Alien Hotel.

Chapter 712 Black Star...Phenomenon?
Upon hearing Yu Sheng utter the word "plan," even Baili Qing couldn't help but let her eyes twitch slightly.

"I'm suddenly a little curious, what exactly was your initial plan?" She looked at Yu Sheng with a hint of suspicion in her eyes.

Yu Sheng is an upright and honest person: "I had no plans."

Baili Qing: "..."

The little doll, who was perched on Yu Sheng's shoulder lost in thought, suddenly snapped up and looked up: "There's murderous intent!"

Bai Liqing took a deep breath.

“Let’s talk about that ‘sphere’ outside,” the humanoid dragon said stiffly. “You really don’t know how that thing came to be?”

“I really don’t know,” Yu Sheng waved his hand, “but I can tell you about what happened in the Earth’s core and how the two boundary bridges were connected—yes, two boundary bridges, one is the ‘Gate of Eden’ built by these cultists, and the other is the ‘Genuine Angel’ that I casually took after we finished fighting at the Temple of the Ominous…”

Yu Sheng didn't hold back and immediately recounted everything that happened after he fell into the Earth's core—including the origins of the "Holy Throne" and the Shadowless Skeleton, as well as the process by which he used the mechanisms of the Boundary Bridge and the Gate of Eden to completely devour the Holy Throne and the Shadowless Skeleton.

Of course, he omitted some technical details—such as how he died on the spot in the first round.

After all, there are quite a lot of people here, and not everyone has had the experience of being bled like Baili Qing.

As Yu Sheng was telling his story, Hong gradually found it impossible to ignore the gaze that was falling on her.

She endured the slight burning sensation on her skin and looked up to see the "living saint" who had come with Yu Sheng looking at her with a bold and curious expression.

Memories of her encounter with the opponent during the Star Gate battle resurfaced in her mind, and Hong frowned slightly, a little awkwardly: "Is there something you need?"

The glowing psionic creature completely ignored her, continuing to stare at her without uttering a sound.

“She thinks you look familiar,” Luna suddenly said from the side.

“We met at the Stargate,” Red said with a slightly awkward expression, “but back then she… wasn’t as ‘spiritual’ as she is now.”

As soon as Hong finished speaking, the "artificial angel" beside Yu Sheng suddenly moved. Her translucent wings fluttered gently, and she slowly floated in front of Hong, extending a hand.

Hong paused for a moment, then looked up and saw a face that was much clearer than she remembered—a young girl's face with a gentle and expectant smile, still holding out her hand.

Hong understood what the other person meant.

She smiled and gently extended her hand to the other person: "I'm so glad to see you're safe and sound..."

Yu Sheng and Baili Qing simultaneously heard a soft hissing sound from beside them. Hu Li's ears twitched the next second, and she sniffed, "What's cooked?"

Immediately following was Baili Qing's exclamation: "I'm truly impressed! You, an undead creature, dare to shake hands with a living Holy Light?!"

"I was wearing protective gear, I didn't expect her to be so strong—hey, don't move, don't move, you're going to get a bruise, you're going to get a bruise..."

"How about I cut off your hand? With your physique, it would grow back much faster than this slowly recovering."

"Don't do anything reckless—let's get back to business, I'll be fine in a bit."

Yu Sheng stared dumbfounded at the unexpected commotion before him, especially when he saw Baili Qing teasing someone in a subtle tone for the first time. He suddenly realized that the usually cold-looking director of the Special Operations Bureau seemed to have quite a rich social network and personal feelings.

Meanwhile, the "angel lady" who had only recently joined the group floated over dejectedly. She stood next to Yu Sheng, looking somewhat lost.

Eileen stood up and slapped the other person's arm forcefully: "Oh dear, it's not your fault. Your little trouble is nothing. I'll tell you the story of the Blackrock Research Station later..."

There's some truth to the saying that small dolls can be used to comfort people.

Fortunately, there were always reliable people around. Baili Qing came over and steered the conversation back on track: "In short, the fact is that there is a 'black star' hanging in the universe, and the only thing we can be sure of right now is that its appearance may be related to the connection process of the two boundary bridges—and that it is still stably located at the Eden Gate and has not disappeared."

Hearing Baili Qing's words, Yu Sheng's expression also became serious, and he nodded slightly.

"This thing, Master Yuanhao also encountered before. According to him, the appearance and disappearance of the Black Star were without warning, and its operating mode and essence could not be explored. He suddenly bumped into it and was then inexplicably thrown back into the real universe—this is the first time we have witnessed its entire appearance process..."

As Yu Sheng spoke, he pinched his chin and slowly furrowed his brow.

A multitude of scattered memories and clues swirled and connected in his mind, and many of his previous conjectures about Black Star gradually came together at this moment.

He not only remembered the adventures Old Shuaibi had told him, but also the scenes about Black Star that he had seen in some visions.

Then, he recalled another crucial clue. It was at the end of the Boundary Bridge crisis, in the ruins of the forgotten Temple of Omens, when the Boundary Bridge collapsed and shattered, that Black Star had briefly appeared above that lost space.

Yu Sheng told the story.

“Yes, I remember that scene too,” Baili Qing nodded immediately. She was also a witness at the time. “It only appeared for a very short time, appearing out of thin air and disappearing out of thin air. We couldn’t detect any aura or energy fluctuations at all.”

Eileen sat on Yu Sheng's shoulders, arms crossed, muttering, "It was a boundary bridge back then... and it's a boundary bridge now..."

The raccoon's two furry, pointed ears suddenly twitched.

"My benefactor, do you think the Black Star that Master Yuanhao saw back then is the same one we see before us now?"

Yu Sheng raised an eyebrow: "What do you mean by that?"

“We watched this black star ‘appear’,” the fox girl said earnestly. “Strictly speaking, it was ‘generated’ out of thin air when the Gate of Eden was operating in a specific state, rather than being ‘transferred’ from somewhere else. We used to think that the black star was instantly teleported to our faces, but this time, can we rule out the ‘teleportation’ process?”

Yu Sheng blinked, and from the fox girl's bright golden-red eyes, he seemed to understand her thoughts.

"You mean... Black Star might not be a definite, independent celestial body?"

“Hmm, that’s just a guess,” Hu Li said, wagging his big tail. “Do you think it’s possible that the Black Star is actually a ‘phenomenon’? It’s not running around, but appears in this universe when the conditions are met. If the conditions are not met or the environment that sustains the phenomenon changes, the phenomenon will naturally fade away.”

A moment of silence fell over the bridge as the men exchanged bewildered glances, until Yu Sheng muttered under his breath, "Holy crap, it really is..."

The fox-girl continued her analysis with a serious expression: "This explains why even a powerful figure like Yuan Hao Zhenren couldn't sense the 'movement' of the Black Star. It's not a moving celestial body at all, but a naturally occurring and dissipating phenomenon. It also explains why so many civilizations in the universe have never observed the existence of the Black Star or found where it usually hides—because it doesn't usually exist. This phenomenon only occurs briefly when certain conditions are met..."

“And now we can be basically certain that one of the fundamental conditions for the occurrence of this ‘phenomenon’ is the Boundary Bridge…” Yu Sheng followed up with this line of thought, “So, was it also related to the Boundary Bridge when Yuan Hao Zhenren met Black Star? But where was the Boundary Bridge back then…? The Boundary Bridge from 3700 years ago had already collapsed, and the Gate of Eden of the Hermitage had not yet been built…”

"How about we call that old handsome guy over and take a look? Isn't he a veteran victim of Black Star?" Eileen suddenly had a flash of inspiration. "Ah! Right, we also have a secondhand scientist. Let's call her over and take a look too. She's a veteran victim of Boundary Bridge..."

Yu Sheng's expression became somewhat subtle as he listened to the little thing's idea: "What you're saying makes sense, but why does everything you say sound so gritty?"

Eileen swayed with excitement: "Just tell me, aren't they senior or not?!"

Yu Sheng had already taken out his phone by then.

He first dialed Yuanhao Zhenren's border communication account.

The phone rang for a while before Yu Sheng saw that the call had been connected. He picked up the phone and put it to his ear, but before he could speak, he heard a whooshing sound and a distant, chaotic roar on the other end.

Two seconds later, he heard the old handsome guy's voice: "Ah, hello? Is this Fellow Daoist Yu Sheng? What do you want?"

Yu Sheng swallowed back what he was about to say, frowned, and couldn't help but ask, "Did you run into a confidante while clubbing down the mountain again?"

"Don't talk nonsense," Master Yuanhao quickly denied upon hearing this, "What do you mean by going down the mountain to dance? That was yesterday!"

Yu Sheng: "...So what's your situation now?"

"...Today is the second day that Aning is chasing me."

Yu Sheng: "..."

He covered the microphone with one hand and turned to explain to the person next to him, "The old handsome guy has been caught by his confidante again."

After saying that, he put his hand down and continued speaking to the other person: "We are currently in the Dark Current Starfield, and we need your help with something."

A thunderous roar flashed from Yuan Hao Zhenren's side, and the old man's voice was almost crying: "I'm the one in dire need of help! I just passed by Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain, and my two junior brothers locked the mountain gate's grand formation, preventing me from entering—"

“We have a black star here,” Yu Sheng interrupted calmly. “It’s fresh, it just appeared. If you had come any later, it might have disappeared.”

"...Fellow Daoist Yu Sheng, please wait a moment. I will return to Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain now. Please go to Guanyuntai to pick me up."

"Didn't your two junior brothers lock the mountain gate's grand formation?"

"...Call Yuan Ling first and plead for me."

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