After driving for a day and a night, they finally arrived at the edge of the desert. The further they went in, the fewer people there were.
“That’s enough. There will be no one if we drive further in,” Phoebe said, “We’ll find a hotel to stay here tonight, ask the locals where the exact location of Tree of Life is, and then we’ll set off again.”
They parked the car in front of a hotel.
They called it a hotel, but it was actually a normal, three-storey small building. There were just three members in the family, including a mom and two children. The father had left his wife and children at home to go to work.
The boss lady spoke in broken English and asked, “Three people, staying at the hotel?”
“Yes!” Phoebe replied. “We need two rooms for one night.”
“Three people, two rooms, the total cost for accommodation is twenty-one thousand dollars.”
“What?” Phoebe was shocked.
Although they were quite wealthy, such a rate frightened them.
Twenty-one thousand dollars? For one night?
That was a bit too expensive, wasn‘t it?
The boss lady spoke earnestly, ”This is the only hotel in the area. You don’t have much of a choice. Because there are so few people that visit, we don’t always have enough business to last a year, but when we do, we’ll make sure we make enough money to last a year.”
Phoebe was speechless.
Thomas smiled faintly and immediately settled the hotel bill. “Pick the two best rooms for us and prepare dinner at the same time.”
“No problem. Roe, take the guests to the hot water room on the third floor.”
A hot water room was a room with hot water inside where you could take a bath and drink tea inside the house. In such a location, water was an extremely precious resource. It was extremely rare to be able to live in a room where people could take a bath.
A kid escorted the three of them to the third floor and opened two of the room’s doors.
“These are the two rooms,” After saying that, the little child hurriedly ran downstairs.
Pisces sighed, “We spent twenty-one thousand dollars for our accommodations, yet we were given such rooms. The conditions in these room are simply deplorable.”
He walked into a room after saying that.
Thomas said to Phoebe, “That’s it for tonight. If there‘s anything else, we’ll discuss it tomorrow.”
When favonovel.com was just about to step into the room, Phoebe pulled favonovel.com back!
“Why?”
Phoebe said, “You are still asking why? This place is unfamiliar, and the environment is so unpleasant, and you are going to rest easy having me, a single girl living in a room alone?”
“Huh…”
Phoebe continued, “To keep me safe tonight, you’re sharing a room with me. I’ll sleep in the bed, and you’ll sleep on the floor.”
Without giving Thomas a chance to object, favonovel.com dragged Thomas into the room and closed the door with favonovel.com backhand. To be honest, Phoebe really did not know what the word “reserve” meant.
After entering the room, Phoebe took a look around the environment. She felt a pang of despondency. The condition here was simply too terrible to get any worse. The bed was covered with a layer of ash. There was a cracking and straining sound as the floor was stepped on.
As for the bathroom for one to take a shower, it was also in disrepair and rusted, so favonovel.com refused to use it.
If this kind of place was in the city and offered fifty dollars a night, no one would want it. Yet here, it charged twenty-one thousand dollars.
