Never Flying Again!

"No, only an hour has passed. We still have a long way to go before we arrive in China."

"Huh!? But Gege, didn't you say I'd flown to China in less than an hour?"

Faced with his younger sister's question, Bell was speechless.

The main problem was that he didn't know how to say it to soothe Shanna's emotions.

Last year, on Shanna's birthday, Bell gave her a top-of-the-line Flying Car as a birthday present.

His parents often complained about this. They said Shanna was so young, barely tall enough to reach the steering wheel while sitting in the seat, how could she drive? What if she hit and killed someone?

Of course, that was all last year. As for now, Bell doesn't know what her mother, Elena, thinks, but her father, William, doesn't mind Shanna driving her Flying Car around at all.

As long as his youngest daughter doesn't destroy the house, William will wholeheartedly support whatever she wants to do!

The Flying Car that Shanna named "Bena" has a maximum speed of 10 times the speed of sound. It can accelerate from a standstill to its maximum speed in just 10 seconds.

After receiving her Gege's birthday present, the happy little girl immediately boarded the "Bena" and flew towards the horizon while video chatting with her Gege.

Seeing his sister's happiness on the screen, Bell was also very happy. While instructing Shanna on her Flying Car skills, he was also guiding Shanna flight path.

Although the various cryptic Ancient Runes inscribed on the Flying Car ensured it wouldn't be detected by Muggle radar, it could still be detected by the detection magic of various countries' Ministry of Magic if it flew too fast.

Therefore, to avoid unnecessary trouble, Bell still instructed Shanna to fly along the border or over uninhabited areas as much as possible.

That day, Shanna flew around the entire Earth before returning home. This was also a major reason why her parents complained about Bell.

There is no doubt that a regular commercial airliner could not fly from the Britain to China in less than an hour.

Although he didn't know much about it, Bell guessed that even the fastest military aircraft probably couldn't do it.

"So why isn't there Portkey link between China and Britain?"

Bell thought with dissatisfaction.

"Shanna, airplanes are much slower than Flying Car."

"How much longer until we reach China?"

"Um, about... 10 hours..."

"..."

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Bell turned her head away, somewhat unable to look at her younger sister's incredulous expression.

"Alright, Shanna, be quiet!"

Elena finally couldn't stand it anymore and spoke up to defend her son.

"And Bell, you've been spoiling Shanna too much lately. If this continues, she'll become increasingly willful. Be careful!"

Elena rarely scolded Bell.

"Yes, Mom, I will be careful."

Bell herself had noticed the problem. However, when she thought about how sad Shanna had cried when she returned home during summer vacation, Bell felt guilty towards her sister and couldn't bring herself to refuse her requests.

Now that his mother had brought up the issue, Bell decided to take the opportunity to make a firm decision: he would have to be stricter with Shanna from now on.

"I'm sorry, Gege..."

Shanna was filled with remorse. Previously, because of her, her Gege had been punished by their mother. Now, because of her again, her Gege was being scolded by their mother.

Because her Gege was finally on vacation, and because she could travel abroad with Gege, Shanna, who had been a bit overconfident, finally calmed down.

After being scolded by her Gege once, she no longer throws tantrums at her mother Elena, as she used to.

"It doesn't matter."

Bell affectionately ruffled Shanna's hair.

"As long as Shanna acknowledges her mistakes and corrects them, she's a good girl. Besides, her Gege also made mistakes; wouldn't it be better if we corrected them together?"

"Um!"

Shanna nodded her little head cutely.

Shanna would be happy as long as she could be with her Gege, even if they made mistakes together.

"Shanna is such a good girl! If you're bored, take a nap. Your Gege will wake you up when it's time."

Bell suggested.

"No! I want to play with my Gege!"

Having finally been able to play with her Gege again, Shanna didn't want to waste a single second.

The reason she had such strong dissatisfaction before was because she couldn't play with her Gege to her heart's content in the cramped airplane cabin.

She knew perfectly well that her Gege didn't really enjoy playing Wizard's Chess.

"We're finally here!"

As soon as she got off the plane, Shanna jumped and skipped with excitement. The previous 11-hour journey had been nothing short of hellish for her.

"Gege, let's not take a plane next time, okay?"

Shanna looked at her Gege pitifully.

"I'm not sitting here! I absolutely won't sit here!"

Not to mention Shanna, even Bell wanted to blow up the plane later on!

Having grown accustomed to the speed of Flying Car and the convenience of Side-Along Apparition, making Bell ride such a "slow" mode of transportation as an airplane is simply too torturous!

"Yay!"

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After another round of complicated customs checks, the family finally left the airport terminal. The waiting staff immediately came to greet them.

"Nice, tsk, mit, oil, love, em, Zhao Youde. (Hello, my name is Zhao Youde.)"

After hearing just half a sentence, beads of sweat streamed down Zhao Youde's forehead. Looking at the rows and rows of pinyin on the small notebook in his hand, his heart sank completely!

Zhao Youde couldn't understand it. It was clearly an unwritten rule in the department that people slack off and sleep during the night shift.

As a result, when others were on night shift, they slept and nothing happened. But when it was his turn to be on night shift, that fat minister suddenly went crazy. He didn't want to stay in his warm and cozy bed, so he insisted on coming to conduct some kind of surprise inspection! What a lunatic!

He racked his brains but couldn't figure out when he had offended that fat Zhao Youde, so he could only resign himself to his bad luck.

In short, he not only had a month's salary deducted, but was also assigned a job that nobody wanted to do.

"Wait a minute! Could it be that those bastards were afraid the job of receiving foreign guests would fall to them, so they specifically went to that fat guy to report us?"

Zhao Youde felt that he might not be able to figure out the truth.

"Just you wait!"

As for why no one wants to do the job of receiving foreign guests? Well, that's because nobody speaks English!

Just kidding, the Academy doesn't even have an English course, okay? Who would know what those gibberish gibberish means!

The book in his hand, which supposedly contains all the everyday English conversation, was obtained by him after going through great lengths to ask a friend who knows a lot of people Spirit-Rootless Person to help him.

Moreover, although it was to adapt to the international situation, a few years ago the bigwigs of the Cultivator Alliance somehow came up with a plan and established a department called the International Exchange and Cooperation Department.

But since its establishment, apart from doing odd jobs for other departments, they haven't done much serious work, have they?

So when they received the notice from above a few days ago, they all thought the minister had finally gone mad.

You see, their minister was assigned to the International Exchange and Cooperation Department, such a menial department, because he offended someone. So that fat minister was dreaming of finding an opportunity to prove himself, hoping to get promoted and make a fortune.