Chapter 75 "Another Boundary City"
After a while, two more people appeared in Baili Qing's office.
One was the burly Song Cheng, and the other had gray hair and looked to be in his fifties.
The latter wore a pair of narrow-rimmed glasses, was short and slightly overweight, and looked like an ordinary office boss who was about to retire.
Baili Qing looked up at the two people who came to her office and nodded slightly: "You came very quickly."
"Have you met the man named 'Yu Sheng'?" Song Cheng was the first to speak. "From the looks of you... have you discovered something?"
"I have communicated with him a lot, and the process is far different from what I expected. Yu Sheng may be the most special unnatural individual I have ever come into contact with. But before we discuss it in detail, I want to show you something first."
Baili Qing said, and turned her gaze to the gray-haired man - the person in charge of the Confidential Management Office: "Luo Zheng, close the door."
Luo Zheng nodded immediately, turned around and closed the office door.
As he closed the door, an invisible oppression instantly spread throughout the room, as if a breeze was blowing around. Wherever the breeze passed, even the dust floating in the air seemed to stagnate instantly.
When Song Cheng saw this scene, his heart tightened and he thought "how bitter it is" and canceled his plan to get off work on time this afternoon.
After completing the "closure" of the office, Baili Qing quietly stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window beside him.
The window was very large, and there was always a layer of light mist outside the window. However, there was an ever-changing scenery in the mist, and that scenery was obviously not what one should expect in Jie City - sometimes it was rolling mountains, sometimes it was endless forests, but most of the time it was a calm lake without any ripples. In the distance of the lake stood a small house, quietly wrapped in mist, hazy as a dream.
As Baili Qing came to the window, the flowing mist outside the window quickly calmed down, and the ever-changing scenery in the mist slowly faded away.
Song Cheng and Luo Zheng looked at the fog with serious expressions. After a few seconds of stagnation, something else began to appear in the fog.
Buildings, staggered rooftops, an unfamiliar city - and a gradually spreading red glow.
"What is this?" Song Cheng asked subconsciously.
"This is what 'Yu Sheng' showed me. He said this is another 'Boundary City'," Baili Qing said softly, her colorless eyes calmly staring at the mist outside the window, while the scenes stored in her memory kept appearing and recreating in the mist, "He is obsessed with this place and has seen this place before."
Luo Zheng's eyes were instantly filled with astonishment. He took off his narrow-framed glasses and wiped them on his shirt, then stared at the floating light and shadow outside the window: "Another 'boundary city'?!"
"Yes, another one. And I vaguely sensed his emotions. He seemed to think... this is what a 'normal' city should look like."
Song Cheng and Luo Zheng both fell silent in astonishment. With a little uneasiness, they looked at the so-called "normal" scenery outside the window.
Buildings that were so dark that only their edges were visible were lined up on the ground. In the distance, there were tall, strange spires, outlining a spectacular outline. The fog was thick, and the roofs and towers looked like tombstones lined up in the mist. There was also a red glow that penetrated the mist, making the entire sky look strange and dim, and the sunlight...
The bloody "sunlight" flows in the city like water, rolling up vortices between the buildings, and then pouring down from the roofs mixed with the sunset glow, flowing and dripping on the eaves, dripping, dripping...
Baili Qing's words sounded a little vague to Song Cheng and Luo Zheng: "He said that this is a peaceful seaside town with beautiful sunsets. The red glow will splash in the sky like water and flow along the roofs..."
"...It sounds like a very poetic description." Song Cheng said softly.
"Yes, I thought so when I first heard it," Baili Qing shook her head slightly, "until I found out that it is realistic."
"This can't be a 'place' that exists in reality," Luo Zheng said with a serious expression. He had gotten rid of the uneasiness and tension caused by witnessing the "strangeness" and quickly regained his composure. "There may be many planets with strange scenery in the universe, but this scene doesn't look like a natural landscape no matter how you look at it. The light and shadows around the buildings, as well as the 'sunlight', their existence violates the laws of physics. They... seem to be melting."
"If I have to say it, it's a bit like the graphics card driver crashing when playing games, causing problems with the rendering of the screen," Song Cheng also stroked his chin and analyzed, and finally added, "I've seen this happen to my daughter when she was playing games."
"This should be some kind of foreign land," Luo Zheng said cautiously. "From the scene, it should be large-scale, but due to lack of information and reference objects, it is impossible to determine whether it is classified as a 'wilderness' or a 'country'. In any case, it is definitely not a 'fortress'."
"It could also be an 'abnormality'." Baili Qing said lightly.
"An 'abnormal' type of foreign land?" Luo Zheng was a little surprised. He frowned. "Like a 'fairy tale' or a 'heroic epic'? But it looks like a real space..."
"'Abnormal' alien worlds will also form their own 'actual existence' in cognition. What I saw was just the scene sketched in Yu Sheng's mind, so we cannot rule out that the essence of this scene is just a 'memory' or 'story'," Baili Qing shook her head. "The key point now is that no matter what the nature of this 'alien world' is, Yu Sheng thinks it is another 'boundary city'."
Song Cheng and Luo Zheng fell silent at the same time, and the atmosphere in the office became particularly solemn.
There are countless alien lands in this world, and those that have established connections with border areas or even overlap with border areas are as numerous as stars. But no matter what, alien lands are just alien lands, and the scale of their seemingly overlapping parts with the real world is extremely limited. Since the beginning of records, there has never been an alien land like this -
Pointing to "another junction".
Song Cheng stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, staring at the city outside the window that was washed and soaked in red light.
To be fair, those dark city silhouettes didn't have much in common with the "boundary city" under his feet, at least he couldn't see it. He didn't understand why the "person" named "Yu Sheng" thought this was another boundary city, but he did understand one thing:
The world you see will be different if you observe from different perspectives.
In the eyes of the Algrad people, the starry sky is filled with magnificent and orderly lines and patterns. In the eyes of the Bamosas, the world is illuminated by both "light" and "magnetic field". The Ghipro people can observe the outline of the electric field, and the ancient Sen'jin people embrace time in meditation and can even briefly predict the future.
Human beings are one of the races with the narrowest "vision" in the world. In the eyes of those gifted races, humans are both deaf and blind, so that only less than one percent of the "intelligence" in this vast world with infinite information is "effective" for humans. But at the same time, as long as there is appropriate equipment or methods to assist, the human mind can process almost all "knowledge". For dangerous information that is beyond perception, humans' ability to withstand and adapt is also ridiculously high.
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That is why humans are recognized as the "Innate Investigator Holy Body" by all races in this world.
"The world in his eyes is different from the world in our eyes." Song Cheng suddenly said.
"Yes," Baili Qing did not deny it, but added, "But 'he' can also survive in our world. Apart from being a little bit awkward, he has adapted well to everything else."
"Having both human and... 'non-human' perspectives? Or, two 'cognitive systems'?" Luo Zheng frowned slightly and said in thought, "You have come into contact with him. Do you think he is an 'entity' or a 'human'?"
"More like a human, at least that's what he thinks now." Baili Qing turned her head and reached out to gently tap the glass of the French window. As she finished her words, the "scenery" outside the window suddenly collapsed and shrank, returning to its previous calm state of misty, alternating mountains and water. "I think it's best not to disrupt this 'status quo' - before we can determine what No. 66 Wutong Road and 'Yu Sheng' are."
"I understand," Song Cheng took a deep breath and nodded solemnly, "Then what's next..."
"Next, the Second Brigade will allocate some manpower and energy to handle matters related to No. 66 Wutong Road and 'Yu Sheng'. The first thing is to help him with some registration."
"Register?"
"The two 'people' around him need legal identities," Baili Qing said slowly, "Secondly, he himself seems to be interested in registering as a... 'spiritual detective'."
Song Cheng: “…Ah?”
"He said he wanted to maintain order in the border area and fight against aliens and entities."
Song Cheng: “…Ah?”
"I know what you're saying," Baili Qing raised her eyelids and glanced at Song Cheng, "The Secret Service has always been dealing with outrageous things. Go and make arrangements - pick a smart and reliable person to be in charge of this matter. I think the two mentioned in the last report are pretty good."
Song Cheng had a subtle expression: "I just gave them three days off..."
Baili Qing thought for a moment and said, "Yes, in this situation, you need to rest - you can arrange it yourself, don't delay it for too long."
(End of this chapter)
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