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Chapter 324 What is this?

Sun Chuanting's eyes widened, and he rubbed his eyes with both hands, as if he couldn't believe it.

I saw a series of lanterns hanging on both sides of the main street of Haizhou City, illuminating the surrounding area as if it were daytime.Pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages can travel unimpeded with the help of this light.

"Luxury, extravagance!" Sun Chuanting said angrily, "How can you light so many candles and consume a mountain overnight? What a waste. Our Ming Dynasty doesn't have enough money and food to relieve the disaster, but you..."

The soldiers in charge of protecting them looked at each other, then laughed with relief.

"Haha, my lord, what kind of lantern is this? This is an electric lamp, also called a street lamp. It was installed only in the last few months. It can help illuminate without candles." The team leader laughed.

"What electric light? Lightning can also be used as a lantern?" Sun Chuanting wondered.

"If you don't believe me, come and have a look."

"I want to see it carefully!" Sun Chuanting still couldn't believe that this lighting thing doesn't need candles, can it be made with lightning?
He got out of the carriage, and walked with small steps to a street lamp.This street lamp was hung above an iron pillar, and the dazzling light dazzled Sun Chuanting who looked directly at it.

"Ah, my eyes..." Sun Chuanting stared at the street lamp for four or five seconds before he couldn't bear the strong light.

But in just four or five seconds, he could clearly see that the street lamp was not filled with candles, and even a mere candle could not emit such a strong light.

"My lord, this thing is as bright as the sun. Don't look directly at it, otherwise it will hurt your eyes." The soldier hurriedly dissuaded Sun Chuanting.

Sun Chuanting covered his eyes with his hands and rubbed them. Tears overflowed, and he felt better: "I feel better. What is this? Why can it emit such a strong light without candles and without flames?"

"The villain has already said that this thing is an electric light, and the specific villain does not know how it is lit. However, this thing does not light up during the day, and it only shines at night when the night is dark, which is a guide for night walkers Road," said the soldier.

"There is such a miraculous thing in Liaodong? I'm really curious, what does this thing use instead of fire?" Sun Chuanting still looked at the electric light unwillingly, but he felt a dazzling pain again.

"My lord, please follow us to the inn. If you are interested, maybe after you see our military leader, you can ask the military leader for details." The soldier said.

"Okay, lead us to the inn." Sun Chuanting couldn't figure it out. Continuing to entangle will only increase the pain. Let Chu Yun solve the doubts in his heart when the time comes.

A group of people came to the inn in Haizhou City.The electric lights for civilian use have not been used in the inn, and candles are still lit inside.The unique dim light of the candle made Sun Chuanting and other people who came from the pass breathed a sigh of relief. The candle, which had never been cared about before, made them feel so kind.

"Haizhou City has really changed a lot in ten years. I don't know him anymore, I don't know him at all." The driver who drove the car shouted.

Before he entered Haizhou City, he realized that Haizhou City had undergone tremendous changes. When he entered the city and was illuminated by the street lights, he was dumbfounded and couldn't tell the north from the south, let alone Haizhou where he had left for 13 years. city.

"Guys, you stay here. Don't go out at night, otherwise we will be held accountable for any serious trouble." The escort team leader sent them into their respective rooms.

"Thank you." Sun Chuanting closed the door.

Everything in the house is similar to the inn in Guannei, making Sun Chuanting more comfortable.Finally, I didn't see anything strange.

Sun Chuanting shook his head, came to the desk, picked up a brush, and recorded what he saw and heard today.

"...there is a thing called an electric lamp, which is better than a lantern. The streets are like daytime. It's strange... People here have extremely dangerous thoughts. They don't seem to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country. They distort Confucianism at will, which is really heresy..."

While writing, Sun Chuanting felt that even he didn't believe it, as if he was writing strange stories such as "Shan Hai Jing".

"I don't know if my sage will think I'm crazy if I submit such a memorial to the sage after I return to the capital." Sun Chuanting closed the completed record and carefully hid it in his clothes.Then fell asleep with an extremely complicated mood.

In the early morning of the next day, the team leader in charge of escorting them knocked on the door one by one to wake them up, first went down to the first floor of the inn to finish their meal, and then led them to Jinzhou City.

"Soldiers, don't we take the carriage?" Sun Chuanting said that the soldiers who escorted them took them to Jinzhou City on foot, and couldn't help being curious. Far away, by walking, when will it be reached?"

"We don't want to walk to Jinzhou. Haizhou Railway Station is just outside Haizhou City. We will walk to the railway station and wait for the train from Liaodong City to Jinzhou City. We will get on the train, and we can arrive in less than half a day." Jinzhou City." said the captain of the escort.

Another train.Sun Chuanting murmured in his heart, this time he couldn't bear it anymore.

"Master Bing, what is this train?"

"Hey, why do you have so many questions as an adult? I don't know how to explain it to you." The captain said, "You just follow us, seeing is believing."

"All right……"

Sun Chuanting and others followed them to the outside of Haizhou City with doubts.Haizhou Railway Station is less than five miles away from Haizhou City.The reason why it is set up outside the city is that it is afraid of disturbing the residents in the city.

Haizhou Railway Station is just a simple station, a halfway station with only platforms on both sides.

Sun Chuanting and others stood on the platform, and there were also some wealthy people or businessmen who came to the platform in the early morning.They may be the first passengers to take the train in this world.

"What is the iron block here?" Standing on the platform, Sun Chuanting couldn't help wondering when he saw the railway tracks crossing between the platforms, leading to the distance in the early morning mist.

"This is the railway track, and the train runs on it, which is equivalent to the road to the carriage." The leader of the escort team replied earnestly.

"Oh..." Sun Chuanting half understood.

The rest of the passengers waiting for the train looked at this group of people from the corner of their eyes like countrymen.Trains are nothing new in the big cities of southern Liaoning and eastern Liaoning.

After a while, as the ground in the distance began to tremble slightly, on the ground level in the distance, first a string of black smoke billowed and swayed up, and then a black iron dragon came swiftly along the railroad tracks.

"Giant... huge dragon...!" Sun Chuanting's servants and a group of envoys around them were so frightened that they almost knelt on the ground when they saw the black dragon spraying clouds and mist.

Even Sun Chuanting's body was trembling. He wanted to take a step to escape from here, but found that he couldn't use any strength.

　There is another chapter later, and I have to resume the third watch if I stay up late. .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)