When you talk about this disaster, everyone can probably remember, what happened in Beijing from 2002 to 2003?

That's right, it's SARS, SARS, which came and went in a hurry. The epidemic began to emerge in late 2002, initially in the south, where people are said to have contracted a strange disease, somewhat similar to a severe cold, with a high mortality rate. People there began to rush to buy salt, white vinegar and medicines, 10 yuan a common antibiotic can be sold for more than 80 yuan in pharmacies, Banlangen masks are out of stock, and many medical staff are said to have been infected.

At that time, people living in Beijing did not pay too much attention to this matter, and they had the impression that the south and the north were in the vast territory of China, and the two were far apart from each other, and it was estimated that a cold would have to be eliminated before the Yangtze River was crossed. But they forget that this is no longer an ancient time, but a modern era with very developed transportation, and the mountains and rivers in their minds only need to be transformed into a thoroughfare by 2 or 3 hours flight in this era.

In Hong Tao's memory, Beijing was only discovered after the Spring Festival in 03, it is said that a Shanxi businessman doing business in Guangzhou brought it into Beijing, she was originally transferred from the hospital in Taiyuan to the People's Liberation Army 301 Hospital in Beijing, and then, this high-risk infectious disease spread rapidly in Beijing.

Hong Tao still clearly remembers that the hottest commodity sold in Beijing at that time was masks, all kinds of masks, as long as you have them, they will be out of stock immediately. Then there was Banlangen, and I don't know where the news came from that this Chinese medicine could prevent SARS, and then this very common cold medicine disappeared from the counters of major pharmacies.

After it was determined that Beijing had become the hardest-hit area of SARS, many people from other places did not dare to go to Beijing again, and people from other places in Beijing would also think of various ways to leave, and those who could leave left. Some units in Beijing have given their employees holidays, and many schools that have discovered SARS or are suspected of SARS have also closed classes.

At that time, Beijing became deserted, there was no longer a traffic jam on the streets, no more traffic jams during the rush hour, there was no shuttle flow in the business district, many restaurants and shops were closed down this year, because there were really no customers, the number of outsiders was reduced by more than half, and the locals were all shrunk at home and did not go out, no matter how gluttonous people did not risk their lives to go to such public places, let them sell their goods to whom.

Hong Tao remembers that his unit was also on vacation at that time, because no tourist spot was willing to receive the team sent from Beijing, so the travel agency simply gave the staff a holiday. Hong Tao had planned to use this holiday to go fishing in the surrounding reservoirs, but his wish was disappointed, because the surrounding areas of Beijing are not very welcoming to Beijingers, and all the intersections leading from Beijing to the outside have set up checkpoints, as long as the vehicles coming from the direction of Beijing need to be disinfected, and the people in the car must also undergo temperature checks, and once they find abnormalities, they will be quarantined immediately.

Even the suburbs and counties of Beijing do not welcome people from the city, and the owners of the farmhouses, who usually see the people in the city as if they were relatives, would rather not make money, but also coax the people from the city out of their yards. In this case, Hong Tao was not idle, he ran to the Youth Lake Park to catch fish for several months, that summer was the most comfortable summer for him, neither had to worry about work things, and did not have to listen to his daughter-in-law nagging about his fishing all day long, because there were not many people in the park at that time, and it was less likely to contract that damn infectious disease when he stayed in the park.

With the lessons of his previous life, Hong Tao doesn't plan to spend several months in Qingnian Lake Park in this life, he plans to take advantage of this time to go out for a walk, and he can't go around in China, in case he also gets infected with SARS, it will be over. He plans to go abroad for a walk, not only to avoid the SARS period, but also to appreciate the fishing environment abroad, killing two birds with one stone.

Moreover, Hong Tao does not plan to take the kind of travel agency's sightseeing route, first, it has nothing to do with fishing, and second, the tour group stays abroad for too short a time to achieve Hong Tao's goal of avoiding the entire SARS period in Beijing. According to Hong Tao's plan, he will stay abroad for at least 3 or 4 months, preferably before the Spring Festival, and then return to China after June.

However, if this plan is completed by Hong Tao alone, it is basically impossible, because he has no relatives abroad, let alone invitations from foreign institutions, so he cannot obtain a visa to go abroad, and he will not talk about going abroad without a visa. Since he can't do it alone, Hong Tao can only think of ideas among all the people he knows, in fact, he has already thought that among all the people he knows, only 2 people have this ability, one is Sam and his wife, and the other is Zhou Xiaoli.

Sam and his wife can't actually be regarded as having this ability, they are just a foreign teacher, if Hong Tao goes to the United States to play, they will be okay with the reception, and let them help with the US visa, it will definitely be no fun, so Hong Tao does not plan to ask people this question.

Then only Zhou Xiaoli was left, Hong Tao remembered that she told herself that she was sent by Dawa head office, although she had the title of a secretary, but she had no affiliation with that Mr. Zhou. Since he is an employee of Dawa's head office, Hong Tao wanted to ask her if she could use the connections of foreign companies to help Hong Tao get his visa, because he had to stay abroad for many months, and it would be a dream to apply for a visa by himself.

However, this Zhou Xiaoli has not shown up since signing the contract, and Hong Tao does not have her contact information, he once called Mr. Zhou to ask, Mr. Zhou said that as soon as he arrived in Changchun, Secretary Zhou went back to the Japanese headquarters, and he couldn't tell when he would come back. However, Mr. Zhou was still very enthusiastic, he said that he could help Hong Tao contact Zhou Xiaoli, and he didn't know if he could get a reply.

If you can't find Zhou Xiaoli, there is no way to go abroad, and Hong Tao can only put away this mind first and concentrate on coping with this finals first, because even if Zhou Xiaoli comes back, if she can't get a good ranking and has no use value for Dawa Company, I'm afraid that this Japanese woman will not help herself because she has had physical contact, and the relationship between the two people is purely a kind of physical venting, neither emotion nor friendship.

There are some slight differences in the way of elimination between the finals and the preliminary round and the semi-finals, it is no longer a duel between anglers in a pond, but a method of individual confrontation and hierarchical elimination, which also divides the 32 finalists into 8 groups by drawing lots, and a group of 4 people competes, and then the top 2 points enter the next round.

The top 16 anglers will be divided into 8 groups for one-on-one PK, the winning side will enter the top 8, and then divided into 4 groups, the winning side will enter the top 4, and then divided into 2 groups, the winning side will enter the championship and runner-up match, and the remaining 2 people will enter the 3rd and 4th place competition.

This type of competition is more confrontational, and the number of matches that players need to participate in is increased, and if they want to finish in the top three, they must win at least five full halves.

However, due to the spectacle of the game, the single game time of this kind of PK match has been shortened, each game is a total of 30 minutes, divided into two halves, and the winning method has also changed from the number of fish caught to the first to catch 10 fish or the side with the most fish caught in 15 minutes.

Hong Tao is not worried about how many games he plays, because he relies on bait, not on skills, there is no problem of abnormal play, as long as the fish in the pond like their own bait, then no matter how many games, Hong Tao is also sure to win, and the more games he plays, the more skilled his skills will be, and the more obvious the advantage of winning.

As the date of the competition approached, Wang Jian, Yang Ke and Gao Fatzi were even more nervous than Hong Tao himself, they dragged Hong Tao to another competition venue, forcing Hong Tao to practice various competitive fishing skills and details, Hong Tao also knew their good intentions, although they were extremely irritable in their hearts, but on the surface they had to deal with it, gritted their teeth and went twice, and then they didn't go to death.