Chapter 109

Chapter 109

Inside the Aberration World.

Jiang Li was busy soothing the emotions of Guest 404.

Meanwhile, the Cook, who had gone to check the Circuit Breaker, returned with his head hanging low in defeat.

“The power’s out. The circuits must have fried.”

As the Cook spoke, his teeth chattered, and his face had already turned pale from the cold.

“Then what should we do? The guest is freezing too,” Jiang Li asked the Cook intentionally.

The matter of soaking in the hot springs was, after all, a “Minefield.”

It was better to let the Cook bring it up to avoid drawing fire to herself.

When the Cook heard Jiang Li’s question, he immediately thought of the Hot Spring Pool.

He hurried over to Guest 404 and offered his solution:

“Sir, why don’t you follow me to the Hot Spring Pool? Right now, only a soak in the hot spring…”

The moment the Cook uttered the words “soak in the hot spring,” the door to Room 404 slammed shut with a loud bang.

Rule 3 of Floor 4:

[The Guest of Room 404 does not like bathing; please do not force him.]

For the Guest of Room 404, who was “afraid of water.”

“Bathing” and “soaking in a hot spring” were equally loathsome concepts.

The Cook had meant well, but he ended up getting a door slammed in his face.

He could only withdraw his smile resentfully.

“If you don’t want to go, then don’t go. Why the attitude?” the Cook muttered under his breath.

The Cook was petty by nature.

Guest 404 slamming the door had completely offended him.

Pouting, the Cook had no intention of looking after Guest 404 anymore.

Instead, shivering on his own, he jogged into the Men’s Hot Spring Pool. “Hiyo, I’m freezing to death, freezing to death…”

The Cook was gone.

But Jiang Li couldn’t leave.

She had to force this Guest 404 out today, no matter what.

Jiang Li tossed another heart to Red Infant.

“Baby, make the wind in his room blow even harder.”

Red Infant, having accepted her bribe, was happy to oblige.

He obediently channeled his Aberration Power, whipping up another gust of powerful, freezing wind.

Inside Room 404, it was now almost as cold as it was outside.

Jiang Li returned to her Staff Lounge.

She wrapped herself in another quilt and observed the situation in the hallway through the peephole in the door.

Half an hour passed, and the Guest of Room 404 was surprisingly resistant to the cold.

He hadn’t made a single sound.

It seemed this man was truly terrified of water, harboring a deep psychological trauma regarding it.

Jiang Li thought for a second and went to the Kitchen to grab a tray.

She accessed her Space and took out some Boneless Chicken Feet drizzled in red sauce.

These chicken feet were leftovers from the train Instance.

They were good stuff-one bite and you’d fall into a deep sleep immediately.

Jiang Li carried the plate of Boneless Chicken Feet and knocked on the door of the Man from Room 404.

“Sir, the Kitchen has prepared a late-night snack as compensation. I’ve left it at your door.”

Jiang Li set down the chicken feet and stepped away from the door of Room 404.

Logically speaking, this Fatty in Room 404 should be unable to refuse any food.

Sure enough.

Even though the Guest of Room 404 was so cold his fingers were stiff.

He still cracked the door open, pulled the plate of chicken feet inside, and wolfed them down.

At that moment.

The Cook had finished his soak and was humming a little tune as he stepped out of the Hot Spring Pool.

Seeing him emerge, Jiang Li immediately went out into the hallway.

She took out the Universal Room Card and swiped open the door to Room 404.

Inside, the Fatty had already collapsed in the entryway.

Jiang Li put on a shocked expression.

She quickly called out to the passing Cook.

To get the Fatty to the Male Hot Spring Pool, she needed the Cook’s help.

Jiang Li said in an urgent voice:

“Brother Yang, something’s happened! Guest 404 has fainted from the cold!”

The Cook stopped in his tracks and glanced toward the doorway.
Then, he spoke up in a huff, “He deserves it!”

“What if the guest freezes to death?” Jiang Li asked him.

But the Cook grew angry just thinking about what had happened earlier. “I tried to be kind, and he treated me like dirt! If he dies, he deserves it! Ptooie!”

Jiang Li could tell from the Cook’s tone that he was still fuming.

Since going along with him wasn’t working, she had to take the opposite approach.

Jiang Li thought for a moment and let out a sigh of feigned regret.

“Sigh, I heard this Guest of Room 404 has a psychological trauma regarding hot springs. It’s probably for the best that he doesn’t go. ‘Freezing to death’ is better than ‘living in agony,’ isn’t it?”

The Cook’s footsteps faltered.

“Are you serious? He’s afraid of water?” A trace of ruthlessness flashed in the Cook’s eyes.

Jiang Li nodded quickly. “Absolutely. He’s scared to death the moment he sees water. He hates bathing, let alone soaking in a hot spring.”

The Cook’s eyeballs rolled as a thought occurred to him.

He began to chuckle sinisterly.

“Little sister, I think you’re right. If the guest freezes to death, we might be held responsible, and that would be hard to handle.

How about… we take him to the Hot Spring Pool to warm him up?”

The Cook’s gaze flickered toward the direction of the Hot Spring Pool.

He signaled for Jiang Li to help him move the Fatty.

Jiang Li deliberately acted hesitant.

“Would that be bad? He’s so afraid of water. What if it triggers some kind of psychological breakdown?”

“Oh, what’s so bad about it!” The Cook was starting to get impatient.

Rather than letting the Fatty die just like that, he wanted the man to suffer more.

The Cook urged, “Hurry up! If we don’t get him over there soon, he’ll be frozen into a block of ice!”

The Cook seemed even more eager than Jiang Li.

He exerted a great deal of effort just to drag the Fatty out a little way.

Jiang Li didn’t stay idle either.

She worked with the Cook to drag the Fatty outward.

Once they finally managed to move the Fatty outside, how to transport him became another problem.

The Cook was dead set on ‘throwing him in the water.’

In short, whatever the Fatty was afraid of, that was exactly what the Cook would do.

To achieve this goal, the Cook rushed to the Back Kitchen Warehouse and pulled out a flatbed cart.

With their combined strength, Jiang Li and the Cook loaded the unconscious Fatty onto the cart.

The entire process went relatively smoothly.

The Guest of Room 404 was dragged and hauled by the Cook until he was tossed into the Male Hot Spring Pool.

Seeing that the matter was mostly settled, Jiang Li took the opportunity to go restore the power on the 4th floor.

The lights in the corridor flickered back on.

Heating was restored throughout the area.

When Jiang Li emerged from the Control Room, she saw the Cook looking as if he had seen a ghost.

Clutching his head, the Cook ran frantically out of the Male Hot Spring Pool.

“Ah!! An illusion! It must be an illusion! I must still be dreaming, I must still be dreaming!!”

With bloodshot Eyes, the Cook ran crazily into his Staff Lounge.

After the Cook left, a thin, small man covered in folds of ‘wrinkled skin’ walked out of the Hot Spring Pool, soaking wet.

The man walked into the corridor and looked at Jiang Li with lifeless eyes.

As Jiang Li met his gaze, she felt goosebumps break out all over her body.

Jiang Li had seen this kind of skin condition before.

It was the state of an obese person who had suddenly lost all their internal fat, but the skin hadn’t had time to shrink back.

From his face to his feet, every inch of his wrinkled, sagging skin was a place that had once been filled with fat.

This thin, small man… was the Guest of Room 404!

After emerging from the Hot Spring Pool, the Guest of Room 404 was on the verge of a mental breakdown.

His eyes filled with tears, and he suddenly fell to his knees in the corridor with a ‘thud,’ tearing at his hair and sobbing uncontrollably with his head in his hands.