Chapter 274 is very strange
Next to the street lamp, Yu Sheng was answering the phone, listening to Baili Qing on the other side telling him about the outrageous situation of a machine soul that occurred when the iron ingot that Hu Li took out was used to casually make a hammer.
Not far away, a fox girl was squatting beside a green belt, digging a hole very seriously, as if she wanted to bury a stone she had picked up from somewhere.
Yu Sheng had no time to remind the fox girl not to destroy the green belt - because the information revealed by Baili Qing was really too outrageous.
"Originally, the laboratory was going to start making a series of items to test the material's... 'spiritual attachment' properties, but considering that this material might be very valuable, I stopped their testing," Baili Qing said seriously. "The properties of that material are very puzzling to us. Its composition is not special, but after simple processing, it has shown incredible energy activity. So we are very curious about what it is, and whether Miss Hu Li can provide more samples."
She paused for a moment and added, "Of course, it's paid."
Yu Sheng rubbed his forehead and said as he recalled, "That thing... Hu Li said it was the core product of some reaction. From what she said, it seems to be quite worthless, at least in her hometown."
As a result, as soon as he said this, Baili Qing was silent for at least ten seconds, and it took a long time before she responded: "Reactor?! You mean, there is a reactor in Hu Li's stomach?!"
"That seems to be what it means?" Yu Sheng finally realized what was going on. He stroked his chin and thought, "This sounds a bit outrageous?"
"... a little bit outrageous?!" This was the first time that Yu Sheng heard a hint of madness in Baili Qing's tone. The female director, who usually spoke calmly and indifferently, actually raised her voice by three degrees. "Do you think this is just a little bit outrageous?"
Yu Sheng couldn't help but twitch his lips. He looked at the fox girl digging a hole in the green belt with a wonderful expression - but Baili Qing on the other side of the phone couldn't see it either: "Let me tell you this, when I first saw her launch her tail, I had almost exhausted all my surprise for her in this life. Now that I have a high ability to reshape my worldview, I am even afraid of you, do you understand..."
There was silence on the other end of the phone for another two or three seconds, and Yu Sheng clearly heard Baili Qing take a deep breath.
"Anyway, what you mean is that Hu Li can make more similar 'ingots' at any time, but she needs some time to accumulate them, right?"
"Yes, that's what she said, but there may be some in stock. I'll ask her later - but she's busy now."
"What is she busy with?" Baili Qing asked casually.
"Busy digging holes in the green belt."
Baili Qing: “……?”
There was silence on the other end of the phone again.
Yu Sheng also felt a little embarrassed. He coughed twice and walked behind the fox girl: "Hu Li, stop digging. I want to ask you something."
The fox girl finally raised her head from the hole she was digging with great interest, her eyes shining in the night: "What's wrong, benefactor?"
"The metal lump you left behind after you finished eating at the Secret Service cafeteria last time," Yu Sheng thought hard about how to describe the thing the fox girl took out at that time, but in the end he couldn't think of a more appropriate name, "Anything else? Another question is how long does it take you to 'make' one?"
"It depends on the type of food consumed and the daily output power of the reactor. It's hard to say." Hu Li blinked, "Maybe one piece every seven or eight days? But I still have a few pieces saved now... Do they still want them?"
Yu Sheng nodded, but before he could open his mouth, he heard Baili Qing's voice on the phone: "Tell her that the Secret Service can build a cafeteria specifically for her - you can even open the door directly to the food window."
Yu Sheng: “…”
Hu Li continued to blink, as if he didn't understand what was happening.
Yu Sheng told the fox girl what the Secret Service had discovered.
Hu Li usually looks simple-minded, but in fact, she is smarter than anyone else. She understood the situation in just a few words and immediately clapped her hands with a smile: "It's the 'spiritual essence'. 'Spirit Fox Black Iron' is the basic material for making instrument spirits in our place. It's normal to have this phenomenon..."
Yu Sheng opened his mouth and thought to himself that she was indeed Hu Li - so this was also the "normal situation" she had seen! ?
At the same time, Baili Qing on the other end of the phone continued, "We can have a serious discussion sometime about setting up a 'counterpart canteen' specifically for the hotel in the Secret Service Bureau, and formally placing a long-term order with the hotel in the name of the Secret Service Bureau... What's it called?"
Hu Li came over: "Spirit Fox Black Iron."
"Yes, a long-term contract for the purchase of 'Spirit Fox Black Iron'..."
…
Irene stared at Yu Sheng with bloodshot eyes. Yu Sheng sat on the sofa and looked at the doll in front of him very calmly.
Next to her, Hu Li had placed on the coffee table a bunch of treasures she had collected from her walks - very straight wooden sticks, very round stones, and oddly shaped screws.
The fox girl was having so much fun fiddling with it that she didn't pay any attention to what was happening around her.
"You mean, the Secret Service is willing to spend a lot of money or provide various materials regularly to exchange for the iron lumps thrown by Hu Li?! In order to ensure production, they even really want to build a cafeteria specifically for stupid foxes - outrageous enough to let you open the door directly at the food window?!" The little puppet stared, "Oh no, are they sick?"
"What iron lump? That thing is now called 'Spirit Fox Black Iron'," Yu Sheng corrected with a serious face, "In Hu Li's hometown, it is considered a spiritual treasure material. In this world, it is a treasure that can stably produce machine souls. Do you understand..."
The little doll listened in a daze, then sat down on the sofa: "Yes, really?"
But then she came to her senses, stood up and continued to glare at Yu Sheng: "No, why? Why can the crumbs she spits out after eating be treasures that the Secret Service buys back at a high price? I cooperated with them to test the crystal for a long time and they found out that it was an 'anti-Irene special crystal'... I said that this world is targeting me!"
Yu Sheng sighed and reached out to touch the doll's head: "Hey, I sympathize with you too."
Irene tilted her head back and thought for a while, then waved her hand generously: "Okay, I'm not angry anymore."
This time it was Yu Sheng's turn to be stunned: "..."
How can this puppet have such a good attitude? After fooling Irene with trickery, Yu Sheng came to Hu Li, who was fiddling with the "trophies" beside the coffee table, and asked, "You haven't sorted them out yet?"
The fox girl raised her head and happily showed Yu Sheng the two wooden sticks in her hand: "Look, benefactor! Do these two wooden sticks look like two swords?"
Yu Sheng looked down and stroked his chin: "You know what, they really look alike..."
"Then these two are the male and female swords, one for you, the other for me." Hu Li generously put one of the sticks into Yu Sheng's hand, and then began to push the pile of messy things on the coffee table into his tail, and soon he had cleaned it up.
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Yu Sheng didn't even have time to react, and he had another great stick in his hand...
Then he couldn't help but look at Hu Li's big tail for storage, stroking his chin and muttering, "I'm really curious about how you store things in this tail. I usually see you just throw things in there and never see you organize them. But when you take things out, it's not messy at all?"
"I have organized it!" Hu Li immediately said seriously, "Although, although it is not organized that well, it is actually not very messy... Hey, benefactor, do you want to come in and take a look?"
Yu Sheng was just thinking about the similarities and differences between Hu Li's storage tail and his usual process of opening the door to take things. He didn't react at first when he heard the other party's words. After reacting, he was a little confused: "...What?"
"My benefactor, would you like to take a look inside my tail?" Hu Li said happily, "I haven't invited anyone in to take a look yet! Ah, the time when I stuffed Irene's picture frame in there before doesn't count..."
Yu Sheng: “…”
Yu Sheng pondered for a long time and finally admitted that his imagination was still slightly inferior to the worldview of the nine-tailed fox. However, just as he was vaguely interested in this proposal and was about to answer, a cry from the window suddenly interrupted the communication between him and Hu Li.
"Hey! Yusheng! Look outside! It's foggy!"
It was Irene who exclaimed.
Perhaps because of the experience of rescuing people from a foggy foreign land, Yu Sheng was startled the moment he heard the word "fog". He stood up abruptly and looked towards the living room window.
Irene was standing on the windowsill, raising her hand and pointing outside the glass.
There was thick fog outside the glass window. The thick white fog was like a sticky and flowing "fluid". It not only covered the entire street, but even made the lights of the street lamps in the distance appear to be shaking and distorted in an unsettling way, as if the whole world was separated by some strange lens, appearing eerie and inexplicable.
“What the hell?!”
Yu Sheng exclaimed, stood up and ran to the window, looking at the foggy street outside with Irene.
"When did it become like this?" He looked down at the puppet and asked in a hurried tone.
"I don't know. I just looked up and it was already like this outside," Irene said in confusion. "But it must not have been long - when it got dark, one of my body turned its head to look at the window, and there was no fog outside at that time."
"My benefactor, this fog looks..." Hu Li also came over at this time and spoke hesitantly, "It looks very similar to the thick fog that trapped Zheng Zhi before, but it seems to be thicker and heavier, and the atmosphere is also particularly ominous."
Yu Sheng frowned, then turned around and walked to the front door, pushing it open.
He wanted to check the situation on the street outside.
Outside the door, the old street of Wutong Road is quiet at night, the street lights are bright, and the night sky is clear.
Where is the thick fog? (End of this chapter)
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