Chapter 262 Abnormal Events
The phantom wolves crossed over blocks in the cracks between light and shadow, passed over the dislocated and superimposed high-rise buildings, and the roads that seemed to pass directly through the air. The entire city was transformed into some extremely complex dislocated mapping structure in the reflected world, and the wolves knew how to find a way out of such a dislocated world - and then, they arrived at their destination.
Yu Sheng only felt a flash before his eyes, and the wolf he was riding jumped from the black and white reflection world to the colorful real space. The sound of traffic on the road in the distance came into his ears as if a computer was suddenly turned on.
Hu Li also appeared soon after. She jumped off the wolf's back and touched the shadow wolf's head with interest. She said to Yu Sheng happily, "My benefactor, this spirit beast raised by Little Red Riding Hood is quite capable. Although it lacks intelligence, its ability to shuttle through shadows can be used even in my hometown..."
Then the dark shadow wolf uttered an indistinct grunt, shook its head and wagged its tail in front of Hu Li...
"Still shaking!" Little Red Riding Hood came over and slapped the wolf on the head. "She also said that you are not smart enough. You are quite happy, right? I have never seen you being so servile when dealing with others!"
Irene lay on Yu Sheng's shoulder, looked around and saw that it was an empty alley, then raised her head and muttered, "Normally, they are all canines, so it's easy for them to communicate."
Hu Li didn't react to the little doll's words, probably because he didn't understand, and just continued to rub the wolf's head.
But soon Little Red Riding Hood gathered all her wolves, and then, after a simple judgment of the direction, she led Yu Sheng and Hu Li forward.
"The Wanxiangji shopping mall is just ahead, just a few minutes' walk away," she said as she walked. "I asked the wolves to hide and spread out to check the situation. When my nephew 'fell' he said he was in Wanxiangji, but when the alien realm is opened it is very likely to interfere with people's judgment. He may have been sucked in from a nearby entrance, and he just saw the shadow of the mall the moment he was sucked in..."
As they were talking, the group had already arrived at the avenue outside, and Yu Sheng soon saw the large shopping mall that was the most eye-catching in his field of vision - as well as several black Secret Service vehicles parked at the intersection.
There were still people organizing the evacuation of customers and staff in the mall. Groups of people could still be seen evacuating from various passages, which was relatively orderly.
Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood quickly found the head of the Secret Service at the scene - a tall man in his thirties with neat short hair. He looked only a size smaller than Xu Jiali.
Little Red Riding Hood stepped forward to negotiate with the other party: "Hello, we are the spirit world detectives commissioned by the client, and we have cooperation with the Secret Service - I am Little Red Riding Hood from the 'fairy tale'..."
As a "newbie", Yu Sheng was watching this scene from behind, watching Little Red Riding Hood in high school uniform communicating with a 1.9-meter-tall strong man fully armed. She looked like a middle school student who got lost outside and asked the police for directions - her previous handsome and calm image was gone in an instant...
The Secret Service agent on the other side was also a little confused. He did receive the message from Li Lin, but he didn't expect that the person who came over to talk to him was a girl in school uniform. Confused, he blurted out: "...So you are a high school student?"
Little Red Riding Hood: "...I have been working with your bureau for such a long time, don't you know that I am a high school student?!"
The sturdy man touched the tip of his nose awkwardly: "...I knew, but I didn't realize it."
"I won't wear school uniform anymore." Little Red Riding Hood turned around and said to Yu Sheng with a depressed look on her face.
"I'm in charge of this area, Liu Bing," the tall Secret Service agent changed the subject upon seeing this. He checked his equipment and walked towards the mall gate with Little Red Riding Hood and the others while saying, "I've heard about the general situation from Li Lin. There's a call for help, right? The person who called for help was your 'client' before - but this time things are a bit strange, and the spirit world detectives also need to cooperate with our Secret Service. Oh, by the way, who are you two...?"
He was halfway through his walk when he suddenly seemed to remember that he had forgotten to ask Yu Sheng and Hu Li's names (Eileen was probably mistaken for a pendant because she had been lying motionless on Yu Sheng's shoulder pretending to be dead), and quickly turned around to ask.
"Oh, I'm Yu Sheng, Yu Sheng from the 'Hotel'." Yu Sheng spoke first.
The fox girl followed: "I, I'm Hu Li, Hu Li from the 'Inn'!"
"Eileen," the little doll suddenly raised its head from Yu Sheng's shoulder, "Eileen from the 'Inn'."
Liu Bing paused.
He looked up and down the Yu Sheng trio with a stiff look, his facial muscles twitched, and he took a deep breath.
"This matter is a bit strange. We will fully cooperate with your actions later..."
Little Red Riding Hood glared: "That's not what you just said!"
"Honestly, let's just cooperate with you," Yu Sheng waved his hands, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "I don't know how your bureau spreads the news, but I'm really a newbie. Dealing with the Dark Angel and solving foreign events are two different tracks. I don't have much experience in the latter. You can just use the three of us as super soldiers."
"Super soldiers are hard to beat..." Irene muttered quietly.
Liu Bing thought about it, and seeing that Yu Sheng was serious, he nodded: "Okay then."
Little Red Riding Hood asked curiously, "You just said that this time things were a little strange, how strange is it?"
"The alien domain expanded very quickly, but its scope was extremely small. After the entrance appeared, it may have only lasted for a moment before it 'closed'. There was no 'expansion period' that lasted for a period of time like a normal alien domain leak incident."
As soon as the time came to get down to business, the expression of the Secret Service agent in front of him immediately became serious.
"To be specific, when the alien domain appeared, the border alarm equipment we set up in the city only detected a 'vibration' that lasted for one second. The amplitude of the vibration did not even trigger the system to automatically alarm. It was the staff on duty who noticed the signal. And this one-second vibration was the only duration of the entrance... In other words, the person who asked you for help was really unlucky. He just happened to be standing in the 'right' position in this second..."
Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood looked at each other.
This time, the two said in unison: "High sensitivity and low stability is like this..."
"And then there's more," Liu Bing added, "We later checked the data recorded at the time and found that there were hundreds of smaller and weaker shocks around the entire mall in the minutes before and after the 'shock'. Each shock lasted less than a second."
Yu Sheng was shocked when he heard this: "What? Hundreds of entrances? Isn't this like a sieve?!"
Liu Bing shook his head. "No, because each vibration is too weak, far from being strong enough to open a foreign realm. So theoretically, only the 'strong vibration' that lasts for one second can open the only entrance. In fact, such weak signals would normally be automatically excluded by the background system. It is only because of their intensive appearance in a short period of time that the system's fuzzy judgment takes effect and these signals are recorded and retained."
Irene sighed and looked up at the sky: "And then this only entrance was caught by my eldest nephew, right..."
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"High sensitivity and low stability may not be able to explain this situation," Yu Sheng thought for a while and muttered to Little Red Riding Hood, "I think after rescuing the person, I should first persuade him to find a place to worship... Is there anyone in the ancient holy spirits who controls luck?"
"There are people who are in charge of a good attitude," Little Red Riding Hood also muttered, "Alice, the ancestor of puppets, is in charge of a good attitude. Or you can worship the Lady of the Star Thrower. The Star Thrower and her hound are in charge of longevity and resistance to beatings."
Yu Sheng: “…”
Are those ancient holy spirits a bit sick?! He suddenly became curious about the "belief system" of this world that regards "ancient holy spirits" as "real gods". He wanted to study what those ancient beings who were said to have participated in the creation of the world did, and how they influenced the world - of course, now was obviously not the time.
"Is the shock still continuing?" Little Red Riding Hood suddenly asked.
"It has stopped," Liu Bing shook his head, "it stopped before we got here."
"Hasn't this happened before?" Yu Sheng asked out of curiosity.
"This is the first time in recorded history," Liu Bing said solemnly. "A normal alien entrance will only cause a relatively strong energy fluctuation, which can last from several minutes to several hours, and will continue to spread after it is opened. That is why evacuation must be organized immediately after the alien entrance appears to prevent the harm from expanding... So if I have to say, although this incident is strange, the harm is actually very small, at least it seems small now."
Yu Sheng's brows slowly furrowed. For some reason, although Liu Bing said that the impact of this incident was small and the harm was not great, he always felt something was wrong in his heart.
The way the entrance to the foreign land was opened... made him feel extremely suspicious.
The Secret Service obviously took this "suspicion" into consideration, so even though it now seemed that the entrance to the foreign land had disappeared, they still set up extremely high-level protection here and sent in support forces.
In front of the mall’s gate, Yu Sheng saw some kind of “node” device directly installed on a special vehicle, as well as many monitoring and protection equipment that had apparently just been delivered to the scene.
Fully armed Secret Service agents have blocked the main gate and several entrances and exits on both sides of the main gate.
There are several other gates in the mall, and they are probably all under control as well.
"This is where the entrance we recorded is opened," Liu Bing brought Yu Sheng to a wall near the main entrance and pointed at the huge tempered glass display window. "If I'm not mistaken, the person in question 'walked into' the 'shopping mall' he described through this piece of glass."
Yu Sheng took a deep breath, walked to the glass and took a look inside.
Only the normal street scenery is reflected in the glass.
(End of this chapter)
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