Chapter 74 Art Town (4) Peeping
To say that they are somewhat similar is a modest statement. If we ignore the fact that the texture of the wax figure is different from human skin and the difference in facial expressions, this group of waiters who serve food with their brows lowered and their eyes pleasing to the eye look exactly like that group of people.
However, Tan Yue quickly found a suitable excuse for Guan Shan. Generally, wax museums would collect specific groups of people to make wax figures, such as wax figures of various celebrities.
These waiters are all residents of the art town. As the mayor of the art town, Guan Shan collects the townspeople into the museum, which sounds normal.
These covered dishes are placed on a rotating track, and the waiter in charge of delivering the dishes opens the plates one by one.
Tan Yue breathed a sigh of relief. These foods all looked normal: steamed fish, braised pork, salt and pepper spareribs, braised lamb...
There are more than a dozen main dishes alone, and together with vegetables and soups, there are more than twenty dishes in total. The portion of each dish is quite large, which looks quite conscientious.
There is a label next to each plate, saying that the dish comes from a certain restaurant in the art town and the chef who cooked the dish is called someone.
In any case, seeing such a full table of dishes, Tan Yue was in a good mood. His good mood did not only come from the fact that he could fill his stomach immediately, but more from the fact that he could see Guan Shan's attention to him through these dishes.
Because of the Gothic style of the art town, he originally thought that the dishes served would be foreign dishes, such as chicken pizza, French fries, grilled steak, cheese-baked snails, etc., but he didn't expect that they were all dishes from his own country, each one was rich in oil and sauce, which made him particularly hungry just by looking at them.
I'm the type who goes to a platform to post photos and asks, "I'm going to my boyfriend's house for dinner for the first time. Does this count as serious?" and then gets replies that say "I'm jealous."
Tan Yue's stomach growled again, and Guan Shan said, "Try it and see if the cooking skills of our Art Town's chefs are up to your liking."
Tan Yue obediently took a bite with chopsticks and immediately raised his thumb: "These dishes are delicious, thank you very much for your hospitality."
After he said this, he felt someone gently kick his calf. The young man said with a hint of anger: "What's our relationship? There's no need to be so polite."
It is outsiders who need to say thank you from time to time, but isn't it natural for Him to feed His human partner?
While eating, Tan Yue would occasionally turn his head to look outside.
The two of them were now sitting in the living room of the castle. The castle was very tall. Tan Yue estimated that it was about thirty meters from the ground to the spire of the ceiling.
Almost all the exhibition halls that house the collections are located on the first floor, which is more than ten meters high.
The second floor has various rooms, restaurants and conference rooms, and the third floor is a loft that is particularly good for business, integrated with the spire and bell tower seen from the outside.
The two people are now in a very luxurious restaurant. There is a rectangular table about 60 centimeters wide placed next to the window. Tan Yue is sitting opposite Guan Shan. If he stretches out his hand, he can easily touch the other's shoulder.
There were only two chairs at the long table, and they were placed face to face, about 40 centimeters away from the window.
A rotating device similar to that of a revolving sushi machine is installed on the long wooden table, which allows people to easily select their favorite dishes. There is a tea device on the other side, which makes it convenient to drink tea or coffee.
When Tan Yue turned his head to the left, he could see the view outside the window and feel the cool breeze blowing in from the window.
After eating a lot of food, when his rumbling stomach stopped, Tan Yue started to talk about something else: "Ashan, do you live alone in such a big house? No one else."
Guan Shan picked up the dishes that he thought Tan Yue would like and put them on his plate. Soon, a pile of side dishes was piled up on the wide white porcelain plate.
As He piled them up, He asked, "Who are you talking about?"
"For example, the housekeeper, gardener, cleaning lady, etc.? Don't they usually live here?"
A big house has its advantages, but if it is too big, it will feel empty for one person, and cleaning must also be done properly.
He originally thought that the place where Guan Shan lived was the kind of place where as soon as one entered, many servants would bow their heads and say, "Mayor, you're back!"
But in fact, the two of them walked around for more than four hours, and apart from him and Guan Shan, there was no one else, not even this little animal.
No, let alone small animals, even the insects and ants don’t make noises or bite people. The environment is beautiful, but it’s a little too quiet.
Guan Shan said: "There is no one else in this family except you."
God does not lie. Those wax figures and paper cutouts are not people. They are just tools.
And it is not them who are weird. It is the townspeople living outside who are weird. They are just empty shells whose souls have been extracted by Him and are driven by weird power.
Guan Shan asked casually: "Do you need a housekeeper? If you want, I can arrange one for you."
Of course, the new butler must also be a soulless puppet tool. He cannot tolerate the weird and conscious He Tan getting closer, even if it is completely controllable.
Tan Yue shook his head: "I just think that the castle is so big and kept so clean, it will require a lot of people to work."
Guanshan is the mayor, he can't do everything himself.
"No one is needed." Guan Shan clapped his hands and motioned Tan Yue to turn his head. "Look out the window."
In the lawn, a probe popped out from under each gardening device, which then began to spray water automatically. The fine water droplets created small rainbows under the sunlight.
As for the hygiene issue, Tan Yue saw a number of decent sweeping robots appearing on the gravel path, diligently cleaning according to a pre-planned route.
There are many such sweeping robots in the castle. They are usually hidden in various inconspicuous corners and in the gaps under cabinets, and come out to work at regular times and locations.
Although they are clumsy and can’t go up and down the stairs, there are enough of them and they can clean the entire room smoothly.
Guan Shan explained: "I don't like other people entering my home, so I live here alone. As for cleaning, technology is very advanced now, isn't it?"
"So it's high technology." Tan Yue seemed very surprised, "I thought it was magic."
Guan Shan asked back, "Why do you think so?"
Tan Yue said: "Because you make me feel like a wizard living alone in a fairy tale, dangerous, mysterious and charming."
People who live in such a unique town wouldn’t be surprised if they suddenly flew on a broomstick the next second.
The young man with grey eyes smiled and said, "I thought you would say it was dark, lonely and scary."
Even Guan Shan himself couldn't use these words to describe him. Tan Yue immediately retorted, "How could that be? There's nothing wrong with liking to be alone and quiet. Besides, if you're scary, then I won't be able to show myself to others."
"You are the only one who thinks of me this way." While the two were talking, Guan Shan finished the plate in his hand and pushed it in front of Tan Yue.
"Try these, I think you might like them."
As soon as Tan Yue lowered his head, his first reaction was to take out his mobile phone to take a picture.
He also complained that the camera on his phone wasn’t good enough to capture an ideal shot: “Wait a minute, I’ll go get a camera.”
I don’t know what Guanshan did, but the dishes piled on the table formed a very beautiful volcano, and it was a lava snow mountain.
The main body of the mountain is the reddish-brown braised pork, the salt-and-pepper lamb chops in the middle act as the skeleton of the building, the lava is the flowing soup, and the snow is the green onion on top of the steamed fish...
All in all, it is a very creative work of art.
After taking the photo, he said reluctantly: "You made it so beautiful, I almost don't want to eat it, but..."
Tan Yue changed the subject: "But these dishes will go bad soon if they are not eaten, so I decided to put them into my stomach!" The young man patted his flat belly. Even with so much food in his stomach, there was no sign of it bulging at all.
He added with a smile: "I will never forget such a day. Someone is willing to take so much trouble to coax me. But I am easy to feed. I don't need to arrange the dishes into works of art to eat them."
After he finished speaking, he also picked up some dishes and put them into Guanshan's bowl: "I think these dishes are delicious, you can try them too."
Tan Yue didn't have the ability to make such a volcano, but he was able to arrange the leftover bones of a dish into a complete skeleton. After eating, he showed off his skills to Guan Shan, proving that he had more than just a pretty face, and his soul could also resonate with Guan Shan.
After all, this is an art town, and he is an art student, so he has to show his skills to some extent.
They are in a harmonious and warm atmosphere here, but other tourists in the art town do not have such treatment.
After the tourists left the car, the tour guide they brought with them mysteriously disappeared. Because there were people on the car who had entered the other world, and because of some of the official reports, no one dared to do anything rash.
Dozens of people got off the bus. The leader counted them and found that there were 67 people in total.
With so many people, everyone has so many thoughts, and their IQs and cognitions are different, so they are not easy to control.
But after wandering around the town like a headless fly, almost everyone was hungry. If people don't eat enough, they will have no strength, especially some people who suffer from hypoglycemia. Not to mention waiting until they break the rules and kill themselves, they might just pass out. They starved themselves to death first.
In fact, some people brought some snacks with them, but they didn't dare to take them out and eat them at this moment. There were so many people and limited food, and there was no game notification. Who knew how long they would have to stay here before they could go out.
If they don’t share it, they will never share it with others!
Fortunately, the purpose of bringing them here to this art town doesn’t seem to be to starve them to death.
Some people bravely pushed open the unlocked shop doors. Although they couldn't break into residents' homes, tourists could always enter shop doors.
"We can actually work in the store in exchange for food!" This group of tourists were very excited. Some of them even began to imagine themselves as the protagonists of the world, and soon gained magical powers and reached the peak of their lives.
"This is a pottery shop. I used to do pottery. I want to apply for a job as a clerk!"
Everyone quickly gathered information and discovered that the art town had its own grand festival. In order to welcome the upcoming festival, the town was short of staff, so it was willing to hire outsiders like them to create artworks for the festival.
"We only need four clerks here, you can look somewhere else."
The number of staff in each store is limited and it is first come, first served. Some people do not consider their own circumstances and rush to grab the spots for fear that there will be no vacancies.
But they will soon regret it, because shop assistants need to complete their work. If they don't complete their work well, they will not only lose food but also be punished.
Some people have experience and talent, and they soon have delicious employee meals. Some people are in dire straits, and after failing more than a certain number of times, they are thrown into the incinerator and made into new works of art.
Of course, not all shops are so brutal. If they are lucky enough to come across a shop that is easy to talk to, they will just be beaten up and then blacklisted and kicked out by the shop.
These people were different from Tan Yue. After all, they were tourists who had strayed in, and they were poor tourists at that, while Tan Yue was an invited guest.
After the meal, Tan Yue's work had made great progress. He vowed: "I will definitely work hard to help you prepare for the activities of the Art Town and take pictures of everyone at the festival."
He spent the afternoon looking over the customs of the town, taking copious notes, and sketching out many new designs.
When the town turned from day to night, as expected, Tan Yue accepted Guan Shan's invitation and stayed in the castle to rest. His room was also very large and was right next to Guan Shan's.
Although he didn't sweat much, Tan Yue had walked to so many places and drove for a long time, so his body was covered with a lot of odors and dust, so he definitely needed to take a shower.
But after taking off his clothes, he suddenly had an illusion that something was peeping at him in the bathroom.
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