Chapter 304 Infiltration
After finishing the communication with Irene, Yu Sheng stopped resting and continued to move on the "outer wall" of the tower.
Now that he no longer had the big tail in his arms, movements became much easier. The only inconvenience was that he had to be careful at all times, and he had to plan the grip places in advance for each step. He also couldn't use too much force when moving, otherwise there would be a risk of falling off the tower and into outer space.
This is probably what it feels like to walk outside the space station without a safety rope. Once the rope really slips away and floats away, he won't be able to figure out how to "swim" back in the vacuum and weightlessness environment. At that time, he may have no choice but to open the door and go home.
But maybe we can leave a "coordinate" on the outer shell of this tower first? Although this thing may be in a moving state at the moment (without a reference object, Yu Sheng can't tell whether it is flying), but if we use the tower under our feet as the reference origin when recording the coordinates, we should still be able to open the door and come back when the time comes...
All kinds of thoughts were running through Yu Sheng's mind. After crossing a metal protrusion structure of unknown purpose, he stopped again.
He took out his new "blood-letting knife" - made from the blade of an artificial saint's fingertips, tough and extremely sharp - and cut a hole in his palm.
The blood gushed out directly, accompanied by wisps of red mist, boiling in the vacuum environment.
Yu Sheng was startled at first, but soon he felt that this scene was quite interesting - fortunately, he did not forget why he was bleeding, and quickly concentrated on controlling the gushing blood, allowing it to slowly float to the shell of the nearby tower.
Before the wound healed quickly, the boiling blood had silently merged into the tower.
Yu Sheng closed his eyes slightly, sensing the message the blood was conveying to him.
He "saw" some vague structures. This tall tower was conveying its own secrets to him. Under the thick "armor" that looked like rock but was actually an alloy shell, there were intricate pipes, lines, cavities, corridors, and many technological gadgets that Yu Sheng could never guess.
The range he could see now was very limited, and within this limited range, he tried to find a way to invade the tower.
Wherever the blood seeps, there is a path, but Yu Sheng has to find a "safe" landing point for himself - he is not afraid of death, but he is afraid of dying too shamefully. After finally infiltrating this step, he went in and was chopped up by the cultists with a scream. That would be a huge loss of face, and Irene would talk about this until next month...
There was no suitable invasion point nearby, so Yu Sheng moved some distance along the outer shell and repeated his old trick near a chain connected to ancillary facilities, filling the tower with blood again.
After three consecutive times, he finally stopped near an armor connection point with a happy look on his face.
There is a "safe passage" below. There is no sign of living people near the passage, and there are several passages leading to deeper places.
Yu Sheng placed his hand on the thick and cold alloy armor without hesitation.
The armor was very thick, and there were several layers of protection, buffering, and sensor structures underneath. However, the door that Yu Sheng wanted to open was not to directly "cut" these thick layers, but to form a short-distance transmission channel, connected by the blood that had seeped in. The span of this channel was enough to cross all the structures on the outer shell of the tower and bypass any damage alarm system that might exist under the armor layer.
Yu Sheng didn't know much about spaceships, but he guessed that this ship must have a similar alarm system to ensure that if something penetrated the armor, the people inside would know immediately - he was going to infiltrate this time, so of course he wanted to be exposed as late as possible.
The "door" quickly took shape.
Yu Sheng gently turned the "handle" and quietly opened the illusory door that suddenly appeared on the outer shell of the tower.
"I'm coming in..."
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"Can't find him! Drones are in place, no one is spotted outside."
"The Knight is searching near cabin three. There is nothing here either."
"The sensors aren't responding either - the external monitors keep going offline. When will this subsystem be fixed?!"
The "Sage" sat in the center of the control hall, listening to the reports and conversations coming from all around with a gloomy face.
A tense atmosphere enveloped the entire hall, but at least all the staff had regained their composure, and now everyone was doing what they were supposed to do. However, the sage could clearly feel that a certain feeling of uneasiness had once again grown in everyone's hearts.
Because they couldn't find the "monster" moving on the shell of the Pillar of Order.
If that guy was the culprit that caused the previous cloaking mask to fail and the jump to fail, then the current situation was undoubtedly terrible - seeing a space joyrider "hitchhiking" in space was indeed a terrifying thing, but he disappeared in the blink of an eye, which created another level of horror...
"Could this be some kind of collective hallucination?" Someone finally cautiously brought up a possibility that everyone was hoping for. "We hastily exited the transition state, which would cause great stimulation to the nervous system. There are precedents for collective hallucinations in this situation."
"Are you talking about the Ruby incident in 1882? After the jump failed, the ship was parked in space four light seconds away from the starport. The crew walked out of the spacecraft without wearing any protection - they thought they were home safely."
"Maybe. I mean, what if..."
"That's enough," a member of the monastery interrupted the meaningless conversation, "Rather than comforting myself with collective hallucination, I would rather believe that the guy has already got in!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the entire hall fell silent in an instant.
And as if to pierce the silence, a few seconds later, a member of the monastic order who was guarding the console suddenly broke the silence.
"Report, report! An intruder has been detected in the outer channel of the core area... He really got in!"
The "sage" in a white robe stood up suddenly upon hearing this. While the people around him were in doubt, a smile appeared on his face.
"Very good - find him and kill him!"
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Yu Sheng felt a little lost.
He entered the tower, only to find that its structure was like a maze, with intersections and inexplicable rooms everywhere. The good news was that there was gravity, and he could finally walk on solid ground. The bad news was that there were obvious problems with the gravity in some areas, so that he would suddenly "fall" to the side while walking, and then he would become even more confused about up, down, left and right.
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But he felt that this was not a big problem.
Because he doesn't know the way here, it doesn't matter whether he is lost or not. The main thing he relies on to move around here is to use blood to open up his perspective and have strong self-confidence.
After wandering around in several corridors for a while, he stopped in an empty corner, then reached into his pocket and took out his cell phone.
Unlock, light up the screen, and enter the border communication interface.
Yu Sheng was sure that this seemingly ordinary "mobile phone" was definitely filled with the Secret Service's advanced technology. Putting aside other things, this thing had just been with him in the space environment for such a long time, and it was still extremely smooth to operate. It was impossible that it was made of ordinary "civilian parts".
Of course, the most outrageous thing is that the mobile phone did not get damaged in the space environment. The most outrageous thing is that when he took it out, he found that it had a signal.
Yes! Signal! Yu Sheng originally planned to just take some photos of the surroundings and then open a small door to surprise Baili Qing, but he was surprised when he saw that the signal on his phone was full. Then he swiped down the status bar to take a look, and he noticed that the service provider of the signal suffix changed from "Jiecheng Communication" to "Xingchen United Communication", and there was a line of reminder at the end that "Currently using the Interstellar United Channel, which may incur additional fees"...
This made him marvel at the sight, but he didn't stop doing his work. After a moment of wonder, he took the time to take a few photos of the surroundings and turned on the environmental data monitoring function on his phone. He then sent a message to Baili Qing: "Guess where I am?"
Moments later, he received a reply from Baili Qing, which began with a string of question marks: "??? Have you entered the tower?!"
Yu Sheng was a little surprised: "Ah, you knew about this?"
"I received a report saying that you were launched by Hu Li's tail, and then disappeared into the thick fog of the Fog City along with that strange tower," Baili Qing quickly replied. She was now quite skilled and calm in arranging words into such magical sentences. "I called you a few times just now, but you didn't answer."
When Yu Sheng heard this, he quickly checked the call records on his phone, and indeed saw several missed calls, all from Baili Qing.
He was a little confused because he had no recollection of his phone ringing, but he realized it only a moment later and sent a message to explain: "Ah, maybe it was because I was in a vacuum just now and I didn't hear it - and I was busy finding the way just now and didn't pay attention to the phone vibrating."
Baili Qing sent another string of question marks.
Yu Sheng felt it was difficult to explain in a few words how he had just boarded a plane outside a spaceship and opened a door on the outer shell of the spaceship to get in, so he only replied vaguely: "The situation here is a bit complicated, I will explain it to you later."
After sending the message, he looked at the healed wound on his hand, took out a bloodletting knife from his pocket, and cut another wound on his palm.
Blood flowed out from the wound, as if it had an independent life, floating slowly, covering the nearby walls and floor, and seeping in within a few seconds.
After confirming that the blood had completely seeped in, Yu Sheng continued to move forward.
He kept doing this, stopping and starting along the way.
(End of this chapter)
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