Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin walked leisurely through the streets of Paris, preparing to appreciate the cultural heritage of this historic city, and at the same time, prepare to experience this world-famous romantic city.
The two of them were from the same place and were admitted to Galaxy University of Science and Technology together. During the few years in college, they got to know each other well and gradually came together.
This time, Qin Yi asked them to go to Western countries in person, take a look, and then decide on their choices after graduation, so the two of them came to Paris as their first stop, and came to this romantic city.
"Is this really Paris?"
Xie Linlin looked at the dirty streets and couldn't help but frown and said.
There are indeed many historical buildings on the streets of Paris. Many of the buildings here have hundreds of years of history. You can see many famous historical buildings just walking around.
But none of these attracted Xie Linlin immediately. The first thing that caught Xie Linlin's attention was the garbage that could be seen everywhere on the street.
Paper scraps were everywhere, flying all over the sky with the breeze.
Next to the trash can, bags of garbage piled up like mountains, emitting bursts of stench, making pedestrians avoid it.
There are graffiti everywhere on the ancient buildings, some promoting religion, some expressing demands, all kinds of things, making these ancient buildings look like they don't have any sense of historical dignity.
The streets in the streets and alleys are full of small groups of gangsters, doing nothing, looking around, looking for their target.
These gangsters steal things very blatantly, molest women passing by, and sometimes even rob them with open fire.
Xie Linlin was extremely shocked by everything she saw in front of her. Is this the Paris she saw on TV or in books?
“This is indeed Paris~”
Liu Daoming nodded and said.
"Hey~ little girl, come play with us~"
Just when the two were in a daze, several gangsters saw Xie Linlin and Liu Daoming and immediately surrounded them, saying such dirty words and preparing to move on Xie Linlin.
"Pa~"
Seeing that his girlfriend was about to be bullied, Liu Daoming immediately stood up and slapped her.
"shit~"
The gangster who was slapped down by Liu Daoming covered his face and couldn't help but cursed. These were some black uncles. As soon as he called to the side, a large group of black uncles immediately surrounded him and looked at him with eager eyes.
Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin.
"If you don't want to die, come up here~"
Xie Linlin's face turned pale with fright, and she nestled next to Liu Daoming. Liu Daoming took out a gun from his bag and looked at the group of black uncles around him with a ferocious look on his face.
"I have contacted our Chinese Embassy. If you offend us, you will definitely not end well."
When the black uncles around them saw the gun in Liu Daoming's hand, they all turned into birds and beasts and fled faster than rabbits.
"Huh~"
Seeing these people disperse, Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin also breathed a long sigh of relief. They had just arrived in Paris, and they were almost dead.
"When did you sell your gun?"
Xie Linlin looked at Liu Daoming and asked.
"This is a simulated gun, it's fake."
"I heard many people say that if you go abroad, you must pay attention to safety, so I bought a fake gun. I didn't expect that something like this would actually happen."
Liu Daoming smiled and said.
Because of private anti-gravity aircraft, the number and frequency of Chinese people going abroad has greatly increased.
With more people going abroad, all kinds of things will naturally happen. Robberies, thefts, and killings often happen, so the authorities have set up special departments to ensure the safety of people going abroad.
At the same time, everyone gradually learned some ways to protect themselves. When facing all kinds of unfair treatment after going abroad, the most important thing is not to accept it, but to learn to resist and let everyone know that you are not easy to mess with, so that they will not do it in the future.
They will attack you.
This is also the reason why Liu Daoming was very tough just now. This is a lesson learned through blood and tears by countless Chinese people who have gone abroad. The more you act like a bully, the more you will be bullied. The more fierce you are, the more no one will dare to bully you.
Just when the two of them were breathing a sigh of relief, many people wearing yellow vests suddenly appeared on the street. The number of these people was so large that they quickly occupied the entire street.
These people gathered together and then raised the signs in their hands with some slogans written on them. At the same time, these people began to walk towards the larger main streets, usually shouting slogans as they walked.
Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin watched quietly on the roadside. At the same time, the virtual machine they carried with them automatically took pictures of some of the slogans, converted them, and translated them immediately.
"Increase social welfare~"
"Reduce working hours~"
"Increase labor remuneration~"
"xxx, get off the stage~"
"xxx is a rich president, get out of here~"
Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin looked at each other, then Liu Daoming picked up Xie Linlin and walked quickly towards the hotel where he was staying.
"There are people marching everywhere. Could it be that people in the entire city are not working and are marching out?"
As the two people walked along, they saw a parade of people wearing uniform yellow vests. They were very large and numerous, almost filling every street.
As more and more people demonstrated, some radical people, led by some 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 is broken open, a surging crowd rushes in and quickly loots everything in the store.
Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin saw with their own eyes a huge crowd smashing open the door of a supermarket and emptying out everything in the supermarket in just a few minutes.
Seeing those people walking out of the supermarket with big and small bags of stuff and smiles on their faces, Xie Linlin and Liu Daoming looked extremely frightened and hurried away as fast as they could fly.
Fortunately, they didn't stray far from the hotel and returned to the hotel quickly.
"Close the door, close the door quickly."
As soon as the two people returned to the hotel, the owner of the hotel ordered the hotel staff to close the door of the hotel, as if a disaster was imminent.
"You two are really lucky. If you had come back a little later, you wouldn't have been able to get in."
The hotel staff, a young man with dark eyes and black hair, also smiled when he saw Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin.
"Hello, my name is Liu Daoming, and these are my girlfriends, Xie Linlin."
Liu Daoming breathed a sigh of relief, stretched out his hand and said.
"Hello, my name is Xie Tian."
Xie Tian also smiled and greeted the two of them, then looked at the deserted hotel and said, "Let's sit down and chat slowly."
The three of them sat down on the sofa in the hotel lobby. When the hotel owner saw this scene, he didn't care about Xie Tian. Instead, he looked at the huge parade outside with a sad face, and then began to pray.
"You are traveling here from China, right?"
Xie Tian looked at Xie Linlin and Liu Daoming and asked.
"Well, yes, I just came here today, but I didn't expect to encounter such a thing."
Liu Daoming nodded and said.
"Did you come here in a private anti-gravity aircraft?"
Xie Tian thought for a while and asked again.
"Yes~"
"Then I advise you to go back quickly and don't stay here. Once the French people start a demonstration, it will last for at least a few months. Especially in recent years, the scale of the demonstrations has become larger and larger, and the duration has become longer and longer.
The longer it goes, the better not to come to France for future travel."
Xie Tian looked outside and sighed.
"Why is this happening?"
Xie Linlin asked with confusion.
"The French are very lazy. They are a society with high welfare. Even if they don't have to work, the unemployment benefits they receive are very considerable, which is not much different from the income from work. So over a long period of time, the French have become more and more
The lazier you are, the more the government can do nothing about it."
"This phenomenon is similar to eating from the big pot. Everyone just wants to eat from the big pot of the government and doesn't want to work. Even if they work, they still want to get higher pay and fewer working hours."
"Look at the garbage in the streets and alleys. The sanitation workers in Paris have been on strike for several weeks. If this continues, Paris will stink."
Xie Tian pointed to the crowd outside and the garbage in the streets and alleys.
"It's not just ordinary sanitation workers. Even in universities, teachers are very lazy. I came to study at the University of Paris VI two years ago, hoping to learn something."
"But in the few years I have been here, the number of teachers' classes has been very few, very few, and there have been many, many various holidays, more than you can imagine."
"Furthermore, the French economy has been in extremely bad shape in the past few years. It is retreating at a terrible speed every year. Funding for all aspects of universities has also begun to shrink. Teachers in universities often hold strikes and strikes."
"So when I had nothing to do, I came to this hotel to work as a waiter and earn some pocket money part-time. I felt like I didn't come here to study abroad or study, but instead I came here to work, and I was still the lowest-level hotel waiter."
"None of my domestic college classmates studied abroad, but now all of them are doing very well. Some of them have even started companies, and it is said that they are about to go public."
As if he was inspired by this, Xie Tian seemed to have opened a chat box and began to talk endlessly, talking to himself, or maybe he met a fellow villager and wanted to express the pain in his heart.
"Then you can go back now. There is no need to waste time here."
Liu Daoming thought for a while and said.
"I don't want to go back early, but since I'm about to graduate, I have to get this diploma anyway."
"If there are people around you who want to study in France, please advise them to stop this idea. France is no longer the original France, and even the whole of Europe should not come."
Xie Tian had a wry smile on his face.
"The University of Paris VI is a very good university, ranking very high in the world."
Xie Linlin thought for a while and said.
"Rankings are all created by Westerners and are done according to their standards. Anyway, in my opinion, that's how it is here."
"In the past, when the economy was still good, it might have been okay. But now the economy is so weak that these universities are no longer viable."
"It's better to go back home. Go back as soon as possible."