Chapter 316: A New Marvel in the Backyard
Ai Lin and Hu Li rarely saw Yu Sheng angry. In their impression, Yu Sheng was always cheerful—happy when he could be, and if he couldn't, he'd wait a moment and then be happy. Even after falling into a foreign realm and being surrounded by all sorts of inhuman things beating him up, or after eating face-to-face with a Hunger Entity, he could still come back smiling. He was the kind of person who could joke even as he was being reduced to ashes. Ai Lin even suspected that Yu Sheng's entire life was made up of fun. But now, everyone here discovered that Yu Sheng could get angry too.
A soft, warm touch came from his hand. Yu Sheng looked down and saw a fluffy big tail rubbing against his wrist.
“Benefactor,” Hu Li said, curling her tail around Yu Sheng’s hand and gently shaking it. “Next time, I’ll go fight them with you.”
Yu Sheng said nothing. He simply withdrew his hand and gently rubbed the fur behind the fox-eared girl’s ears.
“So now… what about this C-type buckle?” Ai Lin turned around, looking at the pitch-black iron coffin with a complicated expression. “You heard her ‘death resonance,’ which means she’s already dead, right? But you put her in this ‘Saint Coffin’ that can be used to repair an artificial saint—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 memories of the past. If we take ‘death’ as the boundary, these are two completely opposite rivers. Moreover, the ‘life form’ of an artificial saint is very special. I find it hard to judge her state at that time simply by ‘life or death.’”
Having said that, he paused and also looked up at the iron coffin.
“So I put her inside this—I’m not sure if it’s useful or not, but I adjusted the repair process according to the method of infusing spirit into a puppet and awakening life, and then restarted the device. The repair process is still ongoing. I can feel that it’s running inside, and the Saint Coffin system hasn’t popped up an error due to the saint’s complete death, but she really hasn’t woken up.
“Maybe we’ll have to wait a while, or maybe we’ll wait forever. Who knows? Anyway, we’ll do our best.”
“…You seem quite invested,” Ai Lin couldn’t help remarking.
“In that last second, she reached out to me,” Yu Sheng said seriously. “Even though I couldn’t hear what she was saying at that point, I could feel that she didn’t want to die—she still had many things she wanted to do. She wanted to go home, to take revenge, to live… If she had wanted to end it all after learning the truth, I wouldn’t have bothered. But since she reached out to me, I might as well give her a hand.”
Ai Lin lowered her head, as if thinking very seriously. After a moment, she looked up with a happy smile. “Alright. After all, that’s how you helped me back then.”
Yu Sheng raised an eyebrow. “I thought you’d have a strong objection.”
“My fight with her isn’t over! When she comes out, I’ll fight her,” Ai Lin said, holding her arms and tilting her head proudly. “Don’t you laugh—it’ll be a serious fight!”
Yu Sheng raised his hand and ruffled Ai Lin’s hair, then his gaze fell on Xuan Che, who had remained silent.
The other had been tensing his face since a while ago. Although he hadn’t said a word, the ground under his feet had already formed a layer of ice, clearly showing that his emotions were not calm either.
Noticing the gaze on him, Xuan Che broke the silence before Yu Sheng could speak. “I will definitely report this to my sect. Knowing my master, he will also convey this to the sect leaders of the Grand Void Divine Pivot. Refining living people into sacrifices has always been a great taboo in the Grand Void Divine Pivot since ancient times, let alone doing it on such a scale, harvesting people like wheat and refining them into tools!”
Having said that, he took a light breath and, after calming down a bit, said, “Actually, all along, evil cults like the Holy Seclusion Hermetic Society and the Angelists have been severely cracked down upon under the rule of the Grand Void Divine Pivot. After all, as soon as they infiltrate, they do things like secretly harming the people, defiling the mountains and forests, and stealing and destroying treasures. Righteous people all want them dead. Now this clue is just adding one more charge to their kill order.
“I just never imagined they could be so insane…
“The place that allows them to act so recklessly must be deep within the star sectors they control. If anything, those are their own subjects, right?”
“If they never considered those people as human in the first place, why would they have any psychological burden?” Yu Sheng saw it clearly. “I saw many things on this ship and heard many of their conversations. This so-called ‘Holy Seclusion Hermetic Society’ has already gone insane in the ‘alienation’ of humans. They can even split and transform themselves into various non-human forms. Inside the society, members are classified into different grades according to so-called ‘defects’—one could say that besides the core concept of the ‘Holy Seclusion Path’ being supreme, there is not a single member in the entire Holy Seclusion Hermetic Society who possesses complete dignity and value as a ‘human.’”
Xuan Che thought about it and could only sigh bitterly. “That’s true. We can’t speculate about the thoughts of evil cults with common sense. If they had rationality, why would they have fallen into the demonic path? I was too attached.”
Afterwards, after confirming that the Saint Coffin was still ‘running normally,’ Yu Sheng and his group left this special cabin.
They took the elevator again and went to the living area inside the tower—a large cluster of cabins occupying three entire floors of the giant tower, including a residential area, a medical area, and an ‘ecopod’ with a small-scale ecosystem.
The ecopod was lush with greenery. Under the strict control of the automatic system, various plants thrived in their respective habitats and were genetically engineered into the most ‘perfect’ forms. In the medical cabins, besides basic treatment equipment, there were many horrifying things stored—spare human limbs and organs in cultivation stages, blood and flesh samples in jars, and ‘waste biomass’ that hadn’t been processed yet.
In the residential area, one could find many ‘personal items’ left by the Hermetic Society members, including some unimportant notes, prayer books with markings, and various miscellaneous items that looked similar to ordinary people’s belongings.
Of course, there were also many things that clearly didn’t look like ‘local products,’ such as personal information devices that were obviously beyond the technological level of , as well as food, tools, and packaging marked with a lot of alien text—all clearly brought in by those Hermetic Society members from ‘outside.’
Organizing these things and extracting useful information from them was obviously a very complex and time-consuming task, and Yu Sheng was very self-aware of his own abilities in this area.
“We’ll need to ‘borrow’ a large number of personnel from the Special Operations Agency,” Yu Sheng said casually while walking down a corridor near the core area. “This tower is full of traces of Hermetic Society members’ activities. Who knows which detail might expose key intelligence, like the coordinates of secret starports this tower once docked at. I’ll also need to ask Bai Liqing for some engineering technicians to help repair the outer armor belt and the phase engine’s energy pipelines, and also experts in system decryption to see if we can dig out some intelligence from the navigation mainframe. I can’t figure this thing out…”
The Hunter, who had remained mostly silent, finally couldn’t help speaking up: “You might as well just drive this spaceship straight into the Special Operations Agency headquarters building—park it right under the director’s nose and have her arrange five hundred experts to sleep on the engine hood.”
Upon hearing this, Yu Sheng quickly thought about the feasibility and asked seriously, “Is there a floor that can accommodate it?”
Hunter: “…?”
Although the area under the Hunter’s hood was already dark, Yu Sheng still felt he saw the other’s face darken…
So he didn’t continue that topic.
Finally, Yu Sheng took Ai Lin and the others to the control hall at the top of the tower (also called the ‘bridge area’) and let them see the scene where that ‘Sage’ had fought as a passionate coward and fled, thus ending this tour of the spaceship.
Of course, they didn’t tour the entire spaceship.
The scale of this giant tower was so astonishing and its internal structure so complex that if they really wanted to carefully explore every corridor and every room, they probably wouldn’t be able to come out for two days and two nights. So Yu Sheng only took everyone to the main cabin sections directly connected to the tower’s ‘central passage.’ They skipped many other areas like mechanical equipment, storage, and maintenance passages. Besides those, there were several cabins with eerie, powerful, or dangerous energy reactions that Yu Sheng himself hadn’t figured out what they were for—obviously not good places for a tour.
Even so, they spent several hours in the tower.
A few hours were obviously more than enough for a bunch of highly proactive little monsters to discover the new thing that had appeared in the valley and run from the town to the edge of the Black Forest.
So as soon as Yu Sheng pushed the door open, he first heard a commotion of squeals and shouts. Then he opened his eyes and saw a big group of kids running around on the ship’s landing platform, shouting and climbing. He also saw Rapunzel hanging onto a protrusion on the tail armor, trying to catch ‘The King’ who had already run up to a height of over ten meters. Jack and the Dragon Slayer were having a serious discussion about what the top of the tower looked like. The former planned to plant a bean and climb up into the air to take a look; the latter said why bother with that, he could just turn into a dragon and drop onto the spire from the sky…
But the one with the strongest presence at the scene was still Snow White—when Yu Sheng came out, she was about to lead her seven Thunder Titans to climb the tower.
The Mermaid was even providing accompaniment on the ground, playing a stirring BGM—knowing it was exciting but not knowing why it was exciting…
Little Red Riding Hood came out from the door and took one look. Her blood ran cold on the spot. She let out a roar that pierced the sky: “All of you, get the hell over here!!”
(End of Chapter)