Colorful cultural life

Parnacian Holy Roman Empire

It was another beautiful morning. Rui Yang stretched and sat up from the bed.

It has been a month since she came to Parnaky as an exchange student. Compared with the initial discomfort, she has now become completely accustomed to the life in Parnaky away from technology.

"Good morning." Liu Xiaoyun's voice came from inside the room, but not from the bed next to hers.

Rui Yang was stunned for a moment. Her familiarity with Liu Xiaoyun made her sigh helplessly: "Don't tell me you didn't sleep all night again."

"It's not that exaggerated." Liu Xiaoyun turned another page of the book in her hand and quickly scanned the paper. The draft paper pressed by the book was densely written with complex Parnac words, mixed with scientific calculation formulas that did not belong to this world: "I slept for six hours."

"Magic Alchemy is just a minor course for us. Aren't you trying too hard?" Rui Yang pressed his left hand on the bed rail and landed on the ground as nimbly as a bird. "You won't grow taller if you keep going like this."

"I'm already eighteen years old, there's no need for me to grow taller." Liu Xiaoyun said without raising her head: "And I don't think it's very hard. Potions is very interesting. Learning this is a kind of relaxation for me."

Rui Yang: "...I really don't know how to respond to what you said."

She quickly took the pen from Liu Xiaoyun's hand and said, "You went to bed at 11 o'clock yesterday, which means you have been studying for five hours straight! If you continue like this, your body will not be able to take it!"

Rui Yang closed the book before Liu Xiaoyun could refuse. "Today is already the third day of the long vacation. It's fine if you don't sleep in and get up early every day to study. Don't you want to spend some time to accompany your poor roommate and go out for a walk?"

Rui Yang frowned and looked pitiful, which made Liu Xiaoyun laugh: "Who is older between the two of us?"

Having said that, Liu Xiaoyun still stood up cooperatively. Although she would rather stay in the house to study than go shopping, she hadn't been out for three days, so it was time to find some time to bask in the sun.

Liu Xiaoyun's actions had already answered the question. Rui Yang cheered, "Don't worry, you will definitely like today's arrangement!"

"Aren't we going to the commercial district?" Liu Xiaoyun was a little curious.

Rui Yang raised a finger and shook it, saying mysteriously: "It's a bit boring to go shopping in Agulo during the holiday. Don't ask so many questions, just wait for the surprise I have prepared for you~"

...

After having a simple breakfast in the restaurant, Rui Yang brought Liu Xiaoyun to the teleportation crystal located in the southeast of the school.

Unlike Earth, Parnaji has a variety of convenient means of transportation. But the rich magic can make up for the gap in science, such as the "teleportation crystal" in front of us.

It is said that the teleportation crystal was invented 427 years ago by August Taplo, the first genius in the history of the Magicians Association.

But for Rui Yang, this genius has a more familiar name - Xiao Shichuan.

As someone who knew Xiao Shichuan's identity as a time traveler, Rui Yang knew from the first moment he saw the teleportation crystal that it must have been designed by Xiao Shichuan with reference to a certain mobile game on Earth - it looked like a teleportation anchor point no matter how he looked at it.

But imitating the game's look is one thing, and being able to materialize it is another.

Reality is not like in games, where only programs and coordinate points are needed to complete the movement of characters. The teleportation crystal requires the maker to rely purely on magic and his own computing power to create a model of the entire world in the sea of ​​consciousness and establish coordinate points. After the second teleportation crystal is made, it is positioned based on the first crystal as the standard, and the space channel is created using the magic energy of the space crystal. After reinforcement and stabilization, a space transmission channel is considered to be arranged.

The more teleportation crystals there are, the more difficult the setting will be.

There are only a few space magicians in the world who can perform such a difficult operation. Therefore, even in a top international city like Aguro, apart from the school's teleportation crystal, there is only one in the center of Aguro's commercial district.

Looking across the entire Parnaqui, there are only a few hundred of them at most.

For the caster, such a large project is undoubtedly fraught with difficulties. But for the user, the teleportation crystal is too convenient.

After selecting the place you want to go on the crystal screen made by the dwarf forging master (Du Heng), you only need to use a small piece of magic crystal to open the magic circle and you can easily reach your destination.

However, magic cannot handle too many people at the same time, and must be used in turns. Therefore, the area near the teleportation crystal is not much different from the transportation hub on Earth. While it is full of passengers, there are also vendors and shops everywhere... Considering that not everyone carries magic crystals with them, there are also shops nearby for purchasing.

Recently, it was a rare short holiday for Aguro Royal College. Except for a few students who chose to go home, most of the students wanted to take advantage of this rare holiday to have some fun. Therefore, there was a long queue at the teleportation crystal every day.

It just so happened that Rui Yang and other friends who had made an appointment had not arrived yet, so the two of them found a bookstall and prepared to flip through some magazines to pass the time.

Since coming to Parnaki, Rui Yang, who was not particularly interested in reading, has also fallen in love with reading - it's not that the books in Parnaki are better than those in China, or that she is so passionate about learning magic. It's just that the titles of the books on the Parnaki bookstall are too familiar.

It would be fine if magazines with relatively common names like "XX Weekly" and "Daily Finance", but "Playboy" and "Metropolis Beauty", two magazines with less well-known names, could also be put forward. When Rui Yang saw these two familiar names, "Story Collection" and "Reader", he almost couldn't maintain the expression on his face.

——You don’t even need to look to know that this is 100% from her brother’s group of stupid students.

Later, Rui Yang used the Parnaki version of the Little Genius watch her brother made for her to make a long-distance call (long-distance communication magic) and confirmed that all these magazines came from Zhao Yaya's media company.

Her brother also added a piece of gossip: these magazines are full of Class Nine’s aliases.

At least as far as Rui Yang knows, Zhao Yaya has opened a column in magazines like "XX Weekly" or "Daily Finance" that focus on social livelihood and financial matters, using her real name (Parnaki), and is considered an absolute authority on Parnaki-related professions.

Zhang Jiajia also has her own real-name columns in Playboy and City Beauty magazines, but she and her brand appear much more often in articles written by others than in her own articles.

These two fashion magazines have more than just fashion content. They are also the largest gossip weekly magazines in Parnacchi.

When Rui Yang went to the palace to chat with Ou Wenna not long ago, he heard Ou Wenna say something that sounded outrageous, but was very natural for her brother's group of stupid students.

Si Jishi's pen name "Parnaki Know-It-All" occupies half of the gossip columns.

I heard that the reason why Si Jishi was so popular in magazines with this pen name was because Si Jishi, who was a wandering poet all over the world, relied on his sometimes-manly and sometimes-womanly appearance to leave behind a lot of romantic relationships all over the world and gained considerable popularity.

These magazines were initially popular only among the nobility - after all, most common people were illiterate and had no time for entertainment; therefore, gossip related to Si Ji Shi often appeared in the magazines.

These noble ladies or noble gentlemen like to express their feelings in magazines, so when their gossips are posted in the gossip section, you can often see their true confessions to Si Jishi in the magazine confession column. The most exaggerated one was that five people confessed to Si Jishi at the same time, and each of them believed that they were the true love.

Therefore, it didn't take long for the confession column to change from the initial confession to a fight. As expected, Si Jishi was beaten up by Rui Hang again, and she behaved herself for decades.

It was during those decades of peace that Si Jishi felt that it was too boring to only see her name in gossip magazines, so she simply registered this pen name and began to write gossip about her classmates in Class 9. How much of this gossip was true and how much was false was unknown. But one thing is certain: since discovering this way of having fun, everyone in Class 9 registered a pseudonym and began to submit articles to the gossip magazines crazily, with the main focus being to spread rumors and hurt each other.

The reason why Class 9 now enjoys such a high reputation in the Parnaki Association is closely related to the rumors they created themselves.

The more exaggerated gossip includes, but is not limited to: the love triangle between the Queen of the Empire, Ovina, the Pope of the Temple of Destruction, and the Saint of the Temple of Life; the engagement between the former Prince of the Punit Kingdom, current bard Ilsaria (Sijishi), and the Son of the Saint of the Temple of Destiny; and there is also the rumor that the Dragon King of the Underworld is her brother's illegitimate son, and no one knows which audacious guy wrote it.

Of course, except for Si Jishi who focuses on gossip, most students would choose to submit articles to more serious magazines under a pseudonym.

In addition to Zhao Yaya and Zhang Jiajia, people like Shen Qiting would contribute travel notes to the travel magazine "Travel and Scenery" and would also open an astrology column in "Magic" magazine - it is said that this is also the most popular column in "Magic" magazine.

Although Xiao Shichuan is usually not serious, his name can be seen in the academic paper section of "Magic" magazine every year.

Bai Luo, as the most imaginative student in Class 9, also has his own column. However, it is not a magazine closely related to magic like "Magic" or "Mysticism". The Son of Destiny is not interested in reading people's fortunes, but is doing well in the story collection series, and has also started a novel series.

Later, because the story was so popular, Zhao Yaya specially set up a magazine for him to publish serial novels. The name was Bai Luoding, but it was not "Novel Painting" as Rui Yang initially thought, but "Bakery" - there is a well-known joke in Parnaki: the best stories are always in grandma's bakery.

——Of course Rui Yang had reason to suspect that this name was Bai Luo's implication of a certain four-character game grandmother's inexhaustible supply of bread.

...

Rui Yang and Liu Xiaoyun waited at the bookstall for about twenty minutes. They saw that half of the people in the queue had left and the remaining three people finally arrived.

"Sorry, we're late!" The long-haired girl in the lead panted, "We didn't expect there would be a traffic jam on the way to school. We can't use brooms outside the school, so we're so late. We're really sorry!"

The three of them were wearing dresses that were common in the Holy Roman Empire. The cinched waists and silhouetted skirts made them look very slender, like gorgeous flowers blooming in the morning sun.

——They were not Fang Yasi or other Chinese exchange students who were friends with Rui Yang. These three were all from Parnaki.

But at this moment, they stood together with Rui Yang and Liu Xiaoyun, being friendly and smiling sincerely, as if there had never been any barriers between them in terms of world and culture.

On their exposed wrists, they wore watches similar to those worn by Rui Yang and Liu Xiaoyun. Although Parnaki can make watches, they are limited to traditional wall clocks and pocket watches. It is unable to make exquisite wristwatches or mechanical electronic watches.

These watches came from Earth, but they were not friendship gifts from Rui Yang or Liu Xiaoyun. Instead, they were watches they asked the two to buy from Earth on their behalf.

In fact, wearing watches has become a trend in Agulo Royal Academy. Those who are capable will basically entrust exchange students to buy watches for them, or some technological products from Earth that do not need to be charged.

Electronic devices like the tablet used by Fang Yasi are also very popular among students. Unfortunately, they require too much charging and are not durable enough in Parnaki, which has not yet been electrified.

Although there were appliances such as power banks and solar chargers, Ouwena deliberately did not allow the trading of such items in order to whet the students' appetite, forcing the students to go back and urge their elders at home to quickly put the power grid infrastructure on the agenda.

It must be said that the emergence of technological products has greatly brought students from the two worlds closer together. Exchange students from Earth will also buy some magic props that can only be bought in Parnaki and send them back to China through official channels.

Let alone the older generation, at least among the younger generation, especially students, the props or supplies of the two worlds have undoubtedly become the focus of fashion. Looking around the world, no one wants the two worlds to accelerate integration and civilization exchange more than them.

The five of them lined up and chatted for a while before it was their turn to use the teleportation crystal.

"Where are we going?" Liu Xiaoyun asked curiously.

Rui Yang smiled and said, "Aren't you very interested in alchemy and medicine recently? There are many suitable materials in the Maya City at the junction of the Kingdom of Thor and the South County Island Federal Republic. My brother's student Chi Miaomiao is the city lord there - you should know her, right?"

Rui Yang said as he placed the magic crystal onto the machine.

"When I was writing to her a few days ago, she took the initiative to invite us to go over and play. I thought about what you said before that you wanted to go and collect materials yourself, so I agreed. Winnie and the others happened to be looking for materials for next week's group assignment, and when they heard that I was going to Maya City, they asked me if I could go with them..."

Before he finished speaking, his sight suddenly changed. When he opened his eyes again, he was in another city with a completely different style: "...I invited them to come together..."

Rui Yang's words were strangled in his mouth.

The Mayan city that was so lively and warm in my memory is now tense and panic-stricken.

Rui Yang: "...What happened?"

"Rui Yang is here?" A familiar female voice suddenly sounded in her ears. She turned her head stiffly and met Chi Miaomiao's delicate and free-spirited face.

"You are here..."

Chi Miaomiao wiped the blood off her cheek and said calmly, "It's not a big deal, it's just that the beast tide that comes once a year has come again. You guys find a place to sit for a while, and when I finish dealing with them, I'll go with you to find raw materials."

Rui Yang and the other five: "......"

Isn't this a big deal?!

Your tone is a bit too relaxed!