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Chapter 403 Liu Youwan is in a hurry! How should this be explained?
Thorin unscrewed the bottle cap and tilted his head back to take a big gulp.
"ha--!"
He let out a long breath, his face flushed.
"Cool!"
The dwarf elder smacked his lips contentedly and held the wine bottle in his arms like a precious treasure.
As he walked, he looked around, his short legs surprisingly nimble.
He looked just like a nouveau riche from the countryside who had just arrived in the city.
Suddenly, Thorin stopped and pointed to a shop on the street corner with a pink, ambiguous light hanging on it.
"Um! What's that for?"
Liu Youwan looked in the direction he was pointing, and the professional smile on his face instantly froze.
He coughed, his voice dropping several decibels.
"Uh, um... it's an adult products store."
"Adult products?" Thorin scratched his greasy beard, his face full of question marks.
"Is this something only adults can use?"
A young dwarf beside him craned his neck and asked curiously.
"A sharper axe, or stronger liquor?"
Thorin ignored him, took a few steps closer, and squinted as he peered intently into the shop window.
"Hey! The mannequins inside look just like real ones!"
"Look at that skin, it even has a sheen under the light!"
Several dwarf craftsmen also peeked out and commented on the models in the shop window.
"This craftsmanship is amazing! It's far more refined than anything we can carve with stone!"
"If you used this skill to make a statue, it would definitely sell for a fortune!"
Liu Youwan couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from his face, looking at his colleague with questioning eyes.
How should we report this to our superiors?
Oh, so you enthusiastically introduced the adult erotic culture of the Great Xia to all ethnic groups?
His professional career is over!
Hopefully, these short guys won't go in for a visit, otherwise I'll have to ask them to give a presentation...
Thinking about this, he wished he could rush over right now and pull the power switch off that store.
Fortunately, Thorin's attention was quickly drawn to a commotion coming from not far away.
He pointed to a large area enclosed by iron fences.
Inside, dozens of children dressed in matching blue tracksuits were chasing a black and white ball across the grass.
"And what place is that?"
"Why are so many cubs kept in cages?"
"That's a school," Liu Youwan said with a sigh of relief, quickly explaining.
"A place where children learn knowledge."
"Learn knowledge?" Elder Muyu became interested.
"Like our Elven Enlightenment Grove and the Holy Human Academy, specifically for nurturing gifted children?"
Liu Youwan shook his head.
"almost."
"But here, all children have to go to school when they reach school age."
Kyle, who had been silently following behind the group with an arrogant expression, finally couldn't help but speak up when he heard this.
His voice carried a hint of scrutiny.
"All the children? Including the descendants of commoners?"
"Yes, all the children." Liu Youxing nodded, his tone filled with pride.
"This is our compulsory education, it's mandatory."
"Regardless of whether a family is rich or poor, everyone must receive an education."
Kyle's brows furrowed instantly, his face filled with incomprehension.
Knowledge!
What a precious thing that is!
In the Holy Human race, only nobles of high bloodlines and children of the papacy are qualified to enter the academy for systematic study.
civilian?
All they needed to learn was to plow the fields, forge iron, pray, and obey orders.
By imparting precious knowledge to these ignorant peasants free of charge, isn't the Great Xia afraid that commoners will replace the nobles?
He looked at Liu Youwan with an expression of utter absurdity, as if he were looking at a madman.
"Aren't you... afraid that if the common people learn knowledge, they will undermine your noble rule?"
Liu Youwan was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.
"Lord Kyle, we in Great Xia have no nobles."
"We believe in equality for all."
"The future of the nation depends on every individual acquiring knowledge and contributing their own strength to achieve prosperity and strength!"
Kyle fell completely silent.
He thought these Daxia people were not only crazy, but also ridiculously naive.
How can there be governance without class distinctions?
If everyone were equal, wouldn't that lead to chaos?
Unreasonable!
As the group continued onward, a rich aroma of food wafted from the nearby shops.
Thorin took a deep breath, and the saliva he had just stopped drooling from the corner of his mouth almost spilled out.
He stared longingly at the glass window of a restaurant.
Inside, the tables were laden with steaming dishes, the aroma almost bursting through the glass and into his nose.
"Gurgle..."
His uncooperative stomach let out a loud protest.
After noticing this, Liu Youwan smiled and said:
"Elder Thorin, are you hungry? Don't worry, we have prepared a sumptuous feast to entertain you all."
"I guarantee you'll eat and drink well!"
Thorin nodded in satisfaction, then took another swig of wine to suppress his craving.
I used to be used to ale and cheap alcohol, so it wasn't a big deal.
After I came into contact with Da Xia, I realized what kind of food I had been eating before.
Now that we've arrived in the territory of the Great Xia Dynasty, we must enjoy all the delicious food!
They passed by a huge building with a brightly colored painting on the door.
In the painting, an enormous black metal warship is firing in a dark universe filled with stars, its cannons spewing out destructive beams of light.
Kyle suddenly stopped in his tracks.
He stared at the poster, a look of shock flashing in his eyes.
The design of that warship was full of a cold, ferocious sense of power, even more exaggerated than the ships of the Great Xia Dynasty!
The background is even a starry sky!
Could this be a hidden weapon of the Great Xia Dynasty?
"What is this?" he asked in a deep voice, pointing at the poster.
"Oh, this is a movie poster," Liu Youwan explained.
"What is a movie?" Elder Muyu asked curiously as he joined in.
"It's one of our forms of entertainment, just like the videos you've seen in the Great Xia territory, only on a bigger screen!" Liu Youwan explained patiently.
"Using a machine called a 'projector,' the story of light and shadow is projected onto a huge screen, making it look just like the real thing."
He pointed to the warship on the poster.
"This ship is fictional, from a story."
Upon hearing this, Kyle felt a quiet sense of relief for some reason.
It turned out to be fake.
He said that it was impossible for mortal technology to create such a war machine that could traverse the stars.
The various races of Terra also know that the outside world of Terra is the starry sky, and the seventh-tier beings, with their powerful physiques, can fly out to see it.
However, the outside world is too vast, and the speed of a seventh-level being is too slow in comparison, so it cannot fly very far.
Legend has it that long ago, the dwarves also spent the entire tribe building an airship that could fly out of Terra, but it quickly flew back, and many dwarves died.
Putting aside the enormous amount of energy crystals and magic array materials consumed, the fact that they couldn't breathe after flying out was a major limitation for them.
Most importantly, I don't know what the point is.
It flew out, we saw it, and then what?
Ultimately, that generation of dwarves became a laughingstock for the entire continent of Terra.
The most popular saying in the taverns at the time was,
"Hey! Look at those shorty guys, they spent a fortune building a useless sightseeing airship!"
If the Great Xia could really create such a thing, along with those weapons and equipment, then all the races of the Terra continent combined probably wouldn't be enough to defeat them.
If the other races hadn't mocked the dwarves back then, would the dwarves have continued their research and development, and wouldn't they be in such a sorry state now, defeated by the demons?
He didn't know the answer.
Sometimes, fate is like that; a single step can lead to two completely different outcomes.
Now that he sees that the Great Xia Dynasty exists, he feels uneasy, but when he hears that it's fictional, he feels that this makes sense.
It's not that he didn't want the Great Xia to prosper; it's just that complex human nature was at play.