Chapter 155 Utopia?
Now, Baili Qing also realized how tempting Yu Sheng’s “give it a try” was.
After a few seconds of thought, the director, who always appeared rational and calm, had to accept Yu Sheng's "plan", which could not even be called a plan - because there was no other way to go.
"I hope things can really go according to your 'plan'," Baili Qing adjusted her sitting position on the chair and looked at the 'person' in front of her with a slightly relaxed attitude. "Even if we can't really solve the 'foreign land', at least make it more stable and controllable like most of the foreign lands in this boundary city - 'Fairy Tale' has caused too much damage in the border area."
Then, her eyes fell on Hu Li next to her.
"Let's leave the matter of 'Fairy Tale' for now. Next... I want to talk about her."
When Yu Sheng heard this, he thought of the hair samples he had given to Song Cheng before, and his expression immediately became serious: "What did you find out? Did you find Hu Li's hometown?"
The fox demon girl who had not been participating in the conversation all of a sudden pricked up her ears and subconsciously moved forward.
"No, we haven't found it," Baili Qing shook her head and directly poured cold water on her. "Although we have checked almost all known ethnic groups and forces with official ties to the border area, we still haven't found a 'homeland' that matches her description, and the biological sample search has yielded no results. Unfortunately, this is the bad news I bring."
The room was quiet for a while. Yu Sheng frowned and turned to look beside him.
The fox's ears drooped visibly.
Apparently, even though this fox girl always said that she couldn't remember what her hometown looked like and didn't care much about going home, she was still quite depressed when the bad news really came.
Yu Sheng stretched out his hand and pressed it on Hu Li's hand. The latter turned over his palm and grasped Yu Sheng's fingers with both hands.
"I guess you don't just want to tell us this, right?" Yu Sheng let the fox girl hold his fingers, turned his head and looked into Baili Qing's eyes, "Besides this 'bad news', is there anything else?"
"...I still have some questions," Baili Qing said calmly, "Hu Li, can you describe to me what your hometown looks like? Especially...what do you call the land beneath your feet, and what are the names and legends of some of the iconic celestial bodies in the sky?"
"She may not remember much," Yu Sheng couldn't help but remind him, "She hadn't even graduated from elementary school when the accident happened, and she was in a daze for a long time in between."
"I know," Baili Qing nodded, "Tell me as much as you remember."
Hu Li subconsciously glanced at Yu Sheng, and after the latter nodded, she organized her words and began to describe the hometown in her memory to Baili Qing.
Many of the things she mentioned were things Yu Sheng had heard before, and had also been conveyed to the Secret Service through Li Lin and Xu Jiali. Baili Qing almost knew all of them as well.
But Baili Qing still listened very carefully, and seemed to be trying hard to extract more details and "references" from Hu Li's description.
"...We call the planet under our feet 'Hengyu'. Before the interstellar era, it was also called 'Yuheng Thirteen Continents', or 'Thirteen Continents', because there are thirteen continents in total, including two that were separated from the planet due to the ancient 'Great Earthquake' and floated above the equator - there were originally monsters called 'Nightmare Demons' living there. The textbooks say that they were ancient species that were thrown into the sky during the Great Earthquake, and they mutated generation after generation into monsters that would attack humans...
"The immortal said that in history, nightmare demons have come down from the sky to injure people many times, and some monks who fought nightmare demons were even written about in history books.
"After the interstellar age arrived, the two floating lands were transformed into immortal shuttle launch bases, and most of the nightmare demons were exterminated. The remaining ones became endangered species. The immortals locked them up in the 'Demon Locking Palace' and the 'Evil Suppression Palace' on the Yuheng synchronous orbit. Tickets are required to enter.
"After the celestial beings came, they built something called a 'navigation beacon' near Hengyu. We went to see it during an outing. It was a very large ball of light, surrounded by many 'palaces' that were larger than the 'Palace of Suppressing Evil'. The immortals said that the beacon could help Hengyu keep up with the celestial beings' 'galaxy'. Without the beacon, Hengyu would fly around and eventually fall out of the galaxy's navigation channel and land in the vacuum zone of the universe...
"The navigation mark is the brightest thing around us, except for the sun - the sun was also pulled away by the people in the sky..."
While Hu Li was recalling carefully, she described her hometown to Baili Qing according to her understanding. Gradually, some new things appeared in her description, which might be the contents that she had just recalled recently - but these new contents were as confusing as the other contents, so that even with Yu Sheng's imagination and comprehension ability, he had to think hard to barely keep up with her description.
Irene gave up halfway through listening. Seeing that Yu Sheng and Baili Qing were listening very attentively, she couldn't help but poke Yu Sheng's arm: "Hey, do you understand this? Is what the silly fox said really human language?"
"I was just pretending to understand," Yu Sheng slapped the puppet's hand away, "I can't follow your train of thought anymore since you interrupted me."
At this time, Hu Li's story finally came to an end. Baili Qing blinked her eyes. It seemed that the director was also quite shocked. She was stunned for about six or seven seconds before she frowned and asked, "You just said... your home planet 'Hengyu' has to keep up with the 'galaxy' of the people in the sky? And if it can't keep up, it will fall into the vacuum zone in the universe... I don't know if there is anything wrong with my understanding. You mean that your home planet is in a certain 'navigation' state?"
Hu Li immediately nodded as a matter of course: "Yes."
"Even your sun is on a 'journey'? Not moving normally in the universe, but in some kind of artificial, controlled 'journey' state?"
"Yes."
Baili Qing didn't say anything else, but lowered his head slightly, as if lost in thought.
If someone familiar were here, they would be able to tell at a glance that the director had entered a state of mindlessness, which is extremely rare.
She was in a daze for a while, then suddenly raised her head again: "Do you remember the specific situation when you fell into the Night Valley? What happened at that time, and what did you see or hear?"
She paused for a moment and added, "I know this memory is not easy for you, but this piece of information is really important."
"Actually... it's okay. After all, it's been a long time." Hu Li said, tilting his head to think for a while, and then continued uncertainly, "I was still young at the time, and the adults were protecting me when the accident happened. I didn't quite understand the specific situation at the time... I just remember that the immortal shouted, saying something like 'it seems to have hit a crack', and then the immortal shuttle started to spin, calling the police, and..."
She paused, tried to recall, and continued, "Oh, and later I heard adults talking about it, saying 'I don't know when we hit the danger zone', and 'I heard about travel warnings recently', and 'the navigation system should have been maintained long ago'. It seems that there was a problem with the navigation system when the shuttle was running, and it ran in a dangerous direction, and hit a crack in this direction..."
Hu Li scratched his hair when he said this: "That's all I remember. As for the rest... I have no impression."
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Baili Qing fell into deep thought again.
Yu Sheng and Irene did not speak, but were curious about the attitude of the Director of the Secret Service in front of them - from Baili Qing's last few questions, Yu Sheng keenly realized that the other party might have already had some kind of guess, and her questions... were obviously very targeted.
After a long while, Baili Qing suddenly broke the silence: "Is the crashed 'Immortal Shuttle' you mentioned still in that valley?"
"Yes," Hu Li nodded, "it's halfway up the mountain. It crashed into a valley and is half buried in soil and rocks. Later, when the benefactor came to help, he plowed the entire mountain again. The remains of the Immortal Shuttle should be buried a little deeper now, but it's very solid and won't be crushed."
"Well, the main structure is very intact," Yu Sheng interjected, "I checked it from a distance once before, but the terrain in that area is very complicated. When 'Hunger' was self-eating, it caused the entire area to collapse severely. I didn't have time to clean it up, so I never had time to investigate it carefully."
At this point, he had already reacted and looked into Baili Qing's eyes: "You want to..."
"Remember what I told you before? If there is a chance, the Secret Service hopes to investigate the 'Night Valley'," Baili Qing said seriously, "I am making this request to you again now, and if possible, we hope... to take a look at the means of transportation called 'Xian Shuttle'."
Yu Sheng did not respond for a moment. Baili Qing paused for a moment before continuing, "Of course, I know that the valley is now under your control. In a sense, it is your 'territory', so we will offer a suitable 'price' - you can raise any request within a reasonable range."
Yu Sheng thought seriously.
He looked at Hu Li who was sitting quietly beside him.
He looked at Baili Qing, whose eyes contained a hint of expectation.
He looked at Irene who was daydreaming... Oh, you don't need to read the last part.
He breathed a sigh of relief.
"Of course I have some requirements. I really need your help with something, but let me confirm first - does your Secret Service... have anyone who knows how to reclaim land and raise cattle and sheep?"
Baili Qing: “…Ah?”
(End of this chapter)
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