The Amazing son in law Chapter 7833
In the waiting room, Wu Bozhong (Dorwin), who was the first to be notified that he could board the plane, was planning to go to Kathmandu.
A pretty ground staff member approached and respectfully said in fluent Chinese, “Mr. Wu, your plane is ready for boarding. We have a car to take you to the gate. Would you like to depart now or wait a while?”
The three elders of the Wu family were all from the Qing Dynasty. After a century of seclusion, although they had made up for a lot of common knowledge about the world, they really couldn’t learn foreign languages in a short time. Fortunately, Jadiel was considerate of these seniors and had arranged for Chinese-speaking staff to serve them in advance.
Wu Bozhong (Dorwin) asked the staff member, “What’s the latest I can wait?”
The staff member said, “Your flight has just started announcing boarding for business and first class passengers. Economy class passengers are expected to board in ten minutes. We will proceed from the VIP terminal through the VIP passage, which will take you directly to the aircraft jet bridge. So you can spend a maximum of twenty more minutes with your friends.”
Wu Bozhong (Dorwin) nodded and said, “Then come pick me up in twenty minutes.”
“Okay.” The staff member said respectfully, “Mr. Wu, please have a seat for a moment. I will come back in twenty minutes.”
After the staff member finished speaking, he turned and left. Wu Bozhong (Dorwin) looked at the boarding pass in his hand, which was full of English and Arabic numerals, and sighed to the other two elders: “The world is changing so fast. In the past, when we traveled from Suzhou and Hangzhou to the capital by canal, we would leave Hangzhou in early March and arrive in the capital at the end of June. It was a two-thousand-mile waterway that took three or four months. Now, we can fly there in two hours.”
Wu Bowen smiled and said, “Back then, we didn’t even know the Earth was round. Later, Tianlin told me that the Earth is a big sphere. Even if you go further and further away by going in opposite directions, you can eventually come back from the other side of the Earth. I thought that bastard was just teasing me. If it really is a sphere, wouldn’t people on the other side of the Earth fall off? But after I took a plane ride last time and saw it with my own eyes, I was truly impressed.”
After saying that, he looked at Wu Bolin and said with a smile, “Senior Brother, now that you’re going to Antarctica, once you’ve passed that South Pole, will you be able to return to China?”
Wu Bolin smiled and nodded, saying, “I swiped around on the globe a few times. Roughly speaking, the Earth looks like a red lantern hanging up. The South Pole is at the bottom, like where the tassels are hanging, and the North Pole is at the top, like the end of the rope that hangs the big red lantern. No matter which pole you stand at, as long as you choose the right direction, you can go anywhere.”
Wu Bowen gave a thumbs up: “It has to be our senior brother. He can always be more diligent than us.”
“Heh.” Wu Bolin waved his hand modestly: “It’s not really a study. Tianlin just happened to give me a globe, and I fiddled with it a bit like a toy.”
Wu Bozhong (Dorwin), who was standing nearby, said, “Senior Brother, the Antarctic you’re going to this time isn’t too far away, but it’s said to be the harshest place on Earth, bar none. You have to be extra careful!”
Wu Bolin smiled and said, “With the cultivation levels of the three of us, as long as we don’t go to the Ten Thousand Mountains or provoke the armies of those countries, we should not encounter any danger anywhere.”
Wu Bozhong (Dorwin) sighed, “Speaking of the army, the artillery these days is so much more advanced than the artillery of the Eight-Nation Alliance back then. With our current level of cultivation, resisting the old cannons would be a piece of cake, but the artillery fire these days is so cunning and deceptive. I heard that those high-temperature armor-piercing shells can melt even the best steel when they explode. No matter how thick your steel is, they can still burn a hole in it. Even if we had three heads and six arms, we couldn’t withstand that thing. Even a wise ruler couldn’t do it, right?”