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Hearing his assistant, Zhao Rong immediately took out his phone and opened the Paradise Shopping Cart app. He began searching for a ”traffic jam divine artifact.”

”I’m not sure if the Paradise Shopping Cart has anything like that for sale,” he said, ”but I’ll give it a try. Maybe there’s some magical item that can help us escape this gridlock.”

As soon as Zhao Rong typed ”traffic jam divine artifact” into the search bar, a Flying Carpet appeared. Seeing it, he curiously messaged the seller.

”Hello there,” he wrote. ”Is this Flying Carpet really the legendary traffic jam divine artifact?”

”Absolutely,” the seller replied instantly. ”Once you own this Flying Carpet, it will help you escape any traffic jam immediately.”

Hearing that such a miraculous item existed, Zhao Rong didn’t think twice and bought it on the spot. When the package arrived, he immediately opened it and took out the so-called traffic jam divine artifact.

However, when the three women and his assistant saw the carpet in Zhao Rong’s hands, they frowned in confusion. ”Brother Zhao Rong, is this really the legendary traffic jam divine artifact you mentioned?”

Zhao Rong fiddled with the carpet while looking at the instruction manual. ”It is,” he replied. ”No doubt about it. This is the legendary traffic jam divine artifact.”

Lili stepped forward, looking at the wool carpet in his hands. She was completely baffled. ”Brother Zhao Rong,” she asked, ”this is clearly a hand-woven Persian rug. Why are you calling it a traffic jam divine artifact?”

Yu Lan looked at the carpet, and it reminded her of the dance mat she used for workouts at home. ”That’s not a Persian rug,” she scoffed. ”It’s clearly a dance mat like the one I bought on Taobao for twenty yuan. How could this thing possibly help us escape a traffic jam? That makes no sense. What a bad purchase.”

Xuelian looked at the carpet and thought of the anti-slip mat from her bathroom. ”Brother Zhao Rong, isn’t this just a non-slip mat you put outside the shower? How can you say it’s a divine artifact for traffic jams?”

Hearing their misunderstandings, Zhao Rong decided to give them a demonstration. Holding the Flying Carpet, he got out of the car, slid underneath it, and called out loudly to his assistant and the three women inside, ”Watch closely! I’m about to show you how this traffic jam divine artifact will help us escape this hopelessly congested highway.”

When the nearby truck drivers saw Zhao Rong crawl under his car with a carpet, they started to mock him.

”The driver of that Mercedes SUV must have a screw loose,” one scoffed. ”He takes some raggedy carpet, crawls under his car with it, and claims he can escape this traffic jam? He’s completely delusional.”

The driver of a tipper truck laughed. ”From the looks of it, we’re going to be stuck on this highway for at least two or three days. And this guy, lost in his fantasies, thinks laying a tattered carpet under his car is going to get him out of here? What, does he think his car can just fly over our heads?”

A dump truck driver, eager to see Zhao Rong make a fool of himself, chimed in, ”If his car manages to leave this congested highway, I’ll get on my knees and call him Grandpa.”

But just as the drivers of the dump trucks, cement mixers, tipper trucks, semi-trailers, and sedans were all laughing at Zhao Rong, his Mercedes SUV suddenly sprouted wings from its sides. Zhao Rong scrambled out from under the vehicle, hopped back in, and took control of the now-winged car.

”Alright,” he announced, ”our car has now spread its wings. It can not only fly but also travel on water.”

With that, Zhao Rong piloted the flying car into the air, soaring toward a clear stretch of road in the distance.

When the truck drivers who had just been mocking him saw the Mercedes SUV extend its wings and take to the sky, they all stumbled and fell, staring in disbelief.

”No way! Has someone actually invented a flying car?”

”We really misjudged him. We totally underestimated that Mercedes driver’s invention.”

”So that vehicle isn’t just a car... it’s also a plane and a boat!”

After being so thoroughly put in their place, the truck drivers could only shake their heads and sigh, completely in awe of him.

Meanwhile, inside the car, the assistant and the three women were astonished as Zhao Rong piloted them into the sky. Watching the birds and the white clouds drift by, they felt it was all incredibly magical. ”This is astounding! We never imagined that beat-up old carpet from the Paradise Shopping Cart could actually make the car grow wings. It can soar through the sky and swim in the water. The world is truly full of wonders.”

Lili rolled down her window and gazed at a nearby Boeing 737. ”Holy cow! I’ve lived my whole life and this is the first time I’ve ever seen a big American Boeing plane, a 737 airliner, this close up in the sky!”

Yu Lan peered out her window at a flock of geese flying past in a V-formation. She casually reached out and plucked a feather from one. ”I’ve often heard the idiom ’pluck a feather from a passing goose,’ but I never thought I’d get to do it for real!”

Xuelian was amused as she watched a DJI drone flying nearby amongst the clouds. ”Our flying car is soaring so high, it’s keeping pace with that DJI drone over there,” she laughed.

Just as the assistant and the three women were marveling at their car’s flight, a few small aircraft suddenly approached, quickly surrounding Zhao Rong’s flying car.

A man stuck his head out from the leading green plane and yelled at Zhao Rong, ”What the hell?! This sky is the domain of us hobbyist pilots! How can we let a flying car like yours soar freely up here? Aren’t you encroaching on our world?”

The pilot of a blue plane following behind added, ”Boss, if we let this flying car get away with this, more of them are bound to show up in the future. Then we hobbyist pilots won’t be able to fly freely here anymore!”

The leader in the green plane thought for a moment before addressing the others. ”Since this flying car is muscling in on our turf, why don’t we just shoot it down with our autocannons? That’ll defend the skies for us hobbyist pilots!”