wipe the ice and fire

The World Championships are held in Hamburg, Germany.After explaining all the matters and completing the formalities, the group set off for the competition venue.

Du Qingshao didn't want to run into Song Tanghao at all. After getting on the plane, he changed seats in front of him, squeezed next to a pair of pair skaters, and sulked while eating dog food.

He didn't want to talk to anyone, and fell asleep after a supper.

The cabin quickly quieted down.

There is no direct flight from City B to Hamburg. The team plans to transfer to Berlin and then take a train. The journey will take about ten hours.Du Qingshao felt that he hadn't slept for a long time, when he heard the sound of the plane broadcasting when he was sleepy.

First, there was a foreign language he didn't understand, and then he vaguely heard a few English words, like volo, France.

"What's going on?" He took off the blindfold, stimulated by the light in the cabin, rubbed his eyes and asked his teammates beside him.

"It seems that a volcano in Western Europe has erupted, and the volcanic ash is spreading, so it is necessary to change the route and make an emergency landing."

"Where does it land?" Du Qingshao opened his eyes in confusion, looked intently at the map on the electronic screen in front of him, and judged that the plane was already in Germany.

Teammate said: "Should temporarily land in Munich."

Du Qingshao nodded, looked at the map and remained silent.

Since junior high school, his politics, history and geography courses have been used to catch up on sleep, and his geography is very poor, so he didn't ask any more questions.

After getting off the plane, the coach and team doctor gave everyone special-grade dust masks to reduce outdoor interaction and avoid inhaling polluted air.

Pan Lishu popularized science next to him: "This eruption was an active volcano in the Mogsand Islands near the Pas-de-Calais. The volcanic ash erupted to an altitude of more than [-] meters and was spread by the prevailing westerly wind, affecting nearby flights. However, according to the characteristics of the eruption, the volcano Haze may be less of a threat to human health."

Du Qingshao dragged his suitcase and walked beside him, without any concept of geography, he asked in doubt, "Where is the Mogesang Islands?"

"Let's go out to the port in the northeast of France." He was also not sure, took out his mobile phone and checked the map, "It seems to be..."

Before the words finished, Du Qingshao was already attracted by the big screen at the airport.It should be the news from the local official media. I saw a female reporter holding a microphone and a flashlight, saying something with passionate words and exaggerated movements.

Although he couldn't understand and the lighting of the picture was poor, he was immediately attracted by the landmark building on the picture - the Eiffel Tower.

He silently read the name of the familiar city in his heart, and instantly thought of someone's name. A chill flashed behind him, and he quickly caught up with Pan Lishu with his suitcase: "What's wrong with Paris!?"

"What's wrong?" Pan Lishu was at a loss.

"Forget it, I won't talk nonsense with you!" He grabbed the phone and quickly typed text into it.

The 24 keys of this mobile phone are not divided. He was very uncomfortable to use, and he was anxious, and he had to input several strings of garbled characters before typing the words correctly.

The international traffic didn't know why it was loading so slowly. Seeing the progress stuck in the middle, he almost wanted to drop his phone in a hurry.

"Du Qingshao, Xiao Pan, what are you two doing?" In the distance, the coach urged them impatiently.

"Understood!" He growled irritably, dragged the suitcase and walked forward, but his eyes were fixed on the screen.

Finally, the familiar website popped up, and he couldn't wait to swipe his fingers to find the information he wanted.

The Mogsand Islands is an uninhabited island in the middle of the Calais. The active volcano erupted at 5.2:[-] p.m. local time. Although no direct casualties were caused, a magnitude [-] earthquake was triggered by the huge geological activity. The entire northern part of France, including The quake was felt in Paris.

According to the monitoring of the local earthquake bureau, there will still be strong aftershocks at 4 o'clock in the future. The cities along the Strait have issued a red warning for tsunami. All the power generation equipment and reactors of the northern tidal power station and nuclear power station have stopped operating, and there have been large-scale power outages. , the city's traffic was paralyzed and flights were suspended.

Du Qingshao stayed in the Southwest for a period of time, and experienced two or three small earthquakes in the past few years, but when he saw this news, his blood was still almost frozen.

That's where the little golden retriever lives!He has been to Luo Ming's house, watching the familiar pictures on TV, and even felt that all this happened in front of his house.

Right, call.

A power outage should not affect telephone communications.

He forced himself to calm down, and entered the string of phone numbers with his super strong memory.

"Beep——" the sound was busy for a few seconds, and suddenly there was a pause. Just when he thought the call was connected, a woman's voice came from inside: Sorry, the number you dialed is not within the service area.

"Not in the service area?" He muttered to himself and asked back.

Seeing this, Pan Lishu leaned over and asked, "Are you calling the teacher?"

"Yes, but it doesn't work."

"Have their country codes been added?"

"add……"

After he finished speaking, he took a deep breath. To be honest, he had never been so nervous before going to the "battlefield", but at this moment, even the hand holding the phone began to tremble.

"I'll call him again." He pressed the dial button with trembling fingers.

But it still didn't connect, no matter how many times he called, only the woman's cold and mechanical voice sounded on the phone.

how so?If the mobile phone is by my side, I will definitely answer the call. Could it be, could it be... something really happened?

Du Qingshao put down his cell phone, stared blankly at the excited reporter on the big screen and the Eiffel Tower behind her, and suddenly felt that something had collapsed with a crash.

In front, the coach is urging again with a loud voice.

"It's definitely fine, he's far away from the epicenter." Pan Lishu tugged at his arm, "Hurry up and follow."

Du Qingshao clenched the phone tightly and did not speak.

They are currently located in southwestern Germany, and take the high-speed train to Hamburg in the north almost across the country, which takes about nine hours by car.After buying the tickets, the whole group was exhausted physically and mentally.

Du Qingshao fiddled with Pan Lishu's cell phone for a while, and when the train was steady, he walked to the coach's side, hammered the small table, and said in a cold voice, "Give me back my cell phone."

"What do you want it for?"

"There was an earthquake in northern France, and I need to confirm whether my teacher is safe." He said the reason without hesitation.

Ye Feihong glared at him, his eyes filled with anger that hates iron but not steel.Seeing this, Du Qingshao was even more unwilling to show weakness, lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes to look at him, looking at him expressionlessly.

He understood that the child's heart could not be kept.

After a moment of stalemate, he picked up the bag in hand and put it on the table: "Okay, return it to me after contacting."

Du Qingshao ignored it, and only reluctantly said "thank you" when he dug out his mobile phone from inside.

After returning to his seat, the first thing he did was log on to WeChat to send a message to Luo Ming.Afterwards, he waited for a reply until the lights in the car went out, leaving only the light of the screen in his hand, and the other party seemed to be offline.

Like a lighthouse in the vast sea, always on and waiting for his ship to return to port.

"Take a break, don't tire your body out again." Both Pan Lishu and Jin Cheng advised him.

But the house leak happened to rain all night, how could he sleep?Du Qingshao even thought that since he didn't have a competition anyway, he might as well take a car to find him.

After more than nine hours in a daze, they finally arrived at the Hamburg Stadium at dawn the next day.Because of this sudden volcanic eruption, athletes from many countries arrived later than originally planned, so the organizing committee decided to postpone the start of the competition by one day.

After arriving at the hotel, they also naturally rested for a day, and did not receive arrangements to adapt to the venue until the next day.In order to take care of his emotions, Ye Feihong turned down all media interviews, but standing on the ice rink, Du Qingshao still felt a deep sense of rejection.

The repertoire of each player was placed in order above the arena. As a substitute, he was qualified to stand on the ice rink for training, but he was cut off from the joint training. Strange look.

During the break, Ye Feihong called him over and asked, "Is the phone ready?"

He shook his head: "I can't get in touch."

"Then stop thinking about it and give me back the phone." The coach said to him seriously, "I asked someone to ask for you. No one has been killed so far. Your teacher's luck must not be so bad."

Du Qingshao was distraught, but he still went to the sidelines and returned the phone to the coach.

"After going through this time, you have realized how difficult it is to be in a foreign country, right?" Ye Feihong took the opportunity to educate him, "Be obedient and work hard to get a few gold medals, and then retire like a hero. What are you looking for..."

"That's enough." He didn't want to hear such things at all, "I'm not in the mood to talk sarcastic about matters of human life."

Unexpectedly, Song Tanghao also popped up, and said with a fake smile: "Xiao Du, the coach is an elder after all, you should listen to him more. Besides, you can't relax just because you are a substitute this time."

Seeing his arrogant face, Du Qingshao gritted his teeth and cursed in his heart, clenched his hands into fists to resist the urge to kick him with his skates.

Just as he was holding back his stomach, there was a loud noise from the entrance of the training hall, which seemed to be French.He immediately probed to check, and accurately found the little brown fur in the crowd—Bernar Durand.

"Durand!" he yelled to the crowd as he walked quickly.

The little brown hair looked around in response, and when he saw the familiar little boy, he squinted his eyes unconsciously. It took a few seconds for him to react, and suddenly realized: "Easternboy?"

Regardless of the surprised expressions of the coaches on both sides, Du Qingshao pulled him out of the crowd and hurriedly asked, "Are you from Paris?"

"That's it."

"How's Lumi?" He hurried to the next topic.

Dilan obviously didn't keep up with his brain circuit. He frowned and asked, "What does he have to do with me? I'm an athlete, so it's impossible to bring him here with me."

"I'm asking you about their situation!" Du Qingshao anxiously grabbed his shoulders and shook, "Is he injured, or is he inhaling volcanic haze?"

Dilan had just taken a nap, and before he was fully awake, he was dizzy from the shaking. He said vaguely with the temper of the young master: "I don't know, I should be fine...The volcano is far away from Paris."

"But I can't get in touch with him, neither by phone nor by WeChat."

"Lumi still has WeChat? I've never used that to chat with him." Dilan broke away from his arm and took out his phone from his pocket. "Wait a minute, I'll use MSN to find him."

After speaking, he sent a sleepy expression to Luo Ming.

Du Qingshao went to the screen: "Can you send him a few more messages?"

"It's useless, the other party is not online." He spread his hands helplessly, "I heard that there is a power outage in Paris? Maybe it won't be able to charge for a long time and turn off the phone."

"Why don't you care about him so much!?" Du Qingshao was so angry that he could eat him.

"Speaking of this, I think it's better for you to care more about yourself," Dylan glanced at him disdainfully, "You are actually a substitute in this game? I'm still waiting for you to beat me again."

It was another critical blow for him to say those words.Du Qingshao ate the door shut, and gritted his teeth bitterly: "You wait for me."

After speaking, he turned and left.

This was the case for the next few days. He was familiar with the venue according to the time stipulated by the competition, but he couldn't control his thoughts after training, and he couldn't tell what he was thinking, and his whole body was restless.

The only good thing is that he was a substitute this time, otherwise, with his current state, he might not even be able to make it to the second round of free skating.