Chapter 171 The Holleran Tour Group

The otherworldly Earthlings were scheduled to stay in Holleran for three days—upon closer inspection, such a schedule was quite tight. However, Hao Ren couldn't arrange their itinerary solely according to his own interests, because an insurmountable deadline limited the maximum duration these "border crossers" could stay: the endurance of the Wall of Reality. He had to make sure these people experienced several "key points," including the planets Holleran, Tanagus, and Aioi, within the limited time, while also ensuring the drone swarm completed full data collection. Beneath the seemingly relaxed and casual journey lay a meticulously designed, massive project. From this perspective, Hao Ren's dedication to this operation was genuine.

Of course, the ghastly name "Sunset Red Homecoming Tour" would be set aside for the moment...

The Holleran royal family's cooperation with this event was a pleasant surprise, even unexpected to Hao Ren. He hadn't anticipated that His Majesty Moron would attach so much importance to it. But in reality, after the Earthlings arrived, they all received a warm reception arranged by the royal family and were accompanied by carefully selected guides throughout their stay. Holleran even specially opened a batch of galleries and museums for these "otherworldly compatriots" to visit, things that obviously couldn't be prepared casually.

Aofra wore a proud expression when discussing these matters: "His Majesty, who is usually stingy, was quite generous this time. He organized the best team of scholars to analyze and rehearse the entire process, and then used the best resources to implement them. We temporarily opened or built a total of six galleries and four museums. To ensure a comprehensive display, many of the collections in the museums and galleries were borrowed from the great nobles. There was even an armillary sphere inherited from the ancient magic empire, a treasure from the royal vault; we mobilized the nobles of the royal city, and more than a dozen families provided their family manors or villas to accommodate the guests; we also recruited a large number of artisans and scholars, many of whose skills and knowledge have been almost lost in modern times. You could hardly find them all together anywhere else but in this ancient kingdom."

"Your level of attention to this matter is a little beyond my expectations," Hao Ren admitted, while looking up at a point not far away: this was the Mage District. A small group of representatives from the Athens Sanctuary were observing the operation of the Mage Tower under the guidance of two royal mages. They were clearly quite amazed by this enormous and incredible magical device, "Can you tell me why?"

"First of all, we must consider your attitude," Aofra glanced at Hao Ren, "Your influence on this world is significant. Even the king cannot ignore this fact, but the more important reason is the second point: a kingdom has its dignity. You can call it a vanity project, but it does have practical significance for a country."

She paused, her lips slightly curving upwards: "There is not only one country on this planet—although Holleran is the most powerful kingdom, there is still an empire in the north of the continent that can stand on equal footing with it. So Holleran must find a way to maintain its advantages and status, and to maintain these, some longer-term investments are needed. In our eyes, the people you brought today are worth investing in."

Hao Ren thought for a moment and shook his head slightly: "Luckily, I don't do politics."

The female marshal still had her own business to attend to, so after a few casual words, she bid farewell and left. Hao Ren, feeling bored, began to wander around.

The hundred-person tour group had already separated after entering the city, and were assigned to different tour routes according to their respective races. As a tour group, their numbers were not small, but for a city, they were still as insignificant as a drop of water in the ocean. So, after dispersing, these people quickly integrated into all parts of the royal city. However, Hao Ren knew the general distribution range of these people. With a purposeful search, he could still occasionally encounter the Earthlings who were visiting everywhere.

Most of the Earthlings were busy carefully observing this world, comparing everything here with their lives on Earth, or learning the knowledge of their Holleran counterparts to make up for their lack of cultural traditions and other aspects. There were also many people everywhere scavenging for books and magical items. These things might be ordinary items that could be bought in the streets and alleys of the city, but for the Earthlings, they were clearly quite valuable.

Queen Katrina and her sisters particularly agreed with this.

The Siren ladies were an eye-catching bunch wherever they went. Although they had retracted their sea serpent tails after entering the city to avoid causing panic among ordinary people, their chattering and their antics of taking pictures everywhere were still quite attention-grabbing. Katrina held a selfie stick and toured the entire commercial district of Holleran, capturing countless bewildered royal city guards and patrolling knights in her lens, leaving behind headshots that would inevitably be recorded in history. The Siren female officers brought by Her Majesty carried large packages and small bags, sweeping through all the street vendors and small shops. Hao Ren gave each of the aliens a sum of "travel expenses," which were specifically used in Holleran. The other alien families exchanged these funds for magic books, potion recipes, history books, and alchemy materials. The Sirens turned them into shiny beads, metal bracelets, embroidered bags, and all kinds of weird dark cuisine (scientifically known as local snacks). It was unclear why these elemental creatures, who had almost no sense of taste, were so enthusiastic about eating. The snacks they swallowed were basically just broken down into various elements by the water element, but they were happy to visit the snack street...

Sirens are truly a race that loves to travel...

This group of guys, who came to another world for the first time, tossed and turned until almost midnight, and finally went to various "settlement points" inside and outside the royal city under the arrangement of the accompanying staff. As Aofra said, the nobles responded to the call and provided more than a dozen manors and villas to receive these visitors who were of special significance to the kingdom. Therefore, the Earthlings were divided into more than a dozen groups according to their respective races or representative forces: this also just prevented them from fighting when they lived together.

Becky was also one of the "progressive nobles" who responded to the call—this was almost a matter of course—her suburban manor was the largest, so the most people were arranged to stay there. All the demon hunters and Sirens were arranged to be on her side.

Even at night, the Sirens, who had been excited all day, showed no signs of calming down. They began to exchange the photos they had taken during the day and the rare gadgets they had purchased. However, Katrina did not participate this time. She came to Hao Ren with a solemn expression, which stunned Hao Ren on the spot: this Siren Queen was still a race leader after all. After leading her subordinates to make a fuss for a day, she finally came to discuss serious business with him?

As a result, his expression only became serious for a few seconds, and Katrina handed over a whole box of power banks and camera batteries: "Where can I charge them when they run out of power?"

Hao Ren slapped his forehead: He really shouldn't have expected the integrity of these deep-sea saltwater fish...

"Speaking of which, you guys have a lot of modern commodities in the deep sea," Hao Ren's eyes twitched as he looked at the various batteries and mobile phone chargers in the Siren Queen's hand, "And mobile phones... Can you get a signal down there?"

"We're about to solve this problem," the Siren Queen said with a straight face, "We have deeply realized that isolation from the world will lead to lagging behind the times, so we have been working hard to catch up during this time. I have a plan to extend the antenna of Nasaton out of the sea, first connect the deep-sea city to 4g, and then consider laying fiber optic cables in the city. Now we have prepared submarine generators and mobile phone base stations, and we just need to figure out how to get a signal from the human mobile network..."

Hao Ren looked at this queen who was keeping up with the times in a daze, and after a long time, he awkwardly said, "Ahem...actually, you can ask the people of the Shadow Council for help. Many of their families operate industries in human society. Wouldn't it be all set if you rented an offshore drilling platform from them?"

Katrina immediately agreed: "Ah! What you said makes so much sense!"

"Leave the charging to Vivian," Hao Ren shook his head, took the box of chargers and batteries from the Siren Queen, and then handed them over to Vivian, who was whispering something to Nangong Wuyue next to her, "Help charge them."

Thus, the Sirens were deeply shocked by the "ancient vampire's" bat swarm charging method.

And just after solving the problem with the Sirens, Hao Ren heard another exclamation from the direction of the fireplace: "Wow! Why is there wifi in this place?!"

He turned his head and saw Bai Huo holding his mobile phone and staring with wide eyes, with an expression as if he had seen a ghost.

"Nonsense, Becky's house is my base of operations in Holleran," Hao Ren rolled his eyes, "Congratulations on finding your basic life-sustaining element—let me tell you, this place is the only wifi hotspot on the entire planet, with two sets of cross-world communication antennas propping it up here."

Bai Huo couldn't hear Hao Ren's next words at this time, and just happily started to connect to the Internet to play games, while "Magic Emperor" Lorissa, who was sitting opposite Bai Huo, was a little dazed: she was just busy telling the demon hunters from Earth about the Holy Flame and the design ideas of the early demon hunters, and then Bai Huo suddenly jumped up...

"Is this the genius in your younger generation who is most proficient in the Holy Flame?" the Magic Emperor's copy asked hesitantly.

Hassou silently glanced at Bai Huo and reached out to grab the other party's mobile phone: "No playing games during class!"

Bai Huo: "..."