Because of the insistence of a certain Brui Country airport officer, more than half the exchange delegation had their luggage forcibly searched.
Could they resist? Of course... it would not have been very appropriate. Although there were quite a few security personnel in the group, and the officer on the other side did not actually wield that much authority, he still represented Brui Country's Enforcement Department.
The Xia people had come this time to make friends, not enemies.
This sort of bullshit was infuriating. If they refused the search, a conflict would very likely break out. The Xia people, accustomed to wearing rabbit skins, discussed it and decided to let them search... After all, they were used to swallowing humiliation and compromising. Internationally, they could not abandon legitimacy and righteousness.
Unfortunately, the tree might wish to be still, but the wind would not stop. The Xia people believed they had yielded enough, yet after the search, that officer impounded quite a number of electronic devices, including but not limited to digital cameras, phones, laptops, and tablets.
They wanted to evaluate the contents.
This was genuinely uncommon, though not without precedent—once, during a Mairui Country customs inspection, a Mairui person had been directly deported back to Xia Nation because pictures in someone's ChatChat "might involve pornography."
Was that unjust? Most likely. Such inspections were actually random—given the volume handled by Mairui Country customs, it was impossible for them to inspect every phone this way. If it happened to someone, they had simply been selected and had terrible luck.
But the truth was—there was a very high chance that person had been targeted, because it had only "might involve pornography."
Still, there was nowhere to argue the matter. After all, Mairui Country law did contain such a provision.
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