# Chapter 1389: This Time We've Hit the Jackpot
It felt as though that hand had directly touched his back, but in reality it hadn't. Moreover, Xu Huo had a space barrier around him, making it even more impossible for someone to have walked up behind him without alerting him. This seemingly gentle push was likely the result of the force being weakened.
So the moment he stepped into the room, he located the perpetrator based on the fluctuations of ray positions in the air and conveniently sent him a teleportation portal. Thus, as his front foot crossed the threshold, the person who had pushed him followed right behind.
Standing two or three meters apart, Xu Huo looked at the gentleman player. "Friend, isn't this a bit underhanded?"
What friendship could exist between strangers who had only met by chance? This person had deliberately indicated in the restaurant that he wouldn't target Xu Huo, and had just now specifically pointed out Chef Feng's residence. Xu Huo knew he couldn't have good intentions, but he hadn't expected the man to push him through the door.
The moment he entered, Xu Huo realized this room was actually a place equipped with spiritual interference. Just like when the door opened, being inside made one involuntarily fall into a state of comfort and warmth, not wanting to do anything but lie down comfortably.
Of course, as long as one could snap out of this mental state once, for Xu Huo, it wouldn't be easy to fall back into it later. Though the gentleman player wavered for an instant, he quickly calmed down again, maintaining his previous hypocritical smile. "Isn't this the room you wanted to enter? Seeing you hesitating at the door, I had to help you out. I didn't expect you to be a multi-directional super evolver. One room can't trap you."
Xu Huo raised an eyebrow. "What makes you think only I would be trapped?"
As he spoke, he crossed the room that seemed to have been layered with ten filters, arrived at the window, and abruptly pulled the curtains shut.
The moment the sunlight outside was blocked, all the warmth in the room vanished, replaced by a bloody, rotting stench. Looking again at what had been a clean and tidy space, it was now covered in dried mucus and decayed objects that were impossible to identify. The entire view darkened, and the doors on both sides disappeared, replaced by two corridors—one exuding the smell of blood, the other the aroma of food.
This room was right next to the back kitchen.
The gentleman player immediately reached out forward, but before he could touch the curtains, the entire wall shifted backward. In the blink of an eye, it had moved to a position unreachable by any prop.
Realizing that his spiritual power interference device hadn't been very effective in this instance, the gentleman player turned to look for Xu Huo, only to find that he had already disappeared from the room!
"Click, click, click..." The sound of high heels echoed from one of the corridors. The gentleman player expressionlessly draped a piece of clothing over himself, then his entire figure vanished into the air.
What came walking over was a pair of oversized high heels—just the shoes themselves. This wasn't because the shoes were a prop that could move autonomously, but because the person wearing them was also using an invisibility prop. The figure passed through the messy room and paused briefly when passing the gentleman player's hiding spot—since invisibility made it impossible to see the person's movements—but then the gentleman player shot out from his position, stepped onto a nearby chair, and dashed toward the adjacent corridor.
The oversized high heels that had been heading for the back kitchen changed direction.
Xu Huo, who had left the room immediately, no longer concerned himself with the gentleman player after he fled. Using borrowed knives to kill was a viable tactic, but since this person didn't even want to enter the head chef's room himself, it showed he had little connection with the restaurant staff. Whether he had any relationship with the restaurant owner was another matter.
He took out his communicator. Li Kun and Dai Song had sent messages respectively. Dai Song had returned to his room on the first floor, while Li Kun told Xu Huo he had found an employee's room.
Xu Huo quickly asked for the location and rushed over. Li Kun, who had placed a prop outside the door, knew he was coming and quietly opened the door, saying excitedly, "Come in and see! This time we've hit the jackpot!"
This should be the raincoat cleaner's room. The shoes and small items by the door were neatly arranged. Several raincoats of different colors were hung on the wall, still carrying a faint fragrance.
The raincoat cleaner seemed to have a collecting obsession. Many things in her room were piled up—raincoats, cups, shoes. Even identical items had at least three copies. The walls and ceiling were covered with various lighting props, and several cabinets were filled with small toys, card sets, and badges.
"Those aren't worth much. Come look at this." Li Kun pointed to a large machine in the corner of the room, far taller than an ordinary person. "This is a water maker used internally by the Stellar Corporation. It can produce water directly from the air, using a new type of mineral energy source. It can be used anywhere, even in high-risk zones where even the air is polluted. The water it produces is absolutely clean!"
"Just one of these machines—you couldn't get one even if you spent tens of millions."
"You want to take the machine?" Xu Huo glanced at him. "Can the luggage compartment fit it?"
The game seemed deliberately designed to choke players. The game platform couldn't transport food or water, and water makers like this that could filter out natural impurities were not only rarely sold but also extremely large. Even if one could get their hands on one, for players, having the space to install the machine would be better used for carrying an equivalent amount of water. Even in water-scarce environments, players wouldn't stay stranded for too long.
Of course, if good ones weren't available, inferior products would do. Some tech companies and game zones had tried independent research and development, but after Stellar Pharmaceuticals released a report stating that "water filtered by ordinary automatic water makers increases the risk of degeneration," not many people were willing to take the risk. It wasn't as if they had absolutely no water to drink.
As for whether drinking water filtered by water makers actually increased the risk of degeneration, without several years or even a decade plus hundreds or thousands of experimenters, no one could guarantee it didn't.
But since the Stellar Corporation used these machines internally, they were still very popular. Even outdated old models that had been phased out were hard to get. This was technological blockade.
"Installing it definitely won't work," Li Kun said, rubbing his hands together. "But we can disassemble the machine and sell the parts. If we handle it properly, we might even sell it for hundreds of millions!"
The machine might not be worth that much, but plenty of people would be willing to pay. This was far better than selling props.
"The more secretive something is, the more curious people become," Li Kun said. "Since the water filtered by ordinary air water makers isn't beneficial for evolved humans, that means the Stellar Corporation's water maker can remove factors harmful to evolved humans. No zone would refuse this technology."
If everything in the process of evolution—including water sources and food—was affected by evolution, then eliminating the unfavorable factors might slow down or delay the aftereffects. From this perspective, even if the price were ten times higher, it would still be worth it.