The escape room took more than two hours in total. By the time they came out, it was already dark.
The evening breeze brought a hint of chill against their skin, finally giving them a taste of autumn.
Tang Yun draped an arm around Yan Wen's neck. "A Yan, are you hungry? Let's go eat!"
Mo Chengzhou lifted Tang Yun's arm off Yan Wen. "Put your arm down. You'll make Yan Wen uncomfortable."
"Oh." Tang Yun nodded and asked, "A Yan, what should we eat?"
Yan Wen suggested, "I heard there's a pretty good seafood buffet here. Want to check it out?"
"Sure!" Tang Yun's eyes lit up. "I haven't had big crabs or abalone in ages."
Yan Wen turned to ask Mu Xu Ye and Qi Shu Yu, "What about you two? Is seafood okay?"
Qi Shu Yu said with a soft laugh, "Anything's fine with me."
Mu Xu Ye nodded in agreement.
The seafood buffet was nearby, just over two hundred meters away. They reached it after a ten-minute walk.
A sea-blue sign hung above the restaurant, its two glass doors shut. As they approached, the sensors activated and the doors opened automatically.
The restaurant was neither crowded nor empty. Two servers stood at the reception counter, with the food displays on the left and dining tables on the right.
The pale gray marble floor was spotless, and the crystal chandeliers overhead cast a warm white glow. Refrigeration units sprayed a fine, cold mist over the chilled seafood section, in sharp contrast to the warm, fragrant steam rising from the hot food section beside it.
Only four or five people were choosing food in the serving area, while three oval service robots, each half a meter tall, moved among them.
They purposefully transferred plates of food into the