Why it never ends

Chapter 343 NO.12 Waiting Room

The hustle and bustle of the crowd stopped for a few seconds, and in this fleeting moment, a complex expression flashed on everyone's face——Si Lei's words were like a thunderbolt, tearing apart the drowsy restaurant .

"...the waiting room?" Mantel raised his upper lip slightly, his voice obviously changed, "Did I say 'waiting room'?"

"You said it!" a thorn monk shouted, "'This is half a waiting room', that's what you said."

"How is this going……"

"What are you hiding—"

Seeing that the crowd was about to boil, Mantel took a step forward, and her right hand drew a beautiful semicircle in the air, like an orchestra conductor.

"Everyone, please listen to me!"

Everyone fell silent again.

"Indeed, as you all heard, the restaurant where you are standing at the moment was once transformed into a waiting room."

Mantel walked to the middle of the crowd while talking.

"Last summer, the Shengming ship passed through the Rose Islands in District [-] for maintenance. On the day of arrival, AHgAs found two cases of chelation infection on the islands. Therefore, the Shengming had to suspend its journey and stay in Rose Island. The port awaits inspection.

"At that time, there were a large number of passengers coming from the epidemic area at the port. They were prohibited from contacting any ships and could only move around in the air waiting room at the pier. That place was like an isolated island in the sky. After the air corridor, the only exit was the gate leading to the land. After the port sent a batch of advance supplies, it temporarily locked the gate there.

"This should have been an effective and safe measure, but I don't know why, the supplies for these passengers did not keep up, which caused these people to be locked in the waiting room of the pier for five days after exhausting all their food. God, living on just a little drinking water.

"At the last critical moment, a former naval doctor found a way to break through the ceiling, but unfortunately, the building surface of the air waiting room was too smooth to allow people to climb down along its outer wall. The brave military doctor Climb up to the roof of the waiting room and semaphore to us for help - the waiting room where these passengers are located is on the pier where we are.

"We tried to contact the port, but the answer was 'understand'. So all of us on the crew had to discuss whether we should rescue these passengers.

"First of all, there are extremely rich material reserves on the Shengming, whether it is water, food or medicine, we are not short of them;

"Secondly, at the beginning of the design of the Shengming, epidemic prevention was considered. Every corridor and every room here can turn on negative pressure fans during special periods to isolate various pathogenic microorganisms to the greatest extent;
"Third, even though we were in an inspection period and had no passengers, when we passed through the fourth district earlier, we picked up two local medical teams, each of whom was experienced in fighting chelation.

"Considering the above three things, many of us believe that we have an inescapable responsibility to rescue these passengers, and this resolution was passed by a huge margin of 562 to 17 in the following secret ballot up.

"However, considering that the port has repeatedly issued orders that all ships are not allowed to accept passengers without authorization, we must find some way to bypass it, otherwise the Shengming may be directly refused entry in the future."

Su Lei had already figured it out: "So you made the dining room a part of the waiting room?"

"Smart!" Mantel snapped his fingers, "These were supposed to be revealed tomorrow when I took you to visit the Shengming Navigation History Museum, but since I've covered it here, why don't I take you through it today?" style..."

With Mantel snapping his fingers, everyone felt that the floor under their feet seemed to shake.Immediately afterwards, many dark green metal fences suddenly rose from the floor at the edge of the restaurant.Just when everyone was puzzled about the purpose of these fences, a cool sea breeze brushed over everyone's cheeks.

Everyone's eyes were wide open, silently watching all the changes under their feet and around them: the glass floor of Bishop's restaurant was rising and extending outwards.

People finally realized what this change meant—the entire dining room was slowly moving outwards, and they could already see the white hull of the Rise, the deserted aisle on the first deck, Square cargo and orange-red lifeboats...

In the distance, the bright moon hangs low.

The sea at night, even when it is calm, looks majestic and terrifying.The water in the summer night looks close to pure black, except for the sea that is smudged by the moonlight.After two hours of sailing, the Shengming had already left the coast of the third area, and everyone could no longer see the pale golden lights belonging to the land, and what lay before their eyes was the endless silent ocean.

Mantel stepped forward slowly: "In short, the rescue operation was very smooth, and none of the passengers we rescued was infected with chelating bacteria-this is really a great luck. Although we received a written warning from Rose Harbor afterwards , but later the port did not give us much trouble.

"So, I ask everyone here to be calm, I understand that you have experienced some unpleasantness in the port of Havre this afternoon, but we-the whole crew who are serving you wholeheartedly at the moment, will help everyone in need when necessary Extending a helping hand, please believe this, because all communication and mutual assistance can only be based on trust. The more difficult it is, the more it should be like this..."

Everyone present looked into Mantel's eyes. This young crew member seemed to have a magical power. When she smiled and said some official words, people always had an urge to believe her.

"Excuse me, let me interrupt."

Su Lei's voice sounded again, and everyone's eyes returned to Su Lei again.

Mantel looked at Su Lei with a smile, the blue veins on his forehead covered by the hat seemed to be always the little woman looking for trouble.

"If you have any questions, just talk directly."

"Did your temporary cabin have a name at that time?" Si Lei asked.

"No name." Mantel replied politely.

Several thorn monks breathed a sigh of relief—their heartbeats accelerated almost at the same moment when Si Lei asked the question just now.

"...What about the serial number?" Su Lei asked again, "Is there anything similar to the serial number... What do other people call your 'waiting room'? Is it called the Shengming?"

"Oh, you reminded me. At that time, there were only eleven waiting rooms in Qiangwei Port, so when other people mentioned us, they called us..."

Mantel lightly clapped his hands, "No. 12 waiting room."

(End of this chapter)