Luna maintained the holographic projection mid-air with both hands, while Yu Sheng and Baili Qing studied the peculiar object at the center of the projection together.
The item was clearly the focal point of the entire laboratory—it floated prominently on the most noticeable antigravity platform in the hall, surrounded by a faint blue light curtain for protection (or suppression). Countless advanced equipnt and technicians encircled the platform. Even when fierce conflicts erupted on both sides of the corridor, and Hu Li’s Fox Radish Missiles crashed into the passage, technicians near several key devices by the platform did not retreat, appearing ready to live and die with the equipnt.
However, the object looked rather unremarkable. It was rely an irregular black stone, like a fragnt chipped off a larger entity, with edges showing a hint of an obsidian texture. The fragnt’s size was about as tall as Erin, making it quite inconspicuous when floating in the force field.
Luna adjusted the holographic projection, enlarging the image so Yu Sheng and Baili Qing could see more details of the black fragnt.
One could say, the Holy Lady’s resolution is quite high...
"There seem to be so patterns on this side of the surface, looking like part of a relief or carving," Baili Qing was the first to notice sothing. She frowned slightly, pointing to a detail on the black fragnt, "Miss Luna, can you extract this pattern separately?"
"Sure."
Luna nodded, and then the holographic projection floating above her hands suddenly flickered a few tis. The scene of the laboratory disappeared, replaced by a brightly highlighted pattern. She extracted and processed the patterns on the surface of the black fragnt she had captured, and with repeated visual reinforcent, the processed pattern beca increasingly clear in the holographic projection.
Yu Sheng suddenly frowned, looking thoughtfully at the pattern projected by Luna, a mysteriously familiar feeling stirring within him.
"I feel like I’ve seen this thing sowhere..."
Baili Qing and Baili Xue spoke in unison: "You’ve seen it?"
"Hmm... hold on, let recall," Yu Sheng nodded, then began to frantically search his mory. Soon he found the source of the familiarity, "Ah, I think I know what it is—"
The next second, he opened a small door beside him, accompanied by the faint sound of Erin yelling "silly fox, you stole the soy paste again" from the other side of the door. He quickly retrieved sothing from No. 66 Wutong Road.
It was a tattered piece of cloth, with complex and mysterious runes printed on its edges.
Yu Sheng unfolded the cloth and compared it with the pattern in the holographic projection. Instantly, his eyes lit up: "It’s definitely this!"
Baili Qing almost imdiately recognized the piece of cloth in Yu Sheng’s hand. She raised an eyebrow: "I rember this is..."
"A fragnt of the On Banner!" Yu Sheng quickly said, "Taixu Spirit Hub also has a piece... The patterns here should be so emblematic symbols related to the On Goddess."
Baili Qing’s expression didn’t change much, but her eyes suddenly showed a few degrees of gravity and seriousness. She looked at the holographic projection in Luna’s hand, slowly spoke, "...So, the ’Black Spot Laboratory’ on the other side of the passage is researching so kind of ’relic’ related to the On Goddess—then the things they possess seem even more extensive than we imagined."
Yu Sheng nodded, then thoughtfully said, "So, what’s up with that suddenly opened passage? Is it connected to their ongoing research?"
"Using the power of the On Goddess to open a gateway across dinsions?" Baili Xue’s eyes drifted to the alloy shell of Luna, murmuring while pondering, "But judging from the situation at the ti, this process was more or less out of control. Either they didn’t expect the passage to open, or they didn’t expect soone on the other side of the passage. But then again, they still had the ability to forcefully close the passage in the end..."
Yu Sheng didn’t speak for a mont, still pondering the suddenly opened passage. Amidst his thoughts, he had another epiphany, and an image of a noisy and clumsy dwarf began to bounce around in his mind.
Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw that Baili Xue’s eyes had drifted onto Luna’s face, blinking over her eyes.
"Baili Xue, can you move sowhere else," Yu Sheng broke into a cold sweat, "this looks a bit creepy."
Next to him, Baili Qing also imdiately put on a stern face: "Don’t ss around, co down."
"Oh," Baili Xue responded, then slowly floated to the floor-to-ceiling window nearby, continuing, "Overall, it seems that the Black Dot Group is clearly up to so new ’black technology’. Although that thing still looks unstable, they already have the ability to open the gateway into the Boundary Land—although this ti they opened the door in the ’Dark Alley’, it’s not excluded they can open it elsewhere. In fact, I even suspect they have already established so hidden passages in the Boundary Land, only this ti they were exposed due to an experintal accident..."
Baili Qing imdiately frowned slightly, watching her sister climbing up and down the window: "You an?"
"The special forces squad that appeared at Jinglin Sanatorium," Baili Xue said slowly, "Such an external team, and fully ard at that—even if they’re the renowned Black Dot agents, it isn’t easy to infiltrate the Boundary Land, and we still haven’t figured out how they got in... But what if they punched a hole in the Boundary Land? Then the border barrier and the checkpoints in Boundary City naturally wouldn’t see any traces."
Baili Qing’s gaze beca sharp.
It was Yu Sheng’s first ti seeing the female director’s gaze change so drastically—not just her eyes, but he suddenly felt a certain indescribable... aura from her. An intangible yet palpable "presence" was slowly spreading from her seemingly frail figure.
But this feeling vanished in an instant. The next second, Baili Qing returned to her usual calm and indifferent deanor. She rely took a light breath and nodded slightly, "This guess is not unfounded; it seems we’ll need to closely ’watch’ everywhere for a while."
At this mont, footsteps suddenly ca from the direction of the hallway, interrupting the conversation in the office.
A girl with short hair wearing a suit and skirt pushed the door open and hurriedly bowed to Baili Qing, "Director, our captain would like you to co to the 77th-floor dical area. They said that the ’Black Spot Soldier’ has woken up."
Right after, this short-haired girl looked up and saw Yu Sheng standing in the office, her eyes instantly brightened, "Hey! Mr. Yu?"
Uh-oh, it’s the urging shipper, Ren Wenwen!
As soon as Yu Sheng saw her bright eyes, cold sweat imdiately ford, and he hastily responded with a few perfunctory words, then called for Baili Qing to go outside, "Let’s deal with the urgent matter first—let’s check on the captive we caught."
For a mont, Baili Qing seed a bit puzzled by Yu Sheng’s reaction, but she nodded and stepped outside the office, with Luna following closely behind Yu Sheng.
Ren Wenwen, of course, didn’t dare block the director’s path, but she still followed them to the door, enthusiastically seeing Yu Sheng off, "Mr. Yu, next ti you co, let know... Looking forward to your new work~"
Walking in the hallway leading to the dical zone, Yu Sheng couldn’t help but wipe the cold sweat from his forehead. Beside him, Baili Qing seed to understand and turned to him with an expressionless face, "Being popular is a good thing."
"It’s quite stressful," Yu Sheng chuckled dryly, "especially since the couple she ships is a bit peculiar..."
Baili Qing paused her steps slightly, "What is a couple?"
Yu Sheng: "..."
He glanced at Baili Qing, who appeared to be in her twenties, and realized this director lady of the Special Service Bureau, who had been in charge for a century, probably didn’t know much about "young people’s" stuff.
Seems fortunate.
Seeing Yu Sheng not speaking, Baili Qing didn’t press further. She just pondered briefly and continued walking forward. After a few steps, she suddenly added, "Actually, I’ve also read what you’ve written."
The cold sweat Yu Sheng had just managed to subside suddenly reappeared.
"Couldn’t quite... understand, but they seed like very interesting stories," Baili Qing seed not to notice Yu Sheng’s montary awkwardness and continued talking to herself, "I rarely have ti to read books, so I’m not very familiar with current novel trends. But your stories... they seem quite relaxing. However, it seems like you haven’t written for a long ti—have you been too busy lately?"
"Uh, I’m writing, writing. It’ll be just about ready once Erin returns my computer..."
The cold sweat was about to reach Yu Sheng’s heels; he didn’t even know what he was saying—after all, he hadn’t expected to be urged to update his work by this ironclad-faced director...
Moreover, he couldn’t directly tell Baili Qing that recently, after finishing his groundbreaking works "New Folder" and "New Folder (1)," he was currently working hard on completing "New Folder (2)."
As they spoke, they had crossed the hallway and, using the Special Service Bureau Building’s peculiar "magical elevator," traversed countless fantastically bizarre floors, eventually arriving at the "dical area" in an unknown dinsion.
The reason for saying "unknown dinsion" was that as soon as Yu Sheng stepped out of the elevator, he saw two alien giant beasts fighting in space outside the dical area corridor’s windows. The sight of them crashing into the shield on the hallway’s side would cause anyone to lose sanity—it was then that a security guard dressed like an Astartes stepped out and handled the aliens...
"...Isn’t the dical environnt in your bureau a bit too hardcore?" Yu Sheng couldn’t help but murmur, "With so many stable floors, why was this one chosen?"
"The building has more than one dical area," Baili Qing calmly replied, "This region is specifically ’external’—the unique environnt configuration and treatnt ambiance here can effectively improve patients’ cooperation level."
Yu Sheng opened his mouth but only managed to say after several seconds, "Then it seems you could sit at the sa table as the doctors from Qianfeng Ling Mountain."
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