Chapter 4: The Ball
"That's your informant, and then the way you got us in?" Rick looked helpless. Next to Sam is a plumber in a blue uniform, in front of him is a manhole cover that has been removed, and below is the city's underground drainage facilities, XWY belongs to the monsoon climate, and the precipitation is mainly concentrated in summer, so the city's drainage facilities are relatively developed.
Looking at the well, Rick even wondered if Sam's body could get through. This is outside Lillian's mansion, which has a drain inside, Sam explained. It was also by chance that he learned about this passage that can be reached without going through the main entrance, but the air quality is not very good. The plumber was the first to go down, Rick followed, and Sam squeezed his body hard, finding that it was not easy for him to go down without the help of an outside force. Rick climbed two more U-shaped ladders and pulled Sam's leg down, and after some manipulation, Sam was successful, and there was not much smell in the pipe that Rick imagined.
Led by the plumber, after only a few rounds, the plumber stopped to signal that the top was inside, Rick climbed up and removed the manhole cover above, and found that it was indeed inside the manor, and Sam finally came up after paying the plumber the agreed fee below, and under Rick's jerk. The two quickly took out their backpacks and changed their clothes, Sam changed into a blue suspender pants and a white shirt on his upper body, the standard dress of a spiritual guy.
After changing their clothes, the two of them hid their backpacks under a leafy plant, and walked briskly in the direction of music, which belonged to the unattended area of the manor, except for the servants who took care of the flowers and plants, there were usually few people coming, and the sound of the dance came from the pool, and Sam couldn't wait. On the edge of the ball, Rick saw a lot of white tables and chairs, with expensive red wine and a lot of pastries, which were not very crowded, and the people were not yet full. Rick found a place where there were fewer people to sit down. At this time, just three bikini girls who were already wet came out of the pool not far away. This estate is large, uniform white style, in Hawaii, white is the mainstream color, many buildings are white, Honolulu as the capital city, naturally no exception.
A boy with big oily hair came over and sat down, "Hey, Bro, what do you call it?" ”
"Rick."
The three girls who came out of the pool just now also sat here from the table next to them, and it was obvious that these three girls were the female companions of this boy.
"My name is Jimmy, and I just recently came back from State J." Jimmy opened a bottle of red wine on the table, poured a glass for Rick and handed it over.
"Oh, then you must know a lot about ghosts!" Rick took the glass, and his interest rose. Because of the alien thing, it didn't have much to do with ordinary people like Rick, but now the world is different, and every small reform of the superstructure is closely related to everyone.
"Of course, I saw a black object slicing through the sky at a speed that no one could match! It's estimated that half of the people in State J have seen it with their own eyes. ”
"Then what do you think its appearance will bring us?" Rick had been thinking about this since the morning, and now he wanted to know what others thought.
"Of course, it's the progress of the whole world, my father worked for a semiconductor company in G-Valley, and now the people who work there, everyone can come up with their own ideas, and there is a team of professionals to make judgments on everyone's design ideas, and nearly half of the proposals have been adopted and put into research. Previously, this probability could not have been dreamed of. ”
"Do you think so too?"
"That's for sure, my mom is a senator, and she told me that in a year at most, there will be human space carriers drifting in the Earth's orbit, and our aircraft carriers will no longer be limited to the sea, which will be a great feat!"
With a glass of red wine, Rick looked into the distance, only to find a familiar figure, Pat and Lillian walking together, Pat said a few words to Lillian and walked towards the room.
Outside the pool, a few white speakers played soft music, a few girls jumped in, and a few decent nobles watched with interest. Jimmy poured himself another glass of wine.
"Rick, why are you here!" Sam patted Rick on the shoulder and sat next to Rick, who saw that Sam's mouth was full of white cream, and he couldn't help but laugh.
"Who is this?" Jimmy asked, looking at Sam.
"Oh, this is my friend, his name is Sam" Rick picked up the handkerchief on the table and slipped it into Sam's hand, then whispered in Sam's ear, "Wipe that damn oil paint off your mouth, you'll expose us!" ”
"Haha, he's usually like that, don't go outside" Rick explained as he looked at Jimmy, only to find that Jimmy had been staring at Sam.
"I remember, you're the painter named Sam, I've seen your work before, that oil painting of an alien raping an Earth girl!"
Rick and Sam were both stunned, but they didn't expect that Sam's mess would still be remembered. In his freshman year, Sam painted an oil painting and engraved a stamp of his name, which was originally meant to make everyone happy, but he didn't expect the painting to be lost by Sam and picked up by an unknown person in the school, and that guy let the whole school know through Facebook, and the computer major in the school also fleshed out a photo of Sam, and the oil painting became Sam's rape alien after PS, which made Sam a mess in the school. This incident is still a stain on Sam's life, but I didn't expect that someone still remembers it!
"Yes, yes, yes, I also remembered, I also forwarded it at the time!" One of Jimmy's closest blonde companions also suddenly remembered.
"Haha, I didn't expect you to remember!" Sam smiled awkwardly and leaned into Rick's ear, "What now?" ”
"It's okay, come on, this wine tastes good" Jimmy probably saw Sam's embarrassment, so he poured Sam a glass of red wine too, "Work No. 1, a bottle of six hundred dollars, it tastes good, I personally prefer this brand of red wine." Jimmy held up the bottle and showed it to Sam.
"Bingo" Rick's cell phone rang, and it was Mr. Pat calling, "Excuse me, I'll answer the phone." After Rick left his seat, the phone was answered, "Hello, Professor" Rick continued to walk forward.
"Well, you can come now, the time is ahead, let's go now, you are in the manor now, you come in the direction of the building area, there is a black Ford on the road, get in the car directly, try to hurry."
Found out on your own? Regardless of the number of things for now, "Okay" Rick hung up the phone after saying that, Mr. Pat was never in such a hurry, it should have been more anxious, Rick ran straight over, after passing through a few tree-lined paths, a wide arterial road appeared, and a black car was parked on the side of the main road, and after getting into the car, Mr. Pat sat in the back, to Rick's surprise, Lillian was actually in the passenger seat, and she was actually there. Without saying anything, the driver started the car and drove out through the gate of the villa complex.
"Don't be too inhibited, Sam, when you came in, the security staff found out, I was the person in charge of the ball, I sent out the invitations, every area that could have infiltrated the villa was equipped with pinhole cameras, and when I showed it to Lillian, her grandpa happened to be there, and he said he knew you two, don't worry about it. So, Sam, don't worry, you're our guest. Jimmy said as he opened another bottle of red wine.
The car drove directly into the TX Mountain International Airport, several men in black suits and sunglasses were waiting outside, as soon as the car stopped, they quickly stepped forward to open the door, after a few people got down, they led through the waiting hall directly to the airport, the black man and Rick got on a hitchhiker without a door, the hitchhiker drove straight to a passenger plane, the man in black and several people got on the plane together, and just sat down on the plane, the plane took off.
Rick and Pat sat together, and Lillian sat on the other side of the aisle, "The time is ahead of schedule, because there is a major discovery in X-Siberia, so the government has taken this expedition seriously, and originally only planned to send one passenger plane, but now due to various equipment and new members, another passenger plane and a transport plane have been sent" Pat was the first to break the silence and tell the reason for the urgency.
There were no extra words along the way, and Rick fell asleep after a while due to his first flight.
About ten hours later, the plane landed in NY, and when Luo called and asked why he hadn't returned that night, Rick told her that he was gone and told her not to worry. Rick dreams that he is descending sharply in the sky, and wakes up to find that the plane is landing, and it is gravity that makes Rick feel that way in his dream. Outside, the sky was completely covered in night, only the neon lights of the bustling city lit up the night, and through the window, Rick saw a fan-shaped glowing building, which was the tower of the airline, and not far away were the buildings of several airports. After getting off the plane, the man in black received instructions to take the three of them to the other end of the airport, where there was a military helicopter hovering in the air, and after several people boarded the helicopter, the man in black left, and the time seemed to be in a hurry, and the helicopter took off directly and flew south.
Rick fell asleep again on the helicopter, and when he woke up again, he found that it was already dawn, and the helicopter landed at MAM International Airport, and after getting off the helicopter, he was picked up by a man who was also wearing a black suit, and the three of Rick followed him to a large passenger plane, which could accommodate more than 400 people. On the plane, after waiting for a few more hours, after all the experts from many places arrived, the plane took off, and it was another long journey. Both the transport plane and the one Rick were flying in took off at MAM, and the other passenger plane was at LSJ. About an hour later, the flight attendant pushed the food cart and began to distribute the food.
"Professor, aren't we going to X-Siberia? But our planes are now frozen at 30 degrees north latitude, which is not the optimal route," Rick asked Rick as the flight attendant was about to arrive.
"Yes, but we're going to stop in one place for a day," Pat explained.
"Are you going to country R?"
"No, we're going to CHINA first."