"What do you an it's hot?" asked Liu Yu Zeng a look of concern flashed over his face as he brought his handgun back up to shoulder height. Holding it steady, he looked at Chen Zi Han. They nodded at each other and Chen Zi Han, Liu Wei, and Wang Chao all brought their guns up too and started to clear the kitchen side of the room.
Liu Yu Zeng motioned for to co closer to him and as soon as I was within arms reach, he pulled against his chest and brought his gun in front of . My back to his chest, he wrapped his left arm around my waist while his right arm was lifted and ready to pull the trigger.
Chen Zi Han turned to look at him and the other guys and when Liu Yu Zeng nodded, he quickly threw open the bottom far right cupboard door. There was nobody in it. Just a bunch of canisters of whole coffee beans, packets of coffee whiteners, sweeteners, and sugars as well as disposable paper cups with lids.
I flicked my wrist and brought everything into my space. What else was I expected to do with the supplies right in front of ? Leave them for the Ripper? No, thank you. I need the coffee more than they did.
Leaving the door open, Chen Zi Han moved to the next cupboard and, after a nod from Liu Yu Zeng, opened that one too. This one wasn't as interesting, mostly just boxes of cereal and instant oatal, but food was food and it was going into my space.
When you were hungry, even cold original instant oatal was heaven.
But there wasn't anyone hiding in that cupboard either.
The boys cleared each bottom cupboard in the kitchen as I threw whatever was in it into my space. I now had more paper plates, forks, napkins, pots and pans, and baking equipnt than I probably needed, but if you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail. And I was not going to fail this ti around.
I threw the three stoves into my space for good luck since they were just sitting there. The n went back to where the cupboards t the wall and started the process all over again, this ti with the upper cabinets.
We managed to get through those ones a lot faster than the bottom ones because the guys didn't think that anyone would be hiding up there. By the end of it all, I managed to get a lot of cereals, crackers, peanut butter, jams (the store-bought, not homade), honey, cookies, and a crap ton of plates and glasses.
In fact, this kitchen was as well stocked as my own, and that bothered . They were prepared to spend a long ti here, but why? Did they know that the apocalypse was coming and therefore had created their own safe zone? Or was their job so top secret that they were expected to live here for the rest of their lives?
With the cupboards empty, I placed the comrcial coffee machine in my space, but the still-hot cup of espresso creeped out enough that I left it there. I took the waffle makers, the toasters and toaster ovens, and all the other countertop appliances into my space. At this point, I might as well consider this a supply run and not us being stuck in a creepy basent facility with a Ripper on the loose.
Save my sanity a bit.
The fridges were a thing of beauty. There were at least five of them with three doors, 72 cubic feet of space, and the compressor at the top. I an, there wasn't an attached freezer, but they would do in a pinch. With a flick of my wrist, I brought all five fridges with the three doors and two with only a single door into my space.
And then I froze. "Uh, guys?" I asked as I looked at where the fridges had originally been. "Guys!" I called again when they didn't imdiately respond to . After we had emptied the cupboards, my four n went over to the couches to sit down and talk, leaving alone to take what I wanted.
I didn't take my eyes off of the wall in front of , so I didn't see the guys standing up and rushing over to , but I felt them approach. "I think I found where the espresso lady went," I said as I pointed to the massive black hole in the wall. It was easily 6-foot tall and at least 4-foot wide and would have been perfectly hidden by the fridges.
And no one would think that there was an escape hole in a fridge. Wait—does that an that the fridges I just stole were empty?!? WTF!
So, a question for the audience. Do we go into the creepy hole in the wall and see where that leads or do I run out of this room screaming at the top of my lungs because this place was really a 100 on the creepy/scary rating?
The boys took out their guns and walked toward the random hole in the wall… did I ntion there was a fucking hole in the wall and the fridge was used as the entrance?!? But I digress… because as I was ntally freaking out, Chen Zi Han stepped into the darkness and disappeared from view.
I guess that answers that question. We would be going through the sketchy hole, because what could possibly go wrong?
Liu Yu Zeng took my hand in his and smiled at . "This is an amazing first date, isn't it? I an, I heard that those escape rooms were a great place to go on a date and here we are!"
I blinked at the man with a giant, genuine, smile on his face as my brain when blank. I cleared my throat a few tis just to make sure that I wasn't going to accidentally start yelling at him when he looked so cute and innocent.
"Um… Honeybear, the escape rooms that you are thinking about are… regulated. You might be looking for a way out, but there is not going to be anything locked in there with you that seems to take joy in ripping people apart."
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