Alien Hotel.

Chapter 543: Deep in the Hollow
While Yu Sheng was being "launched" away by Luna's brute force, Luo was being carried by the little dolls as they raced around the hall for the third time.

The elf stared wide-eyed as she watched the malfunctioning artificial saintess in her nun's habit (in her mind, an artificial saintess who could move with people and understand human speech must be malfunctioning) throw her master away with murderous force. She also noticed that the fox spirit and the dolls next to her seemed completely unsurprised by this scene, and two mass-produced dolls were even clapping their hands vigorously in celebration not far away—she was completely dumbfounded.

She had been struggling and trying to scream as she was being carried around the hall by a bunch of red-eyed dwarfs and beaten up, but at this moment she was greatly shocked and fell completely silent.

So these weirdos don't even spare their own people?
In that brief moment of distraction, Yu Sheng flew into the large void.

The next second, time seemed to slow down throughout the entire hall.

Luo felt as if an invisible surge was being released from the void, sweeping across the hall in an instant. All the shadowy creatures that were launching attacks became incredibly slow in the blink of an eye, as if the connection between their minds and bodies had been brutally severed. Then, after a few breaths, the slowly crawling monsters began to rapidly "melt".

Like melting candles, the shadowy objects melted and collapsed, merging into the viscous, flowing shadows on the ground. Even the cocoons of all sizes in the spiderwebs melted away, all returning to the shadows.

The red-eyed dwarves who had been running wildly finally stopped and threw Luo to the ground without hesitation.

Luo scrambled to her feet, looking disheveled, when another mass-produced Irene rushed over, climbed on top of her, removed the Ominous Star from her mouth, and rubbed against the ground vigorously.

"I've never seen such chaos before..."

The blonde elf was furious, but before she could finish her sentence, she realized that no one was paying attention to her at all—the eerie fox demon that could shoot tails, the evil little dwarf with a bunch of clones, and the malfunctioning princess in a nun's habit had all gathered around the platform in the center of the hall, whispering among themselves.

Luo glanced at the mass-produced red-eyed dwarves waiting around him and felt a chill run down his spine. He had no choice but to bite the bullet and head towards the platform.

Halfway there, she heard the fox demon speaking: "...When will my benefactor return?"

"I don't know, anyway, it's still barely hanging on," Eileen said, then looked up at Luna. "To be fair, the way you threw the C-clip just now was pretty cool."

Luna said reservedly, "Master, please cooperate."

"The hall has quieted down," Hu Li looked around. "Has our benefactor succeeded?"

“It’s hard to say, this big hole is still floating around here,” Eileen said, tilting her head back. “And I just saw that the cracks along the edge of the hall are still there…”

"Isn't this operation a bit too reckless!" Luo finally couldn't hold back anymore—she still didn't dare to look directly at that void for long, feeling as if her reason and soul would be sucked in if she looked at it, so she turned her head to the side when she spoke, "You people... do you even think before you act?!"

Eileen replied without hesitation, "I don't know. Yu Sheng usually takes the lead."

Hu Li stretched and said, "Anyway, I'll fight whoever my benefactor tells me to."

Luo continued to stare, only to find that he seemed to be the only one whose painting style didn't fit in with these people.

As an honest and unassuming warlord with a dark past, her worldview was clearly too conservative.

Then, two seconds later, she heard the malfunctioning saintess's delayed response: "That's our style."

Luo: "..."

……

Yu Sheng, clutching his back and grimacing, struggled to his feet amidst the chaos.

The good news was that he discovered his back didn't seem to be broken—Luna had actually managed to hold back when she threw him at her.

The bad news was that he discovered he didn't know where he had been thrown.

All around was a vast, boundless chaos, like layers of gauze shrouding the world. Beneath his feet was a layer of floating mist, but no matter how he looked, he couldn't see what was deep within that mist. There seemed to be a huge shadow in the sky, but it was also hazy and unclear.

“…Where did this come from?” Yu Sheng muttered, then gasped, “Ouch…”

Is this the interior of that dark "void"?

Those flowing, viscous shadows come from this place.

Where is the shadow? Where is the goddess of omens?
Yu Sheng paused for a moment, and only after feeling that the hidden injury in his waist had improved did he let out a soft breath. Then, relying on his intuition, he randomly chose a direction and slowly walked into the depths of chaos.

Meanwhile, he was also chatting with Eileen in his mind, getting a sense of the current situation in the hall.

The little doll kept rambling on: "...Those strange things that crawled out of the cocoon have all disappeared, but there are still those sticky shadows everywhere on the ground and walls here, and the cracks are still there too."

"That elf? He's alive, but he seems a bit unhappy. Yu Sheng, let me tell you, this little black guy is incredibly rigid, not even as adaptable as the expressionless guy. None of the mad scientists in the movies I've seen are like this..."

"Some of the spider silk has been retracted, but there's still a lot... Hu Li is muttering again. She's not hungry, she's just talking about you... The C-shaped clip is on the sharpening knife. Her knife doesn't need sharpening at all. I think she's just trying to scare that elf. That elf seems quite afraid of the artificial saintess, and keeps muttering about malfunctions and such."

"...Hurry up and fix it...then we can go home..."

Yu Sheng shook his head, walked forward for a while, and then suddenly stopped.

There seems to be something deep within the chaos ahead.

He hurried forward, and the object came into focus—it was a crack with irregular edges, like a mirror.

A glimmer of light shone through the tiny crack in the mirror.

Yu Sheng leaned closer, peering inside with one eye.

He saw the faded, old wallpaper, the empty room, and a tightly closed door. Yu Sheng blinked.

"...Holy crap!?"

It's the room at the end of the corridor on the second floor of No. 66 Wutong Road!

Realizing this instantly, Yu Sheng subconsciously took a deep breath, his heart pounding, but he quickly calmed down and thought about it at lightning speed, feeling that this development... wasn't so surprising after all.

This is the interior of the cavity formed by the "Zorda Black Stone," which is a fragment of the "Boundary Bridge"—a world-traveling device jointly created by the Dark Angels. It's reasonable for this thing to cause any kind of phenomenon.

Moreover, the room at No. 66 Wutong Road is inherently very eerie.

After calming his thoughts, Yu Shengping hesitated for a moment before extending a finger and carefully poking at the crack.

—If a "professional spirit detective" like Little Red Riding Hood saw him doing this, she would definitely let out a sharp bang.

The crack trembled a few times the moment it was touched by Yu Sheng's finger, and then disappeared silently like a phantom in water.

Yu Sheng froze for a moment.

He then frowned and continued walking forward.

Not long after, another shimmering crack appeared in his field of vision.

He hurried forward and looked at the "broken mirror" that was about an arm's length long.

Across the rift was a dimly lit but spacious hall, with fallen pillars lying haphazardly on the ground and a large hole in the high dome. Yet, the remaining architectural structure still allowed glimpses of its former grandeur.

Yu Sheng frowned as he looked at this unfamiliar place, when he suddenly noticed something next to a pillar at the end of the hall.

He stared at it for a long time, then realized it was half a portion of braised chicken rice...

Yu Sheng: "...?!"

Is this the place Zheng Zhi visited last time?

A thought flashed through his mind, and Yu Sheng immediately took out a bloodletting knife made from Luna's "fingernails" from his pocket, cut a gash on his hand, and flicked the blood droplets into the crack.

However, the moment the blood came into contact with the "mirror," it trembled violently and then disappeared silently, just like the previous crack.

The blood vanished into the surrounding chaos.

Yu Sheng frowned deeply, but then a thought struck him, and he turned to look around.

An even larger rift appeared nearby, standing crookedly in the mist.

He walked over, looked into the depths of the crevice, and the next second his eyes widened in shock.

He saw a dark, seemingly boundless space, yet it inexplicably gave him a feeling of narrowness and confinement, with a lone chair in the center of the darkness.

A bright red velvet blanket was spread on the chair—like scarlet blood, flowing from the chair all the way to the floor.

A fluffy toy bear sat crookedly on a chair. In the darkness, the bear's dark, seemingly plastic-made eyes stared directly into Yu Sheng's eyes through the cracks.

Yu Sheng felt a chill run down his spine under those dark, bright eyes, and blurted out, almost without thinking, "...What are you looking at?"

"A matching resolution unit has been detected."

The sound of a bear came from the crack.

Yu Sheng: "Holy crap?!"

The next second, he saw the plush bear jump off the chair covered with red velvet and walk straight toward him.

It raised its head and stared at Yu Sheng in the dark space on the other side of the rift.

For a moment, Yu Sheng even felt that the other person had stepped out of the rift and was now standing face to face with him in the real world.

He swallowed hard, forcing himself to calm down quickly. After thinking for several seconds, he broke the silence: "Um, well... hello, my name is Yu Sheng."

"Hello, my name is Eileen."

Yu Sheng: "...Huh?!"

A wave of utter astonishment washed over Yu Sheng, and for a moment, his mind went blank. Then he heard the little bear continue speaking:

"...When this recording is played, I should have already disappeared from this world, but from another perspective, I may still be alive, I am still me, and my future lifespan may be longer than my original designed lifespan..."

"The fusion is irreversible, but it is the only way to preserve these precious data and keep the Outer God, known as 'Ominous,' stable..."

(End of this chapter)