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Yu Sheng didn't know why the woman who claimed to be the director of the Secret Service Bureau suddenly froze. He just looked at her curiously. Seeing that she didn't say anything, he took the initiative to open the topic: "Speaking of which, the standards of your Secret Service Bureau's 'contact' with the parties involved are quite high. I thought it would be Li Lin and others who came to meet me, but I didn't expect to meet the director directly - have you always been like this?"
Baili Qing quickly returned to her usual calm demeanor upon hearing this: "No, only in special circumstances."
"In special circumstances?"
"For example, a person who has lived in a foreign land for a long time, but has lived in the border area as an 'ordinary person' for more than 20 years... a 'weirdo'," Baili Qing looked into Yu Sheng's eyes, "Sorry, I hope you don't mind me calling you this way."
"Well, I don't mind, but am I really that weird in your eyes?" Yu Sheng was a little embarrassed. "I saw Li Lin and Xu Jiali's reactions before. They were quite surprised by my living conditions, but they can understand it."
"Perhaps you haven't realized it yourself," Baili Qing sighed, "Many people in the Secret Service are paying attention to your actions. In the past few days... a large number of operators have been busy with this."
Yu Sheng opened his mouth: "...Ah?"
Baili Qing looked at him: "You have the ability to open the 'door', right?"
"Ah, yes," Yu Sheng nodded, stretched out his hand and grabbed a handful of air next to him, and a door appeared out of thin air beside him, "Li Lin and I used this thing to come back..."
Before he finished speaking, the woman opposite him suddenly raised her hand: "No need to demonstrate!"
Baili Qing, who is always calm and indifferent, rarely gets so excited.
Yu Sheng loosened his hand on the door handle awkwardly. Seeing the other party's reaction, he vaguely understood: "Well... it looks like I will affect you when I open the door?"
"When you open a door, the entire border area will observe time and space vibrations of unknown origin," Baili Qing said bluntly, "The staff responsible for related monitoring have been very dissatisfied recently - you, do you really not feel anything?"
Yu Sheng's expression was a bit dull, and his eyes gradually became subtle. After a long while, he shook his head with a strange look in his eyes: "No feeling... Then does that mean that the impact of me opening a door can be so big that it affects the entire border area? Does that mean I'd better not use this ability in the future?"
He was obviously not happy when he said this. After all, the "door" was really useful. He had only recently become familiar with this ability and had tasted its convenience. At this time, someone from the Secret Service suddenly came over and said that this thing was disturbing the public... That was a bit awkward.
But looking at the attitude of the female director in front of him, the degree to which he would "disturb the neighbors" by opening the door seemed... quite a lot, which was a bit embarrassing.
Baili Qing was aware of Yu Sheng's emotions. After a little thought, she shook her head and said, "I'm just making a suggestion. I hope you can try to control the frequency of 'opening the door' in the future. At least... don't open hundreds of cracks overnight like before, or at least report it in advance. After all, this is your ability, and it does not cause any substantial damage to the border. In principle, we cannot directly prohibit such behavior - of course, the premise is that you are willing to cooperate with us to register with your legal identity, and we will also cooperate with your ability to make some technical adjustments to the monitoring methods."
Yu Sheng was a little surprised.
The female director in front of him looked cold and serious, giving people the feeling that she was difficult to get along with, but he didn't expect that she was actually quite... easy to talk to.
When Yu Sheng heard what she said about "hundreds of cracks opening up overnight", he knew what was going on. He really didn't feel anything at the time, but now even if he just imagined it, he could imagine how much noise he actually made that night - and yet, this "Director Baili Qing" in front of him was actually willing to negotiate with him to resolve the matter, and even came over to discuss it in person...
Yu Sheng is not a 15 or 16-year-old boy. He certainly knows how proactively he shows goodwill from the "official" perspective.
This "negotiable" attitude even caught him off guard - he had already prepared himself for a battle of wits and courage with the Secret Service when Baili Qing mentioned the "disturbing the public" issue, but the punch ended up hitting him in the face like cotton before he even threw it.
Instead, he felt a little embarrassed: "That's easy, registering is definitely not a problem... But I have a few questions, can you answer them first?"
Baili Qing nodded: "Of course, what do you want to ask?"
"First, what kind of organization is your 'Secret Service'?" Yu Sheng immediately sorted out the questions that had been in his mind for a long time, and asked seriously, "What is its nature? How wide is its scope?"
"Are you just curious about these?" Baili Qing seemed a little surprised by the questions that Sheng was concerned about, but she quickly spoke, "The Special Service Bureau, whose full name is 'Special Security and Service Support Bureau', is a department directly managed by the highest management body of the border area - the Council. It is also the highest-level official department in the border area that handles various 'supernatural events' such as aliens, entities, and weirdness. If the border area is divided into 'natural' and 'unnatural' sides, you can think of us as the highest responsible unit on the 'unnatural' side.
"But our scope of activities, or our jurisdiction, is not limited to the border area. I don't know if you have understood the special features of the border area..."
Baili Qing stopped and looked into Yu Sheng's eyes.
"The special nature of the border area..." Yu Sheng frowned, and immediately recalled the various pieces of information he had heard from Irene before, as well as one thing he realized when he opened those gates leading to the distance -
This world has far more than just one border. Outside this strange "city", there are countless "faraway places".
"I know something about it," Yu Sheng said as he thought, "From the name, it seems to be connected to many places? It is said that there are all kinds of strange things here, but they are all hidden under the appearance of 'normal'..."
"One of the jobs of the Secret Service is to hide things that are beyond common sense and beyond the 'benchmark' of the border, and to make this city operate and develop according to the 'standard parameters'," Baili Qing nodded gently, "As you understand, this place is connected to many places, and the number and breadth of the connections... are beyond anyone's imagination. You can imagine the whole world as a big 'net' woven by countless traffic lines. These 'traffic lines' do not exist in the real dimension, and ordinary people cannot perceive them, but on the 'unnatural' side, they are entangled and affect each other, and there is a place where all the lines meet...
“That’s the border.”
Baili Qing paused, making sure that Yu Sheng could fully understand these things before continuing.
"The Secret Service's job is, first, to maintain the boundary between 'natural' and 'unnatural' within the boundary and ensure order on the 'unnatural' side. Second, it is to deal with all threats that spread from the 'transportation network' and are directed towards this 'intersection' - no matter if they come from nearby or from deep space 36 billion light years away."
Yu Sheng opened his eyes wide, and after several seconds he said, "...Isn't the distance between the two a bit too big?"
"For the special properties of the 'junction', their distances are the same," Baili Qing said calmly, and raised her hand to point at Yu Sheng, "Isn't it the same for you?"
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Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, and quickly understood what the other party meant.
“Among those hundreds of cracks, there are no less than two dozen cracks pointing to billions of light years away.” Baili Qing said lightly.
Yu Sheng said nothing.
His expression was calm, but his mind was filled with thoughts.
In fact, he was not surprised. He had guessed this when the gates were opened. How far were those distant landscapes? He did not have a clear answer, but when he discussed it with Irene enthusiastically, he felt that some of them might be as far as the limit of his imagination.
The number he heard from Baili Qing at this moment was just like a "footnote" that suddenly appeared in his imagination at that moment.
What really shocked Yu Sheng was the "coverage" of the "Secret Service" - he had seen Li Lin, an "operator" who stocked up instant noodles with him in the supermarket, and who would disguise himself as a spirited young man squatting on the roadside watching short videos when he was following them (he had already matched the character by then). At best, he was just a local police officer, just that kind of person... Suddenly, it was said that the organization behind him had a background of the stars and the sea, which was really hard to imagine...
But Yu Sheng hesitated for a long time and didn't feel comfortable telling the "director" in front of him about his feelings at the moment.
Mainly because I am worried that it will affect Li Lin's career...
Yu Sheng didn't say anything, and Baili Qing didn't say anything either, and the two of them fell into a brief silence for a while.
It was not until half a minute later that Baili Qing took the initiative to break the silence: "Do you have anything else to ask?"
"Yes," Yu Sheng immediately cleared the messy thoughts in his mind, sorted out his words and said, "Next question, is there only one Jie City?"
(End of this chapter)
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