Chapter 66

  Zuo Xiaolong packed his bags, it was already midnight. He actually never thought of really leaving this place, but he felt that he should go and see the outside world. The outside world is about 5,000 kilometers away, Zuo Xiaolong calculated. His average speed is 80 kilometers per hour. Driving for 10 hours a day, that's 800 kilometers a day. In the most ideal state, he would be back in a week. He thought to himself, Tinglin Town would be shocked by this event. In the most difficult state, his speed would be 10 kilometers per hour, driving for only one hour a day. That would still only take more than a year to return. Zuo Xiaolong had calculated it mathematically and looked down on the world a bit, although it was just within a country, but the world is actually not that big. As long as he kept moving forward.

  The road ahead is National Highway 318.

  Zuo Xiaolong wanted to take his own city as the starting point. All three national highways leading out of the city in different directions were opened, because he liked riding motorcycles, which was the best way for him. But his goal was never the end of the highway, but rather back to the starting point. Originally, Zuo Xiaolong wanted to take National Highway 320, but he suddenly discovered that the numbers on National Highway 318 were more impressive than those on 320, so in order to make it easier to conquer one by one, he decided to take National Highway 318 first. The endpoint of National Highway 318 was the Friendship Bridge in Tibet, which was over 5,000 kilometers away, perfectly matching Zuo Xiaolong's grand ambitions. If given a national highway of just 1,000 kilometers, he would definitely think that he could make a round trip on the same day. He found some information about National Highway 318...

  National Highway 318 almost follows the 30th parallel north. Those great landscapes are either on both sides of the road or within a range of 200 kilometers south and north: Yangtze River Estuary, Qiantang River, West Lake, Taihu Lake, Huangshan, Lushan, Poyang Lake, Dongting Lake, Tianzhu Mountain, Shennongjia, Three Gorges, Zhangjiajie, Wulingyuan, Huanglong Cave, Mount Emei... These are the landscapes we are more familiar with. Further west, some unfamiliar landscapes that cannot be found in traditional culture begin to enter our field of vision, especially the snow-capped mountains and glaciers that people used to have no chance to appreciate: Gongga Mountain, Hailuogou Glacier, Zhedo Mountain, Yala Snow Mountain, Aden Three Great Snow Peaks... Xianuo Ri, Yangmaiyong and Shannan Dajie, Que'er Mountain... On this line, the 7,000-meter-high Nyainqentanglha and Gela White Granite appear. Further west, the world's highest peaks above 8,000 meters, including Makalu, Cho Oyu, Mount Everest, and Shishapangma, appear. Among them, Mount Everest is the highest point on Earth. There are also countless unnamed snow-capped mountains and glaciers along this highway...

  Zuǒ Xiǎo Lóng was very excited that night. He felt that through this matter, he would distinguish himself from ordinary people and become a... self-proclaimed extraordinary person. That night, his mind was preoccupied with the 318 National Highway, and both Niú Bà and Huáng Yíng were thrown to the back of his mind. He finally understood why men who had established their careers didn't have time for women anymore... Of course, that referred to familiar women.

  That night, he dreamed that he and his motorcycle were speeding along Highway 318. Snow-capped mountains whizzed by beside him. He was wearing short sleeves and didn't feel the least bit cold. Mud sat behind him. Bruce Lee asked, "Why don't I feel cold?"

  Mudbara told him, at an altitude of 5,000 meters, you have already frozen to death, now it's your soul.

  Bruce Lee said: My soul can also ride a motorcycle. That's great.