Future town? This is it?
He had already seen the anti-gravity hovercar and flying device, and he had seen the gloves on Hanyu's hands, whose principle was unclear but clearly contained high technology.
The full-cover armor on Wen Lei also made him envious and curious.
Ren Zhong had already ford a general speculative image of the era's technological background.
But in this town, what first caught his eye was a scene reminiscent of the slums of Mumbai.
Sheds made of asbestos tiles, rusty tal sheets, planks, and dried yellow grass were jumbled together in haphazard chaos.
Beneath the jagged eaves of the shacks, clotheslines made of iron wire were hung with colorful clothes.
These clothes fluttered in the wind, swaying slightly.
The streets were filled with passersby dressed in simple clothes, with numb expressions, shambling in the sa direction, n and won, old and young, resembling corpse drivers from Xiangxi passing through the night.
Many people had sallow complexions, looking malnourished.
Ren Zhong was puzzled.
The town environnt, and the ntal and material state of ordinary residents, were extrely incongruous with the technological background he had imagined, full of discord.
The floating truck went forward about a kiloter.
The "scenery" Ren Zhong saw along the way was largely the sa.
He didn't know how to comnt.
If this is the life of future humanity, it would be better to rewind ti back to 2020.
That year, 1.4 billion people had just used the efforts of three generations to completely erge from the shadows in a land of 9.6 million square kiloters and completely eradicated dire poverty.
But many years later now, the double lack of spirit and material still lood over this small town.
Suddenly, the scenery in front of Ren Zhong changed dramatically.
The slum suddenly disappeared, replaced by continuous neat white walls on both sides of the road.
The white walls blocked his view.
After moving forward for about another minute, he saw a tall, integrated alloy building.
The streamlined building lying on the ground showed no seams on the surface; the upper part was a transparent do, while the lower part was a tallic plate that shone with black light.
The tal plates showed no signs of rivets or welding, and every few ters there was a large floor-to-ceiling window.
At first glance, the building looked like a giant submarine docked on the ground, with a strong sense of technology, akin to the sets seen in science fiction movies Ren Zhong had watched.
The imnse contrast from before actually gave him the illusion of having traversed hundreds of years in ti.
The vehicle slowly ca to a stop.
"We've arrived."
Zheng Tian called out, jumping out of the vehicle first.
Ren Zhong also got out of the vehicle and looked around.
This was a spacious plaza.
The hover truck was parked about ten ters in front of the submarine-like building, and there were a dozen or so other vehicles of various sizes nearby.
The shapes of these vehicles looked much more formal than Zheng Tian's vehicle.
In the direction the back of the truck was facing, there were three large platforms set up.
Behind each platform stood two staff mbers in dark blue tight-fitting overalls.
In front of one platform, dozens of people lined up, one by one.
People were either carrying boxes or holding bags, waiting their turn.
The first in line was a stocky woman dressed in cool clothing, who was plucking items out of her bag.
The items clattered onto the alloy platform with a bang, seemingly a pile of dismbered Ruined Beast remnants.
When she finished dumping, four snake-like chanical arms extended from the sides of the platform, deftly working through the pile of remains, disassembling and categorizing.
After the disassembly, paynt was made, the person left, and the next person ca, all done smoothly and briskly.
At the sa ti, the various parts on the platform automatically moved to the conveyor belt on the side, quickly being sent up through the window holes on the side of the submarine-shaped building, entering inside.
The other two platforms had no one lining up, but trucks ca in one by one after being called, and several chanical arms pulled things out of the compartnts like dancing demons, then sorted and conveyed.
The whole process was extrely efficient and almost without human operation.
The blue-uniford staff didn't move an inch from start to finish, their existence seeming only to maintain order.
Seeing this scene, Ren Zhong had to admit he was deeply impacted.
The single street he passed through felt like a cleaver, sharply dividing this world into two halves.
On one side was the wildness with a nineteenth-century vibe, on the other side was twenty-second-century civilization.
It didn't take long for Zheng Tian's team to be called, and after the items were counted, Ren Zhong mimicked Zheng Tian's action of gently touching the wrist watch to a spot in front of the platform painted with a WIFI symbol.
The wrist watch on his hand emitted a bone conduction sound only he could hear.
"Sold one Crystal Winged Dragonfly Corpse with 80% integrity, received 0.8 Contribution Points."
Ren Zhong understood.
Contribution Points were the currency in this world.
He had gone from being a clanging pauper to a wealthy man with 72 cents.
Great, he had earned his first bucket of gold in the new life.
He just didn't know how much purchasing power 72 cents had.
He also learned another thing.
Although Zheng Tian's team's vehicle looked shabby and unsightly among the teams with vehicles, compared to those who had no transportation at all, scavenging on foot in the wild, the vehicle-owning Zheng Tian team was indeed the social upper class.
The scavengers lined up behind one of the platforms, carrying boxes and bags like moving ants, were the true riffraff.
"The team doesn't even have a Demolition Master, so they can't even fully extract and preserve special materials like Crystal Chips. These riffraff are really wasting resources, destroying valuable materials."
As they left, Zheng Tian disdainfully comnted on those still in line.
She seed to be mocking these riffraff while also flaunting her own strength in front of Ren Zhong.
Ren Zhong anwhile learned another thing, the tall and full-bodied girl nad Chen Han was apparently the so-called Demolition Master.
Occupation na obtained.
World view completion progress 1.
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