Li Ye had heard a joke in his previous life.
A guy took a plane to Lhasa for sightseeing. After landing, he suffered severe altitude sickness. He lay in a hotel for two days and still could not bear it, so he helplessly hurried to book a ticket home.
But strangely enough, when he was about to board the plane and leave, his body adapted. He no longer felt sick, and in the end, the flight attendant practically dragged him onto the plane.
So, humans—a species tempered and selected through ten thousand years of trials—had astonishing adaptability.
Lhasa stood at an altitude of 3,650 meters, five hundred meters higher than Nyingchi. Yet when Li Ye and the others arrived, they were basically free of physical discomfort.
That was also one reason why later generations of self-driving enthusiasts so highly praised driving into Tibet.
Flying or taking the train directly to Lhasa made the journey easier, but suddenly reaching such high altitudes made altitude sickness unavoidable. You still had to honestly lie in a hotel for two days first.
But if you drove to Lhasa, though the road was exhausting, you gradually adapted to the plateau environment while enjoying the scenery.
Li Ye decided to let everyone rest and recuperate in Lhasa for two days.
The next day, Li Ye needed to cooperate with the film crew to shoot some footage to enrich the promotional film. The drivers and technicians who had not been assigned filming tasks were already itching to go sightseeing.
Watching several young employees prepare to pair up with several young women from Fenghua Apparel and go out "carousing," Li Ye felt deeply helpless.
To look after the old ladies in the group, Fenghua Apparel had urgently transferred more than a dozen young women from Rongcheng to accompany