1154 Wrong Time, Wrong Place (1/2)

Since the Egyptian government had announced the introduction of the floating exchange rate system at the end of 2016, Egypt's inflation rate had reached 34.2% in 2017. With the rapid devaluation of the Egyptian dollar, the real income level of the local people in Egypt further declined. The bottom-level civil servants could only barely maintain food and clothing.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.

It was no wonder that the Egyptians thought up all kinds of ways to cheat. It was really because they couldn't afford to live on their stiff, unchanging wages alone. The sideline income outside the basic wage determined their living standard.

Chinese people who had just arrived in Egypt were not used to the Egyptians always asking for tips with a shy face. Even when they just gave directions, they also asked for tips because tips were an integral part of their income in the Egyptians' eyes.

Even in places where there was no reason for tipping, Egyptians would concoct various ways. For example, when they visited luxury stores in Cairo, if they paid in cash, brand-name clothes priced 299 and 298 would be charged 300. The cashier's uniform line in response was, ”There is no change.”

Obviously, the staff of this pyramid scenic area in front of Zhang Zian were very good at opening up sources and saving money and had come up with a good way to increase their income. They would cash in their power and sell tourists entrance to unopened areas, which they should be prohibited from entering, at high prices.

But he did not dare to do that so obviously in front of many people, and he could only wait until the 300 visitors every day were mostly gone. Only then would he jump out to promote it to the few visitors left.

And he was quite smart, not accepting the Egyptian dollar that could depreciate in value and directly demanding the stable currency of American dollars.

The truth was, as long as you were willing to spend money, employees and even police officers in most of Egypt's scenic spots were accommodating.

Zhang Zian's doubts were immediately answered. The missing ten tourists must have loosened their purse strings generously and paid to enter the restricted area.

Then should he pay or not?

Of course he should pay.

This could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to enter the Great Pyramid. It would be worth paying a little money to enter a restricted area that few people could enter.

In addition, the faces of the elfins were all strange. It seemed that something unusual was happening in the side channel. But in front of the outsiders, he was not able to communicate with the elfins, which aroused their curiosity.

The principle of doing business with Egyptians was: ”Ask for a lot of money and have them pay on the spot.”

He held out a finger. ”One dollar.”

The employee was speechless. He had never seen someone who bargained to the ground directly like that.

”No! No! Five dollars! Good value! No cheaper!”

The employee put on an expression like his meat was being cut and waved his hands to show that it could not be cheaper.

Would Zhang Zian be deceived by him? He was blocking the road and collecting money in a way of business that was pure profit and did not cost him anything. Every bit of business he solicited was pure profit.

”Two dollars and these, or I will leave.”

He took out a few Pinduoduo cooling ointments and shook them in front of the employee.

”Okay! Deal!” the employee agreed, beaming.

Keeping the two US dollars and the cooling ointment, the employee pointed at the tunnel. ”No time! Quick in! Quick out!”

With little time left for the closing of the Great Pyramid, the employee feared that his wealth-gathering tactics would be found out by other employees and urged Zhang Zian to go in and out quickly.

Zhang Zian entered the side channel, and the staff resumed their solemn manner to guard the entrance of the channel.

Like the Forbidden City, ever since modern archaeologists had entered the pyramids, most of the excavated passages and tombs had not been open to tourists. People were always full of curiosity about the unknown. The mysterious unopened areas in the mysterious pyramid aroused people's imaginations.

This was a very long tunnel, and there was only a single light after a long distance. It seemed that many of the lights were broken, causing the tunnel to be very dark.