Chapter 1300 Population
Chapter 1300 Population
"May I know your name?" Xiang Nan cupped his fists and said.
The handsome man smiled faintly, "We meet by chance. If there is fate, we gather. If there is no fate, we disperse. Names are not important, fate is important."
"Just in time, I'm going to eat something. Friend, do you want to join me?"
Xiang Nan originally wanted to leave alone after thanking the handsome man, but he also thought that he did not understand the world. If there was such a person who could help him popularize it, it would be convenient. He nodded and agreed.
The two walked out of the room and went down the stairs to the small building on the third floor of the inn.
This inn was a hexagonal courtyard. Each courtyard had a wooden building with a five-storey patio structure. It could be said to be exquisite, elegant, and unique.
Below each patio was a rockery, surrounded by fine flowing water, flowing towards the courtyard on the second floor.
Such a beautiful inn was supposed to be very lucrative, but in reality, there were only five rooms per courtyard and only one large room per floor.
Xiang Nan found it strange at first glance, but when he thought about it, perhaps this inn only accepted people of higher status and would not open to the outside world, so he did not take it to heart.
However, after he left the inn, he discovered that the scene on the street was becoming even more strange.
This was a city. According to the handsome man's introduction, it was called Mu Lian City. It was located a thousand miles away from the border of the Endless Forest. It was a very prosperous city with an important geographical location.
What made Xiang Nan feel strange was that this city was really prosperous. It seemed that everyone here lived a prosperous life and every building had a different style. Obviously, it had been carefully designed. In Xiang Nan's world, only those people from the wealthy areas had the mood to do such a thing.
However, it wasn't lively at all. There weren't many pedestrians coming and going along the clean and clear white stone slates.
It was early in the morning. The handsome man brought Xiang Nan to a random breakfast stall and ordered two bowls of bean flowers, two plates of pickled vegetables, and two small bowls of pumpkin porridge with ginseng fibrous roots floating in the air.
These snacks looked ordinary, but after Xiang Nan took a mouthful of porridge, his eyes immediately widened and he exclaimed, "They're actually so delicious!"
Xiang Nan had eaten everything, and traveling all over the place these past few years could be considered quite enjoyable.
However, this was the first time he had encountered such a delicious porridge.
He picked up a little pickled vegetable with his chopsticks and ate it. Combined with the taste of the porridge, he instantly felt a slightly salty and refreshing smell that filled his mouth. The fragrance of the pumpkin porridge was so strong that it gave him a different taste.
Xiang Nan finished eating and drinking in three mouthfuls, then raised his bowl and said, "Another bowl."
The handsome man occasionally raised his head to look at Xiang Nan's appetite and smiled softly. He ate elegantly and didn't feel like he was eating. Instead, he looked like a dedicated calligrapher who was writing.
Xiang Nan held the second bowl of porridge and said, "Oh right, is there any activity here recently? Why are there so few pedestrians on the streets?"
The handsome man finally raised his head and asked in surprise, "Rare? Why did you say that?"
Xiang Nan pointed at the sporadic pedestrians on the street and said, "I'm afraid that all the pedestrians on such a wide street add up to less than three hundred."
"Isn't that much?" The handsome man asked curiously.
Xiang Nan was even more curious as he said, "Is my friend teasing me?"
The handsome man frowned, "Friend, I'm really confused by you."
Xiang Nan seemed to realize that something was wrong and said, "Excuse me, how many people are there in Mu Lian City?"
The handsome man thought for a moment and said, "There should be more than three thousand people."
Xiang Nan was dumbfounded.
Three thousand?
In his own world, there were probably more people in a small village than in Mu Lian City, right?
In a town, there were tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands.
As for the so-called city, even if it was a small city like Blue Stone City, there were at least a million people.
However, there were only three thousand people in this new world! But also known as the "crowd."
"It's very lively, isn't it?" The handsome man tentatively asked Xiang Nan, "A small city of three thousand people, with so many people, is indeed rare in a small city of this size."
"Perhaps." Xiang Nan rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
"Kid Xiang Nan, I know why the Bai Clan must invade our world." The voice of the Eight-eyed Snake suddenly sounded in Xiang Nan's heart.
Xiang Nan nodded his head and thought to himself, "I probably know a little bit about it."
Less people! This new world was much larger than Xiang Nan's, but the number of humans here was extremely rare.
That would probably be a thousand times less than the population of Xiang Nan's world, or even more than ten thousand times.
When he checked out the bill, the amount he had spent earlier left Xiang Nan dumbfounded.
The two of them didn't eat much in total, but they spent a total of ten gold coins!
In Xiang Nan's world, this was an ordinary person's income for an entire year.
Xiang Nan asked the handsome man and learned that the purchasing power of money in this world was actually similar to his own world, but the people here were richer.
What was truly expensive was not the few ginseng beards in the pumpkin porridge, but human resources.
Labor is the most expensive in a place where humans are scarce and rich.
This confirmed Xiang Nan's thoughts.
The Origin Pills produced by the Bai Clan needed to be refined in large quantities on the basis of a huge human base.
However, there were very few humans in the new world where the Bai Clan lived, but in the world of Xiang Nan, humans were worth billions of dollars.
The difference in population between the two worlds was no longer just an order of magnitude.
"Alright." Xiang Nan nodded to the handsome man, "Thank you again for saving my life, my friend. We Qingshan will not change, and we will meet again."
Xiang Nan was accustomed to parting, so he clasped his fists with the handsome man and turned around to leave.
The handsome man didn't stop him. He just smiled and went in a different direction from Xiang Nan.
At this moment, Xiang Nan thought for a moment. There were roughly two directions.
The first direction was to hurry back to their own world and tell the Haoran Sect about the situation with half of the gourd, so that they could react immediately.
However, this direction was obviously impossible. The spatial passageways leading to their own world were all controlled by the Bai Clan. They hated themselves to the bone and wished to kill themselves. How could they be willing to lend them the spatial passageways?
The second direction was to find the World Exterminating Divine Lightning here and continue to increase its strength. It would directly disintegrate the Bai Clan's base camp from the new world. In this way, his own world would be saved.
"Big Snake, can you feel the existence of the World Devastating Divine Lightning here?" Xiang Nan asked in a low voice.
The eight-eyed snake said, "I can feel that there is something in this world, but it's hard to say exactly where it is."
"However, I did feel the power of a divine lightning when we were in the dark endless forest."
"In the Endless Forest …" Xiang Nan was in a dilemma.
That kind of damn place was really not a place for humans to live in.
With Xiang Nan's first level of Divine Martial Arts, as well as his heaven-defying Taiyi Divine Technique and his ability to jump through space, he almost fell into a trap.
From this, it could be seen that the Endless Forest was definitely a fierce place, much more dangerous than any other fierce place that Xiang Nan had encountered in the past.
The Endless Forest was the home of demons.