Chapter 152 Night in Fairy Tale City

Chapter 152: Chapter 152 Night in Fairy Tale CityIt was three in the morning in game time when a series of rapid knocking sounds started without warning.

Xu Huo was lying in bed and didn’t move, just opened his eyes and looked in the direction of the door.

"Knock knock knock! Knock knock knock... Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!"

The urgent knocking gradually turned into door-slamming, the sound steadily escalating.

Xu Huo simply sat up and listened to the noise at the door, neither responding nor planning to open it.

The knocking persisted for a while before it abruptly ceased, followed by the sound of footsteps receding.

A few seconds later, another set of footsteps with varying intensity passed by the door.

About a minute of quiet passed, then footsteps returned from the direction they had left, pounding on the door: "Help! Save me! Someone is trying to kill me! Please open the door..."

"He’s going to find me, and once he does, I’m definitely dead!"

"I beg you, open the door quickly, or I’ll lose my life!"

"I have a lot of valuable things, I can give you anything if only you open the door!"

"Open the door! Open the door!"

The sound of banging and shouting became more intense with each moment. Xu Huo pressed the service button beside his bed, but when the call connected, it wasn’t a waiter on the other end but the woman outside the door.

"Please save me, otherwise I’ll die here..."

Xu Huo immediately hung up the call, but right after that, the noises outside the door vanished, only to be replaced by someone knocking on the window.

He got up and walked to the window, casually pulled back the curtains, took out his lighter, lit a cigarette, and said to the woman hanging outside with disheveled hair and a bloodstained face, "Go back to sleep, it’s the middle of the night."

The woman’s face twisted momentarily before she lunged towards the person inside the window!

Unexpectedly, Xu Huo suddenly reached out and opened the glass window, the barrier between them disappeared in an instant, and the woman almost couldn’t stop herself from smashing her face against his, reflexively grabbing the sides of the window. But she quickly realized her display of weakness and turned her head, letting her chin drop and spewing out a long tongue.

Xu Huo watched her performance expressionlessly, "The window’s not even closed. Isn’t it tiring hanging out there? Why don’t you come in and we can chat?"

The woman’s expression froze. Seeing him reaching out to her, she backed away from the window, drifting upward lightly before disappearing.

At that moment, a faint scream could be heard not far from the Yongxing Clubhouse. Xu Huo glanced in that direction and then went back to sleep.

The next morning, just as dawn broke, the tourist city returned to the bustle of the previous day, and the nighttime’s missing tourists suddenly reappeared, with the scent of food permeating everywhere.

When Xu Huo went up to the second floor to have breakfast, he saw the waiter from yesterday and asked, "Don’t you have night shifts here?"

The waiter replied with a smile, "Our working hours are from six in the morning to nine at night."

Xu Huo nodded, understanding that the hotel in the game could not be compared with one in reality.

After breakfast, he decided to check out True Love Plaza.

As he was walking through the lobby, he overheard a waiter coming down from upstairs speaking to the receptionist, "The guest from earlier also broke a Crystal wine glass worth 15,000 White Notes, which was missed during the initial registration."

Xu Huo raised his eyebrows slightly but then heard a backpack-carrying woman muttering as she passed by him, "This damned smoke-spewing Yongxing must have made its fortune by scamming money from its guests..."

She even looked up and glared at him, "What are you looking at? Haven’t you seen a woman before?"

Xu Huo glanced at her and walked away.

He was heading towards True Love Plaza but didn’t rush. Instead, he walked leisurely, stopping now and then, striking up a conversation with the locals whenever he felt like it before moving on.

By the time he arrived at True Love Plaza, it was already mealtime, but there were still a lot of people gathered, most of them couples, listening to the guide or locals telling the love stories inscribed on the three steles at the center of the plaza.

Xu Huo stood outside and read the steles. The story was similar to what he had heard the day before, but it included specific dates, as well as the ages and life stories of the male and female protagonists, especially the female protagonist, who was famous for cultivating new varieties of flowers.

After looking at the steles for a while, he caught a gaze from the crowd. When he looked back, he saw a girl in a white dress smiling at him through the crowd.

She had a "Guide" badge pinned on her shoulder and beckoned to him, "Sir, come over here, we’re about to start the story from the beginning."

Xu Huo obligingly walked over and listened to the love story once more.

Some tourists and couples who had listened to the story were both tearful and regretful.

"This might have been the best ending for them," the girl in the white dress said with a smile. "To part in life and death is the most painful thing in the world. Who knows, maybe in another world, they could be happy?"

The tourists nodded in agreement, wiping the tears from the corners of their eyes, and surged towards a small shop selling fried algae beads, with one female tourist munching on the algae beads and saying, "This is the best for hydration."

The girl in the white dress watched them for a few seconds before turning back to Xu Huo and saying, "Algae beads are the most popular delicacy here recently. Would you like to try some, sir?"

Xu Huo shook his head and handed her a bottle of water, "Wet your throat."

"Thank you." The girl in the white dress took it and then asked, "I see you have been standing here for a long time. Are you missing your loved one?"

"I don’t have a loved one," replied Xu Huo.

"Ah, did she leave you?" The girl in the white dress said consolingly, "Don’t feel bad. You can certainly find another girl to love."

Xu Huo smiled and looked askance at the stele, "Aside from this stele, do they not have a grave?"

Following his gaze to the stele, the girl in the white dress suddenly pressed her lips together and smiled, "You’re joking, sir. This is Fairy Tale City, and Fairy Tale City doesn’t have gravestones. What if it scared the children?"

Xu Huo wanted to say more, but someone called out to the girl in the white dress in the distance. She handed him a business card apologetically, "I have to get back to work. If you need a guide or someone to explain things, you can contact me."

"Okay." Xu Huo casually put the business card in his pocket and watched her figure disappear into the crowd before turning away from True Love Plaza and hailing a cab to the entrance of the tourist city.

At this moment, at the entrance of the tourist city, the female player and the large man who had come with him on the same vehicle the day before, as well as the pair of male and female players, had all returned. The young man who had been kidnapped also came back. As the five of them faced each other, they could all see the weariness in each other’s eyes.

The group found a place to rest by the roadside. The young man with scars all over his face spoke first, "Did you find any clues?"

This question opened up the conversation. The couple spoke first, with the woman touching the scratch on her face, "Talk about finding clues, we didn’t even dare to stay in a hotel yesterday. Instead, we ran into a bunch of stray cats and dogs on the street..."

"You got injured like this by stray cats and dogs?" the young man interrupted in shock.

"Do you think they are ordinary cats and dogs?" the woman snapped back. "The cats and dogs here are more ferocious than tigers and panthers, they all eat people!"