Chapter 39
Liu Xia recalled the waiter's walking posture and demeanor, tried to remain consistent, and walked out of the aisle as if everything was normal.
Fortunately, I haven't met anyone else in the corridor so far. It must be because the auction has just started and everyone is gathered in the front hall. No one has come over for a while.
She quickly picked up a silver tray from the sideboard against the wall, pretended to get some wine, and walked towards the basement passage.
After walking a few steps, she saw a sturdy waiter waving at her and walking towards her quickly.
What's going on with this person?
Liu Xia frowned secretly, still without any big reaction. He calmed himself down and did not panic because of the situation. Instead, he stopped and waited for him to come over.
"You succeeded so quickly?" The waiter quickly walked up to her side, bumped her shoulder and smiled teasingly, but there was a hint of jealousy in his tone.
"You're so lucky, how come that unfamiliar girl could find you directly? I just helped you guard the door, you have to help me next time."
Liu Xia thought to himself, no wonder no one came to the bathroom just now, these waiters must have been in cahoots with each other to help each other.
This chaotic wasteland social order is basically the law of the jungle. Suddenly losing a few people in such a mixed entertainment venue will not attract anyone's attention.
After all, the people here either starved to death, were eaten away by radioactive dust over time, or were eaten by some mutant creature hiding in the dark.
Liu Xia smiled and hummed through her mask, not daring to say much for fear of being exposed in front of acquaintances. Recalling the waiter's conversation with her, she said, "I have to go get some wine for the guests now. We'll talk later."
"You're really lucky tonight." The muscular waiter didn't suspect anything, but instead reached out and punched Liu Xia's arm with jealousy. "Just after we greeted the chick, another customer ordered some expensive wine."
Lucky? Liu Xia laughed secretly. Maybe.
The waiter mistook the muffled laughter as the other party showing off, and was so angry that he didn't want to continue talking. Just at this moment, a customer waved to him, so he walked away in a sullen mood.
This saved Liu Xia the trouble of continuing to deal with him. At this time, on the stage where the auction was taking place, the light beams of two iron cages had dimmed, and it was obvious that two "Gods of Love" had been successfully auctioned off.
Time was of the essence, so Liu Xia didn't have time to look around and quickly avoided the crowd and walked towards the entrance to the basement.
"Stop." One of the security guards at the entrance stopped Liu Xia and asked in a loud voice, "Where are you going?"
Liu Xia was shocked. The control in this place was much stricter than that in the "Laotao Restaurant". Not only did no one leave their post during the main show, but even the people in their own restaurant had to be checked.
"Go get some wine for the guests." Liu Xia said with a flattering smile, using the tone of a waiter. "We have quite a few wealthy guests today."
The security guard ignored him and continued in a formulaic manner: "Take off your mask."
Liu Xia thought to herself that it was a close call. Fortunately, her ability came in handy and she had carefully changed her face just now. Otherwise, her trick would have been exposed in a moment.
She quickly dragged the plate with one hand and took off the mask with the other, revealing her half-human, half-monster face.
"Go ahead." The security guard at the entrance just took a look and let us pass. As expected, as we had observed before, the staff going to the wine cellar would not be searched. However, we did not expect that they would have to take off their masks.
After Liu Xia successfully passed the inspection, she put the mask back on, walked around the cold security guard who no longer paid any attention to her, and without saying anything more, she went down the stairs and arrived at the basement floor safely.
The lighting in the underground floor is slightly different from that in the hall. Although it is still dim and not very bright, it no longer has that pink ambiguous atmosphere. It is a relatively normal cold white light, and the smell has changed from a sticky fragrance to a slightly damp and pungent smell.
It seems that a large amount of alcohol is indeed stored here. Even if you haven't entered the room where the alcohol is stored, you can't cover up the aroma emitted by the mixture of various alcohols.
There are a total of five rooms for storing wine and beverages in the passage, and each room has a corresponding sensor door, which requires swiping a card to enter.
Recalling the basement location on the map drawn by Zhou Wei, Liu Xia groped his way forward in the passage, his boots rolling over the crystallized alcohol salt grains on the ground. The cold white light from the basement level cast shadows on the wine racks like prison bars.
I used the card I got from the waiter to swipe all the way through, and all the swipes were successful, except for the last iron door which showed a failure.
Liu Xia returned to the fourth door next door and searched according to his memory.
"Six o'clock." She muttered to herself, stopped in front of the third row of wine racks against the wall, and ran her fingertips over the moss on the barrel wall. The mold spots that should have been damp felt unusually dry.
Liu Xia leaned in closer to take a closer look. A cool breeze faintly blew out through the cracks in the wine wall. It was the smell of formaldehyde mixed with a fishy stench and the aroma of wine.
It is certain that the passage to the human laboratory is near the wall of wine in front of him, but the mechanism leading there should be in the fifth room next door.
Her sensitive sense of smell, which was usually quite useful, became an accomplice at this moment. Liu Xia felt like vomiting because of the smell. Even though she was used to all kinds of bloody and rotten smells, and there was a mask on her face, it was still unable to block the strange smell that rushed straight into her brain through her nose.
In a place where even waiters can enter, the mechanism leading to the laboratory is obviously extremely confidential. Even if Zhou Wei escaped from there, she only knew the approximate location of the laboratory but had no idea how to open it.
If we use the tearing force to break through this wall of wine now, it will definitely trigger the alarm and alert the enemy, which will in turn attract the security personnel and start a fight.
Then there's no point in lurking.
In addition, there is a more important reason why Liu Xia does not want to force his way in.
Since someone has escaped from this human laboratory once, it means that it is not strong enough, so there is no guarantee that the boss Yu Sisi has not moved the laboratory to another location.
Liu Xia put herself in the boss's shoes and thought that if she were the boss, she would definitely choose a new location.
So even if she rushed in now, what might greet her might be an abandoned laboratory.
What did Song Xuan mean by "be careful of traps"? Was he also reminding himself?
After all, Zhou Wei has been on the run for more than a year, and her understanding of this place is still the same as a year ago. She has no idea what happened in this year.
It would be better to use this body to try to feel out the other waiters' attitudes. Even if I could get to the third floor and take the opportunity to kill Yu Sisi, it would be easier than fighting her head-on.
Judging from Tingting’s reaction just now, Yu Sisi was alone on the third floor at this time, which was obviously very suitable for assassination.
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