Alien Hotel.

Chapter 695 I'm coming to find you!

The mass-produced puppet army occupied the large platform in front of the Gate of Eden, delaying the church soldiers' counterattack while orderly teleporting back into the valley. The flames left by the fox spirits burned wildly on the plains, and the foxfire rose into a wall of fire more than ten meters high under the drive of spiritual power, looking very imposing.

But by this time, Yu Sheng and his companions had already taken advantage of the chaos and smoke to cross the battlefield and run into the mountains through a little-noticed path.

Behind them, the "Gate of Eden" standing on the great plain had ceased functioning. Its enormous, ring-shaped structure had been eroded by external forces and its energy supply forcibly cut off; Yu Sheng had even shaken its structural foundations before he left.

At this moment, the gate was swaying in the gale, and the broken building structure kept falling from the clouds, crashing to the ground with flames and blood rain. The creaking and groaning sound was terrifying, while the out-of-control energy sparks spread and wandered along the entire giant ring. Shortly after the puppet army withdrew, those sparks ignited the entire platform, causing it to burn fiercely in the blood rain.

Gale-force winds, blood rain, a tilted Gate of Eden, and a relentless storm of lightning and spreading flames—a scene of utter devastation.

To be fair, this is indeed quite different from Yu Sheng's initial plan of "secret infiltration".

But things going beyond plan is also part of the plan, and he's used to it.

The nine-tailed fox transformed into a white shadow, darting through the depths of the forest. Eileen gripped Yu Sheng's arm tightly, straining to lift her head: "You said you sensed two 'rift sources'?! What's going on? How come there are two? Damn it, there really is a second Dark Angel wrapped in that oil paper package, isn't there?!"

“There might only be one Dark Angel, but I did sense two energy focal points,” Yu Sheng explained quickly, supporting the little doll to prevent her from falling off Hu Li. “When I established the connection with the gate on the plain, I sensed the existence of another rift, even larger than this one… I even have reason to suspect that the other rift is the real focus, and the one on the plain is either a decoy or some kind of 'ignition device'…”

The little doll blinked, as if she wanted to ask something, but before she could speak, a continuous, thunderous roar suddenly came from the direction of the plain, interrupting her words.

The thunder was accompanied by the terrifying sounds of massive objects breaking and collapsing, as well as the continuous tremors of the earth.

Eileen hurriedly turned around to look in the direction from which the sound came.

At the same time, on the plain at the foot of the mountain, a black-dressed doll, torn to pieces, lay in a crater. Then, her body, which had stopped functioning, suddenly moved, opened her eyes, and looked up at the distance.

Amidst the flames and smoke, the magnificent gate was collapsing—the massive explosion of the internal energy unit finally destroyed its last supporting structure. The ring, which had pierced the clouds, tilted beyond its limit and began to crash down in a series of fractures. Blood rain falling from the clouds was carried by the gale and slapped against the slowly collapsing gate.

The bulging crimson light curtain at the center of the Gate of Eden contracted for the last time, and a few seconds of silence fell over the plain—before an unprecedented explosion swept across the battlefield.

The doll's connection was interrupted.

The mountains were shaking, thunder rumbled from the depths of the earth, rocks and stones crashed down, the clouds in the distant sky shattered, and then dust began to obscure the sky.

"Holy crap! That thing's completely destroyed!" The little doll instinctively tilted its head back, almost throwing it off. "Oh my god! Oh my god! That door blew up!"

“I know, I controlled the explosion—there’s a second fissure source. This one on the plains is useless now, so I ‘turned it off’ in advance to prevent any unforeseen problems,” Yu Sheng said, reaching out to press down on the little doll’s head. “Be careful, there was a crack in its neck just now.”

"Oh, oh," Eileen said, pressing her hand to her head, "Can you sense where the second door is?"

"I'm not sure. The 'infiltration' time is too short. I haven't been able to fully grasp the structure of this system yet, but I can vaguely sense that it's underground... and that 'energy source' should also be underground."

"Underground?" Eileen paused, then turned and shouted, "Silly fox! You can dig holes..."

Yu Sheng interrupted the little doll before she could finish speaking: "I don't think this is a depth that Hu Li could dig through, and the direction is uncertain. Which way should she dig?"

Eileen panicked: "What do we do? That 'Holy Throne' that caused the earthquake has run away, I...I...I have a feeling this is going to be bad..."

Yu Sheng did not answer her immediately, but instead squinted and looked up at the sky.

“Plans can’t keep up with changes…” he suddenly said, “but it’s not a big problem, the time is almost up.”

The little doll was completely bewildered: "Huh? Around what time..."

Before Eileen could finish speaking, a sharp whistling sound from the clouds suddenly interrupted her thoughts—immediately afterwards, a series of swift black shadows painted in black and red appeared in the sky above the mountains and forests.

It is the Secret Order's aerospace assault aircraft.

Hu Li looked up and shouted, "My benefactor! They've discovered we've run away!"

Eileen screamed right after, "Damn it, they're cheating! We ran through the smoke and they chased us for miles!"

The next second, the pursuing fighter jets locked onto the nine-tailed fox running wildly through the mountains and forests. With flashes of light, more than a dozen high-energy particle clusters bombarded Yu Sheng and his group.

A priest's furious roar echoed through the communication link: "These invaders will pay the price for defiling the sacred land—"

"Report! Report—target's vital signs have disappeared!" "Very good, I didn't expect it to be so mild..."

"No, the signal disappeared before the attack hit!"

……

A tall figure, bathed in holy light, strode across the long bridge in front of the Supreme Temple. A living saint with wings on his back emerged from the temple to greet him, and then silently followed behind the tall figure.

The turbulent psionic energy waves pressed heavily on the entire temple. The viscous, almost tangible aura made everyone lower their voices even when breathing. For the first time, the figure who had crossed the temple's long bridge lost his usual gentleness. His eyes were filled with anger, confusion, and a hint of unease that was hard for ordinary people to detect.

“Holy See,” a high-ranking priest who remained at the temple stood at the entrance and immediately went to greet the Holy See as he crossed the long bridge, “over at the Gates of Eden…”

“The gates are destroyed,” the Holy See stopped, his voice colder than usual, but he still managed to maintain at least a semblance of calm. “We have also lost some of our compatriots—who fought bravely in the battle to stop the invaders.”

The high priest's expression shifted several times, his lips moving as he murmured, "So, actually..."

“It’s alright. What’s truly valuable is knowledge and experience, and we’ve already obtained the most crucial data—the gate can be rebuilt. As long as I’m here, nothing is impossible to start over,” the Holy See glanced at the priest, his voice softening. “The important thing is that the invaders who entered the home planet have been eliminated, and our compatriots fighting on the plains will soon return. Next, we need to gather our troops as soon as possible. That Borderland Unified Fleet that invaded the border is the real threat—are we still unsure about the situation on the other side of the border?”

“Contact has been completely lost,” the high priest said, bowing his head. “A few tens of minutes ago, we received the last brief message from the Stargate’s internal garrison. It was very short, containing only… only three words.”

"Three words?"

"Yes, yes, the message says 'It's alive.' The meaning is unclear, but it sounds ominous, and the 'Generation Guard's' final mission to destroy the stargate power plant must have failed as well."

"Then let's assume the Stargate is completely under enemy control and the Unified Fleet has obtained our flight path," the Holy See said in a deep voice. "Even with the support of the Stargate, the Unified Fleet can't deploy too many fleets into the Dark Currents region at once. We're fighting on our home turf; as long as we can recapture the Stargate..."

He suddenly stopped.

A strong sense of unease was warning him through his spiritual intuition, as if reminding him that something worse was about to happen.

The high-ranking priest was taken aback upon seeing this. Just as he was about to ask what was going on, he caught a glimpse of another priest rushing toward them out of the corner of his eye.

"What? The search party spotted those intruders in the mountains... and then they vanished into thin air?!"

Upon hearing the news, the high priest's eyes widened, then he abruptly turned his head: "Holy Throne, those invaders..."

He stopped halfway through his sentence.

A powerful psionic pressure was spreading, and the oppressive aura that inadvertently leaked from the Holy See seemed to choke him, rendering him speechless for a moment.

The Holy See tilted his head back, seemingly gazing at the sky, lost in uneasy thought.

Anxiety, an increasingly intense anxiety, something terrible is about to happen… What am I missing? How did things suddenly turn out this way? What will happen next?

Everything went awry: a series of unexpected events, the upheaval at the Gates of Eden, the "Angel Hunter," the mysterious invaders, the border attack...

The Holy See stood before the temple, which was perched high in the clouds, and then suddenly, as if drawn by something, he stared intently at a certain direction in the sky.

The two priests beside them also subconsciously raised their heads and looked in the same direction.

At the edge of the sky, a hazy shadow seemed to be slowly emerging.

At first, it looked like a blurry crack, as if something outside the atmosphere was tearing through space and time. Then the crack began to deform and flip, and some enormous thing "squeezed out" from the crack, revealing a somewhat familiar silhouette.

At first, the two priests couldn't tell what it was because the shadow was too blurry and the distance made it difficult to judge its size. But gradually, they saw a ring-shaped structure emitting a dark red halo—an energy flow stretching for tens of kilometers emanated from the opening at the front of the giant ring and entered space, illuminating the solemn and towering radar matrix and antenna system around the giant ring.

Everything became clear—a space behemoth of such scale, even suspended high in orbit, was enough to cast a shadow across the sky.

The priest who came to deliver the message finally opened his mouth, his voice so sharp and distorted it seemed to be squeezed out from his internal organs.

"Stargate!!!"

(End of this chapter)