Chapter 2 Alice
It seems to have rained last night, and the stone road is still a bit slippery. Although the sun has come out, the air is still damp and cold.
Tifa walked in front with a cold face, and Shen Bi tightened his jacket and followed behind with a cigarette in his mouth. The wedding trip of the two began in silence. But it was good to have someone to lead the way. If Shen Bi really wanted to make the arrangements, he I don’t even know where to go.
Shen Bi looked at the surrounding environment while walking. The buildings on the streets were generally low, with few exceeding six floors. The walls were mostly brick and earth structures, with the style mainly being Baroque, and a mixture of east and west. Most of the buildings were residential, and the shops were very Few, the business here does not seem to be developed.
There were not many pedestrians on the road, and there were people of all races. They spoke fluent Chinese, and their clothes and etiquette were no different from those of Blue Star. He had some doubts, could this be Blue Star from another parallel time and space?
Tightening his throat, Shen Bi raised his head and blew out a smoke ring. He looked at the sky, wondering if there was anything like the yellow beam Gu in this world.
"Get in the car." A cold voice came, interrupting his thoughts.
Shen Bi came back to his senses and looked at the vehicle in front of him with a look of disbelief on his face. He did not expect that Tifa would stop a carriage. You must know that this is a high-tech world with optical brains. Are you sure you are not joking? p>
Tifa said before that they were going to be late, and Shen Bi thought that the other party was making a fuss. If they were taking a carriage, they might be late.
"Throw the cigarette outside." Tifa frowned and said in disgust when she saw him entering the wooden carriage with a cigarette in his mouth.
"Oh." Shen Bi put his hand out of the window, but did not throw away the cigarette. From time to time, he would put his head outside and take a puff. Seeing his lazy look, Tifa said nothing with a cold face. p>
As the carriage drove toward the outskirts of the city, Shen Bi found that apart from carriages, there were almost no other means of transportation on the streets. Most people walked, and even bicycles were rare.
An hour later, the carriage slowly stopped amidst the noise. The bustle here was in sharp contrast to the desertedness of the city, and there was an endless stream of people welcoming and sending it off.
However, Shen Bi's attention was still attracted by another thing. It was a huge thing several hundred meters long, lying on the black track, with red carriages and white steam coming from the front. This was not steam. Train?
He looked at the old antiques in front of him with some surprise. He never expected that their tickets would be for steam trains. Has he come to the era of the Industrial Revolution? But how to explain the optical brain on his wrist?
Woo~woo~
Short and continuous beeps sounded. Under Tifa's urging, the two of them hurriedly got on the bus. The ticket inspector was a black guy. Even though time was tight, he carefully checked the two people's tickets and checked them on his computer. They were released after receiving their identity information. When they saw that they were newlyweds, they even cupped their fists and said congratulations.
Following Tifa into the carriage, it was not as crowded as expected. The seats in the carriage were spacious and comfortable, with four seats facing each other. There was a low table in the middle with a lot of food already placed on it. Several people on the seats next to them were chatting softly. , this place looks more like a high-end dining car.
As soon as he sat down in his seat, Shen Bi saw a brown-haired girl running over hurriedly outside the car window.
"Wait, wait!" the girl shouted loudly, but the ticket inspector didn't seem to hear it and closed the door with a bang.
"Hey! Sir, there are still people who haven't gotten on the bus." Shen Bi pointed out the window to remind the black guy.
The sound was loud, interrupting the conversation on the seats next to it, causing several people to frown. Tifa also turned to look at Shen Bi, with a puzzled look on her face.
"Yes, it's a pity that she couldn't catch up." The black guy spread his hands and looked sorry for the girl.
He didn't expect that the other party would react like this. Shen Bi knew that his act of closing the door just now must be intentional, and he was not interested in wasting time with him. He looked out the window again.
The black man thought that Shen Bi was compromising, so he nodded politely to the other people in the carriage, shrugged proudly, and turned to leave. Unexpectedly, he had just taken two steps when there was a sudden thud behind him, followed by the sound of broken glass falling to the ground. .
Following the crashing sound, everyone in the carriage looked at Shen Bi in surprise, and Shen Bi was leaning half of his body out of the broken window, waving to the brown-haired girl: "Hey! This way!"
"No! Sir, you can't do this!" The black ticket inspector was frightened by his crazy actions and his voice became shrill.
"I've already done this!" After the train started moving slowly, Shen Bi grabbed the girl's hand.
"Thank you! I am Alice Ferguson. Without your help, I would have missed this journey." Just after jumping into the carriage from the window, the girl covered her chest and was still panting.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Shen Bi." Shen Bi let go of the girl's hand and complained with a smile: "Actually, I almost missed it. The carriages here are so slow. I really miss the days of cars. ."
"Car? Are you talking about the kind of car that used gasoline as fuel before the catastrophe?" Alice quickly found her seat, which happened to be opposite Shen Bi.
Catastrophe? Shen Bi was stunned for a moment, and then immediately thought of what he had seen along the way: optical brains, horse-drawn carriages, and steam trains. It was probably this cataclysm that led to the abnormal development of this society.
"Well, it's that kind of car. The speed is 70 miles, and the mood is free."
"Haha, you sing quite nicely. Unfortunately, after the catastrophe, the oil was contaminated and can no longer be used as fuel and can only be used for textile processing."
"Actually, source energy is also a good fuel." Shen Bi thought of the source energy gun in the Shura Ring and deliberately tested it.
"Who would use precious source energy as fuel?" Alice said with an incredulous expression: "And if you want to convert it into fuel, you need to spend a lot of money to hire a source array master to build a sophisticated magic circle, and there are only areas 1 and 2. Only those noble children can afford it."
Cataclysm, Area 1, Area 2, Noble, Origin Formation Master, after just a few words of conversation with Alice, many unfamiliar words appeared, and Shen Bi planned to search them on the optical computer later.
"Oh, I almost forgot to introduce you, this is my wife Tifa Lockhart." After chatting for a while, Shen Bi finally remembered Tifa beside him.
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"Mr. Shen, and this lady, I'm afraid I have to interrupt your conversation." After the words fell, a tall white man walked into the carriage, followed by the black ticket inspector.
"I am Mono Arnold, the conductor of this train." The tall man took off his hat and turned to Shen Bi. "Someone just complained about Mr. Shen that you deliberately damaged public transportation. You must know that this is a very serious accusation." p>
Chapter completed!