Chapter 1665 D-Day Has Come
"Your majesty, this room is called the Crystal Suite. It has all the latest amenities in Arcadina, boasting of 5 ma.s.sive rooms which include your grand chambers, the dining rooms, your work office s.p.a.ce... blah, blah, blah."
The head maid, head butler and 5 other prominent staff quickly lead Lucy"s team around her suite.
Everything looked grand with an ancient touch, which Lucy admired. Except for the bathroom area, everything was fine.
For the estate, there were no true bathrooms per se. There was just a moderately sized powder room with a uniquely designed wooden toilet.
You have to know that indoor plumbing hasn"t come to the rest of the world yet.
Thus, to solve this matter, Baymard created "biodegradable p.o.o.p bags, meaning they could be thrown away without fear of waste pollution.
They were not like plastic bags that would cause pollution to the environment. After a while, they too will break down.
The special toilet was a wooden toilet seat attached to the wall.
One has to securely attach these special bags to the toilet seat before doing their business.
And when done, use the special bag straps to seal the paper.
Immediately after that, they have to place the bags in one of the Baymardain EXTRA-sealant power containers.
The seal from these containers was super amazing, preventing the smell from escaping the room.
These Sealing containers could take up to 4 packs of "p.o.o.p" and urine.
One might think these containers would be expensive, but that was a lie!
They were extremely affordable, roughly sold at 12 for 2 Copper coins.
Yet, they still give Baymard a ton of money yearly. However, Baymard wasn"t the only one making money from this
Do you know that every day, room service takes out the sealed p.o.o.p and gathers it in storage for paying merchants and buyers to collect?
What was p.o.o.p? It was just manure!
Since Baymard introduced "manure" to the world, the yield of crops skyrocketed.
Cow dung, horse dung, swine dung, and even human dung were collected by all and stored in the Baymardian Extra-sealant containers.
Even peasant farmers were buying these containers like crazy.
It"s very important to know that just like everything in the world, p.o.o.p needed oxygen to begin breaking down.
But the sealant was done in a way that it kept it vacuumed, just like astronauts storing pop in s.p.a.ce.
Of course, little air did slip in, but it wasn"t enough to change the p.o.o.p"s contents.
These extra-sealant containers ensured the products sat on the shelves for years.
That being said, once exposed to air, it can take 3 to 5 months in ideal conditions for p.o.o.p to turn to manure.
But it could also take a year or more if the starting material contained a wide carbon: nitrogen ratio.
All this depends on the species the p.o.o.p belongs to.
For humans, their pop takes a year to become biodegradable.
For horses, it takes a shorter time. And for pigs, an even shorter time. For chickens... Well, if done in ideal conditions a few months was all it took.
p.o.o.p needs soil, oxygen and other parameters to break down.
Additionally, some species like humans have harmful pathogens in their dung that would be harmful to crops instead.
That"s why after marking and labeling their delayed p.o.o.p, the merchants, farmers and many others send them to Baymard to get treated.
After treatment, the manure is similar to soil in texture and placed in store-based manure bags.
One could go to the store and pick these bags up anytime.
In the end, farmers could exchange some of their manure for processed bags, while taking cash as payment for the rest after Baymard purchases them.
Everyone wins!
p.o.o.p has become a very lucrative business now, so much so that even the big establishments all rushed forth to sell their contained p.o.o.p to merchants who traded with Baymard regularly.
It was also because of this that homes no longer smelled of feces, and the roads were also cleaner, with people loving the clean feel in the air.
Just a few years ago, everyone felt the scent of feces was very normal to behold every waking day.
But now their nostrils were so sensitive to p.o.o.p, that they would squeeze and distort their faces when they picked up the scent.
Who can blame them? After experiencing such a clean Capital city, they dared not go back.
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Lucy nodded at the many arrangements, also very versed with the p.o.o.ping system in the outside world.
It was better than she remembered growing up. So this alone was an accomplishment.
As for the lights, she had already been told that in each room, there were Lights powered by Solar energy and those powered by Batteries.
With the dark fall weather, of course, she would use the battery-powered lights.
The lamps on her bedside tables were battery-powered.
There were also several ones attached to the walls that she could control with a remote. If she wanted blue lights they would change. If she wanted white lights, they would also change as well.
Lucy chuckled, happy with how her Baymard had influenced the outside world.
"Ramsey, you stay for a bit. The rest of you will stay in your rooms. Today, you can all go out and explore the city if you like, but you must all be back 2 hours before curfew. Understood?"
Everyone nodded sternly, leaving Lucy and Ramsey to themselves.
Although Lucy booked 60 rooms, the hotel didn"t expect her to arrive with almost triple the number of people. But that"s okay.
The rooms she booked could house 2~3 people in each.
For security and safety purposes, Lucy wanted everyone to sleep in pairs.
When out of their territory, they must have each other"s snacks, with everyone accounting for their "partners" during this time.
In every room, there should be at least 1 Baymardian guard resting in it. The exception is her room.
Lucy didn"t think it would be a problem given her true strength. As for what outsiders think, they might a.s.sume she has hidden guards with her since they couldn"t see anyone around her.
This would also make them cautious, not daring to attack her with an absolute plan.
Again, some Baymardian guards will also have to sleep in the vehicles to guard them too.
These vehicles indeed had heavy security systems in place in case anyone attempts breaking in. However, as an additional step, they had these guards stay in them in rotational s.h.i.+fts through the day and night.
After finis.h.i.+ng up some doc.u.ments, Ramsey left and Lucy quickly took a steamy bath.
In such estates, they had ma.s.sive bathhouses in one of the buildings.
There were those for females, those for males and those unis.e.x.
Each Section looked like a ma.s.sive hall with multiple circular pools scattered around.
The ancients were truly amazing.
Till now, Lucy has never been able to understand how they could keep some ma.s.sive poles bunking jog like a jacuzzi, while others were slightly warmer instead.
Could there be that there was a s.p.a.ce underneath each pool that was somehow heated up by steam from somewhere?
The mystery was indeed thought-provoking.
For Lucy, because she had a VIP suite, she was given access to one of the private Bath s.p.a.ces, which was the size of a grand bathroom, with its own pool at the center.
Lucy and 3 female guards were quick to jump in.
In the end, how could they let her majesty come to the Bathhouse alone?
Theexpeomec was indeed relaxing, as they swam across the wide pool of steamy water.
On another end of the bath s.p.a.ce were several stools and buckets for was.h.i.+ng.
Sitting on the stool, Lucy quickly foamed herself with soap before throwing water over her body.
So cold!
The first Splash was cold but the rest were slightly warmer.
Touching her tummy, Lucy had a smile, feeling extremely relaxed with her little bun in her oven.
She felt she was on vacation rather than work.
Can she say she truly loves her job as Queen?
Laying on her bed, Lucy closed her eyes, drifting away to Lala Land. And soon, the skies changed and a new dawn was here.
Rise and s.h.i.+ne!
Today was the day many have been waiting for!
How busy was the city?
Well, imagine this... The street food sellers were already swamped, with some of them having sold out their 5th batch of goods already!
"What the h.e.l.l do you mean?! I came out for some Baymardian-style Chimichangas and you"re saying you"re already sold out? What? Your son has gone home to grab another batch of ingredients? Then what do you want me to eat for the time being?"
"F***! These Baymardian-style Frikadellers are awesome! The meatb.a.l.l.s are just too juicy. I wanted to buy more, but the owner said they were all out. Hey, today must be my lucky day."
"Dammit! Look at what good deeds you"ve done, brother! Thanks to your slow running, I"ve completely missed my usual breakfast! Who can tell me where I can find Baymardain-style Tripas around here that taste so good? F***! It"s all over! How am I to live through the morning without it? Brother, you better think hard on getting me a Tripas, or else don"t even think of asking me for pocket money anymore!"
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