Chapter 82 Ordering Food
Xie Liang and Xu He arrived during lunch. After feeling dizzy, Xu He helped him sit on the sofa, and then they both arrived.
This temporary stay looked like a Western restaurant, with golden printed tiles on the floor, several European-style round tables and a corresponding number of soft chairs.
The vortex gate has not opened yet and appears to be static.
Xie Liang saw a person lying on the ground who looked very much like Lu Bubu, so he hurriedly pulled Xu He over to confirm.
"It's really Bubu!" Xie Liang said as he pushed Lu Bubu who was lying on the ground.
Lu Bubu slowly woke up after being pushed by Xie Liang. It took him a while to react. "Holy crap! Bro!" He stood up and turned to see Xu He. He seemed surprised. "Damn! I almost forgot. If you're here, I have to be here too."
Lu Bubu usually makes a contract with Shi Xiaoyin. Thinking of this, Xie Liang quickly looked around.
There were some Adventers sitting in groups of three or four on the chairs at each table. There were not many people this time, roughly estimated to be only a dozen or so.
After searching around, they found Shi Xiaoyin, who had not yet woken up, under a table.
By the time they dragged Shi Xiaoyin out from under the table and woke her up, the door was already open.
When Shi Xiaoyin woke up, she saw Xie Liang and Xu He there, and she sighed that the four of them were finally together again.
Lu Bubu looked at the people entering and said, "Let's go too. Let's go in first and talk later!"
Xie Liang nodded: "Let's go."
A few people followed the crowd towards the vortex gate, and everyone entered the gate one after another.
This time, all the adventers were thrown into the same place, and more than a dozen people stood together in an open space on the side of the road.
Across the street is a two-story Western restaurant. Through the glass wall, you can see the tables and chairs inside. The sign says "Find Me" and there is a menu display stand on the left side of the door.
Xie Liang looked at the time. It was now half past ten in the morning. Except for the area around the restaurant, the farther places were shrouded in fog.
"Find me? Why does this restaurant have such a weird name?" Shi Xiaoyin said.
At this moment, a person from across the street waved his hand and ran towards them.
The man was wearing a black suit and had his leather shoes polished to a shine. He ran while shouting, "Why are you here so late?"
The man ran up to them, took a few breaths, and said, "Mr. Liu is waiting for you inside. After you have dinner with him, remember to send him back. He's like that. He always can't find his home after dinner. Send him back and you can leave."
The man looked at his watch again and said to himself, "Oh no, I'm leaving now."
Lu Bubu grabbed the man's hand and said, "Wait! Explain yourself before you leave. Who is Mr. Liu?"
The man's expression suddenly changed, and he impatiently pushed Lu Bubu away: "How should I know? Go find it yourself!"
The man was standing in front of Xie Liang. When he spoke, Xie Liang smelled a hint of alcohol coming from his mouth.
"So if we find him, can we just have a meal and send him back and then leave?" Shi Xiaoyin asked.
The man looked at her expressionlessly and said, "You can stay here if you don't want to leave."
Then, no matter what questions the people who gathered around him asked him, he just walked towards the foggy city.
Two unwilling descenders even chased the man out of the fog. After a long time, Xie Liang still didn't see them come back.
The descenders walked into the western restaurant one after another, and Xie Liang and his group followed the crowd into the restaurant.
After Xie Liang and the others walked in, the receptionist at the door bowed mechanically: "Good morning, welcome!"
Xie Liang glanced at the dishes on the menu display. The chef's recommended dishes today were: creamy foie gras, chicken liver pâté, and pan-fried lamb kidneys...
All of them are dishes related to offal, which makes people feel very weird.
The layout of the restaurant is the same as that of an ordinary Western restaurant. There are more than a dozen tables scattered on the first floor, just like the temporary residence. There are two or three customers sitting at each table, about thirty people in total.
The entire first floor is decorated with green plants, small rockery and flowing water. The environment is elegant and spacious.
The people who had entered earlier were walking around the tables on the first floor, constantly asking the customers sitting at their seats, "Who is Mr. Liu?" and "Where is Mr. Liu?"
Xie Liang asked in confusion: "Those people sitting at the table don't have any food on their plates."
Hearing this, Lu Bubu looked at the surrounding tables and said, "Damn! It can't be such a coincidence, right? Did they come in at the same time?"
Xie Liang shook his head: "I don't know, but at the moment, this restaurant only has two waitresses besides the receptionist."
One of the waitresses had long hair tied up behind her head, and the other had short hair that reached her ears.
Two waiters were gathered around a table, reaching out to pull a noisy Adventer who was standing on the table.
The descender was wearing a green plaid shirt and holding an iron plate and a fork in each hand, which made a clanging sound.
“Bang, bang, bang!” Every time the man stopped hammering, he would yell, “Who is Mr. Liu! Who is Mr. Liu!”
No matter how noisy these adventers were, the customers at the table remained unmoved and looked like they were waiting seriously for their food to be served.
The two waiters were not very strong, and when they saw that they couldn't pull the man down, they whispered to each other. After a while, one of the waiters with long hair ran towards the back kitchen of the restaurant.
Not long after, the waitress came back with a burly man in chef's clothes holding a large shovel.
The long-haired waitress smiled suddenly and asked the man standing at the table, "Sir, are you here to eat or to see someone?"
"Of course—" The man was about to answer when he was interrupted by a tall Adventist next to him: "We are here to look for someone named Mr. Liu! Where is he?"
The waiter smiled and asked, "Sir, are you here to dine?"
"Of course not! Grandpa is here to look for someone!" The tall man said as he walked upstairs, muttering, "If you don't help me find it, I'll go find it myself."
At this moment, the burly chef walked towards the tall man and suddenly shoveled the sharp iron shovel at the tall man's head. In just one or two seconds, the tall man's head rolled to the ground like a ball.
The body, separated from the head, twitched and fell to the ground, and the ground was instantly soaked with red blood gushing from the neck!
The tall man died before he even had time to react!
There was a sudden silence all around, and everyone was shocked by this scene.
The chef bent down expressionlessly, grabbed the head by the hair with one hand and lifted it up, then stood up holding the ankle of the corpse with the other hand, then dragged the corpse to the back kitchen.
After the chef entered the kitchen, two men in gray work clothes holding mops and buckets quickly came out and quickly cleaned up the mess on the floor.
In a short while, the blood-stained gold-printed tiles were cleaned by them, and they reflected the light of the golden chandelier spotlessly.
After cleaning, the two men left with the bucket.
The man in the green plaid shirt finally reacted. He quickly jumped down from the dining table and sat on the chair beside the table as if he was scared silly.
Xie Liang and the others followed him to the door of the back kitchen. There was a sign on the ground in front of the door saying "No entry for unauthorized persons, consequences at your own risk."
Xie Liang thought about it and decided to follow him in to take a look, but Shi Xiaoyin stopped him: "Don't go in yet, figure out the rules here first."
At this time, the two waiters surrounded them and asked, "Sir, are you here to eat?"
Xie Liang looked at the customers and the Adventers on the first floor and said, "Yes, was that your chef just now?"
"Yes, sir."
Two waiters came over and blocked the kitchen door: "Sir, if you are here to eat, please take a seat."
At this moment, several Adventers who had gone to the second floor returned to the first floor. They shouted, "There's no one on the second floor, and the lights are off! Mr. Liu must be among those people on the first floor!"
The group was about to start a quarrel, but two women held them back. After a few words, they randomly chose a table and sat down.
"Let's find a place to sit down first." Shi Xiaoyin said.
They chose a table where two female customers were sitting. Xie Liang asked them if they were Mr. Liu, but the two women just smiled and said nothing.
No matter how they asked, the two women were like robots and could only smile foolishly.
It wasn't just these two female customers; the customers sitting at other tables were all the same, as if they were just mindless puppets.
The two waitresses began to go to each table with a menu and a small notebook to ask the newcomers what they wanted to eat.
"There are fifteen tables here, and the person sitting at each table could be that damn Mr. Liu. What should we do?" asked Lu Bubu.
Shi Xiaoyin said, "Do you think this will work? We'll have dinner with them one by one. After fifteen meals, it will be considered as having eaten with Mr. Liu."
Xie Liang shook his head: "Even if we happened to have dinner with Mr. Liu, we don't know which one is Mr. Liu, and we still have the task of sending him home waiting for us."
"Then why don't we cooperate with other adventers and send them back separately?" said Shi Xiaoyin.
Xie Liang hesitated and said, "But there are only a dozen of us, and there are more than 30 customers eating here. This..."
"We can only take a gamble. Choose someone who looks more likely to be Mr. Liu, follow them, and send them back." Shi Xiaoyin said, looking at Xu He, who had been sitting next to Xie Liang without saying a word. "Brother He, do you have any ideas?"
Xu He shook his head: "Not at the moment."
After a while, the short-haired waiter came to their table.
She handed the menu to one of the female customers, and the two women started whispering to each other.
They ordered a few dishes recommended by the chef on the menu board at the door.
After they ordered, they handed the menu to Xu He. Xu He didn't order anything and put the menu on the table.
The waitress said mechanically, "Sir, please order."
Lu Bubu shouted at her, "What's the rush? Wait a minute!"
"Yes, sir."
Lu Bubu picked up the menu and walked towards Xie Liang and Shi Xiaoyin: "Look at it, which one should we order?"
After watching for a while, Lu Bubu yelled, "Damn! A plate of vegetarian pasta for a hundred yuan! This is a shady place!"
Shi Xiaoyin nodded in agreement, "It's a shady shop. They dare to charge 60 yuan for a glass of lemonade!"
Xie Liang glanced at the waiter who was reluctant to leave. She would definitely not leave without ordering any dishes. It seemed that she would not leave until he ordered at least one dish.
Xie Liang whispered, "Do you have any money in your pocket?"
"Wait a minute, let's look through it." Shi Xiaoyin said as he and Lu Bubu searched their bags and pockets respectively. After a while, they only found eighty yuan.
Xie Liang sighed: "I can only drink a glass of lemonade..."
"Brother, does this restaurant really charge us money?" asked Lu Bubu.
Shi Xiaoyin rolled his eyes at him: "Do you think there is a free restaurant?"
At this time, Xu He took out a black leather wallet from his trouser pocket and handed it to Xie Liang.
Lu Bubu and Shi Xiaoyin's eyes lit up, and the way they looked at each other was as if there were millions in their wallets.
Xie Liang opened his wallet under their gaze. The first thing that caught his eye was his solo photo. In the photo, he was lying on the table, playing a mobile game attentively. I don't know when Xu He took the photo.
"Sir, please order!" The annoying voice had begun to become impatient.
"I know! Why are you urging me so much?" said Lu Bubu.
Xie Liang counted and found a total of 1,000 yuan in cash in his wallet, and the rest were various bank cards, including gold cards, black cards, red cards, white cards...
Xie Liang took out all the money: "Now we have 1,080 yuan, we can order food."
Shi Xiaoyin and Lu Bubu withdrew their gaze and sat up straight.
Xie Liang asked the waiter, "Can you pay by credit card here?"
"Excuse me sir, we only accept cash here. Please order as soon as possible, you only have one minute and fifty-three seconds left."
Shi Xiaoyin hurriedly said, "Quick, just order something cheap first!"
Xie Liang quickly ordered a glass of lemonade, but the waiter still didn't leave. She then asked Xu He and the other two, "Sir, it's your turn to order."
It wasn't until they ordered four lemonades that the woman took the notebook and left.
"Two hundred and forty yuan for four glasses of water—that's a lot of money!" Lu Bubu said, sighing, "Brother He's wallet looks bulging. I thought he had at least a few thousand!"
Shi Xiaoyin rolled her eyes at him. "Are you stupid? Who would carry so much cash on them for no reason? Stop rambling. The two of us can only afford a glass of lemonade!"
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