Chapter 7

The power-consuming luxury crystal lamp above the hotel lobby was reduced to a decoration, and the surrounding auxiliary lights were on. Sitting in the corners of the sofas and chairs were people lying in twos and threes who couldn't sleep. There are a lot of people crammed into a room and there is no air conditioning. It is impossible to sleep.

The staff took Qiao Xi to register her identity at the front desk and gave her a card as big as a palm, telling her: "Don't lose it. You can use this to get food and water every day. The restaurant serves breakfast from 6 to 8 o'clock. Lunch is from 11:00 to 1:00 and dinner is from 5:00 to 7:00. You can receive a bottle of water when you receive lunch and dinner. Currently, water resources are tight. There are only two bottles of water every day, so please use them sparingly."

She flipped through the notebook in her hand: "Sorry, there are too many people and few rooms. We cannot provide independent rooms. Many people live in one room. Room 905 is full of tourists from your country, and there are many women in it."

"Okay, thank you." Qiao Xi took the card and looked at the registration staff at the front desk. Hotels usually put travel transportation maps at the front desk, "Do you have transportation and travel route maps for M city, T country, LW country, and Southeast Asia? "

The registration staff was stunned for a moment before replying: "Only M City and national transportation and tourism route maps can be photographed but cannot be taken away."

Qiao Xi thanked him, took a look at the national map, and found the way home - the KM International Highway, an international highway starting from Kuncheng, Yunnan Province, my country, passing through Country LW, and ending in the local city M. She had heard someone talk about it in a self-driving travel group, and had a vague impression that it was about a thousand kilometers from City M to the border with my country. There was a road map in Country T, except for the section in LW.

The staff realized something from her taking pictures and couldn't believe it: "You don't want to drive back to China by yourself, do you?"

Qiao Xi smiled: "If flights are not resumed, then we will have to drive back by ourselves."

When climbing the stairs to the ninth floor, the staff member said to Qiao Xi, as if to himself: "It won't come to that."

The other party broke out in a hot sweat from all the busy work and solved most of her doubts. Qiao Xi was grateful and said seriously: "Be prepared for the worst case scenario so that you won't be at a loss when things happen. If there is a chance, I would like to Stock up on food just in case, as it won't be wasted anyway, just for peace of mind."

The staff member paused, so she should remind the family to stock up on things.

In order to save electricity, there is no electricity in the room. Only the corridor is illuminated, and a light is turned on at a certain distance.

The doors of the rooms on both sides were open for ventilation, and high and low sounds came from inside, along with various unpleasant smells.

Qiao Xi made a distinction and found that there was the smell of mosquito coils, sweat, and ammonia from urine and feces. Even if you think about it, the running water has stopped and the water you drink has to be limited. How can you take a bath and flush the toilet?

The door of room 905 is also open. From the light in the corridor, you can see that the room is fifty or sixty square meters in size, with a balcony facing the sea.

There were about fifteen or sixteen people inside, some of them were lying on the floor near the balcony, and others were lying on the balcony. When they heard the noise, those who couldn't sleep turned their heads.

The staff introduced in a low voice: "Like you, she is also a visitor to the Flower Country, and she is arranged to stay in your room. During special times, everyone takes care of each other." He also told Qiao Xi that if he had anything to do, he could go to the front desk to find the staff and left in a hurry. It seemed that Very busy.

Seeing Qiao Xi standing there motionless, Ma Meiying acted like a young girl who had just arrived and was at a loss, so she took the initiative to say hello: "You are also here for tourism. Where are you from? I'm from Jincheng."

Qiao Xi smiled: "I'm from Beijing."

"Being and Tianjin family, then we are half fellow villagers," Ma Meiying looked at the young people opposite, "They are all from Beijing."

Four young people, two men and two women, are all graduate students at University A in Beijing and are traveling during their summer vacation.

When a fellow villager meets a fellow villager, he or she will not burst into tears, but there is still a natural intimacy.

Ding Lanyue moved to the side to make way for an empty seat, wondering why she came so late.

Qiao Xi Shao had to tell his story of floating on the sea again, which won widespread sympathy.

Several people secretly felt that compared with the other party, they were too lucky.

At least they stayed away from the fire area. They were afraid that the fire would spread and originally wanted to run away, but frequent traffic accidents not only blocked all roads out of the city, but also caused several small fires. In the chaos, we could only follow the army's arrangements and move to this hotel. Because it was only more than a thousand meters away from the sea, we didn't have much to worry about, but the weather was too hot to kill.

"海上应该不会这么热."嘴唇发干的丁兰月用力摇晃着手中的纸板.天气这么热,她浑身止不住冒汗.她觉得自己不是被火烧死,而是迟早会被烧死.但她没有咒骂自己.这两天,已经有不少人中暑晕倒,还有好几个中暑了,没救了.

乔西点头:"比这里凉快一点."

"那你可能很快就要后悔上岸了."丁兰月抱怨道,"我们巴不得去海边泡澡避暑,可管控太严了,根本就不让出去."

乔曦笑了笑:"这也是为了大家好."

"我当然知道,我也没那么无知,不过热真的能要人命,你在那边呆久了就知道了,那么热,又有限水,还有蚊子."丁兰月一巴掌拍在他腿上,将他从包里拿出来,拿出驱蚊水,在他裸露的手脚上使劲喷了几下,又往空中喷了一下,问乔熙,"你也要喷点吗?这里的蚊子比国内的毒多了,咬一口就能起一个大包,好痒啊.早知道就不出去旅游了,谁知道会出这种事,求求你快来带我走吧!"

乔西笑着摇头:"我自己带的."

"撤侨!撤侨!这里都烧成这个样子了,不管国家怎么做,都要安排撤侨,暑假是旅游旺季,光是游客就有几万,加上留学生和外籍人士,至少有十万人,你们不能不管我们."四人中的另一个女孩何海瑜开口道.

马美英乐观地说:"要管,但不是说飞机,轮船暂时不能飞,其实等恢复了,我们自己就能回去,不需要国家的帮助."

角落里的黑框青年刘逸峰冷冷说道:"万一我恢复不了怎么办?"

丁兰月瞪他一眼:"怎么可能还不复原?你嘴巴这么烂!"

刘逸峰激动道:"你以为卫星是那么容易修的吗?说不定空间站就坏了."

"我觉得你的脑子坏了,你根本不指望任何好的事情."

"别争了,别争了,别这么生气,继续说."

刘逸峰喃喃道:"我不是悲观,但这次确实不对劲,这都第四天了,恢复方面一点进展都没有."

"这不只是灭火而已."

刘逸风大叫道:"我说的是通讯卫星!拥有卫星最多的五个国家分别是M国,华夏,Y国,R国,E国,可以说是全世界航天科技最发达的五个国家.通讯全面消失,这可是大事,必须集合所有的力量才能修复.如果这五个国家都束手无策,你知道这意味着什么吗?"

房间里顿时陷入了死一般的寂静,乔曦看过去,看到每个人脸上都或多或少带着恐惧.

最乐观的马梅英咽了咽口水,安慰地拍拍腿上被吵醒的孙女,眼中流露出遗憾,儿子和儿媳原本还不放心她带孙女出国旅游,被她劝说着答应了,要是有人在,万一巴巴巴,一定没事的.

"其实也就三天多一点的时间,也不算很长,你也说了,这卫星不容易修复,要给国家一点时间,小刘,我们也不急,要相信国家,我们一定可以回去的,你说对吧?"