Alien Hotel.

Chapter 545 Large-Scale Invasion

The piercing alarm blared almost instantly across all floors, and in the vast shadow cast by Blackrock Station, the entire city descended into chaos.

Now, everyone can look up and see an astonishing space colossus covering the sky. From the ground, the giant disc-shaped shell of Blackrock Station looks like an inverted steel landmass. Countless shell-attached buildings, weapon turrets of all sizes, enhancement devices, and shield generators appear rugged and terrifying in the shadows.

At the same time that Black Rock Station appeared, an invisible force dispersed the surrounding clouds, tearing apart a large area of ​​space. Starlight from the distant universe spread across the sky like a shattered mirror, and its scale was even expanding.

The crowd on the surface began to scatter in terror, and traffic on the city streets instantly descended into chaos. Alarms blared throughout the region, and fear, unease, and the collective mental shock brought about by bathing in the external starlight began to spread like a plague throughout the entire city.

Border area, depth L-1.

A vast expanse of pale purple mist rose from the edge of the city, within which something seemed to be constantly collapsing and falling from the sky. The indistinguishable illusions first rose from the "suburbs" outside the city and gradually engulfed the urban area. The illusions were filled with unsettling silhouettes—dragons, giants, thunder-covered behemoths, and kings wearing crowns.

Border area, depth L-2.

Jagged, twisted obsidian pillars began to grow from all over the city, as if the earth were turning upside down, and the bones buried in the old world heard the horns of the city-states and mistakenly believed that they were still in this world.

Border area, depth L-3.

But just then, a strange, low rumble suddenly echoed throughout the border area.

It sounded like an infinitely drawn-out bugle call, continuously sweeping across the entire city.

The horn sound came from the magnificent and mysterious tower in the city center—the silver-white Council Tower, which had somehow been coated with a layer of floating light and shadow, and the long horn sound echoed from the top of the tower throughout the surrounding area.

The pale purple mist on the city's edge began to dissipate rapidly. The ancient army that had invaded from within the mist awoke in reality, falling back into a dream. The obsidian pillars that had invaded the city collapsed and crumbled. Under the rapidly dissipating obsidian "snowflakes," the crowd seemed to be influenced by an invisible force, gradually ignoring the strange phenomena around them in their confusion, and began to subconsciously move towards the nearest refuge.

Baili Qing stared intently in the direction of the Council Tower, while her subordinate hurriedly reported beside her: "Director, the Council Tower has activated 'Requiem,' and the current depth of the entire area is temporarily maintained at L-1... but we don't know how long it can last."

Bai Liqing's face was clouded with worry: "What about that space station?"

“There’s no sign of it continuing to fall,” the subordinate replied quickly. “It’s hovering about 300 meters above the Council Tower, but we can’t get any accurate mass data… It doesn’t seem like it has really ‘arrived’ at the boundary, but rather that the two spaces are overlapping.”

“Overlapping?” Baili Qing turned around abruptly. “You mean… it’s similar to the cracks in the corridor before?”

“Yes, yes,” the subordinate nervously swallowed, “but this time the scale is obviously very large.”

Bai Liqing turned her gaze to the window again. A thick, misty shield had appeared above the Boundary City, centered on the Council Tower and with countless hidden shield generators along the edge of the Boundary City as nodes. Theoretically, its strength was even enough to withstand the fall of that space station—if it really "fell down".

But what's more terrifying than the space station falling directly is its current state—defying the laws of physics and floating stably above the city in overlapping space.

This means that the large-scale anomaly is still ongoing—an event that exists beyond the boundaries of reason is still approaching reality.

As if to confirm Baili Qing's terrible prediction, just when the giant space station was still steadily hovering above the council tower and many people felt that things had stabilized at least for this moment, an unsettling cracking sound suddenly entered everyone's ears.

It sounded like a giant mirror was constantly shattering.

Song Cheng pressed against the windowsill, looking up at the sky in astonishment.

He saw the starlight around the "Black Rock Space Station" was distorted.

As if the universe itself were being "folded up," the starry background near Blackrock Station slowly transformed into a giant vortex structure. Then, starlight condensed on the outer wall of the vortex, and something else spread from deep space, gradually emerging as an irregular shadow from the bottom of Blackrock Station.

He saw clearly.

It was a rugged, ancient, and mysterious dark tower that descended from the starry sky and pierced directly through the core area of ​​the Black Stone Space Station. The tower stretched and extended infinitely in the deep space of the universe. One end was invisible to the naked eye, while the other end continued to "grow" towards the Boundary City after penetrating the space station.

Slow, but unwavering.

"Holy crap... I'm afraid this one is unlikely to be any better..."

Song Cheng heard someone exclaim in surprise next to him, turned around and saw Xu Jiali.

Beside Xu Jiali was the psychic servant who had fallen into a dazed and still state.

Bai Liqing heard a noise coming from the earring, but it didn't seem to be an interference. Instead, it seemed like something in the environment was leaking, exploding, and burning.

Interspersed among them were Eileen's faint curses and Luo's exclamations.

"The lab's gone! The entire lab's gone!" After another burst of noise, a furious voice came through the earring—it was hard to tell whether it was the culprit or just some unfortunate soul—"A black 'wall' just 'slammed' down from above, piercing through the entire core area—right in front of me! If I hadn't sensed something was wrong and warned them, we'd all be smashed in... Hey? Are you listening, you expressionless face? You expressionless face?" Baili Qing's face was grim, and she struggled to keep her voice steady: "I don't care if you live or die—where's Yu Sheng?"

“Yu Sheng was just thrown into that big hole by his men. I think it’s absurd, but this doll named Eileen says it’s normal,” Luo said, slightly out of breath. “He hasn’t come back yet. Eileen said she’s also experiencing some interference and can’t hear Yu Sheng’s situation very clearly. She can only confirm that he’s alright… I can’t see what’s going on outside anymore. What’s going on?”

"...The boundary bridge has appeared, it's the black 'wall' you mentioned," Baili Qing pursed her lips, her voice low, "It's connecting the border areas."

"……what?!"

Hearing the exclamation coming from the earring, Baili Qing had no mood to continue talking to Luo. Instead, she turned her gaze to the window again, staring intently at the "bridge" that hung down from the stars and was still slowly "growing".

Yu Sheng has not returned yet; he may still be trying to end the crisis, or he may have already failed.

The Secret Service and the Council have many "disaster plans." As a force with an inherently "unstable homeland," their disaster plans even include extreme scenarios such as the destruction of the entire border region. However, in such extreme scenarios, all preservation measures have only a very slim chance of success.

Will you venture into the shattered tower in search of survival? Will you risk releasing the ancient souls within the Pale Library? Will you execute the shattering of the dome, permanently abandoning a portion of your "homeland"?
Bai Liqing's mind raced through a series of plans as she stared at the inverted tower outside the window, unconsciously clenching her fists.

Fine, crystal-like scales subtly appeared on her arms and neck, while her light gray eyes reflected countless rapidly shifting possibilities about the future and the past.

At that moment, the surface of the tower that had pierced through the Black Rock Space Station and was slowly extending toward the boundary showed new changes.

Many strange "branches" suddenly grew out of the tower's layered structure and turned into ever-extending cracks.

Chaos surged within those fissures, and then—a thick, muddy shadow began to drip from the end of each fissure.

The viscous shadow landed on the large shield above the city, quickly billowing thick smoke, and then began to slowly seep into the city. The shield, originally designed to resist various real and surreal invasions, could not completely resist these "erosions." Many tiny "droplets" struggled to seep through the barrier and fell into various parts of the city.

Song Cheng gasped instantly.

"Chief!" He turned sharply to look at Baili Qing, "What's down there...?"

"Immediately activate the 'Spirit Fox' node in Fog City," Baili Qing ordered instantly. "Execute in sections—only 'flip' the intruded blocks."

Song Cheng's expression changed in surprise, and he instinctively said, "But this system wasn't very stable in the previous tests. Once the pressure exceeds..."

"It's better than letting civilian areas be contaminated—the effect of 'Requiem' is limited. Once there are large-scale casualties or awakenings, mass mental pollution can break through the Requiem defense line at any time. At that time, there will be no border areas or Secret Service."

"I... okay, I understand!"

“Very good,” Baili Qing nodded. “I will arrange for the third and fourth squads to work with you. Once the contaminated blocks are ‘flipped,’ you will immediately enter the corresponding areas and quickly eliminate those ‘shadows.’ The purified blocks must be reset as soon as possible—just like you said, that system cannot withstand too much pressure.”

Song Chengfei left quickly, and Baili Qing immediately took out her phone to make the next arrangements:
"Xiao Su, arrange for the mobile team to set off and eliminate those shadows that have already entered the city... Remember, evacuate immediately once fog rolls in. If there's no time to evacuate, build a defensive line on the spot and hold out until the deep-sea submersible team arrives..."

Outside the window, the viscous shadow seeping from around the boundary bridge continued to drip onto the large shield. Amidst the billowing smoke and hissing sounds, tiny droplets were falling into the city simultaneously from several leak points.

Thanks to the Council Tower's "Requiem" system, most civilians have moved into evacuation facilities.

The shadow of a blind invasion lingered over the desolate streets until the silence was shattered by the gunfire of the mobile unit's agents.

However, the number of leaks on the large shield continues to increase.

A pair of enormous eyes appeared on the exterior wall of the Secret Service building, observing the situation in the city.

Moments later, a thin mist began to quietly spread through the city's streets.

On the great shield, yet another leak appeared—thick, viscous shadows coalesced and dripped down from the sky above the city.

But with a "buzz," the entire block beneath the shadow suddenly trembled like bubbles in water, followed by rising mist and a spatial distortion—

The experimental "Spirit Fox" system has been activated.

A portion of the city in the fog suddenly rose to the surface, replacing the real city streets that were about to become a battlefield.

The shadow of the invading creatures descended into the thick fog, and before the blind, wandering soulless beings lay a fully armed deep-sea force.

(End of this chapter)