Chapter 20 Is this a place you can afford?

"We're not extending our stay. We're leaving now."

Qiao Lan hung up the phone.

Xiao Li quickly thought of a solution: "Sister Lan, how about we go to the dining hall and sleep on the chairs like them? Or, go to the first floor living room of the hotel?"

If you don't stay in the room, you can stay in other parts of the hotel for free, right?

Qiao Lan laughed: "The hotel owner is clearly trying to profit from the disaster. He dared to raise the room rate tenfold. How can he still let people stay for free? He will definitely kick them out."

Xiao Li frowned, his cheeks puffed up. "Once the disaster is over, I'll definitely file a complaint with the Price Bureau and the Industry and Commerce Bureau and have this hotel severely fined! It's bad enough they didn't help the citizens during a natural disaster, but how dare they take advantage of the opportunity to blackmail them!"

Save your breath, girl, this disaster is unavoidable.

Price increase is nothing. There will be many worse things in the future.

Xiao Tang said, "Xiao Li's place collapsed. I wonder if our cafe and Sister Lan's apartment are still there. If they're both uninhabitable, I'll go out and look for another hotel while the wind's still low. I'll come back and pick you up when I find one."

He usually lives above the cafe.

Now if the three of them don’t renew their room, they can only go to a cafe, Qiao Lan’s small apartment, or other hotels.

"I just don't know if other hotels will raise their prices like Tsui Wah in this situation," Xiao Li said. "Also, has the wind really died down? What if it starts blowing again soon like it did last night? It would be very dangerous for you to go out now, Brother Tang."

indeed.

If they didn't have the ability to space, the situation they were in would be quite dangerous. They couldn't afford to stay in the hotel anymore and were about to be kicked out. But what if the wind picked up again once they left?

If it were someone else, they would have been tricked by the hotel's actions and even risked losing their lives.

But in extreme cases, unscrupulous businessmen don’t care about other people’s lives, money is the most important thing.

Fortunately, Qiao Lan is not someone else.

Knowing that the wind will stop for a while on this first day, it’s okay to go out for a walk.

She told them, "My two off-campus shops, including the cafe and clothing store, all collapsed, and all the surrounding shops were destroyed. My apartment building is holding up, but I'm sure all the survivors will flock to that neighborhood, which will be very chaotic and inconvenient."

"Sister Lan, how did you know?"

"I saw this message on my phone before, but I forgot which group it was from."

In fact, it was my personal experience in my previous life.

Now everyone’s mobile phone messages are flooded with messages, and all group messages are 99+. Qiao Lan’s excuse is very reasonable.

Xiao Li said with a sad face: "What should I do, Sister Lan, can you still laugh?"

"Because I know a good place to get out of the wind."

Qiao Lan pretended to take out two sets of clothes from her backpack, but in fact she took out two sets of clothes from the space, one for men and one for women, the size was just right, so she told the two of them to hurry up and take a shower and change clothes.

"Enjoy the upscale hotel facilities before checking out, then we'll leave immediately."

"good!"

The two of them always listened to Qiao Lan.

In this unusual situation, he immediately found his backbone and subconsciously obeyed.

They all went to take a shower.

The suite has two bathrooms, one for each of them.

Qiao Lan left the room by herself, walked around the corridor and came back.

Several rooms have been checked out, perhaps because the guests found it too expensive to stay. The housekeeper is busy cleaning inside.

There were still a few empty rooms with locked doors, but for Qiao Lan, no matter how high-end the anti-theft lock or electronic lock was, it was not a problem.

Without anyone noticing, she placed the water dispenser, small refrigerator, and some small furniture and appliances that could be used in the future in these rooms into the space when no one was paying attention.

The surveillance camera in the corridor only captured her figure wandering around the doors of various rooms. At most, she pushed the door open to take a look and then closed it again. There was nothing unusual.

Then she walked back to her room normally.

The end of the world has begun.

It's just that no one realizes it yet.

Qiao Lan started the doomsday survival mode and searched for as much available supplies as possible.

At five minutes to one, the three of them packed up, left the room, and went downstairs to the front desk to check out.

I kept meeting other guests from the hotel along the way.

Everyone was furious about the hotel's sudden price hike. Some rushed to the hotel to complain, others called to file a complaint, and others, tourists or business travelers, were desperately trying to contact friends and family to transfer funds because their bank accounts didn't have enough to cover the cost.

Of course, there are also people with sufficient funds. When they see others getting anxious and jumping up and down, they feel extremely superior. Instead of staying in their own rooms, they run to crowded places to make sarcastic remarks and seek a sense of existence.

"Why would poor idiots stay in a high-end hotel? Is this a place they can afford? They spent a month or two's salary to come here for a luxurious night, but they didn't expect the price to go up. Well, they just have to leave, right?"

"Exactly. If you ask me, the hotel should raise its room rates a bit more, just to clear out those who are not up to standard and not affect our living experience."

Hearing this, Xiao Li was furious: "How could there be such a person?!"

Xiao Tang also looked unhappy.

It’s no wonder that there are so many people in society who hate the rich. Some rich people really don’t act like human beings.

It's fine to show off your superiority on normal days, but in the current situation, you are definitely attracting hatred.

Qiao Lan glanced at the fat bodies of those people and knew that they would be dead soon.

It is nice to live in the Tsui Wah Hotel. If you have money, you can stay there forever, but that is in a normal society.

After a while, when order breaks down and everyone comes to search the building for supplies, who can those guys defeat with their bloated appearance?

If you taunt too much and your strength is not enough, you will die.

As they were talking, they arrived at the service desk. Qiao Lan and the other two had just checked out when the room was quickly booked by someone waiting for a vacancy next door.

Forty thousand a night, is it expensive? Life is more valuable!

Not only is the building of this hotel sturdy, but the glass used is also very strong and explosion-proof, so it won't be blown away by the wind, so there's no need to worry about the wind blowing in.

As long as the survivors in the surrounding area have money in their cards, they are willing to move in no matter how much it costs.

Taking advantage of the fact that the wind had died down not long ago, many people came here.

At this time, in addition to the people checking out and those who were trapped here last night, the service hall was mostly crowded with new arrivals waiting to book a room.

"Everyone, please leave early after checking out. Please leave quickly while there is no wind. According to hotel regulations, no one except tonight's guests is allowed to stay here."

The announcement to chase people away was played on a loop in the hall.

There are also security guards and waiters who forcibly drive away people who do not have a reservation.

There was shouting, cursing and crying.

Scuffles broke out from time to time.

A mess.

"Mr. Qiao! Mr. Qiao!"

Suddenly, a loud shout arose from the crowd.

Qiao Lan turned around and waved, "Come here quickly, I'm looking for you."

The owner of the grain store in the wholesale market came running over. "Mr. Qiao, what's up? I was just looking for you. We just checked out and were planning to go home before the wind died down. I wanted to thank you before we leave. You saved my mom's life. Our old house was blown down by the wind last night. Damn..."

"You're still going home after your house collapsed?"

"It was the old house that collapsed. My mother lived there. My own building didn't collapse. Mr. Qiao, do you want to go home too? Do you want to come to my house? Our building is sturdy."

"What neighborhood?"

"Fuxing Garden on East Third Road."

Oh, it didn’t fall today, but it will fall in two days. It’s not that strong.