Alien Hotel.

Chapter 363 Exploring the Map
The dim "border" seemed like some kind of living thing, expanding and contracting and wriggling at the end of the mine ramp.

Master Qianji stretched out his hand and knocked on the wall on one side. Then a thin needle popped out from his fingertips and pierced into the stone wall within the dark boundary erosion range, as if he was sampling and analyzing something.

"Loose and brittle, mineral salt seeping out, and the ground veins being cut off," he turned around and casually said to the group of people, "Did this foreign land really only appear recently?"

"It was indeed discovered recently," it was Xuan Che who answered. He took a half step forward and bowed. "Everything was normal here half a month ago."

"...This erosion situation doesn't seem to have changed recently. I'm afraid the environment below has started to change several years ago." Master Qianji muttered, and turned his head to look at the dimly lit area. With a slight "click" sound, two strong rays of light burst out from his eye sockets, and the beams of light shot straight into the depths of the darkness.

However, the beam of light seemed to be blocked by some invisible "filter". It only shone for a few steps before mysteriously fading away.

"Interesting..." Master Qianji muttered and walked forward.

Yu Sheng also followed closely with others.

The darkness gradually closed in front of their eyes, and the long slope seemed to extend infinitely under their feet as if it led to the center of the earth without end. The group stepped into the darkness and walked forward for an unknown amount of time. Yu Sheng felt that the surrounding environment began to gradually change.

He concentrated his steps and remembered the moment of trance he felt when he last entered this foreign land, and the illusory and grand voice of "activating the formation" he heard in the trance. Therefore, he was particularly careful when moving forward. However, this time, he heard nothing.

A slightly moist air current suddenly blew from the front, and the condensed darkness quickly dissipated as if blown away by the wind. Yu Sheng's eyes flashed, and he saw that he had walked out of the "endless" ramp, and a rather open underground space came into view.

This was a cave of astonishing size, its circumference unknown. The boundary of the cave in the distance was swallowed up by darkness, and one could only see the primitive rock walls nearby extending all the way upwards and disappearing into the darkness above one's head. Meanwhile, glowing vines and various unknown fluorescent fungi were spreading and growing along the nearby rocks, ground and stalagmites, illuminating the surrounding space.

Yu Sheng looked at everything in front of him in amazement, and then he noticed that there seemed to be ripples on the "ground" in the distance. When he looked closely, he found that it was actually a large expanse of water.

——It turned out to be a huge underground lake. Many glowing stems and leaves of unknown plants were floating on the lake. The faint light illuminated the water surface, and contrasted with the luminous moss and vines on the shore. The scenery had a dreamlike beauty, but also a dark and weird atmosphere.

This incredible underground scenery instantly made Yu Sheng's breath catch slightly, and almost at the same time, he heard Irene on his shoulder exclaim: "Wow——"

"Finally there is no sand this time." Hu Li muttered, and then the big tail behind her "bloomed". Countless faint fox fires floated out from her tail like a group of fireflies, rising and spreading around, further illuminating everything around.

However, her fox fire spread hundreds of meters away and failed to illuminate the boundaries of the cave.

But at least it makes this dim space look a lot brighter.

"It's true that every time you come in, it's different," Yu Sheng said casually, then raised one shoulder, "Erin, is there any murderous intent this time?"

Irene felt it carefully and said, "Not yet, but I think you are in danger of bloodshed again."

Yu Sheng was amused when he heard this: "You're talking as if I've never had a bloody disaster - how much bleeding was there this time? Where exactly was the injury?"

Irene stared at him. "How should I know that? Do you really think I'm a prophet?"

"You've become as charlatan as a prophet recently," Yu Sheng curled his lips, turned his head to look at Luna, and stretched out his hand, "Poke it."

As soon as he finished speaking, Luna raised her knife and slashed - one can only say that she is worthy of being the artificial saint, a professional who is born to chop people. She is usually slow in doing everything, but she is very skilled in this matter.

Then Yu Sheng began to sprinkle his blood on the ground, and then sprinkled it into the lake...

Irene looked a little dumbfounded: "What are you doing?"

"Whether it's useful or not, it's good to shed some blood. Even if we can't gather any intelligence, it's good to leave a mark. Maybe it can be used to steal something important in the future," Yu Sheng said confidently. "Besides, you said there will be a bloody disaster. I'll shed some blood myself to reduce the explosion rate..."

"Can there be a bug like this?!" The little puppet was stunned, and then frowned as he watched Yu Sheng splatter blood, "But why do I feel like you're laying a fungus mat here..."

Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but in his heart he felt that it was a good thing that this little thing didn't say a more unpleasant metaphor...

Qianji Zhenren on the side was a little confused when he saw Yu Sheng's operation. Although he didn't deal with the "exotic processing experts" from the border area much, he had seen a few detectives or investigators from the spirit world before, but he had never seen such a work process. After holding it in for a long time, he couldn't help but turned his head to look at Xuan Che: "Daoyou Yu Sheng, what are you doing?"

Xuan Che was actually confused as well. After all, he only had a vague idea of ​​the nature of the gang in the hotel. But he had to answer the elder's question, so he could only think hard for a few seconds and then bowed and said, "...Mr. Yu has his own way of investigating. He knows a lot about blood sacrifices."

A clicking sound came from Master Qianji's head: "Blood sacrifice?"

Xuan Che: "Uh, only sacrifice his own."

Master Qianji nodded: "Oh, that's no problem." At the same time, Yu Sheng was carefully sensing the situation after the blood was spilled.

That feeling of "nothingness" appeared again.

Yu Sheng could clearly feel his blood spilling into the soil and water of the underground cave. However, in just a moment, the blood seemed to pass through the ground and the water and disappeared directly into the depths of nothingness without establishing a "connection" with anything.

But perhaps because of the experience and accumulation from last time, he vaguely felt that the information he obtained this time was a little more than last time.

At the end of that ultimate nothingness... there seems to be something so huge that its "existence" cannot be detected by perception.

It's like standing at the foot of an endless, wide, dark wall. No matter which direction you look in, you can only see darkness and cannot detect the existence of the "wall".

But Yu Sheng did not feel any oppression or malice from that huge existence.

It seemed like just a dead object, or... some kind of empty shell?
He frowned, trying to read some information from the vague feeling, but in the end he got nothing, and after a brief ten seconds, even the vague feeling disappeared.

After a little thought, Yu Sheng felt that increasing the dosage might work.

So he turned to Luna and said, "Stab her again."

The wound just now has healed.

Luna nodded, but before she could do anything, Hu Li at the side couldn't help but said, "My benefactor, I can do it too. I'm brushing my teeth today~"

"No, you always drink secretly," Yu Sheng refused sternly, "Every time you sip half of it..."

Hu Li's ears drooped instantly and he started humming something.

Luna said nothing, but just picked up the knife again and cut it down skillfully, as if she had been killing fish in the supermarket for ten years.

Yu Sheng continued to spread the fungal mat by the lake.

But this time, he didn't sense any more information, and he didn't even feel the huge "existence" at the end of the ultimate nothingness.

"...It can only take effect once in the same foreign 'scene'?"

He muttered thoughtfully.

……

"Hey, Rapunzel... Will Red Riding Hood tell on us if we sneak out to play?" On a mountain path somewhere in Qianfeng Mountain, a black-haired girl in a blue dress looked around curiously with her eyes wide open, but couldn't help but mutter to the Rapunzel who was walking beside her with some worry, "She told us not to run around..."

"What do you mean by running out to play secretly? We ran out openly!" Long Hair said confidently, "Besides, my brother said that we can move around freely. We even registered yesterday - Xianyu, you are too timid."

"But my brother also said that we need a guide for free activities," the girl in the blue dress who was called "salted fish" by Rapunzel was obviously still struggling, "and I have a live broadcast tonight. If I am caught by Red Riding Hood, she will definitely scold me all night..."

"I told you it's okay," the long-haired man waved his hand nonchalantly, "and who said there's no guide? Isn't the guide here? Right, big... Zheng Zhi?"

She looked up at Zheng Zhi who was walking in front of her, but the latter sighed helplessly: "I only came here one day earlier than you, and I am really not familiar with the situation here... Turn left in front, the spiritual plant garden on the right is not allowed to enter."

"You're still not familiar with me?" The long-haired man glared, "And I heard that you've sworn brotherhood with seven people in this half day, and even on the Beast Taming Peak you have a close friend..."

"Where did you hear this?" Zheng Zhi was stunned when he heard it. "How could such an outrageous thing be spread!"

"That's what Irene said. She also said that you fell off a cliff in the back mountain and killed a hermit fishing. She searched the hermit's body and found more than 70 cultivation manuals. Of course, I know she must be exaggerating. Who would carry more than 70 cultivation manuals when going out fishing?"

Zheng Zhi's face twitched immediately, and he felt that his decision to stay in Qianfeng Lingshan might really be a mistake. But now that things have come to this, it might be too late to go home. He could only sigh and continue walking forward while muttering: "You can't believe what Irene said. I just met an old man who was watching the dormitory at the foot of the mountain. He even complained that I scared away his fish... There is a pavilion on the right turn ahead. It was donated by the cousin-in-law of Suyun Fairy of Yunling Peak and built by the neighbor opposite seventy years ago. The view from the pavilion is very good, and you can see the gathering spirit formation of Lingfeng City at the foot of the mountain."

Rapunzel poked the mermaid's arm triumphantly. "I told you to let Zheng Zhi be your guide. No one who can be by my side is simple."

The mermaid looked at Zheng Zhi, who was walking swiftly on the mountain road ahead as if he was going home, and blinked after a long while: "... Really awesome."

(End of this chapter)