Chapter 35
At eleven o'clock, Shu Mo finished her business for the day and returned to her newly renovated dormitory, where she took a nice shower in the shower room of her single room.
Toiletries were bought from the business store. It was the same as the one in the guest rooms, except that it had the scent that Shu Mo liked.
While drying her hair, she stared at the facial cleanser in front of her and exclaimed "Ah".
Speaking of which, it seems that I forgot to prepare toiletries in the bathroom over there...
Shu Mo glanced at the time, quickly changed into a thick pair of pajamas, and ran to the next door to knock on the door.
Knock knock.
After knocking twice, the door opened and Mo Bai poked his head out from the crack.
The young man's slender body blocked Shu Mo's view, and he could not see the scene inside the door. He only felt that the faint firelight coming from behind him seemed brighter than that in his own room.
She understood...
A little dragon secretly made the fire in the fireplace burn much brighter than normal, and no one knew how it did it.
"Stretch out your hand." Shu Mo said.
Mo Bai: “?”
The little black dragon showed doubt with his expression, but his body's obedience instinct came before his reaction, and he obediently stretched out his hand.
Shu Mo flipped through the light screen in front of her that only she could see, quickly picked out a few items and threw them into the shopping cart, clicked OK, and placed the order.
Suddenly, several bottles and jars of different colors and sizes appeared in the air. They shook and then fell straight down. Mo Bai was startled and hurriedly caught them all before they hit the ground. He took a closer look and hesitated for a moment, "Is this shower gel?"
"There are also shampoo, conditioner, facial cleanser, toothpaste, soap, lotion..." Shu Mo counted on his fingers.
Then he took out a black toothbrush from somewhere, put it into the mouthwash cup in Mo Bai's arms, and then stuffed a box of facial mask into it.
Mo Bai watched her magic-like movements, trying to hold tightly the bottles and jars in her arms, with a confused look on his face.
"Be a delicate little dragon and you will be welcomed by the mother dragon." Shu Mo patted his shoulder and encouraged him, "Go ahead, Pikabai."
Although he is the only fire dragon in the world and there is a high probability that he will not be able to find a mother dragon, but...
Mo Bai nodded solemnly and turned to go in.
Judging from the noise, he seemed to have temporarily put those things on the bed.
Shu Mo smiled and was about to go back to his room, but the door behind him suddenly opened again, "Shu Mo."
The boy had a clear voice and his pronunciation was very pleasant when he called her name.
Shu Mo turned around in confusion, "Huh?"
Mo Bai's eyes fell on the snow-white towel on her shoulders.
Her long chestnut hair was stained with moisture and spread out casually. Water droplets flowed down her hair, over the towel, and soaked her dark gray pajamas. Shu Mo himself didn't care much. He didn't want to disturb Mo Bai too late, so he ran over without even drying his hair. But Mo Bai guessed that it would be uncomfortable to sleep like this.
Humans are very fragile creatures.
In the extremely cold apocalypse, players will suffer from negative conditions due to the low temperature and their health bars will be reduced, but there is no such thing as "being sick".
The temperature inside the barrier is just right, and Shu Mo has now been transformed into a player's physique, so there's even less to worry about.
At most, it would be a little uncomfortable to sleep when your clothes are not dry.
But Mo Bai stared at the dark water stain, and for some reason he seemed to be concerned about it.
He suddenly raised his hand and rubbed his fingertips across the damp brown hair, releasing some heat. Shu Mo only felt a gust of warm wind blowing past him. He touched it in surprise and found that his long hair had become dry and smooth in the blink of an eye.
Mo Bai paused, probably not expecting such a good effect. He stared at his fingertips for two seconds and retracted his hand, "It's not easy to catch a cold this way."
"Got it." Shu Mo twisted the ends of his hair with interest, "Thank you, little hair dryer."
I never thought there would be such benefits to taming monsters!
Shu Mo sighed for the Nth time.
Mo Bai: “…”
He was awkward, "You're welcome."
*
Shu Mo returned to the room, threw the towel on the bed, pulled out a chair and sat down in front of the desk.
She had hardly used this desk in the few days since she traveled through time. Now, the originally clean desk was piled with papers, all of which were resumes sent in by players who wanted to apply for the job, and it was extremely messy.
Shu Mo put them into a pile, turned on the soft light of the desk lamp, and began to read them carefully one by one.
When I saw this, I was immediately shocked.
Not to mention the content of this resume, the writing styles alone are very diverse. Some people were obviously humble office workers who had sought jobs before the apocalypse, and even wrote about their work experience in a certain large factory 20 years ago; some people said that they had learned cooking skills at Xin Xfang, and begged Shu Mo to save a position for them in the kitchen; there was even a tough guy who said that he could bring money into the group, and as long as he was hired, all his relatives in Guangming Town would come to the hotel to spend money...
Shu Mo stared at the resume, not really understanding how this family had emerged so suddenly and was still so prosperous in the end times.
In addition, there were applicants from seventy-year-old old ladies to eleven or twelve-year-old girls.
Shu Mo gritted his teeth and read on, and finally selected four resumes that suited his taste from the vast mountain of resumes and put them aside.
Among these four people, one was the hotel receptionist whom I met by chance in Guangming Town before. Shu Mo chatted with her for a while at the market and remembered her name.
The girl was lively and generous, very comfortable to get along with, and had experience working in a hotel, so she was a perfect fit. In addition, Gu Xiao was the first summoner Shu Mo met since she came here. The mutual admiration for each other as a person of the same profession made her immediately decide on the first candidate.
The other two were mother and daughter pairs. The resumes seemed to be written by the daughters. The handwriting was elegant and beautiful, the format was neat, and there was no trace of any scribbling. When introducing her situation, she mentioned that she had difficulty moving around, but she could take care of herself and was able to work long hours.
Her mother was very good at cleaning and tidying up, and had a long experience as a live-in and door-to-door nanny. Shu Mo didn't hesitate and kept the mother and daughter.
As for the last person...
The corner of her mouth twitched and she couldn't help but laugh.
The resume was so eye-catching that it was hard not to notice it.
The other party wrote on both sides, filling every blank space, but the content had nothing to do with the hotel service industry and was more like a kill list.
It was densely packed with monsters he had killed.
The system rewards obtained from either end are enough to pay the salary for working here for one month or even several months.
Shu Mo looked at the pitiful 50-point salary he was offered and scratched his head.
The mind of a master is really hard to understand.
In fact, Shu Mo had the barrier and Mo Bai, so she didn't need a combat-type employee to stay in the hot spring in the short term. But considering another recent development plan, and the fact that this master asked for such a low price, she was really tempted, and after much hesitation, she finally decided to keep the person.
*
Shu Mo slept until dawn, washed up, went outside the cabin and took a deep breath.
The air in the mountains was clean. She took a few deep breaths to clear the foul air in her lungs and felt refreshed.
The morning light was dim, and the bamboo forest not far away was hidden in the hazy sky. The next second, a familiar figure emerged from it.
My body was wet from the morning mist, and I felt a biting cold all over.
"Mo Bai?" Shu Mo stopped doing the middle school radio gymnastics and looked at him in surprise, "What were you doing so early in the morning?"
Mo Bai was startled, and then he saw her, so he pointed behind him and said, "I took them for a walk over the mountain."
Only then did Shu Mo notice the group of little balls of fluff following closely behind him.
Shu Mo: “?”
She blurted out: "Bai Rongrong still wants to take a walk?"
It's not a dog she has.
Shu Mo came back to his senses, "Do all summoned beasts need to take regular walks? Oh no, the system didn't tell me, so you..."
Does Mo Bai need it too?
No, now it seems more like Mo Bai is walking herself, and helping her unreliable master to walk other summoned beasts as well...
Shu Mo was deeply moved.
The little black dragon is as worry-free as a Border Collie!
Mo Bai looked at her expression and guessed that Shu Mo was probably imagining something, so he interrupted her quickly, "It's true that Bai Rongrong likes high places and sunny places, but there is no time after dawn, so I will take them to the nearby mountains to have a look while the sun is just coming out."
He paused, "Didn't you ask us to get along well?"
Shu Mo was stunned for half a second and laughed. He could probably guess how the unsociable little black dragon came up with this plan after some hard thinking.
However, why does it feel more like a Border Collie when taking a group of white fluffy lambs out to bask in the sun?
"When you're done walking, lend me the white fluff." Shu Mo took out a stack of papers and instructed, "Send it to the address written on it. Don't send it to the wrong person."
In the previous job posting, Shu Mo specifically asked applicants to indicate their home address in order to facilitate "mailing" replies later.
The reliable little postmen lined up to receive their respective letters and set off with a chirp.
Shu Mo waved his hands from below, and suddenly came to his senses. He turned his head to look at Mo Bai in confusion, "Bai Rongrong can still bark?"
"They can sing when they are happy." Mo Bai shrugged, "but no one can understand them except themselves."
Shu Mo: “…”
You know what, she really wants to listen to it.
*
Gu Xiao was absent-minded the whole night after sending out the resume.
She kept thinking back to the information she had filled out. Sometimes she was worried that she had no competitiveness compared to those senior players, and sometimes she comforted herself: Senior players don't care about competing for the 50-point salary.
Just when I felt relieved, I soon started to worry about whether I had filled in the address correctly. What if I wrote the wrong house number and the offer was sent to someone else?
After being worried about her all night, when Gu Xiao came to the hotel in the early morning to take over from Sister Chai, the heavy dark circles under his eyes scared her.
"Why do you look even less energetic than me who just worked the night shift?"
Gu Xiao: “…”
After seeing off Sister Chai, who was a little worried, she sat behind the counter, staring absentmindedly at the small patch of blue sky outside the window, and suddenly felt a little discouraged.
"If I had known, I would have written about our meeting that day in my resume..."
Maybe this will make the boss take a closer look at my mediocre resume.
After all, apart from this, there is really nothing special about her - her fighting ability is almost zero, her past experience can be summarized in three sentences, her appearance is not eye-catching (fortunately, there is no need to attach a photo to the resume), and she will be drowned out in a crowd in an instant.
Gu Xiao was almost certain that he had failed. Recalling the quickened heartbeat he felt when he saw the job notice yesterday, he smiled self-deprecatingly.
"Tuk-tuk"
A gentle knocking sound was heard, and Gu Xiao looked up and saw two white balls of fluff stuck to the window. Because they used too much force, one side of their bodies was flattened into a white plane, like a large white pancake.
She realized that the two consecutive knocks were not knocking sounds, but the sound of two white fluffy animals hitting the glass together.
Gu Xiao: “…”
She watched the little ball of fluff, which seemed to be knocked unconscious, slowly slide down and disappear at the edge of the window. She rushed over to open the door, picked up the dizzy white fluff from the ground, and kindly brushed off the dust for them.
"Are you okay?"
Noticing the piece of paper they were holding tightly, Gu Xiao's heart instantly rose.
The white fluff came to life in her palm and chirped twice, as if signaling her to take it and have a look.
Gu Xiao swallowed hard, trying his best to convince himself not to have high expectations, and then unfolded the folded paper.
[Hello, Miss Gu Xiao.] I am very honored to inform you that you have been successfully hired as a full-time employee of Nuannuan Hot Spring. Please meet up with the other three at the entrance of Guangming Town at 12 noon tomorrow. 】
When he saw the line of words clearly, Gu Xiao was stunned.
After reading it five or six times, she suddenly raised her hand to cover her mouth.
…I was actually hired?
So, she can live in Nuannuan Hot Spring in the future? ? Can I also eat the staff meals there? ? ?
Ecstasy overwhelmed her in an instant.
Gu Xiao jumped around on the spot for a minute before noticing there was another line of small words.
[By the way, we had a great time chatting that day. Thank you for sharing the information^^]
This time, Gu Xiao was stunned for even longer than before -
For fear of embarrassing the other party, Gu Xiao was embarrassed to mention their encounter that day in his resume, but he didn't expect that the store owner actually remembered it.
She blinked, and suddenly felt a warm current flowing through her heart. She raised the corners of her lips, turned around and walked into the hotel.
*
Liu Yan carefully unfolded the letter.
Liu Xueruo closed her eyes obediently, "Mom, how is it?"
"Oh, I don't dare to look at it. I'm so nervous." Liu Yan muttered. Even so, she didn't let her daughter read it. "Let me make it clear first. It doesn't matter if you don't pass. It means that this job is not meant for us. We won't think about it anymore."
Liu Xueruo pursed her lips and responded gently, "Okay."
There are not many places willing to hire people with disabilities. Liu Xueruo knew that her mother was afraid that she would feel that she was a burden to the two of them, so she comforted her in this way, and sighed in her heart.
In fact, she herself did not hold out any hope, she was just following her mother's whim.
But unexpectedly, the next moment, screams rang out throughout the room.
“Ahhhhhhhh!!!”
Liu Xueruo suddenly opened her eyes and looked at her mother who was covering her mouth and crying and laughing with a confused look.
"Success! We were both accepted!" Liu Yan stuffed the letter into her daughter's hand, "That boss is such a good person!"
The handwriting on the letter was clear and beautiful, and the tone of voice was apologetic, asking if they could accept living in the same dormitory.
[Because the number of employee dormitories prepared in advance is insufficient... Of course, the beds in the house will be replaced with double beds, which I think will be more convenient. 】
"That's great. It's still the same dormitory. I don't even have to ask the boss to change." Liu Yan was overjoyed.
Liu Xueruo clenched the letter paper tightly, and her eyes suddenly became moist when she came to her senses.
*
For the rest of the day, Liu Yan and Liu Xueruo, mother and daughter, were busy packing their luggage and dealing with remaining affairs in the town.
After all, they might not return to town for a long time.
When Liu Yan went to say goodbye to a family where she used to work, she heard faint scolding from quite a distance away. When the hostess came to open the door, there was a hint of annoyance on her face.
Liu Yan saw the letter paper in their hands, which was exactly the same as the one she received, and exclaimed in surprise, "Oh, Xiaoliang was also selected?"
Xiaoliang is their son who just turned seventeen.
"Sister Liu, what did you say he was selected?" The hostess noticed that she was staring at the paper in her hand and said angrily, "Oh, you mean this, he went to apply for a job at that hot spring without telling us. Luckily, we are at home today and saw the rejection letter. Otherwise, if he really went there secretly without telling us, what do you think we should do?"
After saying that, he pretended to twist Xiao Liang's ear, "I've already stopped you once, but you didn't listen..."
Liu Yan quickly stepped forward to stop him, and then asked in surprise: "If you are selected, wouldn't that be a good thing?"
The hostess paused, came to her senses, and realized that Liu Yan had just said "also selected". Her expression suddenly became a little strange, "Sister Liu, you didn't apply for the job too?"
Liu Yan nodded readily, "Yes! Xue Rou and I were both selected."
"Xue Rou too? Oh, why didn't you discuss this with someone in advance?" The woman exclaimed, "Sister Liu, I advise you to refuse it right away before you leave."
"Wasn't it because I was pressed for time that day and didn't have time to discuss it with anyone... What's wrong? Why did you refuse?" Liu Yan was confused.
In the past two years, Liu Yan would come to their house regularly to clean the house. Over time, the couple also knew about Liu Xueruo's physical condition. Hearing this, they looked at each other and exchanged meaningful looks.
The male host spoke earnestly, "We were out of town killing monsters a few days ago, and it was only after we came back that we heard about the Nuan Nuan Hot Spring recruitment from Xiao Liang... What we mean is that this matter is absolutely unreliable."
"You think the coordinates it reported are in a high-end area half a day's journey from here. There are no towns around. Who would open a hotel there? Even if the hotel really exists, who knows what it's like there? The so-called staff dormitory might just be a big bunk bed with many people squeezed together. Why would you give up the home you worked so hard to get and go to that kind of place?"
"If you find out you've been cheated, or if the salary is different from what we agreed on, it will be hard for you to escape with Xue Rou." The woman also said angrily, "Isn't this the same as the pyramid schemes of the past?"
After a pause, she caught a glimpse of the wrinkles on Liu Yan's face and sighed, "... What's more, Xiao Liang was not selected. The boss obviously thinks that you ordinary players are easy to cheat. I know that you are so happy now, Sister Liu, that you may not be in the mood to listen to this, but I advise you to go back and think about it carefully."
Liu Yan frowned, but before she could say anything, the man next to her pushed up his glasses.
He said tactfully, "Sister Liu, you are also confused. You may not like what I say, but knowing that Xue Rou's situation is special, no normal company would hire her. It would be hard for her to find a job if she were allowed to leave it alone, not to mention in this chaotic world..."
Liu Yan's expression changed again and again.
She looked at the boy in the corner whose eyes were red from being scolded, and stood up and said goodbye stiffly.
The door closed, and she stood there for a while, then she heard the scolding voice from inside the room again, but this time it had a different tone -
"Zhang Xiaoliang, what did your parents say? Look at the people who applied for the job. Can this be a good job?"
"I'm telling you, just be glad you weren't chosen!!"
The couple were both elite players, and Liu Yan was not someone she could afford to offend. Moreover, they were always generous with their spending, and were an important source of income for Liu Yan and her daughter.
If the Nuannuan Hot Spring recruitment was really unreliable, she would have to return to this town, pretend that she hadn't heard anything, and continue working for the two of them.
Liu Yan felt a pang of bitterness in her heart, and the joy she had just felt was diluted a lot. She lowered her head and left in a hurry.
*
Noon of the second day.
Gu Xiao arrived at the entrance of Guangming Town half an hour in advance. She had told her boss about her resignation when she was handing over her shift the day before and had already prepared compensation, but perhaps because there was no problem recruiting for this job, her boss didn't say anything about her sudden resignation.
Gu Xiao felt that he seemed to be blessed by the god of luck since he received the admission notice from Nuannuan Hot Spring.
She was holding her little monster rabbit in her arms, and she left the city for the first time in who knows how many years. She even waved to several high-level players guarding the city with a cheerful face, "Hi!"
Guards: “…………Hi?”
They greeted the young girl in confusion, whose smile was so happy that it seemed to be reaching the sky.
Gu Xiao thought he arrived quite early and stood in a conspicuous place, but he was suddenly poked in the back.
"Are you going to Nuannuan Hot Spring too?" a gentle voice asked.
Gu Xiao turned around, lowered his eyes, and saw the girl sitting in the wheelchair, "Yes, you too?"
"Yes, my mother and I were also hired."
The middle-aged woman behind her nodded to Gu Xiao, but the deep lines between her eyebrows seemed to contain a hint of unremitting sorrow. Half of her hair was covered in silver, making her look older than her actual age. Her hands were weather-beaten as she held tightly onto the armrests of her daughter's wheelchair.
"I'm sorry, my mother is in a bad mood." Liu Xueruo hesitated for a moment, then mustered up the courage to ask, "Um, did you know anything about Nuannuan Hot Spring before?"
Gu Xiao was stunned for a moment, then quickly nodded, "Yeah! The owner is a very nice person! He looks younger than me, very gentle, easy to get along with, and the food he cooks is also very delicious."
She racked her brains to speak, as if to attribute all the beautiful adjectives to the young shop owner. Liu Xueruo couldn't help laughing as she listened, and turned to give Liu Yan a reassuring look.
"I just don't know how we are going to get there. The reply letter sent back didn't mention it either." Gu Xiao said worriedly, "The store owner told us to gather here. Did he hire mercenaries to escort us?"
After saying that, she realized something and quickly said to Liu Xueruo, "It's just that my level is very low, just don't think I'm a drag..."
No mention was made of the possibility that the other person's wheelchair might slow down progress.
"Are you guys going to the Nuan Nuan Hot Springs too?"
The three of them were startled and turned around at the same time. A tall man who looked to be in his early thirties stood there. He carries a heavy sword on his back, has short, neat hair, a stern face, and gives off an inexplicable aura that makes him seem like he's not someone to be trifled with.
Even the rather warm and lovely name of Nuannuan Hot Spring sounded a little chilling when it came out of his mouth.
“Yes, yes…”
Gu Xiao asked bravely, "Are you the mercenary who escorted us there?"
The other party frowned and said, "If you need an escort, that's fine."
"There shouldn't be any monsters that can threaten me along the way from Guangming Town to the hot springs." He added calmly, "It doesn't hurt to take you with me."
Liu Xueruo's eyes changed slightly.
There are many A-level monsters near the coordinates of the hot spring, and wandering S-level and territory bosses can often be encountered. It is a very dangerous area. Senior players are naturally not afraid of forming a team, but to dare to go there alone with a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people... How confident is this person in his own strength?
"It's almost twelve o'clock." Liu Yan reminded.
As soon as he finished speaking, a scream came from above his head.
"What the hell, what is that??!"
It is a high-level player who stands guard on the city wall.
The swordsman instantly put his hand on the hilt of the sword and turned his head sharply to look. I saw a small shadow appearing at the end of the distant horizon, speeding across the snowfield. It soon came close, raising large clouds of snow dust along the way.
Gu Xiao squinted his eyes and looked at it for a long time, confused, "I, I, I, I, why do I feel that thing looks like... a car?"
It's just that it's completely white, and if you don't look carefully, it might even be confused with the snow around it.
Gu Xiao: “???”
When did new vehicles get added to the game?
Gu Xiao: "What a lousy operation. Can you send a server-wide update notification next time a new feature is launched..."
The swordsman next to her suddenly turned pale, and pulled her behind him, shouting, "Stop making fun of me, that's an S-class monster!"
At the same time, a shrill alarm sounded on the tower: "Enemy attack--"
The swordsman broke out in a cold sweat.
He did say that there were almost no monsters in the high-level area that could threaten him... but that didn't mean he could single-handedly fight an S-level monster that was extremely close to super S-level, not to mention a mimic beast that was so agile that people couldn't even think of running away.
His heart sank when he thought of the thousands of defenseless elderly, weak, women and children in the city behind him.
The players coming in and out of the city gate screamed and retreated. The ranged players in charge of guarding the city wall began to chant with fear on their faces, and the tops of the staffs they raised high were shining with light of different colors.
The swordsman stood still, sword drawn, his nerves tense to the extreme.
Then he watched the car speeding away with a white flag raised high on its roof.
swordsman:"……"
Players: “…”
Um?
Everyone doubted their own eyes at this moment.
Damn it, monsters nowadays have learned to surrender.
If you look closely, you can see that the flag has a velvet edge.
The white fluffs held onto each other tightly with their furry paws, and the oncoming wind blew their fur backwards, "Chi-chi-chi!!"
——Don't fire! !
Gu Xiao poked his head out of the half-open city gate and looked at it hesitantly for a long time, "Wait, I think I recognize that flag."
*
Five minutes later.
The swordsman got into the car in confusion, and looking back, he saw a row of guards standing on the city wall, looking just as confused as he was.
The group of four drove away with a car full of white fluff under the gaze of everyone in Guangming Town.
The swordsman raised his hand and touched his short hair. "Aren't we going to a hot spring hotel?"
Gu Xiao answered happily, "Yes! This might be the hotel bus. It's great that we don't have to walk there!"
This future unit is really great!
swordsman:"……"
What kind of family uses an S-class monster as a bus?
Wait, the boss didn't hire him just to be a bus driver...
The swordsman player, who is usually very confident in his strength, suddenly began to doubt his life.
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