The sun rises in the east and sets in the west; busy days pass in the blink of an eye.
After finishing their various transactions with the Xintian Gang and replenishing their supplies, Xia Chuhe and his companions finally embarked on their journey once again.
Before setting off, Zhu Guanshan compiled several routes and nearby dungeons for Xia Chuhe to choose from.
During his time at the Cape Trading Post, Xia Chuhe didn't forget to use the dungeon locator every day, accumulating a bunch of dungeon coordinates and clues.
Xia Chuhe compared the coordinates with the map provided by Zhu Guanshan and selected the closest overlapping point. There was a dungeon called Happy Five-Star Hotel, a hundred kilometers away from the Cape Trading Market.
The locator's clue was very brief—be kind and retain good memories.
The clues were very vague, and Xia Chuhe and the others could only barely come up with a plan—to make as many kind and positive choices as possible in this instance.
The premise is that they cannot violate their respective principles.
Of course, everyone has different principles, but Xia Chuhe's principles are exceptionally flexible...
With the emotional compensation provided by Weng Xintian, the group split up and got into two luxury cars, heading to the hotel's location.
Zhu Guanshan showed no sign of being coerced and kept asking about the dungeons Lu Danggui had run along the way.
Lu Dangui's tone was unusually unfriendly: "Aren't all dungeons the same? Haven't you ever done one?"
Zhu Guanshan fell silent instantly, utterly unwilling to admit that she had never run a dungeon. Before running away from home, she had done her research and knew that life was tough for those in the lower classes, and that many evolved beings risked their lives.
Undeterred by Lu Dangui's coldness, Zhu Guanshan changed the subject, asking, "What's the background of that woman who can cook?"
Lu Dangui: "Mind your own business."
Zhu Guanshan: "..."
Zhu Guanshan muttered quietly, "Just a heads up, you'd better be careful of her."
That woman named Li Yue looks exactly like the type her scoundrel father likes; she might even be a spy working for him.
The journey is short, so let's keep it brief.
Unsure of Zhu Guanshan's background, they dared not rashly team up with her for a dungeon run, so they split into two groups. One group went into the dungeon, while the other stayed behind.
The hotel instance definitely contains food, and combined with the clue of the word "kindness"—Li Yue and Bao'er have unfortunately become the ones who enter the instance.
In the end, Xia Chuhe, Li Yue, Xia Baoer, Bu Yi, and Zhao Maomao entered the instance together, while Lu Danggui, Wang Yan, and Li Qiusheng stayed behind to guard Zhuguan Mountain.
...
As soon as Xia Chuhe entered the instance, it was as if a loudspeaker had been plugged into his head, with catchy electronic music filling every corner of the hotel lobby.
A group of small, round, white robots with flat heads were running around the hall, constantly shouting into the microphone, "Please make way! Please make way! Please make way!"
If you ignored the tiny robots all over the floor, Xia Chuhe would almost think he had returned to a modern hotel.
A small robot rushed over and screeched to a halt in front of Xia Chuhe: "Please take your room key."
A room key lay quietly on the flat top of the little robot's head.
Xia Chuhe reached out and took it; the room card had the room number—1022—stamped on it.
The little robot circled around the five people one by one, distributing room cards.
Everyone had their own room key, and Bao'er was no exception. The room numbers ranged from 1022 to 1026.
After handing out the room key, the little robot circled around and said, "Have a pleasant stay."
Xia Chuhe politely inquired, "Hello, could you please change us to a double room?"
The little robot says, "Have a pleasant stay."
Xia Chuhe frowned and asked again.
The little robot leaned back slightly, pointed its camera at Xia Chuhe, said "Have a pleasant stay," and then quickly glided away to continue distributing room cards to other guests.
After looking around and not seeing any hotel staff members with carbon-based life forms, the group decided to take the elevator to check out their rooms first.
The hotel has four elevators: the two on the left stop on floors 1-10, and the two on the right stop on floors 11-20.
The leftmost elevator was stopped on the first floor, and there were seven or eight people standing inside.
Xia Chuhe and the others didn't wait for the next elevator; they went straight in and packed the elevator to the brim.
The elevator slowly ascended to the third floor, and the elevator doors opened—
A small robot stood outside, pressing the open button, its camera coldly staring at the people inside the elevator, remaining silent.
No one moved inside the elevator, while a robot outside the elevator pressed the open button and remained stationary.
The tense atmosphere inside and outside the elevator was as if a teacher had just asked a question, and the students sitting below were all silently praying, "Don't call on me!"
Finally, the resident at the very back of the elevator broke the silence: "Make way for it, let it in. If you don't let it in, nobody's leaving."
The outermost member, Bu Yiwei, went out reluctantly and let the robot in.
Just as Bu Yi was about to squeeze into the elevator, the elevator doors closed without warning.
The robot, no longer aloof outside the elevator, spoke with a cheerful voice: "I'll perform a magic trick for everyone: pressing the elevator button from a distance."
Bu Yi couldn't squeeze onto the elevator and only managed to say, "You guys go up first, I'll wait for the next one."
People crammed into elevators don't have it easy either.
The robot appears to have a separate elevator control system inside, and the elevator does not start running immediately even when the doors are closed.
Because the robot had another request: "Please make way, I want to stand in the middle. Please make way, I want to stand in the middle..."
It seems that unless it's placed in the middle, the elevator won't move.
The people in the elevator struggled to move to make way for it.
As Bao'er moved around, her arm accidentally brushed against the robot's "body." The robot switched to a child's voice and shouted angrily, "Don't touch me! Don't touch me! Don't touch me!"
Bao'er, at a loss, raised her hands to show her innocence.
Then, he received sympathetic glances from others.
No one dared to speak up for Bao'er.
After everyone finally managed to make way for the robot in the center, the robot slowly moved towards the very center, even kindly reminding Xia Chuhe along the way: "Please move your feet back, please move your feet back, please move your feet back..."
From the hotel lobby to the elevator, Xia Chuhe was furious with this thing. In this situation, she was not going to back down. What could a little piece of metal do to her?!
Then, Xia Chuhe's foot was mercilessly trampled by the small wheel, causing his eyebrows to furrow instantly in pain.
The robot emitted a cloying, bubbly voice and said in a sarcastic tone, "I didn't bump into you, did I?"
Xia Chuhe was speechless at the robot's antics and was thinking of secretly getting revenge by kicking it.
The robot, however, seemed to have anticipated this, reminding everyone in a bubble-like voice: "Friendly reminder: Damaging valuable items in this hotel will require you to pay for them at cost."
Xia Chuhe gritted his teeth and timidly withdrew his foot, which had been poised to cause trouble.
She endured it for the sake of money.
Xia Chuhe suppressed her vengeful impulses in action, but in her heart, she was plotting her revenge. In her twenty-odd years of life, she had never suffered such humiliation. How could a dignified carbon-based life form be defeated by an artificial human?!
The robot stood in the center, and everyone silently continued to ascend the elevator, the atmosphere inside and outside filled with a sense of humiliation.
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