Alien Hotel.

Chapter 400: Rain Curtain

The words of the local fox named "Linglong" made everyone at the scene fall into silence. Even Yuan Hao, who had seen a lot and experienced many ups and downs in his life, was a little confused for a moment. After an unknown amount of time, Irene (a long string) subconsciously raised her hand and poked the tail of the raccoon next to her. A loud "crackling" sound from the latter's hair broke the eerie silence.

“Hey, don’t shock me—” Hu Li came to her senses while pulling back her tail (usually she was the one who shocked others with static electricity, but now she was finally the one being shocked), turned her head and stared into Linglong’s eyes, “You just said that the immortal was called Yun Qingzi?!”

"Yes, that's right," Linglong was shocked by the reactions of the people in front of her. She didn't know what was going on and thought she had said something wrong. "That's what the voice said. My uncle and I heard it..."

"Wait a minute, let's think about this," Irene quickly raised her hand to interrupt him, revealing a thoughtful look as she spoke, "You mean, you and your great uncle saw some illusions and heard a voice, and that voice said his name was Yun Qingzi, and told you that there was an 'opportunity' in this place, and then you two came here, right? Then... he didn't give any evidence? You just believed it?"

After the puppet finished speaking, Yuan Hao, the real person beside him, nodded and said, "This matter does make us suspicious. Why did you believe the words in the illusion? In addition, under what circumstances did you see those illusions?"

Linglong looked a little dazed and bewildered. She seemed to have suddenly developed doubts while recalling the past, and she sounded particularly uncertain when she spoke: "We... suddenly saw visions and heard voices one day. It seemed like it was a few days ago? No... I can't remember it clearly... I don't know why I believed it. It seems a little strange now, but my great uncle and I set off without hesitation. I..."

As she spoke, her expression became more and more dazed and her mind was obviously shaken. Yuan Hao, who was standing by, immediately reacted and raised his hand to point, "Clear your mind!"

Master Yuan Hao's voice was not loud, but the two words seemed to contain supreme power. At once, countless layers of majestic secret spells directly entered Linglong's mind. With an illusory "boom", the jade-faced golden fox girl was suddenly awakened from the trance state in which her reason was polluted. The fog that seemed to have shrouded her heart for days was also dispelled at once. Her expression changed several times in succession, and a look of fear emerged.

Looking at the changing expressions on the golden fox girl's face, Master Yuan Hao knew that his judgment was correct.

"You two have been contaminated by Yun Qingzi's consciousness," he said in a deep voice, "Luckily it was discovered early, and your great uncle sensed the danger at the critical moment, otherwise you two would have become 'death warriors' like those black-robed monks."

Irene's eyes widened when she heard this: "Ah, you mean those people in black are all mentally polluted like this, so they work for Yun Qingzi?"

"It's hard to say 'all', but from the looks of it, at least some of them are true," Yuan Hao Zhenren looked solemn, and at the same time, he set his eyes on the red-dressed girl in front of him, "Did you see Yun Qingzi's vision during the Taixu Lingshu?"

"No, it's in Taiyou." Linglong replied quickly.

"...More or less. Taiyou is very close to Taixu Lingshu." Yuan Hao nodded, and then asked, "What about the exact time? You can't remember it at all, right?"

"I can't remember. Now I think about it, and I feel like I've been in a daze these past few days. Although there seems to be nothing wrong with what I say and do, it just doesn't seem like I'm experiencing it myself." Linglong scratched under her ear, still trying to recall her experiences over the past few days, and then she suddenly pursed her lips, "Ah, I seem to remember something. My uncle and I were probably watching the news at the time. I still remember a piece of news that said... Qianfeng Lingshan temporarily blocked the mountain protection formation due to a large-scale mechanical failure!"

Zheng Zhi, who had been listening quietly, was the first to react: "Ah, was that when the Demon Suppression Tower had an accident?!"

"Yes," Yuan Hao nodded, and his expression seemed to have figured out many things. "In this way, things are reflected in each other."

Linglong blinked her eyes, and for a moment she seemed a little confused about the situation.

Zhenren Yuanhao explained to her what had happened in Taixu Lingshu, Taiyou and other places in recent days - of course, he did not mention the internal secrets of the Demon Suppression Tower, but only talked about some things that could be made public.

The more Linglong listened, the more shocked she became. At the end, she finally realized something belatedly. She looked up at Master Yuan Hao in a daze and said, "Wait, who... are you?"

"You finally remembered to ask." Upon hearing this, Yuan Hao couldn't help but smile a little, raised his hand and pointed at himself, "Qianfeng Lingshan, Yuan Hao."

Linglong blinked her eyes, as if trying hard to think about who "Yuan Hao" was.

After half a minute, she suddenly remembered that Qianfeng Lingshan seemed to, maybe, perhaps, have a "master"...

"Oh——" The local fox clapped his hands, suddenly realized, and then rolled his eyes.

Irene jumped up instantly: "Hey! The fox fainted!"

The scene was suddenly in a state of chaos. Hu Li quickly reached out to help up Linglong who was about to fall to the ground. Taoist Yuan Hao took out the elixir he brought from Qianfeng Lingshan from his sleeve. Irene (a long string of words) waved her hands and muttered "Why bother with this?", then jumped directly onto Linglong, and started to electrocute her all over her body - and then the Jade-faced Golden Fox, who could have woken up after a short dizziness, was electrocuted into a deep coma... The scene was suddenly as lively as a construction site, filled with the daily lively atmosphere of the "hostel" organization.

But in the midst of all the chaos, Luna just stood quietly in the corner, staring at the continuous rain curtain outside the old factory like an elegant puppet statue. No one knew what she was thinking deep in her cold steel body. After a long while, she seemed to suddenly sense something and looked up in a certain direction in the air.

……

Yu Sheng emerged from the chaotic darkness and opened his eyes when he was about to return to the world. At the boundary between life and death, he saw that it was raining heavily at the border of the wilderness of the soul.

A blonde girl in bright armor, leading her twelve knights, was standing in the rain waiting for him.

"You are here to greet us?" Yu Sheng laughed. His figure took shape in an instant, landed in the wilderness and walked towards Luna and her knights.

"Hey, the dwarf is too noisy. She makes a lot of noise no matter what she does. No one can control her when you are not here. I thought I might as well come here and wait for you with the knights," Luna said quickly when they met, "I'm on standby 'outside'. Irene electrocuted the local fox and she screamed in panic. No one dared to help. Irene's whole body is electrifying now. If the fox touches her, she will scream..."

"Stop, stop, stop. Speak slower. I'm not used to you talking so fast." Yu Sheng waved his hands quickly. He was used to Luna's speaking speed of three words in ten seconds. He couldn't adapt to it every time he saw her in the wilderness. "What do you mean by electrocuting the local foxes? What about the whole body discharge of electricity? What's the situation outside now? And what's with the heavy rain over here? You also know that my death this time was a bit sudden..."

Luna thought about it and wanted to say that Yu Sheng died suddenly in most cases, but she didn't dare to speak when she recalled that her master had died at her hands twice. Instead, she cleared her throat awkwardly and said, "Ahem, the battle outside is over. The monastic priest is dead."

Yu Sheng had a calm expression a second ago, but now he was shocked: "What? Dead?! Such a difficult guy... Master Yuan Hao took action?"

Luna spread her hands and said, "Irene beat him to death."

Yu Sheng's expression froze for a moment: "...Ah?"

"The situation is very complicated. I don't understand it. Anyway, right after you died, she was struck by lightning. It lasted about half a minute - she fully charged up," Luna said expressionlessly, with a calmness that came from having adapted to the rhythm of life in the hostel. "Then she fired a two-meter-caliber laser cannon at the monastic priest... It happened very suddenly. She didn't have time to hold back, and no one reacted. After the fight, the scene was very clean, and we didn't find any enemy bodies."

Yu Sheng thought for a while and said, "Then do you think there is such a possibility..."

Before he could finish, Luna shook her head: "No."

Yu Sheng was stunned for two seconds, then he sighed: "It seems that there are no survivors... Well, but we can't force it. It's always a good thing to win. After all, this is a very difficult enemy."

Luna also nodded, then raised her eyes and looked at the rain falling in the wilderness.

"The rain started falling just now, when you 'died,'" she said. "I thought you would know what was going on."

"Is that so..." After hearing Luna's words, Yu Sheng muttered to himself, and then he stretched out his hand and touched the raindrops falling from the sky, with a thoughtful look on his face.

The rain fell on his hands, bringing a momentary cool touch, but no water was left behind. The grass in the wilderness swayed and bent in the rain, its stems and leaves constantly wet, but it became dry again in the blink of an eye. Under the grass leaves, the gray-black land did not appear muddy at all because of the rain.

This rain is like an illusion that falls across dimensions, but it is not entirely an illusion. It interacts with the wilderness, but this interaction is limited and short-lived.

Yu Sheng frowned. From the falling rain, he suddenly felt some kind of... "information".

"…Is this part of 'Shuji'?"

(End of this chapter)