The middle-aged man and the young builder exchanged a glance, each seeing the excitement in the other's eyes.
"This way, please."
"I'll lead the way!"
The Guandong Plains and the West Pass Plains.
They were two vast plains, either one larger than the Four Regions of Jiangbei combined. An "Abandoned Defense Line" separated them.
This defense line was called "Wraith-Suppressing Pass."
It stretched for 237 kilometers.
Long since abandoned, its winding wall, once a Heavenly Chasm, had stood on the plains for who knew how long.
Almost the entire wall had collapsed, leaving only ruins.
It had almost no defensive value left.
The "Guandong Plains" were often called the lands within the pass.
The "West Pass Plains" were known as the lands beyond the pass.
Just as the people of Kansai looked down on Jiangbei, those of Eastern Pass looked down on the people beyond the pass.
North of the Guandong Plains lay the West Pass Plains.
North of the West Pass Plains lay Jiangnan.
Farther north of Jiangnan, one reached Jiangbei.
The Mortal Domain's home base.
Jiangbei had developed rapidly in recent days, bringing the Four Regions of Jiangbei along with it. A Great River divided those four regions, once making trade inconvenient, but the opening of the Mortal Domain High-Speed Rail had made commerce exceptionally lively.
It wasn't just the smaller factions that benefited.
Even poor people could take the high-speed rail to Jiangnan and find jobs with decent monthly wages.
However.
The completion of the high-speed rail.
Had also brought quite a few consequences.
For example—
Many people in Jiangnan had started cursing. As soon as outsiders arrived, they would say, "Sir, whatever monthly wage you're offering someone from Jiangnan, I'll take one Eerie Stone less."
As a result.
The immediate effect was that Jiangnan's monthly wages,