This star is going to the moon

Chapter 238 The Journey to the East of Foreign Elites (Third Update, Please Vote)

In foreign countries, being able to speak Chinese, fly a plane, and have some knowledge of aerospace is basically a sure way to be considered an elite.

Even though we live in the internet age, and aerospace knowledge and Chinese can be learned online, learning to fly a plane must be done offline, and requires a certain amount of capital.

This isn't something you can just enable by playing an emulator.

Moreover, verification is required.

Take Simon Ally and Steve Armstrong, for example. One of them is a flight instructor with many years of flying and teaching experience, a true elite.

The other is a top student who graduated from a reputable aerospace university in the United States, and his family had the resources to enable him to learn to fly airplanes at a young age, making him a definite future elite.

Both of them live in the world's leading superpower, the United States, and have seen a lot of the world, but they were still surprised when they landed at Shanghai International Airport.

Young Armstrong was a bit better off, since he had interacted with Chinese students when he was young, and that person had stayed at his house for quite some time, which was enough for him to get a general understanding of the situation.

Of course, that was ten years ago.

Later, he learned Chinese, and because he liked aerospace, he read a lot of information about aerospace in China. He knew that China was developing very quickly in the aerospace field, and if it could develop so quickly in aerospace, then it should not be too bad in other aspects.

However, he only cared about the aerospace field and was not interested in other areas, so his understanding of the Chinese was multifaceted.

That is, information about international students from ten years ago, aerospace information I found myself, a lot of information processed by American media, and snippets of information from other sources.

But I do know quite a bit about it.

Simon Allie was out of the question; he had basically no prior contact with Chinese people because his mission had nothing to do with them.

Yes, he is a CIA agent.

Moreover, he wasn't in the US before; he was at MIT.

Although Canada is an ally of the United States, spying on allies is also a traditional American practice.

Ellie's official job at MIT is as a flight instructor, and the city he lives in is Vancouver, which has hundreds of thousands of Chinese people, accounting for 20% of the region's total population, making it the city with the highest proportion of Chinese people in North America.

As a result, many of his clients were Chinese, so he naturally learned Chinese.

Later, due to the needs of this mission, he became a flight instructor working in the United States.

When he worked at MIT, he had a full beard, but now he's shaved it clean and looks like a handsome middle-aged man, completely different from before.

Although he was here to carry out a mission in Laos and China, the organization did not allow him to learn much about Laos and China; what they wanted was for him to be "authentic" in line with his established persona.

As for the information he received from the Chinese people he encountered at work, well...

Those people either had been out for a long time, or had never stayed in Laos, or had come out through other means. In any case, the Laos they created in his mind was even more fantastical.

Now we have suddenly arrived in a truly great Eastern country, with its huge high-tech airport, huge bustling cities, huge skyscrapers, huge transportation network, huge population...

The impact of all of this on him was self-evident.

This led him, a senior CIA agent who had worked for many years, to think about many other things.

He felt that this mission definitely involved more than just himself, but also other colleagues. However, he was not the "protagonist" of this mission, but rather a "supporting actor" to divert attention.

It's obvious that there are already Chinese security "colleagues" operating within Blue Star Aerospace, and these agents might be exposed once they infiltrate. If he's just infiltrating Blue Star Aerospace, it would be more appropriate for him to use his identity as a Canadian university student, since everyone knows that China and the US don't get along, and his "colleagues" would definitely be extra wary of American interviewers.

If his Chinese counterparts find out about him, then his other colleagues will be relatively safe.

However, even though he had thought of all this, the mission still had to be carried out.

for……

For freedom, America.

Seeing the excited little Armstrong, Ellie decided to agree to his suggestion to take the maglev train. Although it wasn't on the way, it was still in the same direction, so there was no harm in taking a ride.

Actually, he really wanted to take a ride on it; he wondered what it would feel like to ride a maglev train.
If this mission goes "smoothly," he will probably be arrested "smoothly" and then wait to be exchanged for prisoners.

He felt that he had done so many tasks for the organization and the Federation, so he should be very important and should be given priority to be replaced.

However, he probably won't have the chance to come to Laos and China again after that, so he might as well experience this strange and magical country first.

As he was thinking about this, two more foreigners came out of the airport, one black and one white. When they saw that they were also foreigners, they automatically "grouped together" and came over.

Upon inquiry, it turned out they were all "similar cases"—they were all there for Blue Star Aerospace interviews.

"Guys, let's go ride the Maglev train!" Armstrong exclaimed excitedly.

"I know a new commercial space company has emerged in China. They're developing an electromagnetic catapult rocket launch system to minimize rocket fuel and weight. Maglev trains remind me of that..."

The other two immediately became interested and followed Armstrong.

Clearly, they are also true space enthusiasts.

Ellie, who was just there to "work," followed them.

The one in black and one in white were French, along with two Americans. The Chinese passengers on the maglev train watched in amazement as these four foreigners praised the scenery along the way in fluent Chinese.

What's even more amazing is that when they hailed a taxi, the driver thought it might be a bit troublesome because they were foreigners. But when the four foreigners started speaking Chinese, they were more fluent than the driver!
The driver's Mandarin had a regional accent, while the four foreigners spoke fluent Mandarin!

Armstrong Jr.: "Driver, please drive through the middle of the city!"

driver:"……"

Well, they even call him "driver".

Luckily, the driver wasn't from Beijing, otherwise I would have definitely replied with "authentic".

"Look, that's the Shanghai Tower over there. It's the third tallest building in the world!"

"This is simply amazing. Shanghai feels much more bustling than Paris."

"Not just Paris, there is no other megacity like this in all of Europe! Perhaps only New York can compare."

"No, New York won't work either. New York is already very dilapidated."

"I feel like even if I don't get selected this time, it won't matter. It's just too amazing, it's like going to space..."

(End of this chapter)