Chapter 3: Taylor-II
The interior structure of Taylor's Bar blends multiple elements of Western constellations and tarot, and many people are enchanted by the ghostly lighting and soothing ethereal music of the lobby on the first floor.
Ah Tai and Guan Zhe followed Qi Sanwei's steps and walked all the way up the stairs to the second floor. As they stepped on each floor of the staircase on the softly woven carpet, the unreality became apparent.
This place doesn't look like a place for people like me to work. Atai looked at the neon signs in the bar depicting the elaborate colored walls of the Western gods and the cleverly arranged constellations, and felt as if he were an insignificant speck of dust in the vast universe.
The boss who asked us to come to work in this kind of place is not a brain problem? Most likely, the boss has encountered some tricky opponent and asked us to be thugs or substitutes. Ah Tai tightened the muscles of his shoulders, and then glanced at Guan Zhe again. I can still make do with fighting, but Guan Zhe is not a person who can fight, what are you calling Guan Zhe for? By the way, he must be here to let us be substitutes for the dead. Or it's jail for someone. I'm not going to do it. Ah Tai thought of a variety of possibilities self-righteously, and became more defensive.
Guan Zhe has another idea in his heart, he used to work as a part-time worker in a bar, he knows that bars often need some temporary workers, security guards, waiters, cleaners or something, in his thoughts, maybe the business in the bar is good during this time, the boss plans to find a few cheap laborers, otherwise, it may be a drudgery such as dressing up as a clown, this weather, put on a hood and a plush clown suit, play all kinds of funny roles, not a poor and crazy person, will not agree. He doesn't have as much life experience as Atai, and he hasn't been cheated or deceived by many people, so in his eyes, many things are relatively simple.
Just when the two of them were thinking about it, the group had already gone up to the third floor, passing a side hall and a row of bars, Qi Sanwei led everyone to an arched door printed with a starry pattern, and then he approached the disc-shaped relief hanging on the wall on one side. The stone sculpture is about a meter in diameter, and it is carved with a strange human head, and the stone statue has a mouth wide open, making the expression unusually weird. If you have some knowledge of Western mythology, you will know that this is a replica of the "Mouth of Truth" relief. But this seemingly handicraft has a different purpose. I saw Qi Sanwei put the palm of his right hand into it, and a low roar came from the mouth of the stone statue, and then a circle of blue lights lit up around the arch, and the starlight on the door also flickered, and then the door panel opened from the middle to both sides.
"Follow me. Seeing the suspicious eyes of Ah Tai and Guan Zhe, Qi Sanwei still felt complacent and proud of this installation door designed by himself.
At this point, even if it is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, the two of them have no choice but to break through.
After passing through the left and right rows of boxes with sliding doors, after turning right at the end of the corridor, an antique door was opened, and a European-style study was entered. Many of these books have Western characters printed on the spine, indicating that the owners of these books were knowledgeable and wide-ranging. Qi Sanwei stopped in front of one of the rows of bookshelves, and then seemingly randomly pulled out one of the books, inserted it into a vacant space, and heard a sudden "buzzing" sound from the bookshelves, and one of the rows of bookshelves opened automatically to the rear, revealing the inner secret room.
Ah Tai and Guan Zhe walked in with Qi Sanwei, although four people walked in at a time, but there was plenty of space in the secret room. In contrast to the whole bar, the interior of the secret room is decorated in a traditional oriental style, with a set of eight mahogany tea tables in the room, the tea utensils on which are small and delicate, and the wall opposite is hung with a majestic mountain and river map, and two Bogu shelves are symmetrically placed on the left and right, which are embedded with porcelain and jade of various shapes and colors.
On the left side of the room is a pair of leather sofas facing each other, but they look a little nondescript. A black-clothed, long-haired man sitting on the sofa also got up and walked over to them when he saw everyone coming in.
He took a closer look at Ah Tai and Guan Zhe, nodded with satisfaction with the man in the shirt, and then looked at the two of them and said, "Hello, introduce yourself, I am Feng Junzi, and everyone likes to call me Feng Shao." ”
"Atai. ”
"Guan Zhe. ”
The two also reported their names.
"Boss Qi...... I won't go into it. Gentleman Kaede gestured to the man in the shirt, "This is Haruka Fumi, my assistant, who picked you up. ”
Then Feng Junzi looked at his watch, and then said, "Wait for one more person, and we can start." Rest assured, he'll be there soon. ”
"Wait. Although he felt that it was a little inappropriate to ask a question at this time, Atai couldn't help but say, "You called us here...... What are you going to do?"
"Oh?" "Gentleman Feng looked at Yaowen and asked, "Why, haven't you had time to explain it to them?"
Yaowen replied: "I was afraid that they wouldn't believe it, so I took it upon myself to call them here first." ”
Feng Junzi thought for a moment and said, "Indeed...... You did very well. ”
"So, let me explain it to you briefly. After that, he stopped and looked at Qi Sanwei quietly and meaningfully.
"Oh...... Oh...... I understand!" Qi Sanwei seemed to think of something, and hurriedly said: "The place is for you to use, I'll leave." After speaking, he approached the door, only to see him make a strange gesture towards the laser probe above his head, and the door "buzzed" open again. Before leaving, he added: "By the way, if you need anything, just call me." ”
Waiting until the door was closed again, Feng Junzi straightened his black crewneck shirt and belt, and the master generally beckoned everyone to sit down, and then found a seat for himself and sat down at the tea table. Atai and Guan Zhe sat across from him.
The tall man named Haruka turned on a switch somewhere on the tea table, and the heater in the tea vessel automatically began to draw water, making a "whirring" sound. He walked to the Bogu shelf, took out a clay pot from it, then looked at the label for a while, took it to the tea table, took out the tea set, and pushed the tea leaves from the clay pot into the teapot on the table little by little, and then sat down in the position of the right hand alone.
"Well, before the people who are waiting come, I will tell you, please come here, what are you doing. Feng Junzi said in an unquestioning tone, "It's very simple, please play the game we made!"
"What?"
"Games?"
Feng Junzi said very quickly, so Ah Tai and Guan Zhe thought that they had misheard, after all, the two of them started grabbing the day knot before dawn, and they had moved bricks all day, and they didn't have much rest, so they were nervously tossed into this bar.
"Yes, the game. ”
"What game?" asked Guan Zhe, puzzled.
"A paper game, or you can think of it as a board game. ”
"I don't know any games, so what should I do?" Ah Tai felt that his brain cells were a little insufficient, and he couldn't believe that this group of people had brought them here to play games.
"Don't be nervous, it's simple, just play the game we let you play. Maybe you won't at first, but I'll guide you little by little, and of course, Haruka will help you. ”
"Is it just a game?" Guan Zhe asked.
"Here, it's just about playing games. ”
"Nothing else?"
"It's gone. ”
"How long are you going to play?"
"Three to five hours, it can't be too long, and I have to rest. ”
"And then you're paying us?"
"Yes, every time the game ends, we will give you a good reward. ”
"No other requirements?"
"No, you can also provide free tea and snacks if you need it. ”
At this moment, Guan Zhe was a little suspicious of everything in front of him.
I can't wake up from last night. Before he could pinch himself, he felt that he had been pinched violently. He came back to his senses and saw that Atay was pinching his thigh.
"It hurts, it hurts...... What are you doing. Guan Zhe pulled Atai's hand away.
"I'll see if I'm dreaming. ”
"You don't dream, pinch yourself, why pinch me?"
"Let's see if the person in the dream will hurt!"
Looking at it like this, it can't be a dream. But if all this is true, it would be great! There is no need to move bricks, there is a daily salary, and tea and snacks are included, how to say, it is also an imperial enjoyment. Of course, according to their vision, it is impossible to know that Yaowen just tossed a few hundred yuan a gram of tea, if they knew the price of the tea they were about to brew in front of them, I am afraid that the two of them would faint at the moment. At this moment, the two looked at each other silently, but they couldn't stop the ecstasy in their hearts.
But when it comes to playing games, Guan Zhe feels that he is not a master, and he can even say that he can be a chef, he has been a hero and glorious for a period of time in college, and he has always been a silver rank, and he has lost ten times in a row, and the great god classmates in the pit class dare not take it. If we don't play well, it won't drive us away. Guan Zhezheng muttered in his heart. I heard Atai on the side speak, "Then what are you waiting for, start early and finish early." ”
"Don't worry, there's another friend who hasn't come, and as soon as he comes, we'll start. "Before that, I think you need to listen to the rules of this game. ”