The Impeachment of the Emperor Bloodline was finally over, and Guhan won. After learning the source of the one million votes, Shi Jueyuan left the arena with a flick of his sleeve because he had to accept this result.
Fortunately, he had left the arena with a flick of his sleeve. If he had seen what happened next, he might have been so angry that he would have vomited blood.
It was a pity that the Impeachment of the Emperor Bloodline could only be used once every ten years. Otherwise, Shi Jueyuan would not have minded using it again.
Next, Guhan finally passed a relatively peaceful and harmonious period. He knew that the Eight Cities Conference was coming.
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At this time on Earth, some of the highways had become ruins, but there were still a few highways that maintained their relatively intact state. This was because these highways were still in use. Every two or three years, there would be maintenance on these highways to ensure that they were in basic use.
In the Yan Huang Country, there was only one such highway, and that was the Yanyu Highway.
As the name suggested, the Yanyu Highway was the highway that connected Yan Jing City and Yuzhang City.
The Yanyu Highway was a new highway formed by combining parts of several highways from before the apocalypse.
The surface of this highway was reinforced with dimensional crystal ore powder, so that ordinary Yuan Kou could not cause damage to this highway.
This highway was the only highway connecting Yuzhang City and Yan Jing City. Without any accidents, it would take about three days to reach Yan Jing City through this highway.
In fact, in general, this time would be extended to about five days, because this highway was a highway that needed to be repaired as one traveled.
Especially now, when Yuzhang City was surrounded, the Yanyu Highway had been severely damaged. Nearly 45 kilometers of the road had been completely destroyed. After 20 days of emergency repair, this highway had finally been restored to basic smoothness, and the pre-installed material communication between Yan Jing City and Yan Jing City was once again smooth.
At this moment, on the Yanyu Highway, there was a maglev train about 100 meters long traveling at a constant speed.
It looked like a train, but this train was traveling on the highway.
What was even more peculiar was that this train was not made up of sections, but a single piece, like a car.
Moreover, this train was very wide, about eight meters wide. The outside of the vehicle was wrapped in a thick layer of very tight armor, and it did not even look like a window. It was like an armored car.
This was the greatest human transportation invention after the apocalypse: the armored maglev train.
Everyone might not think that this was so great. Was it just installing an armored train with a maglev device?
Armoured trains had already been phased out before the apocalypse, okay?
Armored trains had indeed been eliminated before the apocalypse, but the problem was that there was no such thing as Yuan Kou before the apocalypse!
After the Great Calamity, only something as coarse and sturdy as the armored train could withstand the Yuan Shen's frenzied attacks.
According to practical tests, the latest model of armored maglev trains could ignore the direct attacks of dragon-class Primary Daos and below. His armor could withstand the attacks of Nether class Primary Daos for an hour, Meteor class Primary Daos for thirty minutes, and Universe class Primary Daos for three minutes.
Therefore, the armored maglev train was still a relatively safe mobile fortress, and it of the transportation of ordinary sword bers and ordinary people.
Generally speaking, the sword bearers used their own maglev flying cars to travel.
The maglev flying cars were fast and small, and they could travel through all kinds of complicated terrain. At the same time, they could rely on their own speed to get rid of most of the Yuan Kou's pursuit. Most importantly, they could be stored in their dimensional pocket, and they were the first choice of transportation for the sword bearers on small-scale trips.
However, the maglev flying cars consumed too much energy, and the cost of long-distance travel was too high. It might be the best choice for small-scale trips.
But when it came to large-scale trips, or when there was a need to transport a lot of heavy objects, the maglev flying cars would be useless. At that time, the armored maglev train would be the only choice.
This was the same principle before the apocalypse. The lowest cost of long-distance transportation of large quantities of goods was by sea. In places where there was no sea, the most economical way to transport goods was by train. No one would drive their own car to transport goods for someone else.
Yan Jing and Yuzhang City were the two headquarter cities that had the closest relationship. Every day, there would be a heavy transportation task between the two cities. Every three days, a train would depart from the two cities, filled with millions of tons of all kinds of resources. These were all resources that could not be produced in their own cities, so they had to be obtained from the other city.
It sounded a little scary. Before the apocalypse, the standard load of a 60-section, 1,500-meter long freight train was 3,600 tons. Even if it was overloaded, it wouldn't exceed 4,000 tons. How could this armored maglev train, which was only 100 meters long, carry millions of tons of goods?
Even if you could bear the weight, how could you pile up so many materials?
But in reality, an armored maglev train could indeed carry millions of tons. This was because the materials were not placed directly on the train, but in dimensional iron boxes.
A standard one cubic meter dimensional iron box had 1,500 cubic meters of space. This was equivalent to expanding the space inside the armored maglev train by a whole 1,500 times. An armored maglev train was equivalent to the load of 1,500 ordinary freight trains. How could it not carry millions of tons of materials?
Moreover, the production cost of a dimensional iron box was much lower than that of a dimensional pocket. The resources needed to produce a dimensional pocket could be used to produce ten dimensional iron boxes, and the space in a dimensional pocket was only one-tenth that of a dimensional iron box.
Unfortunately, human technology was still unable to make a breakthrough. The size of a dimensional iron box was limited to one cubic meter, and it could not change its shape as it pleased like a dimensional pocket.
This limited the use of dimensional iron boxes to transportation. It was impossible for a sword wielder to carry such a hindrance.
Originally, the transportation route between Yuzhang City and Yanjing City would have a train every three days. But ever since Yueyang Fortress had been breached, there had been no activity on the transportation route for a whole 60 days. Some of the materials between the two cities had become extremely scarce. After a period of repair, the armored maglev train between the two cities was filled with all kinds of urgently needed materials, and it was finally set to move again.
Normally, other than freight, the armored maglev train also carried passengers.
Some sword wielder who only wanted to go to Yanjing City, some weaker sword wielder, and some ordinary people would choose to take the armored maglev train to Yanjing City or Yuzhang City.
They would take up about 20 meters of space in the armored maglev train. This 20 meters of space was standard for armored maglev trains.
But this time, there was something special. The passenger compartment of the armored maglev train took up 50 meters of space.
This meant that a lot of precious and urgently needed materials were taken up, but there was nothing that could be done about it.
This was because this was the reopening of the armored maglev train after 40 days. No one knew what had happened on the highway during these 60 days. Perhaps many of the highways had already been destroyed by Yuan Kou. If that happened, the armored maglev train would need to stop and repair the roads.
When the armored maglev train stopped was the most dangerous moment. At that time, the defense of the armored maglev train was at its lowest, and it couldn't shake off the slower Yuan Kou. Therefore, a large number of sword wielder were needed to protect the armored maglev train. Therefore, the extra 30 meters of space was used to transport the sword wielder protecting the armored maglev train.
But other than the sword wielder protecting the armored maglev train, there were also some additional passengers on the train. They were the representatives from Yuzhang City to participate in the Eight Academies Conference.
A long time ago, it was mentioned that the academies of the eight base cities would hold a competition every year.
In the beginning, it was just to see how strong the younger generation of the eight base cities were, so that the higher-ups of the human race could have a sense of what was going on. It was an absolutely friendly thing.
But later on, this thing gradually changed. It became a competition between the eight base cities. They were competing on the potential of their cities, competing on the future of their cities. It could even decide the authority of the eight base cities' Sword Committee.
As a result, it became a competition that the eight base cities attached great importance to. Every year, each base city would send their most outstanding students to participate in the competition to strive for victory and glory for their base cities.
The August Conference should have started a month ago, but because of Yuzhang City, the conference was delayed by a month.
This was already a mercy from the Sword Committee. Therefore, when the armored maglev train was put into use again, this group of representatives immediately set off for Yan Jing City to participate in the Eight Academies Conference.
This group of representatives was led by Yuzhang University's Dean, the Tiger Spirit. There were three students participating in the competition: Guhan, Koo Rok-in, and a female sword wielder called Jin Yujia.
It was said that Jin Yujia was originally the fifth candidate, but because the third and fourth candidates had all died in the invasion, Jin Yujia had jumped up.
Apart from Guhan, Koo Rok-in and Jin Yujia were both sword wielder at the Treasure Sword Level.
Originally, Guhan didn't want to participate in the competition. He just wanted to go to Yan Jing City.
That was because it was somewhat shameless for Guhan to participate in the Eight Academies Conference as a sword wielder at the Famous Sword Level. This was because most of the participants in the Eight Academies Conference were sword wielder at the Treasure Sword Level. If Guhan participated in such a competition, he would be suspected of bullying the weak.
However, the Tiger Spirit insisted. Because Yuzhang City had been in the Lower Reaches for many years, its best result in the past ten years was only third place. This made the Tiger Spirit very embarrassed. Many people laughed behind his back that he didn't know how to teach disciples, even though he didn't know how to teach disciples in the first place.
For the sake of his own reputation, the Tiger Spirit almost knelt in front of Guhan and begged him to participate in the competition. In the Tiger Spirit's words:
The Eight Academies Conference was to test the strength of the younger generation of the eight base cities. It was to see which base city had the most potential.
Therefore, there was only one requirement for the participants, and that was that the participants had to be a sword wielder for less than a year. Other than that, there were no other restrictions. Even if they were Emperor Sword wielder, there would be no problem. Throughout history, many geniuses had participated in this competition as sword wielder at the Famous Sword Level. Guhan wasn't the first, so there was no need to worry at all.
Gu Han had already promised the Howling Tiger Sword Spirit to participate in the competition. After the Howling Tiger Sword Spirit persisted, Gu Han no longer refused and agreed.