Chapter 541 Cocoon Hall

Under Luo's guidance, Yu Sheng and Irene carefully walked through the connecting passage near the laboratory.

The outer area was unexpectedly "quiet" - although Yu Sheng had previously considered that the probability of encountering enemies outside the laboratory might be lower, he did not expect that there would be no one on this road.

Contaminated corridors, spider silk eroding into the real dimension, and "shadows" with a sticky texture that silently wriggle in the cracks of the walls and roofs. This is all that can be seen in the outer area - the rebellious space station defense forces, laboratory security and crazy researchers do not seem to be here.

"I feel a little creepy," Irene continued to hold Yu Sheng's head tightly. She was usually fearless, but now she looked scared. "I, I won't play with the Death O Space anymore..."

"You weren't this scared when the star exploded before," Yu Sheng tilted his head slightly to glance at the small thing on his shoulder, "wasn't that thing scary too?"

"No, it's different," the little puppet muttered. "Look at the silk threads around here. They're not under my control. And these shadows, I feel like they're full of eyes staring at me—this place is targeting me!"

Somehow, Yu Sheng's mind flashed with the scenes from the video footage that Marlene had sent him before - a blonde puppet holding a frying pan arrogantly rushing towards the goddess of omen descending from mid-air.

Judging from the video footage from that time, the blonde Irene was strong but uncultured, while the ominous goddess was polite but timid.

At this moment, the little Irene on his shoulder obviously combined the characteristics of both parties.

Cowardly and uncultured.

Still short.

It is a case of learning from the shortcomings of all parties.

The little doll suddenly turned around, staring at Yu Sheng with scarlet eyes: "Are you thinking of something impolite?"

"Nothing." Yu Sheng casually rubbed the little doll's head twice to divert her attention, and then he concentrated his mind slightly and once again felt the bloodstains he left in this space station.

After returning to the space station, his perception of the blood marks here has also been greatly enhanced. The feedback that was previously vague due to interference now contains a lot of more information - although he still cannot analyze those "faults" and "blanks", but at least, now he can clearly and stably form the "outline" of the core area of ​​the space station in his mind.

Where the laboratory was, he vaguely felt a huge... "void".

All material structures came to an abrupt end at the edge of the hole. He could not feel anything in the hole, as if a piece of the space station had been dug out of thin air.

"Wait a moment."

Luo's voice suddenly sounded from the side.

Her wheeled limbs made a slight braking sound and stopped in front of a corner of the connecting passage. She then pointed to a place not far ahead with the mechanical limbs behind her.

Yu Sheng cautiously stuck his head out and looked in the direction the other person's "hand" was pointing.

The front of the passage was crooked and twisted, and the wall seemed to have been cut into a large number of irregular "jigsaw pieces" by an invisible force. Between the large and small cracks, one could see architectural structures that did not belong to the Blackstone Space Station, as well as many blurry human figures, flashes of light, and dull, distant explosion sounds.

"...It's from the Secret Service!" Irene recognized them immediately, pointing to the distance. "Hey, that one over there, looks like Xu Jiali!"

"They can't see us," Yu Sheng frowned and quickly made a judgment, "...Go ahead, but be careful of the cracks on both sides. The spatial structure here is very unstable."

The group cautiously walked out of the corner and continued forward along the passage that showed a superposition of time and space.

There was a hollow and vague whistling sound coming faintly, as if echoing directly in my heart.

Yu Sheng subconsciously raised his head and saw that a crack seemed to have opened up in the darkness. A slender and terrifying limb stretched out from the crack, slid blindly in the air, and the tips of the limbs stirred up translucent ripples. Sticky shadows dripped from the ends of the limbs like mud, corroding holes in the corridor of the space station.

But the next second, everything disappeared like a phantom.

"Did you see that thing just now? It looked like a spider..."

"Of course I saw it!" Irene said immediately, subconsciously shrinking her neck. Her height was only 66.6 cm to begin with, and after shrinking, it was probably only 65 cm. "Li, is this what Li Lin saw before?"

Yu Sheng didn't say anything, but just patted the little doll's back soothingly and looked up at the front.

The last door leading to the laboratory appeared before him—half of the gate seemed to be stuck and remained open.

There was a low humming sound on the other side of the door, as if many people were gathered together to pray, or as if it was just the unconscious mumbling of a group.

Luo seemed to be getting nervous, and the mechanical limbs behind her retracted slightly. Then she saw Yu Sheng walking straight towards the open gate.

"Hey, you're really not afraid of death..."

Luo's low exclamation sounded behind him, and at the same time, the scene in the laboratory also came into Yu Sheng's sight.

This huge circular hall that was once brightly lit is now covered with shadows. Crisscrossing black spider webs cover almost every inch of the roof and walls. A large number of equipment are off, and the few remaining machines are still flashing alarm lights and fault holographic projections. Among the crisscrossing spider webs, Yu Sheng finally saw the "people" who remained in the space station.

Spider silk is wrapped into cocoons, enveloping slowly wriggling black figures. Those crazed soldiers and researchers are all here. Countless human silhouettes are hung on the roof, stuck to the walls, or fixed to the ground. Layers of prayers emanate from those wriggling cocoons, pious, fearful, and as if immersed in a dream.

And in the center of these "human cocoons", on the platform that once fixed the Zolda Black Stone, there is a huge hole - the edge of the dark crack is shaking, as if even space itself is constantly turning and falling into the center of the crack. Even looking at it seems to be attracted by the strong attraction, making it difficult to stand and think.

Luo only took a glance at the black crack, and he felt his spiritual intuition giving him a crazy warning, so he hurriedly shifted his gaze to the side.

Then she saw the sticky shadows overflowing from the edge of the platform - mud-like shadows kept dripping from the "hole" above the platform, like blood mud overflowing from a wound. The shadows filled the platform and flowed out from the platform, spreading wantonly along the floor of the laboratory, and even flowing upstream along the surrounding walls.

Each "human cocoon" is immersed in those sticky shadows, as if absorbing nutrients.

Luo subconsciously took a breath of cold air: "What..."

Perhaps due to her limited vocabulary, she couldn't even come up with the second half of the sentence.

At this time, Yu Sheng's gaze had already fallen on the empty space in the center of the hall.

"This should be the source of all the space-time rifts in the station," he said in a deep voice. "Shutting it down should be enough... I think so."

"Close it? How?" Luo looked at Yu Sheng, who was unarmed and eager to fight, in astonishment. His expression was as if he had seen a ghost. "Wait, you're not planning to just go over and start fighting like this, are you? Are you really going to kill yourself!?"

"I said I'm not afraid of death," Yu Sheng said calmly, looking at the other person with a half-smile. "Didn't you say you weren't afraid either?"

Luo was completely stunned: "No, I said I'm not afraid of death... but I didn't say I would come to see you off..."

Yu Sheng was amused and stopped teasing. Instead, he lifted Irene from his shoulder and handed her to him: "You two are together."

Luo Yi had a psychological trauma when he saw this red-eyed dwarf. He almost slipped and fell on the spot and didn't dare to answer: "Huh?"

Irene didn't react for a moment. She was held in the air and turned to look at Yu Sheng: "Why?"

"Your body is a mass-produced one, with an emergency portal inside," Yu Sheng explained. "I'll go up and close the rift later. If it succeeds, fine. If it fails, you can immediately take Luo back to the valley—a mass-produced one can easily carry one person."

"Oh, oh!" Irene finally reacted and immediately agreed while turning her head and jumping onto Luo's arm, and began to climb onto his shoulder using her hands and feet.

Luo almost jumped up on the spot.

Of course the main reason she didn't jump was because the wheels weren't suitable for jumping - if she was in walking mode she would have been flying by now.

"I've got a good hold!" Irene had already climbed onto Luo's shoulders. She didn't care about Luo's pale face and grabbed his long ears, holding them like handlebars. She turned her head and looked at Yu Sheng, "You can get on your way~"

Yu Sheng nodded and walked towards the terrifying hole in the center of the hall.

He stepped on the "flowing shadow" that was as thick as mud, and felt a cold but extremely peaceful and calm breath suddenly surge into his heart.

When he landed again, he heard a faint murmur in his ears, as if someone was calling his name, but it also seemed to be just the empty sound of the wind.

The third step was taken—the layers of prayers in the hall suddenly quieted down.

All the "human cocoons" stopped squirming, and all the sticky shadows stopped flowing.

Amidst the intertwined spider webs, "cocoons" with human-shaped outlines suddenly turned around, and invisible gazes pierced through the spider silk and fell on the intruders.

The next second, the cocoon broke open.

A muddy figure emerged from its cocoon, shouting an indescribable noise and rushing towards the invader in the hall.

"I knew it wouldn't be this easy!" Yu Sheng yelled, and with his prepared hand, he pulled out his tetanus stick from a door. With his other hand, he opened the door to No. 66 Wutong Road and called out without even turning around, "Erin, get someone!"

Before he finished speaking, twisted spatial rifts opened up behind him, and mass-produced puppets stepped into the hall. Then, there was a whistling sound as an elegant figure leaped out of the gate, wielding a sharp blade and pouncing at the monsters that had transformed from the cocoons. Another silver-white figure, wrapped in blue flames, rushed out and happily danced around Yu Sheng, "My benefactor, my benefactor, I'm here!!!"

Yu Sheng raised his hand and pointed forward: "Hit!"

The fox girl roared and rushed forward with eight fox cannons flying around her.

(End of this chapter)