Chapter 97 - Same Old World (2/2)
Of course, they were only restricted to normal people. They went to a place similar to the Beast hall but much smaller in scale. With Fourth's BSing skills, both of them quickly got brand new Spirit Bands.
Hao Xuan had to register since it was his first time. They scanned him and took a drop of blood for verification and then used the information from his Red Legion identity badge to expedite the process.
Within a couple of hours, they were back on the streets.
Hao Xuan chose an extremely simple complete black band. It just looked like a piece of black steel. It was connected to his nervous system and when activated, a screen would pop up that was only visible to him, unless he chose to show others in which case a hologram would pop up above the band. It was all controlled through the mind and he just had to think to navigate.
They went to a restaurant and ordered some food. Fourth and Zhurong seemed to be having a competition on who could eat more in the shortest amount of time, while Hao Xuan was calmly sitting back and browsing the network.
The similarities between Earth and this place were too many. But that was to be expected when the entire civilization of Earth was guided by the Ancient ones (explained in the starting chapters).
There were shows, movies, songs, every kind of entertainment one could think off was there.
There were even some music festivals coming up in a few weeks time.
He searched up some videos regarding the world and saw a lot of unimaginable sceneries. They could only be better in real life.
There was a place with hundreds of floating Islands, an ocean completely black in color, a beast so massive that there was an entire city on its back.
Fourth smiled looking at Hao Xuan's bewildered expression. ”Ninth brother, here looks at this.”
He had added Hao Xuan as a friend on his own spirit band and they were able to talk to each other and chat whenever needed. He sent him a link to a video.
”What is it?” Hao Xuan asked but opened it without waiting for an answer and was shocked by what he saw. It was a video of an idol group performing somewhere, but what caught his attention was that he had met one of the Six girls before.
One of the girls from the group was from the Four he had seen in the Royal Palace [Ch14].
”Fourth brother, who is she?” he made the screen visible to others and pointed at the girl with orange hair.
”That's the most popular girl in the group. Her name is Lisa. She is the daughter of an extremely powerful expert from one of the ancient clans. Do you like her?” he asked with a mischevious grin.
”Like her? I guess you can say that,” Hao Xuan didn't even notice Fourth's expression as he was too engrossed in the video.
”Haha, brother, I think you should focus on your cultivation first. She is already at the profound realm.”
”Profound realm?! At her age? Are you sure?”
”Of course, it's common knowledge. You can look it up yourself,” he said while stuffing a whole egg down his throat.
As Hao Xuan was looking at her, his eyes color changed to red for an instant and then returned to normal. It happened so quickly that no one noticed, not even he himself.
He then saw some videos of gigantic flying ships racing with one another. One thing after another, he just kept getting amazed by the things that were available in this world.
”Brother, what are these?” he showed the video to Fourth.
”Oh, those are cruisers. There are different sizes of them and many MANY different types. These ones are completely man-made as you can, but there are some that are giant flying fortresses, treasure mountains, huge tree's, etc. Almost anything that has a special origin can be refined into a cruiser. Depending on the size and use, they have different names. These ones are only for personal use but there are some with military applications as well. We even have one,” he said with a know-it-all face.
”We? The Mei Kingdom has one?”
”Yup, it's nothing like the ones you see in the videos, I've only seen a picture of it once. We haven't had the opportunity to use it yet,” he said disappointingly.
”Just one? Why not more?”
”Brother, do you have any idea how much even a single one costs? After using the entire wealth of the kingdom we were able to buy just one, so you can imagine how expensive they are.”
This was a lot of information to take in. He never paid much attention to the world around him but after thinking about it a bit, it wasn't that surprising. There already were screens everywhere and they must be connected to share information with one another, but it never crossed his mind what it actually meant.
Ever since he came to the Beast world he had spent his entire time either with the military or with the Khan family at the farm and had no opportunities to explore much so this wasn't that unexpected.
”I need to make some money. Break through to the profound realm as soon as possible and get out of here to explore,” he thought inwardly.
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**AUTHOR'S NOTES (couldn't fit everything in the box below as it has a word limit):
I know this might be a bit unexpected for some of you but this was always hinted at from the beginning. The mix of technology and old-school cultivation, I always wanted to do something like this. And ever since Hao Xuan came to the beast world, there were ”computer” like things and screens all around.
Still, if you have any questions then ask away in the comments and I'll try to answer them all without spoiling anything.