Alien Hotel.

Chapter 358 A healthy young man
"You said you saw strange birds in the sea of ​​clouds? And you saw them flying through the clouds all day long?" Yu Sheng's eyes widened as he looked at Zheng Zhi, who was obviously a little nervous. "And now there are more and more of them?"

Zheng Zhi also reacted at this time. He looked back at Yun Hai, then turned back to look at Yu Sheng. His eyes became clear and then nervous: "Oh my god! I am the only one who can see it again?!"

Yuan Ling Zhenren also came over at this time, with an extremely serious expression on his face: "What does that strange bird look like? Can you describe it?"

"The beak is long and pointed, the tail feathers are like a few streamers, very large, and the edge of the wings... Hey, wait a minute, I'll just draw it!"

Zheng Zhi said this and turned around and ran back to his "outpost". A moment later he ran out with a tablet computer and a stylus. After opening the drawing board, he began to draw quickly on it. After a few minutes, he had drawn a strange bird flying through the sea of ​​clouds. Although only a few simple lines were used, the features were fully displayed and it looked vivid.

Irene was shocked and stared: "Nephew, you have this skill?"

Zheng Zhi scratched his head embarrassedly: "I used to be an artist..."

Irene: "Oh, no wonder you look so exhausted every time I see you, as if you're about to ascend to heaven."

Yu Sheng did not pay attention to the conversation between Zheng Zhi and Irene, but focused his attention on the picture drawn by the other party. After a moment, he raised his head again and looked at the vast sea of ​​clouds outside the Guanyuntai.

The setting sun was approaching the edge of the sea of ​​clouds. At this moment, the golden-red glow was spreading along the clouds. The sunlight gave all the clouds a brilliant outline, but among the spectacular sunset and sea of ​​clouds, there was no trace of any "strange bird".

Zhenren Yuanling frowned deeply after seeing the picture.

He stretched out his hand and grabbed the tablet in mid-air, and the "picture" was actually grabbed out by him. Then, after a few twists and turns in his palm, it turned into a vivid phantom of a black monster bird, flying in the air.

"Is it like this?" Yuan Ling Zhenren turned his head and looked into Zheng Zhi's eyes and asked.

Zheng Zhi was stunned by the "immortal's trick" in front of him, and was full of amazement, but he soon came to his senses and carefully observed the strange bird that Yuan Ling Zhenren conjured from the picture. He spoke cautiously: "The tail should be longer and the tail feathers should be more elegant."

Yuan Ling Zhenren immediately adjusted in the same way: "How about this?"

"The bill is a little shorter, and the edges of the wings are more rounded...

"The tail feathers float upwards, giving it a lively feel...

"Adjust the neck a little bit...

"Why not just use the first version?"

Irene poked Yu Sheng on the back of his head and said, "My nephew, are you putting all your resentment about being an artist here and acting like a retaliatory client?"

Yu Sheng raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect that this little doll would even understand this. But he was soon relieved. After all, this little thing spends more than 40 hours a day on the Internet. Apart from fighting in games and arguing with netizens, she is exposed to clichés on the Internet. It is normal for her to understand some of the clichés between the client and the artist...

Fortunately, Zheng Zhi was able to confirm it quickly: "Yes! That's it! It's like this now!"

Zhenren Yuan Ling nodded - the old man was also good-tempered and didn't care after adjusting the plan so many times - and then he flipped his hand, and the adjusted "strange bird" "came to life" in his hand again, circling in the air nearby.

Yu Sheng noticed that Yuan Ling Zhenren's expression gradually showed an unusual solemnity and thoughtfulness.

"What did you see?" he asked subconsciously.

"I feel like... it looks familiar," Yuan Ling Zhenren said in a deep voice, "but I can't remember where I've seen it."

"Is it the species on your Taixu planet?" asked the long-haired girl curiously.

"No," Yuan Ling Zhenren slowly shook his head, "I didn't see it in real life. It could be in an ancient book, or somewhere else."

At this point he turned his head and looked at Zheng Zhi: "Are those strange birds still in the sky now?"

"There are only three or two left." Zheng Zhi looked back at the end of the sea of ​​clouds, "It looks like they are returning to their nests at night."

Yu Sheng looked at Master Yuan Ling: "This matter..."

"This is really strange. The scene Zheng Zhi saw didn't seem to be harmful, but it is extremely abnormal for phantoms to appear in the protective formation of Qianfeng Lingshan. Guanyuntai is very close to Queyun Palace, and ordinary evil and strange things can't get close to it," Yuan Ling Zhenren said this with a serious face. "I have to check it out when I go back to see where these phantoms come from."

After exchanging a few more words with Zheng Zhi, Yuan Ling Zhenren led his disciples to leave Guanyuntai.

Long Hair came to Yu Sheng hesitantly: "Brother... can we still play here?"

Yu Sheng stroked his chin and carefully observed the sea of ​​clouds in the distance for a moment before looking away: "The things Zheng Zhi saw don't seem to be harmful, but it's almost dark now, so let the children go back first - tomorrow I can ask the real person to arrange a few people to take everyone to the foot of the mountain."

"Oh, okay." The long-haired girl looked a little regretful, but quickly called the children to gather together, lined up and walked into the gate of No. 66 Wutong Road.

The Guanyun Terrace, which had been bustling for a while, soon became quiet again.

The setting sun has sunk below the sea of ​​clouds, leaving only a faint glow on the horizon, faintly diffused at the junction of clouds and sky. The sunlight faded, and stars rose from the horizon, along with the three moons above Taixu Lingshu.

The largest moon, too dark and emitting a faint hazy glow, was the first to rise. The large and small ecological zones on the moon's surface were inlaid in the silver light like blue and green gems.

Then there is the smaller "Hengming", which appears as big as a bean on the surface, but is slightly brighter than Taiyou. It is said that the satellite is covered with crystalline veins that can reflect sunlight, so it is exceptionally bright in the night sky, hence the name "Hengming".

"Chang'an" was the last one to rise from the horizon. If it weren't for Irene's sharp eyes, Yu Sheng wouldn't even be able to see it - it looked only slightly smaller than Taiyou from the surface, but it was extremely dim. In the night sky, it looked like an unremarkable gray stone ball. Some dimly glowing mesh light strips could be vaguely seen on the surface of the "stone ball". It was said that it was an automatic mining network built in the Nether Valley a long time ago. Now the mining facilities on the surface of "Chang'an" have been shut down, but the ancient transportation lines connecting the various mines are still maintaining themselves, maintaining the most basic lighting, and have become a "landscape" in the night sky of Taixu Star.

Yu Sheng brought a recliner out of the house and, like Zheng Zhi, sat down at the edge of the Guanyuntai where the view was best, admiring the strange night view.

Through the gaps between the sea of ​​clouds, he could still see the scene below the mountain - under the towering mountains, there was a big city with bright lights in the city. From time to time, streams of light would pass through the sky above the city. Occasionally, he could see huge cargo flying boats crossing the distant plains, passing between the city and the mountains.

Zheng Zhi's voice sounded from the side: "Brother Yu, am I a bit of a spoiler today?"

"Why do you say that?" Yu Sheng raised his eyebrows, "Because you saw something strange?"

"The children were planning to play until the evening," Zheng Zhi sighed. "In fact, the things I saw were just shadows. If I hadn't said anything, everyone would have continued to play and make noise. But now that I said it, everyone is panicking..."

Yu Sheng turned his head and glanced at the young man next to him who was only a few years younger than him. He didn't say anything, but just leaned back in his chair.

"I've had this problem since I was a kid," Zheng Zhi continued, "I often see strange things, but I can't tell which ones are visible to everyone and which ones are only visible to me, so adults don't like me very much. Later, I gained some common sense and could tell which ones I shouldn't see, but I still often accidentally startle people, and often ruin everyone's fun like I did now - in fact, many times those things are the same whether I say anything or not, they're just there all the time...

"Later, my uncle started to help me. He sorted out a set of 'common sense tables' for me, so that I could distinguish between normal and abnormal things in reality. He also taught me how to behave like a normal person after seeing those abnormal things, and how to keep a distance from those things that might be harmful... He didn't really have any special skills, he just had some theoretical knowledge in this area, but what he taught me was quite useful.

"But it only works at the border. It doesn't seem to work here."

Yu Sheng turned his head and asked: "Are you done?"

Zheng Zhi: "Uh, that's all."

Yu Sheng adjusted his position on the recliner to make himself more comfortable, and squinted his eyes slightly: "Have you ever seen a horror movie?"

"Well, I've seen some, but then I found that they weren't that scary, so I wasn't that interested."

"It's OK if you've seen some. Do you know the most classic way for the main characters in horror movies to die?"

Zheng Zhi was a little confused: "...what is it?"

"It was someone in the team who finally saw a fatal clue, but kept it to himself."

Zheng Zhi: “…”

"You have had this skill since you were little, it's not a defect. It's a skill that you have never put to good use," Yu Sheng said slowly. "You just entered the industry late, but I think your eyes can be put to great use."

Zheng Zhi's eyes lit up: "Really?"

"Really?" Yu Sheng said casually, then thought for a moment and added, "But I think your greater advantage is your mental state."

“精神状态？”

"How the hell did you guarantee that you would grow up to be mentally healthy and have normal values?" Yu Sheng turned his head to look at Zheng Zhi, his astonishment evident in his words. "With your bitter and vengeful experience, shouldn't you have been on the road of no return as a typical case on the Legal Education Channel at the age of fourteen? The worst that could happen is that you would jump off a teaching building in the second half of the third year of junior high school... And weren't you said to be highly sensitive and low-stable? You don't seem to be 'low-stable' at all?"

Zheng Zhi: "Anyway, my uncle said I was 'low stable', and after the bureau did the test, they also said that my physique is very susceptible to pollution, but I have grown up like this and I don't know what they mean by 'pollution'. As for you saying that I have a good mentality, then my mentality has indeed always been pretty good."

As he spoke, he grabbed another grape-like "magic fruit" from the small table next to him and threw it into his mouth, with a smile on his face.

"After all, if a person sees a 'ghost' for the first time when he is thirty years old, he will be frightened. But if he has been seeing ghosts around him since he was three months old, then the most likely thing he will do is to give names to the ghosts around him. To put it bluntly, I am more familiar with the 'shadows' I see than with my parents. My parents have to go out to work, but the things that sway in front of my eyes never stop for a day."

"...That does make some sense."

(End of this chapter)