Alien Hotel.

Chapter 334 Angel Haze
Although it was a bit regrettable that he could not immediately obtain the secret jump coordinates of the Holy Hermitage, for Sheng, the intelligence he obtained still far exceeded his expectations - especially the information about the "Angel Catalyst", which was beyond everyone's expectations.

Although the research motives of the Priory of the Holy Trinity in this area are filled with their crazy "world defect theory", the "academic" part of the research itself has unquestionable value. In any case, the purity of the knowledge theory itself is not affected by their extreme ideas.

Therefore, the focus of Yu Sheng and Baili Qing's discussion soon fell on those "angel catalysts".

"What is the current status of those 'Ankaela Crystals'?" Yu Sheng asked.

"It's still in the containment area. The Secret Service has been continuing its research on the Ankaela crystal, but there has been no progress," Baili Qing nodded, "including the research on the 'secondary crystal'."

"I want to go over and take a look," Yu Sheng stroked his chin, "What the cultist mentioned is quite concerning."

Baili Qing agreed readily: "Of course - in fact, I have just notified the containment area to prepare, we can go there at any time."

Yu Sheng nodded, called Hu Li and Luna, then went over and picked up the little doll that was still playing the ropes seriously: "Stop playing, let's go watch the 'Anti-Irene Special Crystal' together."

The little puppet started twisting his hand hard when he heard it: "Hey, you can't get over this joke, right!"

Yu Sheng ignored the little thing's protest, picked her up and opened the door leading to the inside of the containment area. However, when he was about to walk in, he felt a strange gaze coming from the side. He turned his head and found that Baili Qing was looking at him steadily.

"what happened?"

Baili Qing's expression was a little tense: "...Can you at least respect the security system of our highest-level containment facility?"

Yu Sheng was startled when he heard this, and felt a little embarrassed: "How about I close the door again and then open it slowly? To show that it is very difficult to open the door..."

Baili Qing took a deep breath on the spot, and her blood pressure almost rose. Then she stopped talking about "respect" and tried to keep a straight face as she walked through the door.

Yu Sheng and his group came to the containment facility with a very high security level, which was "encapsulated" by a gray-white cement giant structure.

Since they had been notified in advance, preparations had already been made. A piece of "Ankaela Crystal" and several secondary crystal samples were transferred from the safety container and sent to the laboratory before Yu Sheng arrived.

The crystal glowed with a hazy halo under the light, and still looked as quiet and harmless as before, with no trace of the so-called "penetrating" power that the cultist had tremblingly mentioned when he confessed in the interrogation room.

"Angel Catalyst..." Yu Sheng frowned, looking at the crystalline substance on the platform. "It's a pity that we thought the only function of this thing was to fight Irene... I never thought that a group of cultists had gone so far in their research on the angel's remains."

"That's normal. After all, they have been secretly researching for more than a decade. The only thing we are ahead of them now is that we really have a batch of highly active 'catalysts' in our hands," Baili Qing said calmly. "In the interrogation of other believers, we must focus on the intelligence about the angel catalysts and find a way to figure out how they 'use' these catalysts."

"I always feel that their ability to sneak into the foggy city might be related to this technology. The low-activity catalyst obtained from the 'Shadowless Skeleton' cannot be completely useless. Moreover, this thing's 'penetration' effect on foreign lands sounds very suitable for invasion. The cultist must have concealed a lot of key information," Yu Sheng said thoughtfully, and then raised his head to look at the laboratory director standing next to him. "You haven't found a way to make these crystals react yet, right?"

The head of the laboratory looked somewhat unwilling: "I am ashamed. We have tried various methods, but the stability of these crystals is beyond imagination."

"Stable...?" Yu Sheng muttered, but in his heart he couldn't help but recall the "small boat" mentioned by the cultist in fear, which was originally planned to send the "Ankaela Crystal" away, but encountered a strange and terrifying accident when starting the jump.

Baili Qing obviously shared the same idea as Yu Sheng.

"That boat," she said thoughtfully, "had an audio signal that indicated the death of all the crew members three minutes before the jump, but everything was normal on board at the time. Then, it ignored the mother ship's order to stop the action and started the jump on its own... This strange situation was obviously not an ordinary 'navigation accident'. Considering the mission they were carrying out at the time, it was almost 100% related to the Ankaela crystals on board at the time."

Yu Sheng also frowned and thought about it. After a moment, he suddenly turned his head and looked at Luna who had been following him quietly. "You were on their mother ship at the time. Do you know anything?"

Luna was quiet for a few seconds, then slowly shook her head: "At that time, in the Holy Coffin, I didn't know."

"...Yes, they are worried that you will wake up, so they usually keep you in the holy coffin and definitely don't let you touch these things."

Luna nodded, but after just two or three seconds, she suddenly broke the silence again: "But, I heard the 'screech' when I was praying, in the holy coffin." Baili Qing blinked, thought for a moment and looked at Yu Sheng: "What does she mean?"

Yu Sheng actually didn’t understand…

However, he had become more or less accustomed to Luna's limited ability to express himself. After patiently communicating with her a few more times, he was able to barely understand what she wanted to express.

"You mean, even though you were on standby in the Holy Coffin, you heard strange noises coming from the 'system' connected to the Holy Coffin? You think those noises might have been transmitted back from the boat when it was in trouble, and that the signals were received by the mother ship and 'leaked' to you?"

Luna nodded slowly, then stumbled out a few words: "Holy Coffin, Record."

"The holy coffin has a recording function?!" Yu Sheng was stunned, and his mind suddenly moved.

Before he could speak, Baili Qing nodded and said, "I will notify the expert group currently on that ship and ask them to try to extract the system log of the Holy Coffin."

Yu Sheng hummed, and then thought for a moment, and still couldn't help expressing his confusion: "After all, what exactly happened to the ship at that time? You said that they brought dangerous goods, so they got lost and exploded during the jump. I can understand that. Even if you say that they stepped on the accelerator and rushed into a two-dimensional style of another world to become a hero, but the audio signal of the accident was received three minutes before the jump engine started..."

He stroked his chin, pondered for a few seconds, and then uncertainly stated his conjecture: "Not only did the ship jump into the abnormal space, but it also penetrated the time stream? The people on the ship were torn apart by the Ankaela crystal, and their 'voices' were thrown into the time stream and sent to the time point three minutes before departure?"

He just made a guess after deep thought, but he didn't expect that Baili Qing on the opposite side would immediately show a serious expression, and even quickly discussed with the laboratory director next to him the question of "whether the phase engine has the possibility of traveling through time when interfered by angelic power."

"I just said it casually," Yu Sheng explained quickly, "I just wrote too many novels and my imagination just popped up..."

But after hearing this explanation, Baili Qing turned around and looked at him seriously: "...Do you usually write non-fiction?"

Yu Sheng: “……?”

"Small-scale time jump anomalies are extremely rare in the entire universe, but they have indeed occurred and are recorded," Baili Qing explained, "But like I said, this is extremely rare, and more importantly, it goes against the working principle of the phase engine. In theory, if a time jump occurs, then the coordinate parameters obtained by the phase engine will definitely be invalid, and the spacecraft will not be able to enter the jump. The opposite is also true. If the spacecraft can enter the jump, it means that the 'time' item in the coordinate parameters obtained by the phase engine must be correct..."

She paused for a moment, digesting this information completely before continuing, "So, I ruled out the possibility of them experiencing a time jump from the beginning. But if the Angel Catalyst really has this power, it can make the Phase Engine violate the objective laws of our universe..."

"Violating the objective laws of the universe?" Yu Sheng was stunned. "Is this possible?"

"The Dark Angel is a 'visitor' from outside the universe." Baili Qing said very seriously.

Yu Sheng scratched his hair, feeling that the current topic seemed to be beyond his educational level - this matter should be left to Little Red Riding Hood.

Although Little Red Riding Hood probably couldn't understand these things, she was a senior in high school, and students in their senior year have more brains than those in their senior year.

Yu Sheng shook his head and put aside some of the inappropriate associations for the time being, but at this moment, he suddenly remembered another thing.

"Wait, there is one more thing. Xuan Che mentioned to me before that Taixu Lingshu also captured a group of hermits in the border area of ​​Feiyu-13b. They were also secretly building a base at the time. A half-built Pillar of Order spaceship was also found at the scene!"

Baili Qing's eyes suddenly became serious.

"Considering the current situation, the Pillar of Order should be a high-level ship with a special mission and symbolic significance. It should also be a high-tech model used for big events in the entire Priory. They hid one at the border to study things of the Angel Catalyst level. Then they have a ship on Feiyu-13b..."

Yu Sheng said this, looking up into Baili Qing's eyes.

"...Is there a dark angel hiding there who hasn't woken up yet?!"

(End of this chapter)