After The Fall Of The Earth, My Hotel Became Popular - Chapter 24

Except for the mercenaries, almost no one would appear outside the base or the safe zone.

　　The man’s reaction seemed normal but the woman’s fear towards them seemed strange.

　　Wen Bei observed the completely different reactions of the two people, his face remained unchanged: “No, I escaped from the nearby 018 safety zone.”

　　The safe zone mentioned by him was the safe zone where Fang Dashan had stayed at the beginning. The news of the disintegration of the large safe zone was already known to everyone in the base.

　　After all, there were too many people in that safe zone and it was also nearby coincidentally. It was normal for some people to be lucky enough to escape.

　　This was the rhetoric he had already thought of.

　　Sure enough, the man’s reaction was just as disbelieving as he had thought it would be.

　　Li Shu gritted his teeth: “Then how do you know the password of the temporary camp?”

　　The base would change the password of the temporary camp every once in a while, and only the mercenaries and lawful troops in the base would know such sensitive information.

　　Wen Bei: “I met a team of kind-hearted mercenaries on the road. They told me that their captain’s name was… Huang Qian.”

　　Sure enough, after hearing his answer, Li Shi completely believed what he said.

　　He couldn’t help but mutter: “Why is that woman so nosy?”

　　Since Huang Qian was not present, Li Shi dared to say anything.

　　He despised women from the bottom of his heart. Even before the apocalypse began, he had developed an arrogant character.

　　Even though there were many powerful women in the base, supporting half of the number of polluters, it still didn’t impact his thinking.

　　After making such a statement, he still felt that it was not satisfying enough, so he kicked the woman next to him to vent his anger.

　　The woman’s eyes widened and she didn’t run away even after being beaten. She just hid in a corner silently.

　　Wen Bei pretended not to notice that he was disliked.

　　He opened his backpack and wanted to drink some water. He picked it up and found that the lid of the cup was a little tight.

　　Due to his many years of working experience, his strength was pretty good for ordinary men. He had been driving the entire day and his wrists were a little sore. He didn’t want to put in any effort and just wanted to drink a cup of water, so he simply handed over the bottle of water to the man beside him.

　　Qiu Tin gave him a cold look, took the bottle, and easily unscrewed the bottle cap.

　　Then he handed it back.

　　Wen Bei: ?

　　Wen Bei was a little confused at his behaviour, but he couldn’t help but take advantage of the convenience of having it delivered to his door. His hand that was about to reach for the bottle stopped, and he took it from Qiu Tin’s hand.

　　Li Shi had been secretly observing their movements, and after seeing such movements, he showed a self-satisfied expression.

　　He whispered to the woman: “It’s the back door again.”

　　The woman looked at him with a pair of tired eyes in the darkness, but did not respond.

　　Li Shi didn’t care, and threatened her with a vicious voice before lying down to rest.

　　The shelter fell into silence.

　　Wen Bei also observed Li Shi with his peripheral vision. His withered yellow hair and the weird long flesh-coloured tail behind him proved that he was also a polluter.

　　The distortion in physical features did not affect the overall appearance of some polluters, while others are just very ugly.

　　Wen Bei felt that the man’s tail resembled the tail of a mouse.

　　It reminded him of that big, dirty and smelly black sewer rat.

　　The woman’s hair colour and eye colour had changed slightly, leaning towards a shade of earthy brown. Other than that, there was no visible distortion.

　　There was a high probability that she was just an ordinary person.

　　Could ordinary people be taken out of the base?

　　It seemed that she didn’t leave the base voluntarily.

　　Wen Bei lowered his eyes and closed them silently.

　　The four people in the air-raid shelter each had their own thoughts.

　　Just when the night outside seemed peaceful, the sound of continuous crunching suddenly sounded late at night.

　　Wen Bei opened his eyes almost as soon as the sound rang out. He turned his head and looked at the man sleeping next to him: “Did you hear it?”

　　Qiu Tin: “Yeah.”

　　He slowly opened his eyes, and there was a flash of interest: “A little mouse ran in.”

　　The air raid shelter was just a slightly concealed camp, and its safety was actually not high.

　　If four people squeezed in there at once, it was normal for them to be targeted.

　　Wen Bei’s face darkened slightly, trying to determine where the sound came from.

　　They were in an underground shelter. He had originally thought that the intruders appeared from above, but he didn’t expect the sound to come from beneath his feet.

　　In such a moment of misjudgment, a strange black creature suddenly appeared under his feet.

　　If he didn’t shrink away faster, then his foot would have been bitten through.

　　Being able to survive in the apocalypse for many years had made Li Shi rely entirely on himself. He rushed out, pushed the woman aside, opened the door and ran away.

　　The woman who was shoved, fell to the ground. She couldn’t stand up for a while, and a large group of black and strange creatures suddenly rushed towards her.

　　”Be careful!” Wen Bei shouted, grabbing her and pulling her up.

　　The speed was still a little slow, and something dirty had already bitten her calf, so fiercely that it wouldn’t let go.

　　Only then did Wen Bei see clearly what the pollutants attacking them looked like. They looked like moles, but the original pointed mouths of the moles had mutated. There were things in their mouths twisting like maggots.

　　The maggots tangled together and easily chewed through the soil and visible metal objects.

　　The dirty mole that originally bit the woman’s leg gnawed straight to the bone.

　　The woman endured the pain and chopped off the mole’s head with a knife. Her knife was sharp, but she still had to use all her strength to cut off the mole.

　　The mole’s body fell to the ground and was quickly devoured by its other companions. Even the bloody floor was not spared, leaving no trace of it.

　　If its head hadn’t been biting the woman’s calf, it would have made people wonder what had happened.

　　If they ran out from there, then they would definitely be chewed to the point where no bones are left.

　　Wen Bei’s face turned ugly and he planned the route with the least damage.

　　He concluded that the moles might only be able to attack underground. So, they had to quickly run to the surface in order to survive.

　　The door of the air-raid shelter had been closed shut by Li Shi just now. With them running over and the time taken to reopen the door, it seemed inevitable to avoid injuries.

　　Time did not allow him to come up with other countermeasures. The group of moles quickly finished eating their companion, and their dark eyes looked at them standing in the corner.

　　They crawled closer with their squirming mouths full of maggots.

　　Qiu Tin, who had stayed indifferent since the beginning, suddenly raised the corners of his mouth, and his profile looked very evil under the dim light: “Haven’t you always been curious about what my ability is?”

　　His little thoughts were poked along the way, and Wen Bei didn’t change his expression: “What do you want me to do?”

　　Qiu Tin moved close to him, breathing all over his ears: “Look carefully.”

　　In an instant, a jet-black tail appeared from behind him, with silver light flowing rapidly from time to time, like an artificial exoskeleton that would appear in a cyberpunk movie.

　　After the long wings unfolded, the tips turned into blades, and they just swept forward and swiftly cut off the heads of more than a dozen moles.

　　The head that the woman had just cut off with great effort looked as fragile as tofu under the abuse of the black tail.

　　Sensing the dangerous aura, the remaining dozens of moles dispersed in fright while screaming.

　　The tail wing suddenly expanded to more than two metres, forcing them back into the corner like a shepherd dog guiding the sheep.

　　Several moles which were pushed closer, rushed over to bite Qiu Tin’s legs.

　　Unexpectedly, as soon as they got close to him, the leg was suddenly covered with a layer of black material. It looked like a liquid but it was extremely hard. A mole couldn’t bite through it, and it was suddenly hit by the tail, immediately turning into mud.

　　The tail flicked, and a line of black blood was immediately sprinkled on the wall.

　　It had become a merciless slaughterhouse from which no mole could escape.

　　As soon as Wen Bei touched the door, he felt a tightness on his waist. He lowered his head and found a layer of smaller black material surrounding him. He was easily picked up and brought to Qiu Tin.

　　Qiu Tin shook his head slightly and sighed: “You’re so heartless.”

　　With a slight hook of his fingertips, the black substance that circled Wen Bei’s waist released him, and Wen Bei stumbled into Qiu Tin’s arms.

　　A smile that didn’t look fake finally appeared in Qiu Tin’s eyes: “Did you see clearly?”

　　Wen Bei had no expression on his face and pushed him away with a slap.

　　He had originally assumed that Qiu Tin’s ability was related to the black mist, but now it seemed like that was not the case.

　　What exactly was the black substance that could be manipulated by him into different forms at will?

　　Wen Bei stretched out his hand and touched the tail fin behind him that had not yet disappeared. It felt cool to the touch, much like metal.

　　But the terrifying ductility and variability were definitely not metallic substances.

　　In other words, it was not something that humans could explain clearly.

　　He didn’t even need to be serious, there were already hundreds of mole carcasses on the ground.

　　Qiu Tin was not upset after being pushed away. He seemed to be in a better mood again.

　　The tail wing touched by Wen Bei trembled and then retracted.

　　The air raid shelter fell into silence.

　　The only sound was the sound of women gasping for breath.

　　Li Shi opened the door carefully. All his supplies were still there and he was unwilling to go far without them.

　　Unexpectedly, all three of them were still alive.

　　And there were corpses of the pollutants everywhere.

Li Shi’s eyes gleamed with light.