It had been more than 30 years since the Honolulu International Airport was built. The facilities were slightly backward, but overall, it could still meet the needs of tourists from all over the world who traveled to Hawaii by air.
Zhang Lisheng, who was holding a US passport, did not need to go through customs at the airport. The moment he got off the plane and felt the hot Hawaiian sun, he carried his backpack and took a car together with the visa-free passengers to the entrance of the airport's outer passage.
When Zhang Lisheng walked out of the car, he suddenly realized that at least one-third of the faces around him were Asians. Judging from their accents, they were mainly Japanese and Chinese.
Before coming to Hawaii, the young man had learned from the Internet that with the help of the economic results of the Golden 30 Years of the last century, the Japanese businessmen had bought 80% of the high-end hotels and almost all of the golf courses in Hawaii. For this reason, it was not surprising for a large number of Japanese to appear at the Honolulu Airport in midsummer.
As for the group of compatriots in front of him, the young man did not feel that China's economy was that strong when he was living in the mountain village in Western Sichuan. However, after he moved to the US, he was more and more surprised to know that there seemed to be countless rich people in China from the conversations of the people around him. For this reason, he was no longer surprised by this.
"Dad, the airport in Hawaii is not even half as good as our Pudong Airport …"
"Old Yang, I'm dizzy from sitting on the plane for the whole day. I can't move anymore today. Let's take a rest first. Tomorrow, we'll take a good look at the municipal construction of Honolulu …"
"Baby, this is Hawaii! The most beautiful, clearest, and bluest beach in the world is right here …"
Upon hearing the local accent that he had not heard for a long time, Zhang Lisheng could not help but walk together with his compatriots. Among the Chinese who were either wearing deliberate disdain, excitement, or curiously looking around, the young man who was dressed casually with a rucksack on his back was a little different.
After walking for a while in the outer passage that was cool and pleasant with air-conditioning, he called Tina again. "Tina, I've arrived at the Honolulu Airport."
"I figured that you should have arrived by now so I was just about to call you. Alice is already waiting for you at the airport exit, Lisheng."
"Alice, I can't believe that I'll be able to see the prototype character of the story today after we've just gone through a rabbit hole adventure a few weeks ago." Upon hearing this name, a subtle feeling rose in Zhang Lisheng's heart as he blurted out.
"What did you say?"
"It's nothing. It's just that this Miss Alice arranged my itinerary in Honolulu and then sent me to Kauai to meet you, right?"
"That's right, Lisheng. I've already entrusted everything to Alice. She's very beautiful and capable …"
Oh, I suddenly realized that I've made a mistake. I'm warning you, before I figure out our relationship, you can't 'mess around' with other girls … "The girl said half-truthfully.
"What do you mean by 'hooking up'? That sounds awful. It's not like you've completely lost your memory. You can't have forgotten what kind of person I am, right?"
Tina on the other side of the phone became silent for a while. "Don't mention the word 'amnesia' anymore, okay, Lisheng?"
"Oh, I'm sorry."
"It's alright as long as you don't do it again next time," Tina replied in a pleasant tone. "Oh yeah, how's the business of your slaughterhouse since it opened?"
"Not bad. I'm currently maintaining a net profit of about 150,000 dollars per day."
The number that Zhang Lisheng reported immediately evoked the girl's natural businesswoman's instinct. "Wow! This number is out of my expectation!
If you can maintain a net profit of 150,000 dollars per day for three months, your company will be fully qualified to be listed on the stock exchange's entrepreneurial section. In that case, you'll become the youngest self-employed billionaire in New York or the entire US, or even the world, overnight … "
"I won't let my company be listed even if I can become a billionaire. I've calculated that after the third phase of the slaughterhouse project is completed, I'll be able to earn about 100 million dollars per year. This is already enough."
"It's enough for now, but baby, you won't be satisfied by then. That's human nature," The girl said confidently. "I've predicted it.
The meat market of 18 million people in the entire New York metropolitan area, other than those poor people and farmers who can only afford to eat frozen meat, according to your pricing, you'll be able to earn at least 800 million dollars per year if you dominate the upstream slaughterhouse market. If it's good, it might even exceed one billion dollars.
I'm very optimistic about the future of your business, but I really didn't expect the beginning to be so 'exciting'. "
"Tina, you're really like you when you talk like this." Zhang Lisheng finally walked out of the airport's outer passage along with the crowd. There were at least hundreds of people waiting for him in the distance who were holding up cards, tablets, and screens with big names written on them. In the end, he said, "Oh, I'm leaving the airport soon.
There are just too many people waiting for me here. It's too noisy, so I'm hanging up now. Goodbye, Tina. "
"Alice is about the same height as me. Her skin is a light caramel color and her facial features are very beautiful and eye-catching. I'll see you in Kauai Island, Lisheng. I'll be waiting for you," The girl said quickly.
After ending the call, Zhang Lisheng began to look for tall, young, and beautiful women in the waiting crowd to study them according to Tina's description.
Very soon, he saw a beautiful girl who was holding a tablet with the words' Lisheng Zhang 'written on the screen above her head with one hand and shaking it non-stop among a group of short and fat Hawaiian natives who were holding up cards with sweat all over their heads.
The girl was wearing a small sweatshirt that revealed her navel and hot pants that were made of very little fabric. Judging from her facial features, she should be a typical Caucasian, completely different from the Hawaiian natives who looked like black Africans.
However, due to the prolonged exposure to the sun, her skin had a light burnt black color that was the opposite of her race. She was about 175 centimeters tall and her body was well-proportioned and strong. When her abdomen was relaxed, the lines of her soft muscles were slightly highlighted.
Such a strong body was perfect in the eyes of the Westerners, but in the eyes of the Easterners, it was too strong. "Oh, what a sturdy girl! It's fortunate that Tina isn't like this …" Zhang Lisheng walked towards the girl and muttered to himself.
His voice was not loud and the surrounding environment was very noisy. However, the girl named Alice had a pair of sharp ears. The instant Zhang Lisheng finished speaking, she immediately glared at the young man.
After exchanging glances with the girl, Zhang Lisheng felt a little sorry for his abrupt muttering. However, since he had made a breakthrough to Rank-5 Wizard and obtained the 'simplify' spell, he no longer needed to chant the incantation to command the wizard gu all the time. For this reason, he would no longer fall into that absolutely rational and cold state. For this reason, he was too embarrassed to apologize right away. Instead, he pretended to be nonchalant and asked, "May I know if you're Alice?"
"Yes."
"I'm Tina's friend, Zhang Lisheng who's written on your tablet."
"Is that so? Let's go then." From the young man's sentence of 'it's fortunate that Tina isn't like this', the girl who had long guessed Zhang Lisheng's identity turned around and walked out of the airport.
It was hard for Zhang Lisheng to understand what a serious mistake it was to describe a girl who was quite conceited about her own appearance and body as' sturdy 'right in front of her face. He felt that Alice's cold attitude towards him had already offset his impoliteness towards her.
Shrugging, the young man followed behind the girl and said as he walked, "Tina said that you'll help me arrange everything in Honolulu. You can bring me to the best hotel here to put down my luggage first and then …"
"All of the good hotels in Honolulu are full during this season …" Faced with the unapologetic tone of the skinny young man behind her, Alice deliberately said in a difficult manner.
"Since Tina knows that I'm coming, she should have already booked a room for me in the best hotel in this city, right?"
Alice was stumped for a moment. "Hah! You're right! She has indeed booked a room for you in the Royal Hawaiian Hotel here …"
As the two of them were chatting, they had already walked out of the airport. In an instant, Zhang Lisheng felt a wave of heat. Fortunately, the outdoor temperature in Honolulu was cooler than he expected. Even though the sun was very strong, it felt like it was only just over 30 degrees.
Breathing in the warm, moist and slightly salty air unique to tropical islands, the young man placed his hand on his forehead and asked, "Where's your car, Miss Alice? Can you drive it over?"
By right, Zhang Lisheng had just gotten off the plane and was carrying his luggage so such a request was not too much. However, when Alice, who already had a very bad first impression of him, heard this, she felt that the young man was treating her like a hired driver.
"You better come with me to drive," The girl said while suppressing her anger.
Upon seeing Alice's gloomy expression, Zhang Lisheng replied out of the blue, "Alright then." He followed her and walked around the parking lot outside the airport for a while before finally coming to a vintage pink Beetle.
"This car looks very old …" The young man patted the top of the car and was about to say, "It must be very tasteful for a young girl to be able to drive such a car." Alice had already opened the car door and sat in the driver's seat. "I know that my car is very old, but not everyone is born with a 'golden spoon' in their mouth and can stay in a five-star hotel when they go out.
Get in the car, Mr. Zhang Lisheng. I'll send you to Royal Hawaii. That's the world you're familiar with. "
Zhang Lisheng was stunned for a moment. Without explaining anything, he sat in the front passenger seat of the car and made up his mind to part ways with this eccentric girl when he arrived at the hotel.
As the young man was secretly calculating in his heart, Alice drove the Beetle out of the parking lot of the Honolulu Airport and drove into the streets of Hawaii.
Along the way, beside the straight road, in front of the English buildings surrounded by green lawns, there was a sculpture of a dark-skinned native leader wearing a leather hat and a colorful linen cloak.
After passing by several skyscrapers, she could see vendors selling strange-looking puppets and wood carvings by the roadside.
From the side of the empty fork road, she could see the blue sea and blue sky in the distance. However, in the blink of an eye, she drove past the fork road and saw a cemetery full of crosses.
Through the car window, Zhang Lisheng observed this strange city that was still the capital of the primitive kingdom of the natives 200 years ago but had now transformed into the youngest state capital of the most developed country in the world. He felt that Honolulu was like a city that had been smashed and kneaded together before being recreated.
The strangest thing was that the finished product seemed to be very harmonious and perfect.
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