The origin of the star lotus world

Chapter 2453 Main Text
Chapter 2358 of the main text

At the age of eighteen, after the college entrance examination, the author spent the summer vacation traveling alone on an international flight to a small country. His family had planned for him to study abroad at a university in a coastal city in that country, but due to language barriers, a lack of ambition, and a tendency to be unsociable, he returned home after a short time. To this day, he has never been that far again; the two places are tens of thousands of kilometers apart, the furthest distance in the mortal world. Back then, on a long-haul international flight in economy class, looking at the row of seats on his right, he saw a middle-aged foreign man with several children, all using Endeavor game consoles, seemingly playing the Pokémon drawing game. At that time, these must have been relatively new games and machines.

I later played the Pokémon game on a game emulator, and it was quite fun. It was a good way to pass the time on long trips, a way to distract myself. Back then, mobile phones had color screens but no smart operating systems; they were controlled by buttons or styluses. Looking at it now, it seems rather outdated, lacking ten-finger touch technology. Later, technological innovations and rapid advancements in mobile phone technology led to a significant decrease in game consoles, but in the past, they were very common.

Jin Huyue said that Meng Sheng mentioned international long-haul travel in the story of Xinglian. You have to go to a certain place first, then wait for a connecting flight, sit and wait for many hours, and then take another flight to the country you want to go to. Such a journey is very hard and much more tiring than a regular long-haul flight. It is really not easy.

I'm right. Those international flights, from the departure point, involve a ten-hour long-haul flight, then a five- or six-hour wait at the transit airport, followed by another ten-hour flight. If it's a connecting flight, you have to fly again to another city, waiting in the departure lounge. In total, you can sit for thirty or forty hours. Just imagine how that feels! It was the most arduous and exhausting long-haul journey I've ever experienced. In a one- or two-day trip, you'd spend over twenty hours sitting in economy class. I never want to experience that again. Thankfully, I was too young then; otherwise, my body couldn't handle it. Everyone's constitution is different. If you're physically weak, long journeys aren't suitable, and you shouldn't overexert yourself continuously. You have to know your limits.