Chapter 287: Unstoppable
Translator: flycrane01 Editor: Millman97
Many journalists shared the sa question with Qiu Guanyu.
Bu Changfeng, deputy leader of the Moon Splitting Sword Guild, took over the crystal microphone.
"Shua! Shua! Shua! Shua!"
Almost twenty 3D light beams appeared behind him and started playing video clips of flying swords moving in the sky.
With a closer look, one would notice that the flying swords were pure white and looked like a long tube with green fluorescence. Four crystal caras were evenly distributed on the body of each sword. There were no blade or tip. They were more like mini, self-driving shuttles than flying swords.
Right then, the flying swords were rushing in the sky of the Grand Desolate Plateau and approaching towns, mines, military bases, and fieldwork spots.
Bu Changfeng smiled brightly and said, "Friends of the news industry and the financial industry, you might be surprised to see
here. But today, the Demon Beast Detector is the star of the show.
"The Demon Beast Detector is a piece of magical equipnt of astounding innovation, which naturally requires a correspondingly groundbreaking sales pattern.
"With the close collaboration of the Mountain Sea Sect and the Moon Splitting Sword Guild, the Demon Beast Detector will be sold on the Nexus and shipped by the flying sword.
"Behold, everyone—"
The picture on the light beam changed. A plain-looking custor was visiting the Demon Beast Detector's website.
"I believe most of you have watched 'Ten Days Among Demons' and logged in the website of the Demon Beast Detector before.
"At noon today, the online shopping module will be officially added to the website. By then, you will be able to place an order with your telepathic thought when you're at the website."
The light beam continued playing. The custor was muttering to himself, "Demon Beast Detector? Sounds interesting. It is not expensive anyway and could possibly save my life in an ergency. I might as well buy one.
"However, I work in a remote mine. There's no towns or stores nearby. The delivery of the online shopping sites is slow, and the cost is astonishingly high.
"Huh. I can buy a Demon Beast Detector from the website directly without any shipping fee? Guaranteed to arrive within one day? Is that even possible?"
The custor typed fast on the virtual keyboard and placed an order on the website of the Demon Beast Detector.
Then the picture switched to a large logistics center.
Many workers in the uniform of the Moon Splitting Sword Guild were busy at work.
So of them were processing the orders on crystal processors. So of them were opening the trunk of the flying swords and putting the Demon Beast Detectors inside gently.
In light of the limited space of the flying swords, the outer packaging of the Young Pioneer Version of the Demon Beast Detector was restructured into the shape of a cylinder with a minimalistic design, which was also very environnt-friendly.
One flying sword could carry ten Demon Beast Detectors.
In another room, hundreds of light beams were floating in the air. Almost a hundred sword Cultivators of the Moon Splitting Sword Guild were focusing their rapt attention on the flying swords.
"Shua!"
"Shua!"
"Shua!"
Controlled by them, hundreds of flying swords took off and staggered to the distance with mystic colors behind, soon disappearing into the clouds.
The picture switched to a mine that was in the middle of nowhere.
It was too far away from any towns. Demon beasts appeared every now and then. Ordinary couriers hardly ever ca to this place. Often, they would only deliver goods when there were a lot of orders and under the protection of Cultivators whom they paid a high reward to.
So, the goods might be delayed for a long ti. Besides, the bewildering salary of the Cultivators resulted to the soaring shipping fees. For certain regular goods, their shipping fee was sotis even higher than their actual value.
The four crystal caras on a flying sword scanned the environnt and went to the neighborhood beside the mine.
The custor who bought the Demon Beast Detector on the Nexus had received a notification and walked out of the door.
The flying sword stopped before him quietly. The trunk opened, revealing the Demon Beast Detector contained inside.
The custor was overwheld with joy. He hurriedly unpacked the Demon Beast Detector and put it on his nose with a smile of satisfaction.
The journalists, although aware that it was only a comrcial, were still thrilled and started talking about it with each other.
Shopping online was not sothing new in the Star Glory Federation.
However, the Star Glory Federation had a vast and complex territory. The traffic of many cities was very complicated, too. Not only were there skyscrapers on the ground, there were also underground ghost cities that could be dozens of levels deep and sophisticated like a honeycomb.
All these factors added to the headache of the logistics industry. Ho delivery service was too costly.
Therefore, most of the ti, the couriers would simply transport the goods to designated pickup spots from which the custors needed to collect their goods themselves.
The situation was even worse in the Grand Desolate Plateau.
The Grand Desolate Plateau was a scarcely populated area under the scourge of demon beasts. Not many shuttles and airships dared to cruise in the sky of the Grand Desolate Plateau. To make things worse, the crystal trains only had a limited cargo capacity.
It was not unusual for the custors in the far-off mines, military camps, or newly developed towns to wait for half a month after they ordered so items on the Nexus before the items were finally delivered to their hands even though they had paid a shipping fee that was even higher than the cost of the goods.
If the shipping could be done by remote-controlled flying swords, there would be no concern of courier casualties. The shipping cost would be greatly diminished, whereas the flexibility and punctuality could be better guaranteed. The actual performance of the new shipping system might still be a question in the inland of the federation, but it was certainly going to nail the Grand Desolate Plateau!
The quick-minded journalists had already realized the business potential of the new shipping system.
Bu Changfeng was relieved to see others so interested in the new product.
Among all the sword-training sects of the Star Glory Federation, the Moon Splitting Sword Guild was not famous for the swiftness of their flying swords, or the powerfulness, or the skillfulness.
The only shining point of its flying swords was the technological advantage in remote-control and self-navigation because of their amazing crystal caras.
Recent years, as the arms race of the sword-training sects took place, more advanced power rune arrays and attack rune arrays had been developed thanks to the large investnt, which increased the speed and damage of the flying swords significantly.
As a result, not only had the sects that mainly focused on defense magical equipnt such as the Gold Armor Sect been seriously undermined, the Moon Splitting Sword Guild, which only had a limited arsenal of technologies, was caught in a dilemma, too.
If it were to join the arms race, the preliminary cost would be huge with no guarantee of any yield.
If it were to stay the sa, its technology would fall behind its peers. No one would buy its flying swords in the future, not even the guards of the mines.
To deal with the dilemma, the Moon Splitting Sword Guild had been undergoing a transformation. It had tried to march into the logistics industry by building a flying sword shipping network based on its advantage in the field of remote-controlled and self-navigating flying swords.
After a few years of secret preparations, the flying sword shipping network began to take shape. However, a lot of endogenous defects were disclosed, too.
Firstly, the cargo capability of the flying sword was inadequate. It could not carry goods beyond one ton however it was modified, which ant that it could only transport light and small goods.
Secondly, the robustness of remote-controlled flying swords and self-navigating flying swords was unsatisfactory. A sword trainer had to manipulate a flying sword over the Spiritual Nexus when it was several kiloters away, which would result to lagging.
This also ant that the flying sword was not suitable to carry goods that were too valuable.
Suppose a flying sword was to be used to carry Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures worthy of several billion, what if the flying sword lost control halfway and damaged the goods inside? Who would be to bla?
Thirdly, there were already a lot of sects that were good at swiftness and wind-reining skills with a lot of affiliates in the federation.
Wind Runners Clan, Wind Riders Clan, Wind Roarers Clan, and Unified Net Sect, known as 'Three Winds and One Net
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