Chapter 251: Information on Thousand Peaks Lingshan

To be honest, Erin didn't guess wrong.

Yu Sheng indeed has developed immense interest in that "Thousand Peaks Lingshan" now.

A "location" outside the borderland, a "far place" he truly knows clearly and can reach—and there's even a netizen over there.

But he's very afraid of getting beaten to death when he goes to meet the netizen.

It's even possible he'll be beaten to death by the netizen himself.

Of course, getting beaten to death isn't a big deal; the key is that this matter was a rather subtle misunderstanding from the very beginning, and one he caused back when he knew nothing. Dying once or twice is one thing, but the awkwardness upon coming back to life is what makes him hesitate.

Yu Sheng figured he should at least first figure out the background of that "Evil Disciple of Three Thousand" on the other side, and learn more about Thousand Peaks Lingshan before making a move. Misunderstandings must eventually be explained, but he knows his own door-opening characteristics well; he knows that next time he pushes the door open, he'll end up in the Eldest Senior Brother's alchemy furnace again. Without making preparations in advance, a "door-opening kill" situation is very likely to happen.

With a whirl of thoughts spinning in his mind in an instant, Yu Sheng looked out at the street and let out a long sigh: "I still have to plan this carefully..."

Erin, sitting on the windowsill and looking up at him, said: "You're just afraid of getting chased and beaten when you go over there."

Yu Sheng poked the little doll with his finger, nearly flipping it over: "So you think you know so much, huh!"

"Benefactor," Hu Li also walked over from behind just then, the fox girl's face full of curiosity, "What were you two just talking about? It sounds like... you have some grudge with that 'Thousand Peaks Lingshan'?"

"This story is a long one," Yu Sheng sighed, explaining to the other party, "This matter started before you even arrived. At that time, in order to find a way to Nightfall Valley, I tried opening many portals, but back then I wasn't skilled with the technique yet, and I didn't think things through..."

Then he shortened the long story, telling the fox girl about how he had opened a door and drilled into someone's alchemy furnace back then, and added at the end: "Of course, we can't confirm for sure that it really is the same place now; we can only say the possibility is high—after all, the art style of those buildings in the news photos really looks similar."

As Hu Li listened to Yu Sheng's account, her expression gradually became somewhat strange; her ears slowly drooped halfway, and then her eyes turned red.

This startled Yu Sheng: "Hey, we were talking nicely, why are you..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Hu Li threw herself forward: "Benefactor... so you had it so hard back then..."

The fox girl suddenly hugged Yu Sheng like that, hugging him very tightly, with many fluffy tails wrapping around him tightly as well, as if afraid of letting him escape.

"Benefactor, you are so good."

Warmth, softness—those two sensations lasted less than half a second; the rest was the sound of hydraulic shears crushing bones.

Yu Sheng struggled almost as if facing death: "Hurry... you're strangling me..."

"Ah!" Hu Li immediately exclaimed, a bunch of tails releasing all at once like a peacock spreading its feathers with a "Bang!", "Sorry, Benefactor!"

It took Yu Sheng about half a minute to finally catch his breath, and to repair the tiny cracks in his ribs and various internal injuries, before he could take a deep breath, looking helplessly at the flustered fox girl: "I'm touched that you want to express your gratitude, but next time you must first consider that I'm a fragile human. Also, it wasn't actually that hard back then; I just opened a bunch of doors, at most it took some effort. If you really want to call it hard, the Special Operations Bureau was the one that was truly hard back then; this matter is quite something I owe them... hmm?"

He suddenly stopped speaking there, as if remembering something, and then glanced at the time on his phone.

"Speaking of the Special Operations Bureau, I remembered," he muttered while opening "Border Communications" and scrolling through the private message list, "Bai Liqing should be awake by now... I'll send her a message."

Erin, sitting on the nearby windowsill watching the fun, her eyes suddenly widened; even with her quality, she almost couldn't hold it back: "You're so kind-hearted—you still remember what you said in the previous sentence? Sending an urgent work order to someone during their morning meal time..."

By the time Yu Sheng finished speaking, the message had already been sent: a single picture accompanied by a sentence. The picture was a photo he had just taken of that piece of cloth, with the text below reading: "Guess what I found in my own house again?"

"You just don't understand human diversity," Yu Sheng said cheerfully, looking at Erin after sending the message, "People like her, as long as their eyes are open, wish they could finish all their work. If I delay sending such important news until work hours, it would actually affect her subsequent arrangements—because her actual full-day work time might have already started planning the moment she opened her eyes."

The little doll was stunned, and after Yu Sheng finished speaking, she still reacted for a few seconds before hesitantly opening her mouth: "Y-yes, is that so?"

"Definitely correct, you have to trust my ability to judge people," Yu Sheng said casually, then turned and walked out, "You actually reminded me; it's mealtime, I'll go get something to eat first."

Hu Li immediately followed with a beaming smile.

However, just halfway there, Yu Sheng suddenly stopped again, picked up his phone—Bai Liqing had directly called him.

Picking up the phone and holding it to his ear, before he could even speak, the clear and concise voice of that female director came through the receiver: "The room where snow accumulated before?"

"Yes," Yu Sheng exhaled, "This time it's not even accumulated snow; the wind and snow rolled directly into the room, and then I found this thing in the corner of the wall—noticed the pattern on it?" "Noticed," Bai Liqing said directly, "Do you have time now? Come to the Special Operations Bureau, bringing that thing."

This time it was Yu Sheng's turn to be dumbfounded.

"Uh, now?" he asked tentatively, "I haven't eaten yet."

"The Special Operations Bureau has a morning cafeteria."

Yu Sheng: "That's not urgent anyway; since I can push the door and arrive, I can wait for you to get to the unit first..."

"I'm right over here—I spent last night in my office because I had to handle the aftermath of the Angel Fall incident."

Yu Sheng: "..."

Erin, who had been eavesdropping with her ears tilted to the side, waved her arms back and forth and clapped: "Oh ho~"

Yu Sheng's mouth twitched, forcing his face to stay stiff as he spoke to the other end of the phone: "... Alright, I'll be there right away."

"Hey, you're really good at judging people; workaholics are just different; she's running at full power the moment she opens her eyes," Erin said gleefully from the side, "But you have to keep up with her too~!"

Yu Sheng casually picked up the doll, slung it over his shoulder: "Oh ho, is that so? Hey, is that so? —You're coming with me too."

No mistake, one sentence, one content, all inside, all in one look!

"Doesn't matter; I can still leave two bodies here to watch TV and play games."

By this time, Yu Sheng had already reached out and pulled open the large door leading to the Special Operations Bureau; he didn't pay attention to Erin's boastful voice, but instead turned to look at Hu Li.

"Come on, follow your Benefactor to the Special Operations Bureau to mooch a meal!"

A few minutes later, Hu Li was already sitting in the cafeteria of the Special Operations Bureau headquarters building, starting to wolf down food.

Yu Sheng and Erin were first personally led by Bai Liqing to the high-risk laboratory from last time, and immediately handed over the "strip of cloth" they brought to the laboratory staff.

It was still the same rigorous handover process as last time, with handover personnel wearing full heavy-duty equipment; even though Yu Sheng had just casually stuffed that strip of cloth into his pocket to bring it over, the entire process was not compromised in the slightest.

"Does it still need to be this cautious?" Watching the handover personnel disappear behind the laboratory gate with the "sample," Yu Sheng couldn't help but turn and look at Bai Liqing beside him, "Didn't that metal part I brought last time get confirmed to have no contamination hazard? I thought the security level for this strip of cloth could be lowered."

"New samples must follow the highest-level 'First Contact Procedure'; that's the regulation," Bai Liqing said calmly, "Lowering the danger rating is something that happens after completing a series of tests."

"Alright, that makes sense," Yu Sheng nodded, then seriously brought up his communication with "Evil Disciple of Three Thousand," "There's a situation I need to tell you about regarding this 'strip of cloth'—I posted it on Border Communications just like last time, and there's someone named 'Evil Disciple of Three Thousand'—he has something quite similar."

Bai Liqing immediately turned her head: "What?!"

Yu Sheng told the female director in front of him everything that happened in the morning without hiding anything.

It was hard to see any change in expression on Bai Liqing's face, but from her brief silence, Yu Sheng knew the other party had become serious.

"That Thousand Peaks Lingshan," Yu Sheng thought for a moment and asked tentatively, "What kind of place is it? Does your Special Operations Bureau usually deal with them?"

"It is one of the most influential forces in Feiyu-13b, with its headquarters located at fy13b-17c-1426-3. Ah, that's the planetary identification number—but they themselves call the planet beneath their feet 'Tai Xu Ling Shu'. Thousand Peaks Lingshan is located near the North Pole of Tai Xu Ling Shu," Bai Liqing said casually, "Led by Thousand Peaks Lingshan, Tai Xu Ling Shu controls more than a dozen resource stars and colony stars around it. Although they don't often step out of their territory and don't pay much attention to places outside Feiyu-13b, their connection with the Special Operations Bureau is still quite close; some of our 'Off-World Outposts' also have trade relations with them."

Stopping there for a moment, she added: "Last time we mobilized many friends to search for Hu Li's hometown; Thousand Peaks Lingshan contributed quite a lot."

Yu Sheng stood nearby, listening with his jaw dropped.

It felt like being suddenly dragged out of his home's warm bed to face the stars and the sea.

Fortunately, however, he had already fully grasped the truth of "the vastness of the world" while dealing with Hu Li; compared to those cyber immortals from Hu Li's hometown, what Bai Liqing told him only made him pause for a moment—and the main reason for his daze was that he had previously thought "Thousand Peaks Lingshan" referred to just a single mountain and the sect upon it, but now he knew...

It was the f***ing name of a galactic civilization's capital!

(End of this chapter)