Chapter 540: Delayed Trips, Heavy Rain, and Broken Roads
"Didn't the weather forecast say cloudy, no rain?
Some of the passengers in the group complained. Then there was a chorus of echoes.
"I must have not predicted it accurately! When I picked a day, I deliberately chose a cloudy weather to report to the group. Who knew it was going to rain?"
"The weather in the mountains is getting fast. It's normal to have inaccurate predictions. I think we should worry about this road! It's raining and the road is slippery, so we may not be able to get to the bottom of the mountain on time before lunch......"
Although the car was air-conditioned, with the increasing rain outside the window and the complaints of the passengers, even Bai Hao, who was in a good mood, began to feel a stuffy feeling in the carriage.
According to the itinerary of the group, the bus should arrive at the town below the scenic spot at noon, and then start climbing the mountain after lunch. After descending the mountain, stay in a hotel outside the scenic area for one night, get up early the next day to go to the valley and the characteristic ethnic village to take pictures, and return to the city after lunch.
But such a trip is all based on a big premise: there are no emergencies along the way.
And a sudden change in weather like this, heavy rain, can obviously be regarded as an emergency.
Therefore, when some people raise concerns about whether they can arrive at the destination at noon, whether the tour can be carried out on time, whether the lunch can be eaten on time, whether the afternoon visit time will be shortened, and whether the travel agency should be responsible have become the questions that most people talk about.
Bai Hao silently looked at the increasingly heavy sky outside the window and the trees on the side of the road that were trembling by falling raindrops, and gradually lost his previous good mood.
Looking at the wind and clouds outside the window, Bai Hao had already deduced from experience that the rain that was falling would definitely not be small.
Although his father has never been good at farming, he is a first-class master in the village when it comes to hunting and forest guarding. This also directly led to Bai Hao more or less learning a few hands. Showers or heavy rains Bai Hao can always tell the difference.
Because of this, after realizing that this heavy rain would not stop for a short time, Bai Hao's expression gradually became solemn.
In the mountains and forests, no matter how heavy, the rain is often the most terrible. The problem is that in such a mountainous and watery place, even an ordinary shower can cause a landslide or a road collapse.
So, can the tour bus really arrive at the scenic town at noon as planned?
I don't know why, Bai Hao faintly felt that traveling to the mountains was not a good decision.
"Brother Hong, how long will it take for our car to arrive?"
Seeing that the time was close to half past eleven, sitting in the car but still not seeing the shadow of the town about to appear, Bai Hao couldn't help but fidget. I couldn't help but walk to the car and ask the tour guide who led the group.
"Right away, right away. ”
The tour guide who was called Brother Hong by Bai Hao lost a smile that was more ugly than crying, but his eyes looked out of the window uncertainly.
As the person who communicates most frequently with the driver and is most familiar with this road, Gao Hong naturally knows where the car is at the moment.
Although he also wanted to arrive at the destination early for the next content, the problem was that it was raining so heavily outside, even if he hoped that the car could drive faster, he didn't dare to urge the driver!
If you are in a hurry to drive fast, let the car roll over in such a mountainous area where there is no village in front of the village and no store in the back, then let alone the next travel itinerary, whether someone can come to the rescue in the rain, so that everyone can get change at night and have a place to rest are two different things.
Bai Hao looked at Brother Hong's vague and confusing methods to perfunctory himself, although he understood the other party's difficulties in his heart, but in the end he still disagreed with the methods taken by the other party.
"Brother Hong, there are also mountains near my house, and I actually know very well what the situation is now. So can you tell me a little bit about the real situation? Let me have a good idea of what to expect. ”
Bai Hao grabbed Brother Hong's neck, led the person to the door, lowered his voice and asked, his face was very solemn.
"You can see how heavy the rain is now, there is a protective net on the mountain in the area I just passed by, so this mountainous area should be a high-risk area for natural disasters!"
Bai Hao lowered his voice, but after hearing what he was talking about as a tourist, the tour guide who Bai Hao called Brother Hong had completely turned into a bitter gourd face.
"Brother, can I call you brother? Brother, don't tell the guys behind you about this, if you say it, it will be even more chaotic......"
Brother Hong said to Bai Hao secretly in an almost pleading tone, but he was shocked into a cold sweat by Bai Hao's words.
"If I were so disrespectful, I wouldn't have taken you to the door. ”
Bai Hao saw the other party's reaction after hearing his words, and he was a little helpless for a while, so he could only try to calm down the tour guide.
"But you'll have to give me a thorough understanding of how far we're from our destination, and we expect to be there in a few hours!"
Bai Hao repeated his question, and then looked into the distance through the windshield in front of the bus.
The rain is already not light. Although it has not yet reached the point of pouring rain, it seems that the rain does not have a bearing on getting to the destination on time, as the guide assures the carload of tourists.
"An hour if it's fast, ...... if it's slow"
Although Gao Hong did not say how long it would take to drive slowly, at this time, the speed of arriving at the destination suddenly did not matter.
Bai Hao stared at the front with wide eyes, and then silently felt the inertia brought forward by the emergency braking of the bus, and a heart that had been hanging for a long time sank to the lowest place at this moment.
The road ahead is broken.
Because he was standing at the front of the carriage with the guide, Bai Hao could clearly see a large section of the road that suddenly disappeared in front of him, and the trees that emerged from the collapsed place.
The trees had apparently fallen from the mountain wall, and the rain made the whole picture look foggy. If it weren't for the obvious trees that had fallen down, the driver would have been cut off the broken asphalt road if the driver had not been careful.
Just when Bai Hao's eyes were still staring at the extremely shocking collapse crater in front of him, the tourists who were startled by the sudden emergency brakes, but had no idea about the trouble in front of them, began to complain loudly.
"Why did this car stop? What about the driver? What are you doing when you haven't stopped yet?"