Lao Hu
After being specifically reminded by He Lizhou, everyone began to pay attention to the guests' strange behavior. Except for Uncle Cui who received and registered guests' information, the Information Building was still the most popular one. As a result, Ban Hefeng was busy every day, protesting against the lack of manpower and asking He Lizhou to continue "recruiting" store clerks.
However, the proposal was unanimously rejected after discussion by everyone because the hotel was currently very busy and no one could leave.
Ban Hefeng couldn't stand it any longer. "Please, I remember that I was just helping out in friendship at first? Why am I almost a regular employee now?"
Sheng Ju said: "Master, it's because you love the hotel deeply."
Ban Hefeng raised his hand to pat Sheng Ju on the back of the head, but was dodged. "The president's injury has healed. He told me a few days ago that he couldn't stay here any longer and wanted to find something to do—"
Seeing He Lizhou's surprised look, Ban Hefeng said angrily: "What are you thinking about! Of course I won't drag the president into this!"
Not to mention that he has just grown up and recovered from an illness, Ban Hefeng now sincerely feels that He Lizhou is used to ordering people around, and it is enough for him to be "oppressed" by He Lizhou alone.
He looked at Uncle Cui, "The president has a craft, 'cutting paper into soldiers', but the drawback is that the paper figures are fragile and not durable. I wonder if Uncle Cui is willing to cooperate with the president to make a batch of wooden soldiers to do some odd jobs."
This is actually a good idea. He Lizhou was somewhat tempted. If a large batch was produced in this way, everyone's pressure would be greatly reduced. However, he was worried whether Uncle Cui's body could handle it.
Uncle Cui laughed, a hearty laugh, "Of course I have no problem! Speaking of which, it is still the president who is generous."
Since Uncle Cui had a new task, He Lizhou suspended Uncle Cui's work of registering guest information in the lobby and took over it himself. He realized that he was just a brick and could be moved wherever he was needed.
Qin Tuo had originally been considering passing this thing to the hotel as a way of repaying the life-saving favor. Now that Ban Hefeng had come to him, it just solved his problem of not knowing how to start the conversation, so he readily agreed.
Qin Tuo and Cui Shu were about the same age, one had a son and the other had a daughter. They got along very well and, with each other's words, he became a vivid wooden waiter.
Sheng Ju came to bring food and drinks to the two people. He was the first to see the finished product. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and exclaimed, "Although I know that Uncle Cui's craftsmanship is superb, I still have to praise it every time I see it. It's great, Uncle Cui, it's simply a work of art."
Uncle Cui blushed at the compliment and waved him off, "Go away, you little kids, you are the best at using glib words to make me happy."
Sheng Ju also laughed, "Tell the truth, it's really the truth."
Sheng Ju had other things to do. After the hotel was upgraded to a formal transit hall, a large number of guests came to visit. He had already used the "spatial overlap" he learned from Ban Hefeng and added three floors of guest rooms to accommodate even more people.
Everyone was busy, so he took the opportunity to take a break while delivering food. This was the consensus of everyone in the hotel, because Sheng Ju had to divide his energy to maintain the stability of the guest room space while being busy in the chess and card room, which was very tiring, but he couldn't be too much, otherwise the guests would look for him, so he quickly went back.
Qin Tuo looked at Sheng Ju and said a few witty words, then hurried away, sighing: "Yang Ze was like this at the beginning, he was so sweet and coaxed me!"
Uncle Cui handed Qin Tuo a piece of cake and asked him to taste it with a smile: "This is baked by Ning Yu. It was customized for us according to Doctor Yang's recipe. It's very thoughtful. Try it."
Qin Tuo took a small piece of cake from Uncle Cui's hand and put it in his mouth, "You two have a good relationship, it will last a long time..."
Uncle Cui shook his head. “Although I like it here, who doesn’t want to go out?”
Qin Tuo was silent for a while, and then he stopped talking about it and changed the subject: "Let's move on to the last step. This is also a talisman and a spell. The spell is easy to learn, but the talisman is not easy to learn. It requires long-term practice."
Uncle Cui swallowed the cake, drank some water, and came close to Qin Tuo, "Here it comes."
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As for He Lizhou, after he took over Uncle Cui's job, he didn't notice anything unusual at first until a familiar voice sounded.
"A guest room, male, 47 years old."
He Lizhou raised his head and met a pair of familiar eyes. The pupils were deep and the wrinkles around the eyes seemed to have not changed at all from when he left, yet seemed to have increased a lot.
Even though he was mentally prepared and knew that some NPCs in the dungeon would leave, He Lizhou never thought that the first person he would encounter would be Lao Hu.
Lao Hu, a villager in the "Butterfly Transformation" dungeon. At that time, only Lao Hu's yard could block the attacks of butterflies. Lao Hu accepted him many times and cooked a meal for the players once. He helped He Lizhou a lot in the dungeon.
Old Hu seemed not to recognize He Lizhou, and urged him coldly: "Hurry up, you are in a hurry to go to bed!"
Seeing this irritable temper, He Lizhou lowered his head silently. He was a little uncertain at first, but now he was very sure that this was Lao Hu. He lowered his head and wrote down the information Lao Hu reported, and then assigned a room in order and handed the room card to Lao Hu, "...Have a nice stay."
The young female player in the queue behind him saw that He Lizhou was gentle and even though she didn't know the other person's identity, she dared to chat with him. So she curiously asked about the identity of the person in front of her: "Boss He, what's wrong with the man in front? I heard that your tone is not right?"
Of course He Lizhou couldn't reveal the abnormality of the NPC to ordinary players, so he just laughed dryly and fooled the player away. The female player was also understanding and could tell that He Lizhou was reluctant to say more, so she didn't ask any more questions, took the room card and went to the second floor.
He Lizhou looked down at the registration form. Lao Hu was in room B235. B was the second space opened by Shengju.
"Boss He! Hurry up? Is there no room left?"
He Lizhou did not have time to think about Lao Hu's matter. The guests queuing behind him had already started to urge him anxiously. The hotel rooms were tight. New rooms would only become vacant when players checked out or died in the dungeon. Players who were able to book rooms rarely checked out, and the death rate in the dungeon was greatly reduced due to the emergence of the intelligence building, so the room supply was still tight.
He Lizhou quickly came back to his senses, "There are still some!" He counted the empty rooms and shouted to the back of the team, "There are only 16 vacant rooms left. Guests after the 16th one can go back first!"
No. 17 sighed, "I've been here five days in a row this month, Boss He! Please give us more rooms!"
He Lizhou smiled helplessly, "I'll consider it, I'll consider it."
However, the third level of space is Sheng Ju's current limit, and the subsequent increase can only wait until Sheng Ju comprehends it more thoroughly. Besides...
He Lizhou lowered his eyes and his gaze fell on Lao Hu's registration information. Besides, he might not wait until that day.
After He Lizhou arranged the remaining 16 guest rooms, he found the spare room card for room B235 and went upstairs.
The room card is specially made and used in conjunction with Sheng Ju's skills. The correct room card corresponds to different spaces. The one in He Lizhou's hand is the room card for the second-level space B.
He first stuck the room card on the door. The air around him was slightly distorted for a moment, which was similar to the feeling of taking an elevator. There was a slight tinnitus, but it soon disappeared. This meant that he had entered the second level space.
He Lizhou knocked on the door, "Hello!"
He heard some movement inside the door, but Lao Hu didn't come to open the door, so He Lizhou added: "Hello, I'm He Lizhou, I want to ask you something."
After another long while, Lao Hu walked to the door in dragging his shoes, pressed the button casually, and left the vicinity of the door. He Lizhou quickly blocked the door that was about to close automatically because there was no external force to hold it, greeted the curious heads that popped out in the corridor, and closed the door to block out the view from outside.
When registering his information, Lao Hu was wearing a scarf that covered most of his face. After entering the room, the scarf was taken off, revealing a face that He Lizhou was familiar with. He sat on a chair and looked at He Lizhou sideways, "What do you want from me?"
He Lizhou got straight to the point: "How did you get here?"
Old Hu drooped his eyelids, looking listless: "It was like this, and then I found you. Do you have any questions?"
This was considered an admission of his identity and that he knew He Lizhou, so He Lizhou slowed down his tone and considered, "I would like to ask another question..."
Lao Hu answered first: "I realized something was wrong three years ago."
He Lizhou didn't expect Lao Hu to go all out right away. He quickly checked the current situation of the hotel and confirmed that there was no system monitoring. Then he put down his arms and listened to Lao Hu.
"Three years ago, I always felt that the village was different from before, but they all said that there was no change. I thought I was just overthinking it, but then I saw that the village chief and the young people he brought with him looked very unfamiliar, so I just followed them."
Old Hu closed his eyes, as if he was trying to recall the past. He didn't want to talk more about the village chief, so he simply skipped over it and said, "I discovered the village chief's secret. I saved a group of butterflies under the village chief. That's about it. The butterflies didn't harm me. After I realized this, I took the initiative to tell the village chief that I would lead the young people into the village and try to give you some hints on the way, but few people noticed."
It may be because "Butterfly Metamorphosis" is a simple-level copy, and there are many newcomers entering. It is indeed difficult for inexperienced newcomers to understand the meaning of the NPC's words.
"I originally wanted to tell the other people in the village about this, but later I found that they had all changed, becoming stupid and dumb. I looked and realized that they had all turned into butterfly people. They followed the village chief to do those shameless things. Later, I was the only one in the whole village who had not changed. I guessed that the village chief had already known that I was different."
"So, I was actually the target of the village chief. After I met many 'young people', I guessed that if I turned into a butterfly man, the village would be completely doomed. I started to hide from the village chief. The group of 'young people' came one after another, but no one noticed me until you showed up."
At this point, Old Hu's gaze towards He Lizhou changed slightly.
"When I first met you, I thought you were just an ordinary person and didn't pay much attention to you. Later, I thought that maybe you had hope. I was right. You really turned the village upside down."
He Lizhou touched his nose awkwardly, knowing that Lao Hu was talking about how he had offended the Butterfly King.
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