Chapter 326: Thriving Prosperity

While Yu Sheng was struggling desperately against a mountain of interstellar navigation regulations, the "technical support personnel" arranged by Bai Qing finally began to arrive in succession.

Among the first batch were acquaintances—Engineer Sun, along with the engineering team he led, all the same hands who had built the temporary camp for the orphanage children back then.

There were also dozens of experts in the field of deep-space vessels.

Deep in the "Valley," on the spaceship docking platform near the Black Forest, Engineer Sun—a short, stocky man with slightly dark skin, wearing a special operations engineering team uniform—tilted his head back, gazing at the pitch-black giant tower sticking out of the platform's "slot," and sighed in awe for a very, very long time.

"The last time I came, this place of yours only had a big platform in the center of the valley, with a toilet built on top," Engineer Sun drew his gaze back, looking at Yu Sheng with a face full of emotion, "How long has it been? You've even built a Xinggang here?! You've turned the previous big platform into a Jin Zita..."

"How many times have I said that wasn't a toilet before?" Yu Sheng helplessly tugged at the corner of his mouth. "But at least you're willing to admit the new teleportation hub I built is a Jin Zita, which is nice—Little Red Riding Hood and the others all said it looks like a grave."

"Actually, I wanted to say that too," Engineer Sun almost laughed upon hearing this, but seeing Yu Sheng's expression, he quickly added a few more words, "But then again, it is quite spectacular. If anyone insists it's a grave, it must be a wonder-level giant tomb—I once led a team to 'the outside' to help repair a museum. That museum was built directly on top of an alien tomb, a tomb much like the one you built, which is locally known as one of the Eight Great Ancient Buildings..."

Yu Sheng's face turned almost green: "Maybe you shouldn't try to make excuses for it."

Engineer Sun coughed dryly twice and quickly brought the topic back on track: "The Director instructed that all my upcoming engineering projects will revolve around your valley. Whether it's building the Xinggang, adding infrastructure, or doing interior renovations and plumbing/electrical work for your 'hub,' just come to me. You just state your requirements, and I'll provide a plan as soon as possible. The project funds have been specially allocated by the Bureau—don't worry about the progress; this is an 'internal project,' so we will definitely use whatever advanced technology is available for you."

Listening, Yu Sheng silently looked up, watching the heavy six-legged robots laying large cables around the "Xinggang," the construction workers in powered exoskeletons laying foundations on the platform, and the engineering shuttles in the half-air transporting materials to the valley center, looking like alien spaceships. He tugged at the corner of his mouth: "I see... Your configuration wasn't like this last time you came to work. You've been hiding quite deep."

"The work is different; building a Xinggang has different requirements than putting up a simple house," Engineer Sun said cheerfully, a look of pride on his face. "I can take on any job, and I have all kinds of people. If you ask me to build a fake civilian house at the entrance of a certain foreign realm in Jie City, no problem. If you say a certain colony is under siege by rebels and ask me to go drop two star-orbit fortresses down... Anyway, we do have armed engineering ships. There are eighteen teams like mine in the Bureau; our job is to go all over the world plugging leaks and putting out fires."

While speaking, this middle-aged man, who looked not much different from a general contractor at an ordinary construction site, reached into his pocket again, pulled out a business card, and handed it to Yu Sheng: "Keep my private number. You might need it next time you go 'outside.' As long as it's within the sphere of influence of the Borderlands, even if I don't have manpower at the moment, I can help you contact the other seventeen teams."

Yu Sheng took the business card, carefully put it away, and then looked up again at the "giant tower" parked nearby.

"Your Director suggested I change the 'style' of this spaceship," he said thoughtfully. "He said the design of this thing is too obviously in the style of the Hidden Order, and it's easy to cause trouble if it runs around outside."

"I heard about that. Old Liu is in charge of this matter—he's from the Aviation Vessel Engineering Department, and he'll report to you tomorrow," Engineer Sun nodded, then added with a bit of curiosity, "But I'd like to hear how you plan to change it? I don't know much about spaceships, but I know a little. For a 'specialized ship' like this, the scope for modification is usually limited."

"I know, so I'll just change the paint scheme and maybe add a shell around key places," Yu Sheng said offhandedly, while recalling the scene of discussing this matter with Hu Li and Erin at home before.

Facing the first "big item" owned by the "Inn," the Inn's first heavyweight vehicle, both Erin and Hu Li showed great enthusiasm. Especially after learning there was a modification plan for the spaceship, the two of them discussed it with such fervor—

Erin's idea was that first, the pitch-black paint scheme of the tower, which looked like a villain's, had to be changed. She suggested changing it to pink; if that didn't work, purple-red would do. Hu Li, on the other hand, hoped to reflect some of the grandeur of immortals on the spaceship, such as installing a star-grabbing moon-harvesting pavilion on the tower top, and then adding some colorful auspicious clouds around it. Later, the two reached an agreement that they should also put the Inn's sign out there. Since the Inn's biggest sign was Yu Sheng, they decided to put a holographic projection on the tower body, circling the spaceship and playing a close-up photo of Yu Sheng on loop...

Finally, combining their discussion results, it was a pink giant tower floating in space, with a pavilion on top, surrounded by purple-red auspicious clouds, and Yu Sheng's face circling around this pink pillar...

Yu Sheng imagined the appearance of that spaceship at the time and felt that after such a modification, it might indeed not look like a villain, but any villain seeing it would call the police—he'd rather be shot down by local anti-aircraft fire.

Engineer Sun didn't know why Yu Sheng suddenly froze; he saw the other party stop talking halfway and suddenly go silent. After hesitating for a moment, he couldn't help but speak up: "I say..."

"Uh, nothing, just got a bit distracted," Yu Sheng quickly rubbed his forehead, shaking some terrible images that had accidentally popped into his mind aside. "Where were we just now?"

"The paint scheme, and adding a shell or something."

"Right, the paint scheme," Yu Sheng rubbed his forehead. "When the person from the Vessel Engineering Department arrives later, have them add some white decorative patterns to this ship. Take off those spikes and chains on top that look so sinister, or change them into normal connection bridges. I think that will do."

"Just that?"

"Yes, just that," Yu Sheng's expression was as firm as if he were about to find another ship of cultists and blow them up. "Remind the people in the Engineering Department when the time comes: if Hu Li and Erin come here secretly and tell them to 'add ingredients,' absolutely do not agree! And notify me immediately."

Engineer Sun was completely baffled, but he still nodded in a muddled way: "Oh, okay."

Yu Sheng sighed in relief, looked at the spaceship platform which was in full construction mode for a while longer, imagined what it would look like after being built into a "Xinggang," then casually pushed open a door and stepped inside.

He arrived at the small town located in the center of the valley.

After a period of construction and operation by the members of "Fairy Tale," this "town" now had a proper shape.

... Even perhaps a bit too "proper."

Yu Sheng saw that outside those densely packed temporary houses, there was now a huge pile of new buildings. All of them were "new homes" created by the children of "Fairy Tale" according to their own ideas. The children's ideas were wild and fanciful, so the houses they designed looked all kinds of strange and bizarre—treehouses built in mid-air and colorful "Candy Houses" could only be considered basic. There were also stone houses that looked like miniature castles (Bai Xue's), a "Pumpkin House" built into the shape of a giant pumpkin (Cinderella's), and a cave piled up to look like a giant dragon's nest (the Dragon Slayer's)...

He even saw a huge cat climbing frame, over two hundred square meters, three stories high. In the middle of the complex, maze-like frame was a shoebox-sized basket. The King was crouching in that basket, with two sycophants standing on each side opening cat food cans for it...

The whole town highlighted an atmosphere of "since no one is in charge here, everyone does whatever makes them happy," and it also revealed a bit of that frantic feeling of revengeful self-indulgence after being suppressed for so long.

In comparison, Little Red Riding Hood, who honestly built a two-story wooden house, was truly a stream of clear water among this pile of strange shapes—the other stream of clear water was the Mermaid. She was even still living in the simple house assigned to her before, but she had dug a huge water pit behind the house. It was said that she practiced swimming in the pit every day; one hour of practice allowed her to swim underwater for fifty-nine minutes, with the remaining one minute spent having someone help fish her out...

Yu Sheng arrived on the roof of the "castle" deep in the town, just looking at this town which had now completely changed its appearance, and whose area had expanded several times compared to before—the expansion in area was normal, mainly because those strange and bizarre "buildings" really took up a lot of space—a smile inevitably appeared on his face.

A rustling sound came from the side.

Yu Sheng looked in the direction of the sound and saw a ball of golden hair crawling along the dark side of the castle wall. After crawling to his feet, a Miss with a sun-bright smile popped out from a pile of hair: "Brother, come out to soak up the sun?"

"Stealing half a day off," Yu Sheng said offhandedly, his gaze turning back to the surroundings of the small town. "Your construction progress... is quite fast."

"The kingdom craftsmen summoned by the 'King' are amazing, plus the Lei Ting Titans are helping," Rapunzel said very happily. "Doesn't it look good? Many houses were designed by everyone together!"

Yu Sheng didn't speak for a moment. He looked into the distance for a long time, and only after thinking seriously did a smile appear on his face: "Mm, very Fairy Tale."

"Very Fairy Tale?" Rapunzel tilted her head, as if she didn't understand the meaning of Yu Sheng's remark for a moment, but soon she laughed along. "Yes, after all, this is the headquarters of 'Fairy Tale.' Little Red said, what was it called again... Oh, it needs to have its own 'organizational characteristics.' Is that the word? She is always so serious about these things."

While saying this, she supported herself with both hands behind her on the castle roof, looked up at the bright sky, her waterfall-like golden hair cascading down from the roof, and her smile became even more brilliant.

"This serious guy will be eighteen years old tomorrow."

(End of Chapter)