Chapter 127
In fact, Shu Mo had obtained the mud therapy balls as early as when he established the villa. It was in the hot spring balls set rewarded by the system at that time.
However, pools such as the mud bath, salt bath and fish therapy pool are too unique in style, and some of them require separate spaces. So after weighing the pros and cons, she still did not choose to put them together with the other hot spring pools in the villa.
Now that the outdoor mixed bathing area has been built, she finally has the space to open up several independent areas specifically for these "special hot springs."
In addition to these three most representative hot springs, the mixed bathing area also has designs such as bubble massage pools, thermal therapy stone beds, waterfall impact pools, etc. that are different from those of other hotels, fully demonstrating its purpose of combining relaxation and entertainment.
After some selection, the three of them finally decided to start from the mud therapy pool which was closer.
Following the instructions and walking along the winding path for a while, they came to an open area surrounded by dense forests.
There are mud pools scattered around, some open to the sky, some covered by small pavilions. Each pool is of different sizes and shapes, and many of them are already occupied.
Bao Yunya looked around and chose a small family pool that could accommodate three or five people.
Even before the game, she had never experienced a mud bath. Looking at the scene in front of her now, she just felt it was novel and interesting.
This mud therapy pool was different from what she had imagined. It was not the yellowish earth color of ordinary mud made by adding water, but a lime color like black sesame paste. It had a delicate and smooth texture, not too thin but not too thick, and showed a smooth texture under the sun.
Bao Yunya originally felt that she needed to prepare herself mentally before going down to take a bath, but now that she saw the real thing, she felt that it was not that exaggerated.
She tried dipping her hand in.
The mud was hot and bubbles were bubbling out from the "spring".
Xu Yao followed suit, curiously trying to grab a handful from the pool, then raised her hand. The slippery mud quickly slipped through my fingers, leaving only a layer on my skin that felt amazing when the wind blew.
Xu Jiancheng was keen on reading all the signs and instructions. He had already bent down to look at the wooden board next to him. "It says that the pools here are all made of volcanic mud, and they will be disinfected after each guest leaves. You can enjoy them without worry."
After listening to this, Bao Yunya praised the hotel's attention to hygiene issues.
"Shall we go down then?" You can't understand anything just by looking at it.
This mud bath looks magical, and it is even more magical to experience it yourself. When Bao Yunya stepped in, she found that the pool was quite deep. She carefully held the edge of the pool at first and told Xu Yao to hold on tight so as not to accidentally fall into it like a swamp in the wild.
As a result, Xu Yao was fearless and dove in directly. Then she said, "Huh?" and said, "Mom, don't hold on. It won't sink."
Bao Yunya also let go of her hands at this time. She was surprised to find that it did not sink as she had imagined. Instead, there was a warm feeling of support that made her float upwards unconsciously. She needed to hold her breath to immerse her body in it little by little.
"I didn't expect the mud bath to be like this. It's an eye-opener." Xu Jiancheng said in surprise.
The three of them helped each other and smeared the mud from the pool on their bodies, even their cheeks and necks. As they were smearing, Bao Yunya suddenly realized the source of this familiar feeling.
Isn’t this the mud film from the past?
There is no place to buy skin care products in the game. Thinking of this, she hurriedly applied another thick layer on her face: Don't waste this rare opportunity.
Xu Jiancheng on the side was very rough. He just rubbed it twice casually, then leaned back, leaned his neck against the edge of the pool, and closed his eyes peacefully.
The mud is hot and has a certain weight, which is completely different from the experience of soaking in a hot spring. After getting used to it, it is very comfortable to lie there.
It’s a pity that the signboard said it was not recommended to soak here for a long time, otherwise Xu Jiancheng felt that he could even take a nap here.
As for Xu Yao, she was addicted to the touch of the mud. She waved her arms in the pool, feeling the difference in resistance between mud and water at different densities. Then she grabbed a handful and tentatively threw it aside.
Bao Yunya wanted to persuade her not to make too much noise, but after glancing around, she gave up the idea silently.
Because fundamentally! No one! Can resist the temptation to play in the mud!
The town is full of smooth roads built by the lords. Since there is little vegetation, there is naturally no chance to come into contact with the soil. Bao Yunya suddenly discovered that the things that seemed commonplace to them when they were young were the first time that children growing up in the apocalypse felt happiness.
There were many children nearby who behaved in the same way as Xu Yao, and there were even a few adults throwing mud at each other. Xu Yao blended in among them and was not noticeable at all.
In comparison, she is even quite quiet.
The child in the next pool splashed around in the pool twice, his movements like a baby elephant rolling happily in the mud. In the end, he even dipped his head in it. When he raised it up, he looked like a little clay figure. He grinned, with only white teeth left. His mother grabbed him and flicked his head in frustration. He finally calmed down with a howl.
Because this place is originally defined as an entertainment area, most people come here with their family and friends, and even if some people make noise, everyone is very tolerant.
In the doomsday, we are used to seeing life and death, but the playful scene before our eyes breaks the dullness and makes people draw a bit of vitality from it. Most people watch with a smile on their faces.
Bao Yunya then let Xu Yao go.
Looking around, the customers around can be divided into several distinct types - some are like Xu Jiancheng, who close their eyes to relax, some are like Bao Yunya, who focus on the beauty effects, and some are like Xu Yao, who simply enjoy the novelty of the mud bath.
Customers of all ages and preferences can find their own fun in it and enjoy it with close people. Perhaps this is the purpose of the boss opening a mixed bathing area?
Bao Yunya thought to herself.
After staying in the mud therapy pool for fifteen minutes, she gradually felt her body getting a little stuffy. Remembering the instructions on the signboard, Bao Yunya stood up decisively and called Xu Yao.
Xu Yao was a little reluctant when she left, but when she thought that this was only the first pool they had soaked in since coming here, she suddenly became happy again.
I kept asking my parents, "Where are we going next?"
She was really looking forward to this mixed bathing area.
"Don't be anxious, just charge first." Xu Jiancheng said.
It is clearly written on the board that you must rinse your whole body after the mud bath, otherwise if you carry the mud into the next pool, the hot spring water will be contaminated.
Besides, after the mud therapy, my whole body was covered with mud and my swimsuit became much heavier than usual. It would be really uncomfortable if I didn’t rinse off quickly.
Fortunately, there is an independent small shower area next to the pool. Considering that mud may have gotten into the swimsuits, Shu Mo also thoughtfully made separate areas for men and women to avoid embarrassment and facilitate washing.
Bao Yunya had only been in there for two minutes when she began to praise her boss for his attentiveness.
After washing for more than ten minutes in their swimsuits, they finally washed their bodies and wrapped themselves in bath towels.
Xu Yao touched her arm and felt slippery, as if all the deep dirt had been washed away by the mud just now. Her skin was as delicate as that of a baby's and felt super good.
"I feel like a hard-boiled egg."
When she came out, Bao Yunya just heard Xu Jiancheng muttering. He kept touching his face with his hands, and people passing by gave him strange looks.
Bao Yunya: “…”
She turned her head away, feeling it was too much to watch.
The three left the mud therapy area and continued to look for the next hot spring pool.
The fish therapy pool is a small sitting bath pavilion similar to the foot bath area, except that there is no table in the middle. The water in the pool is very shallow, almost just covering the middle of the calf. Small fish swam happily in the light brown hot spring water, nibbling at the skin scraps on the customers’ feet and legs.
Those little fish were only as long as two knuckles of the little finger, thin and flexible, and there was no pain or itchiness when they touched the skin, only a gentle touch.
A player nearby was watching the fun and reached out to catch some fish, but the fish that had originally gathered together immediately twisted their bodies to avoid him, so he managed to catch nothing.
"Hey, I don't believe it!"
He was stunned for a moment, then took out a swimming cap from his backpack in disbelief.
Stretching out his swimming cap, he seized the opportunity and finally caught two or three small fish that didn't have time to escape along with a full cap of hot spring water, and pulled them up in a jerk.
But at the moment the hat came out of the water, the water inside, along with the fish, somehow slid out and fell back into the pond intact.
Player: “???”
Little did he know that the fish in this fish therapy pool were different from the artificially raised fish in the lake. They were part of the entire facility and could not be separated at all.
Trying to take the little fish away is like trying to remove one of the wooden pillars supporting the foot bath pavilion and take it away. Of course it is impossible.
The player looked at his swimming cap in confusion, unable to figure out what was going on.
He failed to cause any trouble and wasted his time, and was laughed at by the people around him. After a while, he felt embarrassed and got up and left in a hurry.
After the fish therapy, the family of three went for a salt bath.
As the name suggests, salt bath is to bury the whole body in rosy rose coarse salt. The heat rises up, just like taking a sauna, and you will sweat all over in a short time. Then go to the shower area to wash off the sweat and feel refreshed.
On the way, they also passed the thermal therapy stone slab area.
The thermal therapy area is not a hot spring pool, but rather a series of hot marble slabs set up in a small pavilion with pillows on top. Simply place a bath towel underneath and you can lie on it.
It is said that it can help absorb trace elements in the stone slabs that are beneficial to the human body, but Bao Yunya is a little skeptical about this statement.
But although she said she didn't believe it, her actions were very honest.
Half a minute later, the family of three lay neatly on it.
"I feel like a piece of barbecue." Xu Jiancheng complained in a low voice.
Bao Yunya closed her eyes and rested her chin on her arms. She said frankly, "In that case, the salt bath just now was to marinate the meat, and then put it on the grill. This process is quite reasonable."
After saying that, she didn't forget to turn herself over.
Xu Jiancheng: “…”
He opened his eyes and looked at the row of players lying peacefully next to him, and suddenly felt a little bit unable to bear to look at it.
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Besides, the outdoor layout of the mixed bathing area was inspired by Chinese gardens, giving a feeling of changing scenery as you move. The three of them strolled and bathed along the way, enjoying the scenery at the same time, and unknowingly walked from the bottom floor to the top.
When they came to their senses, they were standing at the top of the mixed bathing area, in front of the large infinity pool, and behind them was the building where the dining area and swimming pool were located.
The morning passed in a flash. Bathing in the hot springs was already very physically demanding. Now everyone was hungry. Xu Jiancheng touched his stomach and heard the rumbling of his stomach. He suggested, "Why don't we eat something and go swimming directly? We can continue bathing on the way back, so we can enjoy the whole experience again."
As he said this, he suddenly felt that perhaps this was how the boss arranged it.
A small path for free exploration in the woods, and a main road that goes straight up and down the rockery where the hot springs are concentrated. Taking different routes back and forth allows you to enjoy all the hot springs without having to go back.
The mother and daughter had no objections, and the three of them entered the building behind them.
The restaurant was very lively. Everywhere you looked, everyone was walking around in swimsuits and bath towels. Xu Yao thought it was a novel way to eat and even ordered a few more dishes.
When they were hungry, everything tasted delicious. They quickly cleaned up the food on their plates and slumped in their chairs to digest the food for a while. When they were not so full anymore, they went up the stairs to the hot spring swimming pool area on the second floor.
As soon as she got on, Xu Yao's eyes widened, "Wow!!"
Her voice echoed particularly loudly in the enclosed space.
Because the swimming pool is the only facility on the second floor, with little obstruction, the visual area is particularly large. In addition to the familiar sulfur smell of the hot spring, there was also the smell of disinfectant water from the swimming pool that Xu Yao had never smelled before.
The adult swimming pool is the largest, occupying about three-quarters of the area. The temperature is lower than that of the children's pool. The water in the children's pool is brown, with swimming rings of various colors and shapes crowded in it. Children are happily splashing around in the swimming rings, greeting friends they just met, while parents are sitting in groups of three or four by the pool chatting.
The number of newborns dropped sharply after the doomsday. Children today have few friends, and there are no places like schools to gather children of the same age together. The "children's swimming pool" in this hot spring is an extremely rare public amusement facility exclusively for children.
It was the first time for many people to meet so many children of the same age as themselves. After a brief period of unfamiliarity, they quickly became friends.
There were long queues under several slides, all of them were short and plump little kids holding swimming rings.
Most of them have played the game countless times, but they are still standing in the line with great anticipation, waiting for those few seconds of the drop after several minutes of waiting in line.
There is a constant flow of hot spring water on the water slide, which has less resistance than ordinary slides. Sitting on it, you can slide all the way to the end smoothly, and finally fall into the pool with a splash, creating a big splash of water.
Bao Yunya watched helplessly as a little girl of four or five years old slid down, then swam to the shore with her short arms and legs, her whole body still wet. She hurried to the end of the team, leaving a trail of footprints behind her with her wet feet.
They repeat this process over and over again.
Just a slide is enough to make these kids who grew up in the doomsday extremely happy.
——I feel like I won’t feel tired even if I play for a whole day!
Xu Yao looked at him with envy, "I want to play too."
But the slide seemed a little too small for her, and there were no children her age in the queue.
They are all smaller, little kids.
Thirteen-year-old Xu Yao already had a little adolescent self-esteem, and she was embarrassed to play on the same rides as such a young child.
"It would be nice if there was a bigger slide." She looked at it for a long time, but finally gave up and sighed sadly.
Xu Jiancheng stood aside and suddenly remembered the map of the entertainment area he had seen before. "I remember there was an area marked out on the map, saying it was to be developed. It was said that a hot spring water park would be built in the future."
Since the water park has been bought, it will be built sooner or later, so Shu Mo simply released the news first to mobilize the enthusiasm of the players.
Sure enough, after the map was updated, many people came to ask her when the water park would open. It can be considered as early advertising.
"What is a water park?" Xu Yao looked confused.
"It's an amusement park. There are slides that are many times bigger than this, a 'roller coaster' propelled by water, and maybe an artificial wave pool... Yaoyao, you haven't seen the ocean yet, right?"
Xu Jiancheng waved his arms and made a big slide shape.
Xu Yao's eyes lit up when she heard this. "When will this water park open?"
She looked eagerly at Xu Jiancheng and then at Bao Yunya.
"I don't know yet." Xu Jiancheng said regretfully.
Unable to bear seeing his daughter's disappointed expression, he quickly added: "But mom and dad promise that when the water park opens, we will bring you here as soon as possible."
I don't know how many parents who saw the map made similar promises.
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[I don’t know when the water park will open…]
[I’m so looking forward to it!] 】
[The grilled sausage smells so good, the hot pot smells so good, the roasted chestnuts smell so good, the oden smells so good, I’m crazy about it]
In the cabin, Shu Mo sat in the living room with his arms folded, looking at the two-headed little man walking around on the three-dimensional map.
Pink bubbles slowly rose above the heads of several of the little men.
She poked it, and the comments rang in her ears.
The voice is blurred, like a processed electronic sound, and paired with the pixelated little man with a round head and square body, it is inexplicably cute.
A bubble was popped and she heard Xu Jiancheng's "voice".
"Another one who hopes the water park will open sooner." Shu Mo seemed to be thinking about something.
[Record positive review +1]
As the pink bubble burst, a faint line of white text popped out from the void above the map.
This is the map function that Shu Mo has just unlocked. It can collect the opinions of customers during the hot spring activities, and the system will automatically determine whether they are positive or negative reviews.
Positive reviews will appear as pink bubbles, while negative reviews are said to be blue.
The function had been turned on for most of the day, but Shu Mo had not seen any blue bubbles. According to the system, blue bubbles are not necessarily all malicious "bad reviews", they may also be confusion caused by tourists during consumption, or some deficiencies that need to be resolved.
After helping to solve these problems, the negative review will turn into a positive one.
【Total number of reviews collected: 24】
【Currently has 24 positive reviews】
[Currently has negative reviews: 0]
[Current favorable rating: 100%]
The number of positive reviews increased by one, and the evaluation system was also updated accordingly.
Shu Mo looked at the golden words "100%" below and felt a sense of happiness as if his obsessive-compulsive disorder had been satisfied.
It seems that her store is quite successful!
Although there are still all positive reviews and no problems need to be solved, Shu Mo does not feel bored.
——Just popping bubbles and listening to the little people’s voices here is fun enough.
Not only customers, there are also some little people wearing pink uniforms and little people with a white cash register icon on their heads on the map. They are hotel staff and merchants, and they also have voices to collect.
There are some things that employees may have wanted to mention for a long time, but are too embarrassed to tell their boss directly, or don’t know how to start. Shu Mo can also use this method to understand.
While collecting reviews, she can also think about the future upgrade direction of the hot springs and make targeted improvements... She deeply feels that this function was unlocked at the right time.
Not only that, when the evaluation system was unlocked, the task panel was also refreshed after a long absence.
[Triggered: Welfare mission "The best hot spring street in the world"! 】
[Task Description: As the hot springs are upgraded, you have built various facilities and welcomed all kinds of customers. They must have many "unspeakable" thoughts about the hot springs, and thoughts they want to talk about... Listen to their voices, help them solve their troubles, and make your hot spring street a business facility that is praised by everyone and the best in the world! 】
[Task requirements: Collect at least 10,000 reviews (24/10,000); ensure that the favorable review rate is no less than 99.99% (completed)]
[Task Rewards:]
Shu Mo stared at the task name that sounded very childish before reading it again and again before closing it.
It was not difficult to collect ten thousand of them. Anyway, this evaluation system was roughly equivalent to a placement game. She could observe that each bubble seemed to last for about an hour. She only needed to go online every hour to collect a wave.
After a while, you will find that there are a bunch of small bubbles floating above the sandbox map. When you pop them one by one, you can get a wonderful pleasure from the crackling sound.
Compared to collecting, it is more difficult to maintain the positive review rate.
Shu Mo had a headache: this seemed to be just a task, but in fact it was equivalent to giving her a bunch of small side quests.
If there are too many negative reviews to be resolved, I'm afraid it will be so difficult to complete them in the later stage, right?
She could only pray silently that the reasons for the negative reviews were not too outrageous.
Fortunately, at least for now, the user satisfaction of hot springs is still quite high.
The advertising of this water park is also very effective. Among the 24 reviews, four or five are looking forward to the opening of the water park and are satisfied with the speed of the hot spring construction.
When she popped these bubbles, it was as if a group of compliments were ringing in her ears, and because they were the guests' true voices, they were all very sincere and without any pretense.
After listening for a long time, Shu Mo is now full of confidence.
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