It only takes a moment to teleport from the Admiral of the Empire to the Shadow City, so Phyllis, who was still admiring the magnificence of the Admiral of the Empire a moment ago, had time to sigh halfway, and was attracted by the more spectacular and magical Shadow City. The destination of our teleportation is of course the Dimensional Hub Square: Here is the densest space gate facility in Shadow City. Basically, except for military transfers, all teleportation behaviors in the capital world can point to this square. Therefore, the Dimensional Hub Square has become the most distinctive and magnificent place in Shadow City. When Lin Xue and I led a sightseeing group of hundreds of people from the Fiali Empire to the square, it felt...
It's really like leading the whole company's employees to climb Mount Tai.
The Dimensional Hub Plaza is now more lively than ever, because the state of war and martial law has just ended, and the macro world network has just reopened a few minutes ago: I don’t need to say how big the traffic here is under such circumstances. The moment the doors open after announcing half-price for the audience is a truth. The moment the network was opened, the teleportation traffic here reached the peak in history. It is estimated that this peak will last for half a day, until all the teleportation quotas applied by civilians from other worlds stranded in Shadow City and censors from lower worlds are consumed. until the end. We took a portal dedicated to teleportation in the capital world. These portals were not affected by the martial law of war, so there was not much traffic accumulated, and there was no need to queue. After coming out of the portal, I looked around for a while. The crowd surging hundreds of meters away in front of the crossing gate is amazing. Of course, the ticket dealers who persist in reselling tickets in the crowd are even more amazing...
In fact, I didn't understand it at first, because the tickets resold by those bastards can't be used for "ride" at all: the crossing gate implements dual authentication of personal identification and pass card identification, whether you hold the ticket or not? As a result, the identification gate of the transboundary gate will not be open to anyone who is blocked. Even if it is open, you may be sent to any world: anyway, it is not the same address as the ticket in your hand. But those ticket dealers are still selling fake tickets, and the tourists in Shadow City are also happy to buy fake tickets: most people who have been to Shadow City will know the special "customs" of this place. The ticket dealers who resell unusable tickets have known each other for a long time, and they also know what they are selling.
But the two groups of people continued this "custom" happily.
Phyllis also saw the scene not far away. She didn't know that those gates were portals leading to other worlds, but she understood what a ticket dealer was at the first time with her personal "talent", and heard my confusion. Afterwards, Phyllis had her own thoughts in the blink of an eye: "You think they are really selling tickets? They are actually souvenirs."
Xue Lin and I were both dumbfounded: "?"
"Traveling, that's it. To put it bluntly, it's the process of going to a place that few people have been to, collecting a bunch of things that few people have seen before and returning home. Since you can travel to another world not far away , then it doesn’t really matter what you bring with you when you go back. Even if it’s a fake ticket, it’s still a ticket from another world, right? Even if it doesn’t work, it’s okay to add a frame and hang it on the wall when you go back. On the square Those people don’t sell commodities, they sell concepts, commemorations, and ideas—you’ll see fake tickets, but people who come here for tourism see fake tickets from Shadow City…”
I was stunned for a while by Phyllis' strange theory, and then finally summed up her core idea, that is to say, those people who went to Wutai Mountain to buy a consecrated cross and went back everywhere are not stupid. *, that's performance art...
This Phyllis has added all the talent points in her life to doing business, right
"Actually, I don't think the motives of those ticket dealers are really high-end." The eldest lady silently looked at the crowd in the distance for a while, "They are just free, and in addition to the fact that the city management is on holiday for the past two days, these ticket dealers are all The wounded soldiers who have just been withdrawn from the battlefield, they are going through the recovery period, and they will not let you catch you... "
"Wounded soldiers?" Phyllis keenly caught a word, and her face suddenly became heavy, "Are they soldiers? Could it be that they were killed by the war... I understand, these people should not be ridiculed. No one can criticize their current lives. …”
I patted Phyllis on the shoulder: "Don't rush to sigh, those bastards are better than anyone else now, and they will be able to stir up the whole Shadow City in two days."
I didn't explain to Phyllis more about the relationship between the ticket dealers and the imperial soldiers, because I still wanted to save the face of the imperial army: at least it would be good to save it for a while, but Lin Xue seized the opportunity to quickly transfer Phyllis Attention: She managed to make the latter interested in this dimensional hub square.
"This is the highest-level hub of the macro world mentioned in the data disk?" Phyllis looked around this huge distribution center with a look of surprise, and those huge transgressive gates glowing with metallic luster and energy glowed one after another. Arranged on the alloy square, every time the gate flashes, it means a journey across the world. Visitors from all over the world, dressed in strange clothes and with strange looks, pass through these gates in units of 100,000 every day. Now on the square You can see visitors everywhere these days who come from who knows which world, most of them are human-shaped or similar to human-shaped, but there are also so many strange shapes that you can’t connect them with living organisms at all. He took out a data terminal and handed it to Phyllis: "The data disk given to you is incomplete. I have a more detailed travel guide to Shadow City. It will be good for you to check it out after you go back. This place is indeed very interesting, but If you don’t know the rules and run around, you may die several times a day, anyway, I have encountered such unlucky people.”
Phyllis took over the data terminal with a look of horror, and then her eyes changed a little: According to this look, I judge that my data terminal will come back...
Regarding the Shadow City travel guide, it actually originated from Qianqian's immature idea—well, in fact, many things in this city originated from Qianqian's immature idea, even though that girl's mind is often in a place where we can't understand Understand the mode of operation, but you have to admit that as long as a little repair is required for Qianqian's whimsical ideas, all of them are genius decisions, such as the Shadow City travel guide.
At first, Qianqian just wanted to compile an encyclopedia to collect statistics on all known intelligent races in the empire's ruled area, as well as their customs and living environment requirements. After the statistics were calculated, she forgot about it. We later found out that although Qianqian's travel agency was hopeless, the encyclopedia she had ordered for it had become an excellent travel guide, especially for first-time visitors to Shadow City.
"Go back and take a good look. Spirit creatures don't like strong magnetic fields, but they usually like infrared radiation very much; when communicating with Tobelu Zerg, complimenting each other's front limbs for their sexy is the first step in making friends; tree The elves are gentle by nature, and discussing planting and vegetarianism with them will bring you closer. Their favorite food is jinkela; humans in the New Eden Federation are bold by nature, but don’t drink with them unless you are of dwarf blood; The Atim people drink, the 'wine' they refer to is a strong alkaline drink, this race is very enthusiastic, but their enthusiasm is often misplaced," I pointed Phyllis to open the data terminal, and told her how to use it The above index function, and then pointed to the quick guide section of the travel guide and introduced, "There are many things to pay attention to in Shadow City, and these are related to various races, because we ruled after all... Well, there are many worlds anyway, The number of races in the ruled area is probably more than your population. There are still some matters that have nothing to do with race, such as the giant tree in the sky—"
I pointed in the direction of the Tree of Life, and Phyllis was taken aback for a moment: "Is there a tree over there? It's so far away that I can't see it."
I lowered my eyelids: "Oh, the mountain range you see is the canopy of the tree. You will know it when you get closer. It is the tree of the world, which is responsible for managing a material universe outside the shadow space. You can simply understand it as a god No stalls within 200 meters of Paradise, no atheism, no catching anything that looks like a dragonfly, and…”
"Oh, I see." Phyllis looked happily at the data terminal in her hand. She didn't pay much attention to the world tree, which can't be felt unless it is close, but she had a feeling for the rules near heaven. Interested, "Non-clerics are not allowed to wear jingle green badges in the temple area-what color is this jingle green?"
I fumbled around in my pocket, and found a little bean that was gnawing on a candy bar: "This is Dingdang, and Dingdang green is the color of her hair. In the church circle of the Goddess of Life, Dingdang green is the color of 'God'. Colors' have special meaning."
Dingdang gnawed sugar residue all over his face: Due to the grievance last night, I allowed Dingdang to eat any candy today, and allowed her to eat it in my pocket. This little Douding has already forgotten about it. Noticing the sight around him, Ding Dong raised his head and showed a bright smile to Phyllis: "Ah, hello!"
Phyllis' eyes lighted up immediately. She probably didn't pay attention to God, temples, and sects at all since just now. Now she only sees a small and cute cute thing with sugar residue on her face. The woman rushed forward and tried to catch the little one: "What a little one! Is this your pet?!"
As soon as she finished speaking, I was ready to watch this guy get struck by lightning: Saying this in front of Ding Dong is blasphemy no matter how you look at it, even if you do it unintentionally, you have to give it a thunderbolt first to show your power, but you waited. For a long time, the expected divine thunder did not strike, the sky was bright and clear, and the world was peaceful. Behind Phyllis, hundreds of tourists were still studying the local customs and customs with great interest, while Phyllis took out the I bought a few jelly beans, trying to buy God off.
I:"… "
There is only one explanation: it is not considered blasphemy to call her my pet in front of Ding Dong now...
"Ding Dong is not a pet, Ding Dong is a god, Ding Dong is amazing!" The little one in my hand declared his position very firmly, and dismissed Phyllis's bribe at all, well, well-educated pets are like this , Resolutely refrain from eating food other than the owner... This NM is really a sad story.
There are more than one dimensional hub square for sightseeing in Shadow City, but I soon discovered that even just one dimensional hub square is enough for Fiali visitors who come here for the first time to linger for most of the day: their composition is complex, basically There are people from all walks of life. Phyllis seems to have matched her expedition business group according to the standards of the great unity of the people of the world. Among them are botanists, sociologists, extraterrestrial life scientists, and even There are experts in religion and linguistics, and of course there are also many experts in space scientists and theoretical physics. Each of them can find something that can set his research soul on fire in the Dimensional Hub Square. They came to Shadow City with the mentality of scientific research rather than tourism. Seeing this situation, I am afraid that my original plan will have to be slightly changed.
Originally, my idea was to let Fiali visitors take a good tour of this place. They would be satisfied with what they want to play and buy as much as possible, and then discuss with Phyllis to check all the things in her warehouse— If it doesn't work, you can buy them all, so that you can understand why the fallen apostles chased and killed the group of void smugglers selling stones for four quadrants. But now it seems that these guests cannot be regarded as pure "passengers".
They have mastered the technology of cross-world navigation. Although there is a queen who takes cheating and abducting as her duty, they are essentially a group of pioneers who have left their own world for the first time. They not only want to watch the excitement, but also want to see why it is so lively here.
"Speaking of which, do you have any plans?" I thought about it, and looked at Phyllis who was fiddling with the data terminal happily, "Shadow City is very hospitable, if you want, you can stay here as long as possible Time, but you should have a plan."
Immediately, a group of Fiali senior officials and their Majesty the Queen expressed their opinions almost at the same time: "Verify cross-border positioning technology/observe life forms in different worlds/try to communicate with civilizations in different worlds/explore unknown areas/do business!"
Me: "... you guys unify."
So Phyllis and her subordinates exchanged a look, and said again noisily: "Explore the existence of gods/test new mathematical theories/observe the laws of different worlds/verify whether the speed of light is consistent in every world/do business! "
"Learn the laws of languages in other worlds/communicate with civilizations/collect material samples from other worlds/establish diplomatic relations with the Xiling Empire/build an embassy in this place/promote Fiali culture/do business!"
"Taste food from another world/observe etiquette in another world/test new technology/establish diplomatic relations with other races/reprogram the periodic table of elements/do business!"
I looked at Phyllis almost madly: "You can't say anything else!"
The only creed of the co-author of this queen's life is to fail in business
Phyllis thought about it seriously, and looked at the bustling and bustling streets of Shadow City, her eyes became brighter and brighter, and she turned around when both of her eyes almost turned into currency symbols: "Then smuggling!"
Even Lin Xue who was next to him was suddenly confused: "Is it appropriate for you to say this in front of us!?"
But at this time, Phyllis could not hear what Lin Xue and I said at all. She had already devoted herself to the brilliant business prospects of Shadow City. In her eyes, every citizen of Shadow City was now a mobile five. One hundred yuan: This capital of all worlds connected to the infinite world, the highest city, is simply the dream paradise for a void merchant like her who wants money and life. There are endless business opportunities and markets here, as well as countless resources and customers. Behind everyone here is a commercial colony waiting to be developed. You can find broken stones that you are willing to pay for here. It buys back the buyer. Phyllis has a lot of stones: stones from various worlds that cannot be fully covered by any periodic table, so she sighed silently: "This is all money..."
"It seems that I know your short-term plan, well, I will give you a business license."
I said with a blank face, looking at the group of subordinates brought by Phyllis, these respectable explorers are conscientiously contacting the customs of other worlds, and their queen is already full of money-making plans, but this It's okay, Phyllis will become a guy who is easier to communicate with in this way, I guess I can buy her with a business license...
And just as it happens, Shadow City also welcomes this kind of alien businessman who has mastered cross-world technology: they are the necessary driving force for the development of the city. After all, the apostles of Xiling themselves are not good at developing people's livelihood.
"I can do business here?!" Phyllis showed a very surprised expression when she heard what I said, and she looked at me with a heartfelt enthusiasm as if she saw two thousand dollars. She may have thought that it would take more effort to obtain this privilege, but she didn't expect it to be so easy, "Shouldn't it be very troublesome to do business in the capital of all worlds? There are a lot of strict reviews and an oath to obey the local laws. And then filed for several months or something... "
"I'm the emperor, it doesn't take much to give you a business license," I shrugged, "As for the filing and review, of course there will be follow-up personnel to follow up, I guess there is nothing you can't pass, Shadow City. It’s very special, there are too many races, and the commercial behavior is very open. Even if you sell sulfuric acid as a drink, there is a market: as long as it is clearly written on the bottle. Of course, you can continue to sell your stones—but let me remind you, if you want to rely on It may be difficult to make a lot of money with rare goods. Few people who come to Shadow City are uninformed. They are used to traveling around the world. Have you seen those gates—"
I raised my finger and pointed to the huge arches in the square. Every time the light curtains in the arches flickered, it was a crossing: and it was a group crossing.
"That is a small gate to the world. People of the empire are free to use it. It is open day and night. Each person can carry up to 100 tons of personal belongings at a time. I suggest you stop treating your own stones as treasures..."
Phyllis suddenly looked like a concubine, and the eyes that looked at me suddenly dropped to two hundred yuan.
But soon she cheered up again, it seemed that no difficulties and obstacles could stop her determination and means of earning money. Seeing this scene, I slowly made a decision in my heart: first prohibit Fiali people from posing near heaven and school. Come on, it's time... RS