After The Fall Of The Earth, My Hotel Became Popular - Chapter 96

Chapter 96 – Wen Bei was Framed

　　The hotel, which was originally a bit deserted, suddenly became lively.

　　Dozens of security lines were set up and members of the Security Council arrived quickly.

　　Among a group of people in uniform, the only woman in casual clothes had her hair tied up. Although she looked a little tired, her originally elegant appearance could not be concealed.

　　She looked to be in her early thirties.

　　Someone whispered something in her ear, and the woman looked at Wen Bei with a sharp gaze.

　　Wendy came over and said, “Hello, I’m Wendy from the Security Council. Are you the first eyewitness?”

　　The only deformity on her body is her blue hair. She has no other obvious deformed features. It is not difficult to tell that she is just an ordinary person.

　　The people from the Security Council surrounding them were all polluters. Some were huge and some looked like monsters with horns. Without exception, they all obeyed the orders of the ordinary woman, Wendy.

　　Standing among them, Wendy’s aura was not inferior at all, and she even slightly suppressed everyone else.

　　Just by meeting her, Wen Bei knew that this was a very strong woman, and he told her everything that happened without reservation.

　　Wendy frowned after hearing this: “You mean you rushed over after hearing a scream in the room?”

　　”Yes.” Wen Bei pointed to the damaged door, “Otherwise I wouldn’t have judged in such a short time that Sparrow was in danger and needed help.”

　　Wendy said in a business-like tone, “But according to our investigation, no victim of a red blood incident ever made a loud noise before being killed. It seems more likely that they were killed unconsciously.”

　　She paused for a moment, her tone becoming hesitant. “And the time between her scream and you breaking into the room was no more than five minutes. Did you really not see any suspects?”

　　This was the closest they had ever gotten to the truth after four days of searching, but they still hadn’t found any clues.

　　Wen Bei glanced at the sparrow being carried away on a stretcher, and said calmly and firmly: “Sparrow is not dead.”

　　Just fainted.

　　Wendy: “Her situation is indeed special.”

　　Wen Bei raised his eyebrows slightly.

　　What she meant is, this matter is strange in itself and has nothing to do with him.

　　Wendy rubbed her brows. She didn’t want to embarrass a witness, so she put away the notebook in her hand and said, “Thank you very much for your cooperation.”

　　The fox ears on Wen Bei’s head twitched: “You’re welcome.”

　　Wendy walked away, but could still hear some discussions among the onlookers.

　　”Why would one of the five chairmen of the Security Council personally deal with such a matter?”

　　“Is the Red Blood Incident really that terrible?”

　　The short bald guy came over to chase them away: “Hey, hey, hey, are you here to get a room? No? Then hurry up and leave!”

　　He was worried that the reputation of his hotel would be damaged, so he muttered unhappily and drove away other passers-by who were watching the fun.

　　He walked in feeling a bit depressed.

　　Wen Bei poured him a cup of hot water. The short bald man took it but didn’t drink it: “Thank you.”

　　When they were about to turn around and leave, the short bald man finally couldn’t help but call out to them: “Hey, can you do me a favor?”

　　The short bald man went to look under the table and found a page of information: “This is the only relative of Sparrow. I don’t know if she will wake up in the future. I want you to help me check it out and give her some crystals.”

　　Wen Bei was a little surprised. He didn’t expect that the short bald man seemed so fierce to Sparrow, but in fact he was secretly helping the amnesiac girl find her family.

　　The short bald man seemed to have aged a few years at this moment: “I’m not trying to help her, but if she can’t get the salary herself, someone else must receive it. I have principles.”

　　Wen Bei turned around and took the document in his hand, looking at the name on it – Li Shengsheng.

　　And that conspicuous current address.

　　Sparrow’s younger brother is actually an ordinary person living in Area C.

　　Area A is inhabited by polluters, while areas B and C are inhabited by ordinary people.

　　Area B is inhabited by people who are related to the polluters in Area A. The living environment there is better than in Area C and it is also closer to Area A. This is mainly to prevent ordinary people from becoming polluters and not wanting to leave their family and friends behind. Area B is deliberately placed next to Area A, and there is a fixed visiting time every month.

　　Area C has the largest number of people, but its area is not the largest, so it is very crowded.

　　It is also the only area that is strictly blocked off from Area A.

　　People in Area A cannot go to Area C, and people in Area C cannot cross the area to come to Area A.

　　The short bald man said, “I’ve never been to Area C, but I once knew a friend who was promoted from Area C to Area A. He told me that it was no different from the slums. If you are willing to help me this time, I can help you find out where the bandaged man you asked about last time is now.”

　　The short bald guy’s intelligence was very accurate. Wen Bei curled his lips and said, “Deal.”

　　•|•

　　To go to Area C, one had to cross Area B, and the nearest visiting day is next week.

　　So Wen Bei did not hesitate. He directly pulled Qiu Tin and used his special abilities to control the staff on duty. He opened the small door of the area twice in a row and sneaked in.

　　His controlling ability can also be unconscious, and the personnel on duty had no idea what was happening before control of their bodies was taken away.

　　Two minutes was enough time for Wen Bei to quietly use his authority to open the door and then delete the visit record again.

　　By the time the on-duty personnel were released from control, they would just think that they had just been distracted accidentally.

　　Just like the first time he stepped into Area A, Wen Bei showed the same shocked expression when he saw Area C, but it was not because it was too peaceful, but because the environment here was so dirty and messy that it was impossible to tell that it was in the same base as Area A.

　　When he first arrived at the Yi Guang base, Wen Bei was surprised that the base looked much better than he had imagined. The public facilities were advanced and clean, the roads were wide and tidy, and everyone had a job and walked on the streets decently.

　　It even gives people the illusion that the end of the world never happened.

　　It turns out that the reason behind all this is that those dirty scars were deliberately concealed.

　　It’s not that the base is spacious enough or the infrastructure is good enough, but that most people are crammed in the small area C and barely survive. It’s not that everyone is decent, but that the starving people are all in the same area.

　　Behind the bright and beautiful appearance of Area A is the miserable state of Area C.

　　As Wen Bei walked along the way, he saw many people lying on the roadside and sleeping because they were hungry. There were fields on the roadside, which grew enough food for the entire base, but they dared not touch it because the food was to be supplied to Area A.

　　The Yi Guang Base boasted that its base was large enough to form a self-circulating cycle and there was no need to use mercenaries to collect supplies as frequently as other bases, but at the same time it let so many people starve.

　　There were slogans posted on the roadside, saying that they were protected by the polluters and that in the end times, everyone had to have value.

　　The value of polluters is to protect ordinary people, and the value of ordinary people is to become the absolute backing of polluters.

　　The two complement each other and are indispensable.

　　Wen Bei looked at the words on the wall and frowned little by little.

　　He walked across the gravel roads, pulling his hat a little tighter on him, not wanting to show off his fox ears.

　　At the same time, Qiu Tin also restrained his aura a lot. The aura of the person who had always been ostentatious was suddenly concealed.

　　Following the address given by the short bald man, they found Sparrow’s younger brother.

　　The child looked no more than fifteen years old. When he saw them, his dark face showed a very alert look, like a tense little wolf: “Who are you?”

　　Looking at him, Wen Bei somehow thought of A’Luo, whom he hadn’t seen for a long time.

　　It’s just that A’Luo had the protection of his brother, so he seemed a little foolish and naive when he first met him.

　　A’Luo grew up in a safe area with a very average environment, so he was able to develop that kind of personality.

　　Li Shengsheng clearly lives in the world’s largest base, but he seems to have a harder life than A’Luo.

　　Wen Bei described Sparrow’s characteristics again: “Is she your sister?”

　　Li Shengsheng went from being wary at first to being incredulous later: “You know my sister!? Is she doing well in Area A?”

　　Wen Bei: “Did you know your sister went to Area A?”

　　Li Shengsheng: “Well, the day my sister became a polluter, she was taken away by the Security Council.”

　　They do not allow any polluter to be outside of Area A.

　　At that time, Li Shengsheng was still outside. When he came back, he learned that Sparrow had been taken away.

　　He tried to go find someone, but the adults mistook him for a lying kid who wanted to live in Area B.

　　Unless Sparrow herself showed up and claimed it, there was no way to prove that what he said is true.

　　Li Shengsheng thought he was abandoned by his sister. After learning the news about his sister, the first thing he did was still to show concern.

　　Wen Bei put a bag of crystals on the table for him and explained to him why Sparrow didn’t come to claim him the first time.

　　Li Shengsheng murmured: “So it was the pollution that caused the amnesia… Where is my sister now?”

　　In the end times, all white lies are malicious and stupid shelters.

　　Wen Bei did not hide anything and told everyone that she was also a victim of the Red Blood incident.

　　Almost instantly, the fifteen-year-old boy’s eyes turned red, and he gritted his teeth: “I want to see my sister.”

　　Sparrow fell into a coma, making it even harder for them to recognize each other.

　　Wen Bei lowered his eyes and gently promised: “I will.”

　　He couldn’t tell what kind of mood he was in when he left Area C. Before leaving, he took a special walk around Area C.

　　Everyone’s living place is like a pigeon coop, crowded and dirty.

　　There is a school in Area C, which only accepts children under the age of sixteen to study for free.

　　This is the benefit Wendysl fought for them.

　　They can stay in school for half a day, and still need to work for the remaining half of the day.

　　Part of the knowledge taught in school is related to common sense of the end of the world. Every child in the Yi Guang base must know that the reason why the Yi Guang base was built in the early stage was entirely due to the overdraft of abilities by several powerful metal-type polluters.

　　This perfect castle in the air embodies the incomparable vitality of human beings and is almost a miracle.

　　Wen Bei sneaked into the school and flipped through the textbooks, with a not very good expression on his face.

　　The whole article praises the polluters, but no one mentions that after the high-altitude base was built, it was many ordinary people who worked day and night to build those houses.

　　It praises the polluters for risking their lives to bring back plant seeds from polluted areas, growing edible deformed crops, and developing and inventing new fertilizers, but there is no record of it anywhere.

　　Wen Bei curled his lips sarcastically: “Are they trying to brainwash them from a young age?”

　　They only praise the greatness of polluters, but only briefly mention the contributions of ordinary people.

　　Without the protection of polluters, ordinary people cannot survive in the apocalypse, but without ordinary people, the few polluters will eventually perish. Humanity is a whole.

　　Wen Bei thought of the slogans on the wall and felt a strange sense of disconnection.

　　Some in the Security Council want to suppress Area C into a slave-like existence, while others want to pursue equality and constantly try to imply that ordinary people and polluters cannot live without each other.

　　It can be seen that there is a lot of internal controversy among them.

　　So even though Wendy established the school in Area C against all odds, there was still corruption within the school.

　　With one hour left before dawn, Wen Bei returned to Area A.

　　He asked the short bald man for clues about the bandaged man.

　　The short bald man’s information came out very quickly. He secretly slipped a note to Wen Bei.

　　Wen Bei destroyed it after reading it.

　　The short bald man said: “I don’t know why you are looking for him, but you’d better be careful. The people from the Security Council have been biting people everywhere like crazy recently. If you are not careful, they will lock you up.”

　　Wen Bei: “Thank you.”

　　He didn’t say why he was looking for the man, so the short bald man didn’t ask.

　　It was just getting light.

　　Wen Bei did not rest. He did not want to let go of the person who spread the rumor that there were monsters in the fog for even a moment.

　　Wen Bei was rubbing his hands in anticipation: “How much compensation for mental damages will he pay me?”

　　Qiu Tin glanced at the greedy little fox, a faint smile appeared in his eyes: “Don’t be impatient.”

　　He gently pinched the back of the young man’s neck.

　　Arriving at the address on the note, Wen Bei wagged his tail and raised his hand to knock on the door.

　　After knocking for a while, the person inside did not answer.

　　Did he escape early?

　　Wen Bei was a little surprised.

　　Qiu Tin’s ability allowed him to shrink into a piece of paper as thin as paper, and then sneak in through the gap in the door.

　　For an ordinary security door like this one, his special ability can easily allow him to drill into the keyhole and open the door.

　　Click.

　　As expected, the door slowly opened towards the two people.

　　At the same time, a smell of blood hit his nose.

　　Wen Bei’s face changed: “Red blood?”

　　He walked in quickly and turned the only closed door hard.

　　The red is everywhere.

　　It seems to burn people’s eyes.

　　Lying on the ground was a bandaged man whose body was slightly stiff.

　　The pair of eyes that were always open because they had no eyelids were violently destroyed, making them look like they were “closed”.

　　Qiu Tin’s eyes flashed with coldness. He put his arm around Wen Bei’s waist and said in a steady voice, “Someone is coming.”

　　A noisy sound was heard, and Wen Bei saw the familiar figures of the Security Council through the gap in the window.

　　He was set up.