Chapter 6
Ji Mingyuan looked at the young man opposite him with such a complicated expression, thinking that it was his own determination to commit suicide that made him like this, and he couldn't help but look at him deeply.
I was right. Although this young man had an unstable personality and sometimes did completely unexpected things, he was actually a very kind person.
In the end times, this kindness is like a treasure that can be peeped at at any time. Even if only a corner is revealed, the brilliance that flashes within it will attract people to come closer, so he covers himself with a seemingly indifferent attitude.
But I still can't change the kindness in my bones.
Such people are extremely rare in the doomsday of the fifth year of pollution.
It seemed as if a small corner of Ji Mingyuan's heart, which had not been moved for a long time, collapsed. For the first time, he did something beyond his rational mind. He lowered his head and scooped up a still hot dumpling and put it into his mouth.
The combined flavors of fresh pork and corn create a powerful collision on the taste buds.
Ji Mingyuan suddenly stopped, looked down at the bowl of delicious dumpling soup with a stunned expression, and his grip on the spoon became tighter and tighter.
Since the pollution began, even the most common livestock have mutated. Ji Mingyuan hasn't eaten fresh pork for a long time, but what really surprised him was not this rare delicacy.
But the moment he ate it, he seemed to feel that the voice in his body that had been clamoring to destroy everything around him had subsided.
The tormenting pain in my bones also became much less.
Ji Mingyuan didn't have time to think about it and instinctively continued eating. He ate so quickly that the bowl of dumpling soup was soon empty, without even a drop of soup left.
Wen Bei had only eaten half of it when he saw him quickly finish a bowl of dumpling soup and stand there in a daze.
Just at this time, the ten minutes before they were supposed to sit at the table were up, and Ji Mingyuan's bracelet issued another warning.
"Attention—Attention, your pollution level..."
But this time the broadcast was very strange. It got stuck after just a few words, as if there was a malfunction, and even went silent in the end.
As if nothing happened.
Wen Bei took a curious look at the thing: "Is it broken?"
Ji Mingyuan's Adam's apple rolled up and down, and his voice became obscure: "...No."
This was invented by several major base research institutes. The only chip that can detect the pollution level in the body is hidden inside. It is the crystallization of the highest technology currently available to mankind and is almost impossible to destroy artificially. How could it break down for no reason?
He just wondered if he was hallucinating, because the original value of 95 had now become 94.
Unheard of.
How could pollution levels possibly decrease?
Wen Bei came over to look at the data on the bracelet with him: "I forgot to tell you that eating and staying in my hotel can reduce pollution levels."
He observed Ji Mingyuan's reaction.
It was not that he forgot to mention such a big thing, but that he deliberately did not mention it.
After all, I haven't been contaminated, so I don't know if the hotel's rules are true.
So far, it seems that all the rules of this hotel are true.
Ji Mingyuan looked at him, his eyes filled with uncontrollable shock: "Can it really be reduced?"
He raised his hands to cover his chest in a trance.
In fact, what is more accurate than this bracelet is his own feelings.
After finishing a whole bowl of dumpling soup, the urge to self-destruct that had been tormenting him disappeared.
And this is just a bowl of dumpling soup.
Wen Bei raised his eyebrows: "Another bowl?"
Ji Mingyuan nodded completely instinctively.
So Wen Bei quickly went into the kitchen, and soon brought out a bowl of appetizing-looking dumpling soup.
This time, Ji Mingyuan did not hesitate any more. He lowered his head and ate another bowl, still not even missing the soup.
He felt comfortable throughout his body, but it was much weaker than the first bowl. He looked down at his bracelet and saw that it was still 94, unchanged.
Wen Bei felt a little disappointed, but not surprised. "It seems the cheapest dumpling soup has only a minimal effect. But my hotel has just opened, so I'll unlock more things in the future."
Ji Mingyuan was still in the stage of conflicting views, so his reaction was a little slow: "Yeah."
He silently felt his current physical condition.
Suddenly he waved his hand and called over Black Hawk.
Black Hawk nuzzled him affectionately.
Ji Mingyuan murmured: "The pollution level has decreased, but the strength of the supernatural power has not decreased..."
If his stomach wasn't still warm, he would almost suspect that he was still dreaming.
Wen Bei thoughtfully waited until his perspective was reshaped, then pointed at the bracelet and asked, "What is that?"
Ji Mingyuan narrowed his completely black right eye slightly: "You don't know?"
He originally thought that Wenbei's detection ring was hidden on the ankle, but he didn't expect it was not there at all.
Wen Bei had already found an excuse: "I have been in the hotel since the end of the world. You are the first human being I have come into contact with in the past five years."
Ji Mingyuan had a complicated expression. In the past, he would never have believed it, but since entering this hotel, he had experienced so many shocks to his worldview that he actually accepted Wen Bei's explanation very quickly.
Ji Mingyuan took the initiative to explain to him the purpose of the bracelet and also gave him some common knowledge about the apocalypse.
At the end of the world, humans are divided into two types.
One is a polluter with special powers, and the other is an ordinary person.
The difference lies in the degree of pollution. The pollution value of the polluter exceeds 50%, so it stimulates superpowers. The pollution value of ordinary people is generally around 30%. Although they do not have superpowers, the risk of becoming filthy is also very low.
Wen Bei nodded, suddenly curious: "Can you measure the pollution level for me?"
Ji Mingyuan's gaze paused for a moment on his black hair and black eyes: "Of course."
The degree of pollution is actually a personal privacy, and generally no one will look at the data on other people's test rings.
But he was also curious about how much pollution there would be in Wenbei since it had such a magical hotel.
So he moved the bracelet closer and pressed it against the back of Wen Bei's outstretched hand.
Through skin conduction, a new data soon popped up: 0.
Ji Mingyuan was stunned for a moment: "How is it possible that there is no pollution?"
Even newborn babies have single-digit pollution levels.
Are there still pure, uncontaminated humans in this world?!
For a moment, Ji Mingyuan didn't know whether Wen Bei's existence was more shocking or the two bowls of dumpling soup that reduced pollution levels were more shocking.
It seems that the rabbit housekeeper did not lie to him. He went out for a walk outside the hotel and still was not contaminated.
Wen Bei felt satisfied, but also a little regretful. If he could not be contaminated, did it mean that he would not develop superpowers?
In such a dangerous world, not having enough self-protection ability is the biggest threat.
The two of them sat at the table, each in deep thought for a long time, until the rabbit butler approached quietly: "Excuse me, how would you like to pay, guest?"
It refers to Ji Mingyuan.
There is no free lunch in the world. This is a truth that everyone who has experienced the cruelty of the end of the world knows.
Ji Mingyuan: "Payment with crystal stones?"
Crystals are the new currency that replaces the old currency in circulation in human society. Each crystal is the energy extracted from dirty objects. The production process is more difficult than collecting minerals, so there is absolutely no counterfeiting.
Wen Bei nodded: "Two bowls will cost you twenty crystals in total."
After hearing the price, Ji Mingyuan stared at him for a long time before saying something meaningful: "You... are really kind."
Now, a bowl of strange and unpalatable meat in the base costs one hundred crystals. Frequent consumption of highly contaminated meat also carries the risk of increasing the pollution level. The richer and more powerful people are in the base, the purer the meat they eat, but it is still far inferior to those two bowls of dumpling soup.
Food like that bowl of dumpling soup, which tastes completely free of any polluted smell, is something that even the base leaders don't have the chance to enjoy now.
Wenbei:?
I never thought that there would be a day when I would be praised for my kindness.
Ji Mingyuan, with a heavy filter on his face, never thought that the young man in front of him was the one who once aspired to be a black-hearted boss. He just thought that the price was so low that Wen Bei must have considered everyone who came to the hotel.
In today's world where class divisions are obvious, this is a rare and valuable quality!
Ji Mingyuan took a deep breath and reached into his pocket to pay.
Suddenly stopped.
Wen Bei looked at him with a smile: "What's wrong?"
His dear first customer.
He seemed to have heard the sound of purses clinking.
With such powerful abilities, his wallet must be powerful too.
Unexpectedly, Ji Mingyuan showed an embarrassed expression: "I don't seem to have brought the crystal card."
The smile on Wen Bei's face disappeared instantly.
Ji Mingyuan: "I left the crystal card at home in the base."
He originally thought that he would definitely self-destruct and die on this trip, and he would rather die than become a filthy thing, so he didn't bring the crystal card with him at all.
Wenbei: “…”
His expression gradually froze.
The rabbit housekeeper's scarlet eyes fell on him, and the corners of his mouth were twisted into a strange grin: "Can't pay? If you can't pay, then stay forever."
The gem at the top of its staff was opened, revealing a sharp knife.
Customers who can't pay will be killed, of course.
The black eagle, sensing the rabbit's murderous intent, also raised its feathers, and the atmosphere became murderous.
Wen Bei suddenly said: "Then try another way to pay."
The atmosphere came to a sudden halt.
The rabbit butler suddenly stopped, and Ji Mingyuan also looked at him.
Wen Bei's eyes curved: "Young man, do you want to avoid taking thirty years of detours?"
Ji Mingyuan:?
Wen Bei took out a contract and flashed his signature friendly smile: "Sign a contract with the hotel and become an employee, and you can immediately enjoy employee benefits."
The hotel's contracts are all contractual, and the rules on the employment page are clearly written. As long as you are an employee of the hotel, you must not cause any harm or betray him as the boss, so he is not worried at all that Ji Mingyuan will do something bad to him in the future.
The rabbit housekeeper was stunned. He had never thought that he could recruit employees in this way.
Instead of summoning them from other worlds through the hotel's recruitment page, they directly recruited them themselves and used contracts to maintain this relationship.
Isn't this just taking advantage of the hotel's loopholes?!
How could anyone take advantage of the hotel's cheap prices?
Wen Bei only had the huge amount of crystals he saved in his mind.
Recruiting an employee from the employment page requires at least 10,000 crystals, which means he earns 10,000 crystals when rounded up!
Wen Bei smiled more sincerely: "Our employees are treated very well, with food and accommodation provided."
It means no salary is included.
They had only known each other for one day, but the young man trusted him so much.
Ji Mingyuan slowly clenched his fists, his originally hard heart finally moved: "You are really... too kind."
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