Book 2: Opening Chapter Ninety-Six: The Crystal and the Woman
In the following days, while recovering from his injuries, he ran through the remaining three abandoned mining areas, found no more anomalies, and went straight to the place he had agreed with the two team members.
Crystal Town.
The crystal lake, with its outline like a pair of eyes, has a water area of about several square kilometers. She is a shining pearl in the land of southern Xinjiang, but she is rarely known because of her proximity to the border. Although it has a beautiful topography, its strategic position is not important, and there are no important resources unearthed, it has brought wealth and peace to the people who depend on her, and it is also the most important and stable place for aquatic production in southern Xinjiang.
Naturally, there are also a number of villages and towns in her vicinity.
Crystal Town is located in the southernmost part of the crystal lake, she is named after the lake, facing Lishui in front, backed by the shade, naturally the scenery is infinite, prosperous and beautiful both, hence the name Crystal.
Helplessly backed by the border, years of wars and natural and man-made disasters have gradually lost the style of this beautiful border town, and gradually become a place where no one cares.
The town is 20 kilometers away from Shiwang Fort, the largest border fortress in southern Xinjiang.
At dusk, a small boat came across the water, and from it stepped a man in a hooded cloak, with a large backpack on his back, which looked like it was carrying a lot of things.
The wind on the river was very strong, and it made the tent of the people who came to hunt and hunt, revealing a young but dusty face under the hood, which was Luo Xia. He threw out a silver coin, landed firmly in the boatman's hand, and then jumped out of the boat and disappeared on the docks.
"Crystal Hotel, this is it..."The sky is getting dark, Luo Xia walked alone on the empty streets of the town, looking for his target, and the cold evening breeze near the mountains made the surroundings empty.
Luckily, the Crystal Hotel he was looking for was an obvious target, just off the edge of the town's largest street, with a large wooden sign hanging in front of it for everyone to see.
His last target was on the other side of the Crystal Lake, and after completing the investigation, he hired a boat to cross the Crystal Lake and arrived at the Crystal Hotel to meet the rest of the team.
The final mission of the three-person team was almost all in the vicinity of this town, so it was agreed early in the morning to meet here after completing their respective tasks.
After Luo Xia pushed forward and opened the door of the hotel, he immediately wondered if he had gone to the wrong place...
Hotels in this world often double as a bar and restaurant business, that is, a bar and restaurant business, and there will always be a place for guests to rest and eat.
But when he entered, he saw a large group of women sitting together, sorting and sewing all kinds of preliminarily processed fur materials, and some children around were chasing and playing in the soft light, hiding between the tables and chairs and laughing happily...
The slightly pungent smell of fur brought Luo Xia back to his senses. He looked at the fur of various animals hanging on the walls of the room and gently stepped back a few steps out of the door, and after looking at the signboard outside the room, he showed a puzzled expression: "That's right, it's a crystal hotel, but this..."
"Excuse me, is this the Crystal Hotel?"
As he asked, the women who had stopped talking and laughing and were looking at him burst into laughter, and then, as if someone had said something, everyone gathered around a woman and laughed. This made Luo Xia a little inexplicable and a little embarrassed at the same time.
"It's indeed a crystal hotel, that's right, almost every stranger who comes asks that, sir, please inside. Because there are few guests on weekdays, the sisters can only do something else on weekdays, so please forgive me. A young woman wearing a red sweater and a long skirt put down her work and greeted Luo Xia.
Linen-colored curly hair, delicate and generous facial features, and a strong figure that is bumpy but has worked for a long time, make this woman look unique.
"Sir, do you want something? You tell me, I'll call the kitchen to prepare. The woman looked at Luo Xia, who was in the dust, and said, the young man who came made her a little surprised, but she didn't say anything. just inadvertently bent his eyes, looked at Luo Xia's eyes with straight eyes, and smiled eating.
"Okay, bring me something to eat, preferably some meat. This one... It's better to send it to my room. And then... Bath water..."Luo Xia was indeed a little hungry, but after looking at the many children playing in the hall, he still decided to go to his room to eat, otherwise it would feel really strange.
"Well, okay, my name is Hai Xuan, you can come to me if you have any needs. Now I'll take you to your room. The woman in the red shirt looked very enthusiastic, and stepped forward to pull Luo Xia, but he subconsciously flashed it. She giggled and led the way upstairs...
If memory serves, this woman is the one who was laughing around the crowd just now.
Luo Xia suddenly had a strange feeling, especially when he walked up the stairs, the inexplicable laughter from the women downstairs made him feel a little uneasy about wanting to sweat...
The hotel is small, but it has about a dozen rooms.
Luo Xia's room is at the very end of the circular corridor, and there are two windows inside, each with a view of the outside.
"If you need to find me at any time..."The woman named Hai Wei threw a bold wink at him before leaving, and at the same time left a very suggestive expression, which made Luo Xia a little unable to react, looking at the other party's deliberately swaying buttocks and being stunned...
He shook his head and looked around, seeing that the doors of the other rooms were closed, and he didn't know if the other team members had arrived. So he made a light '3' on the floor of his doorway and went into the room to rest.
With some slight footsteps and sporadic sound of porcelain basins, Luo Xia's door was slammed.
It was the woman in red from before, standing outside the door with a dinner plate in both hands.
"Is there anything else you can do?" Looking at the completely dark sky outside, Luo Xia asked curiously while eating the dinner personally served by the woman in red who was suspected of being the proprietress herself.
"Do you want me to go?" Her tone was a little resentful, and she leaned down gently, revealing a plump and attractive furrow in front of Luo Xia...
Luo Xia was a little confused, his brows furrowed slightly, and he lowered his head and mechanically ate the dinner on his plate. Hai Yan didn't speak, just lay in front of him and looked at him.
It's a weird situation...
At this moment, there was a faint sound of blood-stirring gasps and laughter in the nearby room, and anyone with the slightest experience knew what this sound meant. This made the atmosphere in the room even more awkward and eerie.
"Thank you! I'm going to rest, don't send it. Looking at the woman with a beautiful face and a lot of amorous feelings, Luo Xia suddenly felt a sense of disgust in his heart, and he coldly gave an eviction order to the strange woman who was lying in his room.
“...”
"What? I really don't need any services, if you're short of money..."Luo Xia looked at the woman opposite who looked a little aggrieved, sneered in his heart, and took out a few silver coins and was about to hand them to the other party, but she slapped them away.
"Who wants your stinky money! I just want to have a baby! Hai Xuan suddenly raised her head, tears on her face already blurring her face.
"Heh... I don't understand what the truth is, you can find a man to marry. Faced with this uncredible reason, Luo Xia scoffed, the other party's delicate face and figure, and she was afraid that she would not find a man who was willing to marry her? He was hesitant to take the woman out of his upset.
"You don't understand at all! How scared and lonely people like us are at night! Fear and nightmares are like forever hanging over us! People like you simply won't understand ... I just want a kid to spend time with me..." Hai Ling almost snatched the dinner plate, rushed out of Luo Xia's door with tears, and disappeared around the corner...
“...”
Luo Xia suddenly panicked in his heart, and he didn't understand why something seemed to be extraordinarily absurd, but he felt an inexplicable sense of unease and guilt in his heart...
This night, all kinds of strange noises occasionally came, and he didn't sleep well all night...
... ...
"Captain, it's morning." The next day, Luo Xia, who went down early, saw a middle-aged man with a spring face chatting with a few women. His eyes are protruding!
He looked around and found that there were no other guests but himself, and suddenly he felt a sense of sadness that he had been hit by a hundred thousand tons.
The object who made the strange sound last night was this guy who seemed to be honest and responsible!?
"Morning !! You beast! Luo Xia gritted his teeth and sat next to them, but he didn't want the women nearby to snort in unison when they saw him, treating him as an invisible person, and scattered...
"Eh..."Chen is looked at the surrounding situation, feeling a little surprised, "What did you do?" ”
Luo Xia smiled bitterly and whispered about yesterday's strange things, but he didn't want to cause the other party to laugh.
"Okay Captain, I think you actually misunderstood..."Chen is laughed maniacally for a while, and then explained to him softly with a straight face.
It turned out that a remote town like Crystal Town, although it was not seriously threatened and damaged by direct war. However, close to the border pass, aliens came in from time to time to provoke wars, causing a large number of young men to die.
Of course, most of the women here have become widows and leftovers...
From time to time, the attacks of alienated races and various crises make the lives of these women full of coldness, emptiness and fear, and even if they are married, they will be more worried about their husbands, who may face the death of their wars and defending their homes at any time. The child seems to have become the only spiritual sustenance...
That's why they'll find some attractive men to fulfill this wish...
This is a very sick social phenomenon in a state of war for a long time, but it is true in many places...
After Luo Xia heard this, he sighed secretly in his heart, not knowing how to evaluate this kind of thing...
He walked straight to Hai Wei, who was hiding behind the crowd, with red eyes like crying all night: "I'm sorry, I said something very excessive last night, I hope to get your forgiveness." ”
"What are you talking about, I don't really understand." Hai Hui smiled stiffly, pretending that nothing had happened.
"That, my name is Luo Xia, I actually want to say that I'm hungry, can you give me something to eat, and have breakfast together by the way?" Luo Xia looked at this amorous woman in front of him for a long time, and he suddenly felt that he must have a brain disease last night, so he would do something that was not as good as a beast.
"Hehe... I'm not in the habit of eating with strange men, so please stay away from me. The woman in red smiled reservedly and coldly refused.
In Chen Yes's burst of laughter, Luo Xia returned to the table in embarrassment, grabbed the food opposite and began to breathe, but he was inexplicably relieved in his heart.