Alien paradise

Chaoyang put down the report and walked to the office window.

It was about seven o'clock in the evening, and the night was gradually replacing the afterglow of the sunset, but the city in front of him was still shining. A large number of induction street lamps replaced the previous kerosene street lamps, and many residents also bought stable lamps that did not rely on fuel, allowing them to do what they wanted all night long. As a port city, the price of grease candles is not high. Nightlife has long been integrated into the concept of the residents of Brilliant Castle. Now there are more stable and bright lighting fixtures, and it has already had a bit of the flavor of a city that never sleeps.

If Chaoyang had just arrived and saw this night view of city lights, he would have thought that electricity had been fully developed here.

The fact is that this kind of lamp is a replica of the Acropolis ruins.

No fuel needs to be added, there is no risk of fire, and it only works in places where paradise education is popularized. Now people have given it a very appropriate name: Paradise Lamp.

On the contrary, few people know its official product name "Passive Lamp".

Chaoyang was also quite emotional about this.

At first, he just wanted to find a device that could replace electric lights, provide stable lighting at night, and expand people's working and entertainment time periods, which was also a disguised way to improve production efficiency and promote social consumption. The lighting fixtures in the Acropolis ruins were obviously an ideal target, and since he no longer needed to pay for maintenance power when replicating items, various passive lights became the first choice.

Chaoyang could imagine how much these lamps would change the city, but he never expected that this soft and stable light would now become one of the symbols of the park to the outside world.

Just like Gaofeng Company's new product, the robot butler.

"What about the robot butler? Have you made any progress in your research?"

"This is even more incredible." Xue Quan shook his head helplessly, "To be honest... If I hadn't come here in person, I probably wouldn't have believed that steam-powered robots could be made into nearly intelligent robots. If these robots could move around on Earth, we might have been able to think of a way, but unfortunately, after the samples were transferred over, they became a set of iron lumps, and even with the computer control system we wrote ourselves, they couldn't move freely."

Another thing Chaoyang didn't expect was that the Longjiu family actually started a "peaceful" competition with the Paradise Religion. If the Paradise Lamp is the signature of the Paradise Religion, then the signature of the Longjiu family is an incredible product: the Gaofeng Butler.

Nowadays, people also call it the Wanji Servant.

In Chaoyang's view, this product is essentially a robot.

It can be a bipedal humanoid, a wheeled machine, or a simple robotic arm. But no matter what form it is, their common characteristics are basically the same: using steam as the core power source, being able to understand simple grammar, being able to add water to themselves, simple self-maintenance, and even self-repair.

As soon as this thing came out, it immediately caused a sensation throughout the continent.

Even the limelight of the Paradise Church's restoration of the Acropolis was suppressed.

In order to promote its own products, Gaofeng Industrial Company not only priced the basic model of the butler at the same level as the steam wonder, but also provided purchase loans so that ordinary people with a little bit of family background could also enjoy this epoch-making product.

Yes, epoch-making.

Even Chaoyang admitted this.

In the past, people could only make fourth-class wonders, that is, wonders without consciousness, but if the Wanji Servant who can understand human language is regarded as a kind of wonder, then it has already touched the threshold of the second-class wonder. With his own strength, he raised the level of man-made wonders by two levels. What is not epoch-making?

In fact, he immediately purchased two of the highest-level Wanji Servant, which is the most anthropomorphic two-legged and two-handed type. One of them was given to the Control Center for research, and the other was placed in the temple to test whether it was really as advertised by the Longjiu family.

As a result, the ability it showed shocked all researchers.

In the words of Professor Wang Shengli, it has the learning ability of a three or four-year-old child, but it does not have the personality of a child. Its walking speed is one-third of that of a normal person, and its movements are like slow motion, but it is a robot, so its slowness is not a disadvantage at all. It relies on a detachable character disk installed on its back for communication, and there is no wire on it. In other words, it can read the text people type through the vibration of these characters.

As for its driving method, it is a combination of simple steam power and hydraulic assistance, which is very novel and very contrary to common sense. A classical machine without even electronic components can stably control the hydraulic output; a complex finished product without even a main control computer can self-detect and prevent failures before they happen! It can be said that it is full of unsolved mysteries.

Of course... Buying a PLUS-type Gaofeng Butler to clean up for yourself, boil water and chop wood is a pastime for rich people. Its real use is in factories, especially some heavy physical and high-precision work that human power cannot do.

According to statistics from the Kingdom of God, in just six months, a large number of high-level butlers have entered factories, mines and shops across the park, and the largest number of them are robotic arm production types. In the past, you could only buy a steam-powered device with the same amount of money, but now you can buy production equipment with a device attached. You can imagine how popular it is.

"This world is really interesting, isn't it?" Chaoyang smiled as he turned around.

Even if they had not developed electricity, the Paradise Cult and the Shenji Cult had crossed this threshold in two completely different ways. The Paradise Lamp is only the most basic product. With the further development of the control center, other complex devices of wireless energy will also come into being. The same is true for Butler Gao Feng. Whether it is the anthropomorphism of machines or the fully automatic assembly line composed of robotic arms, the prospects are extremely bright.

"I am not against technology..." Xue Quan's answer was a little cautious, "but I am just a little afraid of technology whose principles are not yet known."

For some reason, Chaoyang suddenly thought of Wei Mi.

Because of fear, it will encourage them to study new technologies.

"By the way, I heard a message from the merchant today." Xue Quan said again, "The route from Qianlin Fort to the mountains has been cut off."

"How did it break?"

"It seems that they have unilaterally cut off contact. The only forest road is no longer allowed to pass, and there is no notification of when it will be opened."

Chaoyang touched his chin in confusion. Since the recovery of the Acropolis, they rarely sent people to find him. Perhaps this is due to the non-aggression treaty signed between the Paradise Church and the Longjiu family, but the private trade between the two places is still going on intermittently. After all, the average temperature in the mountains is relatively low, and the fur products and smokeless charcoal produced in Qianlin Castle have always been in high demand. It’s just that there is no railway between the two places, so the trade volume has not increased.

This is the first time that the road has been directly closed like this.

"Is there something wrong with Zhaixing City?"

Zhaixing City is the only one in the entire mountains that has such qualifications.

"Maybe. But if there is no problem with Zhaixing City, then they are going to direct the problem elsewhere." Xue Quan replied.