Chapter 598: Abandon Darkness and Turn to Light

The guards showed great vigilance and tension when faced with the blood droplets floating in the air and the bizarre blood-giving ritual. After all, studying the supernatural and becoming one are obviously not the same thing. But to Yu Sheng's surprise, despite their resistance, not one of them actually showed any sign of backing down.

They even went so far as to cooperate in completing the "blood donation."

Feeling the rapid establishment of the blood connection, Yu Sheng thoughtfully turned his head to look at the golden-haired elf standing next to him.

No wonder these people were able to remain sober and rush out of the Rift Lab under those circumstances—they were a bunch of die-hards, the kind whose minds were only filled with loyalty.

At this moment, Yu Sheng had no doubt that even if Luo suddenly went mad and declared that he wanted to become an angelic believer, this group of guards would probably immediately find a bunch of candles, put them on the ground, and then start stabbing themselves with knives while circling around and performing a ritualistic dance...

Regardless, the blood donation ceremony was successfully completed—Yu Sheng successfully recruited Luo and her subordinates using the most reliable "contract".

“Congratulations on regaining your freedom,” Yu Sheng clapped his hands, drawing the attention of a group of guards who were still studying whether they had been cursed after the “blood transfusion.” “You are now considered peripheral members of the inn, but what you have to do is not much different from before. Luo will explain the specifics to you. As for now, I will take you somewhere first.”

As he spoke, he casually opened a large door beside him.

The view from the door is inside the Black Rock Space Station's rift laboratory.

A small commotion arose among the guards, and then several eyes fell on Luo.

Luo let out a soft breath, offered no explanation, and stepped towards the door: "Let's go home and take a look."

Stepping through the illusory door, she instantly arrived in a distant time and space, as easily as walking from her bedroom to the living room. Luo then returned from the Secret Service headquarters building to her familiar space station.

The place is largely as I remember it, except that the device that was originally used to house the "Zolda Black Stone" in the center of the laboratory is gone, and the several fissure generators that were directly connected to the device have also been removed. The roof of the laboratory originally had a large hole that allowed you to see the starry sky directly, but now the hole has been urgently repaired. However, the ceiling covering has not yet been restored, and you can still see the slowly healing skeletal structure and the cables and pipes that are not yet fully connected when you look up.

……heal?

Luo had just taken a breath in the space station, and before he could even express his feelings, he saw the writhing alloy skeleton overhead and the cables and pipes crawling around looking for connectors. He almost choked on his breath, turning to stare at Yu Sheng as if he'd seen a ghost: "What...what...what's going on over there..."

Yu Sheng had anticipated her reaction, and waved his hand before she could finish speaking: "Don't make such a fuss. Your space station is giving me a headache, isn't it? This is all normal."

Luo was instantly speechless. Then, she heard footsteps coming from the direction of the laboratory door. Looking up, she saw several figures dressed in traditional Algerian scholar's attire walking in together, discussing topics such as system reset, removing security locks, and database hacking.

The next second, Master Alvin and his Star Scholars suddenly stopped in their tracks.

On one side were the Star Scholars led by the Master, and on the other side were the Black Dot Warlord with his personal guard. The two groups of Space Long Ears bumped into each other in the Rift Laboratory and were immediately stunned.

The astral scholars didn't recognize the group as members of the Black Dot Group. They just felt that the dozens of guards didn't look like "scholars" who had come to help; they looked more like they had just been released from prison. Luo, however, reacted immediately and suddenly shouted, "Who are you?! What are you doing in my space station?"

Her shout caught the attention of the people on the other end, and Alvin, the team leader, instantly changed his expression: "Your space station... is from the Black Dot Group?!"

The atmosphere suddenly changed, and looking at Yu Sheng's side, he pulled out a handful of sunflower seeds from his pocket...

However, he had only taken two bites when Luo interrupted him: "Hey! Aren't you my new boss—explain the situation!"

Yu Sheng then stepped forward and stood between the two groups of space captains' ears.

“These are the experts and scholars that Mo Ran brought from Alglade, the ones I mentioned to you,” he explained briefly to Luo, then turned to the Star Scholars. “Mo Ran should have told you as well that I would find an ‘expert’ who is most familiar with this space station to take over here—the one who is most familiar with this place should, of course, be the original owner of this space station. Any questions?”

Angel Hunter...

The elven scholar named Alvin's eyes shifted slightly. The moment he saw Yu Sheng step forward, he realized what was going on. However, since the person opposite him was a high-ranking member of the Black Dot Group—a rebellious force that had split off from the mother society and posed a particularly dangerous threat to the Algred people—his gaze still involuntarily fell on Luo, and his expression remained tense.

Luo helplessly spread his hands: "Don't be so nervous, 'comrade'—I'm just a scientist, and I've already switched jobs from Black Dot Group."

Alvin, however, kept his eyes fixed on her, but... for some time now, his gaze had become somewhat strange.

Luo noticed the change in the eyes of her compatriot opposite her. She also frowned, looked the other person up and down several times with a puzzled expression, and her expression suddenly changed as well.

Upon seeing this, Yu Sheng quickly took out the sunflower seeds again. After hesitating for a moment, he opened another door and pulled Luna over.

He felt that Miss Saint might like watching this—although he didn't know what would happen next, his spiritual intuition was telling him that.

Alvin and Luo both noticed Yu Sheng's strange behavior, but neither of them had time to pay attention to it at the moment. Just as Luna was still confused, Alvin finally broke the silence: "...Are you called Luo?"

Luo frowned: "I also feel like you look familiar."

“…We both studied in Terra! Over two hundred years ago, at Windhaven University, majoring in Psionics and Curious Things, and also Astrology—you were a year ahead of me!” Alvin’s expression changed, his eyes filled with astonishment mixed with a complex sense of the impermanence of life. “Our mentor was Master Ted Riel, you were my senior, and you even helped me with my thesis…”

Luo slowly opened her eyes wide.

Some distant memories suddenly resurfaced in my mind. The simple and happy days of my school days were like sparkling fragments rising from the deep sea, mixed with the smell of psionic mushrooms.

Because she was gnawing on a psionic mushroom when she last recalled these things, Ankaela's power directly etched the impression of that thing into her memory—this is also a facet of angelic power.

Luo's lips trembled a few times; she still couldn't remember the name of the junior in front of her—but she did recall his face and what he had mentioned.

Alvin's expression was complicated: "Why would you..."

Luo remained silent.

Alvin suddenly sighed: "I just overheard a classmate mentioning that when you graduated you signed with some fraudulent company and got lured to the Dark Stream Starfield to mine. Then there were rumors that you were tricked into joining a pyramid scheme. All of us in the dorm said it was impossible; you were the most capable one in that year, and you wouldn't fall for that kind of scam—now it seems you've indeed gone to do something big, but I never expected you to become a terrorist..."

Luo finally had to speak up: "Hey, can't you speak properly...?"

After saying that, she turned to look at Yu Sheng, her expression somewhat helpless: "Also, boss, could you please stop eating?"

Yu Sheng then clapped his hands and looked at the two people in front of him with a happy smile.

"This is a happy ending, isn't it? Old classmates, it's been so long. You've both gone astray and come to the right path—this saves us a lot of introductions, and you can get to work as soon as possible. Anyway, my requirements are simple: restore this space station to its original state as quickly as possible. Nothing else matters."

Luo frowned. Although she still felt something was off, she had to admit that after this little incident, the tense atmosphere at the scene was at least gone.

Then came a fairly smooth handover of work, as well as brief introductions and introductions between the two teams.

Master Alvin also conveniently confirmed a suspicion he had in mind—

Those dozens of Algered people in front of me, who didn't look like scholars at all, were indeed just released...

It's a clone army brought back by a senior student who dedicated herself to terrorist activities; they're incredibly hardcore.

Luo finally learned that the space station had briefly left this world and recorded the terrifying scene of "angels surrounding" it from outside the world.

Her emotions were somewhat complicated.

Black Rock Station has suffered so many misfortunes that she's almost numb to it all, but what's even more numbing is that this "pitfall" of the hostel... seems to be no shallower than the one at the Special Operations Bureau.

“Let me confirm,” she turned to her new boss, “You mean, next I need to figure out how this space station travels between worlds, and find out if there are any traces of angelic distortion or information pollution from outside the world left at Blackrock Station. If we find them, we’ll study them… Is that what you mean?”

Yu Sheng nodded: "Yes. There may be other projects as well, such as the Boundary Bridge, Ominous Signs, or other Dark Angels, Invading Other Gods, etc. - the specifics depend on what I 'hunt' for."

Luo swallowed hard.

“In the past, I would at most dabble in antiques and curiosities from illegal star sectors, and occasionally research dark psionic energy, which would get me wanted by all the major civilizations. They all called me a technological terrorist…” She looked into Yu Sheng’s eyes, unable to contain herself. “Now you’re telling me that my main task going forward is to research dark angels and world pollution, and if necessary, even some evil gods?”

Yu Sheng thought for a moment and said, "You can understand it this way."

"...Can I go back to jail?"

"That won't do. You must abandon darkness and embrace the light."

Luo: "..."

(End of this chapter)