as a five-day journey for ordinary people. The distance is just right to keep in touch with each other.
Of course, this "one-day trip" does not refer to walking. Except for experienced adventurers, no one can travel on two legs in the wilderness. In that case, when you are exhausted after a day's trek, you will often be attacked by monsters and lose your life.
A one-day journey refers to the journey of an ordinary carriage.
Sui Xiong had not studied how far a carriage on Earth could travel in a day before traveling through it, but it was probably much closer than a carriage in this world. Because the packhorses in this world are much stronger than those on Earth, they can pull the cart and walk leisurely for a whole day, and they can run for a while in the middle. Although Sui Xiong has never ridden a horse, he has read a lot of historical time travel novels. They often mention that cavalry are good at charging on the battlefield and maneuvering short distances, but they are not as good at long-distance maneuvering as infantry. The main reason is that the endurance of horses is far inferior to that of humans.
In the early morning, the carriage set off carrying the spectators from Huishi Town. Driving the car were several adventurers, who were also the nominal bodyguards of the convoy.
If you encounter a monster that is too fierce, Mr. Qiao Xiu, who is in charge of the convoy, will naturally take action. However, this road is not an inaccessible wilderness. There are business trips from time to time. Most of the more powerful monsters have enough intelligence and will deliberately avoid such places and avoid direct conflicts with humans. So generally speaking, it is enough to have some senior adventurers as guards, almost at the intermediate level.
This time there was no exception, the journey was smooth and without any trouble. When the sun was about to set, the convoy finally arrived at a small village, which was also the campsite scheduled for today.
That’s the thing about traveling in the wild, and you should never camp out unless absolutely necessary. If possible, try to live in a village, or at least next to a village. Normally monsters would not attack villages, but they were very keen on attacking travelers sleeping in the wild.
Of course, this is for ordinary people and average adventurers. Experienced adventurers often go deep into barren lands. Camping and camping are commonplace, and fighting monsters at night is not uncommon. For them, is there a monster? Isn't that normal? If they can sleep peacefully for several days without being disturbed by monsters, they will be nervous and worried about whether they have broken into the lair of terrifying monsters such as the ancient dragon with a super large sphere of influence.
Reif and the others stayed in the carriage for almost the whole day, but they did not waste any time. Mayor Felix arranged for someone to introduce them to the Mask of the Void Playground, various countries and regions on the continent, and also taught them. Literacy.
The writing tool they used was a simple stationery newly launched by the "Hometown of Stationery" Gerten City, which consisted of a soft brush and a roll of light gray cloth. When writing, use a soft brush dipped in water to write on the gray cloth. The color will become very dark, forming black writing. And when a piece of cloth is filled with writing, just hang it on the outside of the carriage and blow it for a while, and the gray cloth will dry and return to its previous gray appearance. Except for the faint traces of water, nothing can be seen on it. The handwriting can be reused.
According to the adventurer who taught them how to read, this was the invention of Baron Gelten—now Viscount Gelten—Lady Orian. She believes that the so-called knowledge and education is to allow more people to have access to education opportunities and not be shut out of the palace of knowledge because of poverty. This chosen one of the God of Knowledge once vowed to spend his whole life promoting the development of education across the continent and letting the light of knowledge shine on the earth.
This is what she said and this is what she did.
In recent years, Gertenling has developed a variety of cheap stationery, and this ink cloth is one of them. Its price is of course much more expensive than ordinary cloth. A roll of cloth and a pen cost one silver coin in total. But after all, it was just a silver coin. Even poor families could scrape together this amount of money to give their children the opportunity to be exposed to writing.
But in fact, the greater contribution of ink-on-cloth is that it exposed many people to painting.
This tool can be used not only for writing but also for drawing. Writing may require a teacher's guidance, but painting does not.
Therefore, in recent years, young painting experts have emerged everywhere. Many teenagers paint a few strokes in their spare time. Many people find that they have a talent for painting, and then work hard in this direction and get the opportunity to make progress.
The young adventurer who taught Reif how to read was one of them. He was originally a soldier, but later he accidentally came into contact with ink cloth and bought a copy. Originally, he wanted to learn to write, so he learned by referring to the words on the notices. But he soon discovered that he was more talented in painting than in writing, especially when he drew the monsters he had seen in daily life, which were simple and vivid, and captured the characteristics of those monsters well. Characteristics are obvious at a glance.
With this talent, he painted many wooden boards for several villages to introduce common monsters, and made a lot of money. Now that he has money on hand, he no longer wants to continue to be a top soldier. To use a famous Internet saying on earth, the world is so big and I want to see it.
He traveled across the continent and soon came to the Mask of the Void amusement park. Inside the playground, he attended a literacy class. Although it was only a short class for half a year, it allowed him to bid farewell to his illiterate career and become a literate person.
Since then, he has become an adventurer, mainly around the Mask of the Void amusement park.
Mask of the Void Amusement Park is a very strange place. It is located on the border. In theory, it is separated from everywhere except Dragon Roar Town, which is rich in Warcraft materials. But in fact it is the hub of high-end transportation on the entire continent. Through a huge portal system, one can arrive here instantly from the capital of any country on the continent, and then to the capital of another country instantly. As long as your body and wallet can handle it, it doesn't even take ten minutes.
This makes this place a distribution center for many high-end products, and also a place where many high-end adventurers wait for work. Anyone who can come here to buy things or recruit people is a wealthy person. The transmission fee is like a high threshold, shutting out those businessmen and employees with insufficient financial resources, creating a high-end market famous in the mainland.
Now, there are the best restaurants, the best hotels, the best opera houses, the best leisure and entertainment venues in the world, and it is well-known as the gold-selling cave. There are also carefully selected adventurers with excellent credit here, and they are very popular among employers who really need reliable manpower.
As for the most famous talents here, they are chefs and accountants. These two talents who came out of the technical school called "New Oriental" were sought after by various chambers of commerce and nobles on the mainland. An excellent chef can fill your hotel with guests, make your family enjoy every meal, and greatly strengthen the cohesion of various organizations. An excellent accountant can greatly improve the level of profitability and reduce all kinds of meaningless waste and wrong expenditures, and the effect is immediate.
It is said that recruiters from all over the mainland live in front of the technical school all year round. Especially when the graduation season comes in the summer, it is even more crowded with visitors. If it weren't for the fact that this technical school was usually staffed by voters of the gods, and even the incarnations of the gods often came to visit, I'm afraid there would be people rushing in to rob people.
When talking about the technical school, the young teacher's eyes dimmed a little. Reiff could see that this teacher actually wanted to go to a technical school for further studies. But I wonder why I failed to pass the exam? Or maybe he doesn't like being a chef or an accountant...
After a day of study, although the teacher was exhausted and thirsty, Reiff and the others were also dizzy from studying. But when it came time to rest, Reif couldn't sleep.
Lying on a makeshift bed made of thick hay and covered with blankets, he looked up at the tent roof in the darkness and fell into deep thought.
In half a month, I only learned about one to two hundred common words. This also requires your memory to be good enough, so that you will not forget the previous ones after learning the latter ones. Having learned so many words, I can be considered somewhat literate, but what can I do with such a little literate
When you need to sign, can you write "Raif" yourself without bothering the clerk
When reading the notice, can you read it by yourself without bothering the publicist next to you
Can you read the street signs to know the directions and roads so you don’t get lost
…I always feel like it’s of no use.
"Maybe... I should learn more?"
"But what's the use of learning it?"
"Be a chef or an accountant?"
"Whether it's a chef or an accountant, they are all good jobs. But can I really do it?"
"Maybe I can also take part in that 'literacy class'? As long as you can pass the preliminary test, you can participate. The tuition is very cheap."
"But even if I learn to read, what can I do?"
"No matter what, it's always a good thing to read and be literate..."
He thought so, tossing and turning in his bed, and gradually fell asleep.