Chapter 23: The Castle of the Goblins

I didn't have time to think about it, so I ran briskly in the direction of the shop. Coming to the end of the snack street, I couldn't help but be stunned by what I saw.

When I came to eat at noon today, there was only a small store of about ten square meters, and there were four or five tables in it.

At this time, the store turned into a hotel!

It looks like the owner of the previous shop has finally saved enough money to buy all the unrented stores near the previous shop, and expand the whole shop into a huge hotel, which occupies seven or eight storefronts at the end of the snack street, and the upstairs seems to be their home.

The signboard that had hung at the entrance before was also replaced with a larger and more imposing sign, "Fairy Castle".

Everyone knows that in just one afternoon, it is impossible to complete such a huge project! Not to mention where the money for renting the façade comes from, let's just say that you can't finish the renovation in one afternoon!

Why are you still a small fast food shop at noon, and it will become a big hotel at night!

Realizing that things might not be as simple as I thought, I decided to take a look at the hotel first.

The hotel is close to the street with large floor-to-ceiling glass windows, and it is easy to see the inside of the house because they are all small storefronts that have been converted from one by one.

The hotel lobby was almost full, everyone seemed to be stunned, eating what was in front of them, no one cared about talking, and there was only the sound of cups, plates, dishes and chopsticks colliding, as well as the creepy sound of chewing and swallowing.

And the waitresses I saw at noon today seem to have added a lot of manpower, there were only about four or five at noon, and now there are more than twenty in the hall alone! Each of them has the same kind of smile on his face, but at the moment that smile can only make my scalp feel numb.

I don't know if you've heard of a kind of uncanny valley effect. The concept simply means that the more human-like an object, such as a robot or a doll, looks and behaves like a person, the more people will think of it, and the two are directly proportional. However, once this level of similarity reaches a certain level, humanity's favorability towards it suddenly decreases, and it becomes no longer liking it, and instead begins to dislike it, even fearing it. At this time, even if it is slightly different from humans, it will appear very conspicuous and dazzling, which will make it look very stiff and terrifying, making people feel like facing the walking dead. However, as the resemblance of its appearance and movements to that of humans continues to increase, the human emotional response to them will turn positive.

Now, those waiters give me the feeling that it is similar to the uncanny valley effect.

In terms of appearance, they are all very ordinary waitress, and I can't find any fault with their appearance.

But have you ever seen four or five people speak, always a waiter with only one voice?

Have you ever seen a waiter who looks like he's wearing a mask and doesn't change the expression on his face at all?

Have you ever seen a waiter who doesn't even blink an eye when he stands still???

There is a problem, there must be a problem with these waiters!

Not only the waiter, but this shop is definitely not normal!

But what should I do?

In the afternoon, I seem to have a lot of weapons in my imaging bracelet, or I just pulled out an RPG and blew up the store?

No, no, there are still living people here!

There was no good way to think about it, so I decided to take out my mobile phone first and call Mr. Zhang.

As soon as the phone was connected, before I could speak, Mr. Zhang's calm and friendly voice came out first, "Xiao Wu, how is your body?"

"Well, Mr. Zhang, I don't have any major problems with my body. ”

"It's okay, I'm here to arrange the manpower for tonight's mission, so I'll hang up first!"

When I heard this, I quickly called out to him, "Mr. Zhang, Mr. Zhang!!Don't hang up, I have a situation here that I have to report to you!"

I told Mr. Zhang about the situation, and Mr. Zhang groaned after listening to it, and said to me,

"It should be a special phenomenon called 'Fairy Hut', Wu Zheng, you don't need to panic, observe the situation first. Send me where you are now, and I'll send someone right away. ”

After hanging up the phone, I used WeChat to send Mr. Zhang a location, and then I didn't know what to do.

I couldn't help but be a little worried when I saw that the couple I met at lunch was still sitting by the door of the hotel, constantly stuffing things into their mouths.

", I've been eating all afternoon, can I still eat like this?

I don't think I can wait any longer, it seems that I have to find a way to rescue the ordinary people who are eating inside first.

What can be done?

I had an idea, looked in the direction I had come, and suddenly had an idea.

Two minutes later, I put on a mask and pushed a small stall truck to the door of the hotel, with a striking sign hanging on the car -

The smell of stinky tofu wafts thousands of miles!

It was just when I smelled this smell just now that I was able to sober up, big brothers, big sisters, uncles and aunts, I'm sorry, it's all for your good!

As soon as I raised my hand and lifted the lid of the fried stinky tofu, even with a mask, I was still disgusted by the stench of choking my nose.

At this time, the door of the hotel was open, and my booth was parked at the door of the hotel, and when the breeze blew, the stench poured directly into the hotel lobby.

I watched as I started at the table closest to the door, and gradually spread in, one table after another. All of them first flicked, then sniffled, followed by a retching sound of "vomit~" and "vomit~".

The regular retching of this large wave of people formed a peculiar sound, and I looked outside and wanted to laugh for a while. I felt like I was going to be able to apply for a world record or something, and the Guinness World Record for the most people vomiting at the same time.

Just as I was about to laugh, I suddenly realized that something was wrong, because I saw that the waiters in the hotel lobby all turned their faces to me at the same time, and dozens of pairs of eyes were staring at me with the same angry expressions on their faces.

It's over, buddy I'm afraid I'm going to finish the calf.

I didn't think about anything, so I ran to the other end of the snack street, for fear that the strange waiters would chase me out.

After running a few steps, I heard a sudden noisy sound in the hotel, and I looked back as I ran, only to see that the men, women, and children who had been eating Haisai in the hotel before suddenly began to run out of the door, probably because they were really stinking.

As soon as a few big brothers rushed out, they kept retching against the wall, and an uncle rushed out to help the stinky tofu stall there and vomited, and the more he vomited, the more he vomited.

The couple I said before was even more awesome, the two rushed out of the hotel one after the other, and the man ran out with his girlfriend, but he didn't hold back at first, and the back of the woman's head was spit out with a "wow~", and the woman vomited even more.

Seeing that the people were almost out, I suddenly heard a very piercing scream, which shook my ears and buzzed. I blocked my ears with my hands in an instant, and even then, the high pitch still penetrated my eardrums, and I only felt a blur in front of my eyes and a little groggy in my mind.

When they heard the sound, they first shook their bodies, and then they stopped vomiting, and then as if they were hypnotized, they stood in a daze, and only their heads turned to the direction from which the screaming sound, which was the hotel.

At the moment, I was still standing in place with my hands over my ears, feeling my consciousness getting more and more blurred. I bit the tip of my tongue violently, and the pain in my heart suddenly made me sober up a lot. I craned my neck to look inside the hotel, and at this glance, I only felt a tingling in my scalp—

The more than 20 waiters standing in the hotel looked extremely strange at the moment, their limbs were swinging rapidly, and the expressions on their faces were also twitching rapidly, looking a bit like the state of an old-fashioned VCD fast-forward.

If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have believed that anyone could shake their body so fast! The waiter's arm was almost an afterimage, and his face became almost indistinguishable under the high-speed twitching, except for the occasional pause, like a stutter in a movie fast-forward.

My dear mother, I really don't dare to watch it, and if I continue to watch it, I will probably have nightmares at night. I bit the tip of my tongue again to cheer myself up, covered my ears and looked around, and found that there was a fast food restaurant selling braised chicken next to my location.

Just as I was about to sneak in, I noticed that the piercing screaming had suddenly stopped, and when I looked back, the waiters in the fairy hotel had stopped moving and walked out of the hotel in pieces.

I quickly ducked behind a food stall selling cool skins and secretly looked at them. I saw that they actually moved the people who had stopped vomiting back to the hotel one by one, and relocated them to sit down.

Those men, women, and children were all stupid and stupid at the moment, and even their bodies seemed to be stiff. I saw a waiter dragging two people into the hotel with one in one hand, and the two people who were caught were like two very curious sculptures, stiff and motionless.

One was in a position of vomiting against the wall, and the other was hunched over with his head raised to the side, as if he was turning his head to observe something.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but be a little anxious, took out my mobile phone and glanced at the time, 8:40, only five minutes had passed since I called Mr. Zhang.

It seems that Mr. Zhang can't catch up in a short time, but I have to find a way to rescue these ordinary people first, but what should I do?

Thinking with my toes, I also knew that rushing out now would definitely not have any good fruit for me to eat, so I could only find a way to divert the attention of these waiters and delay the time until Mr. Zhang's people arrived.

I had an idea.

I quietly slipped out of the back of the food stall into the alley on the side, shook my spirits, and then turned around and swaggered out of the alley.

Walking along the snack street in the direction of the hotel, I pretended to be a little puzzled and said loudly,

"Hey, why is there no one here? What are the food sellers doing?"

As soon as the words came out, I seemed to feel that more than a dozen eyes were focused on me in an instant, and I couldn't help but feel a thrill all over my body. Pretending to be inadvertent, I turned my head to look, and sure enough, the waiter who was moving people stopped his movements at the same time and looked at me with no expression on his face, not knowing what he was thinking.