Chapter 98
Pushing open the door, there is a huge indoor hot spring inside. The faucet that spits water is not painted gold, but solid flesh. When seeing the visitor, he even greeted: "How many guests, would you like some snacks?"
Number One asked, "What snacks?"
The leader smiled and said, "It's all in my head. Do you want some? Just open the lid and you can eat it. There are cold brain flower, bean curd cucumber, blanched blood vessels, and crispy and bursting eyeballs..."
Number One's expression changed slightly, and he shook his head and said, "Thank you, but I don't need it for the time being."
He said that for the time being, because he couldn't be sure whether he would change his mind in the future, it would be better not to mention death now, in case he needed it and couldn't find it.
The leader said, "Okay, you can always come to me if you need me."
After it finished speaking, it closed its eyes and remained motionless, but it was still releasing water. The water was hot, and it emitted a sulfurous smell and filled the room with white mist. There were water droplets everywhere. The ceiling and walls were covered with tiles, as if they were worried about mold, but mushrooms grew in the corners of the walls, and the patterns on the walls seemed to be made up of mold.
Number One pointed at the mushrooms and mold and asked the waiter, "What are those?"
The waiter said: "It is the characteristic decoration of our hotel."
Yisen*Night*Organizer* asked: "Was it intentional or accidental?"
The waiter blinked and said, "It was neither intentional nor accidental. This is how it was designed from the beginning."
He paused, as if considering whether to tell a story. Seeing that the people around him did not seem to be in a hurry, he hesitated for a moment before speaking out: "Actually, at the beginning, the hotel was not here, so this place was just a ruin. Some places in the ruins are dark and humid, which is very suitable for some plants to grow. The plants attracted animals and it looked very beautiful.
People who came here felt that those things should not be destroyed, so the hotel accepted the suggestion and preserved these things as features. After they were built, the hotel invited guests to come and see them. The guests thought they were very good, so the hotel also pays a fee every year to let relevant staff maintain them to prevent them from dying accidentally.
Most guests had no objections, but a few who had objections went to separate rooms to soak in the hot springs. Excuse me, would you like to go to separate rooms?"
Number One shook his head.
I wasn't that scared, so why would I act like that? I didn't want to. If people thought I was scared, then I'd be done for. I don't know what kind of torture I'd have to endure on the road later. Besides, it's already bad enough now, so I didn't want to do that.
If you die on the road, can you not blame others but yourself? That's even more wrong!
The waiter said, "Okay, the locker is in the room next door. Guests can store their belongings there. The hotel will provide free items including but not limited to disposable white bathrobes, bath gowns, and facial wipes..."
He talked about a lot of things, and No. 1 was confused and nodded.
The waiter then left.
It was quiet here, and it seemed that there were suddenly fewer people. However, when No. 1 looked forward, he saw shadows sparsely scattered in the white mist, and there were still many people soaking in the hot spring, so it couldn't be said that there were few people.
However, it is hard to say whether the people in this hot spring are human.
Number One took the initiative to go to the next room to open the locker. Before leaving, the waiter gave each of them a key to the corresponding locker.
When No. 1 took the key to open the closet door, the key squirmed in his hand and turned into a huge insect with a golden surface and brown interior. It dove into the keyhole and squirmed twice. With a click, the closet door opened. A section of the insect was bitten off, which looked like the head part, or it might be the tail part, but it did not affect it.
Because the front and back of the insect look almost the same, you can't tell them apart.
Number One carefully pushed open the cabinet door and tentatively reached his hand into the darkness inside the cabinet. After feeling around for a while, he heard a chuckle from inside the cabinet, as if the person was itching. Number One quickly retracted his hand and looked at the cabinet. The bottom of the cabinet was indeed not flat, but bumpy, as if something was buried underneath.
After a while, the laughter stopped and the four sides of the interior of the cabinet returned to normal, as if everything was normal and there was no problem. Number One reached out his hand again, and louder laughter came from the cabinet, as if someone was deliberately trying to scare Number One. Number One was stunned for a moment and suddenly thought, forget it, there's nothing to be afraid of. Then he thought to himself, there's no need to torture the waiter here.
He plucked up his courage and fumbled around inside for a while, then took the thing out. Suddenly, there was a bright red tongue with a very rough surface inside, as if there was a cow hidden in the opposite wall, with only an exit of the cow's tongue that was just the right size. Therefore, only the cow's tongue could come out to disturb the guests. Number One trembled his arm, but still took the thing out and found that it was spotless.
Very clean.
It was so clean that it looked like a bowl that had just been licked by a stray dog.
Number One looked at the thing in his hand and fell into an indescribable silence.
Jongin came over and asked, "What's wrong?"
Number One shook his hands and asked, "Can I have another candy?"
Jongin asked, "Why? You hid one for yourself? And the plum one?"
Number One shook his head. "No, I mean, can you give me another piece of the red candy you just gave me? I feel uneasy now. If it's the candy with plums, I don't dare to eat it. The candy is colorful and looks very beautiful, but too beautiful. I always think that the things here are not that beautiful. I don't want to eat it."
Leyuan nodded and asked, "So, you were restless and wanted to find candy to eat. Why didn't you eat your own candy? If your candy was lost or given to others, then forget it. You are not going to die now. You want to eat candy here and there. Do you think that kind of candy is everywhere and you can get a handful of it just by looking for it? If there are so many, why only give you one?
Do you think we are stingy or do you think we hate you?
To be honest, we do dislike you a little. After all, you don't feel much different from the others, and you haven't proved that you are very different from them. It's good enough that we can take you with us. If you keep thinking about it and want to push your luck, don't blame us. We will ignore you. Even if we leave you here, you may not be able to walk out of the door of this hotel, right?
Do you think we won't be angry, or do you think we should just be your babysitters?"
Leyuan said, he was not angry at first, but he was angry inside, so he walked over, stared at No. 1 and asked, "What do you think?"
Number One felt a little aggrieved: "I didn't think anything."
He did have some crazy thoughts, but so what? Even the law does not stop people from thinking anything, let alone convicting people for thinking anything! Even if there were similar regulations in foreign countries in the past, the regulations required that even if you thought something bad about the royal family in your heart, you should be convicted, but what about the reality? Has anyone really been convicted for thinking something disrespectful to the royal family?
That may not be the case.
I'm afraid that some people want to attack political enemies or bully men and women, and they just casually made up a law to abolish it. It's like a witch hunt. If you are a witch, you are a witch. If you should be thrown into the river, you must be thrown into the river. a way to survive elsewhere? Of course not!
Because you have escaped the witch hunt of others, there are still the laws of society to punish you. It's ridiculous that if you survive, it is impossible not to break the law, because you will definitely want to curse the culprit who caused you to become a dying state. Even if you don't curse him out loud, you will curse him in your heart. If you can't survive, before you are killed, will you have no complaints?
Can't I even think about the complaints in my heart? How ridiculous!
A society where one person cannot break the law and survive no matter what, should be destroyed.
Otherwise, they should be abandoned, reformed, and dealt with. However, society is a collective name for a huge group of ignorant and stupid people. If a person cannot live alone until death away from society, then if a person insists on staying in society and dies, or if a person cannot escape from society and is killed, then it is society's fault.
Without a doubt.
Number One almost vomited again. Dense gooseneck vines grew on the surface of his skin, making him look like the plank of an old, rotten ship.
Very scary.
Zhong Ren slapped over, and with a bang, the gooseneck ivy pots on No. 1 fell off one after another and fell to the ground. They squirmed and crawled away. Some of them grew thin vine-like legs and waved their limbs in the air, swimming into the darkness and disappeared.
Number One shuddered and came to his senses: "Thank you."
This is subconscious.
Jongin frowned, "That's not what I did."
Number One nodded: "Yes, thank you."
Jongin stopped talking.
Leyuan asked: "Do you have anything else to say?"
Number One fell silent, thought for a while, and shook his head: "No more."
Paradise said, "There is no candy for you now, you know?"
Number One nodded.
Leyuan said: "I may not give it to you in the future, you know?"
Number One nodded.
Paradise said, "Okay, let's go."
Number One followed with the things in his hand.
A group of people returned to the hot spring. The water sometimes turned black and sometimes turned sulfur color. A smell of disinfectant came from the side, as if someone was cleaning and disinfecting outside.
Number One covered his nose and waved.
A group of people entered the hot spring. The temperature of the hot spring was just right, and the water was very gentle. Soaking in it was not painful at all, but very pleasant. Every pore of the body seemed to be open and breathing. Transparent round creatures with wings were flying around in the air, looking very busy, holding small fans and fanning people. The air seemed to have an extra layer of floral fragrance.
There was a quarrel not far away.
"It's your fault in the first place, why are you so shameless?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? It's obviously your fault! Don't blame me. I won't admit it. I'm not your mother. Are you crazy? You're looking for trouble here! Do you think the hotel won't care?"
The quarrel between the two people gradually escalated into a fight. They pushed each other in the hot spring. Suddenly, one of them slipped and fell into the water. Two unusual small bubbles appeared on the surface of the water. The bubbles burst and made gurgling sounds. The other person stood on the water, was stunned for a moment, and suddenly slipped into the water. It seemed that he was grabbed by the ankle and pulled under by someone below.
The guests here also like to watch the excitement. Number One sees a group of people gathered over there and wants to go over to see, but he feels unsafe to go alone, so he looks at the park and Jongin.
Paradise said: "Since you want to go, let's go and take a look."
Anyway, it's not us who are arguing or fighting. If it hits your head, it won't be too late to talk about it.
Number One was excited and happy. He nodded and swam over there like a dog paddle.
Lok Won and Jongin followed him to the side of the crowd.
From this position, you can see what's going on inside, but you can't go any further.
A purple-red tentacle began to wave, and there was a bang, as if something had been broken. The hot spring inside turned green with a layer of purple light on the surface, and it looked poisonous. Some people left quickly, while other guests stayed here to watch the excitement. They were not in a hurry and were not worried about being affected.
A twisted creature with horns on its head and a long tail behind it emerged from the water. It had countless white eyes on its face, black skin, and countless scales on its neck. A sticky green liquid was oozing out of the scales, giving off a smell of rotten fruit, and a bit like the sour smell of rice that had gone bad after being left out for a day and a night in the summer.
This thing let out a scream, and a bumpy head popped out from the water on the opposite side. It was impossible to tell where the skull was and where the edge was. All that could be seen was that the number of eyes was the same, and the color of both eyes was gradually getting darker, as if they were affected by the other, or as if they were poisoned by each other, and their bodies were getting worse and worse.
However, this body is tentacles, all of them, a bunch of purple-red tentacles that are somewhat tangled with each other. If the octopus tentacle in the takoyaki is one segment, the tentacles here are at least a thousand times larger than those tentacles. Seeing it up close in the scene is still a very shocking sight, not to mention the water droplets that were affected and flew up and hit the faces of the onlookers.
Countless eyes and small bumps quickly grew on the faces of those guests. When the bumps were popped, there was yellow sticky pus underneath. The skin on the surface turned outward, and it was transparent, thin, smelly and rotten, and even gradually turned into bugs, and new tumors grew. The eyes were either open, closed, or squinting, and some of them turned into purple-red blood scabs when they were stained with mucus and fell down.
For a while, the surface of the hot spring was covered with such things.
The transparent elves with long wings were flying around in the air, looking a little anxious and a little leisurely, until they noticed this situation on the surface of the hot spring. They quickly descended and started to clean up the water. Some of the elves were too close to the guests, and were grabbed and eaten by the guests. The food made a crunchy sound and was very juicy, and there was also a gurgling sound.
The elf did not resist. After being caught, it just lay there motionless waiting to be put into the mouth.
They didn't seem to care much about what kind of mouth they were sent into. However, the park saw many other guests' teeth, all of which looked different, some were saw-toothed, some were round, some were rectangular, some were wavy, and some were dog-gnawed.
It was all too much for a moment.
After fighting for a while, the two people inside seemed a little tired. They gradually shrank in size, from occupying the hot spring passage to being only slightly larger than one person. They still had tentacles and eyes on their bodies. They stared at each other for a while, and suddenly shouted, "Get up and fight in the kitchen!"
The two of them went to the kitchen, seemingly to continue fighting, but from the looks of them, it seemed as if they were going to look for food.
Although they didn't know what the food in the kitchen tasted like, it was normal for the food prepared by the hotel to suit their tastes. It was also normal for them to find some food after being tired from fighting. So when they thought about it this way, it was normal even if they went to the kitchen to eat something.
Paradise withdrew his gaze.
Number One came up to him and asked, "How about we go to the kitchen? I've never been there before. The kitchen doesn't seem dangerous anyway."
Leyuan looked at Jongin, who thought for a moment and said, "It's not impossible."
Number One and Rakuen went to the kitchen.
The two people who had been arguing before were fighting shirtless. When they found that there was no winner, they picked up kitchen knives and chopped each other until blood was dripping. When the flesh and blood were blurred, the flesh on the ground squirmed for a while and turned back to the previous appearance, except that there was an extra layer of blood on the body. It seemed that there was no problem. While fighting, he suddenly turned around, looked at the door and asked: "Who?!"
Number One said, "We are guests of the hot spring."
The two men said, "Oh, so you came here to pick up some bargains, but you didn't even check if you have the ability to do it!"
As they talked, they rushed over together, as if they were going to chop the man with knives. Number One immediately panicked and thought, "No, that's not right. Why didn't you tell me not to watch? You were clearly fighting to the death, why are you suddenly united now? Are you here to deceive people? I know! You are a trap! Big liar! Wuwuwu——"
He hid behind Leyuan and murmured, "Whether I can survive this time depends on you."
Paradise pulled him out: "Don't stand behind me, it feels weird."
Especially at such a close distance.
Number One nodded.
He didn't feel scared about the way the park looked. Since he wasn't scared, it must be safe and he didn't need to worry.
Number One breathed a sigh of relief and even wanted to find a stool to sit down.
Leyuan looked at the two people running over from the opposite side, clapped his hands, and the two people from the opposite side were stopped.
It is an invisible barrier. To put it in a broader sense, it is a world barrier. To put it in a narrower sense, it is a solid mirror that cannot be easily broken.
In particular, part of this world belongs to that mirror.
The two people on the opposite side are literally fighting for power with the Lord of the World, even though they have nothing. Their courage is admirable, but they are bound to lose. If they still feel it is not exciting enough, Paradise can reluctantly cooperate and fight with them. By then, it will not be a question of winning or losing, but a question of life and death. They still have no chance of success.
It's like a mantis trying to stop a chariot or a mayfly trying to shake a tree.
The result is self-evident.
The two men began slapping the mirror and shouting at the park.
Leyuan didn't hear what they were saying at first, and after a pause, he realized that they were swearing.
Number One was still a little curious, so the park let him pass: "Go and listen to what they are saying."
Number One nodded and moved over a little bit. He listened carefully and suddenly heard a noise all over his ear. It almost deafened him. He covered his bleeding ear, frowned, squatted down, and showed a painful expression. He almost vomited again. He vomited twice and only vomited a mouthful of sour and smelly light yellow-green gastric juice that looked like water.
At the same time, countless eyes grew on his face, and even his ears became more numerous, layer upon layer, like clusters of thriving black fungus growing on a rotten tree trunk. They were soft and boneless, fragile yet tough, crisp yet tender, refreshing yet full of moist and dark water vapor, not at all like the ears that a normal person could grow.
Of course, it is impossible for a normal person to grow so many ears. Since he has grown so many ears, he cannot be considered a normal person.
It's normal for ears to grow in any way.
As for the eyes, they looked like a handful of sesame seeds, or like countless fish with only eyes forced together.
That face will soon be unsightly.
Leyuan walked over helplessly and patted No.1 on the shoulder. No.1 raised his head slowly, confused and at a loss. He was a little afraid that his appearance would scare people, so he wanted to block it with his hands. Leyuan sighed, pulled him up from the ground and said, "It's okay, it's fine now. Don't worry, it's no big deal. Even if there is something, people in this hotel won't think there is anything wrong with you."
Number One wanted to cry but couldn't. He smiled and said, "You are really good at comforting people."
Leyuan produced a mirror and gave it to him: "Look for yourself."
Number One took a look and breathed a sigh of relief: "Great! I still look good."
Paradise laughed.
The two people opposite were furious and continued to curse.
Leyuan asked No.1 to walk back a bit, and No.1 nodded and walked over. Leyuan walked closer to the two people who were arguing.
"What do you want to do?"
Paradise asked.
"Fuck you, damn your ancestors, I am your fucking father, damn dead thing, go to hell!"
"Why am I telling this to a brat like you? What do you think you know? You don't know anything yet you're still hanging around here! Sooner or later you'll realize how powerful you are, you scumbag! Our garbage dump is cleaner than yours, and the person next to you is even more stinky. You really don't know how you can stay here any longer, don't be so shameless!"
The two of them cannot communicate.
Looks like he's angry.
The park asked again: "Do you know how to find a waiter?"
The two looked at each other and revealed a smug smile: "Oh, the little brat wants to find his mom, and when he can't beat her, he starts trying to tell the teacher? Snitch! Idiot, of course we know how to find the waiter, but why should we tell you? Do you think we will tell you if we know it? Impossible! So what if we know it? You don't know it anyway, hahaha!
By the way, do you think the waiter will come to help you? You must think so! We all know, but to tell you the truth, the waiter will not defend the weak. Whoever loses deserves to die. Who cares about you? Who knows if you are the first to attack? Who cares if you are right? Haha! Go to hell! "
Leyuan nodded thoughtfully: "So that's how it is. So, if I kill you, it can be considered as legitimate defense, and it's not wrong."
The two men laughed even louder: "Do you think you are safe just because you can isolate us outside? That may not be the case. Your thing is just a little mysterious and a little harder, it has no other advantages. We can crack it with just a little more time. If you have the ability to stay here, do you think we can't beat you? How funny!
You don’t think that the hardness of a turtle’s shell means that a person with a kitchen knife can’t kill a turtle, right? Hahaha! You are indeed a young idiot, an idiot! Hahaha!”
Paradise took a step forward, breaking through the boundary that they were originally unable to move forward, and their laughter stopped abruptly.
But they still thought that it was only natural that they could cross the dividing line they had set themselves. If they couldn't even cross it, then they were a waste and there was no need to worry about it.
Before they could calm down, they suddenly felt the pressure of the world.
The whole world was pressing in on them mercilessly and without reservation, as if they were blocked on all sides by a hydraulic press. For the first time, they felt like little yellow chickens with their beaks and claws clipped. They could only chirp anxiously and were of no use at all.
They began to panic, but panic was of no use.
There was only a loud bang, as if countless mirrors were shattered in an instant, and the two people were dead, dead as a pile of meat sauce.
Number One took a deep breath and approached cautiously: "Since they are like this, then we should leave?"
Leyuan nodded: "Okay."
He originally wanted to examine the body, but it was too troublesome. Looking at the look of Number One, it didn't seem like he would be willing to help. In that case, he decided not to mention it.
The two turned around and went back to the hot spring area. On the way, they suddenly bumped into the chef and the waiter who were carrying things and walking towards them.
The waiter was holding a snow-white plate in his hand. Upon closer inspection, it was not a plate, but a face that was hard, thick and warm, with empty spaces for the facial features. Because the empty spaces were not good-looking, the facial features were painted on, vividly, as if they had been like that from the beginning. At first glance, it almost looked like a living person rolling his eyes.
Above this face is a soft and very bouncy head, or to be more precise, a brain flower. It is pink on the surface and a little whitish on the inside. Around it is a mixture of transparent liquid and milky white liquid that overflows. The liquid is sticky and stringy, and looks very much like a bird's nest. However, when wrapped around the brain flower, it inexplicably looks a bit like out-of-place candy threads.
White bugs were drilling around in the brain, hiding two black eyeballs, and at the bottom were very small hands and feet that seemed to be non-existent, so small that they were not even as big as a fingernail, funny and pitiful, with a slightly bluish color, as if they had been dead for a long time, and they trembled slightly when being looked at, as if to prove that they were not completely dead.
The chef was carrying a transparent bag. The bag was a mouth with two holes in it. The holes were not obvious in dark places, but visible in brighter places. It was a light flesh-pink color. Normal pockets would hardly have this color because it would not look good when viewed alone, and carrying it with you might cause a scary effect at some point, and the price would not be cheaper because of this.
I really can't imagine what the use of such a thing is.
There was a bright red tongue in the pocket, which would stick out from time to time, like fish rushing to the surface to breathe before the rain.
The tongue discovered Paradise and Number One, and chirped to the chef, "I smelled two delicious ingredients. Let's eat them! They can definitely be taken to the kitchen! I guarantee they'll be delicious this time. Really delicious!"
The chef pulled the tongue in his pocket, and the tongue retracted with a "ah" sound.
The chef raised his head and looked at Le Yuan and No.1. He shifted his gaze from No.1 to Le Yuan and asked, "What are you doing in the kitchen?"
Le Yuan thought of the two meat-sauce corpses behind him and wanted to test their attitude, so he smiled and said, "Oh, I killed two people."
The chef raised his eyebrows, looked at the blood and minced meat on their bodies, and said with a smile: "I thought you went into the kitchen to eat secretly."
Number One asked curiously, "What would happen if I went into the kitchen and ate the food in it?"
The waiter said: "It's okay. After all, the food in the kitchen is for the guests to eat. But if the guests just walk in and eat the food, we can't explain it because theoretically, every transaction of the hotel should be recorded. If the guests eat it themselves, we don't record it. If we don't record it and check the final count, we will still have to pay for it if there is any discrepancy.
In order to avoid handing over our wages, we generally strictly prohibit this kind of behavior. Of course, some customers go to the kitchen to eat secretly for personal preference, and we have no choice. They also know that we are in a difficult situation and will specially settle the bill for us in advance. It can be regarded as paying for a corresponding customized service, which is not a problem. Although the superiors have opinions, they also acquiesce.
What about the two guests?
The waiter jokingly asked, "Did you two eat the food in the kitchen and then dirty the floor outside the kitchen? That's not a small matter, we have to deal with it."
Rakuen nodded and said, "Yes, that's what we did."
The chef's face changed and he was about to move forward, but the waiter laughed and said, "You are kidding."
Leyuan simply nodded: "Yes, I'm kidding."
The chef's expression changed and he stopped where he was.
The waiter asked, "So, what happened?"
Paradise said: "You have such a big hotel, but you don't have any cameras?"
The waiter was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's not that there aren't any cameras. They're on the walls and everywhere. But, generally speaking, we don't monitor our guests, so the cameras are mostly placed in public places like corridors and doors to ensure that they don't infringe on the privacy of our guests."
Leyuan nodded and said, "Well, why don't you check the surveillance first? Maybe you already know it."
The waiter said: "In theory, yes, we can, but the hotel's staff code stipulates that we are not allowed to check the surveillance without asking the guests' consent. If the matter is serious, the security personnel who have been guarding the surveillance room will directly remind us that there is no need to check alone. If the situation is not serious, it means that it is under control and there is no need to worry.
We just need to follow the process and work normally.
Does the client want us to use surveillance rights?
I think I need to remind you that our staff's right of exploration is limited in time and number of times. If it is used for a guest, the guest will need to pay an additional sum of money to the hotel and us before leaving as compensation for the extra time and handling of matters.
Have you considered it?"
Paradise said: "I've thought about it and will tell you now."
He looked at number one: "You speak first."
Number One was stunned for a moment, nodded, took a step forward, and said, "Oh, this is what happened. We saw two people arguing in the hot spring. They started fighting and then said they were going to the kitchen to fight.
We thought that there was no one in the kitchen and there were many dangerous things inside, so we didn't know what they were going to do, so we came over to take a look. We found that they had taken a kitchen knife from the kitchen. We were still surprised when they noticed we were outside the door, rushed out, scolded us, and even wanted to beat us.
It looked like they wanted to beat us first and then deal with their own affairs, but they died before they could beat us. They died on the floor outside the kitchen door.”
The waiter nodded without showing any doubt, and said with a smile: "I see, OK, we understand, the two guests can leave. Aren't you going back to the hot spring?"
Number One looked towards the park and saw that the park didn't say anything, so he bravely asked the waiter, "Can we go with you to the scene?"
The waiter smiled and asked: "Are you worried that we are partial to you? Since the two guests have already won, our hotel will not attack or slander the winners. If the relatives and friends of the deceased have any opinions on this, they should also accept that death is like a light going out and that the winner is the responsibility of the person himself.
Every guest who comes to our hotel knows this rule.
However, if guests want to see it, of course they can.”
Leyuan said, "Then go and take a look."
Otherwise, the two lumps of meat on the ground could get up and run again, and then they would come back to seek revenge, which would be troublesome. I should have dealt with them and thrown them into the fire before, so that they would not come back again.
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