Alien Hotel.

Chapter 520 Hardcore Medical Zone

Luna used both hands to maintain the holographic projection in mid-air, while Yu Sheng and Baili Qing studied the strange object in the center of the projection together.

That thing was clearly the focus of the entire laboratory's work—it floated on the most conspicuous anti-gravity platform in the hall, tightly protected (or suppressed) by a circle of light blue light curtain. Countless advanced equipment and technicians were circling around the platform. Even when fierce conflicts broke out on both sides of the passage and Hu Li's fox-carrot missiles crashed into the passage, the technicians guarding the key equipment near the platform did not evacuate, seemingly ready to live and die with the equipment.

But the thing looked rather unremarkable. It was just an irregular black stone, like a piece of something broken off from a larger object. Its edges had a slightly obsidian-like texture. The whole piece was about the same height as Eileen, so it was quite inconspicuous when it floated in the force field.

Luna adjusted the holographic projection, zooming in on the image so that Yu Sheng and Baili Qing could see more details of the black fragments.

To be fair, Miss Saintess's resolution is quite high...

“There seem to be some patterns on this side of the surface, like some kind of relief or engraving,” Baili Qing noticed first. She frowned slightly and pointed to a detail in the black fragment. “Miss Luna, could you extract this part of the pattern separately?”

"can."

Luna nodded, and then the holographic projection floating above her palm suddenly flickered a few times. The scene in the laboratory disappeared, replaced by a brightly displayed pattern. She directly extracted and processed the texture on the surface of the black fragments she had photographed. With repeated visual enhancement, the processed pattern became clearer and clearer in the holographic projection.

Yu Sheng suddenly frowned, looking thoughtfully at the pattern projected by Luna, a strange sense of familiarity stirring in his heart.

"I feel like I've seen this thing somewhere before..."

Baili Qing and Baili Xue asked in unison, "You've seen it before?"

"Hmm... wait a minute, let me think," Yu Sheng nodded, then began frantically searching his memories, and soon he found the source of the familiarity, "Ah, I think I know what it is—"

The next second, he opened a small door next to him. As he could vaguely hear Eileen yelling "Silly fox, you've stolen some fermented bean paste again!" from the other side of the door, he quickly retrieved something from No. 66 Wutong Road.

It was a tattered piece of cloth, with complex and mysterious runes printed on its edges.

Yu Sheng unfolded the cloth and compared it with the pattern on the holographic projection. His eyes lit up immediately: "It really is this!"

Baili Qing recognized the piece of cloth in Yu Sheng's hand almost immediately. She raised her eyebrows and said, "I remember this is..."

“A fragment of the Ominous Banner!” Yu Sheng said quickly. “There’s another one at the Taixu Lingshu… The patterns on it should be some kind of symbolic representation related to the Goddess of Ominous Signs.”

Bai Liqing's expression didn't change much, but her eyes instantly became more solemn and serious. She looked at the holographic projection in Luna's hand and slowly said, "...So, the 'Black Dot Laboratory' on the other side of the passage is researching a 'sacred relic' related to the Goddess of Omens—then it seems they have more to offer than we imagined."

Yu Sheng nodded, then seemed to be deep in thought: "So, what about that suddenly opened passage? Is it related to their ongoing research?"

"Using the power of the Goddess of Ominous Signs to open a portal across dimensions?" Baili Xue's eyes drifted to Luna's alloy shell as she pondered and muttered, "But judging from the situation at the time, the process must have been somewhat out of control. Either they didn't expect the portal to open, or they didn't expect there to be someone on the other side. But then again, they still had the ability to forcibly close the portal in the end..."

Yu Sheng remained silent for a moment, still pondering the sudden opening of the passage. As he pondered, he seemed to have an epiphany, and the image of a noisy and clumsy little dwarf began to pop up in his mind.

Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw Baili Xue's eyes drift to Luna's face, blinking repeatedly over Luna's eyes...

“Baili Xue, can you go somewhere else?” Yu Sheng was immediately covered in cold sweat. “This looks a bit strange.”

Bai Liqing, who was standing next to her, immediately put on a stern face: "Stop fooling around, get down."

“Oh,” Baili Xue agreed, then slowly floated to the French windows not far away and continued, “Anyway, it seems that the Black Dot Group is obviously working on some new ‘black technology’ again. Although that thing looks unstable, they already have the ability to open the gate to the border area—although this time they opened the gate in a ‘dark alley,’ it’s possible that they can open the gate to other places. In fact, I even suspect that they have already established some secret passages in the border area, but this experimental accident exposed them…”

Bai Liqing frowned slightly, looking at her younger sister who was climbing around on the window: "What do you mean?"

“The special agent team that appeared at Jinglin Sanatorium,” Baili Xue said slowly, “such a team of outsiders, and fully armed—even if they are the famous Black Spot agents, it wouldn’t be so easy for them to infiltrate the border area. And we still don’t understand how they got in… But what if they dug a hole in the border area? Then the border barrier and the outposts in various parts of the border city would naturally not leave any trace.”

Bai Liqing's eyes sharpened. This was the first time Yu Sheng had seen such a change in the female director's eyes—not just her eyes, but he even suddenly sensed some indescribable... aura, intangible yet real "presence" emanating from her, slowly dissipating from her seemingly frail figure.

But this feeling was fleeting. The next second, Baili Qing returned to her usual aloof and indifferent demeanor. She simply took a breath and nodded slightly: "This guess is not without reason. It seems that we need to keep a close eye on everything in the near future."

Just then, footsteps suddenly came from the direction of the corridor, interrupting the conversation in the office.

A girl with short hair and wearing a skirt suit pushed open the door and hurriedly bowed to Baili Qing: "Director, our captain would like you to go to the medical area on the 77th floor. He said that the 'black spot soldier' ​​has woken up."

Then the short-haired girl looked up again and saw Yu Sheng standing in the office. Her eyes lit up immediately: "Hey! Teacher Yu?"

Oh no, it's that procrastinating scholar Ren Wenwen, who's been urging me to finish my manuscript!

Upon seeing the other person's bright, sparkling eyes, Yu Sheng immediately broke out in a cold sweat. He quickly gave a perfunctory reply and then called Baili Qing to leave: "Let's take care of the important matters first—go check on the situation of the captured prisoner."

Baili Qing seemed a little confused by Yu Sheng's reaction, but she nodded and walked out of the office, with Luna following closely behind.

Ren Wenwen certainly didn't dare block the director's way, but she still followed him to the door and saw him off, greeting him enthusiastically as she did so: "Teacher Yu, please let me know next time you come... I look forward to your new work!"

Walking down the corridor leading to the medical area, Yu Sheng couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from his forehead. Bai Liqing, who was next to him, seemed to understand at this moment, and turned her head to look at him expressionlessly: "Being popular is a good thing."

"The pressure is pretty high," Yu Sheng chuckled dryly, "especially since that girl's shipping of a couple is a bit weird..."

Bai Liqing paused slightly: "What is a CP?"

Yu Sheng: "..."

He glanced at Baili Qing, who looked to be in her early twenties, and realized that this director, who had been in charge of the Secret Service for a century and was usually very busy with work, didn't seem to know much about "young people."

This seems like a good thing.

Seeing that Yu Sheng didn't speak, Baili Qing didn't press him further. She just pondered for a moment and continued walking forward. After a few steps, she suddenly blurted out, "Actually, I've also read what you've written."

Yu Sheng's cold sweat, which had just subsided, suddenly broke out again.

“I can’t quite understand them… but they all seem to be very interesting stories,” Baili Qing said, seemingly oblivious to Yu Sheng’s momentary embarrassment. “I rarely have time to read, so I’m not very familiar with current novel trends, but the stories you write… seem quite lighthearted to me. But it seems like you haven’t written anything in a long time—have you been too busy lately?”

"Uh, I'm writing, I'm writing. I'll be almost done once Eileen returns the computer..."

Yu Sheng was sweating profusely, almost to his heels, and he didn't even know what he was saying—after all, he never expected that walking with Baili Qing would result in this expressionless woman urging him to update his work...

Moreover, he couldn't very well tell Baili Qing directly that the work he was currently working on after his masterpiece, New Folder (1), was called New Folder (2).

As they spoke, they had already passed through the corridor and then taken the Secret Service building's unique "magic elevator" through countless bizarre floors, finally arriving at the "medical area" in some unknown dimension.

The reason I say "I don't know which dimension they're in" is because as soon as Yu Sheng stepped out of the elevator, he saw two alien behemoths fighting in space outside the window of the medical corridor. These two sanity-destroying creatures were crashing against the shield on the side of the corridor—and then a security guard from the inpatient department dressed like an Astartes pushed open the door and sent both aliens flying...

"...Isn't the medical environment in your bureau a bit too hardcore?" Yu Sheng muttered to himself. "There are so many stable floors, why put it here?"

“There’s more than one medical area in the building,” Baili Qing said calmly. “This area is specifically for ‘external use’—its unique environment and treatment atmosphere can effectively improve patient cooperation.”

Yu Sheng opened his mouth, but after several seconds he managed to utter, "Then it seems you can sit at the same table as those doctors from Qianfeng Lingshan."

(End of this chapter)