Alien Hotel.

Chapter 550 Fairy Tale Front
Luo gradually regained consciousness amidst a dizzy spell, but her mind was still foggy and she didn't know where she was. After a long time, she managed to regain her senses and then found herself lying in an open area that looked like a small square.

Bright daylight, fresh air, and many oddly shaped houses in sight, with the sound of wind and some construction site in the distance, and chattering nearby.

Her head spun again, and then she saw two little children squatting next to her, looking down at her with curious big eyes, and several red-eyed dwarves (the evil dwarves' clones) standing next to her head, looking down and staring at her with their scary and evil (that's what Luo thought) dead fish eyes.

Luo instantly snapped awake and sprang to his senses, leaping up in a flash: "Ah!"

The surrounding children immediately exclaimed "Wow!" Several of them, who looked no older than elementary school students, began clapping excitedly. A few slightly older children walked over, including a tall girl with cascading blonde hair that even dragged on the ground, who excitedly shouted to the person next to her, "I told you we didn't need to splash cold water! The one that the older brother threw at us must be tough..."

Someone nearby retorted, "You didn't need to splash it, did you? You just didn't have time to splash it! Don't think I didn't see you hiding the water bottle in your hair..."

"Where am I?" Luo shook his head vigorously, looking around in complete bewilderment.

This was the first time she had ever seen such a bizarre human settlement. The houses surrounding the small square were so strangely shaped, it was like something out of a picture book. The treehouses, castles, and magic cottages were all understandable, but there was a towering cat tree on the outermost edge, and she really couldn't understand what it was trying to express. Even stranger, in the distance, she could vaguely see a huge pyramid that looked like some kind of ancient ruin. It looked both rustic and mysterious, rough and magnificent. Around the pyramid, there was a row of toilets of all sizes, and she had no idea what that meant...

Luo looked into the distance again and was shocked to see a towering bean stalk sticking up on the horizon—he didn't know what kind it was, but it could climb so high without any support, as if it were using the clouds as a frame.

The view from the other direction was even more outrageous—it was a starport.

On the high platform stood a flagship that was clearly in the style of the Secret Order of the Holy See—but its bow had a different paint job, as if it were pretending to be a force of good.

...This can't possibly be a border area?
Luo subconsciously shrank back, unsure whether she had reached a safe zone or had been kidnapped to some hideout again. Although she was surrounded by seemingly harmless human cubs, she still felt a sense of crisis seeping into her bones. The sense of crisis mainly came from the chaotic scene around her, which was almost too noisy for her eyes.

Just then, a person who looked composed and friendly finally stepped out—a girl wearing a red coat.

“This is ‘Fairy Tale’ town, and I’m the person in charge here. You can call me Little Red Riding Hood,” Little Red Riding Hood said, looking at the elf in front of her. “If you’re talking about this valley… it’s the base of the ‘Inn’. Did Yu Sheng bring you here? He didn’t tell us.”

Luo blinked, feeling relieved—oh, so she really had been taken to a new hideout.

“…My name is Luo,” she patted her wrinkled and dirty silver-white dress, which had been through a lot of trouble. Although she didn’t know why there were so many human cubs in front of her, considering the large group of dangerous red-eyed dwarves around her, she still adopted a very polite attitude. “I’m the scientific advisor who fights alongside Yu Sheng…”

Before she could finish speaking, one of the mass-produced dolls closest to Little Red Riding Hood suddenly blinked, its dead fish eyes suddenly flashing with a bright light. Eileen stepped in and said, "She's a warlord with a bad reputation, but we captured her and she's temporarily helping us. She's practically one of us."

"Black Spot Warlord?!" Little Red Riding Hood's expression visibly changed, and her eyes immediately turned wary as she looked at Luo. Upon seeing this, Luo quickly tried to explain, but before she could utter a single word, she discovered that seven or eight snarling shadow wolves had instantly appeared around her.

Meanwhile, the blonde girl opposite, who had been watching the spectacle with amusement, suddenly raised a giant golden scythe. Her seemingly harmless eyes from one moment were now filled with a chilling, bloodthirsty aura, as if she had torn apart a demon in some cursed land for ten years...

"I already said we're practically on the same side!" Luo's hair suddenly stood on end, his long, pointed ears pressed against his scalp. "We've already fought them! We fought them before we came!"

Long Hair paused, then looked at Little Red Riding Hood while carrying a large scythe: "...Is this what the Black Spot warlords are like?"

Little Red Riding Hood: "I don't know, this is the first time I've seen it either."

"I told you I'm a scientist!" Luo was getting a little exasperated. "Don't you people from the border region listen to anyone?!"

Little Red Riding Hood frowned, but just as she was about to say something, the door standing in the square not far away was suddenly activated again. A girl in crystal dancing shoes and a magnificent court dress rushed in, quickly removing her dress and returning to everyday clothes. She then began hurriedly reporting the situation in the nearby streets to Little Red Riding Hood:
“There’s a huge hole in the old town! That tower that came down from the sky has torn through the shield along the way from the city center to the old town! The area around the old orphanage is now shrouded in thick fog and shadows—I saw several groups of self-organized spirit detectives trapped on Tai’an Road from the sky!”

Upon hearing this, Little Red Riding Hood's expression changed slightly: "Tai'an Road? Isn't 'Belle' around there?!"

“Yes, but don’t worry, she was only slightly injured and was picked up by one of Dorothy’s armored assault teams,” Cinderella said quickly. “Dorothy set up a medical camp nearby with excellent pediatricians…”

"Okay, you rest for a bit, Snow White and I will go out and check the situation." Little Red Riding Hood nodded, then suddenly turned her gaze and looked at Luo.

It was only then that Luo belatedly noticed the tense atmosphere around him and the busy, orderly flow of people coming and going near the "door." This square, filled with teenagers and young children... was practically a command headquarters behind the battlefield.

“There’s a war going on outside,” Little Red Riding Hood said, staring at the “dangerous extremist” in front of her. “Brother Yu went to deal with that tower. Eileen wants us to help deal with those monsters that have run into the city before the incident is over—now I’m leading the team out, and you have to stay with us.”

Luo was stunned. After realizing that the group of children in front of her, most of whom looked to be underage, were actually the fighting force under the "Inn" organization, she was completely dumbfounded: "...A bunch of kids fighting in the city?! No, what's wrong with the people from the border areas... Isn't this a bit extreme?!"

Rapunzel stared wide-eyed: "Hey no, aren't all your black spots caused by extremism?"

"That's not that extreme!" Luo exclaimed in shock. "Converted to human years, we can only start tinkering with dark psionic energy after we're eighteen..."

This time, it was Rapunzel's turn to be shocked.

I had only heard about it before, but it turns out there are actually places in the world where people are allowed to legally tinker with dark psionic energy.

That's really extreme...

But Little Red Riding Hood didn't give Luo and Rapunzel a chance to continue arguing.

She quickly explained the situation at the scene, then checked the situation at the boundary bridge with Eileen, and then grabbed Luo's arm and dragged her towards the door.

Luo felt as if he were being dragged by a giant beast. The force on his wrist was like that of a vise. His enhanced body (although not at the warrior level, it was still far beyond that of an ordinary person) was unable to resist the strength of the seemingly slender arm of the girl in red. Caught off guard, he staggered several steps: "Wait... why?!"

“Eileen said you’re only half one of us, and I don’t feel comfortable leaving you out of my sight,” Little Red Riding Hood said without turning her head. “Besides, I heard that this whole thing was caused by your Black Dot Group, so of course you have to clean up the mess you created.”

Snow White, who was standing next to her, chimed in, "That's right. And since you're called the Black Dot Warlord, you must be a formidable fighter. I've heard that the warriors of your Black Dot Group are all elites, packed with cutting-edge technology. We're really short-handed for fighting right now..."

“I’ve said it so many times, I’m just a scientist,” Luo was almost in tears, “I don’t have their power…”

But nobody listened to her.

In a flash, she was dragged out the door by Little Red Riding Hood—a vast expanse of mist rushed towards her.

The gate in the Fairy Tale Town Square connects to the "ruins" of the old orphanage, located deep in the old town. This area has clearly been affected by the Spirit Fox System, with the city in the mist flipping and replacing the original real space.

The ordinary people in the neighborhood are unconsciously hiding in various shelters under the influence of the Requiem System. As the entire area "flips," they have temporarily entered another dimension. All that remains here is the thick fog and the invading monsters.

As Luo stepped out the door, he was still nagging: "Then aren't you afraid I'll run away if you take me outside? It's chaotic outside, there's fighting everywhere, if you get distracted I'll..."

Before she could finish speaking, she saw a viscous shadow fall from the sky, suddenly exploding into countless twisted and frenzied phantoms in the fog. A chilling low murmur and crawling sound came from all directions, and the fog as far as the eye could see was full of monsters.

It's taller, bigger, and even more amazing than the things in the previous space station.

She swallowed the rest of her sentence.

Little Red Riding Hood glanced back at me: "Are you sure you want to run?"

Luo swallowed hard, looked around, and then looked back at the door that led back to the valley—a group of evil red-eyed dwarves guarded the other side of the door.

"I will stand guard behind you to the death!"

(End of this chapter)