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MTL - Overturned Tower-v2 Chapter 22 It's live chicken!
Today, there are many people living on this island of rebirth.
There are about a hundred thousand people, all of whom are from Yongquan Island.
They even formed a small town here.
Relying on the supplies provided from Yongquan Island, the rural life here is considered stable and peaceful.
There is a gold mine on the island, along with associated copper and nickel mines. Half of the islanders are miners, the rest are farmers, fishermen and hunters, and only a handful of artisans and merchants. The islanders here are not even complete with prosthetic bodies... The inferior and the strangulation have gone all the way, and even less than one-tenth of them have seen prosthetic bodies equipped on their bodies.
This remote island is also wired and able to meet the basic needs of life. Just because it is far away from the sky island, there is really no network.
Only in the port closest to the sea and on the empty boat pad, can I barely connect to the wireless network from Yongquan Island.
When the inferior arrived here, he was still a little uncomfortable for a while—it was the first time he saw a clean field of vision that was completely unobstructed by any advertisements, information, and push notifications, and it was also the first time he breathed such fresh air.
It was also the first time he realized that there were so many bugs in places with dense vegetation and lakes.
This was the first time he was bitten by a mosquito since he was born. During the ten hours he stayed on Quanliu Island, he saw more than ten times more types of insects than he had seen in his life.
Moreover, the leaves here are not elastic, and can be easily torn with fingernails. There is even a kind of worm growing in the bark that makes the scalp of the inferior one tingle.
And the inside of the leaf is not dry, but wet and juicy. It's a slightly sweet and slightly bitter taste... a bit like tea, but with a less pleasant aroma.
This is the first time that the inferior has seen the appearance of "chicken" in biological form-although similar knowledge will start to be taught in biology classes at the university, the inferior has never been to school. Raw food is a luxury, which means that it requires a lot of space to breed, and the living space on the empty island is extremely limited.
The gas exchange on the empty island does not rely on plants, but on the "earth" under their feet. Under the ground is not soil, but many pipes. It also includes water bodies and gas exchange pipes, so that they can continue to breathe sufficient and clean oxygen by means of this method.
And "plants" are already a luxury. If you want to plant trees, you must first have your own single-family yard, and then you must have a relationship to buy tree species. This may not necessarily be able to support... As for raising birds, cats, dogs, etc., it is basically the treatment that only retired company executives can enjoy. Especially those rich people who have no heirs, they will keep pets instead of having children.
Plants on Sky Islands are synthetic, decorative "architectures" with only empty shells. And if there are no plants, there will be no bugs, and then there will be no birds. Without birds and fish, there would be no wild cats. If there are no wild varieties, it means that everything must be cultivated, and the source is completely monopolized.
Because of this, on Sky Island, whether it is pets, seeds, saplings or live livestock cubs, all are "specialties" imported from Taoyuan Island. When they are sold, they have already been processed-whether they are cats, cats, dogs, or chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, they are all sterile. Just like the seeds they bought, there is only one crop, and if you want it, you have to buy it again.
And let's not mention the cargo capacity of the airship... This kind of goods with an absolute monopoly and a very single source, no matter what the purchase price is, will have to go through second-hand traffickers again after waiting for other sky islands. After that, the market price has nothing to do with the import price. Anyway, it is absolutely impossible to buy directly at the import price.
you can say it this way…
In Happy Island, it may cost a lot less to raise a little girl whose soul relative is a cat than to raise a real cat. As for the luxury of "real chicken and fruit", it can only be eaten in "Peach Blossom Spring" in Happy Island.
The strangulation and the bad guys stayed here for one night because the "natural food" here is so cheap - they only sell it for the price of a gold bar, and they can eat it straight away. Not just real chicken and fish, but real pork and live rice grown in the fields. With the rest of the money, I can bring a few apples to eat on the road.
What confuses the poor is that this kind of bone that grows in real chicken is really inconvenient to eat. And the real fish is a creature that is very difficult to eat... It is different from the fish on the empty island. It has a kind of thin cartilage that seems to have to be picked out to eat the meat. The synthetic fish steaks and fried chicken on Sky Island do not have these "impurities".
And when the bad guys carefully pick out all the "fishbone", the meat will be cold. And the rest of the meat is not enough to eat-this seems to be a kind of entertainment for the rich to pass the time. Aside from being a bit salty, the taste of this fish seems to be no better than fish steaks... There is also a fishy smell that makes the poor frown.
The strangulation is smooth to eat. Although it was the first time to eat fish, his relatives seemed to have some kind of instinct.
His tongue is barbed, perfect for licking off fish. Those who are inferior will see that strangling and eating fish is like eating a lollipop, and the fish can be easily pulled out. As for the bones of chicken, strangling is to bite off and chew, and eat K
After the meal, they also bought a lot of fruit.
It's different from Sky Island...the apples here are pitted, hard and bitter.
After the first bite, the bad one hit the teeth directly. But he spat out the apple core without a teacher... while Hang Shui frowned, chewed the apple core and swallowed it.
In general, besides the surprises when eating food... especially the rice, it seems to have a unique, sweet aroma. And other "natural foods" don't seem to be so good.
After just eating it once, they have little interest. Natural food, compared with their synthetic food that has been continuously optimized and adjusted, the quality gap is really too big.
The most regrettable thing for the inferior is that he only saw live chickens, but not live "deer". When he was young, he also curiously inquired about the animal form of his relatives...but basically there were only pictures and very few videos. On the contrary, videos of kittens, puppies, rabbits, and birds are easier to see online.
And it seems that because the curse here has not been removed, after arriving here, strangulation began to sneeze continuously.
Immediately afterwards, he began to cry, runny nose, red eyes, dry and itchy throat, dizziness, headache, and weakness in limbs... Then his skin itched, and many rashes appeared. He didn't fall asleep after being strangled all night, and his temper became much more irritable. The bad guy wants to take him to see a doctor, but Hang Hang doesn't believe in the ability of this kind of doctor who has no internet and no prosthetic body. He decided to go to Yongquan Island to see it again, so he just endured it.
They stayed up until the early hours of the morning, and Strangler even felt his body temperature rise-he seemed to have a fever.
After taking a boat away from Quanliu Island, the symptoms of strangulation gradually eased a lot.
Stretching lying in the room on the ship, he also slowly recovered a little bit of spirit.
But then, it was the bad guy who started to have problems again—if it wasn't for the strong willpower controlling his body, he almost vomited out shortly after boarding the boat, and he couldn't even stand still. He felt that his teeth and antlers were numb due to lack of blood, followed by numbness in his fingers... His mind was swollen, and he could only barely feel better when he knelt on the deck and pressed tightly against the ground.
This seems to be a disease called "seasickness". According to the captain, it is related to everyone's balance ability. And this caused the inferior to be strangled with eyes still a little red, rubbing his eyes and laughing hard at the same time.
The captain said that this is because the shock absorbers and floating devices of the floating boat are too strong, so some people will not get used to it when they come to the deck that will shake strongly for the first time. It would be better to say that strangulation is a very small number of people who can fully adapt to the boat for the first time.
But fortunately, this is a very common situation, so Captain Enthusiastic also prepared specific medicines.
And he didn't take money from them for strangling them, but he generously gave the inferior one a pill. This "powerful seasickness medicine" from ampoule biomedicine, just after taking it for a short while, he felt much better.
But even so, his abdomen was still very uncomfortable. The nausea that kept coming to his heart made his face pale as paper. He tensed his face and kept staring at him. He could barely maintain his dignity without saying a word. But strangled felt a lot better after staying away from Quanliu Island, and fell on the boat in a daze.
fell asleep. After waking up, his "curse" symptoms improved a lot.
Although the rash on the skin still exists, the eyes are still dry, red and swollen, and the limbs are still weak... But at least the fever subsides, and the sneezing is gone~www.novelbuddy.com~ The two of them have been tossing all the way to Yongquan Island.
By the time they arrived, both of them had basically lost half their lives.
They don't care about connecting with the members of the Fuji Society here, and they don't care about visiting Yongquan Road... Instead, after the inferiors are connected to the Internet, they exchange money from the "gold store" of Thoth's spiritual power closest to the port. I paid some money, and then found the nearest place to sleep - strangling can still sleep after eating, but the poor ones can't eat anything at all.
He tossed and turned and still couldn't fall asleep... He had already arrived at Yongquan Island, but he was still feeling the ups and downs of the boat in his mind; he was already firmly on the ground, but he felt that the ground under his feet was still undulating . Even if he stood still, he could still feel the whole world fluctuating.
In the end, he still couldn't bear the vague feeling of vomiting. He simply vomited out all the expensive natural food that he spent half a gold bar on, and drank some white porridge to fill his stomach, which made him feel a little better.
By the time they woke up, it was already night.