bookbashuk Chapter 24 Two Generators
Chapter 24 Two Generators
After exchanging words with Yue Man and briefly introducing his hotel, Wang Xiao suddenly asked, "By the way, Mr. Yue, you've been at the Yinghua Hotel for so long, do you know where the generator storage room is located?"
Yue Man thought for a moment and said, "The basement level, near the garage. Why are you asking about that?"
After confirming that he hadn't made a wasted trip, Wang Xiao replied, "It's nothing, I just wanted to go and take a look. Mr. Yue, you can also consider my suggestion. By the way, this is the reward we agreed on."
After placing the promised food down, Wang Xiao turned and walked towards the elevator.
Since Yue Man went down to the first floor via elevator, the zombies inside the elevator must have been cleared out.
He no longer needs to spend extra time climbing stairs, saving him energy, which is great.
As for the system's task, if he were Yue Man, he would most likely be unable to refuse the offer.
After all, zombies can't cook... but they're quite enthusiastic when it comes to meals.
Seeing that Wang Xiao was about to leave, Yue Man hesitated for a moment before asking, "Are you going back to your hotel now?"
Wang Xiao shook his head and said, "No, we still need to go to other hotels to learn more. We'll probably go back the day after tomorrow. However, we'll come to Yinghua Hotel again before we go back. If you've made up your mind, Mr. Yue, you can also choose to return to the hotel with us then."
"Okay, let me think about it some more."
Standing at a distance, Yue Man watched Wang Xiao enter the elevator. He then returned to the control room, where he ate the food Lu Ran had prepared while seriously considering Wang Xiao's proposal.
He longed to return to his old days, when he could simply hide in his hotel room and not have to think about anything.
Back on the first floor, Wang Xiao found Xue Wu in the hotel lobby.
Wang Xiao said, "Let's go, let's take a look around the basement. The generator is in the basement."
Xue Wu nodded and said, "Okay."
During the journey, Xue Wu suddenly asked about Yue Man.
"Boss, what's the situation with that guy upstairs? You didn't mean to...?"
Wang Xiao said irritably, "What nonsense are you thinking? That's going to be our hotel's VIP customer in the future, just a homebody with a few minor ailments."
I only asked him a few simple questions; you don't think I was going to kill him, do you?
Upon learning that Wang Xiao hadn't made a move, Xue Wu suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and muttered to himself, "He didn't kill him after all..."
Although Xue Wu's voice was very soft, it was still picked up by Wang Xiao's keen hearing.
Wang Xiao raised an eyebrow. What was he saying? Was he some kind of psychopathic killer?
Wang Xiao asked, "Do you want me to kill you?"
Xue Wu quickly shook his head, then changed the subject, saying, "Boss, that's not what I meant. By the way, what do you mean by 'potential VIP'?"
Wang Xiao replied, "You'll know once the hotel officially opens. Hurry up and finish this so we can move on to the next one. Do you still want to go back and see your wife soon?"
"Yes! Of course I want to."
"Then hurry up."
There weren't many zombies in the basement, just a few scattered around.
Judging from their uniform clothing, it's easy to tell that they were all hotel staff members in their lifetime.
Without Wang Xiao's intervention, Xue Wu could easily deal with these lone zombies on his own.
Soon, the two arrived at the hotel room where Yue Man had mentioned, where the generator was located.
Looking at the various danger signs on the door, Wang Xiao said, "This should be it. Open the door."
"Boss, step back a bit."
Xue Wu swiped his employee card to open the door, and the two of them walked into the room one after the other.
Inside the room, two complete high-power generators are placed in the center, and a large number of wires around them are connected to the two devices through various converters.
Xue Wu exclaimed in surprise, "Boss, there are actually two!"
Wang Xiao nodded and began to examine the various wiring inside the room, as well as the control buttons on the generator.
After some observation, Wang Xiao was very clear that in order to obtain two complete generators, he would need someone skilled in this area.
Without a professional electrician, even disassembly would be a significant problem.
After achieving their goal, Wang Xiao led Xue Wu back to the first floor of the lobby.
Wang Xiao asked, "What do you think of those two generators? Do you have a way to remove them?"
Xue Wu truthfully replied, "Disassembly shouldn't be a big problem. The real concern is that some parts might be accidentally damaged during the disassembly process, which would be quite troublesome to repair later."
Knowing that Xue Wu didn't have any good solutions either, Wang Xiao had no choice but to temporarily abandon his plan to borrow him home right now.
Although they couldn't move the two high-powered generators away right now, they had at least accomplished two-thirds of their initial goal and were likely to gain a potential VIP customer.
No matter how you look at it, today's trip was quite fruitful for them.
In Wang Xiao's opinion, knowing just the fact that there were people with special abilities was enough.
Just then, Xue Wu asked, "Boss, are we going to the next hotel now?"
Wang Xiao glanced at the darkening sky outside, then at the time and the mission progress, and said, "It's getting dark. Let's stay here for the night, rest for the night, and head to the next target tomorrow."
Since the boss had given the order, Xue Wu naturally had no objections and nodded in reply, "Okay."
[Task: One-day tour of Yinghua Grand Hotel.]
Current task progress: 67.2%.
After confirming that the task was still nearly 30% complete, Wang Xiao once again pulled out the small notebook he had put away and said, "Let's go, show me around some more and see what else we can learn from this hotel."
"Yes."
For the rest of the time, Wang Xiao held Xue Wu and carefully observed the rest of the hotel.
Besides using Xue Wu to advance their mission progress, they also collected some supplies from the hotel.
Looking at the pile of supplies in front of him, Wang Xiao said, "Let's hide these things here for now. We'll come back and take them all after we've inspected the other companies tomorrow."
Xue Wu asked, "Boss, what if someone comes to this hotel while we're away?"
Wang Xiao looked outside and said, "If someone can actually get here by going through those zombies like us, how many of them do you think would be weaklings?"
"If people like them find where we're hiding things, then I'll accept it."
After learning about the existence of ability users from Yue Man, Wang Xiao clearly had more to consider.
These supplies aren't particularly rare items. It doesn't seem like a worthwhile deal to risk conflict with survivors who might be other ability users over some common survival supplies.
Moreover, Wang Xiao only had one goal in coming here: a high-powered generator.
However, since he had promised Yue Man that he would come back here again, he couldn't just leave empty-handed, could he?
He had to bring something back with him, otherwise, if Yue Man, his VIP customer, wouldn't come with him, he would have made a wasted trip.
late at night.
The two of them each made a bucket of instant noodles they'd snatched from the hotel's vending machine and slurped them down in a clean double room.
After a day of hard work by the two of them, Wang Xiao successfully increased the task progress to 90.3%.
Seeing that the progress bar wouldn't go any further, Wang Xiao stopped pursuing the goal of reaching 100% completion.
……
On the other side, at the Peace Hotel.
A group of men armed with various knives, who looked like they were not to be trifled with, had quietly crept up to the vicinity of the Peace Hotel.
A henchman stepped over a man's corpse on the ground and asked a tall man, "Brother Yang, there don't seem to be many zombies around this hotel. Should we take it over and use it as our base?"
The tall man toyed with the still-dripping cleaver in his hand while pinching a woman's chin and chuckled, "No rush, let's wait until tomorrow to take action. Let me have a deeper conversation with this young lady first."