Chapter 640 - : Incident at the Customs (1/2)

About 17:00, Mei Nation time, a commercial flight flying in from Ri Nation touched down at the Washington Airport. This aircraft belonged to Mei Nation Airlines. Although the Ri nation’s satellites had all crashed, they had the Mei nation’s satellites protecting them, so there was no interruption to the flight schedule.

Xiao Luo’s new identity was Xiao Lin, a Hua Nation researcher. He was supposedly in the Mei Nation on a vacation, and also to experience this country’s customs and cultures. This was what he planned to say later when he was going through customs.

This was an international airport and a gateway to the Mei Nation, so it was not surprising to find countless foreigners from every corner of the world converging there.

There were many people at the customs, and there was a long queue at the security checkpoint. The scene looked rather similar to the ticketing platforms at Hua Nation train stations during the lunar new year. The only difference was that ticketing platforms at the train stations were abuzz with boisterous people, and the din was horrific—one’s ears would be assaulted by the cacophony that sounded like there were thousands of angry flies. A person would feel disoriented, and it added to the anxiety of the waiting crowd. But here, it was much quieter. Although there was a lot of activity, everyone had the civic consciousness to keep their voices down. After all, once you stepped out of your own country, everything you did reflected on your country’s image, so many foreigners tried not to misbehave when they were in Mei Nation.

Suddenly, a loud argument broke out—and unsurprisingly, they were speaking Mandarin.

This attracted the attention of everybody at the customs checkpoint, and they all turned their gaze toward the source of the disturbance. When everyone saw it was a group of people from the Hua nation, they all had looks of disgust and contempt on their faces.

Xiao Luo was quite shocked when he saw the group of people because he knew those people. He did not just know them, but he was also very well-acquainted with them. His life at Huaye University in Jiangcheng flashed before his eyes like a sped-up movie reel.

Zhu Xiaofei, Ding Kai, Huang Ruoran, Wang Ling, and their teacher Zhong Meili.

Their names immediately flashed in Xiao Luo’s mind, for the experiences he had at Huaye were indelibly etched in his mind. He would never forget their faces, so young and full of vigor, especially those two class jesters: Zhu Xiaofei and Ding Kai. He had wanted to visit them many a time, but he deferred for good reason.

As he listened in to their argument with the security officers, he understood, more or less, what was going on. As it turned out, Zhong Meili had been careless, and she filled out the dates on their Form I-94 wrongly. She had written it in the format they used in Hua Nation, and so the security officer instructed her to fill in a new one.

Filling in Form I-94 was such a tedious thing!

Zhu Xiaofei and Ding Kai could not suppress their anger. It was just an issue of changing the numbers. Why did they have to fill in a new one? And so they argued with the female security officer.

But Zhong Meili, unwilling to escalate the matter, quickly calmed them down and ushered them off to a counter some distance away to fill in another arrival form as instructed by the security officer.

What a small world it was!

Xiao Luo could not help but feel emotional. Seeing how Zhu Xiaofei was still so plump and how Ding Kai still as thin as ever, he felt elated and in better spirits. However, the female security officer’s remark made him frown a little.

“Uneducated Chinese!”

It was jarring, and all the Hua Nation people there who heard it felt slighted. Xiao Luo was not too happy either, but the fault lay with his countrymen so he could only grin and bear it. A lot of the Hua nation people nodded silently. They felt helpless and embarrassed by how Zhu Xiaofei and Dingkai had acted and wanted to leave the place as soon as possible.

It took a while before it was Xiao Luo’s turn. He handed his visa, passport, Form I-94 arrival form and customs declaration form over.

Xiao Luo finally got a good look at this security officer who had insulted the Hua nation people earlier. It was a blonde woman about 32 or 33 years old. When she saw his nationality on his visa, she sneered. “Another one from Hua nation!” she muttered under her breath.

The undertone of mockery in her words was plain as daylight.