The boy finished speaking, hoisted his sack of rice onto his shoulder again, and with his companion continued on, ignoring Shen Mo and his group.
"No wonder the streets are empty, everyone must have gone to Yangzhou Port," Tan Xiao concluded, "We should go there too, see what's happening."
Teacher Cheng said, "If we go to Yangzhou Port, we'll have to turn back."
Bai Youwei closed her eyes and immediately objected: "I'm not going. You can tell just by thinking about it that conditions on the ship will be terrible, people packed like livestock, getting sick and vomiting. Unless it's a Royal Caribbean, I'd rather jump into the river."
Tan Xiao looked confused: "Royal Caribbean, what's that?…A pirate ship?"
"It's a cruise ship," Shen Mo glanced at Bai Youwei, "And the most luxurious kind at that."
Tan Xiao suddenly realized: "Oh…"
Teacher Cheng hesitated on one side: "But those two students just now said, it's only safe on the water surface now…"
