Shangcheng Jiangbian Hotpot Restaurant is one of the more famous hotpot restaurants in Jiangbian District. The hotpot restaurant is located on the fourth floor of a business district called New World Plaza.
Jiang Qiao arrived at the hot pot restaurant first, but as soon as he took the elevator to the fourth floor, he found a long line at the door of the hot pot restaurant. Jiang Qiao counted with his fingers and found that there were at least fifty-three customers still waiting for a seat.
How long will this queue last? Even if we queue until the mall closes, there's no way we can get in, right
Jiang Qiao glanced at the time on his phone. It was now nine o'clock in the evening and the shopping district closed at eleven-thirty.
The line was so long that it probably had to circle the corridor. It was impossible to queue up in half an hour.
There were many people who had the same idea as Jiang Qiao. When Jiang Qiao got to the door of the hot pot restaurant, there was someone asking for advice.
"Is there any room inside?" the man asked the receptionist with some hopelessness.
"Hello, our seats are full. You can get a number first and we will notify you when it's your turn," said the waiter.
“…” The man glanced at the long queue behind him and knew very well that even if he got a number, he might not even get his turn even after waiting for two or three hours.
The most fatal thing is that this hot pot restaurant does not provide take-out service!
"Waiter, I want to discuss something with you." He suddenly had an idea and thought of a great idea.
"You say."
"Can I just buy this set meal?" He opened the set meal placed on the counter by the waiter and pointed to a hot pot set meal for five people worth three hundred and ninety-nine.
"Hello, we don't have any seats here at the moment..." the waiter said helplessly.
"What I mean is that I only want to buy this package. I don't need to pay for the food, hotpot, or anything else in the package. You just need to give me this activation code." He said, pointing to a mouth-watering fat chick on the menu.
"I'm sorry, this is a gift. We can only give it to you after you buy this set meal." The waiter was a little confused.
"I'll buy it. Here's four hundred yuan!" He took out four hundred yuan from his wallet and tried to stuff it into the waiter's hand.
"But we have no room for you, sir."
The waiter returned the four hundred yuan to him with some hesitation.
"I've already told you that I'm buying this meal but I'm not eating! I don't want a seat either! You just need to give me the activation code for this fat chick!" The man looked a little overwhelmed after hearing the waiter's conflicted answer.
"This is not in line with our regulations, customer. After you purchase this meal, you must eat it in the store. We don't have a take-away service."
The waiter also wanted to throw Feichu's activation code to him and send him away, but the store's rules did not allow this. The three hundred and ninety-nine included the restaurant's service fee and seat fee.
This is not something she can just accept. Treating customers so rudely will ruin the reputation of their store.
But this customer just wanted the shop assistants to treat him roughly.
"Asshole! Just shut up and take my money! Take the damn four hundred bucks and give me the activation code for Fatty!"
The customer seemed a little agitated and tried to force four hundred yuan into the waiter's hand.
I have to admit that you are more talented than me.
Jiang Qiao looked at the emotional guest and sighed that he was the real Holy Spirit player.
But behind Jiang Qiao there is a group of real Holy Spirit players.
The dispute between him and the waiter instantly attracted the attention of the players queuing behind him.
Those players thought that they were not here to eat hotpot, but to eat fat chicks... bah... to get mounts!
A true Holy Spirit would definitely take the fat chick home even if he didn’t want to eat hotpot.
"Waiter, please discuss this with me. I also want this hot and spicy set meal for five people. The set meal includes beef rolls, lamb rolls, quail eggs, shrimp balls, tender spicy beef, fish tofu, spicy hot pot, pork belly and chicken hot pot... I don't want any of them!"
Another young genius customer came up and used a more euphemistic statement. The other players in the queue also gathered together at this moment and took out four hundred yuan from their wallets.
"Take the money from me! And give me the fat one!"
"I'll add a hundred dollars, okay?"
This was no longer something the clerk could handle. Fortunately, the store manager rushed over from the backstage, kept apologizing to the players waiting in line, and said...
"I'm sorry, dear customers. We still have six days left before the collaboration with "Holy Spirit". You don't need to be too anxious. The reward activation codes for the collaboration are unlimited and there is no limit on the quantity." What the store manager said was only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution. In other words... it was like a bomb that detonated the hearts of many players.
"What the hell? There are only six days left before the event ends?"
"The team at the top of the dungeon ranking! Two fat guys, team up. There are too many mutton roll monsters for us to kill! There are girls in the team."
"Who wants to form a fat otaku group? Add me, add me."
"The tickets for the replica are at your own expense."
"Dry!"
Jiang Qiao was watching the miserable state of the hot pot restaurant from the side and laughed out loud in a really...unscrupulous way.
The owner of this restaurant may not have dealt with such a difficult situation before. This hot pot restaurant is very large, so large that it can accommodate more than 300 people for dining at one time.
Normally, there would be a waiting line sometimes, but this was the first time that the line stretched to the other side of the corridor like today.
The worst thing is that these people came here not just to eat hotpot, they all just wanted a mount in the game called Holy Spirit.
The store manager also wanted to just throw the mount activation codes from the Holy Spirit to these players and let them leave...
But he simply couldn't do it. First, the customers had paid, but the behavior of not serving the food or even not allowing them to enter the store was simply destroying the store's reputation. Second, the linkage with the Holy Spirit... was unreasonable!
This hotpot restaurant itself is not qualified to issue the Holy Spirit Fat Juice activation code. Only after the people at the same table pay will they be eligible to give the Fat Juice activation code according to the Tiangong payment gadget.
If it's an AA system, the points will be rolled out among the people who pay AA. So if this is a hotpot set meal for five people, and these five people share the four hundred dollars equally, only one person can get the fat pork!
To sum up the above, this is a very cruel dungeon with both PVE and PVP. PVE means finishing five people's worth of hot pot food, while PVP means rolling points between friends who buy together.
Of course, there are also those brave warriors who challenge the five-person hot pot alone, but their ending is usually very miserable.
When Jiang Qiao was wondering whether Zhao Mingwei and his friends were going to change their place to eat today, Zhao Mingwei sent another short message to Jiang Qiao.
'Where are you?'
"In front of the Jiangbian Hotpot Restaurant." Jiang Qiao quickly replied to Zhao Mingwei.
'The main entrance?'
'Um.'
"Come to the back door... There are too many people at the front door. Do you know where the back door is?"
What the hell? As expected of a member of the elite strategy team, he actually found the hidden entrance to this dungeon.
Jiang Qiao glanced at the location message sent by Zhao Mingwei, and after a moment of silence for the Holy Spirit players who were waiting in line at the entrance of the dungeon to participate in the battle against Fatty, he secretly walked towards the back door.
(End of this chapter)