The saying "Money can make the devil push the mill" is fully reflected in the game as a store owner NPC who only recognizes money.

After seeing the money in Lin Chi's hand, the bookstore owner, who had a disgusted face, suddenly began to show his diligence to him as if he had changed his mind.

Lin Chi spent only more than 100 yuan to buy a bunch of ancient books that were about to get mold, and then threw all the yellowed paper books into the gray cloth backpack I just bought from a roadside stall.

Since the background story of this game map is not as "easy" as the last time in Chaos City, what he planned to do is not to start killing immediately, but to first figure out the settings of the map.

So now, Lin Chi also walked into an ancient style hotel on the roadside, opened a single room, and began to read the books he had just bought from the "Cangjie Ancient Bookstore".

The candlestick on the wooden cabinet on the bedside exuded a leisurely light, illuminating the dark bedroom. Lin Chi lay on the bed, opened a book called "A Brief History of Ancients" and began to quickly browse the contents.

When he just opened the first page, his expression was still very "lazy", and he squinted his eyes and muttered lazily:

"oh……"

After reading a few more pages, Lin Chi's eyes suddenly widened and the smile on his face suddenly disappeared:

"Um?"

As he continued to read, he opened his mouth slightly and made a confused voice:

"ah?"

Ten minutes later, he was already in a state of confusion:

"what the hell?"

——Although I had long noticed that the world line of the map of the Ministry of Commerce City had deviated, even Lin Chi had never thought of this unexpected development before.

The records in the first part of this historical book are quite similar to the real ancient Chinese history: Emperor Yan Huang, King Wu defeated Zhou, and Qin destroyed the six kingdoms...

However, since the Three Kingdoms period, the situation has not been very different.

According to the records of this brief history, after Liu Bei's death, military advisor Zhuge Liang continued to march to the northern expedition for the last wish of the first lord, but he was unable to break the Wei State's defence.

As Zhuge Kongming became more and more laborious, his physical condition worsened. But this time, as his life was approaching, he did not find a way to continue his life. Instead, he tried his best to create a great invention that changed history by studying the ancient mechanisms handed down by the Mohist and Gongshuists:

This invention is called Feng Shui engine.

Lin Chi originally thought that the "Feng Shui Engine" was a spell-driven mechanism or something like that. However, according to the records in this historical book, the Feng Shui Engine was not an ordinary mechanism, but an ancient computer made of bronze, silk and sandalwood!

Although the Feng Shui engine could only perform the simplest addition calculations at the beginning, and was basically not much stronger than abacus, with the continuous improvement of craftsmen in later generations, its size began to shrink and its function became increasingly powerful.

To this day, Feng Shui engines have become "microcomputers" that can be built into various machinery and puppet figures!

Since there are no radios or other equipment in this world line, the remote communications carried out by people here are completed by borrowing the "spider web" buried underground and connecting the entire city.

By sensing the faint vibration of the silk thread, the Feng Shui engine can restore the other person's voice, and even reproduce the other person's appearance on another curtain through the shadow shape cast on the inside, completing an incredible "video call."

In other words, China, which is online in this world, skipped a historical stage without going through industrialization and forced itself to enter the information age!

As for the energy used by people in this era, in addition to firewood and coal, it mainly consists of wind and water energy. The blade turntable installed in the River of Death is not just a machine used to kill people, but also a simple "hydrogen generator".

With the continuous development of mechanism techniques, puppet dolls have also begun to become common things. Craftsmen installed small Feng Shui engines in the body of the puppet. These Feng Shui engines made the puppet make designated actions by manipulating the wooden joints and silk threads in the body of the puppet, which is also the operating principle of the puppet guards on the street.

"Damn, this black technology can only be done in the game..." Lin Chi sighed.

Even he didn't expect that the technology tree in this world would turn into this way.

Since he was not sure what was going on across the river, he began to read the later records of the Greek state on the other side of the river:

According to historical books, the ancient Greek science and technology trees were also very crooked. Their science and technology trees were offset by Archimedes and discovered through research on how to use solar energy...

As the science and technology trees in ancient China and ancient Greece shifted, the two countries quickly completed unification, and then began to expand rapidly at the same time in the "251st year of the Gregorian calendar", that is, around 500 AD.

With "black technology" beyond the level of contemporary technology, they swept through many countries along the way until the armies of these two countries encountered them in the city of the government.

Two extremely powerful armies launched a desperate battle along the river.

The war lasted for three years, and both sides lost a huge number of soldiers, but they still failed to decide the outcome. In the end, the two countries could only conduct peaceful negotiations and draw a new border with the rivers as the boundary.

As we are both on guard against each other, both countries have also begun to build new fortress cities along the river.

This originally deserted river beach has developed into a prosperous metropolis decades later. It is this game map - "Mechanism City"!

After reading this incredible "historical book", Lin Chi put down the wet pages casually and opened the window of the hotel. Suddenly, a howling cold wind mixed with snowflakes rushed into the room.

"Some players should be assigned to the opposite Greek controlled area, right?"

Lin Chi narrowed his eyes and stared at the blurry Greek city in the distance.

In his opinion, the players who line up this map should be randomly assigned to both sides of the river bank. If they were born on this side, it would be meaningless to design the Greek city on the other side.

So the question is - how should players pass through the river with giant "meat grinders" installed?

It seems that these two cities across the river are not connected to each other at all. However, the technology and architectural styles on both sides are "integrated", which is obviously the result of the investigation of each other's spies.

However, if players are completely unable to cross the river, then this death match will never be able to decide the winner.

In other words, maybe you can find something like a secret passage that can allow you to go to the Greek city across the river?

Thinking of this, Lin Chi closed the window and stuffed the "A Brief History of Ancients" into his backpack, then left the hotel and began to look for a weapon store along the way.

According to his speculation, this map should also have a mechanism similar to "full-band scanning". The battle between players will probably officially begin at dawn.

Before that, it is time to buy some reliable weapons and hire a few guards.
Chapter completed!