It was a long journey from Pyroxene Town to the Void Mask Amusement Park.
It would take about 15 days for an ordinary business trip to travel by carriage, including five days from Pyroxene Town to Gold-Panning Town, five days from Gold-Panning Town to Dragon-roar Town, and another five days from Dragon-roar Town to the Void Mask Amusement Park.
A five-day journey was a relatively common distance between towns in this world. Why was it this distance? Because if it was too far away, it would be more difficult to contact each other, and it would be impossible to help each other; if it was too close, the development space of each other would overlap with each other, and there would inevitably be various contradictions in the future.
Therefore, except for those towns located in prosperous areas where there were no other choices, such as Pyroxene Town, Gold-Panning Town, and Dragon-roar Town, which were reclaimed in the wilderness, would be a distance of five days for ordinary people to keep in touch with each other just right.
This "one day's journey" certainly did not refer to walking. Except for senior adventurers, no one could travel on two legs in the wilderness. In that case, after a day's trek, when exhausted, they would often be attacked by monsters and die.
A day's journey referred to the journey of an ordinary carriage.
Sui Xiong had not studied how far a carriage on earth could travel in a day, but it was likely to be much closer than the carriage in this world. Because the physical strength of the pack horses in this world was much stronger than that on earth, they could pull the carriage and walk unhurriedly for a whole day, and they could run for a while from time to time. Although Sui Xiong had never ridden a horse, he had read a lot of historical novels, in which it was often mentioned that cavalry was good at fighting on the battlefield and short-distance maneuvers, but not as good as infantry in long-distance maneuvers, mainly because the endurance of horses was far less than that of humans.
In the early morning, the carriage set off with the visitors from Pyroxene Town. The drivers were several adventurers, who were also the nominal bodyguards of the convoy.
If they encountered too fierce monsters, Mr. Josh, who was in charge of the convoy, would naturally take action. However, this was not an inaccessible wilderness. From time to time, there were business travelers coming and going. Most of the more powerful monsters had enough intelligence to deliberately avoid such places and not have a head-on conflict with human beings. Therefore, generally speaking, it was enough to have some senior adventurers as guards, almost at the intermediate level.
This time was no exception. The journey was smooth and there was no trouble. When the sun was about to set, the convoy finally arrived at a small village, which was also the designated campsite for the day.
Traveling in the wild was like this. Unless it was absolutely necessary, one should never camp in the wild. If possible, try to live in the village, or at least next to the village. Ordinary monsters would not attack villages, but they were very keen on attacking travelers who were sleeping in the wild.
Of course, this was for ordinary people and adventurers of average standards. Senior adventurers often went deep into barren lands, camping in the wild was a common occurrence, and fighting with monsters at night was not a rare thing. To them, there were monsters? Wasn't that normal? If they could sleep peacefully for a few days without being disturbed by monsters, they would be anxious and worried that they might have intruded into the lair of a terrifying monster with a huge sphere of influence such as the Primordial Dragons.
Reif and the others stayed in the carriage for almost the whole day, but they did not waste any time. The Chang 'an of Felix Town introduced them to the Void Mask Amusement Park, introduced them to the various countries and regions on this continent, and taught them how to read.
The writing tool they used was a kind of simple stationery newly introduced by Geerteng City, the "Hometown of Stationery". It was a soft brush and a roll of light gray cloth. When it was time to write, the soft brush would be dipped in water on the gray cloth, and the color would become very black, forming black handwriting. When a piece of cloth was filled with words, as long as it was hung on the outside of the carriage and blown on for a while, the gray cloth would dry and return to its previous gray appearance. Other than the faint water stains on it, no more words could be seen, and it could be used repeatedly.
According to the adventurer who taught them how to read, this was the invention of Baron Geerteng, now Viscount Geerteng, Ms. Olian. She believed that the so-called knowledge and education were to let more people have the opportunity to get education, so that they would not be rejected by the palace of knowledge because of poverty. The chosen one of the God of Knowledge once vowed that she would spend her whole life promoting the development of education on the whole continent, so that the light of knowledge could shine on the earth.
That was what she said, and that was what she did.
In recent years, the Geerteng Territory had developed a variety of cheap stationery, and this kind of ink cloth was one of them. Of course, it was much more expensive than ordinary cloth. A roll of cloth and a brush together cost one silver coin. But after all, it was only one silver coin. Even a poor family could gather the money to give their children the opportunity to learn how to read.
But in fact, the greater contribution of the ink cloth was that it allowed many people to learn how to paint.
This tool could not only be used for writing, but also for painting. Writing might still need the guidance of a teacher, but painting was different.
So in recent years, painting experts emerged everywhere. Many teenagers painted in their spare time, and many people found that they were quite talented in painting, so they worked hard in this direction and got the opportunity to improve.
The young adventurer who taught Reif and the others how to read was also one of them. He was originally a soldier, and then he accidentally came into contact with the ink cloth, so he bought one. Originally, he wanted to learn how to write, so he learned according to the words on the notice. But soon he found that compared with writing, he was more talented in painting, especially when he drew the monsters that he usually saw. It was simple and vivid, and it captured the characteristics of those monsters, so that people could understand it at a glance.
With this talent, he drew many wooden boards for several villages to introduce common monsters, and he made a lot of money. Now that he had money, he didn't want to continue to be a soldier. In the words of the Internet on the earth, the world is so big, and I want to see it.
He traveled on the continent, and soon he came to the Void Mask Amusement Park. In the amusement park, he attended a literacy class. Although it was only a short class for half a year, it made him say goodbye to his illiteracy life and become a cultured person.
Since then, he had become an adventurer, and his main activity was in the vicinity of the Void Mask amusement park.
The Void Mask Amusement Park was a very wonderful place. It was located at the border, and in theory, except for Dragon-roar Town, which was rich in magic beast materials, it was thousands of mountains and rivers away from any other place. But in fact, it was the high-end transportation hub of the whole continent. Through the huge teleportation portal system, it could be reached from any capital on the continent in an instant, and then from the capital of another country in an instant. As long as one's body and wallet could bear it, it didn't even take ten minutes.
This made this place a distribution center for many high-end goods, and also a place where many high-end adventurers waited for work. Anyone who could come here to buy things or hire people were all rich people. The teleportation fee was like a high threshold, shutting out merchants and employers who weren't rich enough, creating a high-end market that was famous throughout the continent.
Now, there were the world's best restaurants, the best hotels, the best opera houses, the best leisure and entertainment places, and it was a well-known money-squandering den. There were also carefully selected adventurers with good credit, and they were welcomed by employers who really needed reliable people.
As for the most famous talents here, they were the chef and the accountant. These two kinds of talents who came out of the technical school called "New Oriental" were sought after by various chambers of commerce and nobles on the continent. An excellent chef could make your restaurant full of friends, make your family happy every meal, and greatly strengthen the cohesion of various organizations. An excellent accountant could greatly improve the level of profitability, reduce all kinds of meaningless waste and wrong expenditure, and the effect was even more immediate.
It was said that at the gate of the technical school, there were recruiters from all over the continent all year round, especially when the summer graduation season came, and the door was full of visitors. If it weren't for the fact that there were usually God's chosen people in this technical school, or that there were often God's incarnations, there would be people rushing in to rob people.
When talking about the technical school, the young teacher's eyes became a little gloomy. Lai Fu could see that the teacher actually wanted to go to the technical school for further study. But he didn't know why he didn't pass the exam. Or did he not like to be a chef or an accountant …
After a day of study, the teacher was tired and thirsty, and Lai Fu and the others were also dizzy from studying. But when it was time to rest, Lai Fu just couldn't fall asleep.
Lying on a makeshift bed made of thick hay and covered with a blanket, he looked up at the tent in the darkness and fell into deep thought.
In half a month, he had probably learned about one to two hundred common words. This was assuming that his memory was good enough, and he wouldn't forget the words in front after learning the latter ones. After learning so many words, he could barely be considered a little bit cultured, but what could he do with this little bit of culture?
When he needed an autograph, he didn't need to bother the clerk, and he could write "Lai Fu" himself?
When he looked at the notice, he didn't need to bother the propagandist beside him, and he could read it himself?
He could know the direction and road by looking at the road signs, and he wouldn't get lost?
… It just felt like there was no use.
"Maybe … I should also learn a little more?
"But what's the use of learning?
"Should I become a chef or an accountant?
"Be it a chef or an accountant, both are good jobs. But can I really do it? "
"Maybe I can also join that" literacy class "? As long as I can pass the preliminary test, I can join it. The tuition is very cheap.
"But even if I learn to read, what can I do?
"No matter what, learning to read is always a good thing …"
As he thought about this, he tossed and turned on the bed, and gradually fell asleep.
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