Chapter 86 - The Empress Rides the High-Speed Rail

[Boarding for train XXXX is about to begin. Passengers for train XXXX, please proceed to gate XX for ticket inspection.]

Fifteen minutes before departure, the broadcast announcement for their train's boarding began.

“Time to board. Let's go.”

Lin Fan stood up from his seat and led Long Yue and the others to the corresponding ticket gate to wait.

Having gone through the experience at the entrance gate, this time Long Yue passed through the ticket check smoothly, and stood on the descending escalator pulling her luggage.

When the high-speed bullet trains parked on the tracks came into view, she couldn't help but widen her eyes in amazement.

Although she had seen what high-speed trains looked like in short videos, this was the first time she had seen one up close with her own eyes.

Its long and magnificent body looked just like a giant dragon of steel lying quietly on the tracks.

After getting off the escalator, the people around them began to disperse to the left and right according to their carriage and seat numbers, each looking for their assigned car.

Long Yue opened her e-ticket, looking at the carriage number displayed on it while also looking down at the markings on the platform floor.

“Blue marker, carriage number six…”

Just as she was concentrating on finding her carriage, Lin Fan silently walked up to her side, falling into step with her.

Long Yue's delicate brows furrowed, and she shot him an irritated glance.

“Demon Sovereign, This Empress remembers that you're not in the same carriage as This Empress. Why are you following This Empress?”

“Not right now, but who's to say what will happen in a little while,” Lin Fan said with a slight smile.

Long Yue looked confused.

Can seat numbers be changed just like that?

Filled with doubt, she found the correct carriage number and, pulling her luggage, found her own seat.

Her seat was the one by the window, and a man was already sitting in the adjacent aisle seat.

Before Long Yue could go and take her seat, Lin Fan stepped in front of the man first.

“Excuse me, my girlfriend and I are together, but we couldn't get seats next to each other. Could I trouble you to switch seats with me?”

As he spoke, while the man was still hesitating, he pulled out two red bills and tucked them into the man's shirt pocket.

“Just a small token of my appreciation. Sorry for the trouble.”

“Oh, it's no trouble at all~!”

“It's just switching seats. You're being too polite, you just had to ask~”

The man was beaming with joy. He quickly got up to give them the seat, even specially wiping it down a little, and then asked enthusiastically:

“Do you need help putting up your luggage?”

“No need, we can handle the luggage ourselves,” Lin Fan politely declined the man's enthusiastic offer.

“Alright then, I'll be on my way. Have a pleasant journey~”

The man saw that they didn't need help, and with a brilliant smile on his face, turned and left with his luggage.

Zhou Yan and Lu Zhai, who were following behind, were both stunned.

That works too?

A normal person might just politely ask if they could switch seats, but Lin Fan just directly stuffed two hundred yuan in his pocket.

That was just too simple and crude…!

Even with their money, they had never been so extravagant…

Lin Fan has changed. He used to scrimp and save on everything.

Sure enough, when a man gets money, he changes…

We'll have to try that next time!

After the man left, Lin Fan sat down in his seat as a matter of course, patted the inner seat, and beckoned to Long Yue:

“Ma'am, if you please~”

Long Yue: “…”

Long Yue was speechless.

She had thought that Lin Fan might use spiritual energy to control the other person and make them give up their seat or something.

She never expected him to just bribe the guy with money…

That was two hundred yuan! That guy just handed it over like that! So extravagant! So wasteful!

“Need my help?”

Lin Fan asked, gesturing to the suitcase in Long Yue's hand.

“No need, This Empress can do it herself.”

Long Yue lifted her suitcase to stuff it into the luggage rack above the seats, but the suitcase was heavier than she expected, and she visibly strained.

It seems I might have accidentally packed a little too much…

After several failed attempts to stuff the suitcase into the rack, her arms began to give out.

Just as the suitcase was about to slip from her grasp, Lin Fan steadied it with one hand and, with a light push, easily slid it into place.

“When This One is here, why must you force yourself.”

“This Empress didn't want to trouble you. I was just about to get it up there…”

Although her face was defiant, she still muttered a quiet 'thank you' under her breath:

“...But still, thank you…”

With that, she walked past Lin Fan and sat down in the window seat.

Beep beep beep.

The doors of the bullet train closed, and the train slowly accelerated forward. The scenery outside the window began to flash past faster and faster.

As it was her first time traveling far in this world, Long Yue stared with her clear, bright eyes, curiously gazing at the scenery outside the window.

Although the train's speed didn't seem very fast in her eyes, one had to remember that this was a mode of transportation created by mortals. To be able to reach such a speed was already quite astonishing.

If it were the past, she wouldn't have believed in a million years that insignificant mortals could create a magical treasure of this speed, let alone one that was an ordinary mode of transport that almost anyone could ride.

“Snacks, boxed meals, anyone need anything?”

Not long after the train started moving, an attendant pushing a snack cart walked down the aisle, calling out through a speaker.

As it happened to be mealtime, Long Yue was also feeling a bit hungry. She pointed to a boxed meal on the cart and asked:

“Excuse me, how much is this boxed meal?”

“Hello, it's fifty for one box.”

“Fifty?!”

Long Yue was shocked. The hand she was raising to scan the payment code couldn't help but stop in mid-air.

The boxed meal before her only had a few dishes placed in small compartments, and the portions weren't large. A meal like this outside their residential complex would cost a dozen or so yuan at the absolute most.

But here on the high-speed rail, such a meal actually cost fifty a box!

That's too expensive!

I should probably just get my instant noodles from my suitcase and add some hot water later…

Anyway, I'm on a diet recently. It's better to eat a little less…

“Two boxes, please.”

Just as Long Yue was about to back out, Lin Fan suddenly reached out and took two boxed meals from the attendant, placing one of them in front of her.

“Demon Sovereign, you know This Empress is on a diet, don't you!”

Looking at the boxed meal, Long Yue secretly swallowed her saliva but still shot a reproachful glance at Lin Fan beside her.

He clearly knows I'm on a diet, yet he deliberately gives me a boxed meal... Isn't this testing my Dao heart again!

“I know. So, are you going to eat it?”

“If you're not going to eat it, I'll just throw it away later.”

“Th-Throw it away?!”

Long Yue was shocked. She looked at the meal in front of her, her face full of reluctance.

“Throwing it away... that's a bit too wasteful...”

“This Empress, on behalf of the broad masses of the people, expresses my strong condemnation of you!”

Lin Fan: “…”

Wait, why can you, an Empress from the Immortal Realm, also represent the broad masses of the people to condemn him…

For a moment, Lin Fan's mind didn't know how to even begin to retort.

“Forget it. In order not to waste food, This Empress will reluctantly help you by eating it…”

After hesitating again and again, Long Yue picked up her chopsticks, opened the boxed meal, and began to eat with great relish.

It's not that her Dao heart is weak. It's purely that she is unwilling to see food be wasted. It can't be helped!

“Yawn~”

After happily finishing her boxed meal, Long Yue gave a yawn, laid her head down, and fell asleep.

As the train moved, her body tilted slightly, and she eventually came to rest gently on Lin Fan's shoulder.

Lin Fan was helpless. He just let her lean on him, and he himself slowly closed his eyes.

Zhou Yan and Lu Zhai, sitting on the other side, happened to have a distant view of Lin Fan and Long Yue.

“Ah Zhai, I've suddenly lost my appetite. Are you still eating? You can have my portion too.”

Seeing Lin Fan and the others nestled so intimately together, sleeping, Zhou Yan suddenly felt exceptionally full. He silently pushed his own boxed meal over to Lu Zhai…

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