Markel and his family were packing their luggage.
"Oh my God, why did you pack the bulletproof vests? We are going to China to watch the Olympics, not to fight." Markel's wife was surprised.
Markel, whose hair had turned gray, said seriously: "Honey, it is precisely because we are going to China that I must bring these things. Have you forgotten what we did to China? What attitude did we have towards the Chinese when we met them in China! This time we will definitely be targeted by them, so this is a necessary protective measure."
His wife said helplessly: "Oh my God, Markel, you are so out of date, what time is this... I heard that China is very safe and the people there are very friendly - at least that's what the Internet says."
"How much of the news on the Internet is true? I don't believe those videos shot in China. They are exaggerating too much." Markel insisted on packing a complete set of survival equipment into the suitcase, including flashlights, compressed biscuits, energy drinks, and medical kits. "I know you are watching news about China all day, but virtual reality is different. You'd better be prepared to be disappointed."
Seeing that her husband couldn't hear her at all, the wife shrugged and said she was helpless.
The two of them went out with their luggage and saw a dirty homeless man on the steps at the door. The stench hit them in the face, making their good mood fall to the bottom.
"Hey! Watch out! This is not your doghouse! Get out of here!" Markel waved his fist angrily: "You damn maggots, can't you find a job to support yourself!"
"Wait, Markel, he has black hair!" his wife reminded.
Markel was stunned and stopped when he was about to kick the homeless man.
The homeless man, who seemed to be still young, woke up from his sleep in a daze and found that two foreigners were staring at him. He protected his head reflexively and shouted: "I am Chinese! Don't hit me!"
Markel hesitantly retracted his legs. He
muttered softly, "Chinese?"
His wife was a little puzzled: "This is completely different from my impression of Chinese people..."
Markel suddenly became energetic and said to his wife beside him: "See, I said that everything on the Internet is fake! It's the video effects that China reversed with that quantum computer! Real Chinese people are all like this! I have dealt with Chinese people in the past, and they were really terrible back then!"
The wife thought for a while and said, "No, I still think it's all true. Maybe this person is lying, he is not Chinese at all."
The wife said reasonably: "Everyone in the world knows that China treats its people very well. , all the overseas Chinese have returned to their own countries, and there are very few working outside... This man must not be Chinese, he is just using this method to protect himself."
Markel listened and muttered: "Okay, then he is really a genius, knowing how to use tiger skin to protect himself - you'd better leave me immediately!"
The tramp listened to the conversation in front of him with a complicated expression, and got up from the ground in a daze, repeating in Chinese: "I am Chinese, I am Qian Lu, I am Chinese, I am Qian Lu... Why... Why..." Mr. and
Mrs. Markel looked at this madman walking away with a puzzled look on their faces, and then quickly forgot about him.
Standing in the airport lobby, Markle looked at the words jumping on the big screen and asked his wife: "Why do some flights from Country E to China take more than ten hours, while others only take four hours? This is too exaggerated!"
His wife patted Markle on the shoulder: "The ones that take four hours are all Chinese planes. You see, I said that China's technology is very special."
Markle opened his mouth for a while, and then he found a suitable reason: "Of course our planes can do this, but because The plane from a few years ago is not damaged, so it is still in service! We have always been environmentally friendly!"
The wife said helplessly: "Okay, I'll see if you can still say this when you arrive in China. However, let's go and change the plane ticket to a Chinese flight, I don't want to take a plane for more than ten hours."
Markel looked at his wife's gray hair, and he would not be stubborn on this point. He said considerately: "Okay, I'll go now."
They spent some money to change the plane ticket, and more than an hour later, the two boarded the plane to China.
"Oh, this place is so comfortable and beautiful." As soon as they stepped into the plane, they saw the spacious, bright and comfortable interior. The wife said to her husband happily: "Let's take Chinese flights when we travel in the future. The price is not much different, but the speed is faster and the experience is more comfortable... My God! They even have a tablet computer in front of each seat! I've heard of this thing a long time ago. Lucia next door has one, but she was reluctant to take it out to share with us. Look at its thickness, it's even thinner than a calendar!"
Mark said with a serious look. Zhang Lian said, "Oh, this is just a superficial effort. China must show its best to foreign guests. I have seen through the scheme here a long time ago... There are movies in the tablet? Oh... There is even "Star Trek", and the resolution is so high..."
Under his wife's smiling eyes, Mark quickly forgot his position while holding the tablet. He leaned comfortably on the armchair made of unknown materials but very comfortable. He put on headphones that had no connection but could hear sound. He spent four hours very happily.
Yoshi's plane arrived at the airport. The husband, who had travel experience, put his wife and his coat into the carry-on suitcase and said to his wife, "Take off your clothes. It's summer in China now."
They changed into cool clothes and felt a headache looking at the box full of fans and cooling equipment.
The wife chuckled and said, "The air conditioning here is very useful. It seems that the things you carefully prepared are no longer useful."
Mark insisted on taking out the small fan and said confidently, "This is an airport, of course there will be air conditioning. But it won't be like this after you go out."
"Oh, that's true." The wife thought her husband was right and helped take the things and water out of the box.
The two changed their clothes and got off the plane, following the crowd out.
A black-haired girl next to them raised her arm, and something suddenly popped out of her wrist, which scared the couple.
"What is that?"
Mark's shout attracted the attention of a group of people around him. The little girl looked at Mark in confusion, then looked at the light screen on her wrist, and explained to the people around her: "I'm just calling a car..." As
she was talking, she suddenly noticed the foreign faces of the two people opposite her, and suddenly said: "You don't know this? This is a personal terminal. In your understanding, it is probably... a mobile phone?"
The old man asked in doubt in Mandarin: "What are you talking about?"
The girl was stunned for a moment, then tapped her forehead to show that she suddenly understood. She opened the simultaneous translation software on the terminal and said, "I said, this is a personal terminal... Do you know what a terminal is? The one on top is a screen. It's really scary when you see it for the first time..."
"Oh! The end! This is the end!" Markel's wife rushed over excitedly, staring at the vivid projection that seemed real, and said excitedly: "I've seen it in the video before, and I couldn't tell it was three-dimensional! It's great to see it with my own eyes!"
Markel finally came to his senses and said in disbelief: "You said this is a screen? The screen shouldn't be thick, made up of metal plates and various electronic components..."
Markel muttered to himself, and carefully reached out to touch the thing parked in mid-air, but his finger actually passed directly through the middle, it was like magic!
"Oh my god! This is incredible!" Mark waved his hands around in the projection, but the image did not show any distortion, blur or confusion, as if there really was such a transparent phantom in it, which was completely different from the principle of slides. Mark racked his brains but could not imagine how this thing appeared and how it became like this.
The wife's cheeks were flushed with excitement and her eyes were shining. She said to Markel, "Honey, now you believe what I say, right?"
Markel was hesitant to answer, "I don't know yet. I have to wait and see."
"Haha, you guys are always so stubborn." The wife said to the girl, "Sorry to bother you."
The girl smiled slightly, her attitude was generous and friendly, "No, welcome to China, I wish you have fun."
Markel watched the girl walk away step by step, his mind subconsciously recalled what he did to the black-haired people around him when he was young, and suddenly he felt an indescribable strong sense of shame surging into his heart.
His wife didn't notice his change. She exclaimed "Wow", and rushed to the wall. Half of her palm passed through the propaganda slogans, guides, etc. on the wall, and said to Mark: "Mark! Look, these are also three-dimensional projections! It's amazing!"
Mark was slightly stunned, walked over to take a closer look, and was surprised: "It really is..."
The two walked and looked along the way. Although they didn't even leave the airport, they felt that they had seen something new that they hadn't seen for a year. Their eyes were dazzled.
When they were about to leave the airport, they noticed a group of people standing at the door with their gifts. They nodded at the three-dimensional images suspended on their wrists, and then found a seat to sit and rest contentedly, as if they had no intention of leaving at all.
Some people, whether they are on the phone or watching a video, will stop what they are doing without warning and walk out of the hall. They will stand outside the door for less than two seconds before a car drives over, and then the person opens the door and gets in the car... Everything seems to be very logical, but it just looks very strange.
Why can this person know in advance that a car will come soon? Why don't people scramble for this car or line up, but assume that this car belongs to the person who walked out?
They don't even have a license plate in their hands?
Markle asks himself that he has been to many places in the world and has seen a lot, but since he came to China, he really feels that he used to be like a frog in a well. He doesn't know this, doesn't understand that, his mind is dizzy, and he can't keep up with the rhythm at all.
He used to be very repulsive and even looked down on Chinese people. He said to a young man passing by with a little uncertainty: "Excuse me, what are they doing now?"
As he said this, he recalled a scene from his youth.
A yellow-skinned young man asked him for directions in broken Chinese, but he laughed at the man and said that he couldn't even read the road signs, and then deliberately pointed in the wrong direction.
Now this memory has become an embarrassing black history. He really doesn't know why he did this at the time.
Was it because the social atmosphere at that time was like this? He didn't feel that he had done anything wrong at that time... After all, China was very powerful at that time! He felt that he was right to be arrogant.
But now...
now he comes to China and asks the Chinese for directions, will he also encounter the same humiliation?
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