To become the richest man from the beginning of the game

Chapter 794 Take off!

October 12th, Thursday.

Magic City Airport.

Zhao Xuming was waiting for the flight with the team leaders and players of the other two clubs.

The time for the ioi global finals has been finalized this time. It will officially start on December 12, which is next Saturday, and it will last until the end of January for a month.

The competition system is similar to GOG's Global Invitational Tournament, with [-] teams and four groups divided into two stages: group stage and knockout stage.

In terms of the schedule, the focus of group matches and knockout matches are basically arranged on weekends and statutory holidays, while less important matches and rest days are arranged on working days as much as possible.

Although the arrangement is not particularly perfect, it is considered reasonable.

However, due to the time difference, domestic audiences have a relatively poor viewing experience. Taking the group stage as an example, the domestic viewing time is from 3:12 a.m. to [-]:[-] noon the next day, highlighting a cultivator.

After all, it is held in Los Angeles, and there is no way around this schedule.

Finger Company will only provide hotels and board and lodging the day before the start of the competition until the team is eliminated.

Therefore, most of the poorer clubs will arrive at the hotels arranged near the competition venue one or two days before the start of the competition.

In order to allow the two domestic clubs to play training matches with European and American teams in advance and adapt to the local environment, Zhao Xuming decided to go there more than a week earlier and stay in the hotel arranged by Zhitou.

The air ticket and this week's board and lodging expenses are fully reimbursed by Longyu Group.

There are a total of 20 members. The two clubs have 14 members including five players plus team leaders and coaches. In addition, Longyu Group is also accompanied by six staff members including Zhao Xuming.

Zhao Xuming went to Los Angeles purely to take this opportunity to go out and watch the ioi games. After all, the work of the ioi operation and cooperation department of Longyu Group in the next period of time is mainly to use the ioi world championship for publicity and promotion. He went there Los Angeles has a name for itself.

After arriving in Los Angeles, in addition to settling down the players of these two clubs, Zhao Xuming will also visit and exchange ideas with other ioi operation and cooperation department colleagues at the headquarters of the finger company.

A group of 20 people are waiting at the airport.

At present, only a few cities in China, such as Imperial Capital and Shanghai Metropolis, can fly directly to Los Angeles, and the fares are relatively expensive.Most of the other cities need to transfer. Although the fare is relatively cheap, the whole journey will take a lot longer.

Zhao Xuming did not choose a cheaper connecting route, but chose a relatively small number of direct flights with relatively high prices. The whole journey only takes about 13 hours.

Zhao Xuming is still a little proud. After all, the air tickets are also reimbursed by Longyu Group. For these clubs, choosing a direct flight is considered relatively generous.

Most of the players in these clubs are teenagers with Internet addiction, and they have basically never been abroad or seen anything in the world. Zhao Xuming feels that his sincerity is already very good.

As for the seat, Zhao Xuming, as a senior executive of Longyu Group, can of course choose the business class for business trips, but after careful consideration, he still chooses the economy class.

It's not that he saved money for the company, the main reason is that he doesn't look good.

Because there are a lot of people this time, it is indeed too expensive for all 20 people to fly in business class. After all, the price of a business class ticket is three times that of an economy class ticket.

And Zhao Xuming was too embarrassed to fly the business class by himself and let people from the club go to the economy class, so he had to feel wronged.

Of course, the leaders and players of these two clubs don't care about this. Longyu Group's reimbursement of direct air tickets is already very good, and it is a bit too much to ask people to spend three times the money to fly business class.

What's more, Mr. Zhao himself is also flying economy class.

There is still a long time before boarding the plane. Zhao Xuming was chatting with the team leaders of the two clubs, and briefly introduced the arrangements after arriving in Los Angeles.

"The hotel arranged by Zhitou this time is the Courtyard by Marriott, which is about 200 meters away from the competition venue and is within walking distance. It is very convenient."

"I didn't even mention the environment of the hotel. It's very good. Anyway, it has everything you need."

"After arriving there, we will go directly to the hotel and check in. I will be reimbursed for the hotel expenses before the start of the game. Wait until the day before the start of the game, everyone will check out and check in again, and live in the room arranged by the finger company."

"Our company has assigned a translator here. When the time comes, the two team leaders will work hard. Let's find nearby Internet cafes and restaurants with our translator to see where it is more suitable for training and eating."

"Although the finger company will also arrange the training room and board and lodging, but it can only be officially put in place the day before the game, and we have to rely on ourselves this week."

Zhao Xuming explained some details, and the two team leaders nodded frequently.

Other team members were also a little excited, and some team members were a little nervous because it was their first time flying.

Zhao Xuming was chatting with the two team leaders when he suddenly heard footsteps in the distance.

"Come on, let's go here. Everyone stand according to their height, yes, stand in three rows, and the main players stand in front and raise the club's team flag. Okay, I'm going to take a photo."

"One, two, three! That's great, let's have another one."

Zhao Xuming couldn't help but froze for a moment, turned his head to look, and was stunned for an instant.

Isn't this the FV club?

Why so many people!

At this time, there were about thirty people standing together to take pictures, and the one in the front row was still holding the team flag of the FV club.The five main players stood at the front, and Zhao Xuming recognized them at a glance.

I saw two cameramen each holding a long gun and a short cannon to shoot at the crowd, and a big cameraman was carrying a camera to record the whole process.

Zhao Xuming soon saw more familiar faces in the crowd, including Ding Gan, Wu Yue, Manager Lu and members of the SUG club.

Zhao Xuming fell into a state of confusion.

What's happening here?

Since these people have already arrived here, it means that they are all here by plane. Since they are by plane, they must be flying to Los Angeles.

But even if everyone in the FV club has to fly to Los Angeles, there will only be seven or eight people if they are exhausted?

How come there are so many people?

Why are people from the SUG club there?

Zhao Xuming originally thought that he was bringing players from two clubs, and the team was already huge, but looking at the FV club, one club crushed him in terms of numbers!

Zhao Xuming was a little confused about the situation for a while, and this unexpected encounter was completely beyond his expectation.

Wu Yue, who had just finished taking photos, also saw Zhao Xuming who was waiting for the flight.

Wu Yue was also a little surprised. Although he didn't have a good look at Zhao Xuming, it was a bit too much to pretend that they didn't see each other at this moment.

So Wu Yue immediately stepped forward to greet Zhao Xuming.

"Mr. Zhao! I didn't expect to meet you here, what a coincidence."

Zhao Xuming forced the corner of his mouth to show a smile, and stood up: "Mr. Wu, are you going to take this flight to Los Angeles?"

Wu Yue nodded: "Yes, Mr. Zhao too? Oh, isn't it a coincidence?"

"But it's normal. This flight is more appropriate in terms of timing. We are heroes who see the same thing."

Although there are Min Jingchao, Ye Zhizhou and others living in Jingzhou on Wuyue's side, FV and SUG clubs are both in Shanghai, and there is no direct flight from Jingzhou to Los Angeles, so everyone still chooses to start from Shanghai.

Taking into account various factors such as take-off and landing time, schedule, flight seats, ticket price, etc., this flight is the most suitable, so Wu Yue and Zhao Xuming just happened to meet each other.

This meeting was a little awkward.

Because Zhao Xuming deliberately did not bring the FV club to Los Angeles, and both parties knew this well.

In the current situation, Zhao Xuming had no choice but to keep silent and pretend to be polite: "Mr. Wu, there is still a while before boarding the plane, let's find a place to sit first."

Wu Yue smiled: "Okay, I don't need Mr. Zhao to worry about this."

After exchanging pleasantries, Wu Yue greeted the other people accompanying him: "Come on, everyone come with me to find a place to rest."

However, to Zhao Xuming's surprise, Wu Yue and the others did not sit in the rest area next to them, but went straight into the VIP lounge a little further away.

A string of question marks floated over Zhao Xuming's head instantly.

what's the situation?

The VIP lounge is designed to provide waiting services for business class passengers or high-end members. There are various supporting services such as TV, newspapers, magazines, snacks and drinks in it. They are all single-person leather sofas, which are much more comfortable than the hard row seats in the rest area!

Seeing that all the thirty people went in, and even the cameraman who followed behind, Zhao Xuming was even more shocked.

What do you mean?

Is it possible that these thirty people are all booked in business class?

Zhao Xuming is well aware of the air ticket price. Economy class is about 30 yuan, while the price of business class is close to 60. These [-] people all book business class, which costs [-] more than economy class!

Outrageous!

Zhao Xuming quickly denied this idea himself.

Why is the FV club willing to spend an extra 60 to fly? This is simply unreasonable!

Well, it should be to act aggressively in front of us and pay to enter the VIP lounge to rest!

Zhao Xuming is very clear that although these business class lounges claim to be used by business class or high-end members, they can also enter for a fee.The price is 100 yuan per person.

If this is the case, 30 people are actually only 3000 yuan, which is okay.

Zhao Xuming felt that he could also spend 2000 yuan to install it, but then he thought that the plane was not delayed, and it would take off in a while, so the money was really unnecessary.

Or act like nothing happened.

After being interrupted by Wu Yue and others, Zhao Xuming was not in the mood to chat with the club leader anymore. Everyone was swiping their phones while waiting for the flight silently.

For some reason, Zhao Xuming still couldn't help but see the scene in the VIP lounge in his mind.

The environment is quiet and there is no noise. Sitting on a comfortable single leather sofa, reading magazines and watching movies, free snacks and drinks are supplied indefinitely...

The more I think about it, the more I feel like it's just a lemon.

Zhao Xuming looked at his watch frequently. Fortunately, he was about to board the plane.

People came to the boarding gate and waited in line.

The direct flight to Los Angeles this time is a large passenger plane that can seat nearly 500 people. It is divided into upper and lower floors, so there are more people in line.

Zhao Xuming and others got up early, stood relatively in front of the team, and waited patiently.

Seeing that the line was getting longer and longer, but Wu Yue and others did not come out of the VIP lounge, Zhao Xuming became more and more suspicious.

what's the situation?

Are they not in a hurry to line up, or...

Finally, Wu Yue and Ding Gan led more than 30 people with them out of the VIP lounge, but they did not line up at the end of the line, but went straight to another boarding gate.

Under the gracious reception of the flight attendants, Wu Yue and others went smoothly.

On the other hand, the long queue here is in stark contrast.

Zhao Xuming and the team leaders and team members of the two clubs watched helplessly as Wu Yue and others started to board the plane, while the queue he was in was as slow as a tortoise crawling.

This large airliner is divided into upper and lower floors, and has two independent boarding gates, which do not interfere with each other whether boarding or disembarking.The business class is on the upper deck, and the economy class is on the lower deck. There is no need to queue for the business class.

Zhao Xuming: "..."

Looking at the backs of Wu Yue, Ding Gan and others, he closed himself silently.

(End of this chapter)