Chapter 3 Countdown
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L Island is very large, about the size of three or four S cities. Most of the hotels along the coast are low-rise hotels. Even if there are tall buildings, they are too close to the sea and are easily collapsed by huge waves.
The danger in the early stage of a tsunami is a flood with a fast flow and strong impact. She needs to find a sturdy tall building, preferably a hotel with complete facilities.
Youxi frowned and opened the hotel booking app, trying to find a hotel in the city center, but was suddenly pulled by someone.
"Xixi, what are you daydreaming about? The boat is already waiting, everyone has left, and we are the only ones left!"
The person who pulled her was Meng Lu, who was a colleague from the company with whom she had a good relationship in the memory set for her.
They booked snorkeling activities and other water activities yesterday. There is a large and beautiful coral reef about 20 minutes away from Coral Island, which is a snorkeling paradise.
They had just finished breakfast and were preparing to leave.
Youxi was definitely not going, but she wanted to test a question: "Xiaolu, I can't go snorkeling today, *#￥& is coming."
Meng Lu was puzzled: "What is coming? Xixi, what are you talking about, why can't I go snorkeling?"
The two words that were blocked were: tsunami.
Youxi tried to tell Xiaolu that the tsunami was coming by writing and typing, but failed.
[Host, don't do things without results. Any way the host reminds people in the apocalyptic world of the coming disaster will be blocked by the world.]
Youxi laughed in her heart: I thought you couldn't speak in the apocalyptic world.
[The system will not appear unless necessary, please focus on the current task.]
Youxi: Is the apocalyptic world a real world?
[Host, please focus on the current task. 】
Unable to get the answer, You Xi could only give up.
However, the test just now relieved her psychological pressure a little. If she could warn the people in the apocalyptic world of disaster, would she tell them or not?
Telling them would definitely put her in some difficulties, but she came from a peaceful era, and her mentality would definitely not change immediately. Being able to warn without saying anything would make her feel guilty to some extent.
Now that she has tried and is powerless, she can concentrate on the mission.
Afterwards, she told Xiao Lu that she had to go back to L Island for something temporarily, and asked her if she wanted to go back with her.
Xiao Lu naturally refused. Everyone had been looking forward to today's event for a long time. You Xi did not have a reasonable reason, so the other party was certainly unwilling to give up today's itinerary for her.
"Xixi, are you really upset, or are you worried about Zichen? I explained to you last night that I really don't like him and have always treated him as a friend. I never thought he would confess to me..."
As Xiaolu spoke, some scenes unfolded in front of her like movie scenes.
In the background of the world, Zichen is her senior in the same university and the object of her secret love. In order to get closer to Zichen, she joined his company and has been working there for two years. Xiaolu is her colleague in the company. She is lively and generous. After joining the company, she often invites her to lunch together. She has a good relationship with her and knows that she likes Zichen.
She likes Zichen, but because of her shy personality, she has never confessed her feelings. After Xiaolu found out, she frequently joined their gatherings, saying that she would check for her and help her create some opportunities. Of course, such a three-person date made Xiaolu and Zichen quickly familiar with each other.
The three of them are friends on the surface, but last night on this romantic island, Zichen confessed to Xiaolu, and this scene happened to be seen by her...
The person in front of her continued: "I have explained it to you, why are you still like this? Yes, I didn't directly reject Zichen yesterday, but I was confused by him and didn't know how to reject him for a while..."
"Xiaolu, I'm not telling you about what happened last night." Youxi is 26 years old this year. During college, she was also "friendly and cared for" by a female classmate with a similar personality to Xiaolu. Now she can distinguish tea from lotus.
In the picture, Xiaolu said that she was helping her to check and create opportunities, but in fact, relying on her status as a friend, she used words and actions to tease Fang Zichen countless times.
She boasts of her generous personality, and she doesn't care about the difference between men and women with Fang Zichen. Sometimes when she's happy, she'll hold his arm and pretend to hit him, mess up his hair on purpose, get close to him and put her arm around his shoulder to watch the same video, drink from the glass he drank from... and so on.
So, even though Xiaolu looked far inferior to her in the images Youxi saw, Fang Zichen still fell in love with Xiaolu in the end. Last night, he couldn't help but end their friendship and confessed to Xiaolu. Xiaolu's first words at the time were: I always thought you and Youxi were two...
Fang Zichen was excited and eager to say that he always treated Youxi as a sister, and that the person he liked was her, and then there was a domineering CEO kiss.
You Xi: ...
She had a headache. It was just a set identity, but it was so detailed that it even included such a man-woman relationship. She was also given such a shy personality. Such a ridiculous relationship was really annoying.
"Xiao Lu, I really have to go back to L Island now. I'm asking you purely as a friend, do you want to go back with me?" "
Why do I have to go back to L Island? I'm really looking forward to today's sea activities! What's the matter? If you have something to say, tell me, and we'll go find Zi Chen... Oh no, find other colleagues to see how to solve it."
"I feel uncomfortable and want to go to the hospital."
Meng Lu was speechless for a moment: "...How could that be? But you look fine..."
The other party was unwilling, and You Xi couldn't explain it. She didn't say anything more, sent Meng Lu away, and hurried back to the beach cabin.
She found her passport in the safe, abandoned a large suitcase of luggage, and took only a backpack, stuffed some T-shirts, trousers and underwear into it, changed into easy-to-move clothes and hiking shoes, took two bottles of water from the room, and then took her wallet and mobile phone and went to the pier decisively.
The pier is very close, and it takes ten minutes to get there by the hotel's beach car. There are fixed-time boat trips between the coral island and the main island.
As soon as she got on the beach car, she reached into her backpack, pretending to take something, but in fact she took out the [Translation Gum] from the Star House warehouse. She only speaks three-legged cat English, and she has no knowledge of the language of the Sea Country.
[Translation Gum] is a very ordinary mint flavor, and nothing happened after chewing it a few times.
She chewed a few more times, then tried to ask the beach bus driver: "Excuse me, what time is the fastest boat from Coral Island to L Island?"
The driver looked at her in surprise, then said: "There is one boat every hour, and the fastest one is at 9:30. We are just in time if we go now."
The other person was speaking the local dialect, but she could understand it completely. This feeling was magical, just like when she spoke to the other person before, she thought it was Beijing dialect, but the sound came out as the local dialect.
This [Translation Gum] is very practical.
In the next few minutes of the journey, she asked the other person about the hotel on L Island. It had to be a little far from the coast, at least more than six stories high, and in a good quality building...
The other person provided her with the names of several hotels, all of which were five-star.
One is located halfway up Wanghai Mountain on L Island. It is the highest point, but it is far away. It is on the other side of the island, about ten kilometers away from the coast. It takes more than two hours to drive from the pier where they arrive at the main island. Add the time to return from Coral Island to the main island, and it feels a bit dangerous.
The second hotel was newly built two years ago. It is the newest hotel on the island. The building is high-quality and of very good quality, but it is only about one kilometer away from the coast in a straight line. It also feels a bit dangerous.
The third one is in the city center. It takes more than 20 minutes to drive from the pier without traffic jams. It is more than ten years old, but the main building is very unique. It is a triangle with a large area and a total of fifteen floors.
Youxi thanked the other party, arrived at the pier, bought a boat ticket, and boarded the boat with swift movements. She sat down by the window and then took out her mobile phone to look up information and photos of the third hotel.
The hotel was just as the driver said. The main building was a bit unique in shape. It was a triangle with a large base, and the pointed corners were facing the sea. Such a building has a small stress-bearing area and is less likely to be collapsed by floods.
She did not book a hotel immediately, but walked out of the cabin, paid and ordered some food sold on the ship, and then asked the waiter for information. The other party also mentioned several hotels based on his impression, including this triangular five-star hotel called "Ronaya".
Youxi did not hesitate and immediately called to book a room. The earliest check-in time was 3pm and the check-out time was 2pm, but she arrived at the hotel around 12pm. If she checked in early during these two hours, she would still be charged a day's fee.
"It's okay, I need to check in early, please help me book it."
"Then what type of room do you want to book? We have..."
In the end, Youxi booked an executive suite with one bedroom and one living room on the 13th floor. It was not that she needed a large room, but that she needed a high floor. From the 12th floor up, there were more expensive suites of this type.
She had checked the cash in her wallet before, and after calculating the local prices, she left money for air tickets and transportation, and booked a room for two days. She was mainly afraid that she would not be able to swipe her card after the tsunami, and that mobile phone payments were not allowed in this world.
"Okay, guest, please arrive at the hotel before 3pm. If you are late, we will not be able to reserve a room for you."
During the rest of the shipping time, she was anxiously checking the local weather forecast.
There was no sign in the weather forecast, and the sky on the sea was still clear, without even a dark cloud, and the sun was shining, not at all like a disaster was about to happen.
In order to ensure the time, Youxi found a boatman before getting off the boat and asked him to book a car for her and pick her up at the pier. Although it was more expensive than taking a taxi herself, it was more convenient and fast.
The benefits of [Translation Gum] were fully demonstrated at this time. Chew it and travel around the world without language troubles.
The pier was soon reached. She found the car waiting by the pier according to the license plate number. After confirming the fare, she turned on the navigation on her phone and monitored the driver's route all the way.
The development of Haiguo was backward, and the public security was far inferior to that of Jingguo. She was now alone outside and needed to be vigilant at all times.
The car became more and more congested as it went to the city center. Forty minutes later, the car stopped smoothly outside the door of the Ruonaya Hotel. It was twelve twenty in the afternoon, and there was still one hour and forty minutes before the tsunami hit.
Youxi felt relieved. When she went to the front desk to pay the deposit, she found a bank card in her wallet that could be used directly at this hotel. She felt more at ease because she didn't have to pay cash for the room.
The executive suite is very large, with an area of more than 90 square meters inside and outside. The living room faces southeast and has a floor-to-ceiling glass sliding door. Outside is a terrace surrounded by a black wrought iron fence.
Downstairs is the hotel's swimming pool and courtyard. At this moment, the swimming pool is bustling with tourists, and the aroma of barbecue wafts from the open-air BBQ next to the courtyard.
Youxi looked around the room. The room is located in the middle of the left waist of the entire triangular building, facing the sea. She threw her backpack on the sofa, took the room's menu, and called to order.
She wanted to save some more food and drinks before the disaster happened. Although she had already stockpiled a lot of things in the Xingwu warehouse, for a homegirl with a strong sense of crisis, stockpiling is an instinct.
She ordered a dozen local specialties, including grilled lamb chops, various grilled seafood, several tropical fruits, special desserts, and local fruit drinks and smoothies.
Afterwards, she took out a clean T-shirt, trousers, and underwear from her backpack and went into the bathroom to wash her hair and take a shower.
She had stored purified water in the Star House warehouse, a total of 24 barrels of 5L and a total of 128 bottles of 500ML. This water was enough to sustain her drinking water for 100 days and occasional cooking water, but it was definitely not enough for her to take a shower or wash her hair.
So, in the last two days, she went to the market to find those thickened and enlarged plastic buckets, each of which was almost one meter high and could hold 500L of water. She bought a total of five, and as usual, she carried them to the car first and then moved them into the Star House warehouse.
She planned to wash herself while the hotel still had hot water, and then pour the warm water of suitable temperature into the big bucket. In this way, she would fill five big buckets and stack them in a corner. It was not possible to take a shower every day, but it should be enough for washing face, brushing teeth and washing feet.
Because time was still in the Xingwu warehouse, the water always kept the temperature when it was poured in, which saved her a lot of trouble.
It only took Youxi ten minutes to wash her hair. After that, she took out the first bucket, cleaned the shower head, put it into the bucket and started to fill it with water.
Her appearance was reflected in the bathroom mirror. She fainted when she was traveling through the world, and now she could not tell whether she was wearing the body or her consciousness.
But as far as it can be seen, this body is exactly the same as her own, and there is no difference in the details.
How did the system set her identity in this world so that she could fit in perfectly?
The character background and interpersonal relationships... were all flawless.
The doorbell interrupted her thoughts. The room service came. She closed the bathroom door, looked at the cat's eyes, opened the door and let the waiter push the food cart in.
The waiter placed all the plates on the sofa in the living room, and handed her a L Island travel guide that Youxi requested. There was a map of L Island and an introduction to the distribution of some buildings.
Youxi gave the other party some tips and began to thank him.
The other party was surprised that she could speak the local language of L Island. He thanked her politely and stepped back.
At 1:15 pm, Youxi went downstairs and returned to the room, bringing back a large bag of instant food: bread, vacuum meat, chocolate, instant noodles, and water, which she bought from the small supermarket on the first floor of the hotel as a last-minute replenishment.
At the same time, she also bought an inflatable boat at the small supermarket. The island supermarket is full of marine equipment.
The inflatable boat she bought is not the largest model in the supermarket. It can only seat four people. A hand pump, life jackets, two folding paddles and repair tools are also included with the boat. After she entered the room, she first used a hand pump to inflate the inflatable boat, and then put all the things into the Star House warehouse. The inflatable boat happened to be suspended above the shelf in case of emergency. At
1:50 pm, the five large barrels in the space were already filled with warm water.
Youxi stood up from the sofa and walked to the glass sliding door. She found that the color of the sky outside had changed at some point and it was gloomy. She walked onto the terrace. The sky was covered by dense dark clouds. The clouds were so low that there was almost no sunlight.
She looked into the distance. She couldn't see the sea from the hotel. Downstairs, by the hotel swimming pool, the hotel guests were still happily playing in the water. Youxi felt a slight vibration. She reached out and held the railing of the terrace. It was not an illusion. It was an earthquake!
The magnitude of the earthquake was very mild and the duration was short. She only felt the shaking and vibration, and it stopped immediately.
The guests playing in the water downstairs seemed not to notice anything at all, but the guest in the room next to her opened the door and walked onto the terrace, looking around with a puzzled look.
She was a woman in her thirties, and looked like she was from Beijing.
She was a little doubtful, looked at Youxi, and tried to speak: "Hello, are you from Beijing?"
Youxi nodded at her.
"Did you feel the house shaking just now? Was it an earthquake?"
"There was a slight tremor, there was an earthquake, but it shouldn't be here, it should be somewhere else." If the speculation is correct, it should be an undersea earthquake, which is probably the cause of this tsunami.
The woman still had a look of suspicion on her face. A little boy of three or four years old walked out from the sliding door of the terrace. He had a chubby face, big black eyes, and was very cute. He hugged the woman's legs and called her mom, saying that he wanted to go downstairs to play in the water.
The woman seemed to be reminded, picked up the child and kissed him: "Yes, mom should take you downstairs first. In case there is another earthquake later, it will be too dangerous to stay upstairs..."
You Xi glanced at the little boy and said: "I suggest you call the hotel first to ask."
The tsunami was coming soon, and she didn't know whether the flood would affect this place. Under the current circumstances, upstairs is definitely safer than downstairs.
But she could only remind him so much, and there was no more to say. Fortunately, the woman was not a very opinionated person. After being reminded by Youxi, she thanked her and went back to her room to make a phone call.
At 2:05 pm, a noisy rumbling sound roared from the south side of the terrace. Far away, at the end of the line of sight, between the buildings, a gray water line was invading little by little.
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