I Tied Up the Travel Check-In System - Chapter 31

Tang Siqi bought a train ticket to Hangzhou East Station on the subway to the train station. Only after she passed through security, boarded the train, and it started moving did she truly feel like she had departed.

Just like that, without any preparation, she was heading to an unfamiliar city!

Tang Siqi subconsciously glanced at her phone screen; 62% battery. Suddenly feeling very insecure, she quickly took out her data cable and charger to charge it.

The high-speed train’s final stop was Ningbo. Tang Siqi was so nervous she couldn’t relax, afraid she would miss her stop. This was completely different from the relaxed and excited feeling she had when returning to Wenzhou.

It was an instinctive tension in the face of an unfamiliar environment. Her eyes kept darting around, her body slightly tense.

After a while, once she had adjusted a little, while charging her phone, Tang Siqi was still studying the next stop on her phone.

Hangzhou was a city both familiar and unfamiliar. Although she was also from Zhejiang, her understanding of Hangzhou was limited to West Lake, Leifeng Pagoda, the Legend of the White Snake, the location of Taobao’s headquarters, expensive housing, the Sijiqing Clothing Wholesale Market… these strange bits of information didn’t help with the trip itself.

Since the purpose of today’s visit was to check in and obtain gold coins and diamonds, and incidentally increase some health points, the most important thing was where to check in.

Tang Siqi opened the map; the Hangzhou area was still gray, not yet lit up, and there were no prompts.

It would probably only light up once she arrived. Tang Siqi first studied Hangzhou’s transportation.

Hangzhou’s rail transit was very developed, and it seemed to go directly to the vicinity of West Lake, which relieved Tang Siqi slightly.

During her time checking in in Shanghai, she found taking the subway to be incredibly convenient, so she wasn’t so anxious about going anywhere in Hangzhou by subway.

Finally, the train stopped at Hangzhou East Station.

Tang Siqi, carrying her bag, followed the crowd out of the station, and the system sent a notification:

【Congratulations, host, you have arrived in Hangzhou. Please go to the map page and open the Hangzhou map.】

Tang Siqi quickly checked the map. The Hangzhou area was now lit up, with more than ten diamonds scattered among them, their approximate locations only visible, not precise.

She clicked on them one by one, but why were there no prompts? Wasn’t there supposed to be a prompt about each diamond? Although she could just randomly choose any attraction to check off her photos using the previous method, getting a diamond at the same time would be ideal.

Ah! Got it!

Tang Siqi selected one of the diamonds, and a line of text appeared above it: This is an ancient pagoda located by West Lake.

Tang Siqi was thrilled: “I know this one!”

Just then, a guy handing out flyers came over: “Beautiful lady, how about a one-day tour of Hangzhou? Our travel agency offers a boat tour of West Lake, a half-day tour to Leifeng Pagoda, and a full-day tour including Xixi Wetland. No mandatory spending, and the price is cheap.”

Tang Siqi took the flyer and looked at the poster on it, which featured beautiful scenery of West Lake, including Leifeng Pagoda. The ancient

pagoda by West Lake, isn’t that Leifeng Pagoda!

Tang Siqi was more relaxed than before; this question was too easy!

Tang Siqi took the flyer and dragged her suitcase away, the guy still behind her: “Hey, hey, if you sign up now, I can give you a 50 yuan discount.”

Joining a tour group was out of the question; she had to get to West Lake to check off her photos as soon as possible.

Tang Siqi walked to the roadside. There were many taxi drivers soliciting passengers at the train station, and the fare was at least 50 yuan. Tang Siqi was reluctant to take a taxi, so she stood by the roadside and used her navigation app to search for bus routes between the two places.

The subway didn’t go directly to Leifeng Pagoda, but it seemed there was a tourist bus that only cost five yuan.

Great!

Tang Siqi waited at the bus stop for a while, and then the tourist bus arrived. An hour later, Tang Siqi arrived at the Leifeng Pagoda scenic area.

However… she was still carrying her suitcase. She couldn’t very well carry her suitcase to the scenic area, could she? But… if she went to find a hotel now, she was afraid she would waste all her time.

Ugh, so troublesome.

She should have known better than to bring her suitcase. After getting off the bus, West Lake was right next to her. This was a scenic area; she wondered if she could find a place to store her luggage.

Tang Siqi walked to a newsstand at the entrance of the scenic area and asked, “Grandpa, can I store my luggage here?”

The old man, wearing reading glasses and flipping through a magazine, glanced at her and said, “My little booth is too small to store luggage.”

Seeing the young woman’s bewildered expression, he added, “There are hotels over there; you can store your luggage there. Or, walk a couple more steps ahead, there’s a specialty supermarket that also stores luggage, but your suitcase is too big, so it’ll probably cost extra.”

Tang Siqi was surprised to find a place to store her luggage. She quickly thanked him and followed the old man’s directions to the specialty supermarket. After some negotiation, she finally managed to store her suitcase for 5 yuan a day.

[Congratulations, host, you have mastered the skill of storing luggage in supermarkets. Reward: 50 gold coins. Total wealth: 77 gold coins.]

Tang Siqi looked at this notification on her phone, somewhat surprised.

Mastering the baggage storage skill will reward you with 50 gold coins, not bad, although it’s not much. But the morning’s B-level check-in only rewarded 10 gold coins, so it seems earning gold coins outside is indeed easier. It’s just a pity that mastering the skill doesn’t increase health.

However, Tang Siqi looked at the Leifeng Pagoda scenic area not far away. She’d be able to check in at Leifeng Pagoda soon, which should give her a lot of health and gold coins, plus a diamond reward.

She walked along, calculating. Although she wanted to eat at Haidilao and exchange for a new suitcase, what she really wanted was an iPad. If she got diamonds, she’d extend the iPad’s lifespan first.

The scenic area ticket was 45 yuan, and Tang Siqi felt a little pained.

This was the first time she’d bought a scenic spot ticket just to check in. Last time she went to the Wusongkou Lighthouse, thanks to the advice of the older folks, she could get free admission by following the scenic area’s official WeChat account.

Sigh, it seems there’s no way to save money on entrance fees when traveling.

The weather was nice today, and it was the weekend, so there were many tourists. There was a queue at the Leifeng Pagoda ticket office. Tang Siqi reluctantly bought a ticket and then followed the path to the bottom of a flight of stairs.

Wait…

why is there an escalator here?

Tang Siqi felt a little uncomfortable seeing a modern escalator in the center of the relatively ancient stone steps.

However, adhering to her principle of never taking the stairs when there’s an escalator, Tang Siqi didn’t think much of it and happily stepped onto the escalator.

Entering the Leifeng Pagoda, the first floor at the bottom was the site of the original Leifeng Pagoda.

Seeing this, Tang Siqi had a bad feeling.

So, the Leifeng Pagoda collapsed?

She was completely bewildered.

Ah… it seems she did learn in her middle school Chinese textbook that the Leifeng Pagoda did collapse.

So, this pagoda was built later?

Tang Siqi’s hands trembled as she searched online. Ah… this pagoda was actually rebuilt in 2002.

She was confused for a moment: “Wait a minute, I watched ‘The Legend of the White Snake’ when I was a child, and Leifeng Pagoda is still there, isn’t it?” Tang Siqi muttered.

A young woman next to her glanced back and sighed, “Ugh, don’t even mention it. I just looked it up too. When ‘The Legend of the White Snake’ was filmed, Leifeng Pagoda hadn’t been rebuilt yet. It was filmed in an ancient temple in Nanjing.”

Tang Siqi was utterly disillusioned. So the TV series she watched as a child wasn’t filmed at Leifeng Pagoda by West Lake at all; it was filmed somewhere else.

A sense of disillusionment washed over her.

But… well, at least this place was rebuilt on the original site. Since she was already here, she might as well take a look.

So she took the elevator again…

and again…

and again…

and finally arrived at the top of Leifeng Pagoda. Standing by the railing, she overlooked the entire beautiful West Lake. The weather was perfect today; West Lake was indeed quite beautiful.

However, for some reason, the famous background music inexplicably echoed in Tang Siqi’s mind: “Ah~ West Lake’s water~~ my tears~~~”

She hadn’t expected to see such a completely modern building when she arrived at Leifeng Pagoda. Her personal feeling was that visiting it was less appealing than gazing at it from the West Lake, where it was quite beautiful.

Tang Siqi, somewhat weak, took out her phone to check in at Hangzhou for the first time.

The little figure clenched its fists, nervously watching the rating given by the system program. This was its young master’s first check-in in a new city.

“A, A, A, A!” the simple drawing of the little figure kept chanting, as if performing a ritual to brainwash the system and give its young master an A-level check-in.

[Congratulations, host, you have successfully checked in at the “Leifeng Pagoda” attraction, rating C. The system rewards you with 5 hours of life points, 50 gold coins, total wealth 77 gold coins, remaining life points: 70 hours.]

The little figure was so angry it was about to faint. How could it only give a C-level?! Now, even it began to doubt if the system was broken.

It anxiously put its hands behind its back and paced in circles.

At this moment, Tang Siqi was truly about to turn into the waters of West Lake…

Such a famous attraction as Leifeng Pagoda, and the system only gave it a C-level?!

This attraction even cost 45 yuan for the entrance fee!

Doesn’t your conscience hurt at only giving it a C-level?!

The system remained completely silent, offering no response.

Tang Siqi felt exhausted after only checking in at one attraction…

However, this check-in seemed to reward more health points and gold coins than the B-level check-in this morning.

Before the system upgrade, a C-level check-in only rewarded 20 gold coins, but now it rewarded 50. It was definitely better to go out.

The health point reward was the same as before the system upgrade, a C-level reward of 5 hours, which was 3 hours more than checking in Shanghai.

However, the reward of gold coins and health points was still too little; it seemed she needed to find a way to get an A-level check-in next time.

Wait…

she suddenly realized something was wrong. She opened the map page in the software and checked repeatedly. She

hadn’t gotten a diamond from the Leifeng Pagoda check-in!

“Isn’t the diamond on this pagoda top? Isn’t this the pagoda?”

“Isn’t this it?”

Tang Siqi was completely bewildered.

Besides Leifeng Pagoda, what other pagoda could be next to West Lake?

Ah… could this diamond not actually be pointing to Leifeng Pagoda?

This realization completely shocked her, so she must have entered the wrong card?