Lin Jingxue walked away as if someone were chasing her, not looking back, and Meng Qingzhou naturally followed closely behind. Chen Xi and Xu Yang and the others were left staring at each other in confusion…
“Do we look scary or something? Why did they run the moment they saw us?” Xu Yang touched his face and asked.
Chen Xi forced a dry laugh and said, “Hehe… maybe they really had something to do. Since she’s busy, let’s go together.”
She glanced at the male lead and noticed his gaze on her was even more meaningful.
Chen Xi felt a bit guilty, sensing that the male lead might have guessed something.
It turned out that Huo Yan did find Chen Xi a little odd. She hardly ever talked to him before; even on missions together, she mainly communicated with Xu Yang and the others.
But now, she was unusually enthusiastic about introducing herself to Lin Jingxue and deliberately creating opportunities for them to meet… Huo Yan felt like he might be misunderstanding something.
He had long known that Lin Jingxue avoided him. Whenever he appeared, she would leave, as if he were some terrifying monster.
Her entire demeanor and personality seemed different, too. It was easy to guess that Lin Jingxue had changed—or maybe she wasn’t the same person at all.
He didn’t say anything for two reasons: one, this “Lin Jingxue” didn’t seem to hold any ill will toward them; two, the boy following her, Meng Qingzhou, he recognized as the Zombie King who had perished with him in the previous life.
Though he didn’t know why Meng Qingzhou was with Lin Jingxue, he hadn’t turned into a zombie. Instead, thanks to Lin Jingxue killing many zombies and helping a lot of people, things were moving in a positive direction.
What he needed now was for Lin Jingxue to realize that her Spirit Spring Space could counter the zombie virus, so she could develop a vaccine.
Huo Yan wasn’t aiming to be a savior, but in the apocalypse, having a way to end things was invaluable—so he naturally wanted to try.
This was also why he hadn’t refused Chen Xi’s request. Who could have expected Lin Jingxue to scare off Huo Yan the moment she saw him? It left him speechless.
Chen Xi was equally speechless. She had arranged several more opportunities for the male and female leads to meet, but each time the female lead saw the male lead, she left.
It almost raised their suspicion.
Chen Xi had casually asked the reason, and the female lead only said it was an intuition that their auras didn’t match.
Chen Xi: …
She really gave up. There was no way she could play matchmaker here.
Lin Jingxue’s reasoning was simple: the closer she got to the male lead, the unhappier she would become.
No matter who killed the female lead in the original story, it was always someone close to the male lead. So the further away he was, the better.
After abandoning matchmaking, Chen Xi focused on attracting more people to the hotel.
In fact, she didn’t even need to promote it—people kept coming in batches.
Soon, the hotel leveled up. Actually, it had met the upgrade criteria a few days ago, but Chen Xi and the system had been busy with the male and female leads, so they hadn’t noticed.
With so many visitors over the past few days, the rooms were filling up fast, prompting an immediate upgrade.
“Xiao Ba, can we make upgrades automatic in the future?”
[Nope. Upgrades must be manually operated by the host.]
“Alright, then just remind me next time.”
[Okay.] The system felt guilty—this time it really had been too focused on completing missions and forgot.
Chen Xi opened the control panel:
[Name: Dawn Hotel
Owner: Chen Xi
Dimension: Apocalypse Dimension
Level: Lv.6 Large Hotel (20,364/50,000)
Shop Revenue: 20,364
Shop Balance: 18,974
**Facilities: Self-service checkout *5, Self-service vending machine *10, Weapon Hall *1, Restaurant *1, Training Hall *1, Treatment Room *1, Single Rooms *200, Double Rooms *200, Suites 100, Deluxe Suites 50
Description: Within the hotel, the host has absolute control, immune to all harm
Upgrade to Lv.7 requires revenue of 50,000 Tier-1 Crystal Cores]
A large hotel!
The number of rooms, checkouts, and vending machines all increased significantly.
Most importantly, a training hall and a treatment room were added!
Chen Xi grew even more excited after reading the descriptions. The timing of these two additions was perfect!
As the names suggest, the training hall was for improving physical fitness and combat skills.
Both powered individuals and normal people could train there. It offered physical and combat training, while powered individuals had an extra module for ability training.
The hall would create personalized training plans. Chen Xi tried it and felt she could now kill a couple more zombies effortlessly.
The treatment room contained three medical pods—just like in sci-fi movies.
According to 008, as long as injuries weren’t limbs being severed, almost anything could be healed.
Even the zombie virus could be treated unless the infection was extremely severe!
This was incredibly useful!
Unsurprisingly, the new facilities triggered another round of cheers!