Chapter 415 - Living in the New Era (2/2)
The teenager stops looking at the lake and dazzling cruise s.h.i.+ps are parking on it. Aren’t fis.h.i.+ng and hunting prohibited? When humans are temporarily safe, corrupt privileged people always appear in time. He conceals the sarcasm on his face and clenches the inner bolus in his hands.
In a world where faith is collapsing, maybe only living for martial arts enhancement is the only way to success.
The teenager can feel the temperature of inner bolus in his hand. Thinking of his younger sister who is young but outstanding and potential, he thinks life is not too bad in general.
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In the splendid Dragon Palace, Lin Luoran closes her eyes and digests the information she has read this afternoon. She then opens her eyes.
Based on the information alone, what she knows is superficial. The history is always written by the winners. Without more accurate information, she cannot infer what happened in the past.
However, the turning on of the Tower of Babel in 2058 and the so-called Shelter of G.o.ds has provided some clues about where the Lin family is.
She herself has known how mysterious the Tower of Babel is and she has a deep understanding of the time and s.p.a.ce nodes. If all cultivators disappeared at that moment, Lin Luoran has a bold guess. Maybe they were sent to other planets or a different period of time.
If the Lin family did not collapse in the Earth Defense War and they improve their personal ability to the Bearing Essence period, they would have a lifespan of 500 years with enough spirit herbs and elixirs. In this case, maybe they are still alive. She subconsciously ignores Mrs. Lin. After three hundred years, she feels everything just happened yesterday.
To find the whereabouts of her family, she must go to the Tower of Babel. However, she also has to know how to survive in this world. Baojia is also a problem. Since the crazy Taoist has guaranteed the power of “Yin-Yang-Mote Circle”, it is unreasonable that it was easily broken by the alien technology. Those mutant monsters which are very powerful in the eyes of ordinary people are nothing for cultivators with magic weapons. Of course, they can’t break the circle neither.
It is very likely that Baojia was awake herself.
She just doesn’t know when Baojia woke up and if she also disappeared together with cultivators.
Is there no cultivator on the earth today?
On the earth, the crazy Taoist and the female monsters like Yang Lisha are very powerful. It is possible that there may be some other powerful characters hidden behind. Lin Luoran thinks of this and feels surer and surer that the Lin family has a good chance of being alive.
She clarifies her thoughts and she now has a goal to fight for again. As White Fairy says, she seems to be relived and she is not lifeless anymore.
“So what are you going to do now?”
White Fairy fiddles with the fish in the Dragon Palace pond and turns her head to ask.
Lin Luoran tells her that she wants to stay on the earth for clues exploration temporarily. White Fairy agrees with her.
Lin Luoran knows it without even asking White Fairy. Now the earth is full of scars. As a female cultivator who has been dead for more than a thousand years, White Fairy also doesn’t want to abandon this planet where she was born and grew up—People only know they should cherish things after they losing them. At that time, White Fairy who was high in the air never cared about the ground under her feet. When it is no longer how it was, she finally feels nostalgic deeply.
Lin Luoran hates the Alpha Alliance which destroys her home and then acts like a savior to make the earth part of it.
She has already known a lot of common sense of the new era. The so-called Rank One member star is only at the bottom which is for trade dumping and unequal mineral predation.
If the Interplanetary Law had not severely suppressed the development of colonial stars in recent years, the Alpha Alliance would have not been so nice to give the earth the t.i.tle of “Rank One member star”.
As soon as Lin Luoran thinks of this, she can’t help feeling a little irritable.
She feels she can’t ignore the fact that her birthplace is becoming a colony. However, she has no clue on what to do at this moment—she is not that arrogant and thinks she can fight with the endless wars.h.i.+ps and mecha troops of the Alpha Alliance only relying on her personal ability of the late Bearing Essence period.
Living alone in the huge Dragon Palace, she feels really deserted. Lin Luoran decides to get the ident.i.ty of an ordinary person first.
Perhaps the law of the universe itself contains the dark side. Lin Luoran uses the spiritual mind to find the location of the exchange market. It is where Zhuzhou was before the new era and is now a radiation zone of Dongting City. It takes only one hour to take the high-speed aerotrain. Lin Luoran does not have a personal computer so she casts a Mini World to help her secretly get into the train.
Getting along with ordinary people can make her integrate into the current world faster. Therefore, she doesn’t want to fly to Zhuzhou.
After exact one hour, the train stops precisely at the Zhuzhou platform. Skysc.r.a.pers here are more than those in Yueyang District near Mount Jun. When she gets off the train, she faintly sees the teenager she met in the library yesterday.
It is just like destined. Seeing that the young man is in a hurry, she doesn’t greet him. She goes to the exchange market as how she got in the train earlier.
There are people selling meat, eggs, weapons, and vegetables. Lin Luoran looks around for a while and almost knows the prices of this era. It turns out that people also sell weapons.
Picking up a so-called magical pistol, Lin Luoran feels somewhat disappointed. It is just a simple energy conversion weapon. It’s not the pistol that she and Liu Zheng designed together which can directly absorb the five elements Reiki.
Well, since cultivators disappeared, who can incept in spirit for real magical weapons?
Even there are real magical weapons now, they must be made in the early years.
Lin Luoran puts down the magical weapon in disappointment. A sneaky businessman has noticed that Lin Luoran’s clothes are real silk rather than synthetic fiber. He swallows and thinks he may get rich today.
He takes the initiative to ask Lin Luoran what she needs.
Lin Luoran casually says a few words and he is more certain that this is a big customer. The businessman actively invites Lin Luoran to a cold drink shop in the market—After the ozone layer disappeared, the earth’s temperature has been rising unreasonably. Even in the Dongting City protected by the energy s.h.i.+eld, it only stops the ultraviolet rays. Summer almost becomes the only season here. Therefore, cold drinks have become a habit for everyone and cold drink shops are everywhere in Dongting City.
“My surname is Zheng. Lady, what’s the proper way to address you?”
Lin Luoran looks at the mango ice which Boss Zheng treats her. At first bite, she feels the mango taste is very faint. She can’t stand the expression of “this is very expensive” on the face of the businessman named Zheng so she just goes directly into the topic.
“I need a new PC.”
Businessman Zheng freezes for a moment and squeezes a little smile, “Miss, are you kidding? If you want to change your personal computer, you have to go to the city hall.”
He unnaturally rubs his watch-like personal computer and smiles uneasily.
Lin Luoran says nothing but takes out an inner bolus of a mutant monster and places it on the table.
Merchant Zheng picks up the inner bolus and scans it. He is excited seeing the value approaching 80 but he still says it is a difficult job.
Lin Luoran takes out another one. This time it is eighty-five.
Seeing the greed in the eyes of businessman Zheng, Lin Luoran sneers and reaches out to poke the alloy table of the cold drink shop. A half-finger long pit appears and Zheng is not greedy but shocked.
“Boss Zheng, I hunt these two inner boluses myself.”
Strength always speaks the loudest. The businessman finally decides to stop squeezing out more profits. He collects the two boluses and hands Lin Luoran a business paper card which is rarely seen now.
“According to your needs, your personal computer will be ready this time tomorrow. You can come to this address to get it. I am an honest businessman with integrity.”
Lin Luoran nods. She has attached her spiritual mind to him so she can catch him even if he runs to the moon. She doesn’t worry about boss Zheng playing tricks.
After checking out, they walk out of the cold drink shop together. As soon as the elevator door opens, one man rushes in.
He says sorry. Before he looks up, Lin Luoran has laughed.
It is still the teenager who lent her the personal computer to read a book in the library yesterday. She meets him three times in two days. It is really fate.
The teenager also recognizes her. After being stunned for a moment, he hears the footsteps from the corridor and his look changes. He disappears after closing the elevator.