Chapter 593 - Consequences (1/2)
Translator: Doggotranslation Editor: Doggotranslation
Location: Shanghai Pudong international airport.
As an airplane slowly landed on the runway, the pa.s.sengers and the flight attendants all heaved a heavy sigh of relief. They were finally safe.
Mrs. Lin was wearing a beautiful hat but her clothes looked a little disheveled. Paled-faced, she tucked the will that she had just written carefully back into her pocket, but she was still terrified that she almost could not gather strength to stand up. Only by holding the back of her seats, was she finally able to move out the plane slowly.
At the moment she saw the ground, she almost burst into tears and sat on the ground again. Fortunately, her youngest daughter caught her in time.
“Quick, quick, call your elder sister and tell her that we are still alive. Also, we need to contact the hospital immediately and send your father there,” said Mrs. Lin, who was still shaking uncontrollably.
The whole world was in chaos now, even Hong Kong was no exception. There were only a few flights still flying back to Shanghai, and all of them were local airlines in Shanghai. All the crew members were in a hurry to return to their home in Shanghai, and the dignitaries from Shanghai in Hong Kong were also in a hurry to return home. However, there were only a few flights, it could not carry that many people, so it was very hard to find a ticket. Without strong connections and background, it was almost impossible to leave the crowded Hong Kong airport.
Only after her eldest daughter contacted a lot of people and even begged some of them, was her family allowed to board the last flight back to Shanghai. But no one expected that the sky suddenly went dark, and all the signals were lost, in the chaotic magnetic field, the plane they were in almost crashed!
A young little girl roughly sixteen or seventeen years old beside Mrs. Lin hurriedly dialed the phone, held it in her ears for a few seconds and then said disappointedly “her phone is off.”
“Call little Yang immediately. His phone is always on, and he always has five or six spare batteries with him.” Mrs. Lin said while trying to calm herself.
The little girl nodded and then dialed the phone again.
At that moment, a young male ground crew member, guided by the flight attendant, found Mrs. Lin and said impatiently, “are you Mr. Joe’s wife? Mr. Joe’s condition has deteriorated and he needs to be taken to the hospital at once. The airport can’t handle this.”
Mrs. Lin staggered back with a fit of dizziness in her head. “my husband,” she said in a trembling voice, “he, how is he?… Please could you help us to arrange a hospital, we are not from the local, we do not know which hospital we should go to. I will give you money. Please!”
It was mainly because the young male ground crew member had already received some kind of promises from the higher-ups that he was still working at the airport. But his mind was still filled with panic and anxiety, so the young man said impatiently, “we have already arranged for him to be sent to the first people’s hospital, you can sign here and leave.”
In this kind of situation, he still needed to ask people to sign some kind of stupid doc.u.ment? The young male ground crew member had already cursed the person, who gave this order, in his mind countless times.
Not only was the family of this emergency patient needed to sign, but all the people that came back from outside, all needed to sign before they could leave the airport.
The young male ground crew member did not know what it was for, but he could only do what he had been told. Because he did not want to lose the guaranteed safety that had been promised internally by his company.
At his urging, Mrs. Lin signed her name, dragged her little daughter, and gathered her other close relatives, and rushed to the rendezvous point where the first evacuations had taken place.
At this time, the airport was still very chaotic, the thoughts of “something bad is going to happen” filled everyone’s mind.
Facing the armed police at the exit, even if it was cold outside, and even if some people were holding some kind of important pa.s.sport, they still had to join the queue and waited to be checked one by one.
Because, just now, a pa.s.senger, who claimed to be the boss of a conglomerate, was brandis.h.i.+ng an American pa.s.sport, demanding to leave the airport through the VIP channel. He rammed the security cordon, hoping to get out of the airport and get back home as soon as possible. But in the end, he could not even cross a half step outside the cordon. He was immediately kicked on the ground by two armed police officers. Unable to get up for a while, although he gnashed his teeth in hatred and anger, there was nothing he could do.
They had guns in their hands, they were much more powerful than his background.
Although Mrs. Lin had signed the paper, she also could not leave. The armed police at the checkpoint needed to verify the ident.i.ty of everyone. Even if they pa.s.sed the verification, it would be impossible to arrange a free car to send them to the hospital in such a chaotic situation.
Earlier on, what the young male ground crew member said was just to make him complete his task much more quickly. The airport had indeed arranged the hospital, and he had indeed helped them to go through the necessary procedure, but whether the armed police outside would let them go or not, and whether there was enough s.p.a.ce in the arranged car or not, it was no longer his problem. After all, he had already gotten the signature he wanted.
Seeing her husband’s situation was getting worse and worse, Mrs. Lin was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. She was begging everyone she could see, hoping they could help her. Seeing her mother was like this, the face of the little girl beside her was covered with tears. She was holding her father’s hand tightly, not daring to let it go. She feared that once she let it go, her father would pa.s.s away.
Mrs. Lin had never felt so powerless before. Even before her daughter became famous, she was also someone, who had a high social status. In the past, even some government officials also had to respect her, let alone those armed police officers. But today, that status became completely useless. Apart from begging the cold-faced armed police desperately, she could not do anything. She almost wanted to kneel before him.
Unfortunately, even if she had knelt before them, they would not let her leave either. Because no matter the armed police or airport police, they all had cold expressions on their faces, and they did not even let her finish telling them her name. One of the police casually pointed at an old man, who was squatting at a certain corner and said, “this person is the President of a company that is listed on the Fortune 500, but he also needed to wait!”
“Mommy, don’t panic! I have told a.s.sistant Yang, he said that elder sister will find a way!” The little girl comforted her mother, and looked at her cell phone from time to time, hoping that she would get a reply as soon as possible.
Mrs. Lin could not help but burst into tears while hugging the head of her little girl. All her relatives and friends came up to comfort her, and said that Yaoyao would definitely be able to find a way.
A few minutes later. When the crowd was still waiting to be checked, several senior armed police officers came out of the airport, and one of them shouted loudly using a loudspeaker, “Who is Ms. Lin Zheyue?”
Only after a slightly bald police officer shouted three times, did Mrs. Lin finally realized what was happening. She immediately jumped up and waved her hands and shouted, fearing that the man could not see her, “it’s me, it’s me!”
The bald police officer glanced at her, pushed aside the crowd at the exit, strode over to them, took over Mrs. Lin’s pa.s.sport and looked at it. After confirming the ident.i.ty, he whispered to her, “Ms. Lin, I have received a notice from my superior, we will send you to the first people’s hospital immediately. Please come to me.”
Mrs. Lin looked at him with disbelief and said, “thank you! Thank you, thank you very much!”