And now, Chen Cheng had actually seen electric lights in this medieval feudal era. For someone like him, how could that not be exciting?
"Faster. We need to go faster."
Chen Cheng could not help urging them on.
As the group was about to enter the city along the road, although the old city walls were gone, the entrance was much like the entrance to an urban expressway from Chen Cheng's previous life—there was a toll station collecting road fees.
But this world was different from Chen Cheng's previous one. The national highways vigorously constructed by Wisdom Shield could not possibly be completely free for travelers.
After all, one must not forget that this world had treasures such as Space Bags.
If they only charged merchant caravans and other passing convoys, then although Space Bags were expensive, the cost would amount to little when divided up. Those merchants could simply use Space Bags instead.
Thus, pedestrians also had to pay for using the roads, though the fee was based on the Space Bags they carried—or rather, the amount of storage space they had on them.
Every one of Chen Cheng's group had a Space Bag hanging from them. Even the Snow Maiden had one.
After registering at the toll station, Chen Cheng felt that their group was like rural people from the last century entering the city in television dramas from his previous life.
Every single one of them was incomparably curious about everything here.
Snow Maiden and Noah in particular had never seen any of these things. They were still a group of teenagers, after all, so it was only natural for them to show a young person's curiosity upon seeing new things.
"You're here looking for work, right? It's already quite late, and the factories here stopped recruiting