Chapter 14
After eating and drinking, it was time to close the market.
The setting of day and night in the game world is extremely strange. After nine o'clock, everyone can only feel the cold wind blowing, and the dark sky is pressing down on their heads, making it hard to breathe.
Everything seemed to be urging everyone to go home or return to the camp as soon as possible.
However, there are high walls outside Guangming Town, and there are combat players responsible for guarding it, so there is no need to worry about monster attacks, but there is always some uneasiness in my heart.
Chen Hui asked Zhang Li to take Qingqing home first. Qingqing ate a lot tonight and felt sleepy after eating. She nestled in her mother's arms and felt drowsy, but she knew she had to leave, so she still forced herself to say goodbye to Shu Mo.
Before leaving, Song Wei and Zhao Yu did not tell their families that they would be away for so long. They guessed that their families must be waiting anxiously, so they thanked them repeatedly and left in a hurry. Only Chen Hui, Shu Mo and Mo Bai were left, rushing towards the other end of Guangming Town.
The three of them walked for about ten minutes, and Chen Hui stopped in front of a house. "This is the hotel."
Shu Mo was absent-minded for some reason. He came to his senses only after he called him. He quickly thanked him, "Thank you for leading the way."
"Actually, Boss Shu, if you don't mind, you can stay at my house."
"It's really okay." Shu Mo said politely, "It's too late, you should go back."
Chen Hui stopped trying to persuade him.
He also knew that Shu Mo was not short of money. His house was too small, and maybe others would not look down on him. "Then you should go to bed early."
He said goodbye and his figure quickly blended into the night.
Shu Mo watched Chen Hui walk away, then turned around and took Mo Bai into the store.
The store is not big, and there is a listless girl sitting behind the counter.
Seeing the two people come in, she slowly stood up to greet them, "Good evening, both of you. Would you like to stay overnight?"
As Shu Mo entered the store, he looked at the decoration of the store, and his eyes slowly moved to the price list hanging on the wall.
She would ask Chen Hui to bring her to the hotel. Firstly, she was not close enough to him and felt embarrassed to stay at someone else's house. Secondly, she wanted to take the opportunity to investigate the business situation of her peers in Guangming Town.
Of course, in addition to these two points, there is another important reason...
She paused and said to the girl at the front desk, "Yes, do you have suites here?"
"Yes, the suite is quite big and can accommodate four people." The girl nodded, "For couples, we have king-size and twin-bed rooms here. You don't need to stay in a suite."
The suite is large and the price is soaring. It is not easy for everyone to accumulate points these days, and the girl is just giving a kind reminder.
Shu Mo smiled, "You should get me a suite, 100 a night, right?"
Seeing that Shu Mo didn't care about the money, she didn't say much and nodded, "Yes."
After Shu Mo paid the money, the girl sat down listlessly. After a while, he sighed softly.
Shu Mo glanced at her and saw that she looked sad. He remembered his kindness just now, so he asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"Oh, don't mention it." The girl waved her hand and said dejectedly, "Did you hear that there is a new stall at the market today?"
Well.
Shu Mo blinked, "I...seem to have heard of it."
The girl suddenly became excited.
"Several customers who came today told me! They said that the stall actually sells oden! Can you imagine? Oden! Hot!" She looked like she wanted to pounce on Shu Mo and grab his shoulders and shake him back and forth, but she restrained herself because of her status, her eyes wide open, "It's hot!!"
"But I have to be on duty all day today and I have no time to buy it. I'm so pissed!"
The more she thought about it, the more she regretted it. She slammed the table and said, "Damn it! I should have skipped work if I had known!"
“…That’s oden!”
The girl wailed in despair.
Shu Mo: “…”
She suppressed her laughter and asked, "How long will you be on duty?"
"Tomorrow morning at six. What's going on?"
"Oh, nothing." Shu Mo nodded, "I just heard that the boss will be selling for two hours at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. If you go and queue up as soon as you get off work, you should be able to catch breakfast."
The girl at the front desk's eyes lit up immediately. "Really? That's great! Thank you for telling me!"
"It's okay, you're welcome."
Shu Mo waved calmly and went upstairs.
Her room is 302, on the third floor.
Shu Mo clutched the key and climbed up the steep stairs. He observed the decoration and layout of the hotel along the way and felt depressed.
There is a severe lack of light, with large dark corners lacking illumination, and the stairs and corridors are extremely narrow and cramped.
Although the boss had tried hard to hire someone to paint brightly colored murals for decoration, in the dim light, even the brightest colors looked lifeless.
Shu Mo walked to the third floor, opened the door, and found, as expected, that even the most expensive suite only looked to be about 30 square meters.
It would be fine if it was just a hotel, but if even the residents' homes were like this...
Shu Mo frowned, suddenly remembering the topic Zhao Yu mentioned casually during dinner.
——She said that she had lived in the same room with her brothers and sisters since she was a child, while her parents slept in the living room.
Shu Mo didn't take it seriously at the time, thinking that it was just a special situation in Zhao Yu's family. But thinking about it now, Chen Hui and Song Wei's expressions were very calm at the time, and they did not show any pity or desire to comfort her.
Could it be because the people in this world generally live in poor conditions?
Shu Mo walked to the window, her eyes gradually adjusted to the dim light, and she could see the night view of Guangming Town clearly.
There are not many tall buildings in the town. Most of them are low-rise houses with independent entrances and are not very large in size. Looking out from the third floor where she was, she could already see the snow-covered roofs of most houses.
Many of the windows were dark, and some let in extremely dim light, which was not as bright as the moonlight reflected on the falling snow.
Shu Mo felt a chill in his heart when he saw this.
Without fire, can't we even provide sufficient lighting?
It's cold, dark, and full of danger.
No wonder this game is named "Apocalypse".
The system, which was silent most of the time, suddenly appeared and spoke silently in her mind.
[These houses are redeemed by players in the game mall. As for the public facilities such as the walls and markets surrounding the town, they were built with taxes paid regularly by residents. The city wall has a fixed size, and in order to accommodate more people within the wall, the managers restricted the size of each house. 】
As usual, after a rigorous science lesson, it disappeared again.
Shu Mo didn't care about the system's coming and going and closed the window.
The temperature in the room was a little warmer than outside, but not much better. Fortunately, Shu Mo was wearing winter clothes, which was enough to withstand such cold.
She exchanged this winter clothing from the player mall using points she earned from materials dropped by monsters she killed before.
The mall purchases materials at a price lower than the market price, but sells them at a price higher than the market price. Therefore, unless conditions do not permit, ordinary players will try their best to trade with other players at the town market.
Like Shu Mo, it is pure resentment.
But Shu Mo had no choice, she really couldn't afford to buy winter clothes in the morning.
——She only discovered this morning that materials could be exchanged for points.
Unfortunately, the points in the business account and her personal account can only be transferred from the former to the latter, and cannot flow in the opposite direction.
Therefore, those monster materials can only guarantee Shu Mo's living needs, but cannot help her build a hotel.
After repeated research, Shu Mo had no choice but to accept this.
Dog system.
The hotel rooms provide running water, which can be used to wash clothes and wipe the body, but it is all cold.
Although Shu Mo has been transformed into a player's physique and is not easily sick due to the cold, he does not want to torture himself like this.
She was wearing her winter clothes and lay down with a heavy heart. Just as she was thinking about spending the night like this, she suddenly realized that she seemed to have forgotten something.
Shu Mo stood up suddenly and met Mo Bai's helpless gaze.
Because Shu Mo didn't give any instructions, it was not convenient for him to go in, so he could only stand at the door obediently. The whole dragon revealed a kind of confusion and at a loss.
Shu Mo: “…”
Shu Mo laughed dryly: "Sorry, I was just thinking about something and accidentally forgot about you."
Mo Bai: “…”
He hesitated, "I have something to tell you. On the way here just now..."
Shu Mo's brows relaxed and he interrupted him softly, "I think we are talking about the same thing."
*
Ge Qiang stood in the shadow of the corner, observing the third floor of the hotel not far away calmly.
About an hour had passed since the light of the glowing crystal disappeared. The window was completely dark, and the woman should have fallen asleep long ago.
A fierce light flashed in his eyes, and his whole aura suddenly became sharp, like a blade drawn from its sheath.
The assassin player who was chased away by Mo Bai before he could take any action during the day was Ge Qiang's younger brother Ge Yan.
Both brothers are assassins, but Ge Qiang's level is higher.
Even if we look at the entire Guangming Town, his strength can be ranked in the top ten.
The assassin profession is not good at head-on duels, but has stealth and back attack bonuses, so the combat style of most assassin players is quite vicious.
It’s just that other T players are only cruel towards monsters, but the Ge Qiang brothers are inherently cruel.
Relying on their great strength, the two of them behaved in an extremely overbearing and brutal manner on a daily basis, and even robbed and killed ordinary players outside the town to steal precious materials.
It's not that no one has thought about dealing with them, but firstly, most people are not strong enough, and secondly, assassins are best at escaping and assassinating. If you fail and they escape, you may be retaliated against one day.
Not many people want to go through this kind of trouble.
The Ge Qiang brothers also knew that others were worried about them, so they acted even more arrogantly and became notorious throughout Guangming Town.
Today, Ge Yan failed to rob, so he turned around and went back to look for his brother.
Ge Qiang was called to the market with half belief and half doubt. When he saw Shu Mo setting up a stall, he was shocked by the steaming oden and candied haws, and greed immediately arose in his heart. So he sent Ge Yan back home and began to wait patiently, and later followed Shu Mo to the hotel.
When the assassin reaches his level, he can already hide his whereabouts perfectly from players and most monsters. Ge Qiang is very confident that he has not been discovered.
"You just snatched a few strings of candied haws and ran away. That's all you can do."
Ge Qiang thought of his brother dancing and describing it to him, and cursed inwardly.
From the moment he met Shu Mo, he had a plan in mind.
Even if a few strings of candied haws are sold at a sky-high price, it is just a one-time transaction. And since the shop owner dared to sell at such a low price, it meant that she definitely had more goods than what she offered.
Ge Qiang planned to take advantage of the cover of night to break into the shop owner's house, first detain him, ask him about the origin of the food, and then kill him and rob him.
In this way, the entire backpack will be his...
Ge Qiang showed a greedy look.
As for the young guard who always accompanies the shop owner, he does look very strong, but because of this, it proves that the shop owner himself is weak. Besides, that person wouldn't stay by the owner's side even at night.
If the problem really didn't work, he would just take action before any noise was made, assassinate the store owner first, take the things and run away immediately.
Ge Qiang quietly walked out of the shadow and came to the window where Shu Mo had just appeared.
After looking around and making sure that there was no one around, Ge Qiang climbed up the wall, nimbly climbed to the third floor, pushed open the window, and then quickly withdrew his hand.
The moonlight was blocked out at some point, and everything in the house was shrouded in darkness, making it difficult to see clearly.
Ge Qiang waited patiently for a few seconds.
There was silence in the room, and the sound of the window opening did not evoke any response.
He was sure that the landlady was fast asleep.
Ge Qiang sneered silently, and quickly jumped into the house through the open window. At the same time, he flipped his right hand, and a dagger flashing with cold light appeared out of thin air.
He landed silently, but at this moment a subtle uneasiness suddenly arose in his heart.
This room...
Is it too quiet?
Even the even breathing sounds of people sleeping soundly could not be heard...
Realizing that something was wrong, Ge Qiang suddenly looked up and was caught off guard by a pair of dark golden eyes.
That eye was as big as a human head, and it glowed faintly in the darkness.
Ge Qiang's scalp went numb and all the blood in his body rushed to his head.
He was horrified, "What—"
The heavy clouds in the sky slowly drifted away, and the bright moonlight poured into the house, illuminating the dark scales inch by inch.
Ge Qiang's scream was stuck in his throat, and his expression was distorted with extreme fear.
Dragon clan.
That woman actually hid a legendary creature in a hotel room in town.
That madman! !
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