Chapter 158 Contact, Assessment, and Judgment
The elevator went down smoothly and silently, and the car was very quiet.
Baili Qing was the first to break the silence: "It's best not to tell anyone that Hu Li's 'hometown' might be in the 'outside world'."
Yu Sheng did not say anything, but just looked at the other person with a slightly questioning look.
"Due to the influence of the Dark Angel, people in this world are extremely nervous about 'foreign visitors'," Baili Qing said directly without any ambiguity. "Official organizations like the Secret Service are fine. We can treat this issue cautiously and rationally, but some other organizations...are not so calm."
Yu Sheng nodded gently: "Okay, I understand."
When we returned to the small room, Irene and Hu Li were still waiting there obediently.
As soon as he saw Yu Sheng coming in, Hu Li immediately came up happily with a plate of cake, and handed the cake to Yu Sheng with an air of assassination: "My benefactor! This is for you, it's delicious!"
Yu Sheng was nearly knocked down by the girl's plate. He quickly took a half step back to stand firmly. Then he took a look at the things on the plate and saw a palm-sized cream cake that was pinched and twisted, and piled with nuts. The amount of ingredients added obviously exceeded the normal amount, and the nuts stuffed on it seemed to be even larger than the cake.
Looking at Hu Li again, she saw cream all over her face and hands, and even a small piece of it on her ear. I don't know how she managed to eat the cream on her ear... and stuff her head into the cake? The fox girl was still smiling happily, looking at Yu Sheng expectantly. The latter hesitated for a moment, but still took the obviously "processed" cake. Seeing this, Irene explained: "Just eat it, the silly fox left it for you. She said you like nuts and raisins, so she stuffed half a jar of small ingredients into it for you."
Before Yu Sheng came in, his mind was full of dark angels, dark fairy tales, bitterness and deep hatred. At this moment, seeing Hu Li's warm and happy smile, the sadness in his mind melted away instantly. But he looked at the cake in his hand with an embarrassed expression - to be honest, he was quite touched, but this thing was a little shabby after being processed, and he felt that his blood sugar had risen after just one look...
But after all, it was the fox girl's kind gesture, and it was hard to refuse. Besides, there was Baili Qing next to him, who had a blank expression but seemed to be watching the fun. Yu Sheng could only bite the bullet and say thank you, then took a bite of the cake with a fork.
Then half of my tooth almost broke off.
"What is this?!" Yu Sheng was stunned and rummaged around in the cake for a few times. He took out a piece of shiny, hard substance as hard as stone, and looked up at Hu Li.
Hu Li smiled happily: "It's raisins."
Yu Sheng: “……?”
"In the end, I couldn't get it in anymore, so I just squeezed it."
Yu Sheng: “……?”
God damn raisins, she almost squeezed this lump of stuff into a brick - the silly girl doesn't have much common sense, but she has great strength!
Yu Sheng reluctantly ate two bites of the portion he could swallow, and gave the rest of the cake back to the fox girl, saying that he had already eaten some snacks when he went out for a walk just now and now he was not hungry, but he was still very grateful for the thought - Hu Li didn't think much about it, and happily took the cake and started eating, and the sound when he chewed the grape brick was like a crusher.
Yu Sheng even thought he saw sparks coming out of her mouth.
"Let's go home after we finish eating," Yu Sheng said, taking out a piece of paper to wipe the cream off Hu Li's ears, "There's still a lot to do when we get home."
"Are you done with the 'tour'?" Irene stood on the table and looked up at Yu Sheng.
Yu Sheng smiled and stroked the doll's hair: "The tour is over."
"Okay then," Irene casually pushed Yu Sheng's arm away and climbed onto his shoulder with ease. She then asked, "Ah, what about that 'iron lump' you brought with you? It's still useless? Are you just leaving it here?"
Yu Sheng turned his head and looked at Baili Qing.
"I'm afraid this will take some time," Baili Qing said calmly, "We need to do some detailed scans of its interior and microstructure, which cannot be completed in a day or two. If you are at ease, you can leave it here."
"...That's fine," Yu Sheng thought for a moment and nodded happily, "It's just sitting there with me anyway. If you come to a conclusion, remember to inform me in time... Hu Li! Don't wipe your mouth with your tail!"
Baili Qing looked at the scene in front of him.
Weird, incongruous, abstract - but a natural scene for them.
A barely perceptible smile appeared in her eyes.
"I'll arrange someone to take you home." she said suddenly.
"Ah, no need, we can just go back by ourselves," Yu Sheng wiped Hu Li's mouth, hands, face and tail with a tissue, turned back to look at Baili Qing, and then added, "I won't use my phone to report in front of you."
Baili Qing was stunned for a moment, but realized what was going on the next second. She quickly picked up the phone and sent a notification to the monitoring department, then looked at Yu Sheng with a strange look: "Is it... okay now?"
Yu Sheng smiled, and just in front of Baili Qing, he stretched out his hand and pulled in the air. An illusory door with a faint glow opened out of thin air. Opposite the door was the living room of No. 66 Wutong Road.
"Would you like to come in and sit down?" Yu Sheng stood at the door, subconsciously being polite to the female director in front of him, "Anyway, we're already at the doorstep..."
Baili Qing felt that this was awkward, and shook her head with a stern face: "No, I still have work to do."
"Okay, we'll go first. Thank you for your hospitality. I'll contact you if you have anything to say later," Yu Sheng nodded, then he turned around and walked into the gate carrying the puppet and the fox, "Bye."
"Well, bye..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the illusory door disappeared and the guests left, so suddenly and naturally, as if they had never been there.
Baili Qing stood quietly in the small room, looking at the place where the illusory door disappeared. After a long time, he took a deep breath and his eyes calmed down.
She picked up her phone and dialed a number. After the call was connected, she said calmly, "What's the situation with the monitoring team?"
Song Cheng's voice came from the receiver: "We are tracking and recording manually. The dislocation phenomenon has just subsided."
"…The space stabilization device is still working, right?"
"...Yes, full power."
"Are the headquarters building's internal calibration systems and space shielding network also on?"
"You know these two systems never stop."
"Warp disruptor..."
Song Cheng's voice sounded a little helpless: "It's on, too. Today I specifically adjusted it to maximum power and indiscriminate coverage. As a result, the customs office and transportation station downstairs were affected and temporarily closed."
Baili Qing was silent for two seconds.
"...He just opened the door and walked away right in front of me, without even showing any sign of confusion. I don't think he even noticed that there was any 'obstacle' here."
There was a soft "click" sound from the other end of the phone; it was the sound of a lighter lighting a cigarette.
"Director," Song Cheng said with a tired tone, "I have to remind you that it's not a big deal for him to just open the door and leave in front of you - he can open the door and come over next time, and you should be mentally prepared for that."
"I know. That's to be expected."
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"Isn't the risk too high?" Song Cheng couldn't help asking, "Let's invite him directly to the headquarters today... Now he knows the coordinates here."
"Trust my judgment, Xiao Song," Baili Qing exhaled softly and said calmly, "Let him regard the Secret Service as a 'friend'. The benefits far outweigh the risks. Especially after having in-depth contact with him today, I am more convinced of this judgment."
"...I understand. I believe what you saw with your eyes. Then I will continue to keep an eye on the surveillance team."
"good."
Just before hanging up the phone, Song Cheng suddenly remembered something: "Oh, by the way, I have another news to tell you, good news."
"explain."
"There has been progress in the technical department. The researchers in the breakthrough team have successfully filtered out and integrated the characteristics of the 'door opening' signal we have recorded so far. We should be able to add automatic filtering and automatic labeling functions to the space early warning system soon," Song Cheng said with a smile in his tone, "If that thing can run normally, it will be easy in the future."
“Outstanding employee of the year, outstanding team, star expert, technical star medal, commendation in the notice - if it works.”
"...Director, this year isn't over yet..."
"Let's settle it this way for now," Baili Qing said calmly, "unless someone can really save the world in the last month before the end of the year."
"All right……"
After hanging up the phone, Baili Qing threw the phone on the table, exhaled tiredly, leaned back in the chair to rest, and tilted her head slightly to look at the large window that showed the laboratory opposite.
On the surface of the polymer barrier that emitted a faint blue glow, a pair of indifferent and faded eyes quietly emerged at some point.
Those eyes looked at her quietly.
"…That person left?"
"I'm leaving."
"oh."
"Will you still watch randomly in the future?"
“Still watching.”
Baili Qing's expression didn't change at all, he just sighed.
The slightly mechanical voice continued to ring in her mind: "I can't help it. You should know that this is my instinct."
"It's up to you," Baili Qing said. Then she paused and asked casually, "Did you see anything? Although you were too reckless this time, you completed a close observation anyway."
"He has humanity," the eyes said.
Baili Qing didn't say anything, obviously not surprised.
"Strong, real human nature, not mimicry," the eyes continued, "and he should not be an 'entity', at least not the so-called entity 'generated' by No. 66 Wutong Road."
There was finally a change in Baili Qing's expression.
"How did you know that?"
"His shadow, the shadow he casts in the spirit world, is even larger than No. 66 Wutong Road. Rather than saying that No. 66 Wutong Road created him, it would be better to say... that in order to reasonably 'exist' in our world, he created No. 66 Wutong Road at the border."
(End of this chapter)
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