“This Dana Starship Harbor isn’t a very suitable place to choose as a place to make it your home.” Tang Long knew that Hong Dali was clueless about this planet, so he said, “Why don’t we go to the Shenluo City that’s further in and take a look. It is one of the 3,612 main cities in East Milky Way lake, it should be of a better grade then here.”
Look at that, that’s why people said that on a universal scale, think and grades would be different—one of the 3,612 main cities! How awesome was that!
Then, Graham also nodded and said, “Shenluo City’s area is about 4.73 million square kilometers, it’s very prosperous. My Galleon Planet’s office is also located there, it is indeed quite a suitable place.”
Yup, the size of one main city was about half that of Heavenly State. This time, the land area was indeed large enough for Hong Dali to squander at!
“OK! Let’s go there then!” Hong Dali instantly decided.
Inside the huge port.
Graham’s starship gradually descended and quickly landed in the seawater.
Speaking of which, this port was indeed built on water. If not, there wouldn’t be enough land to contain so many large starships…
The hatch opened.
“Yup, not bad.” Hong Dali and the rest came out of the starship. Then, all of them violently took in a deep breath. “The quality of the air here is very high, no haze at all, good!”
Since they were finally here, Graham was anxious in bringing Deca and his people back to their place to digest the benefits they obtained from Earth. Simply put, he had to go through with the procedures here before they could return to their true base—Shenluo City.
Deca smiled and said, “Dali, I shall be going with my father to do some stuff. With Mr. Tang Long as your guide, you can go to Shenluo City and find a place to stay first. When you are done, you can just contact us directly, we will go and find you immediately.”
After all, he had his own work to do. Although Deca prepared to become Hong Dali’s lackey, with Tang Long around now, he wasn’t in a rush to do so yet—after all, Tang Long knew much more than him.
“Yup, OK, no problem!” By this time, the Granzon and Astana Steel had been shipped down too. Before they departed, Deca gave Hong Dali and the rest another two planet-level small spaceships as their transport here. Then, they split up and went to do their separate things.
With Tang Long in the lead, Hong Dali drove the Granzon, Wang Mo drove The Dark Angel, the lackey Li Yang drove the small spaceship, and they started to make their way to Shenluo City.
“Shenluo City is 32,000 kilometers towards the East from here. With the speed of this spaceship, we only need four hours to reach there.” Tang Long instructed them to fly towards the East and explained, “Shenluo City is the base for 2,400 planets out of the 30,000 plus planets in East Milky Way. Earth is included inside this area too. Therefore, we wouldn’t need to face any discrimination there. Although there wouldn’t be any special treatments, it would be at least more convenient for us to do things there.”
“Yup. Understood.” Hong Dali nodded and said, “Simply put, it’s akin to the Heavenly State’s Chinatown, right?”
“Something like that.” Tang Long smiled and replied.
Very quickly, they came to Shenluo City’s territory. Tang Long said, “OK, I have obtained their signal, everyone alight now. We need to go to Shenluo Traffic Management Office to park the vehicles and complete the procedures first. This is akin to the road tolls in Heavenly State. After registering, we will be able to use these kinds of small-sized transport vehicles in the city. If not, we will be treated as unregistered households and shot down.”
“Yup, OK!” Hong Dali instantly replied.
After landing, all of them alighted from their vehicles.
This was an airport type of place that occupied an area of about 20,000 square meters. Around them were all kinds of spaceships and mechas that were parked here too. The larger ones were 20 to 30 plus meters long, while the smaller ones were five to six meters long. It was very spectacular.
“Hello, Mister.” A worker with a greyish blue suit, seemingly akin to the traffic police on Earth, rode on a two-meter long small spacecraft and flew over. After he got close, this worker alighted from his spacecraft. Hong Dali looked him from head to toe. This was a man about 1.7 meters tall, slightly red skin, and in a fluent universal language, said, “Welcome to Shenluo International Airport. I am a worker here, please come with me to apply for a license to fly in the air territory in Shenluo City. Only after obtaining for the license, then your spacecraft and mechas will not be attacked by the patrolling robots in Shenluo City.”
Tang Long had already told them the rules on their way here. Simply put, if they didn’t obtain the license, they would be considered to be enemies attacking their territory and be directly destroyed by the patrolling robots. The consequences would be very severe.
“OK, no problem!” Hong Dali snapped his fingers. “Reward, 100.”
Li Yang directly rushed up, took out 100 Galaxy Dollars, and stuffed it in the worker’s hand. He smiled and said, “Sorry for troubling you. This is a reward from the Young Master, please keep it.”
Tang Long stared in bewilderment. “Wow… Young Master, actually, rewarding him ten dollars would be enough…”
“How low would rewarding only ten dollars be,” Hong Dali said in disdain. “Something that can be done with ten dollars, I must definitely spend 100 dollars to do it!” Cheers to the prodigal’s ultimate technique!
“100 Galaxy Dollars!” As expected, upon taking the tip, the workers’ eyes instantly shone!
His wage per month working here was only 800 Galaxy Dollars or so. In fact, this was already considered to be quite a good job. Yet now, this mysterious young man actually tipped him 100 Galaxy Dollars when they just met! That’s 100 Galaxy Dollars! This wasn’t a small amount!
“Mister, oh my, esteemed guest, please follow me.” That’s why people said that money could make even the ghost work for them. After keeping the 100 Galaxy Dollars the attitude of the worker became very respectful. “With your status, a normal channel is definitely not suitable for you. Therefore, we have specially prepared the VIP esteemed guests’ channel to specially cater to guests like you.” Saying so, he said towards his communication device, “There’s a VIP customer coming, send someone over to pick him up, quick!”
“Yup, time is money, my friend!” Hong Dali grinned and raised an eyebrow.
Very quickly, three extremely high-class spacecraft flew over. They were about ten meters long, their configurations inside were quite luxurious and comfortable too. The differences between the VIP treatment and the normal treatment was indeed very different!
Hong Dali expressed that he was very satisfied. “Reward, everyone 100!”
Therefore, just like that, Hong Dali and his people were like farm owners inspecting their own land, totally ignoring the queue at the office that was tens of meters long, and directly walked into the VIP entrance, accompanied by six thankful workers.
As they walked past, the other people all looked at them and softly discussed. “Quick, look, there’s actually someone using the VIP channel. Looks like the young man leading in front is someone very powerful!”
“Isn’t that so, that’s the VIP channel, it isn’t something anyone is qualified to use. Not only do they not have to queue, but the other various types of treatments are all not bad too.”
“Those people with different power naturally take different routes. Let’s not look at them anymore, this is too hurtful to our self-esteem!”
Tang Muxin softly said to Li Nianwei, “This fellow Dali, as expected, no matter where he goes, he’s someone who won’t accept normal treatment. Even here, he’s also a nouveau riche!”
Li Nianwei smiled and softly said, “This is the most incredible thing about the Young Master, hehe.”
Very quickly, they entered the office specially for VIPs. The worker at the most front went up and softly said a few words. Instantly, the eyes of the manager in the office lit up and he walked up to welcome them. He smiled and said, “Oh my, an esteemed guest is here. Please, take a seat, take a seat!”
“Yup, not bad.” Hong Dali was very satisfied with his attitude. “Reward, 100.”
Therefore, everyone was happy.
After everyone was seated, Hong Dali observed the place meticulously.
Simply speaking, the facilities and equipment here wasn’t too different from those on Earth. There were sofas, tea-table, flower pots, televisions, and such. However, the technology level was much higher than that of those on Earth—for example, the female type robot that served them in pouring tea and such.
“How may I address you? Where are you from?” After everyone was seated, the manager smilingly asked, “If you need any help, just instruct me, I promise to do them for you, esteemed guest.”
Hong Dali said, “My name is Hong Dali. A Teran Planet person.” Using Tang Long’s words, Earth had only just started to make contact with the Universe, its exact location must be kept a secret to prevent people from trying to lay their hands on it. Therefore, they chose a fake identity—the Teran Planet humans and the Earth humans were very similar in appearance. Also, the Teran Planet’s technology level was comparatively much higher, this could help them to avoid a lot of trouble.
“Ah, haha, understood, understood.” After some formalities, the manager introduced to Hong Dali the VIP treatments that they provided now. “Our VIP here is rated in terms of 5,000 Galaxy Dollars level one VIP, 10,000 Galaxy Dollars level two VIP, 20,000 Galaxy Dollars level three VIP, 30,000 Galaxy Dollars level four VIP, and 50,000 Galaxy Dollars level five VIP. Which type of VIP are you planning to apply for, Mr. Hong Dali?”
Hong Dali was a bit confused from suddenly hearing about five types of VIP at once.
Hm, there are so many different grades of VIP in this place? As much as five levels?
Seeing Hong Dali’s expression, the manager felt a bit perturbed. He would receive a commission for every VIP that he registered. He could get 200 Galaxy Dollars for a level one VIP, 500 for a level two VIP, and 1,000 for a level three VIP. If he could register a level five VIP, he could get as much as 2,000 Galaxy Dollars of commission, which was two months’ worth of his salary.
“This Hong Dali is quite generous, he should be able to apply for a level two or three VIP, right? God bless me…” The Manager thought in his heart.
“Ah, about this.” Hong Dali curiously asked, “What’s the difference between these five VIP levels?”
Coming to this planet, Hong Dali could really be considered to be a bumpkin here, he was indeed unclear of this VIP rating system.
