Reincarnated Bamboo Rat Starts Extreme Survival

Chapter 295 Now is the age of fire and steam

"Today is the day when the high-speed rail from Chishui City to Cangxing City is officially opened. It is said that Mayor Bell, who has not been seen for a long time, will also come to watch in person."

"Yes, since the last assassination, Mayor Bell has not appeared in the public eye for nine months. Although popular science magazines have been reporting on various matters that Mayor Bell is involved in, Mayor Bell has never shown up. I I always feel uneasy.”

After Bell entered a normal slumber, he remained in seclusion for nine consecutive months, which significantly slowed down the advancement of some of Bell's original plans.

The high-speed railway that was supposed to be open to traffic before summer has been delayed until late autumn and winter is approaching.

But slow work pays off, and when the first section of the high-speed railway was finally completed, the finished product was much better than Bell expected.

The high-speed railway runs from Chishui City all the way to Cangxing City, passing through many large settlements and Huangtan City, with a total of seven stops along the way.

Although it is called a high-speed railway, this road is actually very different from the railway track before Bell was reincarnated.

First of all, there are no strip rails as commonly recognized. The trains are not placed above the rails, but float and move close to the ground. During the road construction process, special magnetic metal plates developed by Akiko University were poured into the road. middle.

With the existence of regular polymers such as bedrock, Bell integrated the acceleration rules of the red stone track into each special base. Placing a base every two hundred kilometers can maintain the ultra-high speed of the train.

Originally, when Bell adjusted the acceleration rules, he defaulted to a five-fold acceleration.

However, after the fire-steam furnace technology was successfully applied to the suspended train, with the power attack of the fire-steam furnace, the base's acceleration rule only needed to be maintained at twice the acceleration state, allowing the suspended train to maintain a speed of two hundred kilometers per hour.

The interaction between the power of rules and the technology of fire and steam furnaces allows the suspended train to operate for a long time at very low cost.

Before it was officially put into operation, Bell and scholars from Chiguang University had repeated experiments many times to ensure that there would be no problems in today's first public operation.

"There are so many people here today, the city guard must be under a lot of security pressure."

Bell yawned lazily, lying on a pillow that looked quite soft, and let a tall maid hold him for the starting ceremony.

Bell, who was always being talked about by his followers, really didn't have much energy to move around. In the past nine months, he only had two hours of free time every day. This precious time could be used to train himself or study the power of rules. It's better than using it at the starting ceremony.

During the starting ceremony, Bell just had to keep his eyes open and not fall into a deep sleep. Most of his energy still had to be used to deal with the nonsense of the believers.

Acorn did not come to the departure ceremony, but he was also hanging around, tracking down the case and maintaining order at the scene.

For Bell, there was very good news in the past nine months. The legendary assassins of Kulu City did not carry out indiscriminate assassinations against Chishui City as they verbally threatened.

It wasn't that the assassins were cowardly and didn't dare to cause trouble within Bell's control, but that their actions were forcibly stopped.

Bell's strong counterattack allowed Chishui City's diplomatic team to output forcefully. Kulu City had to make many concessions due to political pressure.

At the same time, the strong men of the church became active in the two cities and issued a serious warning to the assassins.

As a neutral organization, the church would not interfere too much in the competition between cities. However, due to such an overly influential assassination incident, the church had to come forward to give both sides a serious warning about their excessive combat power.

Because once the super-standard combat power of both sides goes crazy and starts to attack ordinary people without any scruples, then the entire southwest region will be only one step away from being scorched by war. The people will become the biggest sufferers, and there will still be unspeakable suffering. kind of.

As Bell continued to grow stronger in his faith and become a god, he gradually understood the church's approach to protecting civilians.

The church has indeed done good things in the entire human world. Their existence ensures the operating order of the human world and the basic moral concepts of the entire human world. Their presence is indispensable in the history of human development.

The church's philosophy has many things to advise the world, and the pastors are generally good traditional people who do good deeds and accumulate virtue.

But the driving force that shapes the behavior of the church as an organization, or the starting point that makes the church what it is today, is not that good.

The core of the church's service is not human beings, but to serve a god who has long ceased to respond to believers.

Divine rights must be greater than human rights. The church is preaching that all people are born equal and intelligent races are born equal. This is an extremely progressive concept.

But equally, intelligent creatures such as humans are the lambs of gods and must serve the will of gods unconditionally. This is another point that is difficult to comment on in simple words.

It can be said that the starting point of the church cannot be a good thing in theory, but is a kind of false hypocrisy. They are the shepherd dogs of the gods, using the natural power given by the gods as eagle dogs to control human behavior for the gods.

However, the church has used tens of thousands of years of practical operations to continuously promote the development and changes of human society, and has clarified the boundaries of ordinary people's lives, and has done countless good things at the practical level.

Bell has no right to make any critical comments about what the church is doing.

Let me just say the simplest point. If the god served by the church becomes Bell, the corners of his raised mouth will be more powerful than a machine gun. I wish I had such a human organization that specializes in dealing with believers and has extremely firm beliefs.

The butt determines the head. If Bell were an ordinary person whose family was ruined by the oppression of the church, he would like to peel off the skin of all the church's pastors.

If Bell is a god worshiped devoutly by the church pastor, then the church and the pastor are his closest existences, and disobeying the church is tantamount to disobeying Bell himself.

Shaking his head, Bell put aside these miscellaneous thoughts and braced himself to deliver a speech for the soon-to-be-opened high-speed rail in front of the residents of Chishui City.

The three connected suspended trains have entered the preheating state, and many influential celebrities have appeared at the boarding gate, waiting to get on the train.

These people include business guild owners who can trade across cities, powerful adventurers who travel in many dangerous places, and some family members who have married from other cities. Their wealth and power make their social influence far beyond ordinary people. The presence of people greatly promotes the high-speed rail, and they really need such transportation.

"Everyone, it seems that I haven't appeared in front of the public for a long time. There are really a lot of things going on with me recently." Bell, who gave a speech, did not need to use a magic speaker like Executive Mayor Eddie.

He just shook his body and revealed the original giant beast posture, but it did not expand to the extreme size.

Bell, who is accepting the residents' faith, still attaches great importance to his own image. It is related to the condensation of his divine power. He does not want to condense some weird powers for himself because of his appearance.

Bell has expanded his body to five meters tall. The two-story size makes Bell look like a furry little house, which is very eye-catching when standing on a high platform.

This body shape allows everyone present to see Bell's presence, but if the distance is further away, it will not make people feel oppressive. It is very suitable for Bell to promote himself. He wants to give people an image of a gentle wise man.

This will help Bell's subsequent collection of beliefs and the condensation of divine power such as [wisdom] and [creation]. Bell wants to build himself in the direction of wisdom.

Although I don't know if this can reverse his powerful image of brazenly killing multiple legendary assassins, it is always good to lean on the intelligence side as much as possible, and the divine power of brute force will be enough as a guarantee.

"The opening of the high-speed railway is a big event for Chishui City and will have a major impact on the future of the southwest region and even the entire world. Although I know that many people still do not understand the significance of road access, I believe that when you truly After taking a high-speed train once, everyone will be able to find the answer in their hearts."

Bell's speech was very short. Apart from introducing the fares of high-speed rail, there was nothing in the whole speech that could be called explosive.

But Bell, who has begun to focus on promoting himself, will definitely not let his speech pass so mediocre.

"Everyone, before there was a high-speed rail, how much money did it cost for a person to go from Chishui City to Cangxing City? At least five gold coins must be reserved for travel expenses along the way. At the same time, you must be wary of bandits along the way, thieves in the city, and some other things that have to be paid. Only money can pass the local checkpoint.”

Bell said the biggest reason why it is difficult to travel far in this world. Unless you are very strong, traveling far will only cause trouble for yourself.

When ordinary people go on a long trip, what they consider is not when they will arrive at their destination, but how to ensure safety on the road, protect themselves, and protect their property at the same time.

When Bell and Acorn were lying on the wooden cart all the way from Cangxing City to Chishui City, he had already seen a lot of outrageous things.

Just talking about the checkpoints set up by the official bandits of Huangtan City that they encountered, Bell, a person who is not easy to mess with at first glance, can pay money to cross the road to ensure safety, but the other party dare not interfere if he forcefully breaks through the checkpoints.

But if they are ordinary people who are not strong enough, when these official bandits deal with ordinary people, they may directly turn into bandits who kill and swindle goods in the real sense at any time because of their greed.

Therefore, if ordinary people really want to go from Cangxing City to Chishui City, they need to prepare more than five gold coins. Even if they are traveling with those adventure groups and business groups, the fee they need to pay must be at least ten gold coins.

"But after the high-speed rail is opened, the ticket from Chishui City to Cangxing City will only cost one gold coin."

Bell told the current charging standards for high-speed railways. Upon hearing this price, everyone present entered a state of wonder.

The more knowledgeable a person is, the stronger the state of shock they enter.

Those caravan bosses know that except for Chishui City, no other city in the southwest region dares to say that the cost of long-distance travel can be as low as this.

"Haren, in the future, the price of caravans or adventure teams taking people to travel across cities will be completely reduced."

The boss of a small caravan shook his head. They knew that their caravan would basically never receive the task of leading a trip from Chishui City to Cangxing City.

But compared with the confusion of the small caravan bosses, the multiple bosses of super chambers of commerce like the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce are all in a state of ambition at this time.

They have a higher status and have been exposed to the high-speed rail project earlier. During the previous trial operation, they also experienced the experimental version of the high-speed rail. At the same time, their people also obtained the high-speed rail operation data from Chiguang University.

Businessmen have a similar concept that time is money. They know how much commercial value this high-speed rail can bring with its huge transportation capacity and ultra-fast running speed.

Now, Chishui City does not intend to fully control all the interests of the high-speed rail project. Instead, it is communicating with various large-scale chambers of commerce and intends to sign contracts with each chamber of commerce. The chambers of commerce will pay to buy part of the high-speed rail's capacity as their commercial freight.

The funds in the hands of the Chamber of Commerce are extremely huge. Bell did this in order to use the money from the Chamber of Commerce to reduce Chishui City's financial pressure on the high-speed rail project, and to subsidize more money to ordinary people, so that the high-speed rail fares will remain at the same level. Relatively cheap.

"I believe you will be able to truly feel the speed of high-speed trains in the near future. Today's trial run is about to start. In addition to the three high-speed trains in front of you, Chishui City is also preparing to invest in five high-speed trains!"

After Bell said the last words, the boarding gate of the high-speed train slowly opened, and people were finally able to enter the train in an orderly manner.

But in order to bring the atmosphere to a climax, five cylindrical aircraft flew across the sky rapidly, spraying out a large amount of colorful mist and leaving a large number of traces in the sky.

This is a fire-steam aircraft for combat based on Bell's Bamboo Rat aircraft. Its function is somewhat similar to the fighter jets Bell has seen. It is powered by a fire-steam furnace and can fly into the sky purely using fire-steam technology.

The speed of these aircraft is much faster than those of floating airships. Although they carry fewer weapons, their super maneuverability allows them to kill traditional airships in mid-air.

The high-speed train started, and as the whole city watched, the speed of the high-speed train gradually accelerated. From moving slowly at the beginning, to turning into an afterimage and disappearing in front of everyone in an instant, this process only took less than 1 minute.

This is the application of fire-steam furnace technology. High-speed rail and aircraft are both mature fire-steam furnace technology, but this is not the only application field of fire-steam furnace technology. Bell, which focuses on fire-steam furnace technology, still has several pictures in hand. The trump card has not been played yet.

The colorful smoke clouds, mixed with the roar of high-speed train engines, gave Bell's speech a perfect publicity effect.

It is not an excellent copywriting, but it has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people under the strong shock of the actual fire and steam furnace equipment.

At this moment, Bell raised his arms and shouted, and bright magic fireworks rose from behind him.

"Everyone, welcome to the age of fire and steam!"

(End of this chapter)