Chapter 682: Hilarious Security Check
Can't you just throw money at a bunch of guys like this to pick up girls? Xiao Peng almost said "surrender and lose half".
This is Europe, after all! People's aesthetic standards are there, and Xiao Peng has no hope of winning if he doesn't talk about money. But a man's dignity is there, and admitting defeat is impossible. Xiao Peng gritted his teeth and challenged them once more!
Xiao Peng really didn't understand why these Europeans were so addicted to dancing wildly. Most of them were dressed like Santa Claus and were dancing vigorously. Some of them even took off their coats when they got so hot from dancing that they went out lightly.
However, the wild disco here is different from the electronic music festival that Xiao Peng used to attend - there are also many young black people here.
Despite the popularity of European electronic music festivals, if you pay attention, you'll find fewer Black people than Asians... Even if even one in a thousand Black people attend, it's pretty good! This might be due to economic factors, or perhaps different musical preferences. Xiao Peng couldn't figure out why this was the case.
Xiao Peng felt that economic factors were more important.
After all, tickets to European electronic music festivals aren't cheap! The cheapest ones can cost over a hundred euros, and the prices for large-scale electronic music festivals like 'TomorrowLand' are even more outrageous!
Take 'TomorrowLand' as an example. The official price of tickets is generally around 300 euros, but they are basically out of stock and have to be bought through scalpers. The three-day ticket price is better in the early stage, at most it is doubled or something, but later on you may have to pay ten times the price and still can't buy it!
The prices here are not bad, at least Xiao Peng can buy the ticket directly: 169 euros excluding consumption tax. This price is really not acceptable to everyone.
But Xiao Peng understood one thing: this was a small electronic music festival. The circus-like parades he'd encountered during the day were a warm-up for the festival. He could still see them here. Outside the venue stood a group of people dressed like toy soldiers from "The Nutcracker," beating snare drums to the rhythm of the music.
Although this is a 'small' electronic music festival and the weather is not very good, there are still about 10,000 people coming - this is really a 'small' electronic music festival. Large-scale festivals like 'TomorrowLand' can have 200,000 people dancing together. Wouldn't that be fun?
Knowing this was a small electronic music festival, Xiao Peng finally understood why there were so many beautiful women: "If you want to see beautiful women in Europe, an electronic music festival is the right place to go." You'll notice that nearly every girl at an electronic music festival is dressed to the nines, and they're basically internet celebrities from around the world, brought here by various sponsors to take photos and post them online to attract attention. Many men do the same, especially those with muscular bodies, who are often bodybuilding influencers. Fitness influencers are all the rage in Europe!
Anyway, most of the people you see here holding selfie sticks or wearing GoPro cameras on their heads are internet celebrities.
Xiao Peng bought his ticket, received a wristband proving his purchase, and entered the venue. Because it was a competition, they'd agreed to enter separately. He was a man, after all, and he didn't want to lose, right? But he hadn't figured out where to start. His only thought was: Is the security here kidding me?
He didn't know that he was going to attend this kind of electronic music festival, so he didn't change his clothes. He wore a down jacket and a ski cap, with his pistol in his arms. As a result, the staff here didn't check what was in his clothes. When they saw that Xiao Peng was holding a bottle of mineral water, they confiscated the bottle cap of Xiao Peng's mineral water and let Xiao Peng in!
This also made Xiao Peng extremely helpless. "You didn't check me for carrying a gun, but you confiscated my bottle cap? You are so cruel!"
In fact, this is also an unwritten rule of European electronic music festivals. When you buy water here, there are no bottle caps. The reason is to prevent people from throwing bottles filled with water around and hurting others. This is really speechless. Are water bottles more powerful than guns?
However, Xiao Peng felt that they were more likely to do this to sell "camel backpacks", which are a kind of backpack carried on the back. In fact, it is a water bag. You can drink water with a straw while dancing. The product is very good and the price is even "good".
In fact, Chinese people would find security checks in most other countries a joke. Take, for example, the US. After something as dramatic as 9/11, how could they not prioritize security? American airline security is incredibly strict these days: their purpose-built TSA (Transportation Security Administration) has established a series of incredibly stringent security regulations.
For example, five-inch scissors can't be brought on board, but four-inch ones are allowed. Five-inch scissors are weapons, while four-inch scissors are children's toys. To prevent liquid bombs, they can't bring more than 3.5 ounces of liquid on board, but 3.4 ounces is fine. They can't bring regular toothpaste on board, but they can bring small travel-sized toothpaste.
This was a high-intensity security regulation enacted after events like 9/11, so you can imagine what it was like there. As for Europe, having not experienced something like 9/11, security in most places can be described as "dispensable."
Although the scale of this electronic music festival is not very large, it is definitely well-organized and the atmosphere is quite good. In addition to the toy soldiers playing the snare drums, there are also common circus performances such as "flying men" and "fire-breathing" on both sides of the DJ booth.
It really isn't easy for these people performing live. Even though they wear flesh-colored leggings to keep warm, these clothes are just not suitable for this weather!
Is it easy to make some money these days?
Especially the 'flying trapeze' performance is so thrilling: the high swing is built on the edge of the white cliff!
Although this is not the highest point of the "White Cliff" but is located in a valley, it is still more than 20 meters above the sea level. The swing can swing directly out of the cliff. It is terrifying to watch the "flying man" performing in such a place!
This is what it means to be talented and bold!
Xiao Peng suddenly remembered that Kaxin should have some "warm packs" and thought it would be a good idea to ask him to share them. However, when he turned around, his face was filled with gloom. In the crowd, Kaxin was already surrounded by girls and taking photos with them.
After the last 'close encounter with a great white shark', Kasim is really popular!
They couldn't recognize Xiao Peng but they could recognize Kasin: they didn't have cross-racial face blindness.
No wonder Kaxin Zhang, a man of his stature, dared to offer a bet to compete in picking up girls. Xiao Peng felt that he had been betrayed by Kaxin! Even Kaxin dared to betray him? Xiao Peng now felt that the world had brought him deep malice!
He was still thinking about how to trick Kasim, but at this moment a dance music came on and suddenly attracted Xiao Peng's interest.
"Huh? Why is there this song?"
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