"Go on, go on. Can't you see the leaders are all behind me?"
Yan Qi lowered his voice and said irritably:
"If you don't want to lose your job, hurry up and check the tickets!"
"My, Lord Yan, what imposing authority you have~~~" The ticket inspector seemed quite familiar with Yan Qi. He actually mimicked Liu Ruyan's earlier mocking tone and teased him aloud.
Still, while he spoke, his hands never stopped moving.
He compared the image Liu Ruyan had sent on the Data Panel. After confirming everything was correct, he immediately let them through:
"Board the airship. It'll take off in five minutes."
As the Rimewind King watched the seemingly simple ticket-purchasing and inspection process—which in truth included multiple security measures—a question arose in his mind.
He could not help looking at Xu Xiao beside him and asking curiously:
"I saw Yan Qi buy twelve tickets for us to board, yet I didn't see him pay anything."
"Was the boarding fee waived because he exercised some privilege, or is traveling by airship free to begin with and requires no additional payment?"
"Oh, it wasn't a matter of exercising privilege." Xu Xiao explained patiently:
"Using large means of transportation such as airships requires a certain number of contribution points. Under normal circumstances, the ticket seller records them, and they are tallied and deducted at a fixed time."
"But this trip is a special case, so the contribution points required for all twelve of our tickets were deducted from the Lin Family's public account."
"Not only is this more efficient, it's also faster."
"A system similar to the Overlord Army's internal operations..." Rimewind murmured, nodding in deep agreement.
Then he asked again:
"If a player hasn't accumulated enough contribution points, does that mean they can't ride an airship?"
"Uh..." Xu Xiao