The familiar smell, a slightly musty wood scent mixed with a hint of dust, hits you instantly.
I quickly rubbed my eyes and opened them, finally standing in the lobby of the riverside hotel!
Damn! That was awesome!
Although the place was so dark, even the few lamps that Fatty Zhou lit were very cheap.
However, I felt a sense of ease I had never experienced before.
The suitcases on the counter were still covered in dust, just like when we first came in, with layers upon layers of loose dirt.
Almost as if it were muscle memory, I took out my flashlight and shone it on the dust on the ground.
While observing whether the surrounding environment was real or fake, he covered his mouth and nose and coughed twice.
"Really...returned!"
The girl gripped my hand, and he coughed twice, but his voice was full of surprise, completely devoid of the intense tension he had shown before.
Lei Jijian also breathed a sigh of relief; his incessant chatter had been filling my mind the whole time.
The confusion disappeared, and my mind became much clearer.
Meanwhile, Fatty Zhou, who was standing next to him, collapsed to the ground again, probably feeling a bit dizzy from the trip.
I ignored him. The riverside hotel was so quiet at that moment, even the occasional crying from Xiao Yuan before the old man appeared was gone.
I guess the child found something interesting and started playing with it by himself.
My first instinct was to reach for the sea marrow in my arms!
Previously, downstairs in the management building, they gave this fat guy a piece of yellowish-brown, which represents earth.
A girl, bright yellow, representing gold.
A lightning sword, bright red, representing fire.
What I have left in my hand are two sea marrows, one slightly blue and the other the color of rotten wood.
I gathered the four I already had together, carried them to the counter, bent down, and blew a big puff of air into them.
The dust on the counter was blown away and became much cleaner in an instant.
They were carefully placed on the surface, and the four sea marrow crystals emitted a fluorescent white light.
It was obvious that even after I returned to this hotel, the energy within the sea marrow still existed.
And I breathed a sigh of relief!
At least this effort wasn't in vain!
At this moment, the girl also came over and placed her hands around the sea marrow. When the four silver-white marrow bodies came together, they suddenly emitted a faint silver-white halo.
I could even feel a warm power flowing slowly through my fingertips. This energy was more pronounced than when we first encountered these sea marrows in the interlayer!
"This stuff... is of much better quality than the one we saw at Fatty's place before!"
The lightning sword kept shouting in my head.
He quickly arrived at the vicinity of the sea marrow, where he kept sensing the energy that was drifting in all directions.
Although these sea marrows appeared somewhat wilted than before, and the faint patterns on them were not very noticeable, the core energy was still there.
That's more than enough to cure the dew-covered branches!
Yiyi smiled too. She took out the dew-covered branch from her pocket and examined it briefly. Indeed, the luster on it had not diminished.
It has a faint orange sheen.
I breathed a sigh of relief.
Just then, the fat man made the loudest noise as he stood up, slowly propping himself up with his hands and then leisurely moving over. But when he saw the several sea cucumbers glowing on the counter, he suddenly felt as if he had been electrocuted and gained motivation.
He rushed over, examined it carefully, and his eyes lit up instantly.
"This sea marrow! Its quality is incredible!"
This is exactly what I wanted!
Wait...we're at it now..."
After rubbing his head vigorously, Fatty Zhou slapped his forehead and exclaimed joyfully.
"My two benefactors, we've come back!"
Only after he finished speaking did he have time to look around, and after confirming that it was his own shop, he couldn't help but smile.
That kind of happiness comes from surviving a disaster.
Without further hesitation, he picked up his sea marrow and ran towards the third floor.
Although Xiao Yuan's crying did not reach the first floor at this time.
He went upstairs, while the girl and I waited quietly at the counter, slowly catching our breath and calming our still-pounding hearts.
Just around these four sea marrows, one can feel an energy slowly flowing, which instantly makes one feel refreshed and relaxed.
Previously, in other scenes, whether it was Xiao Zhang's map or the talisman left by Boss He, once they left, the original scene would lose its vitality.
Is it only this sea marrow that can retain its energy no matter where it goes?
As I touched the surface of the sea marrow, I couldn't help but feel a sense of awe.
If back then, Mr. He hadn't used this as an ingredient, or merely applied it to other businesses within the hotel, but instead treated it as a treasure and managed it well.
If you manage the business well and then sell it in the market, you might be able to make a lot of money just from these high-quality sea cucumbers.
In that case, the hotel wouldn't have ended up in such a dire situation.
There's no turning back in life, and once the arrow is released, there's no going back.
He may not have run the business, but at least he kept his hotel running until the very last moment of his life.
We had only been sitting down for less than two minutes.
Knock knock knock!
Another knock came at the door.
Just by listening to the frequency and force of the knocking, the fat man's voice came from the third floor. He ran downstairs and shouted, "It's Brother He! Brother He is here!"
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