Lu Heng walked along the ancient street with the director. When it was completely dark, he glanced at his phone. The time displayed on the phone was also past seven in the evening. It seemed that the time here should be the same as the outside world.
In the apocalypse, Lu Heng wore only comfortable sneakers for convenience when going out. At this moment, his sneakers stepped on the bluestone pavement, and the sound was not loud, but on the quiet street, even this small sound seemed very abrupt.
After walking for a while, Lu Heng glanced at the cloth banner on the side. He was currently in the eastern part of the city and had already passed two blocks. It seemed that this area should be full of shops.
Because these houses were hung with various cloth banners outside, the banner hanging where Lu Heng was currently located read, "Jixiang Wine Shop."
It seemed that this shop was a place that sold wine. Lu Heng tried to push the closed door, but the shop door did not move at all.
This shouldn't be. According to reason, he should be able to enter all parts of the space. Why couldn't he even push open the door of this shop?
As he thought this, Lu Heng's location changed. He was no longer standing on the bluestone-paved street. He was standing in a wooden room filled with the rich aroma of wine.
He had entered?
Lu Heng took out a powerful flashlight. Under the illumination of the flashlight, he gradually saw the entire room clearly.
On one side of the room was a waist-high counter. The entire wall behind the counter was fitted with staggered wooden shelves, on which were placed some not-too-large ceramic jars.
Opposite the counter, in the open space, were two square tables. They looked very ancient. Although the square tables had no elaborate carvings, their workmanship appeared very fine.
Lu Heng walked to the table and reached out to touch it. The tabletop was very clean and had been polished to be very smooth. He couldn't feel any rough spots even on the corners of the table.
Then Lu Heng looked at the wooden benches placed beside the wooden tables. This style of wooden bench was rarely seen in modern restaurants, as modern people preferred to sit in individual seats. Even when sitting on one side of a table, they would have two separate chairs.
The entire room was not large. Besides the two sets of tables and chairs placed by the counter, there was only a cleared space in front of the counter outside.
Under the illumination of the powerful flashlight, Lu Heng walked around the counter to the back.
Because of the half-human-high counter blocking his view, Lu Heng only saw the situation inside after going around to the back. The area behind the counter was about the same size as the area where the tables were placed in the front. Besides some jars placed on the walls, there were also many large jars placed on the floor inside the counter.
And the rich aroma of wine was emanating from these large jars.
Lu Heng unsealed a jar, and the aroma of the wine inside spread out even more directly. Lu Heng found a glass cup and poured some wine from the jar. Under the illumination of the flashlight, the amber liquid swirled in the glass cup.
Lu Heng brought the cup to his nose and sniffed it. The alcohol content should not be high, but the aroma of the wine was rich. This was something that many blended white wines in modern society could not match.
Finding a glass bottle, Lu Heng filled it with some wine. He dared not try to taste it rashly. He would take it back and find a place to test its composition.
He estimated that his city should have departments like the Bureau of Quality and Technology Supervision, which would definitely have instruments that could test the composition of items.
Lu Heng put away the glass bottle filled with wine and then carefully observed the room again. Soon, he found the main door of this place.
Looking at the door, he realized why it couldn't be opened from the outside. This door was the most primitive type of door panel, inserted into the door frame on all sides. Therefore, it definitely couldn't be pushed open.
So, if he wanted to enter these shops and rooms again, he would probably have to use his mind to enter and exit.
Leaving the wine shop, Lu Heng continued along the street. There were many types of shops here, various restaurants, inns, and general stores...
Lu Heng went into every shop and looked around. He took one portion of any food or specialty items he could get and put them back into his apartment in the space.
When Lu Heng encountered a clothing shop, he even went in and picked out a few sets of clothes that he could wear.
Looking at the styles of the clothes, they seemed to be similar to Hanfu. Lu Heng didn't understand the specific way to wear them, but he picked out a few that looked suitable. He found a few items like cloaks, short tunics, straight robes, and yisafang that he could wear.
What surprised Lu Heng was that after he took those few pieces of clothing, another identical set appeared in its original position. It seemed that he could take things from here freely.
Therefore, when Lu Heng walked to a "Jewelry Pavilion" that sold accessories, he was even less polite. He took a set of anything that looked good.
Ah, this feeling of "zero-dollar shopping" was too great!
Walking and stopping, Lu Heng felt like he had been wandering for a long time. Even a straight man who disliked shopping had wandered on this ancient street for a long time and picked out many good things.
Unknowingly, Lu Heng spent several hours just shopping. Looking at the time, it was not enough for him to visit those larger residences. He decided to find an inn to wait.
After shopping for half a day, Lu Heng also felt a bit hungry. He summoned his pets and flashed into a room in an inn.
Then he gave his pets an extra meal. Usually, in the previous city space, because the time flow was too slow, the pets hardly felt hungry. Lu Heng fed them according to the real-world time.
At this moment, perhaps because of the temporal changes in this ancient city space, Lu Heng gradually felt hungry. He found two hamburgers for himself. These were convenient to eat and tasted good. Soon, the hamburgers, along with the ancient well water, filled his stomach.
Lying on the wooden bed in the inn, Lu Heng stared at the time on his phone. When the phone indicated that it was two in the morning, Lu Heng took his pets and found a secluded alley.
As Lu Heng's thoughts changed, he felt a lot of information suddenly appear in his mind. This information was very strange, something he had never heard of in his previous world.
Standing in the secluded alley, Lu Heng took a while to absorb the information. Through this information, Lu Heng could be sure that he had come to another new world.
Here, he could occasionally hear the sound of the night watchman striking the hour in the distance, and he could also hear the growls of wild beasts from the adjacent alley.
But the buildings here had not changed. The surrounding houses and the stone slab roads indicated that he was still in the ancient city, and in a real ancient city.
There were many creatures in this ancient city, including the sound of people coughing, the low growls of wild beasts, and the sound of the night watchman striking bamboo tubes.
Lu Heng summoned the golden eagle and asked it to reconnoiter the situation from high above. He was eager to understand this unusual world.