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It is a long journey from Pyroxene Town to the Void Face Amusement Park.

If ordinary businessmen travel by carriage, it will take about fifteen days, including five days from Pyroxene Town to Gold Rush Town, five days from Gold Rush Town to Dragon Roar Town, and another five days from Dragon Roar Town to the Void Face Amusement Park.

Five days for a distance is a common distance between towns in this world. Why is it this distance? Because if it is too far, it will be difficult to communicate with each other, and there will be no talk of mutual assistance; if it is too close, the development space of each other will overlap, and various conflicts will inevitably occur in the future.

Therefore, except for those towns located in prosperous areas that have long been out of choice, towns such as Pyroxene Town, Gold Rush Town, and Dragon Roar Town that have been reclaimed in the wilderness will keep in touch with each other at a distance of five days for ordinary people.

This "one-day journey" certainly does not mean walking. Except for experienced adventurers, no one can travel on two legs in the wilderness. In that case, after a day's trek, when you are exhausted, you will often be attacked by monsters and lose your life.

A day's journey refers to the journey of an ordinary carriage.

Sui Xiong had not studied how far the carriages on Earth traveled in a day before crossing, but it is likely that they travel much closer than the carriages in this world. Because the pack horses in this world are much stronger than those on Earth, they can pull the carriages and walk slowly for a whole day, and they can run for a while from time to time. Although Sui Xiong has never ridden a horse, he has read a lot of historical time-travel novels, which often mention that cavalry are good at battlefield charging and short-distance maneuvers, but they are not as good as infantry in long-distance maneuvers, mainly because horses have far less endurance than humans.

In the early morning, the carriages set off with the spectators from Pyroxene Town. The drivers were several adventurers, who were also the nominal bodyguards of the caravan.

If they encountered too fierce monsters, Mr. Qiao Xiu, who was in charge of the caravan, would naturally take action. However, this road is not a deserted wilderness. There are business trips from time to time. Most of the more powerful monsters have enough intelligence to deliberately avoid such places and not have direct conflicts with humans. So generally speaking, it is enough to have some senior adventurers as guards, who are about the intermediate level.

This time is no exception. The journey was safe and stable, and there was no trouble. When the sun was about to set, the caravan finally arrived at a small village, which was also the camping site reserved for today.

This is how it is when traveling in the wild. Unless it is absolutely necessary, you must never camp. If possible, try to live in the village, or at least live next to the village. Ordinary monsters will not attack villages, but they are very keen to attack travelers who camp in the wild.

Of course, this is for ordinary people and adventurers of average level. Senior adventurers often go deep into barren lands, camping is commonplace, and fighting monsters at night is not a rare thing. For them, there are monsters? That's not very normal. If they could sleep peacefully for several days without being disturbed by monsters, they would be nervous and worried about whether they had entered the lair of a terrifying monster with a huge sphere of influence, such as the ancient dragon.

Reif and his friends stayed in the carriage for almost the whole day, but they did not waste time. Mayor Felix arranged for people to introduce them to the Void Mask Amusement Park and the various countries and regions on this continent, and taught them to read.

The writing tools they used were a kind of simple stationery newly launched by the "hometown of stationery" Gelten City, a soft brush with a roll of light gray cloth. When writing, use a soft brush to dip water on the gray cloth, and the color will become very black, forming black handwriting. When a piece of cloth is full of handwriting, just hang it on the outside of the carriage and blow it for a while, the gray cloth will dry and become the grayish appearance before. Except for the faint water marks on it, no handwriting can be seen, and it can be reused.

According to the adventurer who taught them to read, this was the invention of Baron Gelten, now Viscount Gelten, Lady Orian. She believed that knowledge and education meant that more people would have the opportunity to get an education, and would not be excluded from the hall of knowledge because of poverty. The elect of the God of Knowledge once vowed to spend her life promoting the development of education throughout the continent and let the light of knowledge shine on the earth.

She said so, and she did so.

In recent years, Gelten has developed a variety of cheap stationery, and this ink cloth is one of them. Its price is of course much more expensive than ordinary cloth. A roll of cloth and a pen cost one silver coin. But after all, it is only a silver coin. Even poor families can get together this money to give their children the opportunity to come into contact with words.

But in fact, the greater contribution of ink cloth is that it has brought many people into contact with painting.

This tool can be used not only for writing, but also for painting. Writing may still require teachers to teach, but painting does not.

So in recent years, young painting talents have emerged everywhere, and many young people have painted in their spare time. Many of them have discovered that they have a talent for painting, and then they have worked hard in this direction and got the opportunity to improve.

The young adventurer who taught Reif to read was one of them. He was originally a soldier, and later he came into contact with ink cloth by chance, so he bought one. Originally, he wanted to learn to write, so he learned by comparing it with the words on the notice. But soon he found that he was more talented in painting than writing, especially when he drew the monsters he had seen in daily life, which was simple and vivid, and captured the characteristics of those monsters very well, making it clear at a glance.

With this talent, he drew many wooden boards for several villages to introduce common monsters and made a lot of money. With money in hand, he didn't want to continue to be a soldier. To use the famous saying on the Internet on Earth, it was - the world is so big, I want to see it.

He traveled on the mainland and soon came to the Void Mask Amusement Park. In the amusement park, he participated in a literacy class. Although it was only a short class of half a year, it also allowed him to bid farewell to his illiterate life and become a cultured person.

Since then, he has become an adventurer, mainly active near the Void Mask Amusement Park.

The Void Mask Amusement Park is a very wonderful place. It is located in the border area. In theory, except for the Dragon Roar Town, which is rich in Warcraft materials, it is separated from any other place by thousands of mountains and rivers. But in fact, it is the hub of high-end transportation in the entire continent. Through the huge portal system, you can instantly reach here from the capital of any country on the continent, and then instantly reach the capital of another country. As long as your body and wallet can bear it, it doesn't even take ten minutes.

This makes this place a distribution center for many high-end goods, and also a place where many high-end adventurers wait for work. Anyone who can come here to buy things or recruit people is a wealthy person. The teleportation fee is like a high threshold, which keeps out those merchants and employers who are not rich enough, creating a high-end market that is famous in the continent.

Now, there are the best restaurants, the best hotels, the best opera houses, and the best leisure and entertainment venues in the world. It is a well-known den of money. There are also carefully selected adventurers with strong credit, which are very popular among employers who really need reliable manpower.

As for the most famous talents here, they are chefs and accountants. These two talents, who came out of the technical school called "New Oriental", are sought after by various chambers of commerce and nobles on the mainland. An excellent chef can make your restaurant full of guests, make your family eat every meal happily, and greatly strengthen the cohesion of various organizations. An excellent accountant can greatly increase the level of profitability, reduce all kinds of meaningless waste and wrong expenditures, and the effect is immediate.

It is said that at the gate of the technical school, there are recruiters from all over the mainland all year round, especially when the summer graduation season comes, there are even more visitors. If it weren't for the fact that this technical school is usually guarded by the elects of the gods, and even the incarnations of the gods often come, I'm afraid there will be people rushing in to grab people.

When talking about the technical school, the young teacher's eyes were a little dim. Lai Fu could see that the teacher actually wanted to go to the technical school for further study. But I don't know if he failed to pass the exam? Or maybe he doesn't like being a chef or an accountant...

After a day of study, the teacher was exhausted and thirsty, and Lai Fu and his classmates were also confused. But when it was time to rest, Lai Fu couldn't fall asleep.

Lying on a makeshift bed made of thick hay and covered with a blanket, he looked up at the top of the tent in the dark and fell into deep thought.

In half a month, I can only learn about one or two hundred common characters. This requires that my memory is good enough, and I won't forget the previous ones after learning the latter ones. After learning so many characters, I can barely be considered to have a little bit of culture, but what can I do with such a little culture?

When I need to sign, I don't need to bother the clerk, I can write "Lai Fu" by myself?

When I read the notice, I don't need to bother the propagandist next to me, I can read it by myself?

I can look at the road signs to know the direction and road, so as not to get lost?

...I always feel that it is useless.

"Maybe... I should learn more?"

"But what's the point of learning?"

"Be a chef or an accountant?"

"Cook or accountant, both are good jobs. But can I really do it?"

"Maybe I can also join that 'literacy class'? As long as you can pass the preliminary test, you can join, and the tuition is very cheap. "

"But even if I learn to read, what can I do?"

"Anyway, reading and writing are always good things..."

Thinking like this, he tossed and turned in bed and gradually fell asleep.