Chapter 515: Penetration and Spread

The wall retreated very little. If Yu Sheng had not been staring at it, it would have been difficult for him to notice the change at the first moment - but he was sure that he was not hallucinating.

The walls are receding.

After being stunned for a moment, Yu Sheng raised his hand and tried to move closer to the wall again.

The wall retreated again, and this time the amplitude was even greater than before - even Zheng Zhi who was standing next to him noticed the abnormality at a glance.

"Brother Yu, this thing... isn't right!" The young (and still unprofessional) Secret Service agent stared blankly at the high wall in front of him, and began to get nervous again. "The wall is retreating!"

All of a sudden, even Little Red Riding Hood, Luna, and Hu Li who were waiting at the back could not stay any longer. Several people were squeezed into the narrow gap between the two buildings. Under the gazes of several people, in another "test" of Yu Sheng, the high wall leading to the dark alley retreated several centimeters again.

After being silent for nearly half a minute, Yu Sheng finally turned his head and looked at Little Red Riding Hood behind him: "...Has this phenomenon happened before?"

"How is that possible!" Little Red Riding Hood's eyes widened, looking at Yu Sheng as if he had seen a ghost, "How could you scare the foreign land into closing down..."

"How could I possibly have scared him?" Yu Sheng couldn't contain himself anymore after hearing the complaints from the expired JK in front of him. "Don't even mention that I haven't done anything to it yet. Even if I was the one who was to blame for the collapse of the 'Secondhand Bookstore' last time, a foreigner shouldn't have reacted like this, right?"

As he was speaking, he heard a slight rustling sound coming from the side. He subconsciously turned around and saw that the wall had retreated a few centimeters in front of everyone - there were grayish-white, torn marks left on the parts of the wall that were connected to the building on both sides.

Suddenly everyone at the scene fell silent. Not only Little Red Riding Hood didn't bother to complain about Yu Sheng, even Irene, who would normally chatter for a long time if she heard someone sneeze, fell silent, not knowing how to react for a moment.

After a long while, Yu Sheng suddenly stroked his chin thoughtfully. "Hey, I suddenly had an idea. If I keep leaning forward, how far can this wall retreat? It can't be infinite, right? Can it retreat all the way out of the boundary city?"

The high walls were dead silent, but for some reason, Yu Sheng felt that the silence was deafening.

"If the foreign land could curse, it would probably be cursing terribly right now," Little Red Riding Hood said, her eyes twitching as she looked at Yu Sheng. "You're a human being."

Yu Sheng didn't say anything, but just pressed his hand on the mottled old brick wall.

This time, the wall did not recede.

Perhaps it was because its retreat had its limits, or perhaps it was for some other reason... In any case, the entrance to the "dark alley" showed no signs of opening.

But Yu Sheng has his own way of solving the problem.

He groped on the rough wall, imagining the existence of a door that would lead directly to the "dark alley".

Then he touched a door handle.

Originally, Yu Sheng didn't want to use this method, because the dark alley is a typical "layered" structure. Its inherent spatial laws determine where each intersection will lead to. Rashly using external force to "open the door" is likely to interfere with the mapping law of the entire dark alley, and may even cause a situation like last time where all intersections can only leave the foreign land, making exploration impossible.

But now he couldn't worry about so many things - this foreign land was obviously undergoing some kind of "mutation", and its original spatial laws might have gone wrong.

An illusory door appeared out of thin air. Yu Sheng pushed it open and saw a dimly lit alley extending from the opposite side of the door. The lights in the alley were dim and shadows were heavy.

He stepped in and kept the door open from the other side while others filed in.

The king was the first to jump in. The moment he landed, he waved his claws and summoned the brave man holding the Murakami sword and his teammates into this world.

The next people to come in were Zheng Zhi, Luna, Hu Li and Little Red Riding Hood.

The breeze in the alley was chilly, and the evening sky was filled with chill. A strange, oppressive atmosphere squeezed the senses from all directions, as if some thick, insoluble, sticky liquid was permeating the air.

Little Red Riding Hood felt the hairs on her body stand on end, and the moment she came in, a pair of wolf ears suddenly popped out on her head - this was the body's instinctive reaction after entering a dangerous environment - and then she suddenly raised her head and looked at the sky in the dark alley.

Slight inhalation sounds were heard one after another.

Dense, crisscrossing black spider silk caught everyone's eyes.

"Oh my god..." Expired JK almost bit her tongue. She saw that the entire dark alley was covered by a chaotic spider web. The sky, which was already at dusk, was now covered by a large web, appearing even more eerie and dark. There were also many messy silk threads randomly emerging from the roofs of shops on both sides, intertwining and entwining in a disorderly manner about three or four meters above the ground, entangled those flashing colorful light strings, blurred signs, colorful flags fluttering in the wind, and... countless "cats".

The pitch-black "cat" was entangled in the black spider silk crisscrossing in mid-air, trembling and squirming in the chaotic spider web like a captured insect. The unique intermittent feeling of this kind of physical movement made the entire web appear dizzyingly dislocated. It seemed that every minute and every second, a cat broke free from the web, but the next moment, the same number of cats were caught in the web and hung in mid-air.

——This scene is just as the blind prophet Kong Daman described: On the big spider web called "The End", the end of all things has already been marked.

...Who is the blind prophet Kongdaman?

Yu Sheng was in a trance for a moment, and always felt that some inexplicable sentences seemed to pop up in his mind just now, but the next second those contents turned into some kind of quickly dissipated "impression". He felt someone pulling his hair, and when he turned around, he saw Irene, who looked nervous and uneasy, looking straight into his eyes.

Zheng Zhi's voice came from the side: "Yu... Yu... Yu..."

"Don't use so many 'Yu's. It sounds like you're herding cattle," Yu Sheng interrupted Zheng Zhi's stuttering. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but the moment he spoke, the oppressive coldness that had permeated the air, as thick as some kind of glue, seemed to dissipate. "Don't ask me. I don't know what's going on either."

"I was a little breathless just now," Hu Li took a deep breath, then frowned and looked up into the air, "The silk threads here..."

Before the fox girl could finish her words, the little doll waved its hands anxiously: "It wasn't me!"

"I know it wasn't you," Yu Sheng reached out and pressed Irene's head, looking at the threads with a serious expression. "It seems this is the reason why 'Dark Alley' has changed..."

"It seems the 'erosion' here has expanded further since we last left," Little Red Riding Hood quickly realized, recalling the strange scene they saw when Yu Sheng and the King dug a large hole in the old bookstore during their last exploration of the alley. "Before, these spider silks were only wrapped around the edge of the 'dark alley,' but now they've almost covered the entire alley."

Yu Sheng subconsciously exchanged glances with the king. After two or three seconds, he spoke with a somewhat subtle expression, "...Could it be because of the hole we dug last time?"

The King Cat's face was solemn. After a moment, he shook his head and said, "I know nothing. A cat like me can't bear such a heavy responsibility..."

Yu Sheng choked and turned to look at the little puppet on his shoulder: "Can you control these spider silks?"

"I, I'm trying," Irene was still visibly nervous, but holding Yu Sheng's head made her feel more at ease. She raised her hand and drew it through the air twice. Black threads spread from her fingertips, slowly and cautiously approaching the spider web in the air above the alley. "It doesn't seem to be working. I can 'feel' the threads, but they don't obey me... They're too stiff and I can't pull them."

Yu Sheng frowned, but his eyes couldn't help but fall on Irene's head.

"Where's your ball?"

"Evil Omen Wandering Star?" The little doll was stunned for a moment. "He stayed at home. I'm training him to pick up takeout..."

Yu Sheng's face suddenly turned black: "If you have so much free time, why not let it come over and try to do something useful."

As he said this, he casually pulled the air next to him and opened a small door leading to No. 66 Wutong Road. A moment later, Irene, who was on the opposite side of the door, ran over holding the Ominous Star and threw the stone ball over here.

When the Omen Wandering Star passed through the small door, it was obviously... "stunned" for a moment, and stayed in mid-air at a loss, but the next second it sensed Irene on this side, and immediately found its target again, flew to the side of the little doll's head and began to circle around.

Erin blinked, then quickly realized the change.

"Hey! Yusheng, Yusheng, these threads are starting to obey!" Her eyes lit up, and she looked up at the crisscrossing black spider silk above the dark alley. "It really works - Yusheng, how did you know this method?"

As they were talking, everyone saw a faint glow spreading across the spider web covering the dark alley. The glow originated from the silk thread in Irene's hand and was rapidly expanding its coverage area as if it was invading and changing the dominant position!

"I don't know either, but I think we can give it a try," Yu Sheng waved his hand, his eyes still fixed on the ominous star that was circling above Irene's head. "At least it's an extra accessory. Just think of it as adding stats."

He was just talking nonsense, but the little puppet obviously believed it immediately. Its eyes lit up: "Oh, that's great! What do we do next?"

"Find a way to put these 'cats' down," Yu Sheng said quickly, "and then let the king inquire about the situation."

"Okay!"

The little doll happily agreed, and then began to try to control the spider webs that trapped the "cat" in the dark alley. After several unskilled interventions, she finally made a part of the spider silk in mid-air relax and fall to the ground.

A trapped "cat" entity broke free from the spider web, flipped over and landed on the ground, turning towards Yu Sheng and his group with its back arched high.

"ha--"

(End of this chapter)