Alien Hotel.

Chapter 542 The hostel emphasizes teamwork and contribution
Emerging from those "cocoons" were clearly employees of the Black Dot Group who originally worked on this space station—those "rebellious" defense forces and insane researchers—their original human outlines and clothing could still be vaguely discerned amidst the writhing, flowing, viscous shadows, and some shadows even had blurry human faces emerging from their head positions.

However, the characteristics of these "people" did not make them look any more friendly or approachable; on the contrary, they made them appear even more terrifying and eerie.

A tall figure emerged from the nearest "cocoon." It seemed to be the former security commander of the laboratory. He appeared to be faithfully carrying out his mission to protect the laboratory, directing the other shadows to attack Yu Sheng and his group. Under his command, the nearby "black dot soldiers" raised the guns that had been twisted and covered by shadows and pulled the triggers without hesitation towards their former master, Luo.

Their weapons appeared to have been completely corrupted and mutated by the shadows, transforming into something other than guns. However, once the trigger was pulled, those crooked weapons could actually fire bullets and beams—beams gleaming with an eerie crimson glow sliced ​​through the air, several of them almost grazing Luo's body, making his hair stand on end.

But the next second, she saw a large silver-white tail blocking her way. The tail blocked the deadly barrage of bullets, and the protective spiritual energy around it flickered violently a few times before suddenly bursting out with a blazing propulsion flame, whistling as it flew into the middle of the mutated "security forces," causing a violent explosion.

She looked up again and saw several fox tails flying in the air, raining down bullets on the other side.

Explosions, the whooshing of foxfire bullets, and the indistinct clicking sounds all rang out around Luo, leaving him completely bewildered.

"...Wait, what did that fox demon launch?!"

She finally snapped out of her shock, and while conjuring a fireball of spiritual energy to help fend off the shadows that kept emerging from the cocoon, she shouted at Yu Sheng.

"I haven't heard that phrase in a long time!" Yu Sheng chuckled upon hearing the voice behind him. He then raised his "battle stick" and smashed it down on the nearest enemy, instantly turning him into a zip file, with "mud" splattering everywhere as he fell to the ground.

But then Yu Sheng felt that something was wrong.

He felt... that the other person was "empty".

It wasn't a feeling; he genuinely felt that he had struck a physical entity. The feedback was even more solid than that of ordinary flesh and blood. The "hollowness" he felt came from the feedback transmitted through his blood.

The tetanus staff, soaked in Yu Sheng's own blood, acts like a kind of enchantment. In normal combat, this "battle staff" can continuously corrode enemies it comes into contact with, essentially turning them into "allies" after three hits—if they aren't killed. Even if the corrosion isn't complete, Yu Sheng can still establish a blood connection with his enemies through this "contact," allowing him to sense changes in their condition and even interfere with and predict their actions to some extent.

But when he struck down with the stick, all he heard from his blood was a hollow whooshing sound, as if... he had smashed an empty cardboard box.

The sound of whistling wind reached my ears.

An elegant and graceful figure swept across the battlefield like the wind, shielding Yu Sheng from a sneak attack from the side. Luna kicked away the enemy who was uttering a hoarse murmur, then spun around and leaped high into the air, her fingertips slicing down several times with sharp, razor-sharp strokes, cutting the surging "shadow mud" into several pieces in mid-air.

The enemy's remains fell to the ground with an eerie hissing sound, then melted into some kind of fluid, merging into the shadows flowing down from the central platform.

The dark void at the center of the laboratory trembled and expanded. A phantom spider leg emerged from above the void, its long leg blindly sweeping across the air. A viscous, shadowy substance dripped continuously from the end of the leg. New "cocoons" rapidly expanded from the spiderweb, and then, accompanied by devout and grateful prayers, one cocoon after another burst open. The annihilated enemies emerged again and continued their attack.

Luna suddenly stopped and turned to look at Yu Sheng.

"Master, we can't kill them all."

Yu Sheng found these words strange on the spot—so "problematic punctuation" is also part of the hostel's corporate culture?

At this moment, another large group of mass-produced dolls teleported over from the valley, rushing to the back of several abandoned pieces of equipment near the laboratory entrance. Using these "temporary shelters," they fired scorching rays at the enemies that kept emerging from the cocoons. Eileen, hiding behind Luo, shouted to Yu Sheng, "Hey, it feels like there are more and more of them!"

Before Yu Sheng could respond, Luo Ye shouted, "The more we fight, the more there are, that's not the problem—why are most of them attacking me?!"

Upon hearing this, Yu Sheng quickly glanced over out of the corner of his eye and saw Luo Zheng scrambling to the side in a disheveled state. More than a dozen dark red beams of light landed where she had just stood, burning large and small craters into the ground. Several beams of light also hit her body, but were blocked by a shimmering mental energy shield. Despite being blocked, the elf's face was noticeably paler.

The "scientist" with the black spots had a look of fear and anger on his face.

The shadows that kept resurrecting around her were actually mostly aimed at her.

As they were speaking, another explosion rang out, blasting away the enemies who were focusing their fire on Luo. But before the fireballs from the foxfire could dissipate, even more bullets and beams of light pierced through the smoke in the hall and rained down on Luo.

Luo let out a scream, his wheel-like mechanical legs practically smoking as he ran, yelling furiously, "You bastards! I'm your boss! I'm your boss!!"

"Long Ears, stop yelling!" Eileen screamed back, "Haven't you ever worked before?! If you were this kind of monster, holding a gun and not having to worry about the next day's attendance or KPIs, with your former boss standing right in front of you, wouldn't you shoot?! (gives middle finger)"

Yu Sheng swung his stick and smashed away an enemy who lunged at him. He then turned to look at the unlucky elf who was running around aimlessly: "Tell me honestly, have you ever offended any of your subordinates?"

"Shut up! I'm a good boss!" Luo Yi fired a mental fireball, blasting away a former lab researcher who lunged at him. "I never owe a penny of my salary!"

The next second, she awkwardly ducked to avoid the barrage of comments aimed at her. "The bonus I gave them is three times that of the other project teams!"

A black dot soldier was impaled by her mechanical limbs and pinned to the ground.

“I even gave them extra paid leave—twice the amount of vacation time!”

She screamed in a frenzy, only to be met with a barrage of criticism from her former employees.

Now almost all the monsters in the entire hall are focusing their attacks on her.

Even some of the enemies who were originally firing at Yu Sheng and Hu Li changed their targets.

“To be honest, you’ve been treated unfairly,” Yu Sheng said sincerely as he listened to Luo’s shouting. “I’m almost wondering if you’re still hiring.”

Luo gritted his teeth: "Well, I appreciate your understanding, but I'm about to be beaten to death!"

Yu Sheng: "So I suddenly had a plan—"

Luo: "...Huh?"

The elf only had time to utter an "Ah?" before seeing a large group of red-eyed dwarves suddenly jump out from behind nearby cover and rush towards him in a chaotic manner.

A surge of intense unease and the trauma of being kidnapped overwhelmed Luo instantly. She felt the hairs on her body stand on end and instinctively screamed, "What are you going to do...?"

The next second she was surrounded by those mass-produced dolls, and before she could even resist, the red-eyed dwarfs were crawling all over her—some grabbed her legs, some grabbed her arms, some hugged and gnawed on her mechanical limbs, some pulled her hair, grabbed her ears, bit her fingers, and pulled her skirt, and some even found no room and just grabbed a piece of flesh and twisted it to hang on her...

The familiar feeling returned, and the unfortunate elf began to struggle frantically: "Let go..."

Eileen pounced on her, shoving a Nightmare Star into her mouth, nearly knocking out her teeth.

Then the mass-produced dolls, carrying elves with expressions that screamed, "What the hell did I do to offend these weirdos?", began running through the hall.

The little legs moved incredibly fast—even faster than Lo's wheels.

And whether it was just her imagination or not, Eileen, who was usually not very bright, was able to accurately judge the attack frequency and blind spots of the enemies at this moment. She commanded the mass-produced princess to carry Luo to the front line to provoke them, attracting almost all the firepower in the hall, but she actually received fewer attacks than Luo had when he was running around and dodging.

Yu Sheng glanced at Eileen, and was about to say what his plan was when he saw the little doll standing in the open space giving him a thumbs up, with a carefree and immoral bright smile on its little face.

That smile was full of malice, deceit, and complicity...

Behind her was a blonde elf sister being carried around the hall by a dozen mass-produced dolls.

Silently thanking Luo for his enormous contributions to the team, and thinking with a sigh that "even in the darkest places there are kind-hearted people," Yu Sheng turned and rushed toward the dark void in the center of the hall.

When he was halfway there, some of the enemies who were firing at Luo suddenly realized what was happening and, as if they had been further provoked, began to turn their guns in his direction.

Yu Sheng felt a pushing force coming from behind him.

Luna rushed over from the side and without hesitation used her body to shield Yu Sheng from the incoming fire from the side. Then she grabbed Yu Sheng's waist and charged forward.

Bullets and rays struck the saintess, burning away her nun's gown and sparking tiny sparks on her battleship-armored body.

"dew……"

Yu Sheng only had time to utter a single word before he felt a sudden surge of force behind him—Luna stomped hard on the ground, hoisted Yu Sheng up, and tossed him forward like a cannonball.

"Master, go!"

"My back, my back! My back is broken—"

(End of this chapter)