<h4>Chapter 227: People of the Otherworld on Earth</h4>
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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. Thedy who was filling the form was frightened when looking at such arge group of peopleing 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 exnation, exined 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 expresspany stopped asking. It was just that some of thebels 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 amon 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 uncontroble 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 ne of Dreams was simr to that of the earth, they were more direct and tough on the use of energy, and they were ustomed 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 controbility. 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 wasing from the ne 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 controble bomb which was always circting in two states, ‘detonating’ and ‘not exploding’.
Hao Ren had no way to exin the Earth engineer’s safety indicators and safetyponents 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 ne of Dream. However, on Earth, it had grown so pervasive and safe to use. She leaned over the window and stared curiously at everyndscape 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 poption density and city size on Earth.
And finally, Becky pointed to the billboard outside the window andmented, “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 hemitted 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 ce, 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 Bud Chaville in Europe…”
“What are you talking about? About me?” Becky looked curiously at Hao Ren and the driver while they were talking. “I don’t understand the Earthnguage but you guys know all thenguage, I really envy. Can I also get the blessing from your Goddess?”
Hao Ren rubbed away the cold sweat on his forehead and said, “You don’t bring me any trouble, fortunately, you can’t speak Mandarin!”
Becky was talking in thenguage of the ne of Dreams with them all the way, so Hao Ren could rest assured and let her kept asking questions in public. If this girl could speak Earthnguage it could be very troublesome. If people heard those wild and peculiar questions, she could be sent to the psychiatric hospital on the spot, or Hao Ren and the gang would be caught due to the suspected of trafficking of a foreign woman, but in the end, Becky would still have to be sent to psychiatric hospital…
They finally got off the bus in the biggest shopping mall of the town where Hilda visited yesterday. Hao Ren was surprised to find that theic con was not over. It seemed that this was arge-scale formal exhibition, hundreds of young people who were cosying still upied the exhibition area which upied two-thirds of the square with a yellow divider. Hao Ren stretched his neck and looked across the square, confirming that the exhibition base should be at the stadium- too bad he did not even have the tickets, and he had no chance to bring the abnormal creatures behind him to join in the exhibition.
Becky looked at the square in astonishment. The young people with the peculiar clothes did not match the scenery on earth that she saw along the way, but some of them made her feel like home. She stretched her neck to look around, and suddenly raised her hand excitedly and rubbed out a small fireball and said, “For the gold coins! The woman knight is worth a fight, I want to…”
Hao Ren was frightened when he saw it. He quickly patted her on the fireball and her head and said, “What are you doing? Her armor is made of stic! It will melt whening into contact with fire.”
“What the hell is this?” Becky looked around and stood there in a daze. Fortunately, Hao Ren reacted quickly, nobody noticed the small fireball on her palm. “Some of them looked likebat professionals,” she said.
“They are having fun, an asion for them to have fun, do you understand?” Hao Ren was having a terrible headache as he noticed that Lily’s eyes also started shining and he could feel that there was an invisible tail wagging behind her like a propeller. “We’ll take about thister, now can we go and settle our to-do-list? Otherwise, after Lily enters the shopping mall, she definitely won’te back until the sun goes down!”
Hao Ren finally persuaded the eager Becky and Lily and dragged them into the shopping mall. After they entered the shopping mall, Hao Ren finally did not have to worry about mercenary girl rushed into the middle of the ‘war-worthy warriors’ outside and caused a sword-de storm, because obviously, the shopping mall had a bigger impact on Becky.
“This ce…” Becky stared at the giantmercial square in front of her eyes (which was only a small fraction of what she could see), “Just to sell things?”
“Pretty big, huh?” Hao Ren this time could feel the pride of being a man of the Earth:paring to the supermen in the ne of Dreams, human’s physique was weak, the resistance was poor, the life was short, and they did not know magic, but there was one thing that seemed particrly powerful, that was, the development of society was going out of control…
However, Becky curled her lip and said, “I don’t think it’s really big, but there’re lots of people. I’ve never seen so many people.”
Hao Ren, “…”
He found himself making a mistake. He thought that only the people on earth would buildrge spectacle buildings, but forgot that the level of civilization in the ne of Dreams was not too low. Moreover, a feudal totalitarian and powerful theocracy world was actually more prone to costly andrge-scale construction, coupled with their small poption, a variety of mega-buildings would be easier to appear thrilling. The Great Wall during the golden week and that of the normal days looked absolutely different. Therefore, Becky was not amazed at how magnificent this ce was, and what she kept marvel at was the strange things on Earth.
Hao Ren also understood the statement in the work manual: Do not think that the people from the Otherworld are all the hicks. They are not in awe when they see what is on your, most of the time they just find the locals interesting.
This sentence was used to kill some of the agents’ sense of superiority. Hao Ren now began to understand the meaning of it.