Chapter Twenty-Nine: Staying in a Hotel
Captain Xing led us into the gate, and inside was a long passage, a bit of an airport passage. There were not many people inside, and our group walked a long distance under the leadership of Captain Xing, and finally came to a glass window.
Yu Xiaoxiao quietly poked me in the back and whispered to me, "Why does this place look like it's like going through airport security?"
I tilted my head and replied, "I don't know, it's my first time here." β
Stretching his neck and glancing forward, Xing Yuanshan first showed an ID card-like document, then took out an envelope from his coat pocket, handed it to the window, whispered something, and then turned his head and beckoned from us, signaling me, Yu Xiaoxiao and Lu Li to go first.
I walked over with a blank look on my face, and found that sitting behind the window was a familiar yellow face, the man was also wearing a bit like an airport worker, a white shirt, a small round badge on his chest, a blue tone, the pattern was three hands of different skin colors connected end to end, holding the wrist of the other hand in turn, forming a triangle.
The staff looked up at me, smiled slightly, and said, "Look at the camera." β
"Oh!" I noticed a small camera next to the window, and quickly stared at it. Hearing a small "sizzling" sound, a small card was handed out from behind the window of the staff, and then motioned to the next person.
I took two steps forward in a bit of a daze, and carefully examined the card in my hand, and found that it was something similar to identification, probably made of some kind of alloy, with a matte finish on the surface, and a round badge on one side, exactly the same as the one worn on the chest of the staff member just now, and under the badge were five large golden letters "Guardian Alliance".
On the other side of the card is a picture of me, along with my name, gender, date of birth, and the region to which I belong to the Guardian Organization.
Captain Xing came over and patted me, "Okay, don't look at it, I'll explain it to you in detail later, let's find a place to live and settle down first." β
Looking back, Yu Xiaoxiao, Lu Li, and the people in the Shiyi group also had a card in their hands, and when they heard Captain Xing say this, everyone nodded in agreement.
We walked down the aisle for a while, and when we turned a corner, the space in front of us suddenly widened.
In front of us was a very large hall, the size of five or six football fields, and across from us was a whole row of exits where people could be seen coming and going. Between us and the exit, there is a stylishly renovated hut with all kinds of colorful signboards hanging outside, but most of them are in foreign language, and I can't understand what is written. But I can understand the pictures, looking at the hamburger pattern, fried chicken pattern, and beer pattern on the signboard, I suddenly understood, isn't this the standard configuration of an airport? I also saw the airport bookstore!
"Wow~~ It turns out that this is an airport, I thought it would be a little mysterious!" Yu Xiaoxiao followed me out of the aisle, and couldn't help but exclaim when she saw the scene in front of her.
Captain Xing glanced back at us and said funny: "Don't make a fuss, this is originally an airport, otherwise what do you think it is." β
Zhao Yifeng on the side added, "When this place was first built, it was not so big, and with the increase in the number of members of the alliance, the old checkpoint station was no longer usable, and after the entire island was covered with a protective shield, it was basically prevented from ordinary civilians from entering, so it was simply rebuilt into the current big airport." β
Our group walked through the bustling crowd, walked out of the gate of the airport, followed Captain Xing and got into a bus, heading for the city center in front of us.
There were so many people on the bus that there were no seats at all. A few of us finally found a place to stand, surrounded by foreigners of all colors and skin tones, some of them looked relatively normal, and some of them were more weird. I saw a white guy with spiky hair standing on top of his head in a daze, and a big black guy with a bare head and two animal teeth on his chin, I don't know if it really grew out or if it was a trinket that he had brought.
Yu Xiaoxiao, who was behind her, stabbed me in the back again and asked me in a low voice, "Have you seen the X-Men?"
I noticed that she seemed to be particularly fond of poking me, especially when standing behind me...
"Huh, the X-Men?" don't you say, when you think of the X-Men, and then look at this car, it's really a bit of a mutant.
I craned my neck and lowered my voice to ask Captain Xing, "Captain Xing, are all guardians in this car?"
Captain Xing was struggling to adjust his position because he was relatively large, trying to find a more comfortable posture for himself, and when he heard me ask, he turned his head to me and said, "Of course, these people are guardians from various countries around the world, most of them are newcomers, and they are all here to do intensive training like you!"
We got off the bus at what appeared to be a downtown location, and Captain Xing led us down a few streets with ease, stopping in front of a store with an antique Chinese dΓ©cor.
The entrance of this store is lined with two red lacquered wooden pillars, supporting a Chinese-style archway above, a red lacquer plaque hangs under the archway, and the four gilded characters of "Yuelai Inn" shine brightly.
When I looked around, I found that the style of this street is basically the kind of feeling that is common in China, and it seems that it should be a Chinatown.
Captain Xing took us in, and the decoration of the store is also quite ancient, the tables, chairs and benches are basically made of bamboo, with some solid wood house structures, which makes people feel like they have come to a martial arts novel.
Behind the counter sat a middle-aged man with small round glasses, wearing a blue-gray robe and horse coat, with a somewhat fat figure and two wisps of mustache, who was originally flipping through this thread-bound book. Hearing someone coming in, he pulled down his glasses and glanced at us, a gleam flashed in his eyes, he stood up with a smile, and walked out from behind the counter with open arms, "Lao Xing!
Captain Xing also laughed, opened his arms and gave the shopkeeper a hug, and said with a smile, "Who else can come besides me?" Zhang Liangyu, that kid has been able to run this errand since he became the team leader, hahaha!"
Zhao Yifeng also smiled and nodded, and when Captain Xing let go of his hand, he also went up and hugged the shopkeeper.
Judging by the situation, these two people should know each other, and when we were guessing what the identity of this middle-aged man was, Captain Ying turned to us and said, "Let me introduce to you, this is the senior of our imaging team, Liang Quan!"
Several of us all hugged our fists and said, "Senior Liang!"
The chubby Liang Quan hurriedly waved his hand at us and said with a smile: "Don't don't, I'm just an ordinary person who covets comfort!"
The three old guys teased each other a few more words, and then arranged for us to stay.
We asked for a total of four rooms, Captain Xing and Zhao Yifeng lived in one, Lu Li and I lived in one, Wei Ming and Zhang Yuanliang from the Poetry and Memory Group lived in one, and Yu Xiaoxiao lived in one room by herself as a girl.
The room where Lu Li and I live is on the fourth floor, this guy really doesn't like to talk, take the elevator to the fourth floor, and don't say a word on the way.
When I came to the room, it was a very common hotel layout, two single beds, pure white sheets were washed very clean. A bathroom, where you can take a shower or something, everything is very ordinary.
Lu Li walked straight to the bed near the door, and lay down on the bed with a slight jump, "I'll sleep on this one~"
"Okay, I'll sleep in another bed. "I don't have any objections, after all, which bed to sleep in is not to sleep.
I slowly paced to the window near the window and sat down, when it occurred to me that I didn't even have a change of clothes.
In fact, before going to the company, I called Wang Xiaoyu to contact him, and this girl told me that she was going to conduct a rookie training, but I didn't expect to fly so far at all, not to mention that I didn't know how long I was going to stay here.
I glanced up at Lu Li, this guy was lying on the bed bored and fiddling with his mobile phone, it seemed that he didn't have any luggage, I couldn't help but ask with some curiosity, "Brother Lu, did you bring luggage?"
Lu Li put down his phone when he heard this, with a mocking smile on his face, raised his left hand to show me the imaging bracelet on his wrist, and said, "With this, what do you want to do with your luggage?"
I looked at him with some confusion, and after a little thought in my mind, I suddenly understood, "You put all your luggage in the bracelet?
That's not right, the summoned things can't exist forever, is it possible to keep the imaging space open all the time?
Lu Li was a little impatient, sat up and said to me, "We are all staying in a hotel, what kind of luggage do you need? Are you really part of the imaging crew?"
"Uh... β
He despised him.
But I really didn't expect the imaging bracelet to be used in this way... Could it be that the unsmiling Lu Li kid in front of me is a genius?
After all, I have experienced a series of very dangerous events when I came into contact with these peculiar phenomena, and I was in two car accidents in a single parking lot, both of which I almost died on the spot. So my attitude towards the Imaging Bracelet naturally comes with some serious emotions in it, and I only think that it is a combat tool.
And Lu Li and Yu Xiaoxiao, it seems that they have not encountered any life and death situation, or they have not been beaten by special phenomena, so they have more imagination about the ability of the imaging bracelet, and they can even summon the washing machine... I can already imagine what Yu Xiaoxiao will do: summon a hair dryer, a small mirror or something, of course, it's not a problem. After all, these things don't use much energy at all.
Seeing my suddenly realized expression, Lu Li snorted lightly, lay down on the bed again, turned his back and continued to play with his mobile phone.
I got up and walked to the window and looked out of the window, the sun had set, the sky was getting darker, the street lights were gradually lit up outside the window, and the buildings on both sides of the road were gradually lit up.
Because this street is full of Chinese-style buildings, it is likely to be a Chinatown, and most of the roads below are familiar yellow faces, of course, you can occasionally see some foreigner faces. People of different colors walk together, and under the illumination of the street lamp, there is a very harmonious taste.
While I was soaking up the tranquility, there was a knock on our door.