Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong each looked to the side and saw the stalls on the side of the road, some selling crystal, diamond, jade, and white jade jewelry in the old world style, some with LCD monitors of different sizes, portable computers, cans, clothes and other materials, and some were simply a collection of scattered items.
"Contains old world entertainment materials...... Long Yuehong read out the content of a paper sign.
It was not hung, but placed in front of one of the stalls.
This booth specializes in restored old-world computers.
Hearing the words read out by Long Yuehong, Bai Chen, who was driving, reminded him with a serious expression:
"It's best not to touch it."
"Why?" Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong asked in unison.
Bai Chen recalled and said:
"When I was wandering in the wilderness, I met a very powerful relic hunter, who was about half the team leader."
"Hey, have I become a measurement standard?" Jiang Baimian was observing the lively streets with great interest and laughed when he heard this.
Bai Chen did not respond to her ridicule and continued:
"Once, while exploring the ruins of a city, he found a portable computer with no major problems except for the battery.
"Later, he found someone to fix various minor problems, traded for a new battery that could be used, and finally started the computer ......."
Because he wanted to avoid a pedestrian crossing the road, Bai Chen paused before he finished speaking.
Long Yuehong tried to make a guess:
"As a result, something terrible happened?
"The old world entertainment data in that computer hides some kind of danger?"
"No." Bai Chen said truthfully, "After he dug out those entertainment materials, he became addicted to it and never explored the ruins of the city again, relying on his past savings and connections to do some small business in the original city, barely able to sustain his own life, and even when he was busy in the store, he couldn't do without that computer, thinking about how to do a good business and how to expand the scale, he just wanted to stay in front of the computer, keep clicking the mouse, and pressing the keyboard."
Finally, Bai Chen concluded:
"He was originally a very ambitious and capable person, maybe one day he would be able to get his own manor, but as a result, it was abandoned."
Long Yuehong said twice:
"It's really scary, those old world entertainment materials."
Shang Jianyao said with great interest:
"I want to challenge myself to see if my will can overcome those old-world entertainment materials."
During the discussion, Long Yuehong glanced at the team leader and found that her mouth was tightly closed, her cheeks were slightly bulging, and her body trembled slightly.
The team leader should have been exposed to old world entertainment materials...... As soon as Long Yuehong flashed such a thought, Jiang Baimian laughed, laughing so hard that he couldn't straighten his waist:
"Haha, Xiaobai, you look so cute when you're serious!
"Haha......"
Bai Chen pursed his mouth and did not respond.
Jiang Baimian immediately put away his smile and said seriously:
"But you must not let Shang Jianyao touch those old world entertainment materials."
Just radio programs, music playlists and year-end report performances made Shang Jianyao make so many moths.
"You don't believe me?" Shang Jianyao protested.
"No, I don't believe in those old world entertainment materials, I'm afraid they will be polluted by you." Jiang Baimian opened his eyes and talked nonsense.
She felt that this should be the "reason" that could best persuade Shang Jianyao.
Sure enough, Shang Jianyao replied:
"You have to be glad that I am proud and arrogant now."
"......" Jiang Baimian's eyes rolled up and he exhaled slowly.
The jeep drove for a while, and Long Yuehong saw someone setting up a half-height platform on the side of the road, holding a black-shell book, condescendingly preaching something to the surrounding crowd, and someone holding another thick book, constantly chatting with pedestrians coming and going......
"There are really more religions here." Long Yuehong combined the information she had obtained before and sighed.
Because the intelligent robots in "Mechanical Heaven" are not religious, and they don't care whether others believe in religion or not, many originally hidden sects have surfaced here, setting up churches, temples or pavilions to preach in public.
As for the "Furnace Sect", an organization that can operate publicly in the "Seaside Alliance", it has no scruples, not only built churches and sent "devotees", but also directly turned itself into the Tannan service point of many trading companies and teams of the "Seaside Alliance".
Of course, another premise of missionary work is that there is a target for missionary work, and there is no shortage of population in Tarnan.
——Before getting the information Han Wang was given, the "old tune team" thought that Tarnan was mostly robots, and humans were caravans, hunters and trade representatives, and they were passers-by, and these people would not add up, because they knew that Tarnan, there were only so many forces allowed to trade with the "Mechanical Heaven", even if each family sent several caravans and relic hunters responsible for protecting them, the total population here would not meet the standards of a medium-sized settlement.
Reality overturned this perception, Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and others already knew before they left Hongshiji that there were a large number of local residents in Tarnan.
There are three sources of them:
One is certain members of the caravan and their descendants.
Tarnan is controlled by the "Mechanical Paradise", private fights are prohibited, the law and order are quite good, and there is also a strong armed force, so there is no need to worry about being attacked by other forces by bandit groups, for many people, it is simply a paradise.
In the chaotic era and the early days of the new calendar, this was even more irresistibly attractive, when many caravans and trade groups in many city-states had personnel either through formal channels or by directly breaking away from the original power, staying and settling here.
——At that time, the "Seaside Alliance" had not yet been established, and the "Mechanical Paradise" was trading with multiple city-states in that area. Later, these city-states outside the polluted zone were able to form states and then form alliances in the form of states, all thanks to the help of "Mechanical Paradise", which included but was not limited to sending robot volunteer teams, providing water purification technology, and fighting against "higher mindlessness".
The second is the wilderness wanderers in the surrounding area.
Such a peaceful and peaceful city where essential supplies can be exchanged makes every group wandering here not want to leave.
The third is foreign relic hunters.
The area around Tannan, including the mountainous area of Chiral, has many urban ruins, attracting many ruins hunters. They inevitably found such a safe city, and after living in Tarnan for a while, a large part of them chose not to venture anywhere else, staying in Tarnan to make a living by cultivating farmland and exploring the ruins of the area, and establishing a local hunter guild.
Of course, the premise for the establishment of a local hunter guild is to sign a memorandum of understanding with "Mechanical Paradise" to ensure that the various behaviors of hunters are restrained and that they do not actively disclose the existence of Tarnan to the outside world.
——The jewelry, electrical appliances and miscellaneous items on the roadside stalls were all found from the surrounding city ruins.
Previously, Means of Shifang Trading Company mentioned that the robots in Tarnan do not eat food or farm, resulting in very few fresh ingredients here, and everyone can only rely on canned food, biscuits and energy bars for a living, referring to "outsiders".
Local residents have cultivated farmland on this land, but because it is located in a mountainous area, the soil is barren, and many areas are still polluted and cannot be cultivated, so the grain and vegetables produced are only enough for their own use.
And the animals they feed are occasionally taken out and sold.
In other words, it is not that you can't buy flour, rice, vegetables and other materials in Tarnan, but it is more expensive and very uncost-effective, and many caravans and relic hunters would rather go to the surrounding area.
As he spoke, the jeep finally walked out of this lively street and entered a quieter area.
The street lights here are still bright, and Tarnan seems to have no shortage of electricity, but only a few houses have yellowish or white light.
There are many windows that are uninhabited.
"I thought Tarnan was already lively and prosperous, but I didn't live in every room in the ruins of this city." Long Yuehong compared Tarnan and Weed City.
"After all, this is a semi-confidential place." Jiang Baimian said casually.
Long Yuehong glanced left and right again, and suddenly sighed:
"Compared with the ruins of Swamp No. 1, this is a small city, such a city must be everywhere on the gray soil.
"Before the destruction of the old world, it was mostly full of people, but it was still just a small city......"
Tarnan, which is not even a small city that is not filled by one-fifth, can be called lively on today's gray soil, how prosperous was the old world at the beginning?
Shang Jianyao immediately echoed:
"Yes."
He immediately said:
"So, do you want to follow me?"
"What are you reading?" Long Yuehong was a little dazed.
Shang Jianyao replied seriously:
"In order to save all mankind, I volunteer ......"
It was not Jiang Baimian who interrupted his words, but Bai Chen.
She stopped the car and was in front of a hotel.
This hotel is called "Youmeng", and it is about two or three hundred meters away from the busiest street, and it originally seemed to be a hotel in the old world, but it was later repaired and renovated.
This is a place recommended by several smugglers in Redstone, saying that it is the most comfortable place to live.
After parking the jeep in front of the hotel, Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and others walked to the front desk through the door that could rotate automatically.
During this process, Shang Jianyao deliberately followed the rotation of the gate, and when he saw that he was about to go back, he was pulled back by Jiang Baimian.
And Long Yuehong was also curious about this kind of door that would rotate on its own when it sensed that she and others were approaching.
This falls under certain applications in his area of expertise.
At the front desk of the hotel sat a woman in her thirties, she was a gray man, wearing a colorful and unique thick tweed dress, her facial features were not bad, and her temperament was quite charming.
While wrapping her hanging hair, she smiled and said to the guests:
"Your choice is very wise, if you go to those places in the city where no one lives and find a room to sleep in, you are likely to encounter ......"
Speaking of this, she paused and said in a gloomy tone:
"Ghost."
Shang Jianyao suddenly became excited:
"Where? Where?"
"......" The woman suspected of being the hotel proprietress was dumbfounded.
(End of this chapter)