After The Fall Of The Earth, My Hotel Became Popular - Chapter 28

Gradually, his hotel would become a big hit, and as more and more rumours would spread, his business would also usher into a moment of skyrocketing.

　　Everyone who visited the Hotel would become a free source of publicity.

　　Not long after leaving the restaurant, he realised that it was time to meet up with Cheng Jie as decided earlier.

　　He knocked lightly on the door, but it was not Cheng Jie who opened the door, but Ruan Tiantian, who had a pale face. His deformation symptoms were relatively mild, except that his eyeballs had turned to a shade of turbid yellow. Overall, he looked lean and still remained very handsome.

　　Ruan Tiantian looked very ugly when he saw Wen Bei coming over: “Why are you here?”

　　He was jealous of the young man in front of him, not only because he was prettier than him, but also because of his clean aura, which instantly crushed him, who liked to pretend to be an underage student, into the dirty mud.

　　When standing in front of Wen Bei, he always felt like a clumsy clown, and no matter how good his acting skills were, he couldn’t convey the kind of innocence as if he had no experience in the world.

　　Wen Bei: “I’m here to see Brother Cheng.”

　　Ruan Tiantian snorted through his nose: “Isn’t it enough for you to have your good brother?”

　　He had a sinister look on his face, and his eyes looked appraising.

　　He was not like Cheng Jie, who really believed that they were brothers. No matter how he looked at it, the young man in front of him was definitely the pet of the other party! How could he himself be able to earn crystal stones?

　　After a while, Ruan Tiantian suddenly realised: “You must have been dumped.”

　　What a mess.

　　The questions in Wen Bei’s eyes were about to materialise.

　　Ruan Tiantian’s character was that of being spoiled by others. He was like that before the apocalypse. Although he had restrained himself a lot after the apocalypse, he still showed a trace of it when facing ordinary people.

　　He was completely immersed in his own logic. After deciding that Wen Bei was taking the same path as himself, he became convinced.

　　Wen Bei simply crossed him and greeted Cheng Jie who was in the room.

　　Cheng Jie apologised: “I’m sorry, you don’t need to pay too much attention to Tiantian’s words.”

　　Ruan Tiantian rolled his eyes and went in again.

　　His waist was extremely sore from the hardwork from the previous night.

　　A Polluter’s physical strength was indeed not suitable for ordinary people, and that person was too rough.

　　If he hadn’t found a suitable sponsor, he wouldn’t have been as cheap as the previous night. He had to bargain for fifty crystals all night, and finally, he managed to earn forty crystals. It was really disgusting.

　　If it was that man, he probably wouldn’t have been that stingy.

　　Just thinking of Qiu Tin’s appearance made Ruan Tiantian blush. He was very accurate in judging people and his aura was too strong. He would definitely become one of the bosses of the base in the future.

　　Cheng Jie walked out and closed the door to cover Ruan Tiantian’s nymphomaniac look: “Tiantian is my roommate. Although we have only been together for two months, he is actually a good boy.”

　　Wen Bei didn’t care much: “Oh.”

　　Cheng Jie walked beside him, and the 1.8-meter tall man couldn’t help but blush again.

　　The young man was obviously very tall, but he looked like he needed to be protected, and his waist seemed to be able to be grasped with a slap…

　　Cheng Jie returned to his senses and blushed like a monkey’s butt. He pinched himself hard to interrupt his inappropriate thoughts. He stuttered a little and tried to find a topic: “Did your brother go out to find a job?”

　　Wen Bei didn’t know either, he could only nod vaguely.

　　Cheng Jie smiled naively: “He looks so powerful, maybe he can become a member of the Lawful Army or a mercenary.”

　　”What is the Lawful Army?” Wen Bei became a little curious.

　　It was not the first time he had heard the name.

　　Cheng Jie : “The Lawful Army is the official army of this base. It is divided into two types. One is the T team, which specialises in managing the internal order of the base, and the other is specially prepared by the base to fight against the filth outside. The members of the second team are rarely seen anywhere.”

　　While Cheng Jie was speaking, a group of people in blue uniforms passed by them.

　　They wore a badge on their chest, which happened to be the letter T.

　　Wen Bei: “Is that them?”

　　Cheng nodded: “Yes, recently there have been several murders in the Southern District for no apparent reason, so there are more troops patrolling during the day.”

　　When he heard the word murder, Wen Bei pricked up his ears like a vigilant little squirrel.

　　Unfortunately, that had already arrived at the gate of Snowflake Factory before he could ask for more details.

　　There were a few people at the door. They had all come to visit the factory.

　　Only two big eyeballs stood out on the supervisor’s ridiculously thin face. There were very serious bruises under his eyelids, as if he had been in a serious fight.

　　At that moment, everyone was being swept away one by one.

　　The supervisor was also a polluter, but his powers were useless. He could only detect whether there were metal objects on others.

　　He scanned the crowd with his naked eyes, and after confirming that they were not carrying weapons, he motioned for Cheng Jie to take them in for a visit.

　　He walked to Cheng Jie and lowered his voice: “The factory is really short of manpower recently, and something like that happened again. You must make these people sign contracts for me and come to work tomorrow!”

　　Wen Bei was too close to them and accidentally overheard these words.

　　It was hard not to suspect that the ‘thing’ mentioned by the supervisor was related to the murder case mentioned by Cheng Jie not long ago.

　　Wen Bei followed calmly and walked inside.

　　The few people who visited were all wearing very thin clothes. Although the weather was not cold, it was still a bit chilly. Judging from their clothes, their words and deeds, they were all lower-class people struggling with some difficulties.

　　It seemed that the class stratification in the base was even more severe than he had imagined.

　　There was even a very thin-looking little girl among the crowd. Wen Bei estimated that she was only about fourteen years old.

　　Cheng Jie also noticed it and couldn’t help but ask while leading the way: “Are you over sixteen?”

　　The base had issued a new set of laws, which required that only those over the age of sixteen could work in guilds, factories and other places.

　　Unexpectedly, the girl nodded quickly and took out her identity book: “I am over sixteen, but I have a small frame.”

　　There was a woman in her forties who was in the team. She couldn’t bear it: “You don’t have a small frame. You are obviously hungry and malnourished.”

　　When she looked at the girl, she remembered her daughter who had died at the beginning of the apocalypse, and pulled her to her side: “You can follow Auntie later. We can help each other when we are assigned to work together in the future.”

　　The girl raised her head and said gratefully: “Thank you.”

　　While they were talking quietly, they had already arrived at the first level of the assembly line of the Snowflake Factory.

　　A mirror was placed at the corner of the stairs, and there were guidelines below, requiring every employee entering the factory to wear a disposable cap to wrap their hair, and to wear disposable gloves on their hands.

　　Seeing that he kept looking at the slogan above, Cheng Jie said with some embarrassment: “Those are the requirements of this factory before the apocalypse. Now, in order to save resources, these are no longer needed.”

　　After the apocalypse began, everyone began to eat deformed meat, having no other choice. People who bought the cheap can of meat from the factory naturally did not care about eating a strand of hair from the can.

　　Wen Bei quickened his pace to keep up with the group.

　　They were on the first floor, which was equipped with ten assembly lines.

　　A whole piece of bloody meat would continue to fall from a huge funnel. Workers needed to use tools to remove the fascia on the meat and then throw it back to the conveyor belt.

　　The conveyor tracks would then crush the meat, mix it with the rice husk in a huge mixer, and then send it to the packaging department on the second floor for weighing and packaging.

　　There were ugly purple blood vessels on the meat, which still trembled when the workers held them in their hands.

　　The entire factory was filled with the smell of raw meat, even if the huge diffuser blades were working hard on it, it was useless.

　　Since they were all assembly lines with repetitive operations, Cheng Jie only took them to visit Line 1 and Line 2.

　　He let everyone stand by and learn how to do it.

　　Wen Bei frowned. He could feel that those meat sources were not very good. If one worked in the factory for a long time, their pollution level was bound to rise easily.

　　He looked around at the people working, their faces were almost all numb.

　　Even when they saw new people coming, their hands were constantly moving, only their eyes occasionally glanced over, and they still remained silent. If they just exchanged a single word, they would be fined. No one wanted their hard work to be in vain.

　　The atmosphere in the factory was oppressive and heavy.

　　After a while, Cheng Jie took them to another floor: “This is the packaging department.”

　　There were fewer people than in the ten assembly lines that they had just visited, and even the work seemed simpler.

　　The minced meat mixed with strange staple foods had been put into jars by machine. All they needed was to weigh and seal the jars, and finally label them and package them in baskets.

　　The baskets were piled up like several hills, and they were all filled with canned meat with the Snowflake Factory logo on them.

　　Wen Bei: “How are these canned meats sold?”

　　Cheng Jie: “A jar for five crystal stones.”

　　It was really cheap.

　　Compared to a portion of peas and rice that cost fifty crystals, the filling portion of canned meat would become the choice of many people.

　　But when he thought of the strange meat that was still being squeezed in the hands of the workers, Wen Bei felt his stomach churn.

　　If it weren’t for the low price, probably no one would want to eat it.

　　Someone in the team asked the most critical question: “How are wages calculated here? I can go to work now, can you pay me half a day’s salary?”

　　The speaker had been hungry all day, he could no longer find a job or even a place to live, he urgently needed the money.

　　As soon as he opened his mouth, everyone looked over.

　　Cheng Jie: “You are all newcomers. If you sign the contract now, you will earn eight crystals a day for the first three months, and then you will be able to earn the same ten crystals a day as the old employees. The wages here are paid daily.”

　　Wen Bei calculated that eight crystals a day meant that apart from the rent, water and electricity, it would be difficult to even fill his stomach with the remaining crystals.

　　The cheapest food at the base was multigrain pancakes. Each pancake only cost one crystal and made one feel full. Soaking one piece in water and eating it could make up for a full meal.

　　But the multigrain cakes were almost all leftovers that were not even used to feed chickens before the apocalypse. Not only did it taste like chewing wax, it could also make people choke to death. Even if it was chewed into pieces and swallowed, it would scratch the throat and cause pain.

　　If a person ate such a kind of food for a long time, their body would be the first to fail, not to mention the pollution level.

　　Despite it all, the multigrain pancakes still sold like hot cakes.

　　Wen Bei’s mood was a little complicated. He thought that people would be unhappy when they heard about the wage, but instead he didn’t expect that everyone showed happy acceptance.

　　They even rushed to sign the contract.

　　Cheng Jie asked him carefully: “Wen Bei, are you really not considering it?”

　　Wen Bei shook his head: “No. I still want to look around for a while.”

　　Cheng Jie couldn’t hide his disappointment, but he still nodded in agreement: “Yes, you have just arrived at the base, and you still have many choices.”

　　After signing the contract, Cheng Jie took the newcomers to continue learning and observing.

　　On the first day, they were not allowed to work, because if the fascia of the meat was not removed cleanly, the degree of contamination on the entire piece of meat would only increase.