Your parents called you the moment they saw the news, you answered the
phone hesitantly, and your mother scolded you as soon as you came up,
you felt very aggrieved because you felt that you did nothing wrong, but
just answered the truth. The good thing is that your father was very
understanding and tried to comfort you and told you not to panic. After
a few words, you hang up the phone in anger and the more you think about
it, the more aggravated you feel. Tears start to flow down your face and
you are really tired.
You stay in the empty room, slowly pull out a
crumpled tissue from your bag and wipe the tears on your cheeks. You
stare blankly ahead of you when the sudden sound of the door opening
startles you. You turn your head and find that the man in white has
brought in another person for isolation. After that many more people
came in one after another and you leaned back in your seat feeling about
to go to sleep. But then a team of white men come in and tell you that
you will be taken to a hotel near the airport for centralized quarantine
and immediate nucleic acid testing.
You step onto the bus with heavy
strides. At this point you have not slept for 24 hours, you feel like
there are a million ants crawling in your head, you do not want to think
about anything, and sit frozen in the bus watching the scenery outside
the window recede rapidly. Soon you arrive at a very modest airline
hotel, and then one by one people line up for the nucleic acid test. It
was still cold in the wee hours of Shanghai at the end of March, and you
were shivering as you stood in a tent set up outside the front door of
the hotel waiting for your nucleic acid to be done.