The 'Crimson Flame Worm' poked its head out from Long Xiao's collar and looked around. Seeing the hall crowded with people, it became very excited.
These diners were innocent, and Long Xiao did not want to harm them.
Long Xiao stood up and said to Xiao Ming, "I'm going out to start a fire. After things get chaotic, you start looking for the door to the underground structure."
Xiao Ming nodded. Long Xiao stood up and walked out of the hall, heading towards the restroom.
At the entrance to the restroom, Long Xiao looked around to make sure no one was watching and there were no surveillance cameras. He said, "'Crimson Flame Worm', start the fire."
The 'Crimson Flame Worm' emerged from Long Xiao's clothes, scanned its surroundings, and then happily jumped onto Long Xiao's shoulder, flapping its wings a few times before flying out.
Many modern hotel renovation materials are flammable. It was very easy for the 'Crimson Flame Worm' to start a fire. With just a few flaps of its wings, a large blaze quickly spread.
Long Xiao opened the door and hid in the restroom. When he heard people outside shouting about a fire, he then rushed out of the restroom in a panic.
People were running everywhere. Long Xiao joined the chaos, opening any door he came across.
He opened over a dozen doors but found no passage to the underground. When he opened the door to a storage room, he discovered it was filled with various high-end wines and ingredients.
The dishes that could be made from these ingredients were not on the menu, and neither were these high-end wines. They were also not displayed at the front desk.
As Long Xiao was wondering about this, he heard footsteps approaching, and he quickly hid behind a stack of wine cases.
Someone pushed the door open and entered the room. The footsteps stopped.
"Guard these things carefully. Make sure nothing is damaged or lost, or I'll take your head," a deep, muffled voice said.
"Don't worry, Manager. I'll be watching inside the room and will call you if anything happens."
Through the gaps in the wine cases, Long Xiao saw a胖子 in a custom-tailored suit giving instructions to a young man.
After the instructions, the胖子 left. The young man found a place to sit and started looking at his phone.
Long Xiao emerged from behind the wine cases and tiptoed towards the young man, crouching down to look at him.
The young man felt someone in front of him and was so startled that his hands trembled, and he almost dropped his phone.
"Are you a ghost or a human? You scared me to death," the young man exclaimed, standing up abruptly.
"Of course, I'm human," Long Xiao said with a smile.
"How did you get in?" the young man asked again.
Long Xiao told the young man that he had seen the fire and wanted to leave the hotel, but couldn't find the exit, so he had broken in.
"You should leave quickly. If our manager sees you here, he'll kill you."
Long Xiao looked at the young man with a strange expression and said, "This is just a regular storage room. If I stumbled in here, I'd be in danger?"
"Of course. Do you think this is just a simple restaurant? I can't say too much. Hurry up and leave, or it will be too late."
Long Xiao was very curious and asked like an inquisitive child, "Brother, tell me, what's so special about this place?"
"Why are you so curious? It's not good for you to know."
"It's okay, I just want to hear what's going on."
The young man insisted on not telling. Long Xiao took out his phone and said, "I'll give you five hundred yuan, tell me."
The young man shook his head and said, "Brother, I'm not telling you for your own good. Hurry up and leave, I don't want to get you killed."
"One thousand. I'll give you one thousand, is that enough? Just tell me."
After much pestering and bribery, the young man finally agreed to tell Long Xiao the secret.
It turned out that the restaurant was divided into two parts. One part was above ground, which welcomed everyone. The other part was underground and only served Japanese people.
The wines and ingredients in this storage room were prepared for the Japanese.
Long Xiao's face showed a look of sudden realization. "So that's how it is. These Japanese people are really strange, hiding underground to eat, as if they can't be seen."
The young man sighed. "These Japanese people are terrible. Some say they eat children. If the salary here wasn't double that of other restaurants, I would have quit long ago."
Long Xiao stood up and patted the young man's shoulder. "Hurry up and leave this place. If you stay here any longer, you'll lose your life eventually."
As Long Xiao prepared to leave, he turned at the door and asked, "Brother, where is the entrance to the underground restaurant?"
After the young man told Long Xiao the location of the underground restaurant entrance, Long Xiao opened the door and walked out.
Long Xiao didn't go directly to the underground restaurant. He took advantage of the chaos to find a waiter, knocked him out, took his clothes, and then went to the entrance of the underground restaurant.
Upon entering the underground restaurant, the crowd immediately thinned, and it became very quiet. Long Xiao only saw two waiters pass by, and a short man in a suit was talking to a waiter.
Long Xiao walked forward brazenly. He entered the 'Chunfa' hall and saw only three tables of people dining. These people looked rosy-cheeked and in very good spirits.
The tables were laid with a few simple side dishes and bottles of sake. The people sitting around the tables were each eating and drinking slowly.
No one spoke. They were so focused on eating and drinking that it seemed as if they were performing a sacred ritual.
Long Xiao stood at the entrance and watched for five minutes without anyone noticing his arrival. It was as if these people were in a trance, shielded from all external information.
Long Xiao attempted to emit his life force. The three tables suddenly turned to look at him, their eyes filled with surprise.
"Who are you, and why are you standing there?" a woman asked in Japanese.
Long Xiao did not understand Japanese. He stared blankly, not knowing what the woman was saying.
"Chunzi, he might be a Hua Xia person," a middle-aged Japanese man said.
The woman nodded and then asked in Chinese, "Who are you, and why are you here?"
"I'm a waiter, come to ask if you need anything else."
"Nonsense. The waiters here are all our Japanese people. How could there be a Hua Xia person?" Chunzi said.
All the Japanese people stood up and walked towards Long Xiao, preparing to attack.
Long Xiao quickly said, "I really am a waiter. I came down from upstairs. There was a fire upstairs."
"How is that possible? There couldn't be a fire here," Chunzi said.
The middle-aged Japanese man said, "Kill him. The secrets here must not be known by any Hua Xia person."
All the Japanese people lunged at Long Xiao. They threw aside all pretense of skill and charged in for a brawl.
Long Xiao quickly used the 'Chi Mei Xiao Yao Bu' (Ghostly Free and Easy Steps) to evade. As soon as they made contact, Long Xiao realized that the lowest among these people were at the mid-Earth realm, most were at the peak of the Earth realm, and two had already reached the peak of the Earth realm.
With so many experts, Long Xiao dared not confront them directly. He could only dodge continuously, looking for an opportunity to strike and defeat one.
After defeating a few Japanese people, the sounds of fighting attracted the attention of people outside. Soon, more than a dozen Japanese people rushed in.
Long Xiao began to panic. He could easily overpower two or three Earth realm experts, and even those at the peak of the Earth realm. But now there were over thirty Earth realm experts. Long Xiao, who could previously retaliate with the 'Bao Long Quan' (Raging Dragon Fist), could now only use 'Chi Mei Xiao Yao Bu' to evade.