Alien Hotel.

Chapter 539 Something big happened
Led by Baili Qing, Yu Sheng and Eileen boarded a giant "elevator" they had never seen before—the elevator's "carriage" was almost a spacious hall, and its entrance was located in a mural hanging in the corridor near the director's office.

Upon entering the elevator, Yu Sheng discovered that the absurdly large car was surrounded by twelve extremely wide doors, and inside the car stood dozens of Special Operations Bureau soldiers wearing light armor and several Deep Sea Operators wearing heavy power armor—all fully armed, with each Deep Sea Operator even followed by two walking tactical robots.

As soon as Luo entered the elevator, she became visibly nervous. Her mechanical limbs retracted into her body, and the wheel-like legs on her lower body turned into legs. She even tried to lower her head to reduce her presence, as if she wanted to find a place to hide. However, there was only a group of mass-produced Irene dolls around her, each 66.6cm tall. Standing among the dolls, she, with her blonde hair and silver dress, was 1.7 meters tall... a crane among chickens.

"You're being a bit embarrassing," Eileen said bluntly, looking up at the awkwardly dressed "black-spotted warlord." "He's supposed to be the villainous boss, after all!"

"I'm a scientist! Not a combatant!" Luo hurriedly explained, then quickly lowered his voice, "And who said I'm the villain? In my opinion, you guys are the ones who are more suspicious..."

“But if that expressionless guy calls you a ‘black mark warlord,’” Eileen said, tilting her head back with an air of self-righteousness, “that sounds like a bad guy.”

“What’s this ‘Black Dot Warlord’ nickname? That’s a name those barbarians outside made up to slander us,” Luo frowned deeply. “The Black Dot Group has strict job titles and divisions of responsibilities. I’m first and foremost an S-level scientist and engineer, secondly a regional manager, and I also possess…”

"Quiet down," Baili Qing suddenly interrupted the blonde elf's rambling, "You're usually so sparing with words when you contact me."

"Who told you to kidnap me..." Luo started to say subconsciously, but then shrugged, "Okay, I won't say anything more."

The entire "hall" trembled slightly.

Faint sounds of gunfire could be heard coming from outside one of the nearby doors.

Everyone's expression instantly turned serious. Fully armed Secret Service soldiers and deep-sea divers immediately gripped their weapons and stood ready near the elevator doors.

After a brief delay, the door slowly opened.

The sounds of gunfire outside suddenly became much clearer, but they still sounded a bit distant.

"Walking robots, move forward." A deep-sea diver ordered in a deep voice. Several walking robots equipped with high-powered shield devices immediately took the lead in leaving the elevator car and stepping into the outside corridor. Then, the other soldiers moved quickly out of the elevator under the cover of the walking robot shields.

Yu Sheng heard several suppressed gasps of surprise.

He followed the Secret Service soldiers outside, looking at the scene with some surprise.

A vast, dark, and chaotic space came into view—the corridor stretched out crookedly forward, the walls on both sides and the roof above appearing as if they had been blown apart, the torn fragments floating as if weightless. Beyond its boundaries were rooms, corridors, and halls with a style completely different from the Secret Service building, and a massive architectural structure floating like a phantom at a distant intersection. The crisscrossing illusions moved slowly at those intersections, with structures constantly materializing and others fading and disappearing like shadows.

“I guess your customs floor wasn’t originally designed like this,” he hesitated, glancing back at Baili Qing behind him. “Does this office space have some of the characteristics of the subspace…”

Baili Qing remained silent for a moment, staring into the distance with a somber expression.

Between the broken, floating corridor structures, the first batch of Secret Service soldiers were engaging the distant enemy behind makeshift firing positions. The flashes from their guns illuminated the eerie darkness around them, and streaks of fire crisscrossed the shattered space, intercepting the phantom-like enemies that kept emerging from the "intersection."

Immediately afterwards, Baili Qing and Yu Sheng, who were also looking up at the distance, both widened their eyes.

They saw another force fighting in the broken area ahead of the corridor, fighting alongside Secret Service soldiers against enemies emerging from the intersection—despite the smoke and dim lighting, Yu Sheng immediately recognized it as Black Dot Group's security force!

There was no way around it; the equipment looked too familiar to him, after all, they were sworn brothers.

"Hey! Your soldiers are fighting alongside those little black soldiers!" Eileen jumped up immediately, pointed into the distance, and shouted to Baili Qing, "They've teamed up! They've teamed up!"

Baili Qing ignored the little doll jumping around and walked quickly forward. Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment behind her, and then quickly followed.

On the way, he realized he hadn't been mistaken—there were indeed several black dot combat teams fighting alongside Secret Service soldiers in the distance. Although they didn't seem to be "fighting side by side" and there wasn't much coordination or understanding between them, at least their guns were all pointed in the same direction, fighting the same enemy.

"What's going on?" Baili Qing quickly arrived near a bunker and asked an operator on the scene, "What's with these black dot units?" "Chief!" The soldier being questioned was startled to see the chief himself, but quickly recovered and saluted. "I...we don't know what happened either. Just now, the entire floor experienced a spacetime disintegration, and then those Alglade people ran out of the spatial rift—we fired a few shots, but they shouted something like 'For the sake of being humanoids,' and 'They're charging at us,' and then turned their guns on the things that followed them out of the rift..."

As they spoke, another explosion boomed in the distance, this time accompanied by the piercing shriek of plasma clusters—the deep-sea squad that came to their aid used heavy firepower, with plasma shoulder cannons that required heavy power armor to operate firing in succession, projecting clusters of blinding blue light into the hazy, intersecting "intersection" area at the end of the corridor.

The heatwave was intense, and the distorted, bizarre shapes that looked like a fusion of humans and various deformed creatures were instantly enveloped by the spreading plasma cloud and evaporated completely.

But the point of intersection only trembled slightly, and as more bizarre spatial structures unfolded in the floors, even more strange creatures rushed out of the rift once more.

A series of heavy footsteps came from behind; support troops from other floors had arrived at the scene. Yu Sheng heard a familiar voice nearby:

"Holy crap! I finally got two days off!"

"Boss, stop talking, the chief is right next to you..."

Yu Sheng turned his head and saw Xu Jiali, who was setting up a walking tactical robot and wearing power armor, and the cat-headed girl next to her.

“Don’t worry about me, carry out the combat mission,” Baili Qing glanced at the support troops with her pale gray eyes and nodded slightly. “The technical department is trying to close the spatial rift on this floor. They need time to analyze the fluctuation patterns of the rift—buy them some time.”

"Yes!"

“We need to figure out what’s going on on the other side,” Yu Sheng said, his brow furrowed as he looked at the strange enemies constantly emerging from the intersection. “Those black dot soldiers must know something.”

Baili Qing glanced at Luo, then turned and instructed the nearby combat team: "Have those few Algered people closest to the left front come over."

A Black Dots combat team that was firing at the other side from cover quickly retreated from the front—they looked somewhat bewildered and nervous. After all, they were now in Secret Service territory, and judging from the situation, these people had all hurriedly escaped from the other side of the rift. It was inevitable that they would be suspicious to be suddenly taken away by a group of Secret Service soldiers.

But these doubts quickly turned into confusion.

Because they saw their missing leader standing next to the Secret Service director.

"Boss?!" The leading soldier with the black dot on his uniform was completely startled. Even through his thick helmet, his astonished tone revealed his expression. "What are you doing here?!"

"It's a long story," Luo Yi waved her hand, refusing to explain (after all, she was too embarrassed to say in front of her subordinates that she had been tied up and brought here as a local specialty), "Now I need an explanation first—what's going on?"

"Yes, yes..." The soldier with the black dot hesitated for a moment, but still spoke after taking a deep breath, "Zolda Black Stone... is gone!"

Luo's expression changed instantly: "Huh?! You mean—it's gone!? Not out of control, not that the lab exploded, but...it's gone?!"

“Yes, yes! The situation was very chaotic at the time,” the Black Dot soldier said in a panic. “At first, we received the emergency code you sent. The nearest guard went to check the situation but found that you were not in the room. Then there was no signal response from you throughout the entire space station. The guard commander went to the laboratory and ordered the laboratory technicians to raise the suppression level of the Zolda Black Stone to 4 and stop the energy input to the Black Stone.

"These are all safety measures implemented in accordance with regulations, but those technicians... suddenly became very agitated. They were shouting that we had entered a critical stage and could not fail at the last minute, and refused to carry out orders... At first, only the technicians seemed agitated, but soon, the laboratory's security forces also gathered, shouting that they wanted to protect Black Stone, and surrounded the protective force field to confront us."

"The commander sensed something amiss and, following procedure, ordered all lab personnel who had come into contact with the Blackstone to immediately proceed to the quarantine zone for mental evaluation. Simultaneously, he called for backup from other defense units on the space station—but the order was barely given when all the defense units simultaneously mutinied. They destroyed all the shuttles and sealed off the lab, and then the security forces inside began firing at us. In the chaos, the commander activated the nuclear missile beneath the lab using the code you authorized, and then…"

The soldier suddenly hesitated, as if unsure how to continue. Seeing this, Luo sighed, "I know, the nuclear bomb didn't detonate..."

“No, it’s not just that,” the soldier shook his head. “I think we’ve angered that ‘stone.’”

"It 'disintegrated' right before our eyes, like evaporation. The black stone vanished from the tight protective force field, and then the entire laboratory space began to collapse. Centered on the anti-gravity platform, the entire space station began to rapidly disintegrate..."

(End of this chapter)