Chapter 193: Word Change
Putte East Coast, Tivian.
During the day, on the coast of East Tivian, the huge port is still as bustling as usual, with countless ships from all over the world docking and leaving the port. The sound of the ship's whistle is long and distant, and the dock is crowded with passengers getting on and off the ships, and the workers who are carrying goods are sweating as they move forward.
Among the many ships docked at the pier, there is a gray passenger ship. This ocean liner sailing from abroad is now docked at the shore. The boarding ladder was connected to the side of the ship early, and the passengers who have been waiting on it for a long time are now slowly walking down the boarding ladder and coming to the shore at the pier. They are other travelers who have come to Portland, or Portland residents who have returned from abroad.
Among the returning Put people, there was a group of people: a group of brightly dressed young men and women, about ten of them in total, carrying large and small bags of luggage, talking and laughing as they walked down the high boarding ladder and arrived at the land of Tivian. Based on the words they used while talking and laughing, it could be judged that they were all Put people.
This group of young ordinary men and women walked down the boarding ladder, and then consciously gathered on the dock, talking and laughing while looking above the cruise ship, as if waiting for something. At this moment, several older men appeared from above the boarding ladder and walked down silently. They were all dressed in decent clothes. The leader was a middle-aged man with gray hair on the temples, wearing thick-bottomed glasses, wearing a plaid suit and carrying a luggage bag, with a scholarly air.
After several older men walked down the boarding ladder, they immediately came to the group of young men and women. After seeing this scene, the young people who were originally talking and laughing immediately quieted down and stood quietly side by side. The man wearing glasses glanced at all the people in front of him and silently counted them in his mind. After calculating that no one was missing, he couldn't help but smiled and nodded, and then spoke.
"Welcome, students. After more than half a year, we are finally back on the land of our motherland. I am happy and grateful for this. I am grateful to the merciful God for allowing us to successfully complete this long journey. Although there were some risks and crises in the process, in the end everything was fine. We should be grateful for all the success and the favor of God."
"Thank God..." Hearing the man's speech, the young men and women standing together also responded sporadically. Their words were not in unison and some people's expressions were perfunctory, but the man did not care about these and continued to speak.
"After this long journey, and having seen so many historical sites and stories in so many countries, I think you all have your own gains and insights. Therefore, based on this study tour, you also have some homework to complete..."
The man said this, and then began to assign his own homework. After hearing these words, the young people below couldn't help but start to make some small wailing and complaining sounds, but at the last moment the man changed the subject and spoke again.
"However, these assignments will only be started after school starts. Now the school is in summer vacation, and there is still some time left. You can take advantage of this time to make some preparations and then officially start this assignment after school starts..."
After hearing the man's words, the young people's complaining voices immediately stopped and immediately turned into cheers. Looking at the looks of the young people in front of him, the man also laughed and then spoke again.
"That's enough. I have nothing to say now. Let's disband. Everyone, take a break and replenish your energy to face the second half of the year. Goodbye, students."
"Goodbye~ Professor Machison!"
In response to the man's words, the young people also said goodbye to the man in front of them one by one, and then left one after another. When a girl wanted to leave, she was stopped by a man named John McKison.
"By the way, Miss Rodlow, if you have time, remember to go find Miss Boyle and ask her how she handled the emergency at home. If she is done with it, tell her about the homework and ask her to prepare. She missed a lot of classes during her study tour. If there is anything she is not sure about, you can ask her to come to me. You all know my address."
"Oh, I understand, Mr. Machison. I will go find her later. Bye~"
As he spoke, Neveu's roommate, Emma Rodero, quickly followed the pace of the other students and left the place quickly. After watching the young people leave, John turned around and chatted with a few students around him for a few more words. After explaining and communicating some work content, he declined a banquet and finally said goodbye and left.
After saying goodbye to his parents and students who had been traveling for half a year, John breathed a sigh of relief, then adjusted his glasses slightly and began to leave the bustling pier with his handbag.
John walked forward along the busy dock, with dock workers and groups of passengers coming and going around him. In front of him were countless people coming to pick up their relatives and friends. In order to better highlight their position in the crowd, some people who came to pick up people held up a sign with various information and names written on it, so that the people in the crowd could see it from a distance and then meet up with the pick-up people.
Although no one came to pick John up at this time, the signs in the distance were still swaying in front of John, and he had to look at the information written on the signs. John didn't pay much attention to them at first, until one of those signs showed incredible changes in John's eyes.
It was an ordinary pick-up sign held up by someone in the crowd in front of John. It read "Mr. Tony Frank, please come this way." John had no impression of this strange name at first, so he didn't pay much attention to it. But at a certain moment, the content on the sign changed significantly in John's eyes.
The sign that originally read "Mr. Tony Frank, please come over here" began to distort the font of the word spelled on it after John took a few steps. In John's eyes, the strokes that wrote the letters began to move freely like snakes, leaving their original positions and starting to swim all over the sign, like black loaches. Seeing this on the sign, John couldn't help but widen his eyes slightly.
However, before John could be too surprised, the "black loaches" on the card had already quickly grouped together and swam in a row, forming new combinations into new letters, which were then combined into new words and new sentences. Finally, a passage that was completely different from the previous content appeared in front of John on the card.
"Professor John McKison, please stop right now!"
After the change, his name suddenly appeared on the card, and he had to stop immediately. This shocked John several times. He could have stopped right where he was without being reminded of the damage content on the card. However, what happened in the next second was even more beyond his expectations.
Above John's position, a heavy steel hook, which was originally on a boom used to lift cargo at the dock, moved above the passengers at some point. The hook, which was originally tied with an iron chain, suddenly broke at this moment, and the heavy hook fell directly down. Hundreds of pounds of heavy objects fell directly onto the floor of the dock with a loud bang, creating a small hole in the ground and countless cracks.
The hook fell and hit the ground less than half a meter in front of John. He just watched the fatal hook fall in front of him, and the rising dust fell on him.
John just stood there in a daze after witnessing all this, while the ordinary passengers around him were frightened and screamed one after another. The scene was in chaos for a while. Upon seeing this, the dock staff in the distance immediately rushed over to maintain order and evacuate the crowd.
"Sir... Are you okay, sir? If you are not injured, please come with us. We will take care of this."
At this time, a dock worker came to John and said that John, who had been stunned by the sudden situation in front of him, finally came to his senses. With lingering fear, he took a look at the heavy hook in front of him, shook his head, adjusted his state, and left with the staff.
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