After The Fall Of The Earth, My Hotel Became Popular - Chapter 18

He didn’t know how many maps he sent out every night, and he didn’t give up even if they were thrown away as trash by others. After all, it was the only way he could repay his benefactor.

　　Huang Qian took a sip of the wine, remaining disapproving, but still accepted the hand-drawn map.

　　She drank until she was drunk, then stood up and staggered away. Her back in a red dress looked both chic and lonely.

　　…

　　At The Hotel,

　　Recipe number four had been unlocked.

　　Wen Bei stared at the recipe closely. When the caramel popcorn icon lit up, he knew he had succeeded.

　　He brought freshly baked popcorn to the table and each of them ate a little.

　　The sweetness of caramel melted in their mouth.

　　Ji Mingyuan sighed: “I never expected that thereI would be a moment in my lifetime where I would be able to eat freshly popped popcorn.”

　　The price of popcorn was very low, one serving cost only five crystal stones.

　　And just a little bit of filth meat could be converted into a hundred servings of popcorn, which was extremely cheap.

　　As long as the recipe was unlocked, the original materials were not required to redeem it later. As long as enough filth meat was handed in, enough copies would be accumulated. When travellers visited, they could directly make it by clicking on the corresponding recipe while selecting it.

　　Ji Mingyuan caught a few deformed moles nearby. These were not only used to unlock the ingredients for popcorn, but were also used as ingredients for the other three dishes.

　　All of a sudden, the number of portions of fried pork cutlet bento, dumpling soup, and tomato scrambled eggs increased from single digits to fifty.

　　Wen Bei was very satisfied: “The Hotel is getting more and more impressive.”

　　Rabbit Butler: “Master, you still have two thousand crystal stones. Do you want to exchange them for new furniture?”

　　Wen Bei thought for a moment: “New furniture?”

　　The rooms were indeed a little too plain.

　　The Rabbit Butler nodded, clapped his hands with his short paws, and the furniture section instantly appeared on the mall screen.

　　There was a dazzling array of furniture above, all of which matched the Hotel’s style.

　　Butler Rabbit pointed to one of the pink furniture and said, “We can change all the furniture in the room into pink girly style.”

　　Not only was there a pink sofa, but even the bed could be transformed into a pink fantasy princess bed. Even the carpet was in the shape of a fluffy cat paw.

　　Wen Bei: “…If possible, I would like to switch to some more practical furniture.”

　　The Rabbit Butler looked regretful and pointed at one of the big swings: “What about this one?”

　　Five hundred crystals were required to unlock the swing in the room.

　　Wen Bei scrolled to the next page expressionlessly, ignoring the Rabbit’s question.

　　Finally, he chose the spar to be upgraded. He had the bathroom in each room to be enlarged, replaced it with a luxurious bathtub, placed two pots of green plants at the door of each room, hung art paintings on the wall, and finally bought some bookshelves. Some classics were placed, and even a soft-looking off-white sofa was added.

　　Everything amounted to another thousand crystal stones in total.

　　Both Ji Mingyuan and Wen Bei were very satisfied with the renovation of the room, but the only one who was dissatisfied was Butler Rabbit.

　　Because it was just a fluffy rabbit and couldn’t use a bathtub.

　　The Rabbit Butler muttered: “It’s a waste. It’s such a waste. There is a hot spring in the back of the garden, so why do humans need a bathtub?”

　　”Hot spring?” Wen Bei was curious.

　　Rabbit Butler nodded: “Yes, hot springs are a good thing. Just soaking in them once can reduce a lot of pollution.”

　　Many things in the Hotel could reduce pollution, but this was the first time Wen Bei heard the rabbit housekeeper use the word “lot” to describe it.

　　It could be seen that the hot spring was not as simple as an ordinary hot spring.

　　Out of professional ethics, Wen Bei went to the mall and took a look at the crystal points required to unlock the back garden— 10,000.

　　”…”

　　Wen Bei silently closed the mall page.

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　　The day after the night at the bar,

　　A tiger’s roar sounded from the depths of the jungle wrapped in steel and concrete, followed by several large trees being cut off one after another. A tree trunk that even an adult could not wrap his hands around, was split down so neatly that it made people’s scalp numb.

　　Chen Jinjin collapsed and shouted: “Why are there tigers in H City!?”

　　The tiger had been the top predator before the end of the world, but now it had become even more terrifying after being contaminated and deformed.

　　The sharp claws found it as easy as cutting through a piece of tofu when tearing apart the steel plate.

　　Their team’s mission was to clean up the places where the deformed locust swarms passed by and burn all the corpses and eggs. However, they did not expect to encounter such behemoths on the way back.

　　Huang Qian subconsciously wanted to look around for a drink, but suddenly, she remembered that she was on an outing mission, so she scratched her head irritably: “There was a zoo in the suburbs of H city. When the apocalypse first started five years ago, those animals went berserk. They ran out and killed many people.”

　　She spoke in a calm tone, but her eyes were filled with hatred.

　　She was a native of City H. Before the pollution outbreak, she was a college student looking for an internship, full of longing for her future.

　　The sudden doomsday destroyed everything for her, including her once envied happy family.

　　The mercenaries sitting around her looked at each other and did not continue to ask.

　　They drove the modified car and rushed forward, trying to get rid of the tiger pursuing them.

　　But the beast was so fast that even if Huang Qian, who had ice powers, kept icing the road, it failed to slow it down.

　　Chen Jinjin was so anxious that he was sweating profusely: “If we continue like this, we will be overtaken!”

　　There was already a car in front that had been overtaken. Even if it was a modified car, it was no different from a can of meat in front of the contaminated tiger.

　　Although the few mercenaries inside saved their lives under the cover of others, they were still seriously injured. The tiger, which smelled the smell of human blood, was even more unwilling to let them escape and pursued them relentlessly.

　　As long as one more car was scrapped, they would be outnumbered and had to abandon their teammates.

　　Such a thing had become a common occurrence in the cruel apocalypse.

　　Chen Jinjin gritted his teeth and looked at his hair. Half of his arm had just been torn off by the tiger. The bones on it were still connected with the muscles. The blood was unstoppable. If he didn’t stop and bandage it, he would not be able to return to the base alive.

　　If they had to abandon someone, then they would abandon him first.

　　That was why he was feeling too anxious.

　　Huang Qian glanced at him and immediately saw through his thoughts. There was no expression on her face: “Don’t worry, I won’t leave you behind.”

　　Chen Jinjin didn’t quite believe it.

　　Those who still abided by ethics were destined to become nothing more than a joke.

　　With another bump, the car at the end was almost knocked over again.

　　Huang Qian’s pupils contracted for a moment, then she exerted force with her fingers, and another thick layer of ice froze the tiger’s limbs. Unfortunately, it only hindered it for a few seconds before being shattered by its brute force.

　　In just a few seconds, that car avoided the tragedy of the previous car. The driver was covered in cold sweat and didn’t even dare to look back.

　　Someone was telling Huang Qian that she was awesome. Huang Qian covered her trembling fingers with a very calm face.

　　If the pursuit continued, her powers would be exhausted.

　　The feeling of powerlessness swept over her.

　　At that moment, Huang Qian only hated herself for not drinking more wine that night.

　　It looked like she was going to die.

　　Thinking of the drink from the previous night, she suddenly remembered the words of the new bartender and the map he had given her.

　　If she remembered it correctly, the location on the map seemed to be very close to their current location.

　　Sure enough, as long as people were approached by death, they dared to believe in anything.

　　For the first time, Huang Qian understood the mentality of those who believe in evil religions in the apocalypse.

　　Let’s treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

　　She gritted her teeth and relied on the memory of the map in her mind to yell at the driver: “Turn right!”

　　The mercenary who was driving was stunned for a moment. He turned the steering wheel with his hands before his mind could process anything. At the same time, he flashed the right turn signal fiercely to signal the cars behind him to follow.

　　Chen Jinjin’s face was filled with astonishment: “Where are we going?”

　　Huang Qian had a frosty look on her face and did not answer his question.

　　As a result, he shut up and stopped asking.

　　Although Huang Qian was young, she had led them on too many missions. Thus, her judgments at critical moments were absolutely trustworthy.

　　No one knew that Huang Qian, who seemed calm at the moment, was almost overwhelmed by panic.

　　Finally, as they were speeding, Huang Qian saw the hotel that Fang Dashan once dictated with a dreamy look on his face.

　　It actually did exist!

　　There was no filth around the hotel, and the twisted mutated vines avoided the hotel as if they were afraid of something, allowing their convoy to approach smoothly.

　　It wasn’t just that. When their motorcade approached the hotel, the man-eating tiger that was about to catch up actually stopped.

　　Those dark, hollow eyes stared at the building in front and the food within easy reach.

　　Finally, the angry tiger roared, turned around and left.

　　It wasn’t until that moment that Huang Qian collapsed and gasped for air.

　　Her wavy hair, which she had always been taken care of delicately, looked like a messy mess.

　　No one was bothered to notice it.

　　Because everyone felt as if they had narrowly escaped from the gates of hell. Not only that, the strange building in front of them attracted their attention.

　　Huang Qian heard someone shouting and asking: “What the hell is this place?”