Chapter 202: One of Ten Thousand Gates
After the call ended, Yu Sheng was still a little dazed holding the phone. After two seconds, he lowered his head and looked at Irene (the host) at his feet: "Why can't I tell whether she is angry or not..."
"It seems like you didn't curse this time, but I think it's just because I'm used to it," Irene analyzed seriously, "Look at the bright side, at least you didn't suddenly get the urge to cause trouble at midnight this time..."
Yu Sheng coughed twice, tried hard to suppress the guilt in his heart, and focused his attention on the door in front of him.
The mottled, old wooden door leaned diagonally against the white wall of the basement. The door frame and the surrounding ground were covered with strange and complex lines and symbols. A few candles were burning quietly not far away, and the air was lightly filled with the smell of spices (from the 5 Yuan store).
It’s hard to say whether the spirit infusion ceremony can be successful, but the atmosphere seems to be quite right.
Yu Sheng took a deep breath to calm his slightly nervous mood, then began to follow the method he had previously thought of, cutting his palm and directing his blood to the door.
Infusion of spirit means pouring one's own "spirituality" into originally lifeless matter - since clay can be turned into the flesh and blood of a puppet, and rebar can be turned into the bones of a puppet, then the door can naturally become the target of infusion of spirit.
The candle crackled, the flame gradually rose, and blood silently seeped into the mottled, old wooden door. Gradually, the lines and patterns on the surrounding ground, which were originally drawn with ordinary pen and ink, were faintly immersed in a dark red color, as if the blood was gradually replacing every structure of the alchemical array. Yu Sheng even heard a faint, burning sound.
He opened his eyes wide in surprise.
"What's wrong?" Irene immediately noticed Yu Sheng's reaction, "Does it feel wrong?"
"No, it feels... too smooth," Yu Sheng felt the connection established through blood, and said in disbelief, "When I was massaging your body before, I didn't have such an obvious 'feeling' that something was taking shape, but now I can clearly feel that 'spirituality' is reshaping this door... Is it because of the effect of your amplification nodes?"
"Maybe it's because you are establishing a connection with the 'Gate', and this is your own power?" Irene analyzed it very seriously, and then immediately boasted, "Of course the main reason must be that I have set up the amplification nodes in place!"
Yu Sheng didn't pay attention to the little doll's smug boasting. He just controlled the entire spirit infusion ceremony more carefully, then put his hand on the door handle while continuing to "transform" the door.
Just as he reshaped the clay and lotus roots into the torso and limbs of the puppet, the gate’s form began to change.
A slight creaking sound came from the door, and the edge of its door frame suddenly softened and deformed as if it had gained life. The original wooden structure gradually began to "dissolve" together with the wall behind it, forming a biological adhesion structure, and fine, blood vessel-like lines began to emerge on the surface of the back door. Those lines gradually smoothed out and turned into thorn-like lines with a slightly metallic luster.
Then, Yu Sheng gently turned the handle—and the connection with the valley was instantly established.
But he did not push the door open directly as usual. Instead, he kept it in a state of being about to be opened while carefully sensing the situation on the "other side".
He wanted to complete the "connection point" corresponding to the other side of the valley at once.
This step was not easy, because he had to devote a considerable amount of his attention to generating a physical, long-lasting door device on the "platform" on the other side of the valley. Although he could control the soil and rocks in the valley to shape any form, it was "remote control" after all, and it was quite difficult to ensure the three elements of accuracy, position and stable connection at the same time.
Yu Sheng failed three times in a row.
By the fourth time, the candlelight at the edge of the alchemy formation had clearly begun to become unstable.
But this time, he succeeded.
He felt that a fixed connection had been established, and a physical door had been generated at the corresponding position on one side of the valley, which remained stable without his continued maintenance.
A few minutes later, after confirming again and again that the connection channel was stable, Yu Sheng finally breathed a sigh of relief and let go of the door handle.
Hu Li watched nervously for a long time, and finally blinked twice: "Benefactor, have you succeeded?"
"It should be done," Yu Sheng nodded with a smile, looked at the door that had been directly integrated and embedded in the wall, and stepped aside. "Erin, you try it. In theory, this door is now the same as the entrance door of No. 66 Wutong Road. People like you and Hu Li who have received my blood can open it directly and have a fixed path to the valley."
Irene was actually quite uneasy about this thing, but after hesitating for a moment, she nodded out of trust in the man himself and took a few steps forward.
Miss Doll stood silently at the door.
Silence is a 66.6cm roar.
Yu Sheng: "...Should I leave you a small space in the lower half..."
"Shut up! No need! I can handle it!"
Irene turned her head, raised her finger, pointed at Yu Sheng, and yelled three times, giving him the middle finger. Then the other two Irenes came over, and in front of Yu Sheng, the three little dolls flexibly stacked up in a V-shape, and then they successfully grabbed the door handle and twisted it hard.
The door opened.
The open and pleasant valley scenery meets everyone's eyes.
Irene, who was still huddled together and holding onto the door handle, instantly forgot her previous unhappiness and opened her eyes wide in surprise. The three of them said in unison: "Wow - Yu Sheng, you're really good! You can actually do this!"
Then Irene, who was at the top, jumped down quickly and ran towards the door happily: "I'll go over and take a look at the situation first!"
At this moment, Yu Sheng suddenly felt that something seemed wrong with the vision on the other side: "Hey, wait a minute, I think I got it wrong..."
But he was a step too late to stop it, and the little puppet had already jumped through the door.
The next second, her figure fell directly: "Wow——"
Then there was a "pia-ji" sound.
Yu Sheng and Hu Li hurried over and looked through the door, and saw Miss Doll lying on the gravel ground outside the edge of the valley platform with her arms and legs spread out.
The two Irenes who stayed in the basement jumped up and down and cursed: "Yusheng, you bastard! You opened the door on the side of the platform! Why don't you just open it in the sky!"
Yu Sheng hurriedly controlled the ground opposite the door to rise up, and sent the fallen Irene to a position flush with the door frame. Then he and Hu Li went over to pick up the stunned doll, and while tidying up her clothes, he quickly explained his original plan: "Well, I planned to make the door face the inside of the platform, so that in the future we can build a circle of doors around the platform. The whole area will be a hall named 'Hall of Ten Thousand Doors', leading to all places in the universe. The edge of the platform is the outer wall of the hall..."
Irene jumped up and pulled Yu Sheng's hair: "Then why did I fall down?!"
“…I got it wrong.”
"Yu Sheng, your uncle! I&*%...￥%￥..."
For the next two minutes, Irene cursed terribly.
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Time passed minute by minute, and in the third minute, the puppet lost its temper.
She sat on the platform, watching Yu Sheng busy adjusting the door, muttering, "To be honest, your idea for the 'Hall of Ten Thousand Doors' is quite interesting. It sounds a bit like a mysterious organization - the kind that doesn't show up in the main storyline for more than 40 episodes, and only shows up at the end of the show when the protagonist finally has a breakthrough, and then when the story can't be continued in a certain season, the director arranges to wipe out the entire family - or the whole family is wiped out at the beginning."
"You should watch less stupid dramas in the future," Yu Sheng muttered while wiping his sweat, "and can't you give an auspicious example? You have to kill the whole family, right?"
"This is popular now. If the protagonist doesn't bear some blood feud, he will have no motivation." Irene supported her chin with both hands and looked at Yu Sheng, "Can you adjust to it? I see you've been busy for a long time... If it really doesn't work, this door can be opened in the opposite way in the future. It can also be used as a trap to prevent outsiders from invading. Those who open the door without knowing it will fall down first..."
"Those who can open the door have the authority, there's no need to be on guard," Yu Sheng said without even raising his head. "Okay, it's adjusted. Come over and take a look?"
Under his control, the portal that had some errors was finally repaired.
A flat-top door with a simple and rustic shape, a gray-white door frame with a rock-like texture and a door of the same color now stands quietly on the platform. Although it looks quite plain, it has a sense of mystery and solemnity because of its simple shape and texture.
The "handle" of this door is a triangular "stone" embedded in the door leaf. There is no decoration on the surface of the stone and the edges are rough. It is directly embedded in the center of the door, which makes it look a bit abrupt, but it is quite consistent with the "style" of the entire door.
Now, anyone who has received the "blood" can open a passage to the basement of No. 66 Wutong Road by turning the triangular stone in the center of the door.
Irene and Hu Li came over curiously. They looked at the door standing on the edge of the platform. The little doll touched his chin and nodded slightly: "Not bad. To be honest, it's much more designed than the toilet you built before."
Yu Sheng looked helpless: "I've told you so many times that this is not a toilet!"
"I know, it's your 'first phase of the project,'" Irene waved her hand impatiently, then looked curiously at the triangular "door handle" in the center of the door. "Why is the handle in the center?"
"It's for the sake of appearance and a sense of mystery - and it can confuse people who use it for the first time, so you can't tell at once which side the door hinge is..."
Irene: "…Are you sick? Why is it a triangle?"
Yu Sheng touched his nose and said, "Oh, there is a reason for this. It is to symbolize the three giants of the 'hotel' - that is, the three of us."
Irene looked skeptical: "...Really?"
Yu Sheng sighed: "Actually, I wanted to make a tiger head, but I couldn't make a tiger head, so I thought about making a dog head, but I couldn't make a dog head either..."
Irene: “…”
After a moment, the little doll took a half step back and looked seriously at the door in front of it, as well as the triangular door handle embedded in the middle of the door.
"It's a great shape that symbolizes the three founding fathers of the hotel." The little doll exclaimed expressionlessly.
Yu Sheng nodded and said, "That's great."
Hu Li looked at Irene, then at Yu Sheng, not knowing what was going on, and just clapped along: "Yeah, that's great..."
(End of this chapter)
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