After nearly a week in flight, the passenger airship from Cloud Peak City in western Yingzhou to Blessed Sea City landed at an airship terminal west of Blessed Sea City at dawn on May 16.
Cloud Peak City lay inland in Yingzhou, while Blessed Sea City was on the coast. The goods and products of the two places differed greatly, so many of those traveling between Cloud Peak City and Blessed Sea City by passenger airship were small-time merchants.
Large trading companies and merchant houses had airships of their own, so naturally they had no need to take this kind of public passenger airship.
Nor were public passenger airships cheap. For the six days and six nights from Cloud Peak City to Blessed Sea City, including resupply stops along the way, even an ordinary soft-sleeper ticket cost 2 gold coins and 20 silver coins.
As the airship was about to land, a slightly plump attendant entered the soft-sleeper cabin carrying a tin megaphone and shouted, "The airship has arrived in Blessed Sea City. Passengers, please prepare to disembark. Be sure to take your luggage with you. Passengers who checked baggage, please take your baggage receipts to the cargo exit after disembarking and collect your goods yourselves!"
After the attendant repeated himself twice, the passengers in the soft-sleeper cabin began getting up one by one and moving about.
Once he had announced it in this soft-sleeper cabin, the attendant went to notify the other cabins.
More than thirty people slept in this soft-sleeper cabin. Single bunks, three tiers high, stood in a row, making the space extremely cramped and crowded. And with more than thirty old men who had not bathed for a week sleeping inside, the air was naturally far from pleasant. The cabin was thick with foot odor, sweat,