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Greenwater City.
Early evening arrived, and the lamps around the city were lit.
Li Banfeng had been in Puluo for more than three months, but this was his first time visiting a city.
Ma Wu had said that the cities of Puluo might not be as impressive as those of the Outer Provinces, yet Greenwater City had light at night too.
Li Banfeng saw that light. The lighting of the lamps was a grand daily ritual in Greenwater City.
Since electricity could not be transmitted over the long distances needed to get to Puluo, gas lamps became the protagonists of the night in Greenwater City.
Patrol officers carried torches and step stools, lighting the street lamps along both sides of the road one by one.
Every shop sent out an employee to light the hanging lamp boxes that contained their signboards.
The gas lamps shone brightly, comparable in brightness to some electric lamps.
What surprised Li Banfeng even more was that the gas lamps could flicker.
On the gas pipes, there were steam-driven valves, which were dependent on the heat that the lamps produced. The valves opened and closed automatically according to set times to control the gas flow.
When the valve was fully...
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