Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 250 - 248 Shut Up And Take My Money
Chapter 250: Chapter 248 Shut Up! And Take My Money!
Chapter 250 -248 Shut Up! And Take My Money!
The Uptown Jiangbian Hotpot Restaurant, this is considered one of the more well-known hotpot restaurants in Jiangbian District, situated on the fourth floor of a shopping area called New World Plaza.
Jiang Qiao arrived at the hotpot restaurant ahead of everyone else only to find, once he rode the elevator to the fourth floor, that there was a long queue at the entrance – he estimated at least fifty-three customers were still waiting for seats.
How long is this damn queue going to take? Even if we waited until this place closes, we probably wouldn’t get in, right?
Jiang Qiao checked the time on his phone – it was nine o’clock in the evening, and the shopping area closed at eleven-thirty.
The queue, long enough to wrap around the corridor, didn’t look like it was going to diminish in under half an hour.
Many shared Jiang Qiao’s sentiment, and when he squeezed his way to the entrance of the hotpot restaurant, someone happened to be inquiring.
“Are there any seats inside?” the person asked the reception host with a glimmer of hope.
“Good evening, our seats are currently full. You can take a number and we will notify you when it’s your turn,” the host replied.
“…” The person glanced at the long queue behind them, well aware that even if they took a number, it could take two to three hours before their turn arrived.
And the deadliest aspect was that this hotpot restaurant did not offer takeaway service!
“Excuse me, can we negotiate something?” An idea suddenly struck him.
“Please go ahead.”
“Can I just buy this set meal?” He opened the menu on the reception desk pointing to a five-person hotpot set meal worth three hundred ninety-nine.
“I’m sorry, but we are currently out of seats…” The host said somewhat helplessly.
“I mean, I just want to buy this set meal, and I don’t need the food, the seating charge, any of it – just give me this activation code.” He pointed to a mouth-watering Fatty Chiu on the menu.
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“I’m sorry, that is a complimentary gift. We can only give it to you once you purchase this set meal,” the host responded, feeling a bit dizzy from the roundabout conversation.
“I’m buying it – here’s four hundred bucks!” The customer pulled out four hundred yuan from his wallet and tried to stuff it into the host’s hand.
“But, sir, we really don’t have any seats left.”
The host, feeling conflicted, returned the four hundred yuan.
“I’ve already said I’m buying the set meal but I’m not going to eat it! I don’t need a seat! All you have to do is give me the Fatty Chiu activation code!” The customer, hearing the host’s conflicted response, visibly began to unravel.
“Our policy doesn’t allow that, sir. Once you buy the set meal, you must dine in our restaurant, as we don’t provide to-go services.”
The host also wanted to toss him the Fatty Chiu activation code and get him out of there, but the restaurant’s policy did not allow it, as the three hundred ninety-nine included service and seating fees.
She couldn’t just take his money – doing so could sully their establishment’s reputation with such brusque treatment of a customer.
But this customer wanted exactly that kind of brusque treatment from the staff.
“Damn it! Just shut up and take my money! Hurry up and take this damned four hundred, and give me the Fatty Chiu activation code!”
The customer, growing increasingly agitated, thrust the four hundred yuan at the host, determined to stuff it in her hand.
I have to admit, you’re the more brilliant one.
Jiang Qiao looked at the emotional customer, admiring that he was the true incarnate player.
But behind Jiang Qiao stood a group of genuine incarnate players.
The argument between him and the host instantly caught the attention of the players queuing behind.
Those players started to think that maybe they weren’t here for the hotpot, but for the Fatty Chiu… pfft… to get a mount!
The true Holy Spirit must take the plump chirp home, even if they don’t eat hotpot.
“Waiter, let’s really talk this through. I’ll also order this five-person spicy set meal, but I don’t want any of the fatty beef rolls, lamb rolls, quail eggs, shrimp paste, tender numbing beef, fish tofu, spicy pot, pig stomach chicken pot… I don’t want any of it!”
Another clever customer came up with a more tactful approach, and in that instant, the other players waiting in line gathered around, each taking out four hundred yuan from their wallets.
“Take the money in my hands! And give me the plump chirp!”
“I’m adding a hundred yuan, that should do it, right?”
This was no longer a situation the staff member could handle, but luckily, the manager hurried over from behind the scenes, apologizing to the players waiting in line and then saying…
“I’m sorry, dear customers. Our collaboration with ‘Holy Spirit’ still has six days left, so there’s no need to be too anxious. The reward activation codes from the collaboration are issued without limit and are not restricted in quantity.” The words of the manager were like a band-aid on a bullet wound, or rather… like a bomb igniting the emotions of all the players.
“What the heck? The event instance only has six days left?”
“The team at the front of the instance queue! We need two more to join, there’s a bit too many lamb roll monsters for us to handle! There’s a girl in the team.”
“Who wants to join a heavy team? Add me, add me.”
“Instance ticket at your own expense.”
“Let’s do it!”
Jiang Qiao watched the sorry state of this hotpot restaurant and really… couldn’t help but laugh unscrupulously.
The owner of this restaurant likely had never dealt with such a tricky situation before. The place was huge, capable of accommodating over three hundred people for dining at once.
Occasional waiting was normal, but lining up all the way to the other side of the corridor with so many people was a first.
The worst part was that these people were here to eat hotpot only secondarily; what they really wanted was an in-game mount from the game called Holy Spirit.
The manager would love to just hand over the activation codes for the Holy Spirit mounts to these players and have them leave…
But he simply couldn’t do that. First, the customers had paid, and refusing to serve them or even denying them entry would be crazy bad for the restaurant’s reputation. Second, this collaboration with Holy Spirit… it made no sense at all!
The hotpot restaurant itself wasn’t eligible to issue the Holy Spirit plump chirp activation codes. Only after a table paid, would they be granted the eligibility for the plump chirp activation code, according to the Tian Gong payment tool.
If it was split payment, they’d roll the dice among those who paid. So, for a five-person hotpot set meal, if the five people split four hundred yuan, only one person would receive the plump chirp!
All things considered, it was a ruthless instance that had both PvE and PvP elements, PvE being devouring a hotpot meal sized for five, and PvP being a dice roll among friends who had paid together.
Of course, there were those warriors who came alone to tackle a five-person hotpot. But generally, their fate was pretty miserable.
Just as Jiang Qiao was wondering if Zhao Mingwei and the others were going to change their dining spot, Zhao Mingwei sent another message to Jiang Qiao.
‘Where are you?’
‘At the entrance of Jiangbian Hotpot.’ Jiang Qiao quickly replied to Zhao Mingwei.
‘The main entrance?’
‘Yeah.’
‘Come to the back door… there are too many people at the front, do you know where the back door is?’
What the heck? As expected of a member of the elite strategy group, he even discovered the hidden entrance to the instance.
Jiang Qiao glanced at the location message sent by Zhao Mingwei, and mentally bid farewell to the Holy Spirit players queuing at the instance entrance for the plump chirp conquest. He then sneaked off toward the back door.
