After The Fall Of The Earth, My Hotel Became Popular - Chapter 74

Chapter 74 – Unlocking the Trees in the Back Mountain

　　Looking at the bloody holes on the polluter’s hands, everyone panicked for a moment.

　　“Is it really acid rain?”

　　”The garden outside looks fine.”

　　The man quickly explained: “The Hotel’s garden is fine, but the outside has begun to be corroded by the rain!”

　　A brave man looked outside and took a container to collect some rain water. Unexpectedly, the plastic container was dissolved as soon as it was put out.

　　“My car is still outside!”

　　Wen Bei heard someone shouting with a hint of collapse.

　　He followed and looked outside.

　　Unlike ordinary people, he could hear the little white flowers in the yard chirping and complaining.

　　“This rain stinks.”

　　”It’s so annoying. I don’t like this rain.”

　　Flowers that like water don’t like the rain either.

　　Wen Bei closed the doors and windows of the hotel again to prevent anyone from being accidentally injured by the splashing rain.

　　This unexpected acid rain not only frightened humans, but also threatened some filth with weak self-protection capabilities.

　　Wen Bei kept looking outside the Hotel and noticed that some filth that was rarely seen were running around in panic. His eyesight had become very good after going to the hot spring, and he could clearly see some details that he had not been able to notice before.

　　A glowing green frog ran out. Its skin would fluoresce when touched by a drop of water, so the whole frog was dazzling from time to time. Its legs stretched out into a straight line, and toxins would fall out of its sac with every step.

　　And after the toxins were washed away by the rain, no traces were left.

　　It was obviously in a panic and tried to hide from the rain under a big tree, but a rabbit with gray hair like steel needles appeared from under the tree roots.

　　This creature had a low ability to survive, and did not show terrifying combat power after being contaminated, but it couldn’t resist its high reproductive capacity.

　　When the pollution first started, there were not so many natural enemies, and they multiplied wildly. Until now, these gray rabbits could be seen from time to time in every corner of the polluted area.

　　Wen Bei watched helplessly as the rabbit appeared, bit the fluorescent frog to death, and tried to eat it, but it fell to the ground due to the toxin stored in its cysts, with purple foam coming out of its mouth.

　　Finally, the tree where they had originally lived moved, dragging the two bodies under the fallen leaves and mud to become fertilizer.

　　The appearance of acid rain made all the filth creatures even more violent.

　　The same applied for people as well. Many people stood in the hall, looking out the window with serious expressions.

　　The severe cold had just passed, and the appearance of acid rain gave people a bad feeling.

　　If the rain continued for several days, global pollution levels would rise to a new level.

　　Fortunately, their worries did not come true. The rain suddenly stopped near the evening just as unexpectedly as it had come.

　　Some guests took advantage of this gap to leave, while others worried that the acid rain would suddenly continue and chose to extend their stay in the Hotel.

　　For this purpose, Wen Bei had upgraded more than a dozen beds in its hourly rooms.

　　•=|=•

　　Three days had passed since the acid rain.

　　Human beings went from being in panic at the beginning to being calm later. It didn’t rain during these three days and everything seemed peaceful.

　　The temperature began to rise continuously.

　　Wen Bei had taken off his long-sleeved shirt and put on a clean and refreshing short-sleeved shirt. He had been staying in the back hill of the back garden for the past three days.

　　He had just spent 10,000 crystals to unlock it.

　　The back mountain was full of trees, but they were just ordinary trees.

　　In the mall, he only needed to spend crystals to exchange these ordinary trees for fruit trees with one click.

　　He could also plant other vegetables in the open space in the back mountain with just one click.

　　Wen Bei spent three days planning and finally succeeded in dividing the back mountain into four parts.

　　Three sections were used to plant fruit trees, and he chose pear, apple and peach trees.

　　These three kinds of fruits were extremely common before the end of the world but became extinct after the end of the world.

　　After one-click conversion, the fruit trees were all covered with heavy fruits, just like the ones in the pictures in the mall.

　　Wen Bei used his supernatural powers to make the fruit tree droop its branches, and a peach was delivered to his hand and picked.

　　What could be more satisfying than owning a whole mountain of fruit trees in the apocalypse when food is scarce?

　　Since the fruit trees are planted directly without going through a growth stage, the fruits on them are very clean.

　　Wen Bei casually rinsed the peach fuzz with water and took a big bite.

　　The rich juice instantly filled the entire mouth, carrying an extremely sweet scent. The delicious flesh was crushed between the lips and teeth, while also moistening the beautifully shaped lips.

　　The whole person looked like a sweet peach.

　　Qiu Tin stared at his mouth: “Is it delicious?”

　　The man had been accompanying him as he walked around the back mountain these past few days. Wen Bei thought he wanted to eat too, so he picked another peach and handed it to him without hesitation.

　　Qiu Tin held his hand and leaned closer.

　　For a moment, Wen Bei almost thought that he was going to bite his own mouth, and his eyes were round like a frightened little animal.

　　The man paused for a moment, and finally just bit the other peach in his hand.

　　A slightly larger tooth mark covered the original bite mark on the peach.

　　Qiu Tin let go of his hand and relaxed his brows: “It is indeed very sweet.”

　　Wen Bei looked at his own bitten peach and handed it to him with disgust, while he wanted to pick other fruits.

　　As soon as he approached an apple tree, Qiu Tin’s ability [Pollution] diligently cut an apple and handed it to him.

　　In the end, the apple suffered the same fate as the peach.

　　Another person bit it.

　　Qiu Tin bit the apple in his mouth with a crunching sound, and his smile was inexplicably a little bandit-like: “It’s still very sweet.”
　　Wen Bei couldn’t bear it anymore and kicked him, and the man finally stopped.

　　•=|=•

　　The fourth part left on the back mountain was a piece of open space found by Wen Bei with the fewest number of trees, and it was planned to be used as a vegetable garden.

　　Unlike fruit trees, vegetables couldn’t be planted with just one click, but require them to cultivate themselves for a period of time.

　　Wen Bei chose carrots, which the Rabbit Butler liked, and also chose water spinach, which had a high yield and could be harvested in batches like leeks.

　　He bought a small robot from the mall, which came from a parallel world lit up by other technologies.

　　It is small and round in size, with two robotic arms, one in the shape of a small hoe for loosening the soil, and the other with four flexible fingers that could easily hold a watering can or pick food.
　　But it was too small, and it had to look up when standing in front of two humans.

　　The electronic screen above displays a heart: “Thank you very much for your purchase.”

　　It is actually a robot that is close to being scrapped. In the original world, it is already an obsolete model and no one would choose it anymore.

　　When being drawn into this world, even some stupid things too knew that this is something to be happy about.

　　Qiu Tin stared at the little piece of iron that was not even as high as his knees: “Why did you choose him?”

　　It looked stupid no matter how he looked at it.

　　[Pollution] As if it sensed its owner’s disdain, it stretched out its little tail and poked the iron tube, causing it to tilt its body.

　　Wen Bei said confidently: “Of course it’s because it’s cheap.”

　　This is absolutely true. Other high-tech planting robots were very expensive, even comparable to directly hiring an employee from another world for the Hotel .

　　Only this little robot was alone in the discount area, and it was suddenly discounted by 34%.

　　More importantly, in this resource-scarce doomsday, it relied neither on oil nor electricity, but on pure solar energy.

　　It just had to be exposed to the sun for a few hours when the sun is at its hottest every day to maintain power for a whole day. Put it in standby mode at night and it could even reserve some power in case of cloudy days.

　　Wen Bei touched the little robot lovingly: “Come on, work hard, I believe in you.”

　　He gave the little robot the power to adjust the temperature of the mountain, and also left it other seeds.

　　It contained seeds of eggplant, cucumber and cabbage.

　　The little robot seemed very happy that its new owner trusted it so much. The love heart on its screen began to beat. It carefully took the seeds and held them in its arms, as if they were all it had.

　　Qiu Tin patted its head and warned it, “Change your expression.”

　　The little robot, who was used to expressing joy with love, was stunned and replaced it with an ordinary smile.

　　Qiu Tin then withdrew his hand with satisfaction.

　　With the presence of the little robot, the work in the back mountain had become a lot easier.

　　Even though it was a small robot, Wen Bei still took out the contract and signed it as usual.

　　The little robot’s program was running like crazy. It didn’t understand why the new owner had to sign a contract. After all, it was not a real employee. It was just an object in the mall. The moment it was bought, the program was modified to treat Wen Bei as the owner.

　　Although it did not understand human behavior, a code called happiness was added to the program.

　　Be happy when you are trusted.

　　This is its procedure.

　　The little robot signed his own number on the contract – A40051.

　　…

　　The sun is shining brightly today, and the little robot quickly got to work. Its robotic arm could be extended.

　　When picking fruits, it just needed to stand still under the tree. A robotic arm could pick all the ripe fruits on the tree and place them in baskets.

　　Qiu Tin: “What are you going to do with these fruits and vegetables?”

　　Fertilizers could be purchased in the mall. These fertilizers could directly shorten the ripening period. In addition, the fruit trees on the back mountain were also under the control of the Hotel’s temperature control center, so the fruit trees on the back mountain child mature twelve times in a year.

　　The Hotel had a big harvest every month.

　　It was not difficult for the Hotel to sell all these fruits.

　　It is even conceivable that these fruits will be snapped up by polluters. If not controlled, some of the fruits sold at the retail area may flow into the market at the base and be maliciously priced up, causing an apple to be sold at a sky-high price.

　　Not everyone has the ability to leave the base, the safe zone, and enter the contaminated area to spend money in a hotel, but these are authentic fruits, which are more tempting than ordinary snacks sold outside.

　　There must be countless people in the base who were trying their best to buy it.

　　They would even go so far as to hire mercenaries to help with the purchase.

　　But the result of doing so is that these fruits should never be distributed to the poor.

　　Wen Bei had been to the slums in the base, where the mortality rate was very high, and not all of them were due to starvation or disease.

　　They eat cheap food that is bound to face a higher risk of contamination.

　　They need these sweet, pollution-reducing fruits more than the rich people on the base.