Alien Hotel.

Chapter 529 The Gradually Deviant Trajectory

With a strange howl, the spatial passage suddenly collapsed and shattered, and the last few strands of spider silk broke apart out of thin air. Eileen rolled several times on the ground until Luna picked her up casually.

The pungent smell of high-energy weapons burning the air lingered in the thin mist. The last flash of light as Yu Sheng rode his fox tail into the passage seemed to still be reflected in his retina. The fox girl in her great fox form looked at the thick fog that was gathering again across the street, suddenly sniffed, scratched the ground with her front paws, and shook her head, which was as big as a tricycle: "My benefactor has successfully infiltrated the enemy's ranks!"

"I wonder if she'll be back for dinner tonight..." Eileen muttered to herself as she was being swung around in mid-air. Suddenly, she looked up at Luna and said, "C-ring, put me down!"

Zheng Zhi was still in a daze. The information he had just received in that last moment was overwhelming. He stared blankly into the distance for several seconds before snapping out of it and turning to Eileen: "Brother Yu, are you alright?"

Eileen frowned, crossed her arms, stood on the ground for a while to sense the situation, then waved her hand reassuringly: "It's alright, it's just barely hanging on right now."

Zheng Zhi was stunned for a moment, and looked up at the others, but before he could speak, he heard Hu Li sigh: "You'll get used to it, that's just how she is in terms of education."

Zheng Zhi: "..."

……

Actually, Eileen wasn't wrong.

Yu Sheng was indeed not dead for a short period of time after passing through the passage.

Inside an on-orbit laboratory located in some distant deep space, fully armed security forces are on high alert.

The air was thick with the acrid smell of burning, and the purification system was working hard to expel the toxic fumes from the hall. The alarming warnings of various equipment malfunctions were terrifying, and sparks were still flying from the pipes around the research platform. Smoke rose from the wreckage of the fissure generator.

The soldiers surrounded the intruder flying in from the other side of the rift—a huge, furry fox tail, steaming hot, was curled up in a pile of equipment wreckage next to the anti-gravity platform, the tail itself rapidly disintegrating in the air, while the man, riddled with over a hundred bullets, leaned against a twisted, deformed piece of steel, blood flowing everywhere.

The next second, the "corpse" suddenly twitched.

Under the horrified gaze of the commander at the black spot, Yu Sheng propped himself up on a piece of steel plate beside him. He shook his somewhat lifeless body and looked down at the dissipating fox tail—in order to prolong Yu Sheng's stay "here" as much as possible, the fox tail did not explode after being shot into the laboratory, but instead used its last bit of spiritual power to form a barrier, helping Yu Sheng block the most fatal shots.

...Of course, the other hundred or so shots that weren't blocked were also quite deadly, but those were minor issues.

Yu Sheng raised his head, looked at the soldiers of the Black Dot Group in front of him, and grinned with an extremely enthusiastic dying smile. He seemed not to see the long guns and cannons pointed at him, and stepped forward to shake hands with them: "Thank you for your hard work, everyone. You did a great job just now... Hey, don't panic, don't panic, I'll be leaving in a bit..."

Yu Sheng's attitude was exceptionally good. Considering the impressive scale of his arrival and the considerable damage caused to the surrounding area, his words of thanks to the Black Dot soldiers were genuinely heartfelt. He didn't know anything about the customs in Algered, but he figured this was a form of end-of-life care—of course, he shouldn't ask who was dying.

The next second, the encirclement around him instantly retreated. Even the Black Dot soldiers, who had exceptionally strong mental fortitude and didn't care about their own or others' lives, were completely stunned. Only the commander on the scene had a stronger mental fortitude. Seeing this bizarre scene, he quickly reacted. After realizing that this strange intruder might be an extremely valuable "research sample," he immediately shouted, "Take him alive!"

Yu Sheng shrugged: "That's a bit difficult."

Then Ga died.

The surrounding soldiers had already rushed forward, but halfway through, they saw the intruder fall backward, and were instantly stunned for the second time. They looked at each other, not knowing what to do next. In the end, all eyes fell on the commander on the scene.

The commander was also stunned at this moment. He couldn't see what expression was under the visor through the full-coverage helmet. After two or three seconds, he waved his hand and said, "...Check it out."

So one of the soldiers on the black dot mustered his courage and approached Yu Sheng. He carefully avoided the fox tail that was almost completely gone, poked the intruder's body with the muzzle of his gun, and then squatted down to examine it carefully before looking up and reporting, "Sir, the intruder is dead."

The commander pursed his lips tightly behind his mask.

It does appear to be dead—but the problem is that the intruder should have been dead the moment it landed.

The piercing alarm of the equipment stopped him from thinking any further. Commander Black Dot looked up at the current state of the laboratory—the rift generator in the corner of the hall had been destroyed, and some of the equipment directly connected to the central research platform had also suffered considerable damage during the forced "disconnection" process. In addition, the group of... monsters on the other side of the passage had indiscriminately fired and destroyed things when the rift opened, leaving the entire laboratory in a complete mess.

The only good news was that the core area of ​​the laboratory was covered by a powerful force field shield and had not been damaged in the battle just now. The barrier device used to restrain "Black Stone" also did not appear to have stopped functioning—otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable. For a brief moment just now, he even considered detonating the nuclear bomb buried beneath the laboratory.

The fusion bomb is a primitive and inexpensive weapon, but it has always performed reliably in "emergency shutdown" of out-of-control laboratories.

"Clean this place up, send the bodies to the medical bay and let the experts there take a look," the commander sighed and calmly gave the orders. "Also, notify the engineering department and have them come over and fix these annoying alarms as soon as possible... Where are the researchers who were just evacuated? Let them know that the lab is safe."

The soldiers immediately began to carry out the orders. Two of them quickly found a stretcher and a body bag and skillfully collected the intruder's body. One of them checked the body bag again as he zipped it up, muttering to himself in confusion, "...His heart has evaporated. How was this guy able to stand up and talk just now?"

“I don’t know, but it’s best not to be too curious,” another person said in a low voice, his tone cautious. “There are plenty of things in this world that look like people but are indescribable in their nature—curiosity is what leads them to the door of the material world. This kind of thing should be left to more specialized scientists.”

“Sir,” another soldier approached the black dot commander at the scene, saluted, and said in a serious tone, “'The boss' already knows about what happened here. She’s on her way from 'Weaving Constellation' and will be here soon.”

“I understand,” the commander sighed, clearly not in a good mood. “Go and prepare for the reception.”

Experimental accidents kept happening one after another, and this time a strange invading creature broke in. Although he, as a "non-technical person," was not responsible for the malfunction of the rift generator, the "invader" was clearly the biggest problem now.

...Maybe it would have been better to just detonate the nuclear bomb?

……

At the same time, in the depths of the alien land, in the "dark alley" of Jiecheng.

A fully armed deep-sea diving team and several technicians are carefully handling the "silver-white device" standing at the crossroads.

In the alley under the twilight, strands of black cobwebs still crisscrossed and covered the buildings, but compared with the situation previously reported by the "inn", the cobweb infestation here had obviously subsided a lot.

Since the rift that opened at the dark alley intersection was forcibly closed last time, the "spider webs" that had invaded here seem to have been affected to some extent. Most of the spider webs that had blocked the intersection have now disappeared—good news for the Secret Service agents who accepted this mission.

The technical experts are carefully disassembling the outer shell of the silver-white cylinder.

They still can't determine what the device is, nor do they know what the Black Dot Group's tech fanatics were thinking when they "teleported" it to this alien world—it could be a beacon, a container for spreading contamination, or even just a test subject before a larger-scale "invasion." In any case, its arrival must signify a conspiracy in the making.

Black Dot Group possesses a plethora of cutting-edge technologies, but these tech fanatics are even more famous for their ruthless methods in achieving their goals than for those technologies themselves.

The complex locking device was finally safely disengaged, and a gap was opened in the equipment casing made of an unknown alloy. A protective plate was carefully removed by the technicians.

Two deep-sea divers approached the device, using the protective force field of their power armor to shield the engineers who were carrying out the dismantling operation, while curiously peering into the container.

Inside were complex pipes and a cage-like structure that resembled a restraint, inside which was an unremarkable silver-white cylindrical object.

An engineer stared at the thing for a while, then suddenly uttered a questioning sound: "Hmm?"

The diver next to him immediately asked, "Can you tell what this is?"

“…If I’m not mistaken,” the engineer scratched his head, “it looks like a bomb.”

The moment those words were spoken, a collective gasp filled the air. The protective force fields of the deep-sea divers instantly went up to maximum, and they prepared to drag the nearest technical expert away. But the engineer waved his hand the next second: "Don't panic, don't panic, it won't explode—if it were going to explode, it would have already. Let me take another look..."

As he spoke, he leaned closer to examine it carefully, and suddenly clapped his hands: "Oh! It's a KK-I fusion bomb."

(End of this chapter)