Chapter 300: Hidden Giant Tower

After the artificial Saintess vanished, the last few remaining Brass Knights on the scene were quickly wiped out, leaving only Yu Sheng and his group on the devastated street.

This situation was clearly unsatisfactory.

"She just ran? She was in that state, yet vanished in the blink of an eye?" Irene jumped down from Yu Sheng's shoulder, ran to where the artificial Saintess had last stood, searched everywhere, and shouted in frustration, "She can teleport even after being beaten like that?!"

Behind Xuan Che, his sword radiating chilling cold still floated; he had not relaxed his guard even now. Hearing Irene's complaint, he frowned: "It doesn't seem like ordinary teleportation; it resembles the 'Return' technique I once heard of."

Yu Sheng was stunned upon hearing this: "'Return'? What the heck is that?"

"They say the newest model of artificial Saintess possesses a technique that allows them to preset a 'Saint Coffin' for emergency repair and self-preservation. Once they suffer massive damage while executing missions outside, they are instantly transported back into the 'Saint Coffin'. But I've only heard people mention it; this is my first encounter," Xuan Che said honestly, his face still bearing a hint of awe, "So that is how it works... We really need to think of a countermeasure."

"Holy crap! Does it have such a shameless ability?" Irene was completely shocked, "Why is this C-Type Clasp so evil..."

Xuan Che frowned: "As far as I know, the so-called 'Saint Coffin' also has limitations; the effective distance cannot be too far, and it can only activate once within a short period. Logically, the place where that automaton fled and hid should be right nearby; let's search more carefully..."

Before he finished speaking, Yu Sheng's voice sounded from the side: "Indeed, it is right nearby."

Hu Li, who was sniffing around nearby trying to find the enemy's whereabouts, immediately stood up upon hearing this and looked at Yu Sheng with shining eyes: "Benefactor, do you know where she ran?"

A faint smile appeared on Yu Sheng's face. He glanced around at the thick fog slowly gathering again, and his mood gradually improved—because just now, he had felt the connection transmitted by the blood mark again, clearer than before.

"She ran well," Yu Sheng said cheerfully, walking slowly toward a certain place, "No wonder... If she hadn't run, I really wouldn't have discovered it."

He stopped at an empty spot, then reached out into the air, feeling around as if trying to touch a hidden door.

And this was exactly the place where the residual force of Xuan Che's first punch had swept through earlier.

Yu Sheng realized he hadn't been mistaken before; something was truly hidden here—hidden very well, but now the resonance of blood penetrated the veil of concealment. In his "vision," this empty place was faintly flickering with a dark red line.

He finally felt the "boundary" where that "line" was located, then directly reached out and pried—like inserting a hand into a slightly open door crack, beginning to pry it open bit by bit, with force, to both sides.

The thick fog around instantly accelerated its flow. A turbulent and malevolent atmosphere poured out wildly from the invisible rift, accompanied by a series of unsettling, piercing noises. Irene's eyes widened in surprise as she saw Yu Sheng forcibly "pry" open a door glowing with a faint dark red light in mid-air. The door grew wider and wider, and vast patches of spiderweb-like cracks rapidly appeared in the space surrounding the door as it opened!

The cracking patterns in the air spread to over a hundred meters away in the blink of an eye, then continued to spread rapidly to the distant streets, to the nearby buildings, to the sky and the ground. A huge, "cocoon"-like dark red spiderweb appeared out of thin air in the thick fog with a shocking and oppressive momentum, eventually covering the entire block. A shocking wound had already appeared on the surface of this "web-cocoon," and the source of that wound was the rift being gradually torn open in Yu Sheng's hand!

"Whoa, this thing is pretty sturdy!" Yu Sheng felt a huge resistance, but his actions did not stop at all. Instead, feeling this resistance, he developed immense competitiveness. Finally, he simply planted one foot against the rift and used his whole body to pry the wound wider and wider, his expression excited like a child's. "Hey! Show yourself! Let me see what you actually are!"

Xuan Che, standing nearby, was stunned at this moment. A power he had never seen before was interfering with his divine sense. When Yu Sheng tore open that veil with his bare hands, he even seemed to hear some huge spatial structure emitting a deathly wail—yes, that veil was wailing, having no life of its own, yet dying rapidly, and finally, accompanied by a sound like shattering glass, it collapsed with a boom!

The huge "cocoon" was torn apart. A tiny wound triggered a chain collapse of the entire structure. The spiderweb-like dark red patterns shattered into pieces, exploding outward in all directions like a fierce storm. The thick fog oscillated violently, and the original block scenery twisted and scattered like a collapsing stage backdrop. A hidden space was finally exposed before everyone's eyes.

Irene: "... Holy crap!?"

When the veil dissipated, she saw an open space covered in dark matter. The gray ground, which had a rocky texture, was covered in strange pale purple crystal clusters, embedded like an ugly and bizarre scar among the city's buildings. Various crystals of different sizes formed ferocious and strange "jungles," and in the center of this jungle, a Gao Ta stood prominently.

It was a giant tower radiating a mysterious and dark atmosphere. The towering and majestic tower body seemed to be built from countless black stones, yet it faintly shimmered with a metallic texture. High in the sky, many smaller towers or "branch structures" floated nearby the Gao Ta, connected to the main tower by many bridges or even chains that looked exceptionally slender.

When Irene struggled to look up at the Gao Ta, she noticed that the upper part of the tower seemed to always carry a vague, visual-dislocation-like "texture," as if several layers of tower illusions were overlapping. After looking for just a few seconds, she felt dizzy and faint.

After withdrawing her gaze, the small doll shouted out the three soul-questions: "What the heck is this! What do we do! Where did it come from!"

Even Yu Sheng, who had personally torn apart this veil, was stunned when he looked up. Although he had detected the artificial Saintess's hidden location, he never expected that breaking this barrier would reveal such a shocking scene. Hearing Irene's shout now, he could only shrug: "I don't know!"

"Has this thing been hiding in this thick fog all along?" The other Irene ran over, climbing nimbly onto Yu Sheng's shoulder while speaking rapidly, "No one discovered it for so long... Oh my god! This is as exciting as suddenly finding a nest of cockroaches in the cabinet while doing a big house cleaning!"

Yu Sheng shivered instantly: "Don't talk about such scary things!" Hu Li also ran to Yu Sheng's side, looking up at the Gao Ta while speaking: "Benefactor, what should we do next? Should we go over and take a look?"

Before Yu Sheng could speak, the small doll on his shoulder immediately shrank its neck: "Are we really going? This thing's art style looks wrong... I feel like monsters will spawn everywhere inside."

Hu Li thought for a moment: "But that C-Type Clasp might be hidden inside."

Irene: "Then, to say it again..."

Xuan Che frowned instantly when the giant tower appeared. He stared fixedly ahead, and after a long while, he suddenly broke the silence: "It is this object!"

Hu Li and Irene instantly fell silent, looking in the same direction. Yu Sheng was the first to speak: "Huh?"

"Do you remember I mentioned that in the last year or two, traces of the Holy Hidden Cult had been discovered several times on the border of the star region governed by the Grand Void Pivot?" Xuan Che said quickly, "Once, when the mountain-guarding cultivators destroyed the hiding place of those evil demons, they saw a giant tower—but at that time, that tower was unfinished and not concealed; it was built in a large cave underground. I have seen the recorded footage from that time. If that tower had been completed, it should look exactly like this!"

Irene was stunned, then immediately turned her head to look at Yu Sheng: "Does that mean we must go in and take a look?"

Yu Sheng, however, raised his hand and tapped the small doll on the head: "Are you stupid? At this time, we must report it to the relevant authorities first! Just a single clue is worth tens of thousands!"

While speaking, he had already casually pulled out his mobile phone—obviously, his values were perfectly normal here.

Irene's eyes widened: "But doesn't this place have no signal?"

!

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Yu Sheng casually pull open a small door from the air beside him; on the other side of the small door was the living room of No. 66 Wutong Road.

Then, Yu Sheng quickly edited a message on the border communication reporting platform, then extended his phone to the other side of the small door and pressed send.

Irene: "..."

Yu Sheng turned his head and met the dumbfounded gazes of Irene and Hu Li—Xuan Che, however, had no reaction, because he still lacked sufficient understanding of the wonders of No. 66 Wutong Road.

"Why are you looking at me?" Yu Sheng frowned.

Hu Li looked happy: "Benefactor is indeed sharp-minded."

Irene's reaction was more direct: "... You are truly a talent, damn it."

"Oh, that's it? This is basic operation," Yu Sheng heard this and, unconcerned, shook his mobile phone before casually putting it away, "Alright, the report message has been sent. Next, let's find a safe place to hide and wait for the Special Operations Bureau's response."

Hearing this, Irene was very surprised: "Huh? We're not going in? I thought you would go in to investigate the situation after reporting—this doesn't match your usual action style."

Yu Sheng: "What is my usual action style?"

Irene thought for a moment: "The kind where death is insignificant..."

Yu Sheng: "... That word is not used like that!"

(End of Chapter)