Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 80 Are you touched?
Who would have thought that there was a small hotel hidden in the grass of the park and under the roots of the sycamore trees, waiting to welcome passing travelers.

At least, that was not what Alice had expected.

"Your hotel is hidden in this location, how can a normal person find it?"

She couldn't help but complain.

Miss Xie Mi looked embarrassed when she heard this. "I'm sorry, we didn't consider this when we moved the hotel. Because the Fairy Sleep Hotel has never received ordinary people since it was built. You are the first batch."

"Really?"

Alice's response was very realistic: "Is there any discount?"

"Discount?" The fairy maid tilted her head, not really understanding what she meant: "What kind of discount do you want, Miss Alice?"

"Of course it's the price. If possible, would you like to give me a 90% discount?"

When Alice said this, Ringla pulled Metine and silently stepped back, waiting for the greedy golden maid to be beaten to pieces.

Miss Shemi was certainly not that violent, but she did not agree to Alice's unreasonable request.

After they all walked in, Miss Xie Mi looked around and confirmed that there was no one nearby. She breathed a sigh of relief and quickly closed the wooden door again to block out the noisy sounds from the outside world.

Miss Shemi was still walking in front, leading the way. Although the passage was straight and there was no need for a leader, the fairy maid seemed to think that this was her job, so she looked particularly serious. As she was also a maid, Alice did not make any inappropriate complaints.

Lingge walked into the door with his sister, and Alice, who had come to her senses, quickly followed: "Hey, wait for me!"

"Everyone, please follow me closely."

Behind the door was not a hotel, but a spacious corridor. The walls on both sides were rough tree root walls, with beautiful small leaf lamps hanging on them at regular intervals. Wrapped in green vines, the warm orange-yellow glow made people feel very cozy.

Miss Shemi replied in a matter-of-fact tone: "The purpose of the Fairy Sleep Inn is to receive travelers coming and going, and to provide a safe and comfortable resting place for all guests on the road. As long as we can do this, we will be very happy."

In order to divert her attention, she spoke to the fairy maid walking in front: "Miss Xie Mi, can I ask you a question?"

It’s actually a charity industry.

"You seem to have misunderstood something, Miss Alice." She asked doubtfully, "Didn't Xiao Xia tell you that the Fairy Sleep Hotel never charges guests? All expenses during the guests' stay in the hotel, including accommodation, food, and bathing, are all free, right?"

“We don’t need to make a profit.”

Holding the hand of his brother, Metien walked forward while gazing at the delicate leaf lamps on the wall with curiosity. He liked their shapes very much and wanted to touch them many times, but he finally held back because he didn't want to be considered an impolite child.

"this--"

"Of course!" Miss Xie Mi replied quickly, her tone rising, with a hint of impatience: "It is also within my job scope to answer customers' questions, please feel free to ask!"

"Free!?" Alice was surprised: "Then how do you make a profit? Selling local specialties?"

I don't know who the owner of the Fairy Sleep Inn is. Ling Ge should have a lot to talk about with him. However, Ling Ge did charity to respond to the expectations of his adoptive father; and what was the owner of the Fairy Sleep Inn for?

While Alice was daydreaming, Miss Shemi had already walked to the door and opened it with the small key she carried with her. She turned around and said to the three of them, "Okay, everyone, please come with me into the hotel. My eldest and second sisters should be impatient to wait."

However, the reason for the rejection was quite surprising.

"Thank you!" Metien thanked her happily, and then said, "I want to ask, what is your relationship with Sister Saint Xia Liya? You seem to know each other very well?"

This question also attracted the attention of Lingge and Alice. They both wanted to know the answer and deepen their understanding of the shepherdess.

Amid the expectation of everyone, Miss Shemi replied without hesitation: "We are friends! Xiao Xia once saved us, so we all like her very much!" "Huh?" Metien found that the experiences of both parties were surprisingly similar: "Really? We were also saved by Sister Saint Xia Liya, so we like her very much too!"

Not necessarily.

Alice complained in her heart: I think Lingge doesn't like her.

But Xie Mi couldn't hear this, and Ling Ge wouldn't stand up and admit it, so the two little girls whose mental age had not yet matured found a common topic and started chattering about it, making the corridor suddenly very lively. Ling Ge also understood the story between Saint Shallia and the Fairy Inn from their conversation.

To put it simply, when the night watchmen of the cult were searching and suppressing the aliens in the city of Rostin, the Fairy Deep Sleep Inn was about to be exposed. It was then that Saint Shallia stepped in and led the night watchmen to another neighborhood, thus saving the lives of the traveling fairies in the inn.

After that, Saint Shalia stayed in Rostin City for a while, "as if looking for something", and temporarily lived in this hotel. But she didn't find it in the end, so she said goodbye to the travelers and fairies reluctantly, until she appeared again a few days ago and told Shemi and others that she had introduced a few friends to live in the hotel, hoping that they could pay attention to the travelers who appeared on Sherriel Street recently and arrange accommodation for them in a timely and proper manner.

But... she forgot to tell these traveling fairies what the friend she introduced looked like; she also forgot to tell Lingge and others about the special properties of the Fairy Deep Sleep Hotel.

So Miss Shemi waited miserably in the park for three days before finally waiting for these special guests.

"I almost thought you wouldn't come!" She recalled how she felt at the time, her tone somewhat relieved: "Because when Xiaoxia mentioned this to us, she said you might come or you might not come, and even she couldn't be sure of the outcome. But we all hope you can come, because only in this way can we help Xiaoxia and repay her kindness a little. Although Xiaoxia never asked us to give anything in return, we all felt that we should do so."

Yeah, that’s positive energy.

Alice raised her thumbs up and gave a thumbs up manually: "I am touched by the fairy's gratitude. What about you?"

Metien quickly agreed: "I am touched too, Sister Alice!"

The friendly attitude of the two made Miss Xie Mi feel warm from the bottom of her heart. She felt that not all humans were as cruel as her elder and second sisters said. Humans and fairies could coexist harmoniously. She was moved, really moved.

All three of them were moved. The only person who was not moved seemed very strange. Alice poked his waist with her elbow and used moral kidnapping: "Such a positive thing, how could you not be moved?"

The messenger of justice didn't buy it. He ignored her moral blackmail and asked Shemi, "If that's the case, where is Miss Saint Shalia now? Is she in the hotel?"

"Ah? I don't know?"

The fairy maid's blank expression is quite similar to Alice in certain scenes. Perhaps this is a common feature of maids: "After she finished speaking, she left and told us that she would come back when the time came. As for where she went, we didn't know and didn't ask."

Ah this.

When Alice heard this, she muttered, "That's exactly her style."

Lingge was silent for a moment: "I understand."

After that, he did not ask any more questions, but quietly followed the back of the team, listening to the girls' conversation. This corridor continued to go deeper, and the long shadows of the lights seemed to have no end. It gave people a very strange feeling, sometimes going up, sometimes going down, and although there were no forks, there was a feeling that one might go wrong at any time, as if the space inside it confused the definition.

They had to follow closely behind Miss Shemi to ensure that they were on the right path. Only then did they realize that her previous words "lead the way" were not meaningless.

I don’t know how long they walked, but at one point, Xie Mi suddenly stopped and said happily: “We’re here!”

This time it’s really arrived.

At the end of the corridor, there are two tightly closed wooden doors.

Shaymi walked forward and gently opened the door to the hotel.

Then, the scene before my eyes suddenly became clear.

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)