I Materialized the Cultivation Game

The county.

Chen Kai is inspecting the Ancient City District project.

The entrance to the roads here has already been closed off. In order to ensure the quaint and ancient charm, after the county leadership held a meeting, they decisively decided to rebuild the roads within the district.

Now, the asphalt roads have been torn up and rebuilt with bluestone, and the construction goes on around the clock.

This is precisely why the county is now hoping the Chen Family can stabilize things, and there won’t be any issues.

The county is counting on the Chen Family.

Once the bluestone roads are finished, this area will be closed to vehicles, mimicking those ancient towns to minimize the modern atmosphere and maintain the ancient feel.

Naturally, by then, there will be projects like carrying sedan chairs.

Tourists can ride in the sedan chair.

This is a project conceived by the cultural tourism committee during a meeting.

Then, it can create jobs. He believes many tourists will want to ride in them.

They just have to guard against certain Holy Mothers online posting videos criticizing tourists riding in sedan chairs, discussing human rights and such issues.

Anyway, it’s the carriers who are happy, the tourists are happy, the officials are happy, and these Holy Mothers are not happy.

Stuff like this happens a lot online, and once these people stir things up, many tourists who originally wanted to ride will be cautious and decide not to.

The earners’ income decreases, and then these Holy Mothers are happy as if they’ve won a battle.

"Director Chen, what do you think of my renovations here?" A middle-aged man smiled obsequiously as he greeted Chen Kai in front of a shop.

You can see the shop has already built a wooden building plaque and hung a sign outside that reads ’Singing in Brothels’.

This is a KTV.

Since there’s a plan for an Ancient City District, modern entertainment places like this naturally need consideration; otherwise, amid all the quaint buildings, a sudden flashy, neon-lit KTV sign would look very out of place.

However, these people are very well-informed and immediately made renovations. Now, looking at this KTV from the outside, doesn’t it seem just like an ancient brothel?

The middle-aged man further explained, "Once the Ancient City District opens, we’ll have our staff wear Hanfu to serve the tourists who come to sing."

Chen Kai is not one to nitpick. The other’s attitude was accommodating, and the renovations were well-coordinated; having a KTV in the Ancient City District also has its benefits.

After all, tourists also need entertainment.

This kind of ’singing in brothels’ might even turn out to be popular with the tourists.

While pondering this, he suddenly received a phone call and, recognizing the number immediately, answered.

This was a call from the person he sent to the Chen Family, certainly with a report to deliver.

Regarding matters of the Chen Family, he wouldn’t neglect it.

He answered and asked, "Hello, what’s up?"

The voice on the other end immediately reported, "Director Chen, the air quality monitoring equipment we brought seems to be malfunctioning. When testing outside Shangyuan Village, the AQI value was 35, but inside Shangyuan Village, it was 31, which is similar to our overall data for Linhe County."

"But as soon as we entered the Chen Family, the AQI value everywhere became 20, which is impossible—only a few places are officially recorded with AQI values reaching 20 nationwide."

"In our previous major testing in Linhe County, there were no such values anywhere."

Chen Kai was clearly at a loss. Linhe County previously had a major air quality test.

Because of the rise of leisure resorts and oxygen tourism, many places with good air quality are developing under the banner of oxygen tourism.

Especially those places with air quality AQI values reaching 20, touting the ’Natural Oxygen Bar’, which attracted countless tourists.

Promotional slogans like ’Not just a city, but a grand living room of nature’, ’Oxygen bar cities, making breathing an enjoyment’, were so enticing that they stirred longing feelings in people.

Linhe County once whimsically investigated whether it could improve air quality, following a trend. In truth, they had nothing to boast about; leveraging the tourism boom was the quickest way.

Ultimately, the investigation concluded that due to meteorological reasons, the wind speeds within city limits and even province-wide are extremely low, hindering pollutant dispersion. Pollutant regional distribution forms a linear pattern, affected by the northeast wind, subjected to upstream city pollutants, significantly impacting air quality, making improvement very difficult.

The main issue is that factories have high pollution emission rates. The provincial economic development created factories, concentrating population and industry, with nearly 20 large coal-fired power plants distributed, and the nitrogen oxides from traffic sources high as well.

Simply put, the so-called ’Natural Oxygen Bar’ had nothing to do with them.

Dreaming of improving air quality was also delusional.

Currently, many locations throughout the province maintain air AQI values below 50, largely thanks to the original mountain forests.

What did he just hear?

The Chen Family’s air quality AQI actually reached levels of 20?

This is already the level of a Natural Oxygen Bar.

No wonder he and Chu County could clearly feel the fresh air and easy breath at the Chen Family’s place.

He subconsciously thought of the Stone Stele the Patriarch set up.

Dust-removal Array!

The words ’dust removal’ seem to make more sense with fresh air, right?

Perhaps this is the primary function of the Stone Stele, with miraculous overnight blooming being secondary.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly said into his phone, "Don’t rush to conclude that the instrument is broken. Can’t you sense whether the air quality is good by breathing yourself? Take the equipment outside the Chen Family again to test, then report back."

He felt that some of his subordinates really weren’t quite adept at handling things.

But what can be done? They were said to have passed exams, yet most who got in didn’t have the best grades; after all, sometimes comprehensive ability considerations are necessary.