Chapter 290: A Visit

When the morning sunlight streamed through the window into the bedroom, the first thing Yu Sheng saw upon opening his eyes was four Ailins sprawled across his bed in all directions...

And half of his own body was already hanging almost completely off the edge of the bed.

To be fair, a 66.6cm doll actually doesn't take up much space, even if she can rotate three hundred and sixty degrees while sleeping and mess up a large area, but four dolls rolling around everywhere while sleeping is clearly another matter entirely—this guy can perform over twenty sets of Drunken Fist on the bed in a single night, occasionally suddenly kicking up a flying kick or a headbutt; who could stand that?

Yu Sheng recalled the pile of punches and kicks he'd taken on his body, couldn't help but sigh, wondering if casually agreeing to manufacture a new body for this little doll was a wrong decision, then sat up from the edge of the bed with a sore back and aching waist, but just as he was about to brush his teeth and wash up, he heard several little dolls' muddled voices coming from behind him: "Good morning, yawn...""I dreamed I was fighting someone.""Getting up so early today?""I got wrapped up in the quilt! Get me out!"

Yu Sheng helplessly sighed, turned his head to rescue the little thing struggling and wriggling inside the quilt, while muttering: "You need to change your sleeping spot, at least spare a few bodies."

Then he was met with four channels of protest (previously it was three channels): "Why? Your room is so big, you can't even leave me a spot..."

"Look at how many bodies you have now!" Yu Sheng immediately widened his eyes, "Even with the bedside table, my bed isn't enough for your antics! I almost slept on the floor this morning!"

Ailin then all looked around, four bodies staring at each other on the bed, then awkwardly scratched their heads together: "Hey, don't be so serious... let's just make do for now; when I have more bodies later, I'll spare a few to put in the attic..."

"Stop talking nonsense, I'll order a few doll storage boxes online for you these next two days; from now on, keep only the main controller sleeping on the bed, and the rest will sleep inside the boxes," Yu Sheng waved his hand, cutting off Ailin's chatter without any courtesy, "Good lord, you've been silently encroaching on my sleeping space..."

Then, unsurprisingly, he was met with the little doll's four-channel looping chatter.

But he was used to it, knowing that if he just ignored this guy for three minutes, the world would return to quiet.

And the situation matched his experience exactly—after finishing washing up, Ailin seemed to have already forgotten the fact that she was about to be packed into a box to sleep, and started happily running around the house again.

And one of Ailin's movements was noticeably a few steps slower than the other bodies.

Yu Sheng looked at the other person with some surprise: "Your Promax version body hasn't recovered yet?"

"Mostly recovered, just feels heavier than the other bodies," Pro Ailin stopped her morning lap activity upon hearing this, muttered while stretching her limbs, "Maybe I overdrawn too severely all at once before? I guess I need to be fully charged with energy to recover completely..."

"... Your charging speed is ridiculously slow," Yu Sheng frowned subconsciously, "You've been charging from yesterday until now and still not fully charged."

Upon hearing this, Ailin was also helpless: "I can't help it! I don't understand what Hu Li meant by that 'ancient method of cultivation', nor do I understand gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and I can't refine spiritual energy by eating like Hu Li does—should I just gnaw on power lines instead?"

Yu Sheng immediately laughed: "Then go ahead and try gnawing one; if you end up exploding and turning black, I'll throw you in the washing machine."

The little doll let out a shriek and pounced, but because this body's reaction was sluggish, she slipped the moment she jumped up and slid all the way to Yu Sheng's feet, face down...

Yu Sheng was used to this guy's unreliable behavior; he bent down, picked her up, washed her, then frowned again, looking out the window somewhat absent-mindedly.

Ailin had already forgotten about being angry by then; seeing this, she was curious: "What are you looking at?"

"I don't know what's going on," Yu Sheng hesitated a bit, "As soon as I opened my eyes today, I just felt a bit unsettled."

"Your spiritual intuition is jumping around again?"

"Not spiritual intuition, just a plain intuition; I feel like something is about to happen," Yu Sheng seriously sensed for a moment, then shook his head, "But there's no sense of danger; it probably isn't a bad thing."

Ailin thought for a moment, then suddenly her eyes lit up: "Then let me divine for you?"

Yu Sheng was startled: "You can do that?!"

"Of course! I'm an Alice doll! My aptitude for the occult is maxed out!" Ailin proudly patted her chest, then all four bodies ran to the bedside table together, cooperated to open the drawer and pulled out a deck of playing cards, then sat directly on the floor in a serious circle, started shuffling and drawing cards, while muttering as they did so, "Let me tell you, my divination is amazing; card divination and crystal divination are just basics; I also know wine divination, which involves getting a golden cup—even a gold-plated one will do—then pouring witch wine into it—cooking wine will do too—lighting incense on the side—mosquito coils will do too—and observing the illusions in the wine..."

Yu Sheng listened to this little thing's muttering from the side, watched for a long time, and finally spoke up somewhat uncertainly: "... But it looks to me like you're just playing Dou Dizhu with yourself."

"You don't understand!" Ailin (no idea which version) threw the cards in her hand onto the floor, "The important thing in card divination isn't the form of using the cards, but the diviner's realization of fate—for example, I can already see from this card game that you will suffer a blood disaster today..."

Upon hearing this, Yu Sheng felt relieved.

Because Ailin predicted he would suffer a blood disaster every time.

At the same time, near the intersection close to No. 66 Wutong Road, a tall, handsome young man in casual clothes was walking out of an alley at a leisurely pace.

After walking a stretch, the young man saw that this road was nearing its end, and ahead was only an empty, vacant lot with no other houses. "It should be here..." The young man stood in place observing for a moment, then pulled a piece of paper from his chest, looking at the notes written on it, "Hmm, the address is indeed here..."

While speaking, this handsome young man put away the paper in his hand, then looked left and right to see no one, stood at the intersection and bowed respectfully towards the direction of the vacant lot, then brushed his eyes with one hand and formed several hand seals with the other, his aura changing slightly in an instant.

Wisps of misty spiritual light appeared in his eyes; the young man opened them and slowly scanned the vacant lot before him.

The next second, before he could see anything appear on that vacant lot, he saw two people burst out of a small house nearby with a sign for a courier pickup point, charging towards him like a gust of wind, shouting as they rushed: "Hey, hey, hey, who are you, what are you doing? Stand there and don't move!""Restricted zone! Restricted zone! Do you have a permit!"

The handsome young man was instantly stunned.

After a moment of contact, he and two Special Affairs Bureau agents temporarily assigned to guard this post stared at each other.

"You say you reported to the Special Affairs Bureau and came here to visit the owner of No. 66 Wutong Road?" the young Special Affairs Bureau agent asked with a serious face.

The handsome young man quickly fished out his ID from his belongings: "Ah yes, this is my pass; this one was personally signed by your bureau chief..."

The two Special Affairs Bureau agents in front took the ID, checked it carefully, then pulled out their phones to confirm the situation, only then returning the ID, but still somewhat puzzled: "You just came over like this? All by yourself?"

"Yes," the handsome young man nodded very frankly, but immediately added, "Oh, I came to Border City a few years ago and roughly know the roads in the old town area; besides, this was a private matter arranged by my master, so it would be too much trouble to bother your bureau; I completed the procedures and came alone."

Speaking to this point, he paused, and even sighed with emotion: "I just didn't expect the reclusive methods of high masters to be so exquisite; there are even taboos around it; I was rash..."

!

"You are indeed rash! You should have asked about the situation clearly before coming!" the other Special Affairs Bureau agent said with a helpless expression, "Within a hundred meters around No. 66 Wutong Road, using supernatural powers is strictly forbidden; moreover, no unconventional means are allowed to peek into or probe this place; warning marks are even drawn at nearby intersections; didn't you see them?"

The handsome young man was a bit embarrassed: "... I came by shrinking the earth into inches."

The two Special Affairs Bureau agents stared at each other and started whispering:

"I told you those warning signs should be hung farther away; a hundred meters isn't enough."

"Just moving the signs does what good? Might as well ask the higher-ups to approve an interference generator."

"That works... but we're changing shifts in a couple of days, right?"

"Then let's file the report first; we need to leave a record."

"Gentlemen," the young man had been waiting on the side for a long time and finally couldn't help speaking up, "Could you please notify someone inside for me first? I have my master's orders..."

"Ah, okay, okay, okay, sorry," one of the Special Affairs Bureau agents finally realized, nodded quickly, "Wait a moment; I'll call someone inside the house."

A moment later, the handsome young man arrived at the end of the vacant lot with some confusion and stopped in front of a floor tile; he looked down and saw that a prominent red horizontal bar was painted in front of that floor tile, with the words "Please be careful when opening the door" written below the bar—the paint was obviously fresh, and a small tuft of silvery-white fur stuck to the paint surface could be seen in the corner; perhaps a passing cat or dog had gotten its tail stuck when the paint wasn't dry.

And until now, he still couldn't perceive any aura of a hidden cave dwelling.

Truly a high master—

The handsome young man sighed with this thought in his heart; the next second, he saw a door suddenly appear before his eyes.

Without any warning, without any aura, a plain door opened right before his eyes, and an equally plain figure appeared at the doorway.

Xuan Che looked at the high master at the doorway.

Yu Sheng looked at the handsome guy in front of him.

The two fell silent for a few seconds each.

"It's you?!"

"Holy crap, a blood calamity!"

(End of this chapter)