Alien Hotel.

Chapter 696 Orbital Bombing
Yu Sheng is a kind-hearted person who cannot bear to see others suffer.

He knew that building a stargate was no easy feat, and the Hermitage would surely be heartbroken to lose such a strategic facility, and would definitely try to find a way to reclaim it.

So he sent the stargate over.

The Secret Order no longer needs to consider sending a fleet to the border—the colossal space structure is currently suspended high in orbit above the Holy Land, casting its enormous shadow over the planet's atmosphere at an altitude that is almost beyond the safety limit.

The colossal figure could be clearly seen from the surface, and even the streams of light emanating from around the stargate could be seen—the starlight convergence caused by large-scale spatial distortion. The starlight from distant space formed layers of ring-shaped fluctuations inside and outside the stargate's force field, making its entire structure look like an eye hanging high above the mother star.

Inside and outside the Supreme Temple, countless eyes witnessed this bizarre and horrifying scene. Most of them were initially completely bewildered by what was happening—after all, they'd only ever heard of a car crashing into a tollbooth, but a tollbooth crashing into them was something no normal person could imagine in their lifetime. What's more, this Stargate had a whole host of gravitational anchoring and acceleration bridges, which meant that when the tollbooth crashed into them, it also brought along a ring road and two gas stations...

The high priest before the temple gasped in shock, and just two seconds later, he realized something far more terrifying than a stargate jump to the home planet—

fleet!

As if to confirm this nightmarish thought, the high priest noticed countless tiny flashes of light appearing around the space behemoth the instant the word "fleet" appeared in his mind. They were faint, but clearly visible.

That was a burst of light when a large warship jumped from hyperspace into space.

His voice trembled with immense fear: "Holy See! Seek refuge immediately!"

"Enter the bunker," the Holy See's voice came from the side, his usual calm tone quickly quelling the priest's fear and unease. "Sound the alarm on the home planet—prepare for a final battle against the infidels who have invaded it."

The Holy See's voice was like a chilling wind, sweeping away the chaos in the high priest's heart, and filling his mind once more with powerful faith and willpower.

Yes, the final battle against the infidels... the day to dedicate everything to the path of holiness... this day would come sooner or later, everyone was ready, and today, the day has arrived...

The piercing air raid sirens blared across the mountains and plains, and then the warning spread throughout the entire planet—from the highest temple atop the mountain to the city factories beside the valley, from the frigid polar research rings to the orbital elevator command center on the equator, news of the impending space strike swept across the sacred realm like a storm.

All major cities and temples quickly erected heavy defensive shields, and anti-aircraft cannons and missile silos hidden in the mountains and valleys were hastily activated. The home planet's defense radar adjusted its angle, attempting to lock onto the unified fleet targets that had already entered orbit—however, before these defensive facilities could be operational, the first round of orbital bombardment had already landed on the ground.

Battle-type fortress torpedoes streaked through the atmosphere, leaving trails of dazzling fire as they fell upon cities and factories with dense energy reactions. Continuous streams of high-energy particles shone down from space, beginning to disintegrate the various shield systems on the planet's surface. Then, countless armed drones were launched from the aircraft carrier, plunging into the thick atmosphere of the Holy Land like swarms of bees and meteors, heading towards the Temple complex.

Hong and Baili Qing stood on the bridge of the flagship "Mass Effect," looking through the huge observation windows at the web of fire intertwined in space, and at the planet with a massive atmosphere and a blue-green appearance in their field of vision.

Flashes of all sizes are bursting across the planet's surface.

That planet was teeming with life, so much so that it was almost abnormal.

“This is data that just came from the ‘Zero Algorithm’,” an intelligence officer approached Red and transferred the data from the screen to a holographic projection. “Their radar array just did a rough scan of this planet and found that it can only detect the surface layer. It seems that some powerful interference source is buried deep underground. In addition, they also analyzed the planet’s ecosystem, and this part is even more suspicious…”

Baili Qing's gaze fell on the constantly changing projection images in mid-air, while Hong's voice came from beside her: "...a lush, empty shell covering a hollow tomb..."

A slight commotion suddenly came from below. Someone in the control room pointed at the porthole and exclaimed. Baili Qing quickly gathered her thoughts and looked up at the porthole.

Yu Sheng was standing outside the window, knocking on the glass.

Luna stood beside Yu Sheng, while Eileen pressed herself against the porthole like an octopus, staring wide-eyed at the bustling scene in the hall—while a giant nine-tailed fox floated leisurely in the space behind them, dog-paddling.

Baili Qing: "..."

“Look,” Hong gestured with her chin, pointing outside, “a few of your friends.”

At this moment, Baili Qing really wanted to say that she didn't know those demons and monsters floating outside, but after holding it in for a long time, she finally said in one breath: "I'll go pick them up."

She increasingly missed the days of working overtime at the Secret Service.

At least back then, the work that Yu Sheng and his group did was still confined to the atmosphere.

A moment later, Baili Qing went outside and invited Yu Sheng and several of his accomplices into the bridge of the Mass Effect.

"Wow—" The little doll perched on Yu Sheng's shoulder, its eyes wide with excitement. "This is the bridge of the space battleship? This is the fleet command center? There are so many people! Our ship usually has very few people, but when Yu Sheng drives it, it's like a ghost town... Wow! Yu Sheng, Yu Sheng, look! Holy Land, weren't we just there?! Orbital bombardment, it was orbital bombardment! Bomb those bastards to death... Hey, don't cover me..." Yu Sheng frantically pressed down on the boisterous doll while grinning apologetically at Baili Qing: "She's a little too excited. We had a pretty thrilling time down there... Ouch, let go! Let go!"

Bai Liqing's eyes twitched three pixels. She looked at the people in front of her expressionlessly and said in a tired tone, "Next time you can't find the spaceship entrance, you can send me a message."

"Sure, sure," Yu Sheng waved his hand cheerfully (a small doll dangling from his hand), then turned to look at the stargate—a section of its arc structure was hanging in the corner of the observation window, its heavy armor bathed in sunlight, and warships from the border area were constantly jumping into the battlefield from the warp portal. "How does it feel to jump directly from the border assembly point to the enemy's homeworld?"

Before Baili Qing could speak, Hong's voice interrupted from the side: "An impressive and... amazing 'tactic,' I think this will become a very special page in the history of interstellar warfare."

Hong walked over with a faint smile on her face and continued to Yu Sheng: "To be honest, it exceeded the wildest imagination of any commander, to the point that we didn't even have any matching tactics to coordinate with your actions—but fortunately, when the fleet is directly jumping over the enemy's homeworld, no tactics are needed."

Yu Sheng looked at the unfamiliar girl in front of him with some curiosity.

She was thin and frail, with skin so pale it was almost frightening. She wore a long white dress, and her black hair almost reached her ankles. For some reason, her eyes were closed, and she wore a friendly and polite smile.

In a more advanced "perception", Yu Sheng noticed more things - her body temperature was very low, he could hardly feel her heartbeat, and he could not feel the presence of a living person.

Hongwei tilted her head slightly, curiously observing the renowned "Angel Hunter" before her.

The moment their eyes met, she realized her heart was starting to pound.

The next second, she felt something growing in her blood vessels, and her blood began to try to flow.

In the third second, her eyelids began to tremble, and a terrifying urge, seemingly not of her own, made her want to open her eyes.

My heart pounded like a drum, my blood swelled in my veins, and a buzzing noise filled my mind. The "human" standing in my field of vision was rapidly collapsing from the inside out into an unobservable, pitch-black void—

A pair of illusory eyes suddenly drifted over from the edge of her vision, hovering in mid-air between Hong and Yu Sheng. Those eyes disrupted Hong's vision, causing the latter to snap back to reality.

"Is it good? Want to look again? Want to look a little longer? Haven't you had enough?"

Baili Xue's eyes darted around in the air, her voice alternating between the left and right channels as she circled Hong's head, her tone filled with indescribable joy.

For the first time, Hong didn't have time to suppress the little monster that had escaped from Baili Qing's "illusion" with her aura. She subconsciously took a deep breath and took a small step back before finally stabilizing herself. Then she decisively cut off her spiritual vision.

When you look at Yu Sheng again, the unobservable void collapses into a human shape.

Baili Xue was still floating around her, as happy as if her prank had succeeded.

Yu Sheng raised his hand to greet the pair of eyes that were floating in mid-air: "Hey, Xiaoxue, long time no see."

Baili Xue swayed in mid-air: "Long time no see!"

"Are you alright?" Yu Sheng turned to look at Hong again. "Did you lose your balance just now?"

Hong opened her mouth: "Uh, no, I just..."

Before she could finish speaking, Eileen interrupted, "It's obviously low blood sugar! Look how skinny she is, look how pale she is! Seriously, is your cafeteria any bad, you expressionless idiot?!"

"I'm not expressionless."

Eileen: "So the cafeteria really isn't good, is it...?"

"Stop, stop, stop! What nonsense is this?" Yu Sheng quickly interrupted Eileen's rambling, then looked the slender girl up and down. "I remember now, when I contacted Baili Qing before, she seemed to have said that the person in charge of this operation wasn't her, but..."

“Red, a border geographer,” Red took a light breath, finally able to introduce herself normally, “Nice to meet you, Mr. Angel Hunter—and everyone at the ‘Inn’.”

(End of this chapter)