Watching Yu Sheng disappear into a door that appeared out of thin air, Zheng Zhi was still staring blankly at the empty space nearby, looking quite surprised.
Next to him, Li Lin couldn’t help but laugh, "Surprised? You’ll be even more surprised later. It’s said that once No. 66 Wutong Road is relocated, the entire spatial structure of this empty space will instantly ’smooth out.’ See these houses around? They’ll connect together... Wait! You can’t see No. 66 Wutong Road, can you?"
Zheng Zhi quickly waved his hand, "No, no, I’m just curious how Brother Yu’s door appeared."
"Oh, that’s good, you scared ," Li Lin breathed a sigh of relief. "Even the director can’t see that house. If you could... you’d have to see Doctor Lin to have your brain cut open."
Zheng Zhi turned his head, "Who’s Doctor Lin?"
"An Exotic Doctor who works with the Special Service Bureau, lives nearby, and specializes in autopsies and brain surgery—or ’brain cutting’ is the layman’s term, but it’s just a small surgery that boosts your resistance to Spiritual Energy once done," Li Lin said casually, then added, "But don’t think about it. That’s a last resort. After it’s done, you’ll stop seeing bizarre stuff, but you might drool doing simple math."
Zheng Zhi shuddered imdiately, not daring to say anything more, but he couldn’t help but glance again at the empty space nearby.
A nearly transparent colossal phantom stood quietly there, like a giant beast squatting and facing him silently.
The transparency was so high that he couldn’t see the outline without careful attention. Zheng Zhi felt this didn’t count as "seeing"—he definitely didn’t want to find an Exotic Doctor for brain surgery.
"Alright, you go inside and get familiar with those operation manuals while I head to the corner store to buy sothing," Li Lin patted Zheng Zhi’s shoulder, "Now that No. 66 Wutong Road is gone, there shouldn’t be much going on here lately, so relax—being too tense might attract weird things."
Zheng Zhi nodded quickly, "Oh, okay."
Li Lin chuckled as he turned to leave, muttering, "Ah, finally I don’t have to go out on assignnts every day like before..."
Zheng Zhi stood there for a few seconds before turning to walk toward the small station house, but before entering, he couldn’t help but look back at the imposing phantom of No. 66 Wutong Road.
Yu Sheng squinted slightly, recalling the ’information’ he just recorded on the Cloud Viewing Platform of Qianfeng Ling Mountain, and then attempted to convert those coordinates into a new ’location’ for No. 66 Wutong Road.
This was his first attempt at transferring the building in the real world and over such a long distance at once, to be honest, he was a bit nervous.
After all, Mist City and the real Boundary City are at most like upstairs and downstairs, but Qianfeng Ling Mountain and Boundary Land are cross-country.
He took a light breath, concentrated more of his mind, spread his spirituality, and then instantly completed the allocation—
Outside the living room window, the scenery suddenly transford!
A chaotic and brilliant light and shadow storm abruptly erupted like a storm, but then it subsided in a mont barely perceptible to human reaction, as if the entire world outside the window had been compressed and folded, the sensation of spatial distortion and penetration fleeting, and in the next second, the familiar street view of the Boundary City vanished, replaced by the immortal mist-shrouded white jade high platform, the faraway cloud sea rising, and layers of peaks in the mist.
Yu Sheng exhaled slightly and released the doorknob.
"Done." He happily turned to Erin, who was leaning on the windowsill, and said, before pushing the door open to walk out.
Hu Li, Erin, and Luna stood by the door.
The mountain breeze from the Immortal Mountain invigorated one’s spirit, and Yu Sheng rrily approached Hu Li, "I’ve brought our ho back, so we can co ho from here now, you guys... hmm? What are you looking at?"
He stopped halfway because he noticed Hu Li and the others weren’t looking at him. They were staring, with astonished expressions (except Luna, whose face was stony), at sothing else not far away.
Following their gazes, Yu Sheng instinctively looked over and found himself stunned too.
A small house stood quietly in a corner of the Cloud Viewing Platform, facing No. 66 Wutong Road from a distance. The small house was quite unremarkable, and there was a sign at the door that read ’Star Express Wutong Road Collection Point.’
Yu Sheng: "...?"
The next second, the door of the express point was pushed open suddenly, and Zheng Zhi rushed out with a puzzled look, exchanging wide-eyed stares with Yu Sheng and the others.
Erin exclaid loudly when she saw him co out, "Ah, big nephew!"
Zheng Zhi was even more surprised, "... Where am I?!"
All eyes at the scene then turned to Yu Sheng.
Yu Sheng looked around, the corner of his mouth twitching a bit, "Why are you all looking at ... I have no idea what’s going on either!"
"You don’t know? Did you open the door too wide again?" Erin nudged Yu Sheng’s leg with her head, hopping, "Can you stop improvising all the ti?!"
At this mont, Zheng Zhi nervously walked over, glancing around as he approached, and was dumbfounded by the Immortal Mountain’s auspicious cloud pavilions and buildings surrounding him, only to speak when he reached Yu Sheng, "Brother Yu, this..."
"Qianfeng Ling Mountain," Yu Sheng’s facial muscles felt a bit stiff, "I might have gone overboard with the moving."
Zheng Zhi: "..."
"Where’s Li Lin?" Yu Sheng looked again at the small house not far away, curious.
Zheng Zhi: "Brother Li said he went to the store to buy sothing. He just left before I arrived here with the site."
Yu Sheng opened his mouth, but just as he was about to say sothing more, a beam of rosy light flying from afar interrupted his actions.
From the light erged Xuan Che and True Man Yuanling.
True Man Yuanling was all smiles: "I saw spiritual light rising from the Cloud Viewing Platform from afar, guessing you relocated here, so I ca to see the situation..."
True Man suddenly stopped mid-sentence, looking at the Cloud Viewing Platform with a peculiar expression.
The Cloud Viewing Platform had expanded more than double its previous size, a spatial dislocation effect perceivable only by him, creating a vast extension in space—a blank area at the center, nothing but empty ground. However, there was a small inconspicuous house at the corner of the platform, with a sign saying it’s a Star Express Collection Point...
No matter how you looked at it, that little house couldn’t possibly be No. 66 Wutong Road.
True Man Yuanling withdrew his gaze and noticed there was a young man with an unfamiliar face standing beside Yu Sheng.
He assessed the young man briefly and realized he was indeed a person—flesh and blood, spirit and form, from inside out, just a perfectly standard... ah, a person.
The old man was taken aback: "This is..."
Zheng Zhi was sweating bullets, as a temporary worker at the Special Service Bureau not even an official agent and untested, he had never seen such a scene. Opening his mouth, he felt his molars cramp: "I... I..."
He "I-ed" for a long ti without getting anything out, Erin got anxious just watching, so she simply blurted out: "Security guard!"
True Man Yuanling paused, then looked at the Star Express Collection Point nearby.
This ti Erin reacted even faster: "Security booth!"
"Actually, he was sent by the Special Service Bureau as... um, a sentinel, privately he’s a friend of mine," Yu Sheng said awkwardly, not knowing how to explain relocating and inadvertently moving the sentinel here, he could only follow Erin’s lead vaguely, "That house is the Special Service Bureau’s outpost, usually disguised as a Star Express Collection Point."
"Right," Zheng Zhi caught up quickly, nodding imdiately, "Our captain arranged for to stand guard for Brother Yu."
"Oh, I see," True Man Yuanling stroked his beard, seemingly unbothered, just nodded at Yu Sheng, "Since he’s your friend, he is also a guest of our Qianfeng Ling Mountain—a welcoming feast is already set in the Immortal Banquet Hall, co along with ."
Hu Li’s eyes imdiately brightened: "Ti to eat?!"
"Yes, food’s ready," Yu Sheng, seeing no one was pressing on the issue of relocating the Special Service Bureau’s outpost, promptly changed the topic, "Let’s go, eat first, eat first, relocating really made hungry..."
Zheng Zhi seed like he wanted to say more, but before he could he was pulled along by Yu Sheng, stepping onto the stone path leaving the Cloud Viewing Platform...
...
Deep in Wutong Road, at "the original coordinates of No. 66 Wutong Road," which had beco a narrow end of the street, Li Lin stood dazedly in a corner with a supermarket shopping bag in hand.
He looked at the corner of the street ahead, then back at the sowhat incongruous little empty space behind him, standing there pondering life.
Where’s my workstation.jpg?
How co when I just went shopping and turned around, my workstation disappeared?!
Li Lin, turning in place with the plastic bag twice to confirm it wasn’t his poor eyesight and the entire "outpost" really vanished, finally twitched the corners of his mouth, pulled out his phone from his pocket, and dialed his supervisor’s number.
"Captain, it’s Li Lin... um, no, Zheng Zhi didn’t run into any trouble, or I can’t say he didn’t, he’s gone, ah but don’t panic yet, the outpost is gone too..."
A powerful "What?!" ca through on the phone.
"I also don’t know what’s going on," Li Lin said into the phone tearfully, "I just went to buy sothing and ca back to find the outpost gone, No. 66 Wutong Road is gone too..."
In no ti, Song Cheng arrived at Wutong Road in haste via a "shortcut."
The two n stared at each other.
After a mont, Song Cheng started making calls.
"Got it," Song Cheng raised his head with a subtle look at Li Lin, "Yu Sheng packed it up and moved it."
"Why?" Li Lin was bewildered.
"Said his hand slipped," Song Cheng felt his teeth ache, "just like last ti when you were dragged into the Black Forest—the difference is you dodged the bullet this ti, only Zheng Zhi was dragged over."
Li Lin was dazed for a long while before finally speaking: "What’s to be done? My work report..."
"What else can be done, it’s force majeure," Song Cheng sighed, patting Li Lin’s shoulder, "Co on, head back to the bureau with , there’s another task, and until No. 66 Wutong Road returns, you’ll continue fieldwork with ."
Li Lin: "..."
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