God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 444: Successfully Arriving at the City of Gold

News that magic-powered vehicles were about to go on sale instantly created huge waves online.

People weren’t too unfamiliar with magic-powered vehicles anymore.

On one hand, there’d been news about them online for a long time.

On the other hand, the convoy had been livestreaming for quite a while.

Anyone who used the Magic Net already had a pretty deep understanding of magic-powered vehicles.

Even people without the Magic Net had gained some understanding.

After all, the convoy had passed through quite a few places, and people talked about it plenty in the streets.

Almost everyone had reached a consensus—these magic-powered vehicles’ capabilities far exceeded traditional carriages, and their costs were extremely low.

Carriages needed horses to pull them. Keeping horses alive cost quite a bit. If a horse got sick, you needed to treat it. If a horse accidentally broke its leg, that horse was done for...

There were just so many possible accidents.

Even without considering those things, how long did a horse even live?

But magic-powered vehicles were different. They just needed charging to work. As for charging costs, self-charging magic arrays could provide that.

People who had the ability to build self-charging arrays would obviously get it for free.

Even if they didn’t have the ability, self-charging arrays had already started spreading everywhere, since using some Magic Net functions required them. They just needed to pay a small fee to have usage rights.

Similarly, they could also pay a small fee to charge at these self-charging arrays.

In short, in almost everyone’s perception, magic-powered vehicles definitely cost less than carriages.

Plus, the cargo capacity was completely different too.

How much cargo could a single carriage haul?

How heavy could the cargo be?

How much could a single magic-powered truck haul?

How fast could a carriage go?

How fast could a regular magic-powered vehicle go?

Everyone could see for themselves.

Comparing magic-powered vehicles to carriages was basically total domination across the board. They were even more comfortable to ride in.

Tons of nobles had already expressed interest in buying some.

But neither Roster territory nor Viscount Roster had shown any intention of selling.

Now they could finally buy them, which naturally caused huge waves.

"Finally!"

"Can’t wait!"

"Wonder how much one of these vehicles costs?"

"I’m definitely buying a few trucks. The transportation demand here is just too huge."

"I went to Foster Iron Mine before, and seeing those mine carts made me so jealous. Now that they’re going on sale, I’m definitely buying one, even if I have to sell everything I own."

"Honestly, same here!"

"What do you guys think the price will be? Will it be over ten thousand gold coins?"

"Regular magic-powered vehicles probably won’t be that much, right? Magic-powered trucks might be though."

"Isn’t that too expensive? An agricultural magic-powered machine only costs a few thousand gold coins."

"That’s different. Agricultural magic-powered machinery only needs to work in one area. Speed doesn’t matter—just needs to be strong enough. But other vehicles are totally different."

"Seeing everyone so enthusiastic puts my mind at ease. These vehicles are made entirely of steel—they consume so much steel. Looks like steel futures can keep rising."

"..."

With one sentence from the convoy leader, the entire online world seemed to boil over.

Over the next few days, the internet went crazy with discussions every day.

The convoy smoothly headed to the City of Epic, then passed through seven or eight more city-state nations, finally arriving at the City of Gold.

"Is that the new-style housing construction site?"

From far away, the convoy leader could see countless human figures appearing on the empty land beside the City of Gold’s massive walls.

Among these people, framework after framework had been erected. At a glance, you could tell these frameworks were all made from steel.

It was just unclear why, even though a long time had passed and the frameworks were almost finished being assembled, concrete still hadn’t been poured in.

The convoy leader just figured they probably hadn’t gotten to that step yet.

Maybe they needed to build all the steel frameworks first, then pour in concrete to establish the building’s actual framework, and finally fill in the walls and such.

The convoy leader shared his general thoughts with the livestream: "Anyway, I think this is already pretty impressive. Look how high these building frameworks are!"

"After they’re built, you’ll probably be able to directly overlook the entire City of Gold from up there. The person who designed and built this building is a real talent."

History had a sense of convergence at this moment.

If Ren were paying attention to all this, he’d definitely sigh that this scene was exactly like the steel trust from his previous life.

A capitalist in the steel business originally built bridges and railroads. During competition with the Rockefeller family, he faced serious restrictions.

Almost went bankrupt and got swallowed up.

But at the most dangerous moment, he invented skyscrapers and built the famous Home Insurance Building.

With the establishment of the Home Insurance Building, countless skyscrapers began spreading across the new continent.

This steel industry capitalist used this opportunity to swallow up tons of mines, factories, sales operations, and more, creating a steel empire.

By creating this new-style building and creating demand, he managed to build himself into one of the top companies of that era.

This moment, just like that moment.

Except the plot was a bit hazy.

In this world, the first to start building skyscrapers were believers of the Church of Technology at Foster Iron Mine, with the goal of giving every local miner their own home.

Of course, these miners would also pay a huge price—most of their income for the next twenty years would go toward buying this home, paying the money to Dragon Bank.

Right now, the construction site appearing next to the City of Gold actually had some issues.

It seemed like it was purely to show people how much steel building a skyscraper like this would require!

Everything seemed prepared to set the stage for steel futures to keep rising.

Unfortunately, not many people in this world understood new-style housing.

Nobody noticed anything wrong with this construction site at all.

People were all marveling at such a massive project, wondering if a building like this really wouldn’t collapse.

Was the safety really guaranteed?

This thing looked as tall as a mountain!

Some people also questioned whether building such a tall structure would make the building itself thicker, darker, stuffier, heavier...

These were problems traditional stone-built houses had to face.

Just like that, amid a huge crowd’s discussions, the convoy slowly drove into this famous City of Gold.

The castellan of the City of Gold personally came to greet them, showing extreme importance.

"We’ve already prepared the exhibition area and the stage you need according to our advance communication, honored Mister Adventurer, representative of Viscount Roster!"