Alien Hotel.

Chapter 435 Contaminated Subsystems
When there is danger, my senior brother is the safest; when there is safety, my senior brother is the most dangerous. But in a few cases, when there is danger, my senior brother can also be the more dangerous one.

Xuan Che's light barrier, which had withstood the attack of dozens of people until now, shattered instantly with the firepower support of Yuan Hao Zhenren. But then again... he did break through the enemy's encirclement. In terms of the whole process, his initial intention was good, but his execution was bad, but the person involved was in good physical condition.

"...I suddenly feel that Xuan Che's life has been quite difficult." Yu Sheng sat on the back of the fox, looking into the distance, and couldn't help but sigh.

Eileen turned to look at Zheng Zhi and said, "You two are both very lucky to be alive."

Zheng Zhi quickly waved his hand: "He's just tough, I'm lucky. We're different."

"……is that so?"

"Alright, let's not discuss the accuracy of word choice at a time like this," Yu Sheng interrupted the two, his gaze falling on the smoke-filled depths not far away. "It seems there's still trouble here."

As if to prove this statement, a bolt of lightning suddenly appeared in the smoke and dust as soon as Yu Sheng finished speaking.

The lightning bolt struck Hu Li, who was flying in mid-air, but was blocked by the protective spiritual energy around Hu Li. The shockwave that shattered the cloud that Yuan Hao Zhenren had just created dispersed the mushroom cloud. A moment later, the rain clouds regrouped, and in the continuous rain, Yu Sheng saw a familiar figure.

Tall, imposing, and dressed in a white robe, like a classical demigod emerging from a marble sculpture—a middle-aged man wreathed in lightning walked out of the smoke and dust, stepping through the air with a somber expression as he stared at them.

The moment Yu Sheng saw the other person's face clearly, his vague guess that had arisen from seeing the lightning in the sky was instantly confirmed, which startled him: "...You're not dead?!"

However, the figure standing in mid-air in the distance seemed not to have heard these words. He just stared intently at the little doll sitting next to Yu Sheng, his face expressionless, his eyes reflecting fine electric sparks, yet also gleaming with a cold, crystal-like luster.

Hu Li cautiously adjusted its position in the air, and the Hermitage "Great Sage" in white robes also turned his eyes, still staring expressionlessly at the puppet sitting on the back of the nine-tailed fox.

Just as Yu Sheng was wondering, Luna, who was floating in the air with Hu Li, suddenly came over.

“Yes, a clone,” Luna said in a low voice, while remaining wary of the “Great Sage’s” actions, “but something’s not right.”

"A clone?" Upon hearing this, Yu Sheng's eyes widened slightly, and he suddenly understood something. But before he could figure out what Luna meant by "not in a good state," the white-robed priest in the distance suddenly made a move.

He raised his hand toward Eileen, and in an instant, layers of lightning appeared behind him. The entire space seemed to be in a charging state, and even the rain falling in mid-air was sparking with countless tiny electric sparks. Hu Li's protective spiritual energy was also crackling from the electric field.

Eileen laughed when she saw this: "Hey! Still using this trick? You really don't learn your lesson?"

Before the words were even finished, the little puppet raised its hand and made a gesture, and dozens of spatial rifts instantly appeared on the open field. As the rifts rapidly unfolded and flipped, one after another mass-produced Eileen with a blank stare appeared on the battlefield.

The first thing the little puppets did after teleporting was to look up at the same time and fire an "Eileen Ray" at the "Great Sage" in mid-air, which then swept over a dense barrage of bullets.

At the same time, Eileen slapped Hu Li hard on the back: "Silly fox!"

Needless to say, Hu Li understood Eileen's meaning and immediately lowered his altitude and rushed towards the ground.

The "Great Sage" in mid-air immediately turned his gaze accordingly—dozens of tiny, scorching beams of light were not enough to pose a fatal threat to him, but only stirred up violent ripples in the air around him. His attention remained focused on the real Eileen, and as she rode the nine-tailed silver fox rapidly toward the ground, he suddenly waved his hand.

The thunder in mid-air... dissipated.

The place where the lightning last gathered was replaced by countless black cracks, large and small cracks covering the sky. The next moment, countless pale crystals poured out from the cracks and poured down on the earth like a torrential rain!
"What the hell?!"

Eileen looked up and was immediately dumbfounded—her original plan was to summon the mass-produced dolls and then "catch" them on the ground. She would then draw aggro and fly over the dolls' "territory," so that when the Great Sage unleashed a lightning strike, the summoned dolls would instantly be fully charged. Although it might not be as powerful as a Pro Max doll after being fully charged, a barrage of dozens of overload rays should be enough to kill the Great Sage...

Her battle plan was quite perfect.

However, the torrential downpour of crystal clusters disrupted everything.

Crystals rained down like meteorites, and the nine-tailed silver fox weaved through the storm of crystals. Clusters of crystals continuously struck the fox's protective aura, causing a series of explosions, while scattered crystal fragments pelted the earth. The mass-produced puppets that had just been summoned were instantly thrown into chaos, running wildly across the wilderness. Unable to escape the attacks from the sky, they all activated their return commands and vanished back into the valley.

"Holy crap, this isn't right!" Eileen exclaimed in a panic as she watched her mass-produced "army" dwindle in number. "Where did this crystal come from...? Isn't that thing electric?!"

Yu Sheng was no less shocked than Eileen. He looked up and saw the "Great Sage" in white robes still summoning the strange "Crystal Rift." The crystal clusters bombarded by the enemy were piling up on the wilderness, and crystals of all sizes were emerging from the cracks in the ground, as if in response to something, rapidly growing from the rocks and soil. This scene... was so similar to what happened on Garrison-3!

Hu Li let out a low growl. She finally seized the opportunity, found a gap in the dense barrage of crystal bullets, and then suddenly twisted her body, sending several tails flying out with a roar.

The fox tail, trailing a long flame, lunged straight at the "Great Sage" in mid-air. The latter neither dodged nor avoided it, seemingly unconcerned about life or death, and took the bombardment head-on.

With several thunderous roars that shattered the clouds, the foxfire exploded into a dazzling fireball in the sky. After the fireball dissipated, the shadow of the white-robed priest faintly appeared in the smoke.

There are hardly any "white coats" left.

His body was almost blown to pieces, yet no blood flowed from the ripped remains—more than a dozen large and small fragments of his limbs floated in mid-air, their cross-sections gleaming with a crystal-like luster. This horrifying shell drifted in the wind and rain, and then all the fragments twitched and writhed, becoming even more swollen and bizarre. Countless tiny crystal "branches" extended from those cross-sections, connecting the fragments, seemingly trying to reassemble into a whole…

Now everyone knows what Luna meant by the "something was wrong" she felt earlier.

"Holy crap, the ancestor of all puppets! This thing has already been eaten..." Eileen's eyes widened. "Weren't they all in cahoots!?"

"Who do you think he's with? The controlled 'Yun Qingzi'? Or the 'Yanxingti' behind Yun Qingzi?" Yu Sheng calmed down at this point. When he actually saw the white-robed priest turn into a pile of mutated crystals, he was no longer surprised, but only felt a sense of expected regret. "Welding detonators and sawing light bulbs is like this. From the beginning, I felt that these cultists would mess things up sooner or later—and when they mess up, someone else will have to clean up the mess."

As they spoke, the "Great Sage" in the air slowly turned his head. A pair of cold eyes were embedded in his shattered head. Despite the damage to his body, those eyes were still fixed on Eileen. His crystallized brain was exposed to the air, and a certain implanted component in the brain was flashing rapidly, as if filled with resentment.

Eileen felt a chill run down her spine under his gaze and instinctively shrank into Yu Sheng's arms: "What's wrong? You're already in such a state, why are you still so resentful..."

“I suspect that before this guy was devoured by the asteroid, his biggest resentment was being killed by a doll with a single finger—and he even added his own power to that finger,” Yu Sheng said casually. “Anyone would remember that for the rest of their life, and when they drank the Meng Po soup, they would kick Meng Po to the ground and nag her for two hours.”

Eileen: "...Who is Meng Po? You've met a new doll?"

Yu Sheng didn't speak, but Hu Li had already prepared for the next round of Fox Carrot missiles, and then fired another round into the sky without hesitation.

The already severely damaged "Great Sage," who had not yet had time to regenerate, was instantly blasted into countless fragments.

Pale crystalline substances, mixed with wind and rain, fell from the sky, gleaming eerily in the foxfire.

However, seeing this scene, Yu Sheng did not relax at all; on the contrary, he became even more vigilant.

Eileen, who was hiding in his arms, seemed to suddenly sense something. The little doll peeked out and looked at a certain spot in the wilderness.

She blinked, and the next instant, the ground in her line of sight suddenly rose up, followed by a deafening crash as rocks and soil shattered.

A large amount of crystalline material gushed out of the crack like a spring, and at the very center of the "spring," a familiar figure "emerged" out.

It was still that "Great Sage"—a Great Sage composed entirely of crystal matter.

"I knew this would happen..."

When Yu Sheng saw the "Great Sage" reappear, he sighed helplessly, clearly having expected it.

However, no sooner had he finished sighing than a second and a third "crystal fountain" appeared on the wilderness, accompanied by the teeth-grinding sounds of crystals rubbing, shattering, and reforming, and one "Great Sage" after another emerged from the crystal clusters.

Yu Sheng: "...?"

Eileen nudged his arm: "Did you guess this?"

Yu Sheng: "...This doesn't make sense! Back in Garrison-3, at least the Yun Qingzi regenerated one by one. How come in Garrison-3, all of these things are popping up at once?!"

“This is a dung monster,” Eileen sighed. “They don’t change the model, they secretly change the mechanics, and then they multiply the values ​​by ten and throw a pile of dung in your face… The worst part is that you don’t even get any good loot when you kill it.”

(End of this chapter)