Chapter 316: A New Spectacle in the Backyard

Erin and Hu Li rarely saw Yu Sheng angry; in their impression, Yu Sheng was always cheerful—happy when he could be, waiting to be happy later if he couldn't, and even after falling into a foreign realm surrounded by non-human things getting beaten up, or gnawing back and forth with a Hunger Entity, he could still return with a smile.

He was a fellow who could turn to ash and vanish while laughing; Erin even suspected Yu Sheng's entire life was composed of fun.

But now, everyone here discovered that Yu Sheng seemed capable of anger too.

A soft and warm sensation came from his hand; Yu Sheng lowered his head and saw a fluffy big tail rubbing against his wrist.

"Benefactor," Hu Li curled her tail around Yu Sheng's hand, shaking it gently, "next time I'll go with you to fight them."

Yu Sheng said nothing, simply pulled his hand out and gently rubbed the down behind the fox-girl's ears.

"So now... what's the situation with this C-type lock?" Erin turned her head, looking at that pitch-black iron coffin with a somewhat complex expression, "You heard her 'Echo of the Dead,' which means she's already dead, right—but you put her in this 'Holy Coffin' that can be used to repair the Artificial Saintess; do you think she can still be saved?"

"I'm not sure," Yu Sheng slowly shook his head, "I did experience a 'Conversation with the Dead' with her, but it was different from previous conversations with the dead... what I saw wasn't a message left after death, but past memories; if we take 'death' as the boundary, these are two completely opposite rivers, and the 'life form' of the Artificial Saintess is also very special; it's hard for me to judge her state at that time with simple 'life and death'."

Speaking of this, he paused and also looked up at that iron coffin.

"So I put her inside here—I'm not sure if this will work, but I adjusted the repair process according to the method of infusing life into dolls and awakening vitality, then restarted this device. The repair process is still ongoing; I can feel it's running inside, and the Holy Coffin system didn't throw an error because the Saintess completely died, but she indeed hasn't woken up yet.

"Perhaps we'll have to wait a while, or maybe we'll keep waiting like this forever, who knows? Anyway, let's just do our best."

"... Feels like you're quite invested." Erin couldn't help but sigh.

"In the last second, she reached out to me," Yu Sheng said very seriously, "although at that time I could no longer hear what she was saying, I could feel that she didn't want to die then—she still had many things she wanted to do. Wanted to go home, wanted revenge, wanted to live... if she had wanted to end her life after learning the truth back then, I wouldn't have bothered with this effort, but since she reached out to me, I might as well give her a hand."

Erin lowered her head, seemingly thinking very seriously about something, and only raised her head after a while, smiling quite happily: "Alright then, anyway, you helped me like this back then too."

Yu Sheng raised an eyebrow: "I thought you'd have a big objection."

"I haven't finished fighting her! When she comes out, I'll fight her," Erin proudly crossed her arms and tilted her head back, "don't laugh—you'll see, it'll be a fierce fight!"

Yu Sheng raised his hand to rub Erin's hair, then his gaze fell on Xuan Che, who had remained silent all along.

The other party had been keeping a tight face since earlier; although he said nothing, a layer of ice had already formed on the ground beneath his feet, obviously his emotions hadn't calmed down much either.

Noticing the gaze falling on him, Xuan Che broke the silence before Yu Sheng could speak: "I will definitely report this matter to my sect; based on my understanding of my master, he will also definitely convey this matter to the various sect masters of the Tai Xu Ling Shu. Using living people for alchemical sacrifice has long been a great taboo in the Tai Xu Ling Shu from ancient times to the present, let alone such a scale, the act of harvesting and refining people like wheat into tools!"

Speaking of this, he took a light breath again, and after his emotions calmed down somewhat, he said: "Actually, all along, including the Holy Hidden Society, Angel cultists, and other evil demons, they have been strictly suppressed under the rule of the Tai Xu Ling Shu; after all, once they infiltrate, they will do things like secretly harming the common people, defiling mountains and forests, and stealing and destroying treasures; every righteous person must kill them. Now this clue is just adding another charge to their execution order."

"I just never thought they could be so insane..."

"The place where they can act so recklessly must be deep within their own controlled star sector; if we must say it, those are their own subjects, right?"

"If they never considered those people as humans in the first place, then where would the psychological burden come from?" Yu Sheng saw it very clearly, "I saw many things on this ship and heard many of their conversations; this so-called 'Holy Hidden Society' has long been obsessed with the 'alienation' of humans; they can even split and transform themselves into various forms without human shape. Members within the Hidden Society are divided into three, six, and nine grades according to so-called 'defects'—it can be said that except for the core concept of the 'Path of the Holy' being supreme, within the entire Holy Hidden Society, there isn't a single member who possesses complete dignity and value as a 'human'."

Xuan Che thought for a moment and could only helplessly smile bitterly: "True, we can't speculate on the thoughts of evil demons using normal human logic; if they had rationality, how could they have fallen into the demonic path—it's just that I was attached to appearances."

Afterwards, after confirming the Holy Coffin was still "running normally," Yu Sheng and his group left this special cabin.

They took the elevator again to the living area inside the Gao Ta—this was a large-scale group of cabins occupying a full three floors within the giant tower, including residential areas, medical areas, and an "ecological cabin" with a small-scale ecosystem.

The ecological cabin was lush with greenery; various plants under strict control by the automatic system grew vigorously within their respective survival zones and were adjusted by genetic engineering to their most "perfect" appearance; in the cabins of the medical area, besides basic treatment equipment, there were stored large quantities of things that made people's hair stand on end—human limbs and organs in the cultivation stage, flesh and blood samples stored in jars, and "waste biomass" that hadn't been processed in time.

And in the residential area, one could find many "personal items" left by Hidden Society members, including some relatively unimportant notes, prayer books with markings, and various miscellaneous objects that looked similar to those used by ordinary people.

Of course, there were also many things that clearly didn't look like "local products," such as personal information devices obviously exceeding the technological level of the Border City, and food, tools, and packaging marked with a bunch of alien scripts of unknown use; obviously, these were all brought in from "outside" by those Hidden Society members.

Organizing these things and extracting useful intelligence from them was obviously a very complex and time-consuming, labor-intensive project, and Yu Sheng was very self-aware of his abilities in this regard.

"Later we'll have to 'borrow' a large batch of personnel from the Special Bureau," Yu Sheng said casually while walking in a corridor near the core area, "traces of Hidden Society members' activities remain everywhere in this tower; who knows which detail might expose key intelligence, such as the coordinates of the secret Xinggang where this tower once docked. Also, we need to ask Bai Li Qing for some engineering technicians to help repair the outer armor belt and the energy pipelines of the phase engines, and experts in system decryption to see if we can dig out some intelligence from the navigation host; I can't figure this thing out..."

The Hunter, who had hardly spoken, finally couldn't help but speak up upon hearing this: "You might as well just fly this spaceship directly into the Special Bureau headquarters building—park it right under the Director's nose and let her arrange five hundred experts to sleep on the engine cover."

Upon hearing this, Yu Sheng quickly thought about the feasibility of this matter and asked very seriously: "Is there a floor that can accommodate it?"

Hunter: "...?"

Although the area under the Hunter's hood was already pitch black, Yu Sheng still felt he saw the other party's face turn dark...

He didn't continue this topic.

Finally, Yu Sheng took Erin and others to the control hall on the very top floor of the Gao Ta (which could also be called the "bridge area"), let them see the scene where that "Sage" fought and fled as an impassioned coward, and then ended this spaceship tour.

Of course, they did not tour the entire spaceship.

The scale of this giant tower was so astonishing, and its internal structure so complex, that if one really wanted to carefully explore every corridor and every room inside, it would probably take two days and two nights just to get out; so Yu Sheng only showed everyone the few main cabin sections directly connected to the tower's "central channel," skipping over the large quantities of mechanical equipment, storage, and maintenance channels in other areas. Besides this, there were several other cabins containing energy reactions that were either eerie, powerful, or dangerous; Yu Sheng himself hadn't figured out what those areas were used for, and obviously they weren't good places for a tour.

Even so, they spent several hours in the Gao Ta.

Several hours was obviously more than enough for a group of highly active big and little bear children to discover the new thing appearing in the valley, and run from the small town to the edge of the Black Forest.

So as soon as Yu Sheng pushed the door open, he first heard a cacophony of squealing and shouting, then opened his eyes and saw a large group of little heads running around on the spaceship's docking platform, shouting and screaming, running east and climbing west. He also saw Rapunzel hanging entirely on a protrusion of the spaceship's tail armor, trying to grab the "King" who had already run up to a height of over ten meters; Jack and the Dragon Slayer were seriously discussing what the very top of the tower looked like, the former preparing to plant a bean and climb halfway up to take a look, while the latter said why bother with all that effort, he could just transform into a dragon and drop from the sky onto the tower peak...

But the one with the most presence at the scene had to be Bai Xue—when Yu Sheng came out, she was preparing to lead her seven Lei Ting Titans to climb the tower.

The Mermaid was still on the ground accompanying them, providing an impassioned BGM, knowing the fire but not the reason for the fire...

Little Red Riding Hood came out of the door, took one look, and her blood instantly turned cold; she let out a roar that echoed through the clouds: "ALL·OF·YOU·GET·OVER·HERE!!"

(End of this chapter)