Before purchasing a residence, Carl stayed in a newly built luxury hotel, reportedly backed by a multinational company, claiming that even if the Kolong Kingdom's army invaded the Royal City, residents at the hotel would remain safe.
Besides safety, there are facilities.
Electric lights, showerheads, flushing toilets...
Technological products that require a certain industrial foundation to create are installed in the room.
"Trains have already appeared, and telephones are beginning mass production from prototype models, but currently only wealthy families can afford to lay cables."
Putting down the technology magazine Shalin sent, Carl was thoughtful:
"I wonder when wireless phones will appear?"
Currently, phones are devices that convert sound into corresponding electronic signals through a transmitter, transmit those signals via conductive wire to a place away from the speaker, then through a receiver convert the signal back into the original sound.
