After The Fall Of The Earth, My Hotel Became Popular - Chapter 42

Ch42: Becoming a Hostage

　　If they failed to find where the hostages were hidden, then they would have no chance at all to do it.

　　When Wen Bei lowered his head and thought about it, the kitten’s ears suddenly twitched, and he heard the sound of a successful sale coming from the auction house.

　　”Congratulations to boss No. 2044 for winning tonight’s auction item No. 4!”

　　The kitten’s ears stood up, looking very alert, and a bold idea came to mind.

　　If he couldn’t find the hostages… then he could take himself as a hostage.

　　After Wen Bei expressed his inner thoughts, he was immediately rejected.

　　Wen Bei looked at Qiu Ting in confusion, thinking that he was just too bothersome.

　　After thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and said, “As long as you are willing to help me this time, I will give you whatever you want after we succeed.”

　　Qiu Tin raised an eyebrow: “Whatever I want?”

　　He stretched out his fingers and pressed the corners of the young man’s eyes until a hint of red appeared there, making him look particularly pitiful.

　　Wen Bei waved his hand away: “Don’t you just want my blood?”

　　The faint fragrance emanating from beneath the skin made Qiu Ting’s pupils turn red for a moment. He snorted and chuckled in an ambiguous manner but did not deny it.

　　Of course, what he wanted was more than that. He wanted the young man to become his all-inclusive collection.

　　As long as it was a collectible, it didn’t matter if it couldn’t breathe.

　　Qiu Tin’s eyes became deeper and deeper, and in the next second he was attracted by the pair of constantly twitching cat ears.

　　The cat ears betrayed the owner’s alert mood at the moment.

　　Qiu Tin hid the dangerous aura that had accidentally leaked out of him, and returned to his disguised and somewhat dull look.

　　Wen Bei knew that he agreed, so he quickly took out handcuffs from his pocket and handcuffed himself.

　　The key was hidden in his clothes.

　　Qiu Tin lowered his head, his eyes glancing over the slender wrist that contrasted starkly with the silver handcuffs.

　　Wen Bei didn’t know what he was thinking and urged him to go find someone quickly.

　　The man’s dull expression and the ugly scar that ran across his entire face looked even more hideous against the handsome young man.

　　Standing together, they look like a modern version of Beauty and the Beast.

　　The person playing the ‘beauty’ was handcuffed and had difficulty moving. He could only follow the man in small steps, following him closely as if he was afraid of being left behind.

　　Soon, the strange combination of the two attracted the attention of the staff here.

　　A man dressed in black walked up to them and asked in an androgynous voice, “Sir, do you need any help?”

　　Wen Bei lowered his head and said nothing. The cat ears on his head seemed to droop downwards out of timidity. He carefully hid behind Qiu Ting, trying to cover himself with the man’s broad body.

　　He was like a well-sheltered silk flower that had never been wet by the heavy rain. He had no idea what the end would be like, yet he naively believed that he could be protected.

　　Little did he know that he was about to be sold.

　　Qiu Ting whispered a few words to the man in black, and a look of understanding flashed in the man’s eyes.

　　He looked towards Wen Bei, and after sizing him up for a moment, a hint of satisfaction flashed in his eyes, and he concluded that he would be able to sell the young man at a good price.

　　Although the face could only be described as pretty, the temperament and good figure are extremely attractive. Coupled with the perfectly deformed cat ears on the top of the head, it could be a plus point among many rich people.

　　The man in black was calculating in his mind, and his gaze towards Wen Bei changed a little, but the next second, his eyes suddenly hurt, as if pricked by needles.

　　The man in black covered his eyes and cursed, unable to hold back a cry of pain.

　　Qiu Tin acted very naturally, as if it had nothing to do with him: “What’s wrong?”

　　The man in black put down his hand in doubt. The pain was so fleeting that he even suspected that the sudden pain was just an illusion. He looked left and right, and nothing happened after that.

　　He shook his head and felt an inexplicable fear. He no longer had the heart to consider Wen Bei’s value. He urged them to follow him quickly.

　　They followed the hurriedly walking man and soon saw a person of higher rank, who was also dressed in black. His black clothes were more textured than those of the ordinary patrolling men, and there were two intertwined snakes embroidered under the black robe.

　　Wen Bei heard the man in black call him Mr. Ye.

　　Mr. Ye seemed to have a lot to say. After taking a closer look at Wen Bei, he directly agreed to buy him: “We can offer 5,000 crystal stones.”

　　He looked at Qiu Ting and put on a negotiating expression.

　　Wen Bei’s mouth twitched. He didn’t expect that in the eyes of these human traffickers, his entire worth was only worth the price of his hotel room for one night.

　　Qiu Ting cooperated very well and showed a dissatisfied look. He frowned and his voice changed, which made it less attractive and mediocre. “Fifteen thousand.”

　　It is indeed rare to see such a cute beast transformation.

　　Ye Hao had already made up his mind, but he was a businessman at heart. Seeing that Qiu Tin didn’t seem to appear as a daily visitor of the black market, he secretly thought of a way to lower the price: “Nine thousand. The situation has been tense recently. Apart from us, you have no better place to deal with him.”

　　Qiu Tin said what he had planned: “I want to meet the person with the most authority here and negotiate with him.”

　　After he finished speaking, he reached out and fiddled with Wen Bei’s cat ears, and was almost glared at.

　　Wen Bei shrank back as if in fear, but in fact he secretly pinched the man’s waist with his hands and wanted to twist it hard, but he didn’t expect that his muscles were so stiff that it hurt his hands instead.

　　Ye Hao couldn’t see their little movements clearly, but seeing Wen Bei’s timid look, he looked a little satisfied.

　　It was easier to sell such well-behaved children.

　　The look of being out of touch with the world was most suitable for arousing some people’s desire for abuse.

　　Ye Hao pretended to be in a difficult situation and frowned: “The president of our auction has not been in the base recently. Don’t worry, at this moment, I am the one with the most say here. The highest price I can offer you is 10,000.”

　　He was an unscrupulous businessman.

　　Wen Bei secretly despised him in his heart.

　　He secretly observed Ye Hao’s expression and found that the first half of his sentence did not seem false.

　　The owner of the auction house was not in the base.

　　Outside the base? Did that mean that they were also mercenaries?

　　Before Wen Bei had time to think about it, he was sold for 11,000 yuan.

　　Qiu Tin stood there, his expression unchanged, watching him being taken away.

　　Only behind the back, where no one else could see, did the black fog reappear, almost solidifying into a solid entity.

　　…

　　Wen Bei was led away by Ye Hao with handcuffs on his hands. He originally wanted to tie him up, but when he saw that he already had handcuffs on his hands, he let down his guard.

　　Wen Bei didn’t say a word the whole time. He looked so timid that he didn’t dare to object to being sold. He was as docile as a little lamb and could only open his watery eyes and beg the man to let him go.

　　Ye Hao grinned: “Don’t blame me for not telling you. Now that you are here, don’t even think about running away, think more about how to please your buyer.”

　　Wen Bei raised his eyes and glanced at him, with a hint of autumn water in his eyes: “Yeah.”

　　It was the first time he spoke in front of Ye Hao.

　　Ye Hao looked very satisfied. He led the man all the way to the basement where the hostages were kept and pushed him in roughly: “Don’t make noise.”

　　Wen Bei memorized the entire route. When he turned around, he was met with more than a dozen pairs of eyes.

　　They were all captured people.

　　Most of them were women, but there were also some thin men.

　　Wen Bei’s heart sank. He walked towards the nearest woman and asked, “Were you sold here too?”

　　The woman raised her head to look at him. Her face was covered with dust and it was hard to tell what she looked like. “No, I was caught while walking on the street.”

　　The underground human trafficking club was too arrogant.

　　Wen Bei frowned.

　　The woman seemed to guess what he was thinking and smiled self-deprecatingly, “I have no family or friends. I’ve survived in this base for two years on a meager salary. Even if something happened, no one would know.”

　　”They specifically target people who are alone. It’s normal for people to go missing in the apocalypse.” The person next to the woman took over.

　　Suddenly, a sobbing sound was heard, and a boy who looked barely an adult covered his face: “I was not captured, I was sold.”

　　The woman who had spoken to Wen Bei at the beginning lowered her voice and explained, “He was sold here by his own brother. He was drugged. He refused to accept the fact for three days after he woke up. He escaped twice and almost had his limbs broken before he finally gave up.”

　　”There are also people who were deceived and owed crystals that they cannot pay back. They could only appear here by using their bodies to pay off the debt.”

　　Wen Bei glanced around and saw that everyone here had a very ugly expression on their face.

　　Maybe the reasons for coming here are different, the only certainty was that they weren’t there out of free will.

　　Wen Bei took out the key from his pocket and removed the handcuffs in front of them.

　　Someone looked over and then lay down again with a lack of interest.

　　They didn’t believe that a young man with a pair of furry cat ears could make any splash.

　　It was all a futile struggle.

　　They couldn’t wait for rescue from the outside world and could only pray that the person who bought them was not a pervert who ate human flesh, nor a weirdo with a sadistic fetish.

　　Wen Bei quickly took out his pager again.

　　It was a rare item in the base, and usually only the Lawful Army or some polluters could afford it.

　　So when he took it out, everyone who had originally not cared looked at him in surprise.

　　”Is that a pager?” The woman next to Wen Bei pointed in disbelief.

　　Wen Bei: “Yeah.”

　　He had a bad feeling in his heart.

　　Things were going so smoothly that it seemed weird.

　　”Hurry! Contact the people outside!” The boy who had just cried miserably crawled over, and it looked like he wanted to snatch it with his own hands.

　　Wen Bei looked around at the people who had been locked in the dark room for who knows how many days, and finally pressed the button.

　　He directly chose Captain Lan of the Lawful Army, but he didn’t expect that only a burst of noise would come out.

　　He was stunned for a moment, and instantly realized that the signal had been blocked in the place where the hostages were hidden!