Chapter 34: It's not asking, it's clearly snatching
Bang!
The man who snatched the chocolate and ran away was suddenly knocked to the ground by something.
Xiao Li opened his eyes wide in surprise: "Sister Lan, you?"
"Well, I don't like him."
The thing that knocked the man down was a piece of broken stone that Qiao Lan picked up from the ground.
A stone flew over and hit the man right in the crook of his legs, and he fell to the ground.
The man had already been beaten quite badly, and after falling so hard, he couldn't get up easily.
Qiao Lan walked over under Xiao Li's admiring gaze, pinched his wrist, and easily took the two chocolates that the man had snatched in her hand.
The white-haired old man looked at Qiao Lan and sighed.
"Come and get it, I'm too lazy to walk back." Qiao Lan called him.
The old man was surprised, "...You don't want it?"
"don't want."
Why do I need these two small pieces of chocolate? I have plenty of space to eat.
The old man walked over in disbelief, with an expression on his face that seemed to be in line with his expectations that Qiao Lan would snatch the chocolate and run away.
Qiao Lan returned the chocolate to him and motioned him to look around. "You'd better eat it now, otherwise someone will snatch it away later."
Nearby, a group of dusty-looking people stared at the chocolate with shining eyes.
The old man unwrapped a chocolate and ate it. He wanted to give the other one to Qiao Lan, "Thank you, I'll give this to you."
"I don't want it."
Qiao Lan took Xiao Tang and Xiao Li through the ruins in front of the building and entered the Cuihua Hotel.
The old man looked at Qiao Lan's back in silence, his eyes a little melancholy.
whoosh!
Just as Qiao Lan and his companions entered the restaurant, the other piece of chocolate in the old man's hand that he had not eaten was snatched away by a person who approached him stealthily.
Then he quickly opened the package while running and put the chocolate into his mouth before anyone else could grab it.
The old man was stunned.
He looked at his empty hands, then at the person who was trying to grab the things, and sighed deeply.
He shook his head helplessly and tried to leave.
But he was soon surrounded by people around him.
"Grandpa, is there anything to eat?"
"Please give me some. I've been hungry for a long time and am about to pass out."
"Grandpa, please..."
The old man was being pulled by the arms and his clothes were being torn, and he looked helpless.
"It's really gone. I only have those two pieces left..."
The starving people turned his clothes over from top to bottom. They were not begging, but robbing.
But I found nothing.
Everyone dispersed disappointed.
Two people were particularly disappointed and punched him in anger.
The man who had snatched the chocolate at the beginning and was knocked down by Qiao Lan laughed shrilly when he saw this scene.
He spat at the old man, "You deserve it! You might as well give it all to me!"
The old man was pushed to the ground, his clothes disheveled. It took him a long time to slowly stand up.
Looking up, he carefully examined the towering hotel building.
"The world has finally become like this."
“No, it’s actually been like this for a long time.”
“Humans…”
The sadness in his eyes grew thicker and thicker, as thick as substance.
It was like a sudden frost, and the sparkling lake water froze overnight.
People around were searching in the ruins in groups of three or five, just like the wild cats and dogs rummaging through trash cans on the roadside in the normal world before.
No one paid any attention to the old man anymore.
No one knows when he disappeared.
…
Inside the Tsui Wah Hotel.
Qiao Lan took two friends and went up from the first floor to the second floor, and from the second floor to the third floor, one floor at a time.
I didn’t take the elevator because the battery was out, so I had to climb the stairs.
Even if there is electricity, Qiao Lan would not take the elevator. He still has to collect supplies.
She stopped at every floor, walked around the corridors and guest rooms, and when no one was looking, she put away the things she liked.
Things like carpets, curtains, beds, tables, cabinets, and even doors.
Any place that is out of reach of surveillance cameras and where no one is watching is where she stocks goods.
The hotel was in a mess and there were many people, but they were either running around in a hurry or huddled in a corner with a pale face and resting their eyes, so no one paid attention to Qiao Lan, and she collected the supplies quite smoothly.
Along the way, I listened to the conversations of people nearby, stopped a few people and asked them, and got a general understanding of the situation here.
There were quite a few people staying at the Tsui Wah Hotel during these seven days.
On the day when the wind stopped for the first time, so many people rushed here to take shelter that the room price increased tenfold, but the rooms were still full, with thousands of people crammed in. In the end, there was no room for more guests, and even the conference hall, dining room, entertainment and sports hall and other ancillary facilities were used as accommodation.
Of course, those who live in the hall also have to pay, and it is very expensive.
There were many wealthy people staying at the hotel, but even more ordinary people. Most people were left with nothing after paying for their rooms, and the hotel also charged extremely high prices for food and drink these days, so many people who didn't bring their own food had to go hungry.
For those who were really hungry, the hotel didn't let them starve to death. They just gave them some bread and steamed buns in very small quantities, and asked them to work for the hotel in exchange for meals, working as temporary cleaners and waiters. They had endless work to do every day, but they could only get a small piece of bread in return.
The exploitation is severe.
It’s not that there were no troublemakers, but they were all suppressed forcefully by the hotel’s improvised security team.
As the storm continued, the outside world became increasingly chaotic, and the exploitation within the hotel became more and more serious.
The starving people who were snatching things that Qiao Lan and the other two met outside the hotel had suffered enough in the hotel, so they rushed out to look for food as soon as the wind stopped.
"It seems that a hierarchy has been formed here in advance."
Qiao Lan thought to herself, this hotel owner is quite bold. Now that the apocalypse has just begun, most people's mentality has not changed yet and they are still waiting for rescue and official help, yet this guy dares to exploit and oppress others blatantly.
But it was none of her business, she was just looking for the chef.
Time is running out, we must find the father and son before the strong wind comes again.
"Excuse me, do you know where the hotel's kitchen staff are these days... Oh, no thanks."
Qiao Lan had just stopped a passerby to ask something when she saw a group of people pushing a young man towards them from the other side of the corridor.
Isn’t that young man the son of a father and son chef?
When they ate sushi, the nigiri sushi he prepared tasted so good that Qiao Lan could not forget it.
What's going on?
Why was he beaten and scolded by that group of people, as if he was being escorted all the way?
Soon they came up to him.
Qiao Lan looked at the young man and was about to speak, but the young man saw that Qiao Lan was surprised, and quickly winked at her and kept pouting.
What's the meaning?
It seems to be asking me to go quickly...
Qiao Lan didn't say anything.
The passersby who were stopped by Qiao Lan for questioning pulled Qiao Lan and the others to the wall, and everyone stood against the wall together.
Passersby even smiled apologetically at the group, "Thank you for your hard work, everyone, hehe..."
The group of people didn't even look at the young chef and marched him forward, around the corner, up the stairs, looking majestic and powerful all the way.
"What's going on?" Qiao Lan wondered.
Passersby whispered, "That young man must have made a mistake and was caught by the inspection team. He didn't end up well. Alas!"
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