Chapter 156 Baili Qing's Judgment
It turns out that Ms. Director still has some practice to do when it comes to dealing with Yu Sheng.
She checked several times before she was sure she had heard it correctly.
Yu Sheng enthusiastically introduced to Baili Qing his ambitious XingX Valley farmhouse plan, as well as the practical difficulties currently encountered in the matter of "farming in a foreign land". He also explained in detail the feasibility of this matter and the progress that has been made so far, which stunned the knowledgeable Baili Qing.
To be fair, Baili Qing had been the director of the Secret Service for so many years, and she had seen everything - but she had never seen this before...
"Actually, I need a lot of help here," Yu Sheng seemed not to care about the subtle changes in Baili Qing's expression (after all, the changes in this lady's expression are quite difficult to detect), and he was still talking excitedly, "What I told you is just the basics. The key is that there is no electricity in the valley now. If possible, can you get me a set of power generation equipment... But there is no sun over there. Although the sky is bright, I don't know if it can drive solar power generation. There is a small river at the foot of the mountain, but it is too small. It may not be enough to drive a small hydroelectric power station. If it doesn't work, we can only use thermal power..."
Yu Sheng said a lot of things cheerfully, and it took him a while to react. He immediately stopped talking and looked at the female director in front of him awkwardly: "Uh, am I asking for too much?"
Baili Qing was stunned for several seconds and didn't know what to say. It wasn't until Yu Sheng spoke for the second time that she reacted. She tried to keep her usual calm expression and said, "...I'll try my best to arrange it."
Then she paused, as if she was trying to organize her thoughts, and her tone became serious: "I am surprised - what you mentioned is an area that no one has ever set foot in. Frankly speaking, just these ideas of yours have already been of great research value... Everything about the valley, the changes it has experienced and its current environment, I am very interested in it."
"Well, I haven't thought about it that much. I just think it's a waste to leave such a large area alone without doing anything with it," Yu Sheng scratched his head. "So is this a deal? I can open some specific areas of the valley for you to investigate, and you can provide me with some supplies and manpower?"
"No problem," Baili Qing nodded solemnly, "We can finalize the details of the specific scope of 'support' and the list of projects after the professionals conduct on-site inspections."
Yu Sheng laughed, stood up from his chair, and extended his hand to the other party: "Okay, happy cooperation."
Baili Qing hesitated for a moment, then stood up and shook Yu Sheng's hand: "Happy cooperation."
Yu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, then looked back at the still busy laboratory across the street. After a moment's hesitation, he said, "We've already discussed everything we need to discuss. I can't seem to figure out anything with the 'metal parts' I brought here for the time being... How about you take me on a tour around here since we have nothing to do right now? Just to celebrate the new 'cooperation project' - I'm quite interested in your headquarters building."
Baili Qing was slightly stunned, but quickly nodded: "Of course."
"Then Irene, you and Hu Li wait here?" Yu Sheng turned his head to look at the puppet and the fox demon.
Irene was a little surprised, but before she could say anything, Hu Li stood up subconsciously: "My benefactor, I'll go with you..."
"We'll just walk around here," Yu Sheng stretched out his hand and rubbed the fur behind Hu Li's ears, "and discuss arranging an investigation team in the valley. This is definitely not interesting. You and Irene wait here and keep an eye on the situation in the laboratory."
Hu Li was stunned, and seemed a little hesitant.
Irene suddenly stood up, climbed onto the table, and pulled Hu Li's tail: "Okay, let's wait for Yu Sheng here..."
As she spoke, she looked at Baili Qing again: "Do you have anything delicious here? Send some snacks over so we can eat while we wait."
"Okay, I'll have someone send it over," Baili Qing nodded, "Our employee snacks are very popular here."
After hearing this, Hu Li finally sat back in his chair obediently, pretending to be waiting for food while looking at Yu Sheng: "Then my benefactor, please come back early. I'll be waiting for you - don't go too far."
Yu Sheng smiled and nodded, then stretched out his hand and bumped his fist with Irene's. Then he turned around and followed Baili Qing, leaving the room slowly.
Baili Qing said nothing along the way. Like a moving ice cube, she maintained an unchanged expression and mechanically precise steps as she walked with Yu Sheng through the long corridor on the 54-1/2 floor. She only nodded slightly in response when the Secret Service employees passing by greeted her. They walked into the elevator at the end of the corridor and then took the elevator all the way up.
"Where are we going?" Yu Sheng asked curiously when he saw that Baili Qing just swiped a black card and did not select any floor, but the elevator seemed to have determined the destination and started running quickly.
"N floor," Baili Qing said casually, "a suitable place to discuss things."
Yu Sheng subconsciously glanced at the elevator control panel, but did not see the so-called "Nth floor" option. He only saw the numbers on the screen increasing all the way. After crossing a certain limit, the display screen no longer showed the floor, but continuously displayed the words "elevator up".
After a while, he felt the elevator begin to slow down, the lights in the car gradually dimmed, and the upward prompt on the display disappeared. A few seconds later, accompanied by a slight shake of the car, all the characters on the screen disappeared instantly, leaving only a large letter: N.
The elevator door opened and Baili Qing walked out first. Yu Sheng hesitated for a moment and followed outside with a hint of curiosity.
He looked at the place in astonishment.
Outside the elevator, there is no corridor or room - there is only a bare ground covered with dark, rugged rocks. The entire ground is very small, perhaps only a few hundred meters in radius, and its edges are fragmented. Countless pieces of gravel can be seen floating in the air, and even this "land" of several hundred meters in radius seems to be floating in thin air.
Outside this "island" is a vast and endless chaotic space, and there is also a huge and brilliant stream of light, which runs through the entire sky from the end of the space, hanging high above this "isolated island" like some kind of suspended river of light.
Yu Sheng looked back in the direction he came from, and saw that the "elevator" suddenly emerged from the center of this "void floating island". The elevator shaft pierced the gravel-strewn ground like a pipe, and continued to extend upward, disappearing into the depths of the magnificent light stream.
"...Your headquarters building is really beautiful. Is this still the border area?"
"Welcome to the 'rooftop' of the junction, at least part of the 'rooftop'," Baili Qing said calmly, "Normally few people come to this floor. Although this has always been my favorite observation deck, other people don't seem to like it very much - would you like something to drink?"
Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, then he noticed that there was a small flat space near the elevator. The space was surrounded by a circle of stones, and there were sofas, coffee tables, chairs, a bar, and even a beverage cabinet and an ice machine on the space. Baili Qing was taking drinks and ice cubes out of the machine and inviting him in.
Yu Sheng stared: "...How did you get the water and electricity here?"
Baili Qing: “…Ah?”
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Yu Sheng repeated: "I mean hydropower..."
Baili Qing finally showed a strange look on her face: "I have received guests here several times, and you are the first one to ask this question."
"I can't help it. I'm a person who pays more attention to rationality." Yu Sheng walked over and sat down on the sofa. "Just water, add more ice cubes."
Baili Qing poured a glass of ice water mixture and handed it to Yu Sheng, while replying calmly: "I got it from the elevator shaft, but if you want to know how the elevator shaft got here, it's hard for me to explain it to you. You have to ask the engineering department."
Yu Sheng said "oh" but didn't really pursue the issue. Instead, he took a sip of water, sorted out his words, and asked directly, "Tell me clearly, what's the matter with Hu Li's hometown?"
Baili Qing didn't seem surprised at all.
Her answer was unusually candid: "We suspected she came from 'outside.'
"Outside?" Yu Sheng frowned immediately, "You mean..."
"Do you remember the information Song Cheng brought you before?" Baili Qing looked into Yu Sheng's eyes, "The information about the Dark Angel."
Yu Sheng was slightly startled, then he immediately reacted and said softly: "The Dark Angel is an 'invader' from outside the world..."
"Yes, the key word is 'outside the world'," Baili Qing put down the cup in her hand and said calmly, "The appearance of those invaders revealed a fact to us early on, that is, outside our 'known universe', there are other 'things' that are completely different from us, incompatible, and strange and indescribable - at least, before the appearance of Miss 'Hu Li' next to you, this was all our impression of 'outsiders'."
Yu Sheng stood there with his mouth open for several seconds, then suddenly frowned: "Hu Li is not the 'Dark Angel', nor is she an intruder - she is a victim of the Dark Angel."
"Yes, I know, so I just said that she might be an 'outsider', and I didn't say she was a dark angel or something like that," Baili Qing remained calm. "Although this challenges our greatest understanding of 'outsiders' so far, I can still make a judgment based on reason."
(End of this chapter)
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