Chapter 101
After laughing, No. 1 felt sad and asked with a tearful face, "Will I never be able to change back? How can I meet people outside in this state? When they see me, they will definitely think I am a monster! I don't want to be a monster. What's the good of being a monster? Other monsters are immortal, and they can cast magic spells with a wave of their hands. They can fly into the sky, create fire and blow wind out of thin air.
What can I have? I have nothing! Not only do I have nothing, I have lost everything I used to have. What should I do? I can't live like this! Wuuwuwu——"
As he spoke, he became emotional and burst into tears. Tears fell one after another in small grains as big as beans. He looked very pitiful and sad. However, his face was still bloody, and only Leyuan and Jongin could comfort him. If he walked out, he would get the same treatment as he had predicted, and he would not like it.
Now that he knows this, he can't go out now.
But he was not a hotel employee, so how could he never go out? It was impossible not to face the facts.
The problem is that even if he is a hotel employee, he can't stay here forever. Who knows if there will be layoffs here like outside? If there is, once it happens, he can't guarantee that he won't be fired.
Moreover, if other hotels lay off employees, they will be out of work. But if they lay off employees here, the original employees may become part of the hotel's food ingredients and even lose their own lives. What else do they want?
When Number One thought of this, he felt even more sad. He couldn't help but burst into tears and cried even louder.
Even Lok Won and Jongin's attempts to comfort him were drowned out by his crying.
Leyuan and Jongin looked at each other and decided there was nothing more to say, so they just waited for him to finish crying.
The guests nearby were unhappy, looked at each other, confirmed their attitudes, and one of the guests moved the water flow and moved closer.
Number One's crying stopped abruptly. He looked around and suddenly realized that he was surrounded. He became even more scared and hid next to Leyuan and Jongin. If it wasn't so difficult to squeeze next to the two of them, he would have wished he was in their arms, as that was the safest place.
Number One grasped Paradise's clothes pitifully and whispered, "You can't leave me. I came here for you two."
Le Yuan smiled and brushed his hand away, almost sneering, and approached No. 1 and asked softly: "Hey, didn't you say before that you came here voluntarily, and if something happens, it's better than being outside, isn't that what you said? Are you regretting it now? If you say so, I will ignore you. How long do you think you can stay here alone?"
It's all my credit that you're still alive today. I can abandon you at any time, so you'd better not make me unhappy.
Number One immediately realized what Paradise was talking about and quickly laughed, "I was just talking nonsense!"
The gloomy atmosphere of Leyuan just now disappeared with his smile. He was still smiling, but it didn't seem so scary at this time. Number One looked at Leyuan eagerly waiting for a reply. Leyuan said to him very gently: "Don't worry, I won't throw you away. You are still useful. As long as one day you are no longer useful, I will no longer keep you.
Then you will be free.”
Number One wanted to cry but had no tears: "I don't want to! How can being thrown away be a relief? That's not a good thing. Unless I can go home by myself, but in the current situation, it's obviously impossible. I'm not a fool."
Leyuan laughed and said, "I thought you were a fool. You believed everything I said and could be fooled by just a few words."
The guest across from me seemed to have lost his patience and started to speak. The sound was like a vibrator covered with a layer of plastic film jumping around in the kitchen basin, or like a bunch of bees circling around a broken nest and going crazy. It was almost like shouting: "What on earth are you doing?"
Jongin said, "As you can see, we are here to soak in the hot springs. Isn't this normal? What else can we do in the hot spring area if we don't soak in the hot springs?"
The guest was annoyed: "But you are not only here to soak in the hot springs, you are not only chattering and disturbing others' sleep, but also making your brains seem to explode. You have not yet realized your own problems, and you are still like this! Like this!"
Jongin glanced at No. 1 and asked the guest in confusion, "How is it?"
The guest said angrily, "You are being unreasonable and making too much noise. If you continue to do this, you will not be allowed to soak in the hot spring here. Either go somewhere else or be quiet. Otherwise, we cannot stay in the same room like this! Do you think this is your private hot spring? Of course not! We will not give way. Do you understand?"
Jongin nodded, "Understood."
The guest snorted coldly, turned his head and walked away.
His body paused for a moment, as if he realized after he walked away that he hadn't finished speaking yet, but it was not a good time to turn around and say more, so he hesitated for a moment and continued to walk away.
The second guest came closer. He looked quite gentle, with a warm smile on his face, but it looked a little green.
Number One was a little scared of the color green, and hid behind Le Yuan for a while. Le Yuan pulled him out and said, "I told you not to do this, or else I would lose control and kill you before they do anything to you! You know I don't like people to deliberately follow me, right?"
Number One nodded: "I understand. I'm sorry. I won't do it again next time."
Leyuan looked at him doubtfully: "That may not be the case, but if it is possible, that would be the best. Just remember it. It's not a big deal, but I may not show mercy next time I encounter such a thing, so just be prepared."
Number One nodded.
The second guest started talking to Jongin: "Hello, I haven't seen you here before. Where are you from?"
Jongin blinked and smiled, "Oh, we are from outside."
The second guest asked: "What outside? Outside where? Hotel? Actually, I have left the hotel before, I know what the outside of the hotel looks like before, I am sure I have never seen you before, and it is unlikely that creatures like you will appear in the place I saw. Can you tell me the truth?"
Jongin said, "If you're so interested, why don't you go out and take a look now?"
The guest smiled and shook his head: "You don't have to lie to me like this. I know that if I go out now, I won't find anything. You are not from this world."
Jongin suddenly asked, "Do you have a translator with you?"
The customer took out an eyeball and answered Jongin, "Yeah, look, it's cute, isn't it?"
Jongin looked at the customer and asked, "What's going on with this thing?"
The guest held the eyeball in his palm and stretched out a little fingernail to tease the eyeball. The eyeball twisted and turned twice, moving in the palm of his hand to avoid it, and even made a chirping sound, which was quite cute. He smiled and said, "Look, isn't it cute?"
Jongin took a step back.
The guest raised his head, his face full of eyes, and smiled, "You don't have to be so wary of me. I just thought that you seemed to want to know something, so I told you something! It's very simple, you saw it, you know it, you are fine, right? There is nothing wrong with you. What are you wary of? Me? In fact, you can rest assured that I will not hurt you."
Number One muttered, "Not hurting doesn't mean not killing. Hurting and killing are two different states, but both are bad things that cause pain and emotional avoidance to others. Am I right?"
He went to Paradise, trying to find comfort.
Leyuan pushed him away and said, "Watch your face. If you keep moving like this, you won't be able to save your face."
Number One touched his sagging face, sighed, and couldn't help feeling sad again: "Wuwuwu - why am I so miserable? Why am I so miserable? Others haven't encountered such a thing, but I have. I'm so sad. I wish I weren't so sad. Sadness itself is worth being sad about, wuwu -"
Leyuan interrupted him: "Okay, even if you want to be sad, go to your room and be sad, not here. Didn't the guest just come to us and tell us? Don't cry here, it will affect other guests' enjoyment of the hot spring."
Number One paused, sniffed, looked at the park and asked, "Can I return to my original form?"
Le Yuan said, "Of course you can. If you can do it, I won't stop you."
Number One smiled bitterly and asked, "So even you guys can't solve this problem?"
The park thought for a moment and said, "Not necessarily, but we have to soak in the hot springs now and we can't go out. It feels bad to give up halfway. It also feels bad to suddenly find something that needs to be dealt with immediately. So, I will not leave here immediately for you. You are not important enough to me. If it were Jongin, I would act immediately."
Le Yuan looked at him and asked, "Do you understand what I mean?"
Number One nodded: "I understand."
He lowered his head and said, "I know you have a good relationship and good feelings. I am just a latecomer. Nothing counts. It's all my own will. I know, but I still feel a little unwilling. You said, if it was him, you would definitely help, and immediately. But, but, is the gap between us really that big? Can't I make up for it? I really want to change back!"
Number One blinked and shed a tear. It was obvious that he was trying his best to hold back.
Leyuan stroked his hair that looked like green grass and comforted him, "Don't worry, you are much more important than others. It's already good enough. If it were others, I wouldn't even bother to pay attention to them."
Number One nodded, and asked with a forced smile, "Then maybe you can find a solution for me after you soak in the hot spring?"
Rakuen nodded: "Yes."
This sounds a bit like coaxing a kid in kindergarten.
Number One blinked his eyes and burst into laughter. It was obvious that he realized that something was wrong with his current situation and it was not just an emotional problem.
Paradise thought for a moment and said, "Okay, go and have fun by yourself. I want to rest for a while before going out again."
Number One nodded: "Oh, I won't go far."
Paradise said, “I understand.”
The second customer took off an eyeball from his face and handed it to Jongin: "I'll give it to you as a meeting present. How about that? It's very beautiful."
It was a blue-green eyeball, very beautiful indeed, as beautiful as the finishing touch of a blue-emerald jewellery.
However, Jongin inexplicably disliked this thing, not because it was an eye, but a certain aversion, like when he saw someone he hated had this thing before. He no longer remembered why he hated that person, how he hated that person, or what that person looked like, but he remembered that he hated the related thing, and that's why he became like this.
Helpless, baffled, angry and amused.
Jongin had no choice but to pass the item to Leyuan. Leyuan looked at it and shook his head. He didn't like it very much either, so he passed it to No.1 and said to him, "Maybe this thing can protect you."
Number One took it, hesitated for a moment and murmured, "It seems so. If that's the case, it's not impossible to accept it. I'll keep it. If anyone wants to use it, they can ask me for it."
He nodded and put his eyeballs into the pocket of his white bathrobe.
He squinted his eyes, leaned back, and quietly pressed against something, maintaining his body posture in a half-asleep and half-awake state, and let out a chuckle, which gradually turned into the sound of breathing. He looked much more relaxed and comfortable.
It's also much quieter.
The second guest smiled at Paradise and said, "Hello."
He looked around the park and suddenly said, "You all look exactly the same."
Leyuan frowned and said, "Your words are not nice. It seems that we have no personality and no independence and are just ordinary individuals. It doesn't sound good at all. Didn't you learn etiquette and manners before entering here?"
The second guest laughed out loud: "I don't care about those things! Only trash needs those useless things to prove themselves great. In fact, the more polite a place is, the more trash there is taking up a lot of good resources. I find it funny whenever I see it. I will never learn those useless things."
Jongin grasped the point, raised his eyebrows and asked, "You mean, if those things become useful, you will learn them?"
The second guest nodded: "Yes."
He smiled at Jongin and said, "What? You have a way to turn those useless things into useful things? Haha! If you really have that ability, it's not impossible for me to learn a little bit. I'm just afraid that you may not have that ability."
Le Yuan blinked and said, "So that's how it is. If you were about to die and could survive by learning etiquette, would you be willing to do it?"
The second guest shook his head: "No, no, if it comes to that, etiquette is not etiquette, but profit. I am doing it for profit, not for etiquette. I want to make it clear that I have no interest in etiquette! But I have a lot of ideas about profit."
As he spoke, he smiled at Paradise, revealing a mouth full of snow-white shark teeth mixed with bright red. He looked less and less like a human.
Leyuan looked at his teeth and asked, "Don't you think it's inconvenient for you to eat like this?"
The second guest laughed even louder. "Don't you know that only weaklings care about their own teeth or other people's teeth? I don't care! My teeth are in great condition. Thank you for your concern. How are your teeth? Why don't you open your mouth and let me see?"
As he spoke, he came over.
Leyuan punched him in the face, and with a bang, the eyeballs on his face exploded one by one, just like the feeling of a cockroach corpse bursting out after being smashed by a slipper. With a burst of thunder, a slightly harder eyeball flew out from his face, like a baseball that was hit off target and was about to fly into someone else's glass window, and with a bang, it fell into the water.
It looks like it has been dropped into someone else's house, because it is very difficult to find it back.
Unless otherwise specified.
The second guest covered his face, uttered a cry, and waved to the outside. The eye that had flown out came back, and with two arms and legs smaller than bean sprouts, or tentacles like jellyfish, it swam rapidly in the water and flew into the guest's cheek like an arrow from a bow. The guest removed the hand that was covering his cheek.
The park clearly saw that the guests' faces were full of eyes, twice as many as before, as if a cockroach egg case that had already hatched had been broken open and the little cockroaches inside had crawled out. There were so many of them, more than there were originally in the house, so many that there was almost no place to stand, and it was extremely crowded.
The only difference may be that when the baby cockroach is born, it is translucent, the size of rice grains, and wriggling orange-red. It even looks a little cute. Its eyes are also translucent, a little smaller than rice grains, wriggling, and overflowing with a sticky, transparent liquid like tears. It has no smell, but it looks very bad and is really not cute.
The guest looked up at the high ceiling, let out a long breath, and uttered an "ah". With a sunny smile on his face, he looked at the amusement park: "You are really too violent. Disgusting."
Leyuan frowned.
He doesn't like this guest very much.
The second guest tried to get to the front of the amusement park but was blocked by Jongin. Jongin didn't show any mercy and kicked him. With a bang, the second guest glided across the water like a hard stone, and the water around him looked like the water you see when skipping stones.
The second guest laughed out loud: "Okay, okay, you have already pissed me off. I was going to talk to you nicely! But since you are so ignorant, I will kill you now! Kill you!"
The waiter appeared from the shadows in the corner like a ghost at some point, and walked out slowly. As the second guest's voice gradually faded, he walked to the guest's side, still standing on the tiles of the pool, bent down, lowered his head, looked at the second guest, and said very gently, calmly, and rationally: "I'm sorry, guest, we don't support fighting in the hot spring here."
The second guest's voice was stuck for a moment, and his face turned red, as if he was embarrassed and angry.
It looks like it's about to burn.
The waiter's voice was as steady as a line of fate: "If you want to fight to the death, you are supported to enter the arena and fight for victory or defeat. We will not interfere in any way. Life and death are determined by fate, and wealth and honor are determined by God. Do you want to go to the arena?"
The second guest's face turned pale. He seemed to be thinking. After hesitating, he nodded and stared at Leyuan and Jongin. He then glanced at Number One who was about to fall asleep with his eyes squinted behind them. He sneered and whispered to the waiter next to him, "Okay, I want to go to the arena. I want them to go with me to the arena to fight! They can't leave unless we fight to the death!"
The waiter nodded and said, "Okay, sir, please leave the hot spring and follow me to the arena. I will lead the way and ensure that you don't get lost along the way."
Getting lost in a hotel is still very dangerous.
The second guest nodded and was about to go ashore.
The waiter asked again: "Excuse me, sir, who will pay for the use of the arena?"
The second guest thought for a moment, waved his hand and said, "I'll pay! They're going to die anyway, there's no point asking them to pay. What's more, if I ask them to pay, I'm afraid they don't have any money. In the end, I'll still need to pay myself. It's better for me to pay now. If I win, the money is still mine. If I lose, I'll just treat it as the money for my life. It's not too bad."
At least there is still a fight."
The waiter appeared beside Paradise and Jongin and asked them to leave the hot spring and go out to the arena for a victory or defeat competition.
Number One opened his eyes and asked, "What about me?"
The waiter smiled and said, "You can go with us, but you have to pay an extra fee for the arena. If the contestant you bet on wins, you can get a free meal. If the contestant you bet on loses, you have to pay an extra fee as compensation for the loser."
Number One's face gradually fell: "Why do I have to pay? Does that mean I have to pay no matter how long I go there? I feel so bad!"
He was a little hesitant, thinking that it would be okay to just forget about it, as it wouldn't matter if he didn't go.
Leyuan said, "Forget it. If you don't go, you will die somewhere at any time. I don't mean to look down on you or to say something frivolous. Don't you think this is not the truth?"
Number One looked toward the park and asked, "Who will pay for this?"
The park said, "You have a red envelope, don't you? Open it and see if there is any money inside. You can't just hang out here for free. The hotel has to do business, too. Let's be considerate of each other."
The waiter smiled and said, "Actually, if the guest has no money, the hotel supports debt-for-work and the rules of the game."
Number One mumbled and asked reluctantly, "What is debt-for-work? What are the rules of the game?"
He asked cautiously, "Are you asking me to die? I can't provide the kind of service you provide. Even if I were to become a staff member, I wouldn't be great, powerful, or skilled. I advise you to give up on this idea! Don't laugh."
The waiter said: "Work-for-debt means that guests can choose to work temporarily in the hotel, provide services to the hotel and guests as temporary staff, and use the staff's salary to pay off the debts consumed in the hotel."
Number One shouted, "This is good, this is good! I want to choose this one!"
The waiter smiled and said slowly, "This is indeed very good, but I have one thing to remind the guests. The guests who choose this path have not yet paid off their debts."
Number One's smile gradually disappeared.
The waiter smiled and said, "Guests can rest assured that they are working in the hotel for a long time just because they owe too much debt and the work can't pay off the debt. It's not because of other problems."
Number One said with a numb face: "Now that you say that, I'm even more worried~"
Leyuan laughed and said, "You look like you are scared to death."
Number One looked towards the amusement park. "It's not that I don't dare. It's just that there's no certainty for a long time. It's hard to say how long I'll have to stay here. If I'm not here now, it will be even worse if I stay here forever! If there's a chance, I will definitely leave. If there's no chance, how can I keep hope? If I despair here, there are many ways to die, right? No one will be affected by who dies.
When I think of that kind of future, I feel like I'm dying. I haven't made any choices yet, and it's just like this. I can't imagine what would happen if I really made a choice. I don't want to become like that, it's too scary. Besides, I'm already scary enough now, and it's hard to understand how I could get any scarier. I don't want to look in the mirror and not recognize what I look like or what I am.
That’s really pitiful.”
Leyuan listened to him mumbling, shook his head, looked at the waiter and asked, "What about the other option?"
The waiter said: "The hotel will provide such guests with a special game room. Guests only need to open the door, enter, play the game and then walk out. The job is done. The hotel will reduce the debt according to the guest's game performance and results. Compared with work, this choice is very popular with guests."
Number One was alert again: "It must be very unsafe, right? I knew it! You definitely don't have any safe projects. Damn, this is not a dangerous and thrilling amusement park. Who is here to die? I don't believe it. If they want to die, would they have no way to do it? If they want to die, would they come here on purpose? It seems that this is the only place in the world where you can kill people. Ha. Lie."
The service staff was of good quality. When questioned, they did not show a cold face, swear or lower the service quality. Instead, they said very gently: "Guest, if you don't want to, the hotel will not force you."
It sounds like "If you don't want to, go to hell! Do you think I care about you? I wish you all died, I would be so happy, I don't need to work, I am so happy! What do you know? You idiot, you don't know anything! Nothing."
Although he didn't say anything, just by standing there it seemed as if he had said everything.
Number One quickly wilted like a blade of grass that had lost its water.
He stopped talking.
The park asked: "Can you tell the guests what games are played in the special game room?"
The waiter smiled and said, "We have a rule that we cannot disclose these things casually, otherwise, the guests will not want to enter. However, if the guests want to know, they can try it themselves. According to my experience, after the guests enter and leave, they can disclose some unimportant things to the guests who are determined to be their team mates, but I cannot tell them. I'm sorry, guest.
Any other questions? If not, please come up now and I will take you to the arena."
The park asked: "Can we not go?"
The waiter shook his head and said, "No, guest, because the guest has already paid. We are responsible for the services that have been charged. The hotel has regulations and we cannot violate them. We cannot regret in front of the guests. We will not do anything to damage the reputation of the hotel. Please forgive us."
He lowered his head as he spoke, as if he was really apologizing.
Number One curiously leaned over to take a look, and suddenly discovered that the waiter's cheeks were reflective, allowing him to vaguely see the structure beneath the waiter's skin. It was not human flesh and blood, but blue-green rotating mechanical gears, some milky white fuzzy steam, and the seeds of hard nuts that crackled with a crackling sound. The skin was a light white chestnut color, and the inside was brown with a little bright red oil.
There were also some jumbled green plastic tubes that looked like someone was using them to suck out the waiter's brains.
Because of the color, the flowing slippery grease looked a bit like blood as the gears rotated, but No. 1 knew very well that it was not blood.
His eyes knew it, and his brain knew it.
It's so scary.
Number One murmured, "So cute."
He shuddered, came to his senses, and suddenly realized what he had seen. He was shocked, and then realized that he had said something terrible. He was even more shocked. His eyes widened, his mouth opened, he covered his face, lowered his head, and muttered, "I'm sick! I'm sick! I'm very sick, what should I do? I should go to the hospital, I should see a doctor, but I didn't.
There's nothing here, me, me? Wuuwuwu——"
He starts crying when he encounters a problem that he can't solve, as if crying can solve the problem, or maybe his physical changes have caused his sentimentality, it's hard to say.
Leyuan patted his shoulder and comforted him, "It's okay, you just saw something you shouldn't have seen, it's not like you suddenly went blind."
Number One blinked his eyes, which were almost swollen from crying, and said incoherently, "I don't want to see those things, especially when I see those things, I seem to be out of my mind and say strange things! I don't want to say those things! How can I live if someone hears me? They are so disgusting! Why do they appear in front of me? Why?
Is it all my fault? But I didn't want this to happen! I didn't ask them to come! Fuck them! I wish they would just die! Shameless bastards! When are they going to die? Fuck you! You! What the hell am I talking about? Shut up, shut up, shut up! "
He grabbed his head and shook it wildly. His brain was shaken and his hair fell off. His scalp also fell off and floated on the water. His face skin also fell off and floated on the water. He gradually laughed and made a giggling sound. The expression on his face changed into an exaggerated laugh as he laughed. He started to curse again: "Fuck you! Go to hell! Your mother! You know shit!"
Then he started laughing again: "Haha, what's wrong with me? My life couldn't be better. I have a place to live, I have food to eat, and there are so many living people around me. I have everything, I have everything, hahaha! You don't want to! You can't kill me! Don't try to torture me! You can take it away! You can't take it away. This is mine, all mine! Mine!"
Before he could finish his words, No. 1 covered his head and screamed, "It hurts, ahhhhh——"
He pulled out his head and threw it into the water. There was a hissing sound, like a gas leak or a balloon being pierced with a needle. Something was about to explode. He started laughing again, but this time he didn't say anything. He just grabbed the green water plants growing on his scalp and threw his head towards the edge of the pool.
His hair was broken off and his scalp was cracked. There were cracks all over his head and lush green aquatic plants began to grow inside. They looked well-nourished and his face was almost invisible as it floated on the water.
Seeing him like this, Leyuan couldn't persuade him, so he could only go to the side and pick up his face, thinking about sticking it back on him later, pretending that he hadn't fallen off yet.
Anyway, in the current situation, the only way out is to deceive yourself.
It's good to have some shame, it's better than having no shame at all.
Moreover, although his current state is really miserable, isn't it true that someone has died? He is not the worst.
This is true.
Number One was tired from fighting, or maybe he was dizzy and slippery. He hugged his head, rolled his eyes, and lay back straight. Half of his body floated on the water, which was covered with lush green water plants, and the other half sank under the water, swaying like a dead body, as if it was chasing after the face.
The park picked up No. 1's face, and when he turned around, he saw that No. 1 had a problem with his body. He suddenly didn't want to move. The waiter stood by the pool and looked at him with a smile. When he saw him looking over, he asked in a gentle voice: "Do you need any help, guest?"
Leyuan asked: "If I need your help, do I need to pay you?"
The waiter said, "Of course, customers, money is needed everywhere, especially here, after all, we are a place open for business."
The park also felt a headache, waved his hand and said: "Forget it, I don't need you, just stand there, wait for me to pick it up and put it together, then I will follow you to the arena, okay?"
The waiter said, "It's not that I don't want to agree, but, sir, this is not for me to decide. The customer who is paying is very anxious, what do you think?"
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