How Am I Still Alive?

Unlike other more primitive worlds, most houses here are not made of wood due to the high cost of local wood.

Rocks, and similarly tactile underwater (lithified) corals, are the primary building materials.

But unlike today's solid and neat houses of masonry and reinforced concrete, they are more like "building blocks" put together, with a rough and retro beauty of ancient Greek architecture before BC.

The house Lu Ping'an is renting now is considered to be of high quality. At least the rooms are spacious. The gaps have been filled with mud, and a layer of grease-based biological paint has been applied, accompanied by a faint smell of spices.

However, the red "Double Happiness" paper-cut on the window not only made Lu Pingping feel like he had returned to twenty years ago, but also made him wonder if there was something wrong with this cultural communication.

".interesting."

Lu Pingan closed the latest "newspaper". Now that wood is so expensive, there is a lot of cheap paper. It seems that some forces have spent a lot of effort.

He stood up and relit the extinguished incense.

There is a lot of humidity in this house, and there is a rather unpleasant smell, so incense has become almost a necessity of life.

But just this small point makes Lu Pingping feel a lot.

"My life as a child is much better than before, and I have begun to pursue the quality of life."

Normal people would not pursue the comfort of a room when they are not well fed or clothed.

Just like normal politicians would not shout in front of victims of the food crisis that you don't care about environmental protection at all.

The bed is soft, and although the material of the fabric on the bed is unclear, its feel and warmth are quite good.

With bookshelves, tea, and warm recliners, Lu Pingping felt like he could stay here for a long time.

".This is a pirated version."

Lu Ping'an was a little surprised when he saw the scale emblem of his chamber of commerce appearing on the fabric.

But upon closer inspection, I realized something was wrong.

On his side is a dove of peace with an olive branch, and on the opposite side is a dove with a crooked beak holding a rose. The gunfire mark of a flintlock gun is also painted here like an automatic pistol.

". It looks like it was a fellow Earthling who did it."

Lu Ping'an sighed, there was no way to pursue and defend his rights.

It seems that the fellows saw that the brand here was relatively strong, so they directly OEMed and mass-produced it.

But looking at it from another perspective, it seems that the chamber of commerce has done well and gained a reputation.

"I didn't copy the trademark directly. It seems I haven't planned to do it right. Maybe I'm worried about triggering something."

In this multiverse, words are powerful, not to mention "marks" and "patterns".

If you casually touch a blessed holy symbol or mark, you may be directly linked to a higher-dimensional being behind it. Not only may the other party come to your door, but you may also be directly locked and cursed.

"Click."

Opening the window of the room on the third floor of the hotel and listening to the people and cars below, Lu Pingping felt a lot.

He was still not in a hurry to appear in the "high-level circle", but lived silently among the crowd, waiting for what was about to happen.

"They hinted before that after they open the door, there will be a wave of ruthlessness. I don't know how ruthless it will be."

The newspapers that Lu Ping'an put down were basically two months or even half a year old, and the timeliness was worrying.

However, considering that each island is still isolated from communication, and there is no convenient thing like a bird that delivers newspapers in this world, these newspapers may also be "imported products". There seems to be nothing to complain about with this level of delay.

Lu Ping'an still hasn't contacted those "human forces", even though he has passed several "Lin Women's Churches" and the forces of local human gods.

Although a blind human being would have some trouble seeing on these streets, he would not be able to associate it with the peace of the road "ten years ago" in a short period of time.

It is worth mentioning that Lu Pingan actually received all kinds of extra care here. Even though he explained that he could "see it", the other party was still friendly "just because of human beings".

Of course, there are good and bad, and there are also petty thieves who bump into them because they think it is inconvenient for their eyes.

After all, in the current environment with low living conditions, don’t expect to have too high a social average moral reserve.

"Let's go buy some books today."

What surprised Lu Pingping the most was that although he was in a relatively large city, he could see large bookstores and quite a few local publications with obvious local characteristics.

Although there are many grammatical errors and confusing printing, and the contents of those books involving local geography, biology, and humanities are too confusing and superficial, and there are also a bunch of obvious logical errors, considering that most of the writers are locals, it is quite remarkable. .

In Lu Ping'an's eyes, this means that civilization has begun to sprout again.

Words carry knowledge, and the history of civilization that was cut off from the inheritance of knowledge and history seems to be beginning to be recorded again.

This obviously exceeded Lu Pingan's expectations. After all, ten years is not a long time, and it was a bit too much to achieve this level. But later, after Lu Pingan inquired about it, he learned about the "Godly Grace of Papermaking" and "Godly Grace of Copying". existence, it is completely understandable.

"The God of Culture. If the technology tree is not enough, magic will make up for it."

It stands to reason that the recovery of normal civilization may take a hundred years to start, but if the gods are really involved and can use various "divine graces" to jump over insurmountable technological barriers, it is understandable that it has developed so fast.

For Mr. Lu, waiting and observing are his most important tasks at the moment. The first thing now is to understand the changes in the world through "reading". He must try his best to extract his identity and view it from the perspective of a bystander. Observe the world.

""The Teacher Said". Wow, the title of this book is really bad, and the content in it is also some clichés, but it is still the best-selling book. Ha, the ideas in it are interesting, and they coincide with me. It fits, but it feels like it’s a bit too radical.”

Books are the carrier of thoughts, and reading best-selling books is very helpful for Lu Pingan to understand the current "social public opinion."

The current Long-hand Clan is no longer the "slave race" before. He is trying to find out his position in getting along with them. Considering the popularity of this 'philosophical book' among the young Long-hand Clan, this book has indeed given He helped a lot.

The "mentor" among them not only did not have a specific name but even his identity was unclear, but the content gave Lu Ping'an a strong sense of the Eastern Kingdom.

"Oh, he is still a reformist and radical. Is the mentor from Earth?"

After having reasonable doubts, Lu Pingan turned to the next book "Trading Theory".

"Uh, isn't this a shortened version of Das Kapital? Who could be so boring and fooling around? The author's signature is 'mentor', uh, he must be from Dongguo. Uh, something's wrong, isn't this a bit too radical?"