Chapter VII Cruise Ships
It's seven o'clock in the morning, and it only takes six or seven hours to get from SH to Schmidt Point, and since there is not much difference in time zones, the time has not changed much, and there is no need to pour any time difference. Rick watched as the man in the bulky windbreaker outside directed the forklift and crane to carry the goods from inside and down the transport plane, and in two or three hours all the goods were loaded onto the giant ship, and two transport helicopters were parked on the deck of the giant ship, which were also transported from country M, and other high-tech equipment were unloaded from the transport plane.
At eleven o'clock, Rick heard a low, heavy horn, and the huge ship began to set sail, and the two icebreakers sailed side by side in front of them, opening the way for the huge luxury passenger liner, and Lillian pestered Rick to go to the top deck to see the sea, but Rick couldn't get entangled, so he had to take Lilian out. Rick saw a number of playgrounds along the way, one of which was a large green space that was enclosed, if I guessed correctly, the recessed place was supposed to be a casino, but now it had been converted into a cargo hoarding area, surrounded by improvised metal plate rings, which were supposed to be as high as a small hill for the necessities of life. Because the whole ship plus the crew, sailors, cooks, waiters, etc., there were 1,200 people, and the consumption was very large, and the warehouse area was all occupied by tents, instruments, etc., so the casino area was closed and built into this temporary warehouse. The entire passenger ship was about thirteen floors, and Rick saw a library, galleries, a billiard hall, a museum, a two-story grand ballroom that could accommodate a thousand people at a time, and a huge theater with an astonishing number of seats. There is a large swimming pool that is standard on luxury cruise ships on the eighth floor, but it is too cold outside, and the water freezes when you put water inside, so no one goes there at all. There was a basketball court outside the tenth floor, and there were no people either. Several large decks were placed with a number of transport and rescue boats. The deck is not passable, but the view from the verandah on the highest floor is not bad, and the wind outside is so strong that Rick can't open his eyes.
Rick had seen the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship in country Y on the news before, which is said to be three times larger than the Titanic and can accommodate four or five thousand people, so this ship is estimated to be comparable to the displacement and volume of the Titanic. After only a few minutes, Rick began to tremble again, if there was an ancient great poet like Su Shi in country M, Rick would definitely think of a sentence at this time, "It's cold in high places." After a few more minutes, Lilian finally got down, but there was nothing to see after the ship went to sea, the main thing to see was the scenery on the continent before going to sea. Back inside, a stream of heating came from the surface, the air became warmer, inside and outside is not a world at all, ice and fire!
After walking a short distance, they reached the area of the billiard hall, Lilian walked over, Rick had to follow, Lilian picked a club and came to an empty table, "Do you know how to play billiards?" Lillian asked, picking up the powder and rubbing it on the head of the club.
"Well, a little!" Rick smirked.
"Then you tee off first" Lilian looked at Rick's appearance, as if she didn't know how to swim, so she asked Rick to kick off first, to find some feeling first.
Rick pulled out a big tee stick, aimed at a position behind the middle pocket, and slammed the cue ball out, the cue ball turned and hit a few tail balls after touching the edge of the library, and in an instant all the balls were knocked away, and the panchromatic balls went in two at once, and all the balls were separated by gaps. Changing to a batting stick, Rick wiped some powder and put it behind the cue ball, and instantly hit it, a panchromatic ball entered the middle pocket, and the cue ball returned to the middle pocket, and Rick hit the panchromatic ball in front of the opposite middle bag again without hesitation.
The middle bag goes into one, the middle bag goes into two, and the tail bag goes into one. In less than a minute from the beginning to now, Rick only has a black ball left, and Lilian on the side is calm on the surface, but her heart has long been turbulent, I thought it was scrap metal, but I didn't expect it to be a crown.
Rick looked at the situation and couldn't let Lillian end it without touching it, so Rick gave up the grand slam and aimed the black ball at the hole, but deliberately missed a little, and the black ball naturally grazed the edge of the library when it approached the hole, and then hit the other side and retreated.
Lillian breathed a long sigh of relief, she was almost nervous to death just now, and that quasi-line Lillian looked like she was going to go in, but fortunately God wasn't on his side, so she gave herself a chance to hit the ball. After Lillian wanted to take aim, she straightened up and looked at it, then came back to correct it, and hit it, and the monochrome ball that had been hit was also in the pocket. With no Rick Fang's panchromatic ball on the court, Lillian also managed to play a five-in-a-row. But Rick only has a black ball left, Lillian saw Rick pick up the rod, go up and play, the black ball slid directly down a tangent line into the tail pocket, after Lilian put down the rod, but found that the cue ball has a not very friendly sliding direction, the cue ball slowly moved and just fell into the bag symmetrical with the center of the black ball, the cue ball also went into the bag, Lillian won.
"Let's go!" Rick suggested that it was already noon, and Rick didn't want to play anymore, otherwise he wouldn't feel much if he kept letting Lillian fight on his own.
"Oh no, no, no, the wind blows up the broken years like flowers, your figure is shaking, becoming the most beautiful embellishment on the way to my life, looking at your face, I can't help but think of the moonlight in my hometown, that was my lost youth, if you leave, who will fulfill my vast sky? Now that I'm standing in front of you, how much do you think I used to be? A young man from Europe and the United States with a beautiful face that has amazed the time appeared beside Lilian with touching love words, followed by two muscular men in black, and the strong muscles could not be concealed under the black coat.
"Hello beautiful girl, my name is Tom Wayne and I'm from HSD!" The beautiful boy stretched out his hand, and Lillian reached out to shake it with him when she saw it. "Hello, Lillian"
Rick couldn't help but feel a pang of pain in his heart when he saw Lilian's sweet smile, and sure enough, the girls saw that beautiful boys would catch a cold because they were all defenseless.
"Just now I saw that Miss's male companion is very strong, and I really want to play a few rounds with him" The beautiful boy shifted his gaze to Rick.
"I'd love to play with you," Rick immediately agreed to the noble young master's invitation, and it was time to show off his superb skills.
"Nine-ball playing can't tell the level of strength, why don't we play snooker, what do you think?"
"Okay, I prefer snooker to nine-ball!" For Rick, snooker can give full play to his strength, because the first time he came into contact with billiards, he played snooker. In his hometown, there is a small billiard hall in the town, and there are only two billiard tables in it, and those two billiard tables and the video game console in the central town are basically Rick's entire childhood.
Rick chose the same club that Lillian had used at the beginning, and that one looked more well-made. In the first game, Rick knew that this guy's strength was unfathomable, because it was this boy who opened the shot first, and he directly opened all the red balls at once, and it was very dangerous to operate like this, and those professional players did not dare to play like this, because once one shot missed, it was equivalent to choosing to surrender.
Five minutes later, the red ball has scored most of the time, this guy named Tom is close to victory, his score has exceeded ninety-five, but he is still relaying, and after another five minutes, there is only one black ball left on the table, this devilish guy directly closes the table! Rick smiled and shook his head, and then the two began to re-swing the ball, and after swinging the ball, Rick was replaced with Rick to kick off first. Rick opted for defensive tactics to try to keep him from finding a chance, but he still chose to take a risky play, finding the right opportunity to break up the red ball completely, and then close the table with another shot.
It wasn't until the fifth game that Rick surpassed him in scoring for the first time, because he was already close to being tired and numb, and he was in good form in the first few games, and now he doesn't feel anything. In the fifth game, Rick finally pulled one back. When Rick wants to win back all the losses he had lost in the sixth game, the guy says he doesn't want to fight and invites Lillian to lunch, and Lillian agrees without thinking about it, leaving Rick alone.
After Rick returned to the room, he was angry no matter how he thought about it, he had worked hard for so many years of technology, and he was actually defeated by a rich boy, Rick opened the suitcase and took out a bucket of beef noodles with red oil and pepper from it, learning from the way the people of the Celestial Dynasty ate instant noodles in the movie, squeezed out the seasoning, poured boiling water, and waited for five minutes. Five minutes later, Rick lifted the lid and a strong spicy aroma came out, Rick picked up his fork and couldn't wait to taste it, "him a little cookie, it's really good!" Rick muttered to himself, and then sped up, Rick didn't even let go of the soup, and the spicy spicy tip of his tongue urged Rick to quickly turn out a bottle of drink from the suitcase, which was a golden outer package of orange juice, the name was Fruit Orange. Rick ate another packet of soft baked gluten, silently planning in his heart for the preparations he needed to make for immigrating to the Celestial Empire in the future.
While drowsy in the warm little living room, Rick hears a knock at the door, and it is Lillian who has returned. Rick saw Lillian carrying a large white bag in her hand. "Lunch for you" Lillian put the bag on the small table and went back to the bedroom, Rick opened it and saw that Lillian had a heart, Rick had to endure and eat it. Rick felt that he couldn't sit down all the time, he had to go out for a walk and throw away the garbage by the way, otherwise he would hold on.
Turning around, Rick came to the library, where there were books from various countries, most of them in English, and many other languages, such as Korean, Chinese, Russian and more than a dozen other languages. The library was a little stuffy, Rick casually pulled out a thin book and fanned while walking, trying to ventilate his surroundings and ease the atmosphere, a little oriental girl wearing glasses saw Rick's bulging belly, and looked at the book in Rick's hand, and couldn't help but laugh directly, "May I ask this man, are you pregnant?" The little girl blinked and said in fluent English, but her pronunciation was somewhat like the English of country Y, and there were some slight differences from American English.