Chapter Seventy-Six: To Portland
Early Saturday morning.
Lin Zhixin woke up the little sister early, and after the two washed up, they went to the restaurant below with Laika for breakfast, and then settled their room money and other miscellaneous expenses in the past few days, so they took the two of them to the train station to take the train to Portland.
Lin Zhixin leaned against the car window, holding the rules of the next round of the general tournament in his hand and reading carefully, and next to him was the little sister Lin Shuo, who was still tilting her head and dozing off.
Sitting across from them was Laika, who was still recuperating with her eyes closed, with a half-human-tall box on her lap.
Of course, Lin Zhixin knew that this was Laika's long knife, and in order not to attract attention, Laika had to put the long knife into such a long box.
Of course, this is also specifically requested by the station.,Although the status of the awakened is relatively transcendent in society.,But you can't run around with a knife and a spear at any time.,This will cause unnecessary disturbance.。
Lin Zhixin put the rule book on the table in front of him, and the rules of this general tournament have not changed from before.
Anyway, all 5,000 people will be placed in eight suburban locations near Portland, and each person will be sent an ID card, and the top 64 in each region will automatically advance to the next round of eliminations after three days.
"It's an old-fashioned event. ”
Lin Zhixin couldn't help but complain, he looked at the regressing scenery outside the window.
It's been almost a day's ride, and I'm already in the Portland area, and now the train is heading to this station.
"Hmm~~!"
Lin Zhixin stood up and stretched, and then woke up Xiaomei and Laika together, and then took the two of them to wait at the place where they got off the bus and got off.
Portland.
Located in the central region of the Chelsea Federal State of the East Continent, it is the leader of all cities in the Central Region and the leader of the economic circle of all cities in the Central Region.
If St. Nicholas, located in the north, is a military heavy industry city, and the south city in the south is an economic and technological city, then Portland is a weakened version of the combination of the two.
Without taking into account East Toyle as the capital, Portland is the second largest in the Confederacy in terms of both economic development and military heavy industry technology.
In terms of overall strength, last year's magazine media uniformly gave a ranking second only to St. Nicholas, which ranked third and fourth in the Federation.
Here you can see all kinds of dazzling personal entertainment or technological developments such as the southern city, and you can also see various architectural styles led by St. Nicholas in the north and various food culture in the north.
You might even think that if you're in Portland, you're in a shrunken Commonwealth of Chelsea.
Here you can see all the things of the whole federation, all the cultures.
And in fact, in the Commonwealth of Chelsea, among the metropolises such as East Toyle, South City, and St. Nicholas, Portland has the least history and culture.
It took him less than two years to grow from nothing to now become the fourth largest metropolis in the country.
In other words, the city of Portland developed rapidly during the period after the meeting between Asia Star and Earth.
Lin Zhixin and his entourage walked down from the train, and everything here was not unusual to Lin Zhixin and Laika, who had come once.
But for Lin Shuo for the first time, some of the things here are full of curiosity.
After all, Portland has a completely different architectural style than Southtown, but the streets are indeed full of business and prosperity like Southtown.
Lin Zhixin kept pulling his hand on his little sister's backpack, lest Lin Shuo be dazzled for a while and go away directly with them.
It's a train station from out of town to Portland, and the crowds are so large that if you get lost, it's no joke.
In this way, Lin Zhixin took the two of them to take a taxi, and a group of three people came directly to the vicinity of the general election venue held this time.
"Ouch...... It's so expensive, it's not far from the station here, the three of them used more than 200 yuan, really, why don't you grab it?"
Lin Shuo complained angrily to this black-hearted taxi, not to mention him, Lin Zhixin also put away his wallet with some pain.
200 yuan is indeed too expensive for just taking a taxi.
"That's because this driver saw that we were from outside the competition, so he started to trick us directly. ”
Laika also said something meaningful to the two siblings.
"It seems that if you don't get a good score this time, the bonus may not be enough to reimburse the fare and accommodation expenses along the way. ”
Lin Zhixin said a little uncomfortable.
Their group took the train from Southtown to Portland for nearly 1,000 yuan.
"Okay, okay, let's find a place to live first, I know that there is a place with affordable prices and a very good environment. ”
Laika saw Lin Zhixin's distressed appearance and said helplessly.
"That's a good feeling, let's go. ”
When Lin Zhixin heard this, he was immediately interested, there is such a good place, so why don't you hurry over and grab a seat, it would be a pity if there were no people to live.
"Oh, just believe me, aren't you afraid that I'll sell you two brothers and sisters there?"
Laika smiled at Lin Zhixin, who was already walking in front, and smiled.
Lin Zhixin rolled his eyes and turned his head to look at her and said helplessly,
“emmm...... You can't bear it. ”
When he said this, Laika's face flushed inadvertently and said:
"That's not necessarily, two handsome men and women can be sold here for a good price. ”
This time, Lin Zhixin didn't bother to turn around and refute her, and only waved at her to show that he knew.
"Hey...... Why are you walking so fast? Do you know the place? Just ahead of me. ”
“......”
Laika took Lin Zhixin's two siblings all the way to stop and stop, and after turning an unknown number of turns along the way, they came to a super luxurious hotel not far away.
Lin Zhixin looked at the gold and silver inlaid plaque in front of him with some distraction: "Hyatt Hotel"
He swallowed his saliva with some difficulty, then turned his neck stiffly to look at Laika, and asked with a stammer,
"Is this ,,,,what you say about affordable prices? This, no matter how you look at it, the price won't be cheap, right...... No, it won't ......"
It wouldn't be true that Laika wanted to sell the two siblings here as long-term workers......
Laika put a finger to his mouth and said mysteriously to Lin Zhixin: "If I say the price is affordable, the price will be affordable, you wait and see." ”
After saying that, he ignored the two brothers and sisters, left a beautiful back for the two of them, and then walked directly inside.
Lin Zhixin swallowed his saliva again and stood outside the hotel for a while before he dared to walk into the door with his little sister.
As soon as they entered the door, a very beautiful welcome lady walked over to them and asked very politely:
"Hello this gentleman and this young lady, do you need help?"
The beautiful welcome lady is smiling all the time, although Lin Zhixin is very panicked, he has never been to such a high-end place, but he must not be able to express it on the surface.
"Oh...... No bother, thank you, we are with her. ”
Lin Zhixin pointed to Laika who came from the front desk and replied politely.
"Yes sir, and this young lady, I wish you a pleasant stay. ”
After seeing Laika, the welcome lady stopped talking to him and quickly left the two of them.
"What? Attracted by the beautiful looks of people?"
Laika said jokingly when she saw Lin Zhixin, who was still chatting happily with the welcome lady just now.
"That must not be possible, that person doesn't even have half of your appearance, how can he attract me?"
As soon as these words came out, not only did Laika not believe it, but Lin Shuo, who was watching the play on the sidelines, couldn't help but glance at his stinky and shameless old brother with disdain.
Just now, I almost pulled out my eyeballs and put them on that beautiful young lady.
If it weren't for watching her brother finally open his mind and find a good-looking girlfriend, she would no longer want to say more, and she would have caused her contempt and ridicule a long time ago.
In Lin Shuo's opinion, his stupid brother should be pursuing this Laika sister, who is superior in appearance, figure and temperament.
For the sake of her brother's happiness, she really couldn't help herself, and she didn't want to dismantle his stage all the time.
"Hehe......"
Laika snorted softly,
"Let's go, the room is all done. ”
After speaking, he took the initiative to take Lin Shuo's hand and walked towards the hall in the distance.
Seeing this, Lin Zhixin hurriedly picked up the luggage of several people and followed.