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After the group meeting ended, Wei Xingsi gave instructions to everyone:

"Tomorrow, I'm going to take Xu Qiu and the others to the beautiful country for a meeting, and I won't be back until the 8th. Those of you who stay in the country, pay attention to safety when doing experiments, and don't make trouble for me."

"During this period, if you receive a call from the beautiful country, that is, the number prefixed with '+1', please don't hang up, because it is probably because I have something to ask you."

"Of course, if there is nothing urgent, I usually won't call directly, but will contact you by WeChat or email."

"During this week, Wu Shengnan, you will be in charge of the operation of the entire laboratory, and report everyone's work progress regularly every night."

Seeing everyone nodding in agreement, Wei Xingsi continued:

"Xu Qiu, Wu Feifei, and Han Jiaying, we will meet at Jiangwan tomorrow at 6:00 pm, and we will take a taxi to the airport together."

"You can eat dinner in advance. Don't expect the meal on the plane to be delicious. It's better to bring some food yourself."

"Okay." Xu Qiu replied.

Afterwards, everyone returned to the 401S office. Xu Qiu and Han Jiaying sat together to confirm tomorrow's flight information.

Xu Qiu glanced at the message Wei Xingsi had sent him before, and said, "Tomorrow we are flying United Airlines, flight number UA299, which takes off at 20:10 p.m. and arrives in Los Angeles at 16:55 p.m. local time. 11 hours and 45 minutes."

"It takes off at 8 o'clock in the evening, and it will arrive at 4 o'clock in the afternoon that day? Why is it early?" Han Jiaying was puzzled, but her mind turned quickly, and she immediately reacted, and suddenly said:

"There is a time difference, right? 20 plus 11, minus 16, equals 15... In other words, the domestic magic capital is 15 hours faster than the beautiful country of Los Angeles, right?"

"That's right, Shanghai is in the eighth district of the east, and Los Angeles is in the eighth district of the west. In theory, Shanghai is 16 hours faster than Los Angeles. The reason why the difference is 15 hours is because..." Xu Qiu had done some homework before, explaining road:

"Beautiful Country adopts daylight saving time between the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November every year, and the time of daylight saving time is one hour earlier than the time of normal winter time. It is just in daylight saving time now, so The difference is 15 hours."

"That's it," Han Jiaying tilted her head, with a look of "the useless knowledge has increased", and then said: "Tomorrow at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, I will gather at Jiangwan, and I have to pack my luggage and drag it here. Please tell me."

Xu Qiu, who heard the hint from the school girl, immediately suggested: "Or, pack up your luggage tonight, and then come to live here in Jiangwan? It will be more convenient to start directly from here tomorrow."

"Well...it's not impossible, but where do I live?"

"Hotel? Or, my dormitory is also fine. I live in a quadruple room for one person. There are spare beds..."

"..."

The school girl finally chose the hotel.

Although theoretically it is not impossible to spend one night in Xu Qiu's dormitory, but the impact is not very good after all.

If you stay overnight with the opposite sex, you will be punished with a major demerit or a probation in school if you are caught, which is quite serious.

April 1st, after five o'clock in the afternoon.

Xu Qiu and Han Jiaying had dinner at the Braised Beef Noodle Restaurant outside Jiangwan School, and went to Xiancai to meet Wei Xingsi and Wu Feifei.

Xu Qiu carried a computer bag, which contained a laptop, a U-shaped pillow, slippers and other items, and a small suitcase, which contained several changes of coats, socks, underwear, a spare pair of shoes, and charging appliances, power converters, food, and more.

As for important items such as mobile phones, passports, US dollar cash, and credit cards, Xu Qiu always carried them with him.

Moreover, in order to prevent accidents, Xu Qiu, Han Jiaying, and Wu Feifei all took photos of their passports and visa pages with their mobile phones, and forwarded them to each other and saved them.

In this way, in case someone loses his passport or mobile phone, he can at least have a way to prove his identity.

Otherwise, in a foreign country, the situation may be very bad.

Han Jiaying's luggage is also a computer bag, plus a suitcase, but her suitcase is very big, it is designed to challenge the limit of the plane's consignment.

Not only that, but the school girl's suitcase is still bulging, which is the kind that is difficult to close once it is opened.

Xu Qiu watched helplessly last night as she stuffed more than a dozen pieces of clothes, as well as various cosmetics in large and small bags.

Then the school girl sat on the side of the suitcase, trying her best to zip up the suitcase.

It's really hard for her...

Wu Feifei is also a computer bag, plus a suitcase. Her suitcase is also large, which is comparable to that of schoolgirls. Maybe girls will carry more luggage when they travel.

Like Xu Qiu, Wei Xingsi packed light and simple, carrying a briefcase with a thin and light Fruit brand laptop inside, and a medium-sized suitcase.

After the four-person team from the beautiful country business trip arrived, Wei Xingsi waved his hand: "Let's go, I have reserved a special car to take us to the airport, and the driver is already waiting for us at the side gate of the Jiangwan campus."

Teacher Wei came to the school by car, but he did not choose to drive to the airport by himself, mainly because the parking fee at the airport is a bit expensive. If you want to park for seven days, it is estimated that the cost will be hundreds or even thousands of dollars. It is better to go back and forth It's called online car-hailing, which is cost-effective.

The Internet is indeed constantly changing people's way of life.

For example, when Mr. Wei first returned to China, he was used to calling and sending emails to communicate, and when traveling, he drove by himself.

But now, Wei Xingsi is gradually advancing with the times, using WeChat and online car-hailing.

WeChat, in particular, is very friendly to scientific researchers, a group that needs transnational voice and video calls.

For example, Xu Qiu and Wu Feifei usually chat with Feng Shengdong in Sweden. It is very convenient to use WeChat voice chat. They don’t need to spend a lot of money to make cross-border calls, and only need to pay some negligible data charges.

However, WeChat is not a panacea. If you want to have a real-time voice chat with a pure foreigner, such as Ronlad, you need to use MSN or other non-instant chat methods to communicate.

The driver of the private car drove very smoothly, and the service was also good. He quickly sent the four-person business trip team from Meiliguo to Terminal T2 of Shanghai Pudong Airport.

After getting out of the car, Wei Xingsi first said: "Let's go get the portable WIFI that we ordered before, so that you can use the Internet in the beautiful country. Although there will be wireless in the MRS venue and the hotel, if you go out, It’s very inconvenient without internet.”

Afterwards, Teacher Wei led the crowd all the way around, and finally found a place to pick up the portable WIFI in a corner.

Wei Xingsi showed the online reservation voucher to the staff, and got a black box, which was about the size of a mobile phone, and also came with a charger.

"This is unavailable in China, and you need to turn it off after you get on the plane. You can use it as WIFI when you arrive in the beautiful country." Wei Xingsi handed the portable WIFI to Xu Qiu for safekeeping, and ordered: "Go Pretty Country, just follow the steps above, it’s very simple.”

Xu Qiu took the portable WIFI, studied it a bit, and found that there is a switch and an indicator light on it, which is currently in the off state, and the WLAN name and password are marked on the back of it.

Although I can't see the internal structure of the box, Xu Qiu blindly guessed that the principle should be similar to using the SIM card of the beautiful country to open a hotspot. The box itself is equivalent to a router. As long as it is turned on, there will be a signal. Network name, and then enter the password to connect and use.

In addition, the box is specially marked with "Do not open in the country". Xu Qiu has no idea of ​​​​opening the device to try it out. If it is opened in China, it will probably be like enabling international roaming. If it is not good, you will need to pay an extra fee.

After putting away the portable WIFI, Wei Xingsi took Xu Qiu and the others to print the boarding pass and check in the luggage.

The two-step process is similar to what Xu Qiu experienced when he took the plane twice during the winter vacation. There are no extra steps because it is an international flight.

However, the plane that Xu Qiu took this time was bigger than the one that Xu Qiu took back home.

The specific model is Boeing 787-9, which can carry nearly 300 passengers. There are three rows of seats in the economy class, each with 3 people, and a row can seat a total of 9 people.

There are 30 seats in the business class, but the ticket price of the business class is too expensive. For non-business people, it is difficult to afford it. The round trip of the business class costs 5W soft sister coins, which is about 5 times that of the economy class. .

Xu Qiu and the others naturally bought the economy class. When choosing seats, because they came earlier, there were many vacant seats to choose from.

In the end, Xu Qiu, Han Jiaying, and Wu Feifei sat in a row, with Xu Qiu in the middle, Han Jiaying by the window, and Wu Feifei by the corridor.

Wei Xingsi chose the position directly in front of Wu Feifei. As a mentor, he is still very self-aware, and he didn't intentionally get together with the students.

In that case, each other may feel uncomfortable.

Next, the four passed through the security check and began a long waiting time.

Although the time spent in the sky by plane is indeed very short, the waiting time on the ground is still quite long.

If it is a short-to-medium-distance flight, the time spent by air is not much shorter than that of high-speed rail and bullet trains.

For example, it takes four and a half hours by high-speed rail from the capital city of Shanghai, but it takes just over two hours by plane. If you count the waiting time for the plane, the difference between the plane and the train is actually not that big.

Moreover, during the waiting time, you can only stay inside the airport. If you are a business person, you may be able to make phone calls, reply to emails, and negotiate business. It's time to pass the time by chasing dramas and reading books.

If you want to take a stroll in the airport, you will deeply realize the gap between rich and poor in this world.

Not to mention all kinds of luxury stores, the marked prices often make people wonder whether the store has added an extra zero or even two zeros.

The prices of restaurants are also exaggerated.

Xu Qiu originally thought that it would be very expensive to sell a bowl of beef noodles at the train station for 50 soft sister coins, until he saw a ramen shop in the airport, a beef noodle set meal, asking for 168 soft sister coins.

Moreover, the set meal is just a bowl of noodles, a side dish, and a bowl of soup, and there are only three pieces of braised beef in the noodle bowl.

Judging from the appearance, Xu Qiu feels that it is not as delicious as the bowl he bought in the school at night.

The key is that such a store does not lack customers, at least it has more traffic than the luxury store next door.

It is estimated that many people are catching a plane, or transiting, and have no time to go out to eat, so they have to eat at the airport as a last resort.

Due to the long waiting time, everyone chatted for a while. After there was no topic, Wei Xingsi took the lead to turn on his computer and began to watch American dramas.

Han Jiaying and Wu Feifei followed suit one after another, each opened software such as AQY, and started watching dramas.

Xu Qiu silently took out the phone, opened the starting point, and read the novel.

Compared with videos, Xu Qiu prefers text. A chapter of a novel can be read in a few minutes with a few thousand words. For the same content, a TV series can be played for 45 minutes. The information density is really low.

Anyway, when Xu Qiu watched TV dramas, especially domestic ones, the whole process felt slow at double speed.

Two hours later, it was finally time to board the plane.

The flight was also delayed this time, but it was not as exaggerated as Xu Qiu's delay when he returned home last time. The delay was only about ten minutes.

Everyone lined up, boarded the plane in an orderly manner, and sat down in their respective seats.

Xu Qiu took out two inflatable U-shaped pillows and two pairs of couple slippers, put them under his feet, and put his backpack on the luggage rack.

After Wu Feifei saw their couple's slippers, she curled her lips, and silently took out a U-shaped pillow and a pair of pink slippers with Kitty sauce from her backpack.

Speaking of which, Wu Feifei and her previous boyfriend fell apart.

Now she has changed to a new one. It is said that she met during the test of the magic city light source. The other party took the initiative to add Wu Feifei's WeChat. Talking on the phone at the end of the corridor.

As for whether there was a causal relationship between these two events, Xu Qiu did not know.

After fastening his seat belt, Xu Qiu casually watched the crowd on the plane.

Most of the stewardesses are blond and blue-eyed... Aunt, they really have hot eyes.

There are only two stewardesses who look like domestic ones. Although they are not good looking, they are at least much better than the aunt.

It may be that people of different cultures, ages, and genders have different aesthetics.

What Xu Qiu saw was like Miss World, supermodels, and occasional models that appeared on the homepage of Taobao. About 90% of them he couldn't appreciate, which made him doubt his own aesthetics for a while.

It wasn't until he told Han Jiaying about this doubt that he got the approval of the school girl and let him know that he wasn't the only one who thought this way.

Among the passengers, a small half were foreigners, and a small half looked like university professors who flew over to attend the MRS conference. The rest were mainly business people, basically no tourists dressed as tourists.

After all, it is April, and most people are not likely to get together to travel to the beautiful country during this time period.