After The Fall Of The Earth, My Hotel Became Popular - Chapter 37

　　Huang Qian was worthy of being a polluter who had been working in the apocalyptic times for nearly five years. She was extremely vigilant.

　　Her originally carefree expression paused for a moment, her eyes flashed with vigilance, and she was still completing her unfinished jokes.

　　Everything looked fine.

　　Huang Qian followed Wen Bei closely.

　　The person hiding in the dark finally couldn’t help herself, she took a few steps forward and greeted them, “Hello!”

　　There was a small bruise on the woman’s right eye, and she was still wearing very thin clothes on the chilly night.

　　Wen Bei recognized her. She was the one he and Qiu Tin had met at the camp outside the base. There was no trace of familiarity in his eyes. “What’s the matter?”

　　He could tell that the woman was not approaching him willingly because her movements were a little more stiff than the first time they had met.

　　The woman trembled slightly as she thought of the president’s request to her: “Can you help me?”

　　Huang Qian frowned: “What’s wrong with you?”

　　The woman stepped forward and tried to grab her hand: “Help me, I’m being chased. Please accompany me for a while.”

　　The bar they were at was a bit remote in terms of the location. And, ordinary people rarely pass by to avoid encounters with drunk and troublesome polluters.

　　The woman’s request was indeed reasonable, after all, she was just an ordinary person.

　　If it weren’t for the vague murderous aura hidden in the dark, Huang Qian would have agreed.

　　But what was more important to her at the moment was to escort her saviour back, so she bluntly refused the woman’s request.

　　The woman’s face turned pale, as if she would faint and fall to the ground in the next second.

　　Wen Bei originally guessed that she would continue to beg, but he didn’t expect that the woman would show an expression of giving up just after struggling for a while.

　　The woman gave them a forced smile: “It’s okay. Iunderstand.”

　　She could feel the part of her body where she was poisoned getting hot, which was a warning for her to proceed according to their plan.

　　But looking at the young man who had once helped her, the woman couldn’t continue speaking.

　　After being oppressed for several months, she finally wanted to put up a tiny bit of resistance, even if its price would be her life.

　　She didn’t want to be manipulated by Li Shi anymore.

　　Even if she really succeeded in deceiving the young man, she would only live a little longer. The next time she was forced to leave the base, she would not be able to escape death.

　　After the woman thought it through, she looked relieved and said, “I’ll be leaving first. You guys should also go back soon too.”

　　She gritted her teeth and reminded them.

　　Wen Bei looked at her disappearing back, his eyes flashing: “Under what circumstances would an ordinary person follow a polluter out of the base?”

　　Huang Qian was surprised to hear that kind of a question. She answered, “We call such a situation as smuggling. Some polluters will take ordinary people with them when they go out, and then make them lie to the authorities when they return. It is impossible for the base to shut out ordinary people.”

　　As for the reason, Wen Bei could guess it without her having to explain.

　　It is simply to facilitate some things on the road, and ordinary people could also be used as meat shields at critical moments.

　　It was an extremely bad thing to do.

　　Wen Bei’s eyes turned cold. He reached into his pocket and touched the small round thing that had been hidden inside.

　　Huang Qian saw his hesitation and asked, “You want to help her?”

　　Wen Bei glanced sideways: “What do you think?”

　　Huang Qian smiled and said, “Boss, I am your hired mercenary now.”

　　She gently used her fingers painted with red nail polish to touch her red hair, which looked like a beautiful red rose in the dark night. Under her red skirt, one could vaguely see the whip hidden at her waist.

　　Wen Bei curled the corners of his lips: “Then let’s go.”

　　They quickly caught up with the woman, and Huang Qian took the initiative to say, “We’ll take you back.”

　　The woman looked terrified: “No, thanks.”

　　She didn’t understand why they didn’t understand the hint she had just given.

　　Wen Bei directly pulled her over and walked in another direction: “Let’s speak on the way.”

　　There was definitely an ambush in the direction the woman had just moved.

　　Her cracked lips moved and she silently said thank you.

　　Li Shi and the fat man in the dark did not expect Wen Bei to return. They looked at each other and knew each other’s thoughts.

　　No matter what Wen Bei thought about it, as long as he had contact with the woman, he would be completely reduced to a bird in a cage.

　　The fat man’s eyes turned vicious.

　　According to the fat man’s thoughts, Wen Bei was a naive man who did not have realised that as long as he touched the woman in front of him, he would be infected by Li Shi’s ability – [Poison]

　　The bugs on the woman couldn’t be seen by the naked eye and they would enter the body just like the pollution.

　　Finally, they would attach themselves to the internal organs and the rest would be left at the mercy of Li Shi.

　　Such kinds of bugs were absolutely impossible to avoid, because they were not truly poisonous insects, but a deadly source of pollution.

　　His ability looked very vicious, but Li Shi’s ranking in the guild had always been mediocre.

　　The reason was simple, his ability only worked on ordinary people, and those who had been polluters were not afraid of Li Shi’s ability.

　　But Wen Bei was just a powerless ordinary person.

　　It would be easy to let the bugs contaminate him.

　　Their plan was already half successful.

Chapter 33

　　Looking at the fat man next to him, Li Shi revealed a subtle expression of disgust.

　　When he thought about how he had been under the fat man’s control for the past few years and was forced to do all the miscellaneous tasks that no one else in the guild was willing to do, he wished he could kill the man with his own hands.

　　Before the apocalypse, he was an ordinary employee of a small company, doing the maximum work and still earning the lowest salary, but he was helpless. Even every time he went on a blind date, people would take a detour as soon as they heard about his salary and saw his appearance. After the apocalypse finally began, he unexpectedly survived in the first year because he accidentally drank contaminated water and became a polluter.

　　Others may have been afraid of becoming polluters because it was tantamount to entering the countdown to death.

　　But he just felt excited.

　　However, the excitement was short-lived, lasting for less than a month. He used his ability to manipulate many people and also attracted the attention of the Lawful Army.

　　The newly formed Lawful Army was not powerful enough to decide a person’s life or death, and the Inquisition had not yet appeared.

　　So he was luckily rescued by the people from the Dark Fire Guild.

　　From then on, as a member of the guild, he had been working like a slave for them. The ability that he was originally proud of was completely useless in the hands of the guild.

　　He could only manipulate ordinary people to serve as his own human shield.

　　Under the cover of a guild, the members of the Dark Fire Guild had steadily been engaged in human trafficking on the black market.

　　Not only women were popular, but good-looking men could also be sold for a high price on the black market.

　　A malicious light flashed in Li Shi’s eyes. He rubbed his hands and had already figured out how to be the fisherman in the dispute between the snipe and the clam¹.

　　When the fat guy and Qiu Tin would start fighting over Wen Bei, he could easily interfere and kill both of them.

　　The fat man was at least the president, and when his life was threatened, he could at least hold him back.

　　He had buried the bomb long ago.

　　After the entire matter was solved, he would send that Wen Bei to the black market and sell him.

　　Anyone who stood in his way would die.

　　Wen Bei on the other side had already seen the hesitation in the woman’s eyes. He moved closer and whispered, “Where do you want to go? We’ll take you there.”

　　The woman shook her head cryptically, her eyes filled with complicated emotions, and she was unable to open her mouth to tell the young man the truth.

　　As long as she tried to tell the truth, the bug in her heart would suddenly tighten, and the shaking of her head just now was already her greatest resistance. The sharp pain in her heart made her dare not try any other small movements.

　　Wen Bei noticed at a glance that her face turned pale in an instant.

　　His eyes turned cold for a moment, but the corners of his mouth curled up a little: “It doesn’t matter, just take us there directly.”

　　The woman was stunned for a moment. She didn’t expect that even at this point, the young man still refused to give up on her.

　　Since the first day they met, she knew that Wen Bei could see that she was not following Li Shi voluntarily.

　　But what could he do?
　　She didn’t believe that in the end times, anyone would be willing to step into danger for the sake of a stranger.

　　But now… there was a voice in her heart that made her want to believe it again.

　　People are always greedy. If there was a chance to survive, who wouldn’t want to run towards it?

　　Perhaps it was the calmness in Wen Bei’s eyes that suddenly touched her heart which had been numb for too long.

　　The woman clenched her hands suddenly, her voice trembling: “Okay.”

　　Wen Bei and Huang Qian exchanged glances. They followed the woman and Huang Qian deliberately moved half a body distance behind, because the position was the most convenient for her to attack.

　　The place they were at was a well-known grey area in the base. Nearby, there were shops with people of all kinds. The Lawful Army rarely passed by for patrol. After they were away from the bar, the woman led them directly to an abandoned construction site.

　　This construction site was originally an unfinished building. After the base was built, the ownership of it had never been negotiated, so it was left here and few people usually pass by.

　　Wen Bei stood still in the open space, silently put his hands in his pockets and held the cold, round little stopwatch once again.

　　It was his trump card.

　　He had gotten it from the Butler rabbit before leaving the hotel.

　　Wen Bei: “Expose yourself now.”

　　The fat man walked out from the darkness. His bruised and swollen face was specially repaired by the base’s famous healing polluter, and now his original appearance was revealed.

　　The eyes on his face had single eyelids, which were squeezed by the flesh to almost a slit.

　　He didn’t take Wen Bei seriously at all and looked directly at Huang Qian: “I advise you not to meddle in other people’s business, President Huang.”

　　Huang Qian laughed sweetly and stood there in her conspicuous red dress, her figure was very slender: “This person is my most important employer now.”

Glossary:

Fisherman in the dispute between the snipe and the clam: A self-explanatory Chinese proverb [When clam and snipe quarrel, the fisherman benefits]. It means that if two parties are engaged in a battle that neither can win, then it is likely that a third would take advantage.