Chapter 15 Express to the Future
"Please get off and then get on in an orderly manner, and take the train with your ticket ......"
A brand new train pulled into the platform and slowly stopped at the exact position - but it wasn't yet time to depart from the departure station, so it stopped on the platform and did nothing. As for the bilingual broadcast that reminds passengers www.biquge.info with the closed doors can actually render a lonely atmosphere.
It was an express train from Hirzi to Mendong that ran regularly three times a week – unlike the others, this train made only a few important stops on the Continental Cross Line, which was the worst of the journey, and was also a double railroad, so it was much faster than a regular train that stopped at every city.
Huang Yi exhaled hot air into the palm of his hand on the platform. Although the temperature in the winter was not lower than that of the inland, the humid sea breeze blowing from the sea penetrated deep into the bone marrow, which made him feel the cold for both of them.
"Hi, Mr. Huang, hello!"
The figure of another person on the platform waving hello was clear from the steam of another train along with his voice. "You're on this express too?"
Only then did Huang Translator see the man's face clearly, and said with emotion: "It's you." It's been a long time. ”
The person who came was none other than Frank, who had worked in the intelligence department of the Elta army. After the end of the battle in Lancas, after he transferred from the intelligence department of the Elta Army, Frank first went to China with a third group of cadets for a year-long and systematic study, and then rushed to East Elta to take up a key position in the Imperial Ministry of Industry.
At this time, the end of the year is approaching, and for Frank, this period is an important node to return to the new capital to report on his work. But this year's New Year and the beginning of next year will be a temporary farewell for almost all Chinese working in another world.
Since the portal incident, time has flown by, and five years are just a straight line - Huang Yuan looked at the student he hadn't seen for many years, and he couldn't help but feel the emotion in his stomach, and he exploded on this narrow and spacious train.
Stepping into the first class cabin of the train, the two of them were still talking - and Frank simply communicated with the conductor, and gave up another position to another businessman who was supposed to sit opposite Huang Yiyi, and after doing all this himself, he sat down peacefully opposite Huang Yiyi.
"Didn't Mr. Huang go to that plane?" As a key member of Elta's government, Frank had a vague idea that a charter flight would exist at the end of the year to transport these special passengers. Although the first-class carriage was not yet fully filled, the vast majority of passengers were Elta of all colors, and there were very few Chinese passengers like Huang Yiyi.
"No," Huang Yuan waved his hand, "Actually, we are handing over in batches, our first batch of civilians to contact the Bilunar Planet should be handed over before the end of this year, and the engineering and technical ones will leave in batches before October next year." Actually, if I want to say it early, I should be the first batch. ”
"You people are going back to China this time, won't they come back after that?" Although he knew that this was for the sake of Elta, and even the entire planet and the stability of the personnel system in China, Frank was naturally a little reluctant to this former mentor and colleagues. "Although the public information says that it is five years...... But I don't think you'll be coming back in five years. ”
This is naturally true. Most young people don't see this place as a destination, but as a "gilded" process. Every year they arrive here will be rewarded with double seniority in the next five years, as well as more room for training and promotion than in China. Every penny of their work here will not be in vain, and every bit of their achievements will be brought home intact or even doubled.
And although Elta has a large space and cheap housing prices, is it possible to provide good living facilities? Can it provide a good living circle? Most of these young people's goals are to start a family, and they will eventually return to China for the comfort of their own lives and the growth space of the next generation - without the mandatory five-year period, they themselves look forward to returning to the land they are familiar with.
"That being said, there are exceptions." While deftly avoiding the topic, Huang Translator suddenly showed a strange smile at him, "You should know." Thousands of gentlemen are crying for it......"
"Mr. Zeng?" Frank was stunned for a moment, then smiled heartily. "That guy. Many men in our unit are eager to make him a scarecrow, and they stick steel needles into ...... every day."
Huang Yiyi smiled even more weirdly. On the bilunar planet, there are actually very few ordinary Chinese who know the secret of the "elf", but he is even one of them.
As he spoke, his fingers slid across the screen of his tablet, and he quickly found the wedding photo. In the encirclement and congratulations of the elves on one side and the Chinese on the other, it was Daviv, who was dressed in white yarn, and Zeng Zhizhang, who smiled like a 200-pound demented child. The photograph was a standard social news item for Elta's news agencies at the time, to celebrate the birth of the couple, who had crossed the human and the "elf".
"Hey, that's him." Facing the turnaround tablet, Frank pointed to the figure above and shouted. "A lot of people have asked their Chinese colleagues to strip the 'damn man' profile picture and replace it with their own...... Hey, she's so beautiful. It's the kind of beauty that can't be described in words...... I haven't heard of a man with such a blessing for thousands of years......"
I haven't been able to marry someone from another world Chinese before...... Huang Translator secretly complained in his heart. It is forbidden for any person of Chinese nationality to marry with a person from another world, whether in name or in substance. Of course, there are inevitably Chinese and Elta people who have been in love for a long time, but the relevant departments give them only one answer: hold back.
Of course, marriage is not out of the question – but what will this seemingly beautiful policy ultimately bring? You only need to take a look at the demon capital Yuexiu a few years ago, or the current capital of Western Australia, Flushing, to know what the ups and downs are.
A household registration that can go through the portal and go to China across the door for permanent residence, and can legally enjoy medical care, employment and other social security is a huge wealth that is unattainable for the Elta people.
Whatever wealth is based on inequality, then that wealth will bring about social problems commensurate with the size of the wealth - in other words, what will happen around the hukou status before the gap between the two societies has narrowed to a certain point?
In the name of marriage, Chinese will lure the Elta people into playing black workers whose treatment and environment are extremely miserable (in fact, sometimes black workers are the target). This matter is not far away, and it mostly occurred in China in the eighties and nineties of the twentieth century); Or play some tricks that start and end up, and "hunt for beauty" with your own identity in this vast different world......
Whatever the direction of the tragedy, the ultimate question is obvious: whatever the form of the tragedy is seen in the world, it is nothing else, and that is the tragedy itself. In order for these tragedies that have happened to happen again, the Chinese can only let their feelings be limited by severe punishment and strict laws, and forcibly isolate their feelings with iron walls.
As for the reason for Zeng Zhizhang and others to break the ban regardless of nationality, it is also very simple: these "elves" are not attractive to the gap between the two sides, and the social gap between the two sides is bearable and indistinguishable for them......
In a few words, the express train had already left the platform and accelerated all the way to the west. Huang Yuan looked at the scenery outside the window, and threw the chatter of the person opposite to the clouds for a while.
From the modern city of Hilqi, the city and the suburbs soon flashed away, leaving endless fields and canals, interspersed with pitiful-looking wooden and mud houses......
That's right, the vast majority of Elta is still the same. The wounds of the war have not yet been completely dissolved - although nearly five years have passed since the war of division on the continent of Elta, and the previous picture of the prosperity of the Siravian dynasty has long since disappeared, but the dawn of a new era has not yet fallen on the whole land - in terms of the scenery that can be seen from this car window, the gap between Elta and China across the door is still very large.
And the continent on the other side of the portal, like the entire bilunar planet, is gradually struggling to form a complete body from the war and pain. The forces supported by several powers, including China, gradually pacified the western and northern parts of the continent and joined forces with the resistors in southern and eastern Europe. But the horrors on the continent were worse than those on the land of Elta, and almost only the Black Death and the bubonic plague could compare to them: high-rise buildings, streets and bridges were largely destroyed in the fierce tug-of-war between urban areas; Trees of greenery and forests were cut down in large batches by the occupiers of the continent for heating fuel; What was once a farm and pasture has been turned into a scorched earth burned by the war......
The liberators drove back to their hometowns in VT1A, T72 Chop, ZTE pickups, and Hino pickups provided by the Great Powers, and the sight brought tears to their eyes. Their brethren had been given the most brutal, but indeed the most utter relief, but they had no choice but to pick up the tools they had laid down for so long in this land, take on the debts of the great powers, and resume the pioneering work that their ancestors had done hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Compared to them, he and the Elta people are lucky. Huang Translator sighed and continued to look at Frank, who was still rummaging through the tablet for a jade photo of the "elf".