While Wang Xiaohai and the other two were talking, a remote-controlled robot slid over pushing a food cart.
The robot's lower body has four pulleys that can rotate thirty or sixty degrees, so it slid over.
"Everyone, this is the dish you ordered. Please pay after confirming that it is correct." The robot spoke in an emotionless and very mechanical voice, and brought the still steaming dishes from the dining cart.
The dining cart has five layers like a shelf, with five or six dishes on each layer, and a bowl of rice and chopsticks on the edge.
Every time the robot serves a dish, it reads out the name of the dish, without missing any and without repeating it.
"High-tech gene synthesis dish one?" Wang Xiaohai was a little surprised. Was this what he ordered?
Wang Xiaohai didn’t really pay attention to what dish he ordered, so he looked at the dish and found that this high-tech genetically synthesized dish was actually - roasted sweet potato!
"Sweet potatoes are also high-tech synthetic vegetables?" Wang Xiaohai asked the robot. "Are they dug out of the ground with a high-tech electric hoe? That's why they can be called high-tech."
"Customer, you misunderstood. Although this sweet potato looks like a sweet potato..." explained the robot waiter.
"Actually, there are hot dogs, milk and chocolate bread hidden in the skin?" Cheng Yan quickly interrupted. If that was the case, this dish would be pretty good.
"Actually, it's still sweet potatoes." The robot answered honestly.
"Then you have no point in explaining anything!" said Fowles.
"However, this sweet potato has been modified using our hotel's genetic optimization device. Its flavor is three percent greater than regular sweet potatoes, its nutritional value has increased by two percent, and its impurities have been reduced by five percent," the robot said. "The risk of disease after consumption has also been reduced by seven thousandths."
"That's useless! I wouldn't get sick even if I ate shit!" Cheng Yan complained. "But its price is 10,000% higher than regular sweet potatoes!"
The robot didn't argue. After placing all the dishes on the table, it asked, "Card or cash?"
"Cash." Wang Xiaohai said, "Cheng Yan, give it cash quickly."
The three of them finished their meal quickly and returned to their room on the ninth floor, using their room card to open the door.
"I want to take a shower first!" Cheng Yan fell directly on the first bed after entering the room and said while looking at the colorful chandelier on the ceiling.
Fowles was carefully examining the room and the walls.
"There's no need. Shuangdian City should be safe." Wang Xiaohai said.
"It's better to be cautious. No one can guarantee that the organizers will have arrangements in various hotels to test the contestants." Fowles was a little stubborn and knocked on the wall with his hands.
"Oh—there's something in this closet—" Fowles cried out.
"What's going on? A bomb?" Wang Xiaohai jumped up from the bed.
"Yes, there's actually Central Empire red wine from twenty years ago," Fowles said. "It's a rare item. I didn't expect it to be on the Twin Palace spaceship!"
Wang Xiaohai had no knowledge of red wine and was not an alcoholic, so he was not as excited as Fowles.
"Drink if you want to." Wang Xiaohai said.
Fowles wanted to reach out and grab it, but found that the bottle of Central Empire Red Wine was locked with a metal buckle. If he tried to pull it off, the bottle would break.
"Scan the code to pay and unlock." Fowles read out the words on the buckle, and he immediately took out his mobile phone to scan the QR code on it.
One minute later.
Fowles turned off his phone awkwardly and turned to Wang Xiaohai.
"Can you transfer some money to me?" Fowles said. "I don't have enough."
"Don't you even have money to buy a bottle of wine?" Wang Xiaohai said, "You don't have to move the red wine. Just get a straw, secretly unscrew the lid, put the straw in and drink it."
"If I were rich, would I need to work as a servant?" Fowles said. "This bottle of wine costs five million. I can't afford it! The straw method is useless. This lock is shape-sensing. If the shape of the bottle changes even slightly before payment is made, the destruction process will be triggered."
They are all in the double-temple spaceship. If they do something bad, there is no way to escape!
"Five million, is it made of gold?" Wang Xiaohai complained, "Even if it were made of gold, it wouldn't be that expensive. Are you sure drinking it won't make you immortal?"
"This bottle of wine is my dream, please lend it to me!" Fowles said, "Actually, I have a sister back home who's in college. How about I give her to you as payment for the wine? She's very beautiful, it's definitely worth it!"
Wang Xiaohai thought to himself that others are cheating their parents, but you are cheating your sister!
But five million was nothing to him, so he transferred it directly to Fowles.
"Thank you!" Fowles bought the bottle of wine and licked it vigorously, as if it was his lifelong lover. "I'll leave my sister to you. Even if you have another girlfriend, I don't mind."
Wang Xiaohai thought, "You don't mind, but your sister will!" Why should I consider what he said? Am I a sentimental person? Wang Xiaohai shook his head, getting rid of these terrible thoughts.
Unexpectedly, Fowles liked the bottle of wine so much. He only took a small sip, then put the cap back on and put it in his arms.
"Why don't you drink it?" Wang Xiaohai was a little surprised. "You like it so much?"
"If I drink it all in one gulp, it's refreshing, but my life will be devoid of hope," Fowles said. "I plan to open it once a year and take only a small sip each time. That way, my life will have hope and will no longer be bleak and dull."
Wang Xiaohai wondered if Fowles could preserve the bottle forever, because once opened, the wine would slowly evaporate. Of course, Fowles could find a way to completely seal it, but could he guarantee only a small lick at a time? Wang Xiaohai recalled the story of the tiger and the rabbit: a hungry tiger encounters a kind rabbit, but the rabbit flees back into its burrow. The tiger, helpless, claims to be hungry and unwilling to eat it, begging the rabbit to let him lick it daily. He'd be satisfied. The result is predictable: the lion's stomach is full.
Therefore, whether humans or animals, they will overestimate their resistance to temptation and exaggerate their own limits to temptation. When the temptation really comes, they find that their limits are not that high at all. It's like a girl saying that her standards for a boyfriend are to earn hundreds of millions a year, own a house and a car, and be more handsome than a celebrity. In fact, a handsome guy with an annual income of tens of millions can seduce her away.
After Cheng Yan finished taking a shower, Wang Xiaohai and Fowles also took turns to go in and take a shower. This house has three bedrooms and a living room, so everyone has a private room to rest.
A night passed.
The quarter-final match will begin at twelve o'clock!
Instead of taking a taxi, the three of them ran to the stadium.
At eleven o'clock, the event staff had arrived and were arranging cameras and various monitoring equipment around the venue.
At half past eleven, the chief steward of the two halls arrived. He turned on the cylindrical force field, and the huge machine roared, providing an anti-shielding force field for the cylindrical area.
At twelve o'clock, all the contestants came to the stadium, including several who lost yesterday and came to watch the game.
"The first match of the quarter-finals is between Bu Yao and Chi Ming. Please get ready and enter the cylindrical area in three minutes." The voice of the chief steward of the two halls came from the loudspeaker.
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