Chapter 273: The Days with the Demon Fox
For many people in the Secret Service's technical department, today is another good day to work overtime - this time they can not only enjoy the exciting after-get off work activities, but also work overtime with their beloved director...
But the "culprit" who caused this overtime work knew nothing about it.
After eating and drinking, Hu Li was happily following Yu Sheng, and the two of them were walking along a small river on the edge of the old city.
For Sheng, he hasn't enjoyed such a relaxing and pleasant time for a long time. Since he came to this "boundary city", his nerves have been tense most of the time. He finally adapted to the life here, but troubles of all sizes kept coming up. It seemed like it was a thing of his previous life now that he was walking around outside without thinking about anything or worrying about anything.
Although his previous life was not long ago.
For Hu Li, strolling outside with Yu Sheng was a very, very happy thing - although having fun in the valley was also very happy, but these were two different kinds of happiness.
She liked the process of Yu Sheng slowly getting her familiar with the city - even if it was just remembering one more street, knowing one more store, seeing one more animal in this world, seeing one more blade of grass, one more flower, one more tree...
This process makes her feel gradually at ease, although she herself cannot clearly explain why she feels at ease.
The evening wind was a bit cold, and in the wind I could hear the faint sound of music coming from the commercial street in the distance.
Yu Sheng walked slowly along the bank of the stream, watching Hu Li running happily around near him - it was called a walk, but in fact, this girl basically spent almost no minutes following him slowly and obediently. She spent most of her time running around, sometimes on the grass on the river bank, sometimes on the concrete platform along the river, and sometimes even in the nearby bushes, never quiet for a moment.
Sometimes, when Yu Sheng turned his head away, he couldn't see where the girl had gone, but as long as he looked around a few times, the fox girl would suddenly jump out from some corner, and most of the time she would excitedly show off the "good things" she had found nearby.
"My benefactor! I found a flower! It's still blooming in winter!"
Hu Li ran back from the nearby grass and waved a handful of flowers in his hand in front of Yu Sheng with shining eyes.
Yu Sheng smiled helplessly and introduced her to the other party: "I don't know her, so just call her Wild Flower."
"Okay!" Hu Li nodded happily, stuffed a few small flowers into his mouth, turned around and ran away.
A few minutes later she came back excitedly, "My benefactor! The stones on the riverbank!"
"Yeah, stone."
"My benefactor! A wooden stick! A very straight wooden stick!"
"Hmm, a stick... Hey, give this to me. I'll use it when I get home."
"My benefactor! The drink bottle!"
“…throw it in the trash.”
"Benefactor! Balloons!"
"Hmm, balloons... where did you get those balloons!?"
The next second, a child's cry could be heard from the roadside nearby. A little kid who was half a head shorter than Xiaoxiao cried heartbreakingly a few meters away: "Sister, please steal my balloon—"
Yu Sheng broke out in a cold sweat and quickly pushed Hu Li: "Give the balloon to them..."
Hu Li went over to return the balloon while muttering, "The balloon flew away from his hand. I thought he didn't want it anymore..."
Half a minute later, Hu Li came back to Yu Sheng clapping his hands, still looking happy.
Yu Sheng could see that the fox girl was very happy, but he always felt that it was weird to take her out for a walk, but he couldn't tell what was wrong...
While he was in a daze, Hu Li seemed to have discovered something interesting, and darted out of Yu Sheng's sight. A few seconds later, he darted back again, happily holding up something in his hand: "My benefactor! The mouse!"
Yu Sheng was shocked: "... Damn it, don't even show me this thing - and don't eat it!"
"Okay," Hu Li curled her lips regretfully, and the mouse in her palm instantly turned into a ball of burning afterglow, "Actually, I have a dish in my hometown..."
Yu Sheng broke out in a cold sweat. He subconsciously checked that there was no one around, and then he looked at the fox in front of him helplessly: "Don't run around everywhere, you're scaring people. Why don't you just walk slowly with me for a while?"
"Okay!" Hu Li immediately nodded happily - although this process had been repeated several times, but she at least calmed down again and began to walk forward slowly with Yu Sheng.
"Why are you so happy?" In order to keep this overly excited big fox quiet by his side for a few more minutes, Yu Sheng decided to find some topic to divert her attention.
"It's a pleasure to go out for a walk, and it's even more joyful to go out for a walk with my benefactor!" Hu Li said with a smile. She was dressed in white, and her bright smile bloomed in this winter day. For a moment, she was so beautiful that it was beyond description. "It's a pity that Irene didn't come out with us. It would have been fun to bring her along..."
"If she hears what you said, she will inevitably make a scene," Yu Sheng shook his head helplessly, "She is only interested in going to the mall to shop, and she finds walking outside boring. She is different from you - you just go out."
"We fox demons are like this. In ancient times, we practiced in the mountains and wilderness..." Hu Li said seriously, and then he ran away without answering, and then ran back again, "Benefactor! Screw!"
Yu Sheng: “…”
He finally understood why it felt so awkward to take Huli out for a walk—a cyber fox dog with nine tails! This was not a walk! He was just short of tying a rope around this girl…
Yu Sheng thought about Hu Li's strength, her speed and her almost endless energy. He felt that if she was really tied with a rope, it would be him who would be walked around, so he didn't dare to think about it any further...
Then, the street lights came on.
Yu Sheng no longer paid attention to the fox girl running around, but took a deep breath in the night wind and exhaled slowly, quietly admiring the night scene of this world city with an unprecedented relaxed attitude.
There was a time when this night only made him feel weird and nervous.
But unknowingly, even the strange "illusions" that appeared in the city after nightfall became something he was particularly familiar with here, and even felt a little "familiar".
The street lights nearby flickered slightly, and a tall and thin phantom gradually emerged in the flickering lights. The tall and hollow ghost stood quietly in the light, looking at Yu Sheng.
Yu Sheng also looked at it, and noticing that there was no one around, he greeted it with a smile.
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The steam locomotive that was traveling in the night sky reappeared between the distant buildings. With billowing white mist, it silently entered a building, then emerged from the glass curtain wall of another building and disappeared into the depths of the distant sky.
Yu Sheng seemed to be able to hear the sound of the car horn, unreal and vague, as if it had penetrated many layers of time and space.
He now knew that compared to the dangerous entities generated in various "foreign lands", these things that only appeared after nightfall in the boundary city and were invisible to ordinary people were actually just mild and harmless phantoms. There was no need to be nervous.
Just then, Yu Sheng heard the pleasant ringtone coming from the cell phone in his pocket.
I took out my cell phone and saw that the caller was Baili Qing.
...Calling at this time? Not off work? Yu Sheng was slightly surprised, then answered the phone casually: "Hello? Good evening..."
"Good evening," Baili Qing's voice sounded, "I have two things to say. Is it convenient for you to talk about them now?"
"That's convenient. I'm free right now," Yu Sheng said while paying attention to Hu Li's movements. "He's taking a walk nearby."
"Okay, first of all, can you open a few portals right now? They can lead to anywhere."
Yu Sheng was stunned when he heard this: "Open a portal? What for?"
"We have just launched an automatic identification and filtering system," Baili Qing's voice was still quite calm, but Yu Shengjian could hear a different kind of happiness from it. "It can automatically identify the space-time rift you opened and block warnings and automatically record. Now that the system is online, I hope you can cooperate in testing it. If it works properly, you won't have to report when you open a door in the future."
Yu Sheng was immediately amused when he heard this. He finally understood how Baili Qing, who had a steely expression, could reveal a happy mood in his tone: "That's easy. Wait for me for a moment. I'll find a corner where no one is and open a few small doors to try..."
As he spoke, he walked behind a large billboard nearby and opened a door leading to the basement of No. 66 Wutong Road without prior notification.
"What? I've already opened the door."
There were some vague reports coming from Baili Qing's side, it seemed that there were technicians near her reporting the situation.
"The system is effective, please try a few more times."
"Okay," Yu Sheng happily cooperated, and opened several portals to various places in succession - some leading to the border area, some leading to the "valley", some leading to the "museum", and even some leading to some unknown desolate alien planet. He tried almost all the types of portals he was familiar with, and at the same time, he synchronized the situation with the other side while opening the door, "... I've opened them all, what's your reaction?"
"Except for a slightly acceptable delay when opening the portal to the foreign land, the entire identification and filtering system is working normally," Baili Qing's tone was much happier than before, and it even sounded like she was smiling. "From now on, you don't need to report the steps when opening the door."
"Oh, that's great. Congratulations to you guys. It will save you a lot of trouble in the future." Yu Sheng's tone also became happy, and then he asked, "What about the second thing?"
Baili Qing was silent for a second or two.
"The second thing," she said, her voice suddenly hesitant for some reason, "I want to ask, the last time you brought Hu Li to the Secret Service cafeteria for dinner, the 'iron ingot' she used to pay the bill... do you still have it?"
Yu Sheng: “…Ah?”
(End of this chapter)
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