The biggest advantage of watching movies abroad was getting to see plenty of foreign-language films that never screened back home.
But...
Watching movies abroad also meant there were no Chinese subtitles.
That wasn't exactly friendly to Zhao Zimo, whose English wasn't very good.
Luckily, he'd bought tickets for a hard sci-fi movie, so even just watching the visuals was pretty exciting.
The hour-and-a-half movie was over before long.
The three of them found somewhere to eat, then returned to the hotel.
Early the next morning,
Yan Xiao was woken by a phone call.
"Are you up?"
"Not yet?"
"Why aren't you up yet? We're visiting Peppercorn University of Technology today!" Lin Fangxin sounded a little impatient.
"Can I skip it? I'm too sleepy..." Yan Xiao said.
"No. There's a lecture we have to attend today too. Hurry up and get out of bed!" Lin Fangxin gave Yan Xiao no chance to slack off.
After dragging his feet for nearly ten minutes, Yan Xiao finally crawled out of bed.
He washed up,
went downstairs for breakfast,
and when he and Zhao Zimo headed to the lobby afterward, they discovered that everyone else was already there.
When Yan Xiao and Zhao Zimo arrived,
the teacher leading the group said nothing.
Although they were the last two to arrive, there were actually still thirty seconds left before the meeting time...
The group left the hotel
and boarded a bus.
Before long, they arrived at Peppercorn University of Technology.
Touring the campus
and listening to the university's teachers brag
was incredibly boring.
Once the tour was over,
A Peppercorn Institute of Technology Teacher chatted with their group leader.
Thinking about the lecture they still had to attend, Yan Xiao was ready to head back to the bus for a nap,
because he felt that,