Unlike other more primitive worlds, due to the expensiveness of local wood, most of the houses here are not made of wood.
Rock and similarly textured underwater coral that had undergone lithification, were the main building materials.
However, unlike the solid and neat brick and steel-reinforced concrete houses of the present, theirs resembled "building blocks" cobbled together, exuding a rough, retro beauty of ancient Greek architecture from before the Common Era.
The house that Lu Ping'an was currently renting was considered high-quality, at least the rooms were spacious. All the cracks had been filled with mud, and they were even coated with a layer of biological varnish that emitted a faint fragrance of spices.
Only, the red "Double Happiness" paper-cutting on the window not only took Lu Ping'an back twenty years, but also made him suspect that there had been some mistake in the cultural transmission.
"...Quite interesting."
