Hua Bao had clearly received orders and still did not ask Cheng Shuang to show proof of low spending at the food street.
Cheng Shuang and Da Bai stayed in the top-floor suite, while Si Hai also booked a suite directly below their room, so that all three of them could stay, and the cost was exactly 150 points.
After checking in, the two waited for their companion to return on the sofa in the lobby. Sihai casually took out a smart electric wheelchair. "You gave me a bicycle, and I'll give you a wheelchair, how about it?"
"No!" Cheng Shuang refused decisively. She grinned, revealing her small white teeth, and said in a forced smile, "I'm not so weak that I need a wheelchair!" The girl rummaged through the storage compartments with a straight face and finally took out an electric scooter with a seat. She silently raised her chin at Si Hai.
Sihai pursed his lips, suppressing a smile, and said with feigned regret, "Alright then, I'll return the bicycle to you."
That bicycle was something she picked up casually in the world of Resident Evil. She had picked up several of them, so it didn't have any special sentimental value. The little girl said nonchalantly, "I don't need another bicycle."
Sihai pushed the wheelchair in front of her and said softly, "How about I switch with you? I need this bicycle."
Cheng Shuang turned her head and looked at him seriously for a couple of seconds. Seeing his sincere expression, she said, "Whatever you say!"
After saying that, he put the wheelchair back into his storage compartment, hugged the teddy bear, leaned back on the sofa, and closed his eyes to rest, clearly not wanting to communicate with Sihai anymore.
Sihai didn't say anything more. He was also very tired, so he slowly adjusted his breathing and relaxed.
The two waited in the hall for a long time. Sihai suddenly opened his eyes, his expression grave. "Something happened?"
Cheng Shuang glanced at her watch; it was already 10:30 p.m., a full hour and a half since they parted ways. They should be back by the time they had a barbecue. Besides, the three of them were exhausted and wouldn't want to eat something so troublesome.
"The priest said that they had a conflict with several defenders."
Sihai stood up, seemingly ready to go out and help at any moment. He stared blankly out the door, but relaxed after a while. "It's nothing, they just brought back a few people."
"who?"
Cheng Shuang asked.
"Fang Rui, Ada, and Xiang Rong."
The young girl raised an eyebrow. She didn't have a good impression of Fang Rui and Ada, but she had a pretty good feeling about Xiang Rong.
"Who exactly clashed with whom?" She was thinking more about practical issues: "How many people were on the other side? Was it a matter of principle? Was anyone injured?"
Si Hai shrugged, his face relaxing again. He sat back on the sofa. "I didn't have time to ask, they were back right away."
As soon as the words were spoken, Gong Zhu and the other two led Xiang Rong and two men into the Flower Bud Inn. Fang Rui, true to his playboy nature, greeted Cheng Shuang and Si Hai with a wink and a friendly wink. Ada, however, was either injured or felt humiliated, his face flushed red. He kept his head down, silent and withdrawn, making everyone feel awkward.
Gong Zhu casually recounted what had happened. It turned out that Fang Rui and Ada had not only spent the night in the night market where the homeless were having a blast, but also continued to serve other maintainers with the homeless during the day.
Another path in the amusement park was set up with small games such as ring toss, marbles, and bowling. It was relatively quiet and few people came. Fang Rui, Ada, and the other protectors who had failed miserably in the games but were lucky enough to survive had to wear the cool outfits they wore at the night market to attract customers.
To redeem yourself, you must attract at least ten guests to the mini-game area.
If you were only facing oddly shaped, poorly clothed homeless people, the sense of shame might not be so strong, but it's a completely different story in the mini-game area.
The ridicule and gossip from their peers were the most damaging. The two of them gritted their teeth and persevered. They only managed to get two customers all day. One of them was Xiang Rong. To thank Fang Rui for treating her to two meals, she used her last remaining crippled hand to pay for ten ring toss games.
If you don't get ten people, the two people who paid to play the game on the second day will be disqualified, and you'll have to start all over again.
If they fail to complete their mission, they will become playhouses for the homeless day after day, seen as worthless by their own kind, and may one day die at the hands of some homeless person, with no way out.
Finally, the two of them went all out, using the cards and pills they had accumulated over a long period of time, which they themselves were reluctant to use, to attract others to their mini-game business. Fortunately, the five people they recruited later all came through smoothly, until they encountered a duo.
The man and woman took the white pills but went back on their word and ran away. They accidentally bumped into Gong Zhu and his two companions at the exit of the mini-game area, which allowed Fang Rui and Ada, dressed in revealing clothes, to catch up with them.
Of course, the two vehemently denied receiving any white pills from Ada and Fang Rui. There were no security cameras in the food street, and even if there were, the homeless would not come forward to testify because of the conflict between the maintainers.
Fang Rui and Ada were immediately enraged and started fighting with the couple. Originally, it had nothing to do with Gong Zhu and the other two, but Gong Zhu was suspicious because he keenly noticed that the woman bumped into him in a slightly deliberate way.
So he suspiciously checked his own storage space.
Upon inspection, it turned out that all the cards inside had disappeared.
Gong Zhu absolutely refused to believe that it wasn't the male and female duo who did it. Before he made his purchases at the food street, he had taken out his name tag for keeping track of expenses from his spatial storage. The card was properly stored in the storage at the time, so how could it have disappeared into thin air in such a short time?
Jian Dan explained something to Da Bai and Xiao Qi, and then Gong Zhu rushed forward for the sake of his card.
The male and female duo tried to pin the blame on Fang Rui and Ada, but Gong Zhu didn't believe it. After all, they had been rivals. If those two kids had the skill of stealing, how could they have escaped in such a sorry state and ended up in such an embarrassing situation?
With Gong Zhu's skill freezing, he was no match for the duo. Naturally, Da Bai and Xiao Qi couldn't stand by and watch their companion suffer, so they joined in the fight.
Five against two, the duo lost because of the numbers. The woman's skill was thieving, and the main fighting force relied entirely on the men. They probably didn't expect things to be so coincidental that Gong Zhu and the other two would know Fang Rui and Ada.
Seeing that they were outmatched, the duo threw out a small, misty bow-like object and quickly retreated.
Gong Zhu thought his chances of getting the cards were gone, but to his surprise, Xiang Rong, who had been hiding in the shadows, found the box where he kept his cards.
Da Bai guessed that the skill of "Empty Hands" might not be able to store other people's items in the space under certain time or restrictions.
Gong Zhu thanked Xiang Rong for helping him find the card and asked her what she wanted in return. Unexpectedly, Xiang Rong only asked for one thing: to help Fang Rui and Ada escape.
As for why Fang Rui and Ada didn't use their cards and skills to escape, firstly, they simply weren't confident they could escape successfully from the vagrants' encirclement. Even if they did escape, where could they go? Beyond the fence? Secondly, they couldn't even entertain the thought of escaping or slacking off. The invisible force of intimidation bound their consciousness, and just thinking about it made them tremble with fear.
They guessed it was 'rules'.
The reason why humans and wanderers can coexist in this realm of death is because of the constraints of rules.
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