“If you don’t want to stay here, then get out.”
Su Su looked at Liu Zai and spoke coldly.
Liu Zai only took it as a joke. Give him a break—with so many of them, how could they be afraid of her? Su Su didn’t have any superpower energy radiating from her, so he just assumed she was an ordinary person.
Moreover, after so much time had passed, the sea monster should have already reached this area. However, the hotel hadn’t moved an inch, showing that its safety rating was extremely high.
If this place were mine, that would be great, he thought.
Thinking of this, he smiled with pure malice.
But in the next second, his entire body was suddenly lifted into the air, hurtling straight toward the iron door.
Before he could even react, his body had already crashed out the door.
An S-class giant sea monster was circling the lighthouse. Its body, which was like a massive cruise ship, suddenly breached the surface, kicking up a colossal wave as it crashed back down.
Outside the lighthouse, it looked like an extreme rainstorm. Raindrops the size of fists pattered down from mid-air, instantly dousing Liu Zai and shocking him awake.
He felt his body completely out of control, flying straight toward the sea.
“Help! Help me! I—I…”
Liu Zai was scared out of his mind. Yu Xin and Wang Xianchun were equally terrified.
“B-Boss…”
Yu Xin stared blankly at Su Su, wanting to say something, but he saw Liu Zai’s body fly out of the lighthouse and straight into the mouth of the leaping sea monster.
In the next second, the screams for mercy came to an abrupt halt.
His voice was frozen.
Not bad.
Su Su scratched her ear, which had been irritated by Liu Zai’s screaming, while her other hand remained in the position of having just opened the door.
She turned to look at the other two.
“Go on. Don’t make me send you out as well.”
“You…”
Wang Xianchun felt like she was going crazy. What had just happened? How did Liu Zai suddenly fly out and get eaten by a sea monster?
Who exactly was this woman?
What was even more terrifying was—would they even survive if they went out now?
She was like a frozen machine, standing there stupidly, unable to speak.
“Boss, we have no objection to paying the overnight fee. We hope the Boss can give us a chance to stay.”
Yu Xin’s brain reacted quickly. He had originally wanted to use Liu Zai to test the Boss, but he hadn’t expected her personality to be so extreme—throwing a living person out over a single disagreement.
And the move Su Su had just shown confirmed that she was indeed no ordinary person.
It made sense. What kind of ordinary person could build a lighthouse and open a hotel in a place like this?
“Wrong. That was then. Now, I don’t want to let you stay the night. Get out quickly before I take action.”
Su Su’s expression was cold and unmoved.
As her voice fell, the sound of crying suddenly echoed in the lobby.
She followed the sound and found that the remaining girl was already covered in tears, sobbing uncontrollably.
“I… I don’t want to die. I want to live.”
Wang Xianchun wailed, her legs giving way as she collapsed directly onto the floor.
Su Su frowned, finding the noise irritating.
“Boss, what happened just now was our fault. We apologize. But we couldn’t control Liu Zai’s individual behavior, and he has now gotten what he deserved. Please, Boss, give us two a chance.”
Yu Xin walked over to Su Su and bowed deeply, his tone very sincere.
Su Su still found it annoying, but these two really hadn’t said or done anything since entering. However, it was impossible to just let it go. After all, without the two of them, that suicidal guy wouldn’t have dared to be so arrogant.
They simply saw she was alone and wanted to take advantage of their numbers.
“Shut up. Cry any more and I’ll throw you both out.”
As soon as she spoke, Wang Xianchun instantly stopped crying. She forced herself to hold it in, her nose twitching.
“You can stay if you want, but the overnight fee is no longer ten points. It’s one hundred points.”
Su Su leaned against the door with her arms crossed. One look at her told Yu Xin that if they dared to argue again, their end would be the same as Liu Zai’s.
Recalling Liu Zai’s death, Yu Xin nodded silently.
Wang Xianchun’s eyes widened as she looked at Su Su. Seeing her “non-negotiable” expression, she turned to look at Yu Xin.
Seeing him nod, she followed suit and nodded hurriedly, fearing she would be thrown out.
In this way, Wang Xianchun also processed a membership card. After the two of them swiped one hundred points for the “fee,” Su Su pointed at the sign in high spirits.
“I’m going back to my room to rest. If there’s anything you don’t understand, look at the sign.”
With that, she went straight back to her room.
The first thing Su Su did back in her room was open her mission bar.
Of the ten guests required for the hotel upgrade, she now had six. Given that the hotel had guests every day, she estimated the upgrade wouldn’t take long. But as for the infrastructure…
Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Yu Xin and Wang Xianchun, Su Su’s current points had broken five hundred, reaching five hundred and fifteen.
She opened the mall and searched for basic facilities. The mall interface quickly changed.
Because she only had a little over five hundred points, there wasn’t much she could buy. She hesitated for a long time among the available items and finally got stuck between two options.
One was an individual shower room for five hundred points, and the other was a basement dormitory for five hundred points.
“System, what is this basement dormitory?”
—The basement dormitory is a low-cost room built starting from the first basement level of the hotel. Its main features are multi-person shared living and small spaces, but with a low price.
—The dormitory’s level is consistent with the hotel’s level. Currently, it can accommodate up to ten guests.
After hearing the system’s explanation, Su Su had a general understanding of the dormitory.
To upgrade the hotel to Level 1, she had to meet the requirement of ten guests. But now the entire hotel only had two rooms. If she hadn’t specially allowed the guests staying in the lobby to be counted today, the upgrade progress would have been even slower.
The showers in the toilet stalls were sufficient for now. The most pressing problem to solve was the lack of rooms.
After thinking for a moment, Su Su decisively chose the dormitory.
“Where is the entrance to the dormitory?”
Su Su walked out of her room while talking to the system.
She didn’t know what form the dormitory would take and was afraid it would suddenly appear in the lobby and startle those two.
—Host, the dormitory needs to be entered from the exterior of the hotel.
“The exterior? It’s all seawater out there. Do you want to drown me?”
Su Su remembered that when she threw that man out earlier, it looked like the sky had been punctured outside the iron door. The raindrops were large enough to kill a person.
If the interior of the hotel hadn’t been unaffected by external factors, she would have been soaked just standing by the door.
—Congratulations to the Host for completing the necessary condition for the upgrade mission: Infrastructure. You are now rewarded with a one-meter Safety Zone.
“Safety Zone? What’s that?”
—Host, you’ll know once you open the door and go out.
The system began to sound proud again.
When they heard the sound of the door opening, Yu Xin and Wang Xianchun were slumped on the floor in exhaustion. After all, the only chair in the lobby was behind the checkout counter. Under the current circumstances, no one dared to move it, so they had to sit directly on the floor. They didn’t even dare to go to the bathroom.
They had just managed to fall asleep when they heard a noise. They jumped up from the ground in terror, looking toward the source of the sound with fearful expressions.
“I’m fine. You guys keep resting.”
Su Su waved her hand dismissively. Under the nervous and fearful gazes of the two, she pushed the door open and walked out of the hotel.
“Brother Yu Xin, she…”
“Shh, don’t talk nonsense.”
Yu Xin hurriedly stopped Wang Xianchun. None of them knew exactly how strong the Boss of this shop was. If she overheard their conversation and changed her mind about throwing them out, what would they do?
Su Su, having stepped out of the hotel, didn’t have such thoughts. As soon as she pushed the door open, she realized that the outside was indeed different.
Although she could still see the surging waves and hear the sea monster’s thunderous roars—the sound vibrating through the entire sea area, turning the calm sea of the day into boiling water and constantly washing over the platform—it was different from before.
Previously, the seawater was blocked right at the hotel door, but now, the protection extended outward by one meter.
Protected by an invisible shield, not a single drop of seawater could get in.