Chapter 1: Man in Addisi, just got off the plane.
Terra Calendar 1591.1.2.
Addison Federation: City of the New World.
on the airspace of the city of the New World.
Boom Boom –
Marked with the number [Sky Train · A499] The aircraft cuts through the clouds and moves forward with a smoothness and force that only a machine in high-speed navigation can achieve.
Outside, the roar of the engines echoes like distant thunder on both sides of the wings, intertwined with the howling of the wind, weaving into an aerial symphony that is both passionate and serene.
The sound, though isolated by the fuselage, still vibrated slightly inside the cabin.
At 10,000 feet in the air, the plane shuttles between the clouds, and in the cockpit, everything seems strangely peaceful.
The captain grasped the oddly shaped control stick with his four hands, staring intently at the blue sky ahead and the data jumping on the dashboard.
His deputy, a powerful-looking, two-winged Alain Hawkman, is doing a routine job of reporting in the air, which is a critical part of ensuring flight safety.
The co-pilot pressed the button of the communication system and slightly adjusted the headset to ensure that the communication was clear.
His voice was calm and confident, sent out through the airwaves, through the clouds, connecting the ground control tower with them in the air.
"Tower, this is flight NH430, currently flying at an altitude of 35,000 feet and a speed of 460 knots, and is expected to enter the airspace of Area X in fifteen minutes. Request a follow-up flight command, too. ”
On the other end of the microphone, the response from the ground control tower was almost immediate, with professional calmness and precision in his voice: "Flight NH430, this is the tower." Upon receipt of your report, you have been cleared to continue your flight on the planned route. After five minutes, there will be a slight draft, so please adjust the altitude and speed of the flight to ensure comfort. We will notify you of any changes. End of the tower. ”
After the report was completed, Alain Hawk casually took off his headphones and threw them aside, and then he took out a [financial card], the card turned slightly, accompanied by a "drop" sound.
A cigar appeared out of thin air in his hand.
He picked up the cigar with his slender fingers and sniffed it gently, the aroma of tobacco and wood was intoxicating.
Then, with his fingertips, he popped out a sharp claw, which he used to cut off the top of the cigar, revealing the cigarette butt.
The cross-section of the cigar butt presents a uniform texture, as if it were a wood grain, and one cannot help but imagine its texture.
He lit the cigar and lit the butt with a bronzed lighter, a wisp of smoke rising from the tip of the cigar.
As he attracted, the cigar burned more and more evenly, and the smoke released filled the room. The smoke was filled with a faint smell of tobacco, as if it were a luxurious ritual.
He took a deep breath, and the smoke slowly exhaled from his mouth, forming a white cloud of smoke.
"Damn, can't you just wait until you're out of the empty column before you smoke?" The four-handed driver cursed at the birdman beside him.
"Who is John Galt?" The Alain Eagle tilted his head and replied to the driver.
"Don't say that slang, no one knows who John Galt is!"
"So my answer won't come out, no!"
"Phew, you've really learned the spirit of Addison." After the pilot concocted the plane, he continued to curse at the birdman on the side.
Then he pulled out a bottle of amber wine and began to rumble and drink.
This caused the co-pilot on the side to roll his eyes.
"After this flight, you can pay off the loan, right?"
The co-pilot asked curiously as he looked at the captain on the side. The smoke of the cigar surrounded him, accompanied by a soft smoke.
"Well, when I smuggled from the junction to the city of the New World, I owed too much debt to the monster power company, but I can't help it, who called their family to monopolize the local portal."
The captain had memories on his face.
"The place at the junction is not something that normal people can stay in, and if it doesn't come out of nowhere, sooner or later it will be affected by the war of the gods. Moreover, those developers who are engaged in real estate bubbles are really TNND, all of them are dead M things, and for the sake of finance, they dare to sell any house against the sky.
A while ago, the real estate developer in their junction issued a flying house tour project that was all unfinished, and I heard that it was because a quasi-god (qualified) flew there, so that airspace was divided by the Golden Court to that quasi-god.
The quasi-god summoned lightning and split all the thaumaturgic balloons on the flying houses. None of them died, after all, they paid a down payment and still had a loan from the [Financial Street] on their backs. ”
The Arachôme Eagle Man continued to smoke, the bird sneering on its face.
"Those people don't want to think about the shit-like EFF of the real estate company flying around the house at that time - that EFF, the three-headed dog of hell shook his head when he saw it."
"They just want to gamble, if the flying house can successfully avoid the property tax of the financial street, the faith tax of the gods, the electricity bill of the power company, the harsh taxes of the local kingdom of gods, etc., they will make a lot of money, after all, the house is equivalent to a shelter in the borderland." The captain took a sip of wine and said with a complicated face.
If he had a house, he wouldn't be a man in the Addison Federation.
"I want to exploit the loopholes of capital, and I don't want to think about whether my size is enough." Birdman commented.
The Arachôme Eagle looked at the gloomy captain and comforted:
"Although the New World City is also a pile of shit, this is a paradise compared to the Junction.
The most you can do here is to see the odd hoof disease parade in the streets every day, the groups of infected people, the passionate shootouts of company employees, the cyber maniacs who fail to make prosthetic makeovers and masturbate at the street lights, the Rice Rabbitists and others tearing up, the unemployed turning into financial ghasts and randomly hurting people, and the state government wanting to make an independent ...... because it is dissatisfied with you people."
Captain "......" didn't know for a while whether the other party was really praising the city of the New World, or if he was yin and yang.
"By the way, I haven't asked you where you're coming from. How did you end up as a clerk at the Monster Flight Attendant Service, an immigrant from all worlds? ”
"No, I'm from the native hub of Terra, and I previously served in the alien armies of the Addison Federation. At that time, after being discharged from the army, I was seen by the stacking boy of the casino, and I didn't notice it for a while, and I got on the set, when I came out of the casino, there was only a pair of pants left and a butt of debts, and there was no way, so I could only rely on the relationship to enter the monster company to seek some positions, and sign a contract as a labor force to pay off the debt. Birdman took a cigar and said angrily.
"How much do you owe, how many years do you have to work?"
"One hundred and fifty years."
"Tsk, you're not as good as those who carry mortgages."
"Don't worry, speculate on some stocks, and you can pay it off in one hundred and fifty years."
"You still dare to speculate in stocks!?"
"Hold the bold to death, starve the faint to death."
"You still have one slang after another, what, you have to be admitted to the academy."
"The academy is also rolled, but I bought a little college fund and multi-track climbing."
"......, I can only wish you good luck."
*******
Inside, the faint lights shine softly, providing a warm haven for people on the journey.
The monster flight attendant weaves his way through the narrow aisles, smiling professionally and occasionally whispering if he needs more help or a comfy blanket.
Passengers occupy their own little world, some immersed in books or electronic screens, while others choose to close their eyes and let their thoughts drift with the speed of the plane.
Traveling in the air seems to make time and space strangely distorted. In this enclosed space, the hustle and bustle of the outside world is completely cut off, except for the steady hum of the plane's engines and the occasional whisper of flight attendants and passengers.
[Dear passengers, we are about to land at New York's LaGuardia Airport, arriving at the New World City outside of normalcy, the junction of the central entrance area.
Please fasten your seat belts, adjust the back of your seat to an upright position, put away the tray table, and ensure that your baggage is stowed under your seat or in the overhead compartment.
Again, please do not open the emergency escape door without permission and make a forced landing, the Addison Federation has a corresponding anti-flight attendant law, and any driving broomstick and other flying equipment needs to be reported to the Federal Department of Homeland Security. If you need to fill out the immigration form, please complete it now. We expect to land in a matter of minutes.
Please note that the local time is 10 am and the weather is sunny with a temperature of around 22 degrees Celsius. Thank you for choosing our monster flight attendant service company, and I hope you can have a pleasant journey on your next trip to Addison. 】
The sweet broadcast on the plane, echoing in the cabin.
In the first-class cabin, a young man with blond hair and golden eyes half-closed his eyes rested on the back of an unusually soft chair, enjoying the rare tranquility of the journey.
On his lap sat a half-flipped travel guidebook, the soft lighting of the cabin, and the moving clouds and unpredictable colors of the sky outside the window made for a moving picture.
"Sir, could you please take care of your dog and cat?" A respectful and gentle inquiry interrupted the blonde youth's rest.
Xia Xiu opened his eyes and turned his head to look, only to see a green jelly-like creature standing next to his seat, looking at him with a cute expression.
The creature is only half the height of a normal human, and its body is translucent green in color, looking like a living jelly.
Several jelly-like tentacles stretched out from its body, and at the end of the tentacles held several plates containing the various meals served on the plane.
Xia Xiu's golden eyes looked in the direction pointed out by the other party.
A dog with white fur and eyes that sparkle like bright rubies, and a cat with gray fur and deep green eyes. They were sitting around a small space with great interest. Their attention was completely drawn to the trembling raccoon in the middle, with a hint of helplessness and fear in his eyes.
The white-haired and red-eyed dog, with its ears slightly cocked, tilted its head to observe the raccoon in front of it, occasionally gently sticking out its nose, trying to touch the raccoon with the tip of its warm and moist nose, but stopped at the last moment, as if to give the other a little space; The gray cat wagged its tail and looked curiously at the small flames that spewed out and tried to resist, but was slapped by the dog and the honest raccoon.
The owner of the raccoon is a dwarf, and he looks at the white-haired and red-eyed dog in front of him, his face full of fear.
The scene in the first class cabin looks unusually absurd.
"I'm sorry, my demon is getting a little naughty." The blond-haired young man had an apologetic smile on his face, and then he stretched out his hand to the two demons in front of him and called out, "Gamm, Grey Wind, come over to me." ”
A dog and a cat honestly returned to the blonde youth, the dog lying quietly at the feet of his master, and the gray cat jumping on each other's shoulders.
The blonde young man casually pulled out a stack of large-denomination Addison banknotes from his body, and said apologetically to the flight attendant:
"Give the money to the gentleman, and apologize again to him with me."
The sun shone through the sparse clouds on his slightly messy blonde hair, casting a soft halo on his silhouette.
What a quality gentleman. The jelly flight attendant breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
What they fear most is to deal with disputes related to humans and other races, as long as the matter involves humans and aliens, then the rights and wrongs of the matter and the relevant positions of the discussion will directly change.
If the airline is biased towards humans, it will be scolded by other aliens as colonizing humans, kneeling and licking, and humiliating things.
If the airline is biased towards the alien race, the human race will be dissatisfied on the one hand, will restrict your business, and will think that you are discriminating against the human race and have a way to die.
"I think the gentleman will accept your apology."
Jelly stretched out his tentacles and carefully took the blonde youth's full sincerity, during which he had not dared to let his body parts touch the skin of the other party's body.
One of the many bizarre rules within flight attendant companies is not to have physical contact with humans, especially human women, unless necessary.
The company wants to avoid all unnecessary troubles, they just want to make human money quietly.
Jelly quickly gave Xia Xiu's full apology to the dwarf who was frightened by Jiam, and after the dwarf took the money, he also showed a flattering smile at the blonde youth.
Obviously, even if this human doesn't give money, the dwarf won't dare to do anything.
It's just that the dwarf's cowardice towards the blonde youth made the other first-class aliens frown dissatisfied, and some of the aliens wanted to take out their cameras to capture this scene, but this was quickly stopped by other fast-eyed flight attendants and company regulations.
Flight attendants are very skilled in this area.
It's just [Skytrain· A499] A small episode on the flight.
Everything looks absurd, but it's all too normal.
Captains who drink, co-pilots who smoke, devils who roam around in first class, bizarre monster flight attendants and passengers......
These are all normal things in Addison.
The vignette did not delay any of the plane's journey, and at this moment [Sky Train · A499] is already approaching its destination.
As planes begin to descend, LaGuardia Airport gradually emerges beneath the clouds, like a giant jigsaw puzzle piece that is slowly patching together in the passengers' field of vision.
The sunlight shimmers on the wings, reflecting a dazzling light, and the world outside the window seems to come alive.
The plane passes through the layers of clouds, and the descent is smooth and gentle, as if the sky gently embraces the traveler.
As the height gradually decreases, the view of the New World City becomes clearer, with high-rise buildings, busy streets, winding rivers, and the lush greenery of Central Park.
[Dear passengers, welcome to New York's LaGuardia Airport——]
[Skytrain · A499] arrived at the destination here, and a familiar crisp sound just sounded in Xia Xiu's ears.
[Ding-]
[You have an unread message.] ]
Xia Xiu glanced at the source, it was a business trip greeting from Dr. 0-03, and he directly typed the following line on the genealogy mailbox with his mind.
"People in Addison, just got off the plane ......"
(End of chapter)