The origin of the star lotus world

Chapter 2053 Text

Chapter 1989

For some things, the author describes them in great detail, and can also tell a lot of other things along the way.

When we took the bus to the Capital Airport that day, it was already 6pm, which was considered to be the right time for departure, but it was still light and there was still some sunshine. The weather was sunny for many consecutive days, without any dark clouds. It was a good weather when traveling, suitable for long-distance travel.

In summer, it gets dark later, unlike the autumn in the mortal world, where it gets dark around 5pm, and the daybreak is later than before, gradually getting brighter at 6 or 7am. However, the temperature has dropped a lot, with the highest temperature dropping to around 20 degrees Celsius these days, and the lowest temperature 10 degrees Celsius or lower. The climate is cool, and I feel okay wearing a windbreaker when traveling. The residual heat of the autumn tiger has completely gone, and it is not that hot at noon, which is great.

In the car, I heard my family talking to the male driver of the online car-hailing service. My family said that they had gone on a long trip some time ago. Because the flight they booked was in the morning, they didn’t want to travel in traffic jams, so they got up at three or four in the middle of the night. They got up too early. At 4:30 in the morning, they were ready to go downstairs because the female driver called to ask if they could leave earlier. The car had already arrived nearby. Since they were ready, they went to the corridor downstairs to wait early. The sky was just getting light, so it would be better to go earlier. The departure was originally scheduled at 5 in the morning, which was more than enough time. When they sat in the car, before they left the community, the female driver looked at her phone and asked why there was another order. She said she didn’t know how to cancel the order. My family thought that they were leaving so early, so they went to another place to wait for a while. This was also the case when they shared a car before. As a result, the other passenger was not going to the airport, but to a five-star hotel in the city. That place was not in the city center, but a famous hotel in the economic zone. This was not on the way, but in the opposite direction. In the end, they walked dozens of kilometers more to reach the destination. There would have been no traffic jam in the early morning. We left too early. Under such travel conditions, we could have arrived in about an hour by car from home, or even a little earlier, because there was no traffic jam. The trip should have been smooth. Because we had to drop off another passenger first and then drive from the city to the airport, it was a long detour. It took us two hours to get to the airport that time. And that was because we left too early and there was no traffic jam on the road. If it was during the peak travel period, I don’t know how much longer it would take to reach the destination. If the reserved time was insufficient, there might be problems. The female driver also complained, saying that she had decided on the direction to the airport and that her family also lived near the airport. She wanted to go home and take orders on the way, but why did she take an order that was not for the airport? The two orders were so far apart, so why did she take such an order? She drove so much more and didn’t make much money. My mother said that she called the online car-hailing platform many times to complain about such things. The male driver smiled awkwardly and seemed not to care. He said that it was useless to complain. There were many such cases. The platform did not think that there was a problem with the algorithm and planning. As long as the driver was willing to accept the order, he would have to pay for the extra gas and take a longer detour. The platform would not care if the passengers had to take a longer detour. The female driver might not understand some of the details. She had just entered the industry and had not received many orders. She was not familiar with them. She could not accept long-distance carpooling in the opposite direction. Short-distance ones were allowed, but those that were too long could not be accepted. If the passengers were delayed in taking flights and trains, it would be troublesome. My mother said that she called the platform many times, but the customer service of the platform was very cold. They were numb to such common things. They said that it was the driver's responsibility to accept the order and it had nothing to do with the platform's algorithm and planning. If you don't want to spend more money, you can stop choosing the carpooling method to avoid problems because other passengers are going in different directions. That's it. If you want to save ten or dozens of dollars by carpooling for a long distance, you have to send passengers in the order set by the platform. If time is limited, it is better to use a separate online car-hailing service. You don’t have to wait for people, let alone take a long detour, which may waste time. If time is limited, you should not make trouble for yourself. Fortunately, the flight was in the morning, so even if it took twice as long to get to the airport, it was still in time. For long-distance travel, try to get there earlier so that you have more time. This is right.

A little after seven that evening, I arrived at a terminal at the airport. The trip was quite smooth, with little traffic jam. I arrived at the terminal I had visited the most, not the terminal that was built later. There is a larger airport in the local area, one of the famous super-large international airports in the continent, and a world-class aviation hub, but it is farther away. I heard from my family that if I took a taxi home from that airport by plane, it would cost more than 200 yuan. If I added the night allowance, the price per kilometer would increase a bit, and it might cost nearly 300 yuan. According to the introduction on the Internet, the two places are 80 to 90 kilometers apart, which is quite far away. It is twice the distance from the suburbs where I live to the airport I often go to. The best way to travel is to take the subway. Even if you take a discounted online taxi, it may cost 100 to 200 yuan. The local area is only more than 100 kilometers away from another big city, which shows how far some trips are. It takes two hours to drive there, and this is when there is no traffic jam. If there is a traffic jam or the car is driving slowly, it may take nearly three hours or more. Because the subway was closed at that time, I could only take a bus to a place closer to the suburbs, and then take an online taxi back, so it took a long time. The airport is closer to some urban areas, but it is far from my home. It depends on the flight ticket price. In order to save money, I may book some flights, but I also have to consider other factors. For example, some places are farther away. If the flight is too late and the subway is closed, it will take a lot of time to transfer. If the air ticket price is relatively cheaper, I may have to go there, and it will take more than two hours to get home. It will be determined according to the specific situation.

During this summer's drop-off, we arrived at the airport's spacious parking lot. My family went to get a cart, and when they came back, I put the two suitcases on the cart. The small suitcase was hand-carried, and it met the size standards for hand luggage set by the airline, but the small suitcase couldn't hold much. We took the elevator to the ground, and saw that the sky was gradually getting darker, but it was not dark yet, so some of the outdoor background lights were not turned on. After a while, the lights would light up. When we walked into the terminal building, my family asked if we needed to buy tickets for the airport bus? We would take the bus back later. I said I would take the subway, which would catch the operating hours. I didn't know how long I would have to wait, but as long as the subway line was still available, I would take the subway home.

I arrived at the international departure baggage check-in area of ​​the airport terminal. I arrived four or five hours in advance, but there were already some people queuing up. Those passengers arrived really early. I still remember that one night when I went to the train station to see someone off, I sat in the waiting area with my family, waiting for ticket inspection. At that time, an elderly woman asked the conductor that she didn't see the number of the train she wanted to take. The conductor looked at the ticket and said that it was a ticket for the next day, so of course it was not displayed on the day, so she asked the aunt to wait slowly, and there would be a reminder of the train number later. Some passengers arrive early and may have to wait for a long time.

At the check-in area of ​​the airline, I was pushing a luggage cart. There were already about 20 people waiting in line in front of me. I was ready to wait slowly. If the check-in was opened three hours in advance, I would probably have to stand and wait for an hour or more. I saw that the people in front of me were pushing luggage carts, and some of them had several large boxes on the carts. If some were slow to check in, I might have to wait even longer. I asked my family to sit for a while while I stood in line. When it was almost her turn, I called her over to check in her luggage.

I stood there for a while and looked around. Some families were waiting, and some were seeing off passengers. Not all of them were traveling. Some of them were chatting about going on a long trip, and some were excited and happy, as if they were going on vacation or returning to their homes in foreign countries. I saw some children speaking foreign languages ​​fluently, but I didn't notice that there were a few foreigners there, but there might be some later. Some passengers were waiting silently, and some were using their phones. I didn't hear anyone say that they were traveling abroad to watch the sports meeting. Unlike a few days ago, many celebrities went abroad to watch the sports meeting. Some went there in a high-profile manner, while others went there in a low-key manner. Looking at the photos posted on the Internet, most of them are good. Don't underestimate the travel photos. Some people deliberately asked photographers to take many photos and select good photos. The photos were edited to make their skin white and beautiful. Some people's skin was already glowing, as if they were walking on a beauty catwalk. No matter how much some people edited their photos, they could not cover up their real age. They had a sense of maturity, but their skin quality and condition were really good. It is said that some celebrities go to the gym all year round to delay aging. They know more than some fitness coaches. Some have small gyms at home. The amount of exercise is far more than that of ordinary people. The expenses on skin care and nutrition are amazing. As long as there is an effect, they don’t care how much money they spend. They originally rely on their beautiful image to attract fans, so of course they attach great importance to appearance. In order to look ten or twenty years younger than their peers, or even to the age of uncles and aunts in their forties or fifties, they have to play young people in idol dramas. In order to keep their image young, I don’t know how much they have to pay. If you want to delay aging, it is rare that you can do it easily without paying. Some stars have simple meals. They are no longer interested in the seafood feasts that some small stars and artists show off, which cost tens of thousands of yuan per table. Instead, they use pure green vegetables and meat that is limited in supply abroad every year. Some specific foods are not available in large quantities. Even if you have money, you still need to have a quota.

  Many times, things are valuable because they are rare. The rarer some items are, the more valuable they are.