Chapter 10
Seeing Fang Dashan standing there in a daze, he added, "This bowl is free."
Fang Dashan finally came back to his senses and choked out a sob: "Thank you."
After saying that, she even wanted to kneel down to him.
This man, who had been treated coldly by people in the end times for five years, cried openly in front of his two children for the first time.
Even when he wanted to commit suicide with his last bullet on the road not long ago, his emotions did not fluctuate so violently. All the things that were suppressed in his heart burst out because of the kindness of strangers.
Wen Bei's move was undoubtedly a kind of redemption for him.
At the moment when his knees were about to touch the ground, Wen Bei quickly helped him up.
Even though he had not experienced the cruelty of the end of the world, he knew that giving away food was a very rare thing.
But he is not completely without ulterior motives.
A businessman will not get up early without profit.
Fang Dashan: "My benefactor, if there is anything I can help you with, please just let me know."
After saying this, a trace of shame flashed across his face.
With such a magical hotel of unknown strength, how could he, a man who almost starved himself and his children to death, be able to help the young man in front of him?
When he said this, would his benefactor think he was ridiculous?
The rabbit butler glanced sideways slightly.
My new master is very smart.
Just a brief contact can change people's impression of him from boss to savior.
Fang Dashan didn't expect that after hearing what he said, the young man not only did not laugh or despise him, but instead tilted his head and thought seriously for a moment.
Even the slightest sign of distress on his delicate little face would make people want to do their best to smooth it out.
Wen Bei curled his eyes: "I actually have a small favor for you."
When Fang Dashan heard that he could help, he suddenly raised his head again, which had been lowered.
Wen Bei gestured for him to finish eating first. After watching him and the two children wolf down the bowl of dumplings, he held his chin with his hand and said with a smile in his eyes: "As you can see, my hotel business is not very good."
Fang Dashan looked around and nodded in confusion.
He couldn't understand how a place like this, comparable to the Peach Blossom Spring, could be buried.
Wen Bei: "I only have one request, which is that when you leave here and meet other people, you can promote my hotel more."
Fang Dashan's eyes widened: "Is it that simple?"
Wen Bei nodded: "Yeah."
After eating and relieving the pain of hunger, Fang Dashan gradually regained his senses and suddenly remembered the flyer.
The benefactor has such a powerful thing, but he still lets him promote it. It must be to make him feel more at ease to eat the bowl of dumplings that was given to him.
He had almost forgotten what real food tasted like before the apocalypse.
After tasting it today, for some reason, my originally numb and death-like mood suddenly became unwilling to accept it.
He still wants to live.
Only by living can you see this miracle again.
So Fang Dashan fumbled out a bag of crystals from his backpack, paid for Shuijiao's ten crystals first, then grabbed the remaining small bag and shamelessly asked if he could exchange it for something else.
Fang Dashan was very embarrassed. "We fled from the safe zone in the east. We are still two days away from the H City base, but we have no food."
The hotel finally had its first sales, and many new hotel privileges suddenly unlocked in my mind.
Wen Bei glanced at his worn wallet, his eyes gleaming, "Of course, we have a retail area where food is even cheaper."
Fang Dashan thanked him and followed the rabbit butler to the retail area in the corner of the restaurant.
He looked at the price tag in astonishment.
A large loaf of toast costs only five crystals, and a box of butter cookies with nuts costs only eight crystals.
There are also some colorful candies that only require a handful of crystals. They are placed in beautifully shaped glass jars and are crystal clear. They are all neatly arranged on the small shelves.
This little corner looks just like the convenience store in my childhood dreams.
No one can resist.
Fang Dashan swallowed his saliva, exchanged the last ten crystals in his purse for a large loaf of bread, and exchanged the remaining five crystals for high-calorie and easy-to-carry chocolate.
The two children had never eaten snacks since they were born. They looked curiously at the thing called chocolate in their father's hand.
Fang Dashan peeled one of the gold coin chocolates, divided it into several small pieces, picked up two of them and stuffed them into their mouths.
Finally, a smile like that of an ordinary father coaxing his child appeared on his face: "Is it delicious?"
The twins' usually expressionless faces once again showed the same smile: "Delicious."
The elder brother looked at his younger brother and touched his stomach: "Comfortable."
My brother also nodded: "Comfortable."
At first Fang Dashan thought that they were finally feeling comfortable without being hungry, until he saw the values of the black rings on their hands changing, and then he suddenly realized the true meaning behind these two words.
He suddenly remembered that there was something written on that flyer that he thought was a scam.
It’s actually true.
Spending money at this magical hotel can actually reduce pollution levels.
"It's a gift from God." Fang Dashan murmured, "This must be a gift from God."
...
After sending them away, Ji Mingyuan went to clean up the dishes in silence.
He looked at the empty bowls and sighed inwardly.
His boss is indeed a very nice person.
Wen Bei took advantage of his boss's privilege and took a small bun directly from the retail area to eat. While eating, he watched his good employees doing work that did not belong to security guards.
It seems the hotel still needs a cleaner.
Although the hotel has its own retroactive cleaning capabilities and will not produce excess dust and other dirt, and there is no need to sweep, mop, or wipe the cabinets, the garbage generated by some travelers still needs to be cleaned up manually.
After eating, the bowls and chopsticks need to be put back into the stone pot so that they can be automatically recycled.
While Wen Bei was thinking, the restaurant had returned to its original spotless state. He looked at Ji Mingyuan and asked, "What's the difference between the safe zone and the base?"
When Fang Dashan said the word "safe zone" just now, he was extremely concerned, but now facing only his employees, he could safely expose his lack of common sense about the end of the world.
Ji Mingyuan didn't find it strange, after all, this person didn't even recognize the detection ring.
He introduced it succinctly: "In the first year of the apocalypse, nations collapsed one after another, and humans built bases as new shelters. From then on, we no longer distinguished by nationality, but only by bases."
"In the second year of the apocalypse, the number of known large bases in the world reached 59. The largest, the Dawn Base, had a territory covering nearly half a province and also had the largest surviving population."
"In the third year of the apocalypse, an ice age arrived. Humanity faced not only the threat of filth, but also natural disasters. In just one year, only nine of the 59 bases remained. Humanity faced a year of epic disaster comparable to the early stages of the apocalypse."
"In the fourth year of the apocalypse, the status of the nine major bases has basically stabilized. Now it's the fifth year, and no one knows what the Earth will eventually become."
Ji Mingyuan's words were very calm, but one could not ignore the powerlessness and grief behind these words.
When so many lives are reduced to cold pieces of data, it is a tragedy that a civilization has done its utmost to achieve.
Ji Mingyuan sighed slowly. "As for the safe zones, they have also existed since the beginning of the apocalypse. Unlike bases, as long as there are more than 100 people living together in that area for more than a month, they can be registered as a safe zone. Therefore, there are a large number of safe zones, and they rely on the base for survival."
"All nine bases are supporting the nearby safe zones. Not giving up any life easily is the consensus reached by all nine bases."
Wen Bei: "Is the difference between a safe zone and a base just the number of people?"
Ji Mingyuan: "Of course not. The infrastructure in the safe zones is poor. They are just shelters. There is no meaning for them other than staying alive. Some safe zones don't even have electricity."
"Some safe zones have populations of over ten thousand. Can you imagine tens of thousands of people living in large iron sheets, men and women, young and old, all languishing in containers, with no hope or prospects?" Ji Mingyuan's eyes grew dark. "I saw this once when I was delivering supplies on a mission from the base."
After returning from that trip, his pollution level jumped up by two values.
Ji Mingyuan: "It's not that people in the safe zone don't want to leave, it's that they can't leave."
There are simply too many safe zones, large and small, and the base cannot possibly spend a large amount of polluter resources to relocate people from the safe zones.
Even if a high-level polluter team leaves the base for a few days to perform a mission, there is a high mortality rate. Trying to transfer so many people is a plot that can only appear in movies.
Of course, all living things know how to seek benefits and avoid harm.
Want to leave the miserable safety zone and go to the base?
Anytime.
The premise is that you can arrive alive.
If a safe zone with thousands or even tens of thousands of people moves together, they will undoubtedly become living targets for monsters and attract filth to feast on them. Therefore, some polluters with special powers will choose to find a time to leave the safe zone and seek shelter in the base.
There are so many safe zones where people choose to live one day at a time, and naturally there are also safe zones where people who can no longer hold on choose to give it a try.
Out of a team of a thousand people, only a few dozen would survive when they arrived at the base.
There is another situation.
That is, when a safe zone faces a catastrophe and sends a call for help to the base it is attached to but does not receive timely rescue, the zone will disband on the spot and each will flee when disaster strikes.
This was the safe zone where Fang Dashan originally lived.
It was even a rare safe zone of some size.
Wen Bei: "From his description, his original safe zone wasn't far from the H City base, but it was besieged by several A-level filth creatures. Does that mean those A-level filth creatures are also very close to us?"
The hotel is located right in the middle of the Fangdashan safe zone and the H City base.
Ji Mingyuan was silent for a moment, his expression becoming serious: "Yeah."
Their current situation is actually not optimistic.
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