Chapter 86
Rich, special status, outstanding appearance, and brought many benefits to the hot springs...
If Shu Mo was unsure about Xia Qing's identity at first, then after meeting her, that doubt was dispelled.
After all, no matter how you look at it, Xia Qing doesn't look like a passerby NPC!
But who could have thought that the "mysterious guest" was actually someone else.
Shu Mo began to doubt his life.
She wandered around aimlessly in the hot spring, looking down at the entire map, and finally, her sight fixed on a certain point.
I saw a group of people coming out of a bakery on the commercial street.
Several of them looked familiar, and Shu Mo recognized them as the team that arrived at the hot spring at the same time as Xia Qing and the others in the afternoon.
Because of their various performances at that time, Shu Mo quickly excluded them as options, but at this moment, she noticed something was wrong.
...There's one person missing from the team.
The most conspicuous player wearing a colorful hood is gone.
They are not in the same group?
So at the time when the mission was released, there were not two groups of people coming to the hot spring, but three groups.
In addition to Xia Qing and this group of regulars, there was also a player who visited alone...
Is he the "mysterious visitor"?
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Back in the early days, this group of regulars pushed open the glass door of the main building lobby.
They had no idea that they had been secretly observed by the boss at this moment. They entered the lobby, exchanged a few words with the familiar staff, then skillfully bought the hot spring ticket at the front desk, put on the bracelet and went in.
When they walked into the locker room, they realized something was wrong.
Why is there always someone following me?
Like a little tail, it followed closely from beginning to end, neither moving forward nor backward, and looked around with an interested look.
They hadn't paid much attention to him before, but when they entered the locker room, they were surrounded by players who were not cheating at all, and he kept staring at them, which immediately made him particularly noticeable.
A few players were halfway through taking off their clothes and were tugging at their belts, feeling so embarrassed that they didn't know whether to continue.
The captain estimated that these people all had the same thought deep in their hearts at this moment - why was a pervert allowed into the hot spring?
The most important thing is that this pervert seems to be with them, which makes it unbearable.
"Who are you? Why are you following us?"
He looked at the hooded boy impatiently and put on a fierce tone.
I didn’t notice it before, but now when I look at this outfit, I feel like something is even more wrong.
The locker room was next to the shower room. The water vapor drifted over, making the whole room warm. Many people began to sweat, but this man was still wearing a heavy hood, which was very suspicious.
He turned back suddenly and the boy paused.
The face was not visible, but the hood fluttered.
The hood he wore was loose-fitting, shaped like a triangle that was narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. It looked like a puppet's headgear on his thin body and was somewhat bulky. No wonder he attracted so many attention.
"I'm sorry..."
A voice came from under the hat and he seemed a little confused.
This reaction was inconsistent with his impolite behavior just now. The captain calmed down a little and felt that he should not be too old.
Could it be that I’m just not familiar with how to take a hot spring bath?
Thinking of this, his tone softened a little, "Take off your clothes and put them in the lockers, one for each person. When you come back later, you can use your wristband to open them. The lockers are very safe and will automatically help wash and dry your clothes. It's much more convenient than putting them in a backpack."
These regular customers come so often that they have even developed new ways to use the restaurant. Every time I come here, I will deliberately collect some dirty clothes, take them out of my backpack, and stuff them into the locker together with the clothes I am wearing.
This cabinet is about half a meter deep, forty centimeters wide, and seventy centimeters high. There is also space underneath for boots. If you squeeze in, it is enough to hold a complete set of equipment or a lot of base clothes.
After soaking in the hot spring, everything is washed cleanly, which is much more convenient than washing by hand at home.
Looking back on when I used to wash clothes at home, the water in the drain pipe was always cold, and by the time I finished washing a load, my hands were so frozen that I had lost all feeling. Although the washed clothes hung indoors will not freeze (the freezing point in the doomsday is much lower than in the past), it will still take several days to dry. During those days, the whole room was damp and the temperature dropped, making it very uncomfortable to stay there.
When there were no hot springs, washing clothes every time was an extremely painful thing for players.
Some people would rather spend ten dollars to hire someone to wash their hair than touch cold water in this kind of weather.
Now that players have discovered that the hot spring lockers have such a convenient function, they are extremely welcome.
…The captain kindly taught the secret to the boy, and deliberately lowered his voice when speaking, for fear of being heard by the employees.
After all, this was not a glorious thing. He took advantage of the hot spring and was even a bit sloppy. Anyway, he felt quite embarrassed.
Fortunately, the lockers in the hot spring were quite magical. When he took out his clothes, the lockers were still clean and dry. Under the warm and humid air of the whole room, a faint smell of wood was emitted, which alleviated his guilt.
In fact, Shu Mo was not unaware that there was a group of players who used the lockers in the hot spring as free laundry rooms.
But this was part of the service, so she wasn't stingy enough to impose any restrictions.
This tolerant attitude actually had an unexpected effect. After experiencing the convenience of the locker "washing and drying service", these players came more frequently.
"You'll know if you try it. It's very convenient."
Captain Lazy gave it a five-star rating and sincerely recommends it.
The boy nodded as if he understood, changed his clothes, and followed them into the hot spring.
To some extent, the few of them could be considered to have known each other through fighting. The captain was a kind person and gave many instructions along the way. The other party spoke very little, but always listened quietly.
Then, I don’t know when, the person disappeared.
When Shu Mo was looking for someone, the first person he found was this captain.
Time passed by minute by minute, and there was a strong sense of urgency, but unfortunately the barrier was too large and there were too many hot spring guests, so it was really difficult to find that single person.
It's like opening a picture album full of details and trying to find something specific in it. How easy is that?
Shu Mo searched around like a headless fly for a while, but finally gave in and chose to look for clues from the people he had contacted with.
"Hooded boy?"
The captain of the team didn't expect to be suddenly spoken to by the innkeeper. He was stunned for a moment, then he followed her words and recalled the man.
"Oh, there is such a person, but I haven't seen him since I left the main building."
"Do you still remember what he looks like? What are his characteristics?"
Shu Moguang remembered the big hood. After coming out of the hot spring, who knew whether he changed his clothes or not. It was hard to find him.
The captain and his companions had soaked in hot springs with him before, so they must have seen what he looked like under the brim of his hat.
But when he asked this, the captain's expression was very confused.
He racked his brains, "What did that person...look like?" He looked like he had intermittent amnesia.
Shu Mo frowned.
When I asked several men in the team, they all said they didn't remember.
"The steam in the hot spring was so thick that it blocked out his facial features."
"Yes, it's vague, I don't have any impression."
The people around him echoed.
But how could it be such a coincidence that none of the people traveling with him remembered what he looked like?
It was the last person who added a useful description, "But I remember that he put his hood back on when he came out."
He didn't even put on pants, but put on the hood first, as if the hood was the real body. This complaint flashed through his mind at the time, and that's why it left a little impression on him.
Shu Mo glanced at him, thoughtfully.
Some people still remember that boy, which means it’s not some advanced skill of “making the memories of people who have come into contact with him disappear”. It seems that she has read too many novels.
But what could that be?
Unable to figure out the reason, Shu Mo just thanked the guests and said goodbye to the group of people. Then she walked to the side of the road and slowly "thought".
Shu Mo pretended to look around casually and continued to mobilize the barrier, looking for the flashy hood.
After a while, nothing was found.
With less than forty minutes left, she was becoming anxious.
The consciousness was stirred at this moment, it was the telepathy between the summoner and the summoned beast. A vague sense of uneasiness rose from the bottom of his heart, and Shu Mo turned his head uncertainly to look at the bamboo forest in the distance.
She sensed the call of the mimicry.
——This is so rare.
Shu Mo is not a combat player. She usually stays in the barrier and rarely encounters any danger. Among her more than 600 summoned beasts, only Mo Bai will occasionally use telepathy to "communicate" with Shu Mo.
But the purpose was mostly to locate Shu Mo and sneak over during breaks to see what she was doing.
At moments like this, the sensation is always faint, never as strong as it is now to be ignored.
It's like...
【“The Beast” sent a window shake to you. 】
Shu Mo: “?”
She started and mobilized the barrier to search in the direction of the mimic beast, and finally found it deep in the bamboo forest.
With it was the mysterious visitor that Shu Mo had been looking for.
Zoom in, zoom in, zoom in——
Freeze frame.
Shu Mo took a closer look and realized that there was something wrong with the man and the beast.
A question mark appeared in her head.
The entire fox of the mimic was seen suspended in the air, being forcibly held in the arms of the hooded boy.
He didn't seem to know how to hold cats or dogs, and his technique was quite unskilled. He had to put one arm under the two front legs of the mimic beast - that is, under the armpit, to barely hold it.
Because of the posture, the shoulders of the anthropomorphic beast were pulled upwards and its neck disappeared. Its usual fairy-like appearance was gone, and it looked like a kidnapped fat cat.
Fox's face had an expression mixed with shock, grief, anger and helplessness.
No wonder it sent out a distress signal.
In this game, the Beastoid almost walks sideways. No matter whether it is the player or other monsters, they have to retreat away when they see it. Except for the time it met Mo Bai, it has never suffered such injustice.
On the other end, Shu Mo recalled the captain's description, his heart skipped a beat, and a line of big words popped out of his mind.
——He’s really a pervert!
He just looked around in the bathing pool and now comes to jerk off the hotel's mascot. This mysterious guest seems to be a tough guy.
There aren't many "people" who can make a mimic beast suffer like this, so Shu Mo couldn't help but become alert.
She sent a message to Mo Bai and then hurried towards the bamboo forest.
The two arrived at almost the same time. The boy noticed the movement here, turned around, and seemed surprised when he saw Mo Bai.
He stammered, his voice small: "Dragon tribe?"
Shu Mo slammed on the brakes and looked at him in surprise and suspicion.
Being able to discover Mo Bai’s identity immediately, could the boy in front of him be... also a monster?
Mo Bai frowned, and the next second he blurted out words that confirmed Shu Mo's guess, "Succubus, why are you here?"
Succubus!
Shu Mo's tiger body trembled.
I never thought that the second time I met a super S-class monster that could transform into a human form would be such a famous one.
Her expression immediately became serious, and she looked up and down at the boy in front of her with a mixture of admiration and disbelief.
It’s just… it’s a bit different from the image she imagined.
When she looked closer, she found that the boy's hood was much thicker and brighter in color than she had seen at her first quick glance.
Shu Mo was visually shocked again.
Is it her stereotype? Can a succubus also wear a large flowery coat from Northeast China?
The boy responded to Mo Bai's words at this time, "I just heard that there is a new hot spring hotel here, so I wanted to come and take a look. I definitely don't mean to disturb them."
The monsters that can transform into human form are all extremely intelligent. He just saw the staff uniform on Mo Bai and guessed that Mo Bai must have some connection with this hotel, so he immediately proved his innocence.
However, whether the one standing in front of you is an ordinary monster or a summoned beast, there will be some sense between the monsters.
"..." The boy's gaze fell on Shu Mo vaguely.
Is it this human who tamed the dragon clan?
He was surprised and suddenly realized that he might have come to the wrong place.
Before coming to the hot spring, he thought it was just a small shop opened by ordinary humans, and as a super S-level monster, he could enter and exit freely. But at this moment, that bit of contempt had completely disappeared.
This human must have some extraordinary qualities to be able to subdue the dragon clan. If he fails, he might even die here.
Thinking of this, the boy lowered his head even more, a little frightened.
Mo Bai didn't respond. He noticed that Shu Mo's eyes couldn't help but linger on the boy, so he couldn't help but ask, "Is there something wrong?"
"It's not wrong." Shu Mo hesitated for a while, but in the end, curiosity overwhelmed everything, "Excuse me, can you let me see your prototype? I haven't seen other super S-level monsters."
The boy agreed straightforwardly, "Of course."
With a "bang", Shu Mo's eyes blurred. After a few seconds, she fell silent at the thing that appeared in front of her.
Mo·Monster Encyclopedia·Bai explained dutifully: "Don't be fooled by his appearance. According to the game settings, he is very powerful. He is considered a forest lord and has countless soldiers under his command."
"The magic dust it releases can cause players to fall into various abnormal states. Some are highly poisonous, some will cause hallucinations and make players lose combat power, and some dust will cause players to attack themselves, which is equivalent to a powerful group [charm], so it is named this."
"——It's easy to understand, right?" Mo Bai asked.
The boy followed beside her and nodded vigorously, almost hitting Shu Mo with his head.
Shu Mo: “…”
She looked at the big-headed mushroom with a red umbrella and a white stem, about as tall as a person, and continued to be lost in thought.
It was easy to understand, but she had been thinking in the wrong direction before...
So this guy's charm is not the "魔" (demon), but the "菇" (mushroom)? !
Did the team forget about his existence just because the mushrooms had such a low presence?
Shu Mo: =口=!
In my mind, there seems to be a picture of a bunch of mushrooms growing silently in dark and damp corners!
No wonder he became the first super S-class monster to be attracted to the hot spring after the fire dragon. The warm and humid environment here is really suitable for mushroom growth...
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