Alien Hotel.

Chapter 532 Life is short
Yu Sheng was unsure of the origin of the "doll" that looked so much like Eileen—his first instinct was naturally that it was the "Goddess of Omens," but when the doll spoke, he definitely sensed Eileen's aura from it, and that sense of familiarity was unmistakable.

She might still be some kind of "hybrid," a hybrid dominated by the "Goddess of Omens" but without a complete personality. Considering the complex situation of the little doll, he decided not to pursue these details for the time being.

Realizing that the shadowy doll seemed somewhat dazed, Yu Sheng decided to follow up by asking, "What is a shelter?"

“A shelter…it’s just a shelter,” the doll said slowly, a stark contrast to its usual rapid-fire chatter. “They said I could build a city from the ashes, or something else, and civilization could continue for thousands of years. They said…as long as there is life, there is hope, even though the end will surely come…”

Yu Sheng was momentarily stunned: "They're making a symbol of 'ominous signs' bear the responsibility of continuing civilization?"

The doll stared at him intently for a long time before slowly lowering its head and staring motionlessly at the notebook: "Ominous signs are their fears, but also their perception and understanding of the world. They have no choice."

Yu Sheng paused for a moment, then tentatively asked, "There's something called 'Boundary Bridge'... do you remember it?"

The doll pondered slowly, and after a long while, it gently shook its head: "I don't remember."

"And what about the border area? There's also a blonde doll named 'Eileen'..."

"I don't remember either."

“That ‘Black Star’…”

It seems that no matter what you ask, the doll doesn't remember anything.

After trying several questions repeatedly, Yu Sheng realized that the doll, which looked very similar to Eileen, seemed to only remember an apocalypse that she herself could not understand, and a mission to calculate the "startup equation" for some kind of "sanctuary." She was endlessly looping through this task, forgetting everything else.

"Then what do you remember?" Yu Sheng couldn't help but ask.

The shadowy doll began to think sluggishly once again, its scarlet eyes flickering uncertainly in the darkness. Then, it finally made a move—the doll lowered its head and scribbled two words in a pencil on the notebook.

"Yu Sheng"

“Yu-sheng,” she said slowly, a slight smile appearing on her face in the hazy shadows, “If Yu-sheng comes home, everything will be alright.”

Yu Sheng: "...?"

He was momentarily stunned, then he saw the doll suddenly remember something and slowly continue writing in the notebook—

"Silly fox... When the weather gets cool, she'll become fluffy, with a C-shaped button, a sweeping robot. The sunshine is warm, and children will be noisy. The leaves are... green. The stream flows through the valley and into the dark forest. The wind... you can't catch the wind, but the wind will catch me."

She looked up and smiled happily, but just as Yu Sheng was momentarily distracted, the vivid and clear expression faded from the doll's face, and her face was once again shrouded in a hazy shadow, leaving only a pair of scarlet eyes gleaming in the darkness.

"Do you want to go over there?" She suddenly raised her hand and pointed to the door next to her that led to the laboratory.

"...What's on the other side of that door?" Yu Sheng's heart stirred, and he asked this question for some reason.

“The way home,” the doll said, looking into Yu Sheng’s eyes.

The aura reminiscent of Eileen was gradually fading from her.

Yu Sheng hesitated for a moment, then turned around and placed his hand on the gate—the gate opened silently.

"What you need to do next..."

He turned to look at the spot where the doll had been squatting, and stopped abruptly before he could finish speaking.

The place was empty; the doll had vanished without a trace—as if she had never existed in the first place.

Yu Sheng stood there for two seconds, his brows furrowed as he pondered many questions, before finally turning and walking into the hall.

It was still the familiar "Black Dot Lab," but it was no longer the brightly lit place I remembered. A dim, veiled atmosphere enveloped the view. A pitch-black mass with an irregular shape floated in the center of the hall, constantly expanding and contracting in mid-air. Countless black spider silks extended from the mass, crisscrossing throughout the hall and forming a spider web that covered everything.

Beneath the dimness and cobwebs, countless human-shaped shadows, projections from the real world, swayed blindly in this dimensional gap, emitting various buzzing noises that resonated with each other, as if trying to drill into one's brain.

Those were the voices of the astrophysicians' thoughts—deviant knowledge roared and trembled in their thinking, impacting the fragile boundaries of reality here, wanting to materialize in the observable universe.

But one shadow is special.

The shadow stood beside the dark mass in the center of the hall, appearing tall and slender. It was more solid than all the surrounding phantoms, and even shone with a certain... strong sense of presence in its innate spiritual intuition.

It made no noise, but was purely listening and thinking, as if communicating with the dark mass. Yu Sheng saw wisps of black spider silk extending from the dark mass, wrapped around the tall, slender figure, and a blurry little shadow lying on the back of the tall figure, like a ghost haunting the latter's head, poking the other's head with its finger while swaying left and right and making many uncivilized noises.

Many people's immediate family members rose into the sky amidst those whispers, blooming brilliantly before scattering like fireworks.

Yu Sheng was completely stunned, feeling caught off guard by the sudden change in atmosphere. Before he could react, he saw the blurry, phantom-like shadow abruptly turn its head towards him—almost instantly, the shadow solidified, and then let out a happy and surprised sound: "Hey—Yu Sheng?!"

The next second, the little creature jumped off the tall figure's shoulder and scrambled quickly towards Yu Sheng along a few spider webs, using both hands and feet. When it was halfway there, still two or three meters away, it suddenly pounced like a short, stout pounce: "Yu Sheng~ You're finally alive! You've been dead for so long this time..."

Yu Sheng felt something hit his chest solidly, followed by a dizzying spin. A bone-chilling cold and a churning vertigo suddenly struck him, as if he had been thrown into a whirlpool in the icy ocean for three hours and then flung into the stratosphere to begin freefall. He felt like he was going to die again on the spot—and this feeling was not unfamiliar to him.

It's called "sudden awakening," Eileen's unique waking technique.

The next second, the dim dimension covered by the spider web collapsed silently, and the vivid colors and sounds of the real world surged in like a tide. Yu Sheng swayed, and the colorful snowflakes in front of him quickly turned into a clear view.

A somewhat familiar, beautiful blonde elf sister was standing not far away, staring in disbelief at the scene—several metal limbs were attached to her back, and wheel-shaped mechanical limbs were attached to the hem of her skirt.

A large group of clearly frightened technicians and elite combatants who looked like guards stood nearby.

Yu Sheng took a moment to process what it was all about and finally remembered the familiar feeling the blonde elf opposite him gave him—it was the elf girl Yu Lao he had seen a long time ago when he was testing his door-opening ability!

She actually showed up here?!
Before Yu Sheng could even process what was happening, the blonde elf opposite him clearly recognized the intruder. Her eyes widened instantly, and she gasped sharply, pointing a finger at Yu Sheng, almost gritting her teeth as she uttered each word: "How the hell is it you again?! How the hell did you get in here?!"

"Look at the mess I've made," Yu Sheng was still reeling from his sudden awakening, feeling completely dizzy. He could only wave his hands and try to maintain his balance, saying things without thinking, "If I had known it was you on the other side, why would I have bothered with all that effort..."

Before he could finish speaking, the security personnel swarmed him—the people in the lab didn't remember killing this intruder once before, but clearly this mysterious individual who had suddenly appeared in the core area was a huge threat to the lab.

Long guns and short cannons were immediately pointed at Yu Sheng's face.

"Capture him alive!" the golden-haired elf shouted quickly.

An intruder who can repeatedly "break into" her secret stronghold cannot be killed in a muddled way—this is definitely a rare research subject!

“You know what, you really have to believe it,” Yu Sheng couldn’t help but laugh when he heard the other party say that, “This time it’s feasible…”

But the next moment, he opened a door beside him and pulled out a spiked club that looked like it was full of justice and reason.

“Unfortunately, I have to go back first because of some business,” he grinned and strode forward. “Don’t worry, everything will be quick—we’ll see each other again.”

Under the astonished gazes of the security personnel and the blonde elf, the intruder seemed to ignore the deadly weapon threats around him. After a few careless steps, the man carrying the strange and ferocious weapon suddenly pushed off the ground and leaped into the air, heading straight for the Zolda Black Stone in the center of the laboratory.

It appeared out of thin air, moved at incredible speed, and possessed immense power, even pounding a deep crater into the reinforced alloy floor of the laboratory—it wasn't human!
The soldiers made a quick decision; they had originally intended to capture the intruders using non-lethal methods, but instead, they decisively pulled the trigger.

Yu Sheng's idea was very simple.

He knew he couldn't possibly reach the blond elf or the "black stone" under such tight protection; at least, he couldn't get there alive.

But the distance isn't far, so he can just go all out.

Anyway, there's no harm in trying to overpower them—death will take its toll.

The God of War leaps.

Ares sleeps.

“Eileen…” A voice rang out across the vast expanse of time and space in the mental connection.

"What are you doing?"

Life is so short.

"...Huh?! Yu Sheng, how the hell did you die again? You were just alive two minutes ago!"

"..."

(End of this chapter)