Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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They searched for a while following the guidance of the cat whisk, and finally stopped in an old street and alley. That area was an area waiting for rectification and demolition. There were only scattered old houses here, and no one lived there anymore. They were timid to stay there as just being there would give you a chill in your back.
Shen Yu lowered his head and glanced at his watch. It showed that the time was already ten forty, and asked, “Do you still want to look for it?”
Baobao gritted his teeth and said, “How about coming back tomorrow…”
“Wait a minute!” Xu Maomao said. He said, “Xuzhu Wushuang has changed!”
The cat teasing stick was originally tilted at an angle of thirty degrees forward. He didn’t know when it started to tilt at an increasingly higher angle, which seemed to indicate that it was very close to the destination.
One person and two cats looked around. Almost all the lights in the houses here were turned off, and there were only reflections of the eaves of different heights in the moonlight. The deep alley was like an invisible mouth, which seemed to lure them forward with the cat teasing stick.
Of course, Shen Yu had nothing to fear and moved forward decisively.
Sure enough, the further they walked into the alleys of the southwest suburbs, the tilt angle of the cat stick became more and more perpendicular to the horizontal line.
After walking about forty or fifty meters, a flicker of light unexpectedly appeared in this southwest suburb that resembled a village in the city – behind a few broken houses, there was a small two-story earth building with lights on! It looked like an old private house.
The cat-teasing stick stood erect and no longer pointed in any direction.
“It’s here! Within a radius of 100 meters, your little master must be nearby!” Xu Maomao was even more excited than Baobao. He jumped off the tricycle and kept reciting spells silently while pointing the cat teasing stick everywhere, and the pocket watch would tremble slightly everytime the whisk tail was pointed at the small earthen house with light. Obviously, the remnant soul of Baobao’s little master was most likely in that small two-story house.
Baobao was also excited. He jumped out of the car and shouted at the door: “Little master! I am Baobao. Baobao is here to pick you up!”
He responded with a squeak and walked to the two storey old house, which was only a dozen meters away from them. A young man came out of the small earthen house.
The man looked to be twenty-five years old, with red lips and white teeth, and a very handsome appearance. He was preparing to close the door.
Shen Yu quickly walked forward, said hello to him, and naturally put his right hand on the door. He didn’t know if his hand was a little too strong, but the simple wooden door made an extremely unpleasant and heart-wrenching creaking sound, and a piece of old patent leather just fell off.
“…” Shen Yu retracted his hand apologetically, only to find that it was full of debris.
He couldn’t help but look up at the shabby little earth building and realize that it was not an ordinary private house, but a hotel. There was a palm-sized signboard hanging at the door – Sun and Moon Youth Hostel.
In this modern era where colorful neon lights were blinding, this signboard had no lighting effect. It was just an extremely simple woodcut signboard. You had to get closer to see the words clearly at night.
“Sir?” The young man raised his head in confusion, looked up at the man who was half taller than himself, and asked uncertainly, “Is something wrong? We are closing.”
His voice was clear and gentle, like water.
Shen Yu: “This is…a hotel?”
The young man nodded shyly: “I am the owner of this hotel. Are you planning to stay here?” As he spoke, he looked up and down at Shen Yu’s outfit. Seeing that this man seemed to be of extraordinary worth, he didn’t believe that he could be here to stay.
In fact, Shen Yu also doubted whether anyone would stay in this hotel.
The youth hostel had only two and a half floors, and the total area was only a few hundred square meters according to visual inspection. The architectural style – it could be said that there was no style at all, with four walls and an old-fashioned tile roof. The plaster on the exterior walls was mottled, and even the black bricks on the interior walls were exposed. The level of dilapidation could only be compared to those courtyard houses in City B that were used as historical relics.
The only thing that was a bit special was that there was a thick stake standing at the door. On the stake hung a flag with a dazzling pattern, which seemed to have the four characters “Sun and Moon Hostel” in seal script. The texture of the wooden piles and banners was very good at first glance, and they should be regarded as the more expensive decorations of this hotel.
Shen Yu swore that he had never stayed in such a bad hotel and absolutely did not want to stay in it. However, Baobao and Xu Maomao obviously believed that the little master’s remnant soul was in this hotel, so they said bravely: “Yes. We want to stay.”
“You?” The young man looked back and saw the faces of Xu Maomao and Baobao who were almost crying with joy but trying to restrain themselves, especially Baobao’s eyes, who was looking at his little broken hotel like a person thirsty for water in the desert. His face was also impatient, seeing this he became even more uncertain, “You? The three of you? Want to stay? Stay with us?!”
“Yes,” Shen Yu nodded, “Are there any rooms?”
The young man was stunned, with a look of disbelief on his face, and then burst out with a cry of surprise: “There is a room! There is hot water, air conditioning, and WiFi!”
Then he turned around and shouted: “Qian Ling! We have guests! They are real guests! Get ready to receive them!”
After he gave the order, he turned his head with a blush on his face and made an invitating gesture to Shen Yu: “Please, please! It’s almost eleven o’clock, please come in right away!”
The invitation was not enough. The young boss also physically dragged Shen Yu through the door, ran out, dragged Xu Maomao and Baobao in, and quickly closed the hotel door before the eleven o’clock rang.
As soon as the door closed, the eleven o’clock bell rang, and outside the door, which they could not see, the words “Sun and Moon Youth Hostel” on the hotel’s signboard seemed to be swept by a wave of water, with the two characters “Sun and Moon” shaking like ripples, slowly turning into the “Yin Yang Youth Hostel”, as the entire hotel was gradually shrouded in a layer of black mist, disappearing from the place little by little.
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