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"We're here! Los Angeles! This is my first time leaving the country."
"Like any of us have done it before."
"Are we heading to the internship dorms next? I wonder what the conditions are like."
"They're reimbursing seventy percent. We can't exactly ask for much."
"We're already lucky just to get the chance. Anything moderately below average is fine."
"They're assigning internships tomorrow. I wonder where we'll end up."
"Hey, hey, did you record anything when we crossed the Arctic Circle earlier?"
"I did, I did."
At Los Angeles Airport on the West Coast, a flight from Beijing had landed. The excited discussions of Jing University students coming to North America for internships rang continuously through the airport terminal.
"Hey, Fang Ran, aren't you leaving?"
"My luggage hasn't come out yet. You guys go ahead. I'll wait for the second car."
Hearing Gao Li, Yuwen, and the others stop to ask him, the young man still standing before the baggage carousel waved at them and called out loudly.
"Oh, then we'll get on first."
And just as their figures disappeared around the corner, before the next group of students emerged—
A staff member who had been standing nearby the entire time quickly stepped forward. In a courteous, respectful voice, he spoke in chinese.
"Mr. Fang Ran, please come with me."
Fang Ran had noticed long ago that there was a man standing in the baggage claim area who looked like some sort of manager. Hearing him suddenly come over and speak in the local language, Fang Ran raised an eyebrow before following him directly.
He had not brought any luggage at all.
"Sir, it's this way."
Following him around the baggage claim area and into the exclusive passageway, Fang Ran walked deeper into a corridor whose decorations gradually became more