Alien Hotel.

Chapter 519 Even Baili Qing Has Her Moments of Confusion

Everything happened in a very short time. From the moment the rift opened to the bewildered people at both ends, to the enemy opening fire, to the collapse of the passage, Luna crossed the entire battlefield in the blink of an eye and captured one of the enemy. The whole process only took a few dozen seconds. When Luna threw the "prisoner" on the ground, Zheng Zhi, who was standing next to her, was still a little confused.

Then the whole alley became quiet.

Only the strange, silver-white device remained at the intersection, still buzzing. A significant portion of the spiderwebs that had covered the area had been torn and dissolved during the previous turbulence of the cracks, and the remaining spider silk was haphazardly draped near the intersection, seemingly unlikely to regenerate anytime soon.

Yu Sheng looked down at the unconscious armed man in front of him, his lips twitched, and he looked up at Luna: "...Well done."

Luna gracefully lifted her nun's skirt, bowed slightly, and stepped aside.

Hu Li cautiously approached, squatted down in front of the prisoner, poked him, and looked up at Yu Sheng: "My benefactor, you're still alive."

Eileen, swinging her two arms that were already cracked again and almost broken, said, "Silly fox, your punctuation is really problematic, I'm telling you."

"Don't fling it, it'll fall off again," Yu Sheng raised his hand to support the little one on his shoulder, then sighed again, "I'll fix it for you when we get back... Sigh, how could you possibly be carried like this..."

The king suddenly jumped onto Zheng Zhi's shoulder, stretched its head to observe the situation at each fork in the road, and asked with a serious expression, "Can you still see anything that's not right now?"

“I think… I can’t see it anymore,” Zheng Zhi hesitated for a moment, muttering as he looked around. “The main thing is that I’m often not sure if what I see is right or wrong. I don’t even know what a normal person should see at this time. Anyway, right now all I see is an intersection, a spider web, and several side streets with alleys that are pretty much the same as this side—and a cat hanging in the air.”

“That’s all right now, that’s all we saw,” Little Red Riding Hood breathed a sigh of relief, then turned to look at Yu Sheng. “So what do we do next? There were too many unexpected situations this time…”

“Withdraw. We’ve already gotten enough today,” Yu Sheng said immediately. “You guys go back to No. 66 Wutong Road. Luna and I will take this… prisoner directly to the Special Operations Bureau.”

As he spoke, he opened a door, and across the door was the living room of No. 66 Wutong Road.

"Hey, what about me?" Eileen immediately exclaimed, "My arm is injured again!"

“You and Huli go home and wait,” Yu Sheng grabbed the little doll off his shoulder and threw it into Huli’s arms. “I’ll fix it for you when I’m done with this. If you don’t have enough people to play games, just get a mass-produced doll from the valley to use for now.”

Eileen rolled over in Hu Li's arms, peeking her head out: "Oh, then come back soon! I've grown attached to this body..."

Yu Sheng waved his hand and watched as the other mermaids passed through the gate leading to No. 66 Wutong Road. After everyone had left, he breathed a sigh of relief, then opened another door and nodded slightly to Luna, who was still by his side.

At the same time, in the director's office of the Secret Service headquarters, Baili Qing was calling Song Cheng over to arrange for him to investigate the strange device in the alley. Suddenly, she seemed to sense something and looked up at the empty space in front of her desk.

A phantom door had opened out of thin air, and Yu Sheng poked his head in, glancing over with a smile: "I ran into a bit of trouble here, so I grabbed someone... Hey, Captain Song's here too?"

As she spoke, Luna, dressed as a nun, walked out of the door, carrying a prisoner in combat gear who had been disarmed. She threw him onto the office floor with a thud.

Just a moment ago, Song Cheng was exchanging information with the bureau chief, but now he was completely stunned. He turned his head to look at the armed men of unknown origin who were thrown on the ground, and then looked up at Luna's ever-present smiling face, his face full of question marks.

Baili Qing stood up from behind her desk. Even with her usually impassive expression, she was a little confused. She glanced at the person on the ground, then looked at Yu Sheng, who had already pushed the door open and walked in. After hesitating for less than two seconds, she asked, "What's going on?"

“We got into a fight at the crossroads at the end of the ‘dark alley’,” Yu Sheng explained. “Didn’t I send you some photos? Right opposite that silver-white device in the photos, a passage suddenly appeared out of thin air… I suspect it’s someone from the Black Dot Group…”

He then briefly recounted what had happened in the alley to Baili Qing and Song Cheng, and finally pointed to the prisoners on the ground: "This was captured by Luna by jumping to the other side before the passage collapsed. It's a local specialty."

Upon hearing Yu Sheng's account, Song Cheng's expression changed immediately. He didn't even care whether the word "local specialty" was appropriate in this context. Instead, he quickly exchanged a glance with Baili Qing and then rushed to Yu Sheng's side like a gust of wind, bending down to examine the prisoner's condition.

After quickly examining the equipment and insignia on the other person, he looked up at Baili Qing with a serious expression: "...They are soldiers from the Black Dot Group. Judging from their equipment and badges, they should be deployed on the mainland to carry out security missions."

Yu Sheng instantly noticed the key phrase in the other person's words: "...deployed on the home front?"

He looked at Baili Qing, only to see that the female director's expression was rather subtle. She opened her mouth, but after a long pause, she couldn't say anything. Then she took a deep breath and turned to Song Cheng, instructing him: "Immediately arrange for a team of deep-sea divers to enter the 'dark alley' and find out what that 'device' is—bring it back if you can, and if you can't move it, set up observation facilities on the spot... Also, considering that armed personnel were spotted at the scene, don't forget to remind the operatives to prepare for combat."

"Yes, Director." Song Cheng immediately nodded in acceptance and then quickly left the office.

Bai Liqing then picked up the phone on her desk and gave a few instructions. Moments later, several fully armed Special Operations agents and medical personnel rushed over. "Get him to the medical center first," Bai Liqing instructed, pointing to the Black Dot Group soldier who was still in a deep coma on the ground. "Don't let him die—once his condition stabilizes, put him in cell number one, and I'll interrogate him personally. Be careful; he might be very aggressive when he wakes up."

After arranging and handling everything, Baili Qing breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at Yu Sheng.

"...Tell me about that 'passage' in detail, and what the 'laboratory' on the other side of the passage looks like."

Yu Sheng nodded, then casually pulled up a chair and sat down opposite Baili Qing. But just as he was about to speak, Luna suddenly blurted out, "I have a record."

As she spoke, she raised her hands in front of Yu Sheng, placing them overlapping in mid-air with her palms facing upwards. After a moment's delay, a shimmering light screen appeared a dozen centimeters above her palms and quickly transformed into a clear holographic projection.

Yu Sheng was taken aback: "...You have this trick up your sleeve?"

“Yes, we always have,” Luna stammered, nodding, “but we’ve never used it.”

"Oh, that's great!" Yu Sheng immediately beamed with joy. "From now on, you can be the battlefield recorder..."

Luna glanced at Yu Sheng, opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something but then stopped, and in the end said nothing.

Miss Saintess secretly keeps a lot of notes...

Bai Liqing's attention quickly turned to the images Luna had recorded.

Her brows furrowed slightly.

"Stop for a moment," she suddenly said.

The holographic projection paused, freezing on the moment the passage had just opened, with the researchers and armed personnel on the other side staring in disbelief at this side.

Baili Qing and Yu Sheng exchanged a glance.

A pair of enormous eyes appeared in the air beside them, and Baili Xue's eerie voice came from nowhere: "It seems the people on the other side are even more surprised than you are."

"Good evening," Yu Sheng greeted Baili Xue, then nodded. "Yes, I noticed it too. The people on the other side didn't seem to expect the passage to open suddenly either. We were both stunned for a second or two."

"Was it that you didn't expect the passage to open, or that you didn't expect what would happen after the passage opened?" Baili Xue said slowly. "These are two completely different questions."

Yu Sheng frowned: "You mean..."

“The opposite side does indeed look like some kind of research facility, and with a large number of technicians active on site, what you are seeing is most likely some kind of experimental site,” Baili Qing spoke this time. The female director clearly already had some guesses. “The passage that appeared in the ‘dark alley’ might be some kind of test, some kind of… teleportation device, or something similar.”

Yu Sheng thought for a moment: "A teleportation device that leads directly to another world? A wildly advanced version of 'umbilical cord' technology?"

“…It’s hard to say, but theoretically, such a thing shouldn’t exist. The rules for entering and leaving other realms are very strict,” Baili Qing said, glancing at Yu Sheng—it seemed that everyone who knew Yu Sheng would have this subtle, slightly annoyed reaction when talking about the “strict rules for entering and leaving other realms”—before continuing, she forced herself to speak, “Even the ‘umbilical cord’ technology works under the premise of following the rules of other realms. It just uses safer technical means to simulate the conditions for explorers to enter and leave other realms. As for the ‘passage’ you see…such a large-scale and stable rift is a completely different level of technological product.”

She shook her head, then asked Luna to continue playing the video, paused it a few seconds later, and pointed to the center of the screen.

"The key is this, this black object floating on the central platform of the laboratory—it seems to be the 'core' of the entire laboratory, and you can clearly see that the surrounding equipment is all running around this platform."

Yu Sheng stroked his chin; he had, of course, noticed that thing as well.

He noticed it the instant the passage opened.

His brow furrowed slightly: "So... what exactly is this thing?"

(End of this chapter)