As the directly taught disciple of someone at the level of an academician like Lin Li, Wang Qiang had 'hitched a ride' at many meetings and scientific research tasks.

Therefore, for her, taking a plane was also a familiar matter.

Consequently, the number of times she observed cities on the ground from the airplane window was quite numerous too.

But it was her first time observing the layout of a giant city in another world from high altitude.

Ziqiong City covers a vast area, and perhaps due to the prevention of monsters, its layout is a standard square just like Chixian City, with walls erected on all sides.

At this moment, the altitude of the flying ship was less than two thousand meters from the ground, and with the assistance of a rangefinder, they could roughly estimate the length of the city walls—even though the precision was low due to the reference used, not to mention achieving meter-level precision, not even hundred-meter precision, but at kilometer level, the deviation shouldn't be too off.

According to Wang Qiang's estimation:

The length and width of Ziqiong City's walls are both close to fifteen kilometers, and its height far exceeds Chixian City's fifteen meters, reaching over forty meters!

After calculating this result, Wang Qiang started counting on her fingers again:

"Around fifteen kilometers in length and width, meaning the area is close to over two hundred square kilometers?

This city scale is probably larger than a typical prefecture-level city, right?"

Lin Ziming, being from Bin City, naturally compared it to his hometown, saying:

"I remember Bin City's urban area is also over two hundred square kilometers...more than two hundred forty or so, I guess it shouldn't be far off from Ziqiong City, and Bin City ranks in the top twenty among all the prefecture-level cities in Huaxia."

Wang Qiang tilted her head, resting her finger on her chin and said,

"But I remember Bin City has as many as over four million people, right? Ziqiong City seems to only have two million...."

Ma Ning, who had been resting his eyes, laughed upon hearing this and said,

"Comrade Xiao Wang, you're falling into a misconception here.

Think about it carefully, how many residential buildings are there in our current cities?

How many high-rises have you seen in the Damo Realm?

Spreading out the area of high-rise residences, a city of over two hundred million people occupying over two hundred kilometers is not surprising.

But generally speaking, the area of a city is often related to the distance that transportation tools can reach in a short time, so such a big city must have something unique in certain aspects."

Just as Ma Ning said,

Nowadays, the number of high-rise residential buildings in large cities in Huaxia is countless.

With five or six thirty-story communities calculated as four households per floor, accommodating a thousand or even two thousand residents isn't any pressure at all.

But in the Damo Realm, for various reasons, high-rise buildings are rare—at least among the people.

In 2017, the average residential building area per capita in Huaxia had reached 40.8 square meters, and as the most developed city within a radius of two thousand miles, Ziqiong City has an average residential plus office area reaching fifty to sixty square meters is still not a big problem (during the Qin Dynasty, the comprehensive average was about 52.4 square meters, Xianyang).

Sixty times two million equals 1.2 billion square meters, exactly 120 square kilometers.

The remaining eighty square kilometers for public city areas also fits well, as Ziqiong City doesn't have office buildings.

So Ziqiong City's land area is quite normal.

And what Ma Ning...or rather the rabbits really care about is....

In such a huge ancient city, how is the distribution of social forms and various basic living facilities precisely operating?

Of course, aside from the above points,

The rabbits have another matter of paramount importance:

Trade!

The flying ship docked at a flat area about eight kilometers outside the city, with a flat ground and a wide view.

In a way, it could be considered a helipad.

After the flying ship landed,

As soon as Lin Ziming walked out of the cabin and was about to inspect the surroundings, a large group of coachmen pulling Yi Qi carriages swarmed up. Not far away, more coachmen were gazing over:

"Boss, need a hauler?

Big carts that can carry five boxes in one go, flat price of one hundred copper, load and go!"

Lin Ziming: "..."

After he finally managed to shake off the group of coachmen, a few people dressed as principals approached.

Lin Ziming noticed that the principals seemed to be divided into two or three groups:

"Boss, selling goods?

We have a talisman workshop that urgently needs monster materials, offering you a premium of three points, cash payment, no need to go into the city!"

Lin Ziming's expression remained unchanged, but his heart quietly cried out:

Here it comes!

He roughly counted the number of these principals, found an excuse to escape, and returned to find Wei Qiangsheng who was unloading goods:

"Brother Qiangsheng, in the past, were there people buying goods right on the spot outside either?"

Wei Qiangsheng wiped the sweat off his forehead, glanced outside, and shook his head:

"I've come to Ziqiong City seven or eight times, never encountered this situation, each time a large area was freed up in Ziqiong City, we just set up stalls and wait for people to come and collect."

Lin Ziming nodded, Wei Qiangsheng had already mentioned before coming to Ziqiong City that they would designate a market area.

The market area is located in the northern direction of the city, opened every three to four years on average.

In some sense...

Such a market is somewhat akin to some local regular exhibitions.

Such a market is a best opportunity for direct material sales, many commerce associations or upstream merchants in the talisman industry would come to purchase resources during the market.

As the saying goes, every industry has its own regulations, and such 'blockades' outside the flying ship are generally rare.

In Ziqiong City, the only family capable of doing this is one.

At this moment, Lin Ziming had a vague understanding in his heart, then continued asking:

"How many medium-sized commerce associations are there in Ziqiong City? The kind that can take your batch without pressure?"

This time, Wei Qiangsheng took a little longer to think, answering only after half a minute:

"Due to assistance from our hometown this time, we brought a large quantity of monster materials, among the commerce associations in Ziqiong City that can absorb this batch...there are about twenty or so, including some chain associations.

If it was in previous years, there would be more, estimated at about forty or fifty, um...the kind that can settle in cash without pressure."

Lin Ziming nodded thoughtfully:

The flying ship they were on set off from Linyuan City, passing through six transit stations.

Based on the casual talk between Wu Fan and the blue-clad reception, it was learned that about two thousand people were aboard this flying ship, forming the appearance of fifty or sixty caravans.

Including the other two flying ships, the number of caravans arriving at Ziqiong City this time was probably around 150 to 200.

And within the city, commerce associations capable of taking these goods were about forty or fifty, including some small fundraising commerce associations, the total might be around sixty.

Sixty commerce associations, yet there were only five or six principals outside the flying ship now.

This conveyed a large amount of information:

It must be that the Yang Family closed off the information!

Additionally, to ensure confidentiality, even though the Yang Family might have started purchasing stock materials from other commerce associations within the city, their movements certainly wouldn't be too blatant.

Just like the big capital in the stock market buying on the dip, it's impossible to enter all at once with full warehouse leverage.

The area of Ziqiong City is colossal, and with the previous 48 hours still being night, even the Yang Family couldn't spread their net completely.

Therefore, as long as the rabbits act quickly, they're bound to have the chance to sneak some soup.

However, apart from time, the rabbits had another problem:

Too few Spirit Stones!

Over 20,000 Spirit Stones, converted into Huaxia currency, is almost over 60 saunas, which equals 1.2 billion.

1.2 billion might get you good things at a large-scale exhibition, but the quantity is definitely limited—the same principle applies when buying on the dip.

Thinking of this,

Lin Ziming immediately went to a secluded place and reported the situation in detail to the command headquarters through a communication device.

Ten minutes later, a detailed plan was transmitted from the command headquarters.

Subsequently, Lin Ziming found Mu Ge and Gu Junming, relaying the headquarters' plan:

"....that's about it, Chief of Staff Gu, where are the items?"

Gu Junming replied immediately:

"Colonel Lin, the items have been guarded by two elite guards all along."

After saying this, Gu Junming gave a thumbs-up behind him.

Soon.

Two warriors came forward carrying a box made of alloy.

"Colonel Lin, the items are inside."

Gu Junming handed the alloy box to Lin Ziming while asking:

"By the way, due to wearing ancient-style clothing, our QTS11s are packed in the cargo box.

We currently have only a small number of weapons, should we take out all the individual weapons?"

Lin Ziming pondered for a moment, shook his head, and said:

"Time is pressing, just take out three sets of weapons, combat is strictly prohibited in Ziqiong City, it should still be relatively safe, and three sets of QTS11 are enough for self-defense.

In short, let's travel light and simple, and head out as soon as possible!"

Ten minutes later.

Lin Ziming led a group, stopped a few Yi Qi carriages, and headed straight towards Ziqiong City.

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