Chapter 227 (1/2)

It took quite a while to send the two boxes of bottles and jars. First of all, many of them were to be sent to other countries, which was very frustrating. Second, those bottles were also cumbersome to pack. If you did not put in lots of bubble foam into the box when packing, you would not feel at ease. After all, they were fragile products. The lady who was filling the form was frightened when looking at such a large group of people coming to send the parcels to the entire Eurasian continent. If they were cautious enough, perhaps they would have to call the counter-terrorism department. Thanks to Hao Ren’s quick explanation, explained to them that they were working for an art studio, specializing in the production of handicrafts and these items were the handicraft sold by them, that the employee of the express company stopped asking. It was just that some of the labels were still on the bottles, which read peach/strawberry/taro / Wang Zhihe, which were quite puzzling…

Luckily, the employee trusted their lies. Nowadays, ‘for art purpose’ was a common excuse.

Then they rushed to the city center business district by car.

Becky never calmed down from the time she got on the bus. The moment the bus started to move, Hao Ren noticed the girl almost made the act of taking out her sword. It seemed that it was a smart move to keep her sword at home. Hao Ren asked her curiously and realized that when the engine was started, Becky sensed ‘a hot and uncontrollable force was rising at the foot’ and she thought the car was about to explode, so she was ready to break the window and run…

In this case, you could see the cultural differences between the two worlds. Although the alchemy technology of The Plane of Dreams was similar to that of the earth, they were more direct and tough on the use of energy, and they were accustomed to using the power of magic to fully control the energy. Although this led to the low power of most of their alchemy equipment, it had high controllability. The earth was a world of artillery. Humans were adept at mixing dangerous high-energy gadgets together and blowing them up, and then controlling them with a variety of indirect devices: controlling them at a delicate, barely secure equilibrium point. Therefore, Becky who was coming from the Plane of Dreams was scared of the technology products on Earth. As a swordsman who was dealing with traps and ruins all year round and sensitive to energy, she immediately found that the cylinder of the ‘car’ was a controllable bomb which was always circulating in two states, ‘detonating’ and ‘not exploding’.

Hao Ren had no way to explain the Earth engineer’s safety indicators and safety components of the cylinder to Becky. He could only stress that the car was safe, steady and won’t explode easily, although its air cylinder felt like a row of bombs in Becky’s sense.

And Becky finally calmed down after those shocks. She was amazed by the inventions of the people on Earth (especially the adventurous part of these creations), and it seemed to her that an ‘alchemy vehicle’ propelled by kept exploding would be unthinkable, and that only the craziest alchemists would study it in the Plane of Dream. However, on Earth, it had grown so pervasive and safe to use. She leaned over the window and stared curiously at every landscape that passed and kept asking questions, such as why the people on Earth hang clothes with a rope so high (in fact, it was the electric wire), why the roadside trees were not healthy enough, why the people on Earth made the road so wide, and why was it so far away to buy something: she was clearly not sufficiently aware of the population density and city size on Earth.

And finally, Becky pointed to the billboard outside the window and commented, “It’s not safe here?”

Lily was surprised and asked, “Why do you say that?”

“There are posters of order for arrest everywhere, and they’re so big,” Becky said seriously, “I saw two-thirds of the boards are the same person, what kind of sins has he committed that his portrait has to be printed on three meters wide banner and hanging on the roadside …”

Everyone became speechless, and Becky went along with her mercenary mentality and asked, “So if I kill him, will I get a lot of gratuities? Do you have mercenary here?”

Hao Ren hurriedly put out Becky’s idea and said, “Don’t! Those things are ads, that’s a movie star. If you ruin the billboard you’ll be jailed for at least 20 years.”

Becky was surprised and asked, “Those strange signs below it are not a reward?”

“… That’s the order number.”

Becky immediately got very disappointed and sat back and said, “Mercenary is difficult to survive in this place, can’t even get a job.”

There were not many people in the bus, just two or three passengers. When the driver heard their conversation, he asked curiously, “This girl is a foreigner? Come to China for the first time? She looks very excited, you can introduce what we have here, I heard that a lot of foreigners still have the outdated impression about us, some Americans even think we still keep braids… It’s all because of those half-baked directors in Hollywood.”

Hao Ren smiled awkwardly and replied perfunctorily, “Err, she’s an international student from the Budula Chaville in Europe…”