Egrandine was dropped directly into Blackwater City.
This was also the first time in his life that he saw the city of exile with his own eyes.
It's indeed quite evil, but not as evil as imagined... Maybe after half a year in jail, I'm used to seeing Blade and Night Clan, and some of the weirder hybrids don't arouse stronger emotions.
Regardless of appearance, Blackwater City is actually similar to some poorly governed cities in the main world. It has a certain order, but underneath the order lies a gray area. As soon as you enter the city, you see people collecting protection fees along the street.
As for cannibalism or evil rituals, I haven't seen it yet, but I can't rule out the possibility because when he was running around in the streets, he saw dried blood mixed with the soil. Of course, it could also be murder or a simple fight. .
Except for a few people I met during the move who looked unflattering... They were probably women who were getting close to him, but the overall feeling was actually okay.
Although Egrandine works for the Church of Light, as an investigator, he does not participate in executions, torture and other acts. In his eyes, investigating mixed-race trends is just a job.
If you are a true fanatical believer, you may go crazy when you come to the exile and be surrounded by mixed blood everywhere.
In short, try to settle down first, and then try to make some money to support yourself.
The first priority when settling in is to figure out how to speak the local dialect, and this depends on the magic prop shop.
But without anyone's help, it's not that easy to find perhaps only one or two magic props shops in a city with tens of thousands of people.
After searching around to no avail, we returned to Blackwater Station to do some transport work first.
This job doesn't require much communication, so if you go to the foreman and chat with him, even though both parties don't understand a word, they still know what to do.
After a few hours, when I was waiting to receive my salary, I felt like I had been robbed of some money.
Agrantine just stared at the foreman and did not cause trouble. Bullying outsiders is a common scene everywhere. Who knows that he can't speak the local language? Without a foreman, he doesn't know how to negotiate with the employer.
Use money to buy food, find a corner cat for one night, and do the same thing the next day. Spend some time looking for a magic prop shop, and then squeeze in some time to work at the station.
There are also railway stations in the main world, but those railways only connect two cities or mining areas to the city. The business is completely incomparable with Blackwater City. This one station may support thousands of people.
I lived the same life for the next half month, but I couldn't find the magic prop shop!
"It's impossible. Is it because there's no signboard?" Aiglantine was a little panicked.
Even if he was an investigator, it would be too difficult to find a store without a sign in a city where he didn't understand the language and was a complete stranger.
"If that doesn't work, just become a refugee and see if you can find someone with a sign in other cities."
It was much easier to go back to being a refugee. After he continued to hang out for a few days, he found a group of real refugees heading north along the railway.
The refugees lacked nutrition and could fall down while walking. They moved very slowly. It took them three days to reach the place where they had only taken an hour by car.
After entering the country, they were centralized and managed together with the refugees, and someone came to teach them.
The act of taking literacy classes shocked Egrandine.
You don’t need too much imagination. Just by looking at them giving free literacy classes to immigrants, you can imagine how exaggerated the literacy rate in this territory is!
Literacy rate is a highly controversial topic in the main world. Some areas believe that if the people are literate, more and more unruly people will appear that are difficult to manage. Some areas believe that a higher literacy rate will provide more choices when selecting talents. Some areas believe that a higher literacy rate will provide more choices when selecting talents. Conducive to the development of business.
But no matter which view they hold, no one is promoting universal literacy.
Agrantine wrote down all his experiences in the small notebooks issued by the literacy school, and occasionally took them out to read.
“If all the people are literate, is there any loyalty left?”
Linking loyalty to knowledge was not his idea. It was a regional view of the main world, that is, the group that opposed increasing literacy rates.
This view holds that people can generally remain simple and loyal only if they have less knowledge and have no other way to make themselves better off except by being loyal.
Eglandine has some faith in this view.
Taking himself and the mage group as an example, both of them are obviously not loyal enough to the gods and the royal family. Perhaps it is really the result of knowledge and insight.
Let’s take a look at some commercial areas where the literacy rate can exceed 20%. In those places, loyalty is often not a concern, only money.
This question was too philosophical if it went deeper, and there was a suspicion of overgeneralization, so Aiglantin just recorded the question for future observation.
After reading for several days in literacy class, there was something even more terrifying for him.
It was probably some kind of festival that day. The flow of people in the refugee area was obviously larger than usual, and there were more people attending class. On this day during class, two mages came to class, called ten people's names, and gave Bless your language knowledge! Moreover, the teacher who taught the class today also had a language general knowledge effect.
Eglandine himself was one of them. He looked at it and it seemed that only those with poor academic performance were added.
This kind of behavior confirms that the literacy rate in this area is definitely close to 100%!
The legend of language knowledge was created by ancient mages in order to allow the demon puppets that were not smart enough to understand complex commands. It is also said that it was created to communicate with monkeys. In any case, after being improved by many masters, it has indeed become It is one of the most representative second-level spells in the mage system. However, there are three common languages in the main world, and there are not many opportunities to use it. It is precisely because of this that Aiglantin did not waste time to learn it back then, and he often regrets it recently.
With the language knowledge directly blessed by the Master, you can first understand the meaning of the word and then learn the pronunciation. It is far more effective than starting from the pronunciation step by step, and the learning progress is very fast.
By the time the blessing expired, Aiglantine was already able to conduct some simple daily conversations and writing on her own.
He wanted to see what it would look like if all the people were literate.
Although he is a refugee, the local area does not restrict the areas where refugees can move. It only stipulates behavior. He cannot break the law, cannot beg, and cannot leave the literacy class if his literacy is less than 2,000.
Although Aiglantine relied on language proficiency to achieve the results of a month or two in a few days, he still had to pass the test of two thousand words, which was still close to passing.
He had nothing to worry about. During the day, he helped build houses in the refugee area and received wages. He took classes at night, or went out to see the situation in the city during the day. He was very comfortable.
Perhaps a little preconceived, in his eyes, the overall atmosphere of national literacy is different.
I saw someone playing a very complicated board game in the market, and there were maybe forty or fifty people around.
"Do you understand?" He nudged the nearest half-breed who seemed to be more talkative with his shoulder.
"You can't understand "Attack and Defense of the Demon Realm"? Have you just come out of the mountains?"
"Almost, I haven't gotten my household registration yet."
"No wonder." This person understood the situation and introduced in a low voice.
There is a lot of content. Just by listening to the rules, you will know that it is very difficult to play this kind of game if you are not literate. You have to find a way to make the literate read the rule book over and over again until you can recite it all. It is unlikely that anyone has such patience. .
Outside of games, because everyone has certain basic mathematical abilities, buying and selling behavior is also very specialized.
The wholesale transfer between foreign merchants and local merchants does not count. For people with zero mathematical foundation, it is impossible to sell completely by weight at the retail level. There must be a corresponding container, or a certain number, such as flour, without mathematics. A capable person can only tell how much a bag or a bucket costs. Whether the bag or bucket is full or not is the key to whether the transaction can be concluded. If you give him 4.3 kilograms, he will not approve the transaction if he cannot figure it out. Way. Meat is similar. You can only calculate the price of a leg and half of a hoof. It would be difficult to sell them if you take them apart.
Here, in addition to the flour cakes and bean cakes made on the street, the prices in the small regional markets that directly face the public are based on weight. There is no one type of container for beans and another type of flour.
Literacy and math skills are also reflected in labor. As time goes by, you will find that very few local people work at the station. Occasionally, if you encounter someone, it is probably because someone in the family is sick and they don't have enough money to hire a magician.
I can't say whether Eglandine is good or bad, but it is very special, maybe...better than many countries in the main world?
After hanging out in Junction City for a while, I saw the recruitment notice. After thinking about it, I still didn't get in, for fear of being put in jail again.
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