Chapter 30

After Michael's concert, he and his team decided to stay in the country for another two months.

His next concert will be held in South Korea, which borders South Korea, in three months. The team will handle the pre-concert preparations, and he only needs to go to rehearse a month before the concert. The two months in between are theoretically his personal time. He originally planned to take advantage of this time to go to the Arctic to see the aurora, but now he has changed his mind.

He decided to stay in the Flower Country. The changes in the Flower Country were too great. He realized that he had never really understood the Flower Country, so he decided to take advantage of this holiday to have a good time there.

Mike's team members also supported his idea; they hadn't had enough of riding the flying cars in Flower Country yet.

After being stopped by the traffic police in the Flower Country last time, he realized that the air traffic system in the Flower Country was already very well-established. You need to take a special driving test to fly, there are speed limits in the air, and you can't drive illegally, otherwise you will be invited for tea by the traffic police.

Their actions that day constituted serious violations of driving without a license and speeding. As a result, their newly purchased flying car was impounded after only twenty minutes of driving. The traffic police in the country said they needed to pay a fine, learn about air traffic regulations, and pass an exam before they could retrieve their vehicle.

Besides preparing for his concert, Mike spent the last bit of time learning Mandarin and studying for his traffic management exam.

Oh my god, the language of the Flower Country is really hard to learn.

Fortunately, he managed to memorize the exam questions by rote, passed the exam at a low altitude, and successfully retrieved his flying car.

The assistant hesitated about the decision to stay in the Flower Kingdom.

"But if we don't go to the Arctic, we won't be able to fulfill our promise to our fans about the Arctic aurora vlog."

Even international superstars need to interact with fans to maintain their loyalty. Making promises to fans and then going back on them can easily disappoint fans and cause them to be dissatisfied.

"Don't worry, Jem. My sweethearts want to see Mike go out and have fun. The focus is on Mike, not where he goes. Even if I stay in my room for the whole vacation, they will never be angry as long as they can see me in the vlog."

Okay, Jem admits that Mike is telling the truth.

"So you're changing your travel vlog location to the Flower Country, right?"

"Of course, I have to show my fans something interesting and unique, and haven't you noticed that I'm already doing it?"

Jim had noticed that Mike had been recording videos with a camera ever since the day he bought the flying car. He originally thought it was just Mike recording his personal life, but he didn't expect it to be preparation for the upcoming vlog.

"I will arrange for a dedicated filming crew to take over the filming work."

Mike's team's first stop was Beijing.

This is the capital of the Flower Kingdom, rich in history and culture, and boasts magnificent and expansive scenery. Mike had visited Beijing once before when he traveled to the Flower Kingdom, but those magnificent ancient buildings made it well worth a second visit.

As soon as I got off the plane and walked out of the airport, I saw flying cars and Jile Cloud parked in an orderly manner outside the airport.

As expected of the capital city, the number of flying cars and Jade Clouds is significantly greater than in Hibiscus City.

Mike's flying car landed in Hibiscus City. After landing in Beijing, his assistant still arranged for a hotel car to pick him up. However, this time the car was not any luxury car, but a flying car that he specifically requested.

Ever since they rode the flying car, they could no longer tolerate the congestion and detours of ground transportation.

The group still walked to the parking lot through the VIP entrance.

However, Mike changed his mind as soon as he arrived at the parking lot.

"Look, what's that?" Mike had been learning Chinese lately, and his first words came out in Chinese without thinking.

Following Mike's voice, everyone looked and saw a towering tower standing outside the parking lot, with three platforms of different heights set up on it like diving platforms.

At this time, every platform was full of people. In less than a minute, a bus came from the distance and came to a steady stop on the platform. After the people on the platform boarded the bus, it sped away.

The hotel driver, a native of Beijing, answered the question when his customer asked, remembering how much the manager valued these guests.

"Oh, that's a station for the Skybus. A month ago, these things suddenly started being built all over Beijing. Everyone was curious at the time, wondering what they were doing."

"It wasn't until the bus route map was displayed in front of the platform that everyone realized that Beijing was going to build an aerial shuttle. Everyone was excited when the news came out. The flying car and the Jile Cloud cost over 100,000 yuan. Where can ordinary people afford to buy that? The country has already developed the aerial shuttle, but because of the lack of money, no one has ever experienced it. Can you believe it?"

"The air bus thing has been circulating online for over ten days, but it wasn't confirmed until two days ago. It's normal for you foreigners not to know this unless you're in the country. Look at the line of people over there, they're all here to experience air transportation. They don't want to take empty cars, they'd rather squeeze onto air transportation. A few of my taxi-driving friends have been complaining to me about how bad business has been lately."

Several foreigners who weren't good at Mandarin: ...

Their gaze shifted to the translator. It was one thing for those who couldn't understand the language not to follow news from South Korea, but how could a South Korean translator not know about this?

The translator felt wronged, as no one had told him that his job included surfing the internet and gathering information.

"We also want to experience the sky bus."

"Huh? But the air bus just came out, and everyone wants to experience something new, so it will be very crowded." Before coming, the driver heard from the young ladies at the hotel reception that he was picking up some international superstar, and that someone had asked him to help get an autograph. Before coming, the manager repeatedly told him to serve this VIP well. Now that the superstar is not taking his car and is going to take the bus, won't he get scolded by his boss?

"It's okay, I believe it will be a completely new experience."

Mike opened his suitcase, wrapped himself up tightly, leaving only his eyes showing, and strode confidently toward the air station.

The rest of the team weren't as famous as Mike, so there was no need for disguise. They just quickly helped put the luggage in the car, and then I ran after Mike.

Why!

The driver, Er Kang, tried to stop him.

However, the several tall and burly foreigners only had the air shuttle in their minds and eyes, and paid no attention to the driver behind them.

"Hey manager, the person you asked me to pick up didn't answer."

"Why didn't you pick it up? Was the flight delayed? Or do you not know anyone?"

"No, they just left their luggage here and went to take the bus."

manager:"……"

“Those foreigners know how to ride the public bus in this country, don’t get lost. Go and follow them and see. Leave the car outside the airport for now, I’ll have someone drive it later.”

Although the driver was a bit old, he was very agile and quickly caught up with Mike's team at the end of the long queue.

The air bus started operating in Beijing three days ago. The average fare is one yuan higher than that of ground transportation. Since it started operating, long queues have formed in front of the bus stops every day.

There are plenty of people who want to experience the air bus, so a one-dollar price increase is not a problem at all.

People have shifted to air travel, and the roads are indeed less congested than before.

His son also said that the subway and buses were much more spacious in the morning, but given Beijing's large population, the space wasn't much more spacious; it was just a significant improvement compared to before.

Mike and his group were at the back of the line. Thanks to his height of nearly 1.9 meters, he could easily see the line stretch from the platform to the parking lot and even turn a corner.

Fortunately, although there were many people in line, the air shuttle buses departed frequently, and with the driver's guidance, their queue quickly moved to the platform.

The airport has three air traffic platforms, each at a different height: 20 meters, 30 meters, and 50 meters.

Platforms at different heights require taking different escalators to reach them.

For safety reasons, the entire platform is completely enclosed.

Mike and his group's final destination was the Versailles Hotel in the city center. Because the journey was too far, it required seven transfers from the airport to the hotel, and the last two legs of the trip did not have air transportation, so they had to combine it with ground public transportation to complete the entire journey.

As the escalator slowly ascended, Mike couldn't help but sigh at the towering bus stops and orderly vehicles in the distance, looking at the camera with admiration.

"I feel like I've arrived in a city of the future." Beijing is more prosperous than Hibiscus City, and there are more flying cars in the sky. Coupled with the neon lights outside the transparent glass of the bus stop, it has a cyberpunk feel to it.

For safety reasons, the escalator at the 50-meter escalator platform is divided into four sections. Mike followed the crowd onto the platform.

There were many people, but the bus arrived quickly. In just three minutes, the bus that Mike and his friends needed to take arrived at the station.

The airport station was the first stop, and Mike was lucky enough to snag a window seat.

The crowd surged into the carriage.

Exclamations of amazement filled the air; almost everyone who boarded took out their phone to take pictures, and some even posed for photos with their companions to capture the moment.

It was crowded and noisy, but it had a lively, down-to-earth atmosphere.

This scene was faithfully captured by Mike's camera.

The car started moving.

Passengers taking their first flight gripped the handrails tightly, their eyes fixed on the scenery outside the window.

The bus was suspended in mid-air, with speeding cars and clouds rushing past overhead. Below it were other buses and clouds drifting leisurely. At the very bottom were roads leading in all directions, with traffic moving rapidly ahead.

The aerial camera rotates, searching for any vehicles that may be in violation.

This scene is so futuristic that only those who have witnessed it can truly grasp the reality of a nation possessing its own air transportation.

Just as the bus was about to reach the stop, the passengers suddenly heard the wailing of an ambulance, and everyone instinctively looked in the direction of the sound.

An ambulance sped towards us from about 100 meters in the sky. It weaved through the traffic and came to a steady stop on a section of the highway where a rear-end collision had occurred. As soon as the ambulance came to a stop, two paramedics got out and quickly lifted the injured person into the vehicle. Then the ambulance started up and sped away again with a whooshing sound.

After the ambulance left, the passengers in the car started discussing it.

"That's the new ambulance flying car from Hongqi Piao. With the flying ambulance, the kind of delays in treatment caused by traffic on the road will never happen again."

"Have you seen the news? The 50 to 100-meter altitude is a dedicated lane for ambulances, fire trucks, and police vehicles. Ordinary vehicles cannot fly at that altitude."

"I've seen this news. A few days ago, an electric bicycle exploded in a residential area in Beijing, causing a fire. The fire truck drove over via a special lane. It seems that what would normally be a 20-minute drive on the ground was covered by the truck in just 5 minutes. Because they arrived in time, the fire was prevented from getting worse."

"This is great. There will never be another tragedy caused by traffic jams and delayed rescue and disaster relief."

Mike was busy before, and driving the speeding car was just to satisfy his curiosity and seek thrills.

This was the first time I'd ever sat on a bus and listened to ordinary people in the Flower Kingdom discuss how flying cars have changed their lives.

Undoubtedly, the emergence of flying cars is of great significance in improving quality of life and enabling rapid handling of emergencies.

It would be great if flying cars could be popularized in the United States, but it seems that the United States has banned their export.

After a long and winding journey, we finally arrived at the hotel.

Because they had to change trains several times, their luggage had already been returned by the time they arrived at the hotel.

The lobby manager arranged for a waiter to help carry the luggage to the guest room.

"My luggage is very heavy, I suggest that two more people come to help carry it."

Before Mike could finish speaking, the waiter stuck a round object on the bottom of the box, and then the heavy box floated up, defying gravity, and was easily carried upstairs by the thin waiter.

"What is this again?" He had been staying in the Flower Kingdom for a while, except for holding a concert in the middle. How come the world has changed again just after he finished?

"This is a flight thruster. Attach it to the object you want to move, and you can easily move heavy things."

"Where can we buy this?" This thing is extremely important to his team. In order to achieve the best singing effect, the sound system for his concerts is custom-made top-of-the-line sound equipment. Every time he carries this equipment to a concert, his biggest worry is that it will be bumped and knocked. If they had this, they wouldn't have to worry about the equipment being too heavy and being accidentally broken by the workers when they move it.

The waiter was very honest, saying, "You can receive it from Hongqi Piao's official stores on Douyin and Taobao."

Mike and his team spent the entire night at the hotel fiddling with the online shopping app, and after a lot of effort, they finally managed to place an order for the flight booster.

The next morning, the group went to their first stop in Beijing.

Go to the Red Leaf Park to see the autumn leaves.

On the way there, Mike, as someone who had been through it all, gave the team some advice.

"Climbing Red Leaf Mountain is hard work, guys. The first time I went, it took me a full six hours. But although it's difficult, the view from the top is amazing – the endless red leaves are breathtaking! You'll definitely find it worth it."

Someone asked, "Isn't there a cable car?"

"Dude, when you get to the Red Leaf Park, you'll find that the cable car line stretches from the park all the way to the city. There are just too many people. We can climb the mountain ourselves and breathe in the fresh air of the forest. That's great, isn't it?"

Thanks to Mike's warning, the team was prepared for tough challenges, but when they arrived at the scenic area, they found that things weren't as they expected.

"The flying sightseeing bus was originally 100 per person, but now it's only 80! It will take you on a 360-degree panoramic experience of the stunning autumn leaves. We'll depart as soon as everyone is there, so hurry up!"

"Flying wings for rent, 50 yuan per hour! Flying wings for rent, 50 yuan per hour! Soar like a bird and experience a different kind of travel!"

"Has tourism in the Flower Country become like this?"

Mike and his group, who were already prepared to climb the mountain, were dumbfounded.