Questions about planes and technology on Haixing

[likealeafonthewind]

Do planes exist? I don't remember seeing any in the background of any of the episodes, and while in the novel, there's a scene where they're traveling to Kunlun's mountain via plane, there's no such scene in the show (the one time they do go to the mountain, they drive there). 

Also, there doesn't seem to be cars or any kind of vehicle in Dixing, right? Does everyone just get around by walking? If they have to go somewhere far, do they find someone with teleportation powers and pay them to take them somewhere? (On a side note, if Zhu Jiu's teleportation can only be done when there's sunlight present, how did his powers ever get activated in Dixing?)

Technology development seems much slower on Haixing in general than in our world, especially given the fact that an alien spaceship landed on their planet 10,000 years ago and introduced aliens into their civilization. With that, I would have expected them to be much further along by now, like exploring space already.

Comments

[extrapenguin]

I just rewatched episode 5, and the SID has a robot spider:


And based on this scene-setting CGI image, Dixing doesn't seem to be very large:

There's a pretty densely packed city/village in front, some more sparse inhabitance to the left, and on top of the lava mountain, what I assume is the Dijun's palace. There might be some more houses behind the mountain, but I think that's where Ye Zun's pillar is. All in all it seems to be a pretty small/densely packed place, though I think bicycles could catch on easily.

[asya_ana]

The initial infodump says that there are proportionately far fewer Dixingren, so perhaps it makes sense that Dixing would be small, almost like a small country rather than another "level" that would encompass the whole of a planet.

[extrapenguin]

Yeah, I got the distinct impression that Dixing's population was perhaps more comparable with that of Dragon City than that of Haixing. A few hundred k, up to maybe a million or so?

[likealeafonthewind]

Yeah, I got that impression too. The reason why I was asking about transportation there was because when they're looking for the Dijun booklet and Dingdun, Butler Wu takes ZYL around Dixing via teleportation so it seemed like just walking wouldn't have worked (unless they were under a time crunch? I can't remember).

[extrapenguin]

It's been a while since I watched, but I recall that at least one of the times, Zhao Yunlan had upset a bunch of locals. I also think they were under at least some time pressure?