People in Mondstadt, starting to develop black technology
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Some insightful people from other forces in the crowd were secretly frightened.
This little trick of opening early must have been deliberately designed by Academy City in order to stir up high spirits among all tourists.
Damn, how scheming! Who came up with this idea?
Shen Qin: I am just an humble person.
Jared and Sarah were fairly close to the front, so they made it into town quickly, eagerly following the flow of people to the parking lot.
There were dozens of buses parked in the parking lot. All people got on the buses under the guidance of the staff. As long as the buses were full, they would be dispatched immediately to take them to the inner city.
Jared and his companions were lucky enough to be seated near the windows on the upper deck of the bus, so when the bus was traveling on the high-altitude corridor, they could turn their heads and see the beautiful scenery outside the window.
The sky corridor is both decorative and the main two-way road of Academy City. It can accommodate three Mingguan cars running side by side, so it is quite large. Therefore, you can easily see another one of the eight radial corridors from here.
Eight corridors stretched across the green forests and grasslands, converging at the inner city of the Academy City. In the inner city, buildings of different styles and heights stood in a staggered manner, a city style that the people of Teyvat had never seen before.
As they got closer and closer to the inner city, the true size of the inner city gradually appeared in front of Jared. After the vehicle entered the inner city, he looked at the various buildings he had never seen before flashing by on both sides of the corridor, and his mouth slowly opened wide.
Is this a house? Can a house be so tall and beautiful? Can people really live in it?
“Welcome to the inner city of the experimental Academy City. The Academy City was designed by three alchemists, Shen Qin, Albedo, and Sugar. It integrates life, commerce, medical care, education, scientific research, and production. The most advanced technology of the Academy City Research Base is applied in every field…”
Billboards, building exteriors, high-altitude holographic projections… Academy City’s introduction video was being played everywhere in the city. The sound of the broadcast echoed over the city, and combined with the tall buildings in sight, it gave Jared a dreamlike feeling.
It was as if I had really traveled from the past to the future.
At this time, the radio in the car sounded: “We are about to arrive at the drop-off point for this bus – Central Shopping Mall. Passengers, please pack your personal belongings and do not leave them in the car. We are about to arrive…”
The drop-off point for each bus is different. The purpose is to disperse the tourists as much as possible throughout the open Academy City. Anyway, they are completely in the dark about this strange city, so where does it matter where they start?
After Sarah got off the car, she just raised her wrist to take a shocking photo when a pop-up window popped up on the virtual screen.
[“Map” has been installed successfully, do you want to open it? ]
[Tip: In “Map”, you can view your current location in real time, set routes, search for nearby food and entertainment venues, and check out the official tour routes recommended by Dabai! ]
“Wow, Jared, look at this!” Sarah immediately showed him the virtual screen excitedly. “Baymax has thoughtfully prepared a tour route for us! Now we don’t have to worry about where to start. By following the recommended route, we can visit 70% of the city, not to mention the entire city, right?”
The tourists in the same car with them also discovered the map APP on the bracelet, but the recommended routes for each person were not exactly the same. They had left traces of their Internet access when they visited the community before, and the super terminal developed a completely unique tour route based on their preferences.
This wave is called big data analysis.
Chapter 236: Can you wear women’s clothes and accompany me?
When Jared and Sarah were excitedly preparing to leave, a cylindrical robot half the height of a man came up to them and said, “Welcome to Academy City. I am Refrigerator Robot No. 3826. Would you like some free iced soda?”
“Soda? Is it a drink?” Jared asked with interest, squatting down to carefully observe the refrigerator robot in front of him.
“Yes, soda is a new type of drink that Academy City is about to launch. When you drink the drink, you can feel the wonderful feeling of bubbles exploding in your mouth. With the most suitable ice temperature, you can feel the refreshing feeling of being on the snowy mountains even under the scorching sun…”
“Then give us two sodas!” Jared was very moved.
“What flavor do you need? We currently have Dun Dun Peach, Sunset Fruit, Falling Berry, and Zero Sugar-Free Refreshing.”
“I want the raspberry flavor!”
“Zero sugar-free refreshing taste.”
Sarah licked her tongue. As the saying goes, the weirder the name, the more exciting the taste.
The refrigerator robot opened the refrigerator door in its belly, reached out and took out two beautifully packaged cans of drinks and handed them to them: “Just pull up the pull ring to open the can. Be careful not to shake it too hard before opening it, otherwise something unfortunate will happen!”
As soon as it finished speaking, a young man not far away shook the can rebelliously, then pulled the pull ring. The expanding gas and the drink rushed out instantly and sprayed him in the face.
“Ah!” He was startled, but the can was still spraying water. He subconsciously blocked the opening with his mouth. The wonderful taste of the soda in his mouth made his eyes light up suddenly.
After finishing half a bottle in one breath, with soda residue still hanging on his face, he happily said to the tourists around him: “Trust me, it will be more exciting if you shake it before drinking!”
Jared, Sarah: “…”
People told you not to do it, but you insisted on doing it, right?
Most of the tourists shook their heads and opened the cans obediently to enjoy this novel soda drink, although there were a few who shook the cans before drinking like him, and then got splashed with soda.
“After drinking soda, don’t throw the cans around. Please give them to the cleaning robots or trash can robots that can be found everywhere!”
Refrigerator robot No. 3826 continued to look for the next tourist to sell soda. Jared and the other man looked at each other, opened the can and drank a sip of soda obediently, and their eyes lit up at the same time.
I didn’t feel much after listening to No. 3826’s description just now, but when I really took a sip of the soda, the icy temperature and the bursting bubbles appeared in my mouth at the same time, coupled with the wonderful flavors of Luoluoberry and Qingxin, a refreshing feeling poured from beginning to end, and the two of them couldn’t help but blurt out a word –
“Cool!”
Sarah took a few sips of her soda, then stared at Jared’s soda and licked her lips with her tongue.
I really want to try some berry-flavored soda…
Jared saw her look and paused as he was about to continue drinking the soda. Then he smiled and said to her, “I want to try the refreshing soda, is that okay?”
“Here!”
Sarah immediately took the soda from his hand, stuffed her own drink in his hand, and took a sip.
The raspberry ones are delicious too!
A young man following behind them clenched his fists and said, “I saw you guys showing your affection in the car, and now we’re getting off the car, you’re still showing off in front of me!”
He took a picture of their backs and sent it to a childhood friend of his.
He: I followed these two couples all the way, I didn’t expect to be fed a lot of dog food when I came to Academy City! (T_T)
Childhood friend: What? Do you still want to break them up?
Childhood friend: Stop it, you can’t beat both of them by yourself.
He: What I mean is, can you wear women’s clothes and accompany me to visit Academy City tomorrow?
Childhood friend: ???
He: I can wear women’s clothes! [shy]
Childhood friend: Get lost!
Jared and Sarah visited the entire Central Mall according to the recommended tour route. Whether it was the huge Feiyun Department Store or the dazzling official stores of well-known brands, they were reluctant to leave.
Normally, if they wanted to visit all these different shops, they would have to run across at least half of Mondstadt, but now they were all concentrated in one central shopping mall. It was so convenient!
But the two restrained themselves and did not spend any Mora here, because they were going to go to the house sales center later. If there was a chance, they planned to buy a house in Academy City and settle down there.
“Where’s the next stop?” Sarah asked excitedly, holding Jared’s hand. She was already looking forward to the next place to visit.
“Uh…it seems to be an orphanage called ‘Hope’?” Jared said hesitantly.
He didn’t understand why an orphanage could be listed as a tourist attraction.
Sarah opened the community and directly searched for the keyword “Hope Welfare Home”. She actually found an official community account with only a few hundred fans. Its latest update was posted last night, saying that the welfare home will hold an opening ceremony today and there will be wonderful performances at the ceremony.
“There’s a show, let’s go see it!”
Her words made Jared reverse his decision to skip the welfare home, and he smiled and said, “Okay.”
Following the instructions on the map, they arrived at a station and waited for the shuttle bus that would go directly to the welfare home.
But the other side of the station was closed, and noisy construction sounds could be heard from inside.
“Brother, what are you doing here?” Sarah asked the station staff curiously.
“There’s a set of tracks being built over there. It’s a new type of urban transportation designed by our Academy City Chief Engineer Shen Qin – the maglev rail train!” the staff member said proudly, “If you’re interested, you can follow the ‘Academy City Rail Train’ account on the community, which will post some videos of the rail train.”
As an expert in surfing the Internet, Sarah quickly found the community account and clicked on a video.
In the short 15-second video, aerial tracks regularly shuttle between high-rise buildings, and a long train is “hanging” on the tracks, passing through the sky at an extremely high speed.
The last scene is the perspective from inside the train. Tall buildings flash by closely outside the window, and then the view becomes wider, the panoramic view of the city comes into view, and a morning sun rises between the tall buildings in the distance.
“This rail train is so cool, and we can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Academy City from high above!” Jared said excitedly. He was looking forward to settling down in Academy City in the future.
At this time, the shuttle bus arrived. The two said goodbye to the staff and got on the bus with familiarity.
“Let’s go, next stop is Hope Welfare House!”
They had been shopping for two hours straight now, and having rushed here early in the morning to line up, they were a little tired physically, but still very excited.
There are so many things in Academy City that can bring them new things, and sometimes they give them a strong sense of separation, as if they have come to a completely different new world from Teyvat.
Chapter 237: Ganyu, when you were a child…
Today, the focus of all netizens on the terminal network is Academy City. Some smart people updated the VLOG of touring Academy City in real time on the community, and gained tens of thousands of fans in less than half a day.
As for the shops in Academy City, they must have made a lot of money today. The terrifying flow of customers caused some shops’ stocks to be consumed within a few hours. They could only anxiously contact suppliers for supplies, and then watch helplessly as those shops with sufficient stocks harvested wave after wave of Mora.
They didn’t expect that business would be so good today. These tourists didn’t seem to take Mora seriously and kept spending money on it.
The Academy City and the terminal network were very lively, but Shen Qin, the instigator of all this, stayed out of it. He followed Yaoyao and Ganyu, and brought Sucrose and Klee to the quiet Mount Ozang.
The altitude of Ao Zang Mountain is quite high. The car can no longer drive halfway up the mountain. However, after Shen Qin reached the top of the mountain, he was still breathless and his face was not red. He stood on the edge of the cliff, looking at the sea of clouds in the distance, and said lightly: “Ao Zang Mountain is just like this.”
Sugar: “If you have the guts, get off your flying skateboard before you say that.”
Yaoyao looked at this older brother who was a little seriously ill and sighed. Why did the people around him seem unreliable?
Ganyu led everyone across the lake on the top of the mountain. Shen Qin immediately saw the small island in the middle of the lake and the table and chairs on it where the gods and immortals sat when they gathered. He once had the urge to move it away.
Fortunately, my sense of morality defeated this evil idea.
He was not worried at all that Master Liuyun Jiefeng and Zhongli would hunt him down.
They stopped in front of Zhenjun’s cave. Shen Qin stared at Gan Yu, somewhat curious about how she would contact Zhenjun. Then he watched her raise her wrist and make a voice call to the person marked as Master.
Shen Qin was very disappointed. He thought she would use a magic method similar to “transmitting sound into the ears” to communicate with Master Liuyun Jiefeng.
“Ganyu? What do you want to talk to Master about?”
A cool and pleasant voice sounded on the bracelet.
“Master, Shen Qin, the alchemy master of Academy City, wants to visit you.”
“Shen Qin? Is he the alchemist whose mechanical skills are inferior to mine but is called the number one mechanical master in Teyvat by the people of Liyue?”
After the construction machinery in Academy City came out, many Liyue people began to regard him as the most powerful master of machinery today.
Gan Yu glanced at Shen Qin and said awkwardly: “Master…”
True Lord Liuyun Jiefeng continued to talk to himself, “Why does he want to visit me? Did he feel ashamed of my achievements in mechanical engineering and come to become my disciple?”
“Well… that kid has some vision. If he is willing to become my disciple, I can agree to accept him and guide him to carry forward my mechanical arts…”
Gan Yu interrupted her immediately: “Master! I am outside the cave now…”
The cave door opened a crack.
“Mr. Shen Qin is here too.”
bang——
The cave door closed instantly.
After a long while, a calm voice came from the other end of the bracelet: “This immortal is not in the cave today! Ganyu, please help Master entertain the guests and bring them over in a few days.”
She used her magical powers to spy on the scene outside the cave, and saw a few people trying to hold back their laughter. She chopped her foot in anger.
The water is arranged and the mountains are stacked, the dust is singing in the city, the moon is cut and the sun is built… The flowing clouds lend me the wind, my society is dead today!
Shen Qin took a step forward and said in a clear voice: “Master, I am Shen Qin. I have come to visit you today because I admire your mechanical skills and want to ask you for advice.”
At this time, you need to give her a way out to avoid embarrassment.
“Well! In that case, I will naturally teach you. Come in!”
Let’s just pretend nothing happened.
Perhaps because of the misunderstanding just now, Master Liuyun Jiefeng no longer had the intention to test everyone, and directly used his magical power to move them to the deepest part of the cave.
“Wow! What a big bird!” Klee looked at Master Liuyunjiefeng standing elegantly on a high place, and drool seemed to flow from the corner of her mouth. “I wonder how it will taste when it is roasted…”
Hearing her words, Master Liuyun Jiefeng lost his balance and nearly fell from a height.
“How dare you call me a bird?”
“Wow! The big bird is talking!” Klee was so scared that she took a step back.
“Humph!” Master Liuyun Jiefeng naturally wouldn’t argue with a kid. She looked at Shen Qin and said, “Are you Shen Qin? You want to ask me about mechanical arts?”
“Greetings, Master Zhenjun. I have been entrusted by someone…”