Chapter 133: Searching For Clues In Hot Spring Motel
I don’t know how many vending machines like this there are in the instance. Clear them all out, and taking the supplies out is a sure profit!
Things Yu Jiang could think of, other players could naturally think of too.
Now everyone was staring at the vending machines with eyes gleaming.
“The supplies inside are limited in quantity, possibly prepared as instance rations for players.”
Player No. 8, the man in the knit hat, swept his gaze over everyone and continued,
“Everyone splits them evenly, no problem, right? If anyone doesn’t have enough crystal coins, we’ll figure out how to divide the extras.”
Everyone expressed agreement. What could they do if they didn’t want to split evenly?
Don’t think just because it’s some basic food and water, outside the instance right now, it wouldn’t be easy to find this much supplies all at once.
Whoever wants more, the others won’t agree.
In the end, the supplies each player could buy amounted to 5 compressed biscuits, 2 buckets of instant noodles and 2 portions of self-heating rice each, 2 bottles of water and 2 bottles of beverages each, and 3 packs of bread.
Player No. 8 looked at the supplies he just got, in a very good mood,
“The vending machines in the instance, don’t know if they’ll restock. We’ll check again later.”
Just the stuff from the even split alone, you might not get even this from opening boxes for two days, and now half the crystal coins are earned without any effort.
No need for him to say it, everyone would keep an eye on the vending machines. Best if only he knew when they restock, so he could take all the supplies.
When others ask later, just say don’t know, no restock.
Now with Player No. 8 saying it, this little scheme is hard to pull off.
Their destination, the hot spring motel, was right across diagonally.
Cross the wooden bridge and you’re there. The hot spring motel was clearly renovated from an old wealthy family’s house.
Behind it was a lush mountain, now with snow fallen among the trees. Under the gloomy sky, only black and white colors remained.
The hot spring motel door was open, with a warm-toned light lit at the entrance, and a copper bell hanging, looking like it had some years on it.
Walking into the motel, well, it was a standard old building. Looked atmospheric from outside, but quite rundown inside.
The front desk had only a granny in her sixties or seventies. When people came in, she just gave a faint glance.
“You’re the guests who booked earlier. Rooms all have hot spring pools, accompanying supplies are inside. What’s not there isn’t provided. Oh, the motel is a wooden ancient building, creaking wood sounds are normal.”
The meaning was clear: service here is like this, so don’t come to her, it’s useless.
“I get off at 1 PM. Here’s the room key. Motel doesn’t provide meals. During your stay, you can roam freely, but can’t take things from the motel!”
With that, the granny placed 5 keys in front of them and ignored them.
Just like an NPC that only issues missions.
And that unhappy-about-working expression, probably not a monster in the instance in disguise.
No. 3 wanted to ask something, tried chatting up for a while, totally useless, could only take the key dejectedly and go check the room first for clues.
The motel had three floors total, rooms for the 5 teams all on the second floor, not far apart.
After entering and turning on the light, the room was pretty dim. Looked like a healing anime Spirited Away from outside, but Japanese horror movie atmosphere inside.
Who wouldn’t be dumbfounded by this gap.
Especially the worn sliding door, and two quilts laid on the floor—that was the bed for the double standard room.
The most luxurious facility was the small pool on the balcony for soaking in the hot spring, plus the bathroom with hot water and shower head. Yu Jiang had scanned them with the light screen, all normal usable equipment.
The balcony faced the mountain behind the motel directly. Yu Jiang specially borrowed an ordinary pair of binoculars from the Sixth Brother Blacksmith, just for gathering.
All the way into the hot spring motel, their mission investigation progress was still 0.
Yu Jiang had never seen gatherable Manjusaka flowers either.
This thing doesn’t bloom in winter to begin with, its bright red color would be very eye-catching in the snow.
“If I can find what I want before facing the instance BOSS, I’ll have an extra skill, which might help a bit against the BOSS.”
Yu Jiang stood on the balcony, scanned a circle with the binoculars, didn’t spot any Manjusaka.
Shi Xu paused, “You mean, that skill of yours that has a probability to poison the target to death, or might double the target’s burst attack?”
As he said this, his expression was somewhat indescribable,
“You planning to give the skill to me, or to the monsters in this instance?”
Super extreme gambler skill.
Win and easily take down the ignore-defense instantly kill monster, lose and both of them done for.
Yu Jiang was also thinking about this issue, it was a bit hard to decide,
“We’ll see the specific situation then. This skill has a short cooldown time, only 8 hours.”
Recently two days opening boxes on the road, her luck had been pretty bad.
Too bad if only Purple Butt Can Do It could come into this instance, with the European Emperor she’d be much more confident.
Shi Xu nodded resignedly, “Tell me in advance when using it.”
She had a healing skill, as long as not instantly killed, she could save him.
“I will.”
No clues found in the room. Players agreed in the instance channel to split up and act, share any discoveries.
Clearly no one trusted people outside their team, acting together would just make them hesitant.
Other players probably also saw that this place seemed milder on the surface than previous instances they’d been to. Been in so long without seeing any monsters or taking attacks.
In reality, the calmer it seemed, the more deadly the danger brewing out of sight.
Just think about it, other instances give them a cheap supplies vending machine right at entry?
Rewards only after clearing.
Without monster-related messages, no way to avoid attacks, everyone was quite worried.
Yu Jiang and Shi Xu took the room key and went out. Yu Jiang couldn’t wait till 1 PM; the tourist town probably had more than one vending machine, might get snatched first.
Clues to find, supplies to find, all 5 teams thinking the same.
Hot spring motel public areas could be freely entered, guest rooms they couldn’t enter.
Yu Jiang was ready to crowbar it open, but a prompt appeared on the door: Cannot enter.
Buildings here couldn’t be recycled, so they gave up and went elsewhere to explore.
Out of the hot spring motel, they started with nearby alleys. Could tell the town’s tourism had been well-developed before, houses and roadside facilities all well-maintained.
This place was also far from the city, by apocalypse logic, a pretty good shelter spot.
Since it’s an investigation mission, it wouldn’t be as simple as doomsday striking leaving no living people in town; something must have happened in between.
The granny NPC said she gets off at 1 PM, would other staff come after?
Yu Jiang thought, took out the crowbar and knocked a few times on the broken streetlight pole with the light screen scan.
“Good facilities can’t be knocked, this one can!”
Shi Xu was no longer surprised. She even knocked the bathroom in the parking plaza; recycling broken setups in instances was too normal.
The two wandered the town for a few hours, basically familiar with the town’s terrain.
Most houses couldn’t be entered, a few rundown ones could.
End of month, begging for recommendation votes and monthly tickets~QAQ Thanks everyone in advance~
