Alien Hotel.

Chapter 549 Invasion and Battle

Hu Li covered his head and jumped and howled in front of the black "high wall". After finally calming down, a large red patch appeared on his forehead, and a small bump had also appeared.

The great fox spirit gently rubbed the bag, her eyes brimming with tears.

Eileen, who had been carelessly tossed to the ground by Hu Li, lay there motionless as if dead. After a while, she suddenly seemed to reconnect with her body and jumped up, pointing at Hu Li and starting to ramble: "Silly fox, next time you do something so reckless, can you please not involve me! You almost broke my back! Do you know how difficult it is to fix a broken joint in your back..."

Hu Li didn't say anything and just continued to rub the bump on her head.

Eileen paused, looking at Hu Li's head, then glanced back at the black wall that ran straight through the laboratory—it was, of course, part of the Broken Tower (Boundary Bridge), made of a mysterious material not belonging to this world, its hardness clearly beyond imagination.

It might even be harder than Luna's battleship armor shell.

"Silly fox, just how strong is your head?" the little doll couldn't help but exclaim in amazement. "You only got a bump after hitting this thing?"

“I… our fox clan all practice physical cultivation,” Hu Li’s voice was muffled, as if he had just bumped his nose. “Back when there were no classes at school, the elders in the clan would take us to the mountains to mine with our claws and heads…”

Eileen: "...Holy crap."

At this moment, Luna also walked in through the large hole in the outer wall of the laboratory, carrying two mass-produced dolls that she had picked up on the road. She casually tossed the two dolls to Eileen, then looked up at the high black wall and slowly said, "No, there is no entrance."

The surface of the high wall was seamless, with regular patterns of unknown purpose, but no doors or windows could be seen. Luna stepped forward and scratched it with her "fingernails," discovering that the thing was incredibly strong; even her blade couldn't scratch it.

Then she and Huli saw Eileen walk briskly to the high wall and start feeling around on it.

"Do you know how to get in?" Hu Li asked curiously from the side.

"I...I know?" Eileen's reaction was strange, not like an answer, but more like she was asking herself. She touched the rough surface of the "Boundary Bridge" for a while, her eyes gradually becoming unfocused. Suddenly, she seemed to remember something, and a nostalgic look slowly appeared on her face. "Ah, yes, I know, this was built by everyone together...Go in? Oh right, you can go in, Yu Sheng is inside..."

She placed her hand on the outer wall of the boundary bridge, and strands of black silk began to flow from her fingertips. The silk spread across the surface of the high wall, weaving into a spider web, and gradually seeped into the interior of the wall.

The black "stones" at the edge of the spider web shimmered with strange colors, and a curtain composed of numerous irregular polygonal fragments of light and shadow covered the spider web. The next second, the curtain collapsed and shattered inward, and an entrance appeared before everyone's eyes.

Inside the entrance is a spacious tower interior—a dim, passive light illuminates the layers of platforms, the complex and undefined ancient structures, and the seemingly endless staircases.

Hu Li suddenly sniffed.

Her eyes lit up: "It has the scent of a benefactor!"

“Yu Sheng passed by here,” Eileen said, stepping into the tower. “He’s going up—let’s go after him!”

……

"The boundary bridge's end structure has intruded into the large shield! Our shield is not reacting to this!"

"The intruder's material is unknown... Unable to locate it... Numerous cracks exist in the structure at the end of the boundary bridge, rendering conventional interference and containment methods ineffective..."

"The Council Tower's 'Requiem' system has been affected, and its effectiveness is decreasing—the backup system has stepped in!"

"The 'Spirit Fox' system in the West City Canal section is malfunctioning; one district failed to switch with Fog City in time! The 'Shadow' has entered the real-world district! How far away is the nearest mobile force!?"

Baili Qing's face was ashen as she listened to the reports and instructions coming from the hall. While making timely adjustments to the overall deployment, she shared another perspective with Baili Xue in her mind.

Those enormous eyes, visible only to her and Yu Sheng, were now floating above the border city, pressed against the great shield of the border—Baili Xue looked down at the city and kept reporting to her the erosion situation in each district.

From that aerial perspective, many areas could be seen to be covered by thick fog.

The viscous shadows dripping from the Great Shield fall into the city, and the corresponding districts will instantly activate the "Spirit Fox System," swapping a part of the Fog City with the real-world districts—the battle will take place in a distorted alien realm filled with mist, in order to protect the real-world city to the greatest extent.

This is a system still in the experimental stage. Its hardware is based on the latest generation of "Spirit Fox" nodes. The publicly disclosed information about this new type of node device is that it is a communication device, but its actual function is far more than that. Thanks to the amazing psionic affinity of its "core material", the scientists in the border region have found a way to integrate some "deep diving" technology into this node and designed a huge "grid network" throughout the Fog City. This is the "Spirit Fox System".

The purpose of this system is to add an extra layer of "insurance" to this border region, which is always prone to various accidents and crises.

Since Fog City covers the entire Boundary City, let it serve as a safety barrier for the Boundary City—people outside only feel fear and resistance towards foreign lands, but for those living in the borderlands, foreign lands are also a resource that can be utilized.

However, it was still in the experimental stage, and the entire Fog City was huge, while the production of the Spirit Fox Nodes was limited by raw material constraints. As more and more shadows infiltrated the city from the Great Shield, the entire system began to show signs of instability.

As more and more neighborhoods are "flipped," the energy required to maintain the stability of reality's boundaries will increase exponentially.

Baili Xue's voice entered Baili Qing's mind: "...I heard that this system also uses some technology from the Black Dot Group...Their 'dark psionic' stuff is inherently unstable." "Deep Dive Technology itself was developed by the Black Dot Group. To make the Spirit Fox Node practical, it can only use its complementary components," Baili Qing said calmly, her gaze fixed on the city—

At the highest point of the Great Shield, the black tower extending from below the Black Rock Space Station has invaded the sky above the Boundary City. The tower's end is riddled with strange spatial rifts, making it appear as if it is in a fragmented state. Currently, a large number of mobile forces and deep-sea personnel have gathered near the Council Tower, trying to stop the "Boundary Bridge" from continuing to extend by various means, but obviously with little success.

“Sister, it’s time to make a decision,” Baili Xue’s voice rang out again. “If we execute ‘Dome Shattering’ now, we can still ‘throw’ that space station and the extended boundary bridge out together—of course, the price is that the boundary area will forever lose a piece of sky, and, well, it may also lose some land.”

“Moreover, the boundary bridge that was ‘thrown away’ may very well move to another location and erode in again,” Baili Qing said slowly. “Its root cause is not here.”

"Oh? Could it be that you have a way to solve its 'root cause'?"

Hearing the voice in her mind, Baili Qing simply took a light breath and narrowed her eyes slightly.

When she opened her eyes, a fleeting glimpse of silver-gray vertical pupils appeared in her pupils.

"Xue, I need to leave here temporarily—you take charge for me, and don't let anyone find out."

"Huh?" Baili Xue was clearly taken aback. "Wait, I'll do it for you... I can't! How can I do it for you?!"

“Song Cheng and Secretary Liu know what to do. You can tell them where I am directly,” Baili Qing said calmly, turning and walking towards the door. “As for you, you don’t need to do anything. Just let the people at headquarters ‘see’ that their director is still here.”

"Wait a minute, aren't you getting a little reckless? You're really going to that tower?! Hey... well, okay then, it feels like this isn't the first time you've sold me out..."

Hearing the voice in her mind, Baili Qing couldn't help but smile.

She left the hall, hurried down the corridor, and vanished into thin air in a moment when no one was looking at her.

At the same time, Bailixue took over the sight and hearing of everyone within the building.

In the command center, several staff members witnessed Baili Qing's hasty departure, but soon they saw the "director" return from outside, standing in the same spot as before, continuing to stare at the scene with an expressionless face.

Everything proceeded as usual, except that when no one was looking, "Bai Liqing" wrinkled her nose slightly, then pinched her cheek and muttered to herself, "Keep a poker face, keep a poker face..."

……

The "backyard" of No. 66 Wutong Road is deep in the valley.

The square in the fairytale town was bustling with noise.

"Rationality inhibitors! Rationality inhibitors! Everything checked, make sure you have enough supplies before you go out—come back as soon as possible if you can't win!"

"Cinderella went out to scout and just sent back news that the road from the old town to Sun City Square is full of monsters! The fog has already connected three or four blocks, a huge area."

"Dorothy's ground troops have already engaged the front lines, but they lack assault capabilities! Has the Dragon Slayer woken up yet? If he has, send him on another charge..."

"Emergency! The drone has spotted a team of trapped spirit detectives near Taihe Shopping Mall. They're about to collapse—who's nearby? The King? Great, let's get him over there..."

The main fighting force of Fairy Tale gathered in the square, using walkie-talkies and cell phones to contact their companions who had left the valley and entered the city. While confirming the current situation in the city, they arranged the manpower to be deployed to the battle later under Little Red Riding Hood's command. In the face of this sudden chaos and crisis, these precocious children (one of whom was already an adult) had become the most powerful "civilian fighting force" in Boundary City.

With the "Spirit Fox" system gradually exceeding its limits and a large portion of the Special Operations Bureau's combat power being diverted to deal with several large erosion points around the Boundary Bridge, they have practically held up the defense of the entire old city.

Just then, a twisted and vibrating "door" suddenly appeared in the square.

The door suddenly opened, accompanied by a creaking noise that quickly dissipated. A dazed doll fell out of the door, and a stranger fell in along with it.

Rapunzel, Snow White, and several teenagers who were preparing in the square were startled and then rushed forward after less than a second of hesitation.

"What is this..."

"Did Brother Yu throw this in?"

"A head of blonde hair, just like the hair after a long-haired transformation."

"Hey, it's still moving! It's alive!"

"Don't poke them, it's rude..."

(End of this chapter)