Chapter 319, The Decline of the West
Paris, France, Europe.
Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin walked very leisurely in the streets and alleys of Paris, ready to appreciate the cultural precipitation of this historical city, and also ready to feel this world-famous romantic capital.
The two are from the same place, and they were also admitted to Galaxy University of Science and Technology together, and in the past few years in college, they have become familiar with each other and gradually come together.
This time, Qin Yi asked them to go to Western countries to take a walk and have a look, and then decide their choice after graduation, so the two of them came to Paris as their first stop, and came to this romantic capital.
"Is this really Paris?"
Xie Linlin looked at the dirty and messy streets, and couldn't help frowning.
The streets of Paris are indeed full of historical buildings, many of which have a long history of hundreds of years, and you can see many famous historical buildings when you walk around.
But none of this immediately attracted Xie Linlin, who first noticed the garbage that could be found everywhere on the streets.
Confetti was all over the body, accompanied by gusts of fresh breeze flying all over the sky.
Next to the garbage cans, bags of garbage are piled up, emitting bursts of foul smell, which makes pedestrians avoid them.
There are graffiti everywhere on the old buildings, some promoting religion, some expressing appeals, all kinds, making these ancient buildings look like they don't have a sense of historical solemnity.
The streets of the streets and alleys are full of gangsters who have nothing to do, their eyes are wandering around, looking for their targets.
These thugs are very blatant to steal people's things, molest passing women, and sometimes even rob with open fire.
All this in front of her made Xie Linlin feel extremely shocked, is this still the Paris she saw on TV and books?
"This is indeed Paris~"
Liu Daoming nodded and said.
"Hi ~ chick, play with us ~"
Just when the two of them were stunned, a few gangsters saw Xie Linlin and Liu Daoming, and immediately surrounded them, saying these filthy words in their mouths, and at the same time preparing to do something to Xie Linlin.
"Smack~"
Seeing that his girlfriend was about to be bullied, Liu Daoming immediately stood up and slapped him directly.
βshit~β
The little gangster who was slapped down by Liu Daoming covered his face and couldn't help scolding, this is a few black uncles, as soon as he called to his side, a large group of black uncles immediately surrounded him, looking at Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin with a fierce look.
"If you don't want to die, come up to me~"
Xie Linlin's whole face was bloodless with fright, and she snuggled up to Liu Daoming's side, while Liu Daoming took out a gun from the bag and looked at the group of black uncles around him with a hideous expression.
"I have contacted our Huaxia Embassy, offending us, you will definitely not end well."
When the surrounding group of black uncles saw the gun in Liu Daoming's hand, they suddenly turned into birds and beasts one by one, and fled faster than rabbits.
"Whew~"
Seeing these people disperse, Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin also breathed a long sigh of relief, they had just come to Paris, and the two of them were almost finished.
"When did you sell guns?"
Xie Linlin looked at Liu Daoming and asked.
"It's a replica gun, it's fake."
"I've heard a lot of people say that if you go abroad, you must pay attention to safety, so I bought a fake gun, but I didn't expect to encounter such a thing."
Liu Daoming smiled and said.
Because of private anti-gravity aircraft, the frequency and frequency of Chinese people going abroad have greatly increased.
There are many people who go abroad, and naturally there will be all kinds of things, such as robbery, theft, and killing, so a special department has been set up here to ensure the safety of going abroad.
At the same time, everyone gradually knows some ways to protect themselves, and when you go abroad to face all kinds of unfair treatment, the most important thing is not to be submissive, but to learn to resist, so that everyone knows that you are not easy to provoke, and they will not attack you in the future.
This is also the reason why Liu Daoming was very tough just now, this is the blood and tears that countless Chinese people have summed up when they go abroad, the better you behave, the more you will be bullied, and the more fierce you are, the more no one dares to bully you.
Just when the two of them breathed a sigh of relief, a lot of people wearing yellow vests suddenly appeared on the street, and the number of these people was very large, and the entire street was soon occupied.
The men gathered and then held up signs with slogans written on them, as they began to walk towards the larger main street, shouting slogans as they went.
Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin watched quietly on the side of the road, and at the same time, the virtual machine they carried with them also automatically photographed some of the slogans, converted them, and translated them immediately.
"Increase social welfare~"
"Reduced working hours~"
"Increase labor remuneration~"
"XXX step down for me~"
"XXX is a rich president, hurry up and get out~"
Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin glanced at each other, and then Liu Daoming picked up Xie Linlin and hurriedly walked towards the hotel where he was staying.
"There are marchers everywhere, is it true that the whole city is not working, and they are all out to march?"
The two of them walked all the way, and all they saw along the way were a crowd of marchers wearing uniform yellow vests, very large, very numerous, almost every street was crowded.
And as the number of demonstrators grew, some radical people, led by some people with ulterior motives, began to smash up shops on both sides of the road that had long been closed.
Whenever the door of a store was smashed open, a surging crowd rushed in, quickly looting the contents of the store.
Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin saw with their own eyes that a huge crowd smashed open the door of a supermarket and emptied everything in the entire supermarket in just a few minutes.
Seeing those people walking out of the supermarket with big bags and small bags of things on their faces, Xie Linlin and Liu Daoming showed extremely frightened expressions and quickly slipped away.
Luckily, they didn't get far away from the hotel and soon returned to the hotel.
"Close the door, close the door."
As soon as the two of them returned to the hotel, the owner of the hotel instructed the hotel staff to close the door of the hotel, as if a catastrophe was about to come.
"You two are really lucky, if you come back a little later, you won't be able to get in."
The staff of the hotel, a young man with black eyes and black hair, who also had black eyes and black hair, also said with a smile when he saw Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin.
"Hello, my name is Liu Daoming, these are my girlfriends, Xie Linlin."
Liu Daoming breathed a sigh of relief and stretched out his hand and said.
"Hello, my name is Thank God."
Xie Tian also greeted the two with a smile, then looked at the deserted hotel, and said, "Let's sit down and talk slowly." β
The three of them sat down on the sofa in the hotel lobby, and when the owner of the hotel saw this, he didn't pay attention to thanking the sky, but looked at the huge procession outside with a sad face, and then began to pray.
"You're here from China, aren't you?"
Xie Tian looked at Xie Linlin and Liu Daoming and asked.
"Well, yes, I just came today, but I didn't expect to encounter such a thing."
Liu Daoming nodded and said.
"Did you come here on a private anti-gravity vehicle?"
Xie Tian thought about it and asked.
"Yes~"
"Then I advise you to go back quickly, don't stay here, once the French demonstrate, it will last at least a few months, especially in recent years, the scale of the demonstrations has become larger and longer, and it is better not to come to France in the future."
Xie Tian looked outside, sighed and said.
"Why is this happening?"
Xie Linlin asked suspiciously.
"The French are very lazy, they are a high-welfare society, even if they don't have to work, the unemployment benefits they receive are very considerable, and the income from work will not be too different, so for a long time, the French have become more and more lazy, and the government has no way."
"This phenomenon is similar to eating a big pot of rice, everyone only wants to eat the big pot of government rice, and they don't want to work, and even if they do, they want to get higher pay and less working hours."
"Look at the garbage in the streets, the sanitation workers in Paris have been on strike for weeks, and if it continues like this, Paris will stink."
Xie Tian pointed to the crowd outside, as well as the garbage in the streets and alleys.
"It's not just ordinary sanitation workers, even in the university, the teachers are very lazy, I came to study at the University of Paris VI the year before, and I thought I could learn something."
"But in the past few years, the number of classes of the teachers is very small, very few, and there are very, very many holidays of all kinds, so many that you can imagine."
"And in recent years, the French economy has been extremely poor, and it has been regressing at a terrible rate every year, and the funding of colleges and universities in all aspects has also begun to shrink, and the teachers of colleges and universities have often held strikes, strikes, and the like."
"So when I have nothing to do, I also come to this hotel as a waiter, part-time to earn some pocket money, I don't feel that I came here to study and study, but to work here, and I am still the lowest hotel waiter."
"My classmates in college in China, none of them studied abroad, and now they are all developing very well, and some of them even start a company, and it is said that they are going to go public."
seems to have a feeling, this thank you Tian is like opening the chatterbox, and begins to talk endlessly, talking to himself, or meeting a fellow countryman, wanting to tell the pain in his heart.
"Then you can go back now, there's no need to waste time here."
Liu Daoming thought for a while and said.
"I don't want to go back sooner, but seeing that I am about to graduate, I have to get this diploma anyway."
"If there are people around you who want to study in France, quickly persuade them to stop this idea, France is no longer the original France, and even the whole of Europe, don't come."
A wry smile appeared on Xie Tian's face.
"The University of Paris VI is a very good university, very well ranked in the world."
Xie Linlin thought for a while and said.
"Rankings are all made by Westerners, and they are made according to their standards, anyway, in my opinion, that's what happens here."
"In the past, when the economy was good, maybe it was okay, but now that the economy is weak, these universities are not good."
"It's better to be in China, let's go back early."
Xie Tian smiled and shook his head and said.
PS: I shouldn't have written too much~