Chapter 214: The Martial Virtue of Hu Li's Hometown
The interstellar spacecraft with a streamlined shell and complex structure was quietly buried in the middle of a collapsed mountain. Although it has been completely unrecognizable, the remaining parts can still make people feel its elegance and mysterious posture when it once traveled through the starry sea when it was complete.
Honestly, if he only looked at the appearance, Yu Sheng would find it hard to connect this thing that is obviously a "spaceship" with the bunch of immortal cultivation terms that Hu Li mentioned, and it's even hard to connect it with its name "Immortal Shuttle". But if he thought about it carefully, he himself couldn't imagine what a flying vehicle built by an immortal cultivation civilization in the interstellar age would look like...so it's probably reasonable for it to look like this, right?
Song Cheng and Baili Qing walked to a place very close to the wreckage of the Immortal Shuttle, and looked up to carefully examine the peculiarly painted flying vehicle.
A pair of eyes quietly appeared behind Baili Qing and were also observing curiously.
"It's indeed a style I've never seen before. At first glance, it looks a bit like the Node series spacecraft built by the Algrad people, but the outer shell is only about 30% to 40% similar," Song Cheng muttered softly. "If it really came from the 'outside of the known universe'... do you think it is related to the 'invasion' of the Dark Angels in principle?"
Baili Qing did not speak. She pursed her lips, as if she was communicating something with her "sister" in her heart. After a long while, she gently shook her head: "There is nothing to see from the outside, and the internal structure is beyond our understanding, but the remaining energy reaction inside is still worth analyzing - if possible, it would be best to separate its energy system. If we work backwards from the energy system, we can probably determine what level of navigation this aircraft can support - the energy levels required for intra-galactic flight and inter-galactic voyage are worlds apart, and to penetrate the 'world', the energy required is beyond our imagination."
"Then we need to organize a group of experts, and they have to be a cross-disciplinary joint expert group. After all, it may be something from the 'outside', and no one can tell what the principle is." Song Cheng paused to think about it, "... Contact the 'College'? They should be very interested."
"There are too many things here that can attract them, not just this aircraft," Baili Qing said softly, "the first entity to be 'permanently cleared', the first alien land parasitized by angels but rendered harmless, the 'portal' opened by Yu Sheng..."
Song Cheng shrugged: "And the first vegetable plot opened in a foreign land."
"Yes, a vegetable garden in a foreign land," Baili Qing said, turning her head slightly to glance at Yu Sheng who was standing not far away, "I'm afraid the most difficult professors in the college will be restless after hearing about the situation here."
Yu Sheng and Hu Li sat on a hillside not far away, enjoying the mountain breeze and looking at the scenery, while listening to the conversation between Baili Qing and Song Cheng that vaguely drifted into their ears.
——Of course, Hu Li’s ears are obviously better than Yu Sheng’s.
The fox girl's big furry ears trembled sensitively on her head, slightly pointing in the direction of Baili Qing. After a while, she came to Yu Sheng and whispered, "They are discussing inviting a group of very knowledgeable people to study the principles of the 'Immortal Shuttle' and your vegetable garden."
"No surprise, Baili Qing has always been interested in this," Yu Sheng looked as if he had expected it, and just reached out to rub the fur behind Hu Li's ears, "What about you? What do you think?"
Hu Li didn't react for a moment, staring blankly at Yu Sheng: "Me?"
"The Immortal Shuttle is yours, and it is one of the few connections between you and your hometown," Yu Sheng looked into the eyes of the fox girl seriously. He knew that the always confused Hu Li might not have thought about the follow-up at all. After all, the girl's reaction was always slow, so he had to take the initiative to remind her, "You have the final say on this matter. Are you willing to let a group of 'outsiders' study it? They will almost certainly dismantle it, and if you don't want to, I can help you refuse."
The fox was stunned for a moment, as if she really started to think about this matter seriously for the first time. Then she slowly sat down on the hillside next to Yu Sheng, pulled her two tails from behind and held them in her arms, thinking seriously.
After a long while, she suddenly raised her hand and tugged at Yu Sheng's sleeve.
"My benefactor, these things are just a pile of debris if they are left here."
The fox girl raised her head and looked into Yu Sheng's eyes seriously.
"No matter how much you cherish the memory of the wreckage, even if you cherish it for 10,000 years, it will still be wreckage - just cherishing the memory is useless."
Yu Sheng widened his eyes slightly and looked at the fox girl in front of him with some surprise.
"Let them research it. They can find a bunch of scholars, dismantle it into parts, or even transport it to their own research facilities. I've already left behind everything I wanted to leave behind. As for the rest, I have no objection." Hu Li pulled Yu Sheng's arm and pulled him to sit next to him. Then he swept his big furry tail across Yu Sheng's back and spoke slowly, "I feel that the Secret Service is fairly reliable. If they really have any clues, they should tell us, or at least tell us something - even if they really conceal everything, the worst situation will be the same as it is now, and we know nothing."
Yu Sheng thought about it, his expression a little subtle: "What if it's worse... Don't blame me for having a rich imagination, I may have watched too many novels and movies - what if there is a force, not necessarily the Secret Service, but those Algrad people, the Academy and other forces we don't know - what if they have ill intentions and want to do something bad after getting the information about your hometown... It's the kind of plot that is often seen in stories, invasion and so on, what should we do then?"
Hu Li looked a little surprised, but after staring at Yu Sheng for a while, she suddenly laughed.
“They can’t beat them.”
It took Yu Sheng a moment to react before he understood what the fox girl meant by "can't beat her".
"They can't win," Hu Li emphasized again, and then continued, "And my people back home, as well as the people in heaven, won't care either - risks and threats are a normal part of evolution, as long as we win in the end, that's all that matters, that's what we were taught in school."
"…Why is there so much martial virtue in your hometown?"
"Really?" Hu Li thought for a moment and said uncertainly, "Anyway, the teacher said that the order of the stars established by the heavenly beings is 'peaceful coexistence'. Kill those who do not agree with the concept of peaceful coexistence, and the rest will agree with you. This process is called 'Great Harmony in the World' - the ultimate form of Great Harmony in the World is peace."
Yu Sheng broke out in a cold sweat when he heard this - this fucking martial virtue seemed a bit too abundant! However, he was not sure how much of what the girl next to him said was true - after all, Hu Li was only an elementary school dropout, and had been in a daze for decades. God knows how much of her memory of her hometown was true, how much was made up in her mind, and how much was a misunderstanding caused by not listening carefully in class...
And at this moment, he finally noticed the big tails that were sweeping back and forth on his back.
"By the way, what are you doing?"
Hu Li tilted his head: "rua."
Yu Sheng: “…”
It turns out that he usually rubs the fox's tail when he has nothing to do, but now this girl knows to rub him back!
…
After that, Yu Sheng opened the door and sent Song Cheng and Baili Qing back to the Secret Service headquarters. Before leaving, he discussed with them the plan to further study the "Fairy Shuttle". However, since the more pressing issue now was the threat of "Fairy Tale" and the dark angel "Ankaela", Yu Sheng's attention was soon focused on the orphanage.
The resettlement site in the valley was still being built in an intensive and orderly manner. Yu Sheng left Hu Li and Irene there to watch the progress of the project, and he went directly to the orphanage.
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It was already late at night, but at any time, there would always be a "parent" on duty in this orphanage.
Little Red Riding Hood was the parent on duty tonight. When Yu Sheng greeted her and came over, she was patrolling the corridor of the east building.
The corridor was exceptionally quiet at midnight, and the cold night enveloped everything. Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood walked slowly through the corridor together. When passing by the window, he turned his head and looked out.
The outdoor activity area, which was very lively during the day, has now turned into a hazy silhouette in the night. The swings, sand pits, slides and climbing frames... everything is sleeping quietly in the night. Looking out through the windows of the corridor, it has a more or less weird background.
Recent events have made Yu Sheng unsure whether the slightly eerie night atmosphere outside the window is a psychological effect of his own.
Little Red Riding Hood, on the other hand, seemed quite open-minded.
"If you feel that the night is eerie, then everything in this orphanage is eerie after dark. The children's dreams often slightly interfere with the real world. The table suddenly moves, the lights suddenly turn on dimly, and the windows creak. We are used to it." The girl said slowly with a smile on her face, "Relax, don't scare yourself - the real 'abnormal phenomenon' is much bigger than this noise."
Yu Sheng said casually: "I thought that 'spiritual detectives' were extremely sensitive to abnormal phenomena around them, and would be highly alert at the slightest sign of trouble."
"Acuteness and sensitivity are different. A detective in the spirit world must be able to pay attention to any disturbance, and at the same time, carefully distinguish between real dangers and illusions that scare themselves. The key is to strike a balance between the two," Little Red Riding Hood said seriously. "Being too relaxed or too nervous is not good. The former can easily lead to death by alien entities, while the latter often leads to sudden death without the entities taking action."
Yu Sheng pursed his lips and walked forward with Little Red Riding Hood. After a while, he suddenly broke the silence: "The resettlement site over there in the valley is already under construction, and we can move there as soon as tomorrow."
"Yeah, pretty much what I expected."
"Do the children know all this?"
"It's all arranged. They're very sensible," Little Red Riding Hood said. Then she was silent for a moment and curled her lips. "Well, think about it on the bright side. Starting tomorrow we won't have to patrol this building at night..."
"On the worst side, there is no 'night' in the valley. Keeping the children on schedule will be a big challenge for you. Of course, the good news is that the thick curtains sent by the Secret Service are quite effective in blocking out the light."
Little Red Riding Hood: "...Brother, I have a headache."
(End of this chapter)
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