Chapter 319 Yu Sheng's Long-term Goal
Early the next morning, after breakfast, Yu Sheng came to the huge spaceship parked in the valley and entered the room where the holy coffin was stored.
The dark iron coffin remained unchanged, still standing on the platform as usual, and the buzzing sound coming from the coffin seemed to continue forever.
"Okay, it's the same as always - I come to see you again," Yu Sheng sighed, sat on the platform under the holy coffin, and knocked on the iron coffin behind him, "Are you still going to wake up?"
Of course the holy coffin did not respond, but it continued to vibrate softly.
Yu Sheng did not expect to get any response. He just calmed down and sensed the operating status of each device in the Holy Coffin Room while muttering casually: "In case you don't know, this spaceship has been completely taken over by me. It is now docked on my territory. The monastics who originally controlled this ship died or fled. The others were all sent to the high-end single room of the Secret Service. There will be a group of friendly psychology experts there to talk to them about life, ideals, etc....
"The one called 'Sage' ran away. It is said that a guy of this level is a mid-level leader in the monastic order, and his status is quite high. But he won't be free forever, you know? I actually hold grudges...
"Last night, your phantom appeared in a wasteland. That place is also my territory. It is called 'Sanctuary Wasteland'. It is a place for wounded souls to rest.
"Then again...can you hear me?"
Yu Sheng turned his head and took a look at the dark holy coffin.
The dark red light on the surface of the iron coffin flickered slowly, responding to his gaze like eyes.
Yu Sheng exhaled, slowly stood up, raised his hand and patted the lid of the holy coffin.
"Get up if you're almost done sleeping. You still have a lot of things you want to do. I'll help you later."
After saying this, Yu Sheng turned and left the Holy Coffin Room. Then he took out his cell phone in the corridor outside and called Baili Qing: "It's me, Yu Sheng."
"I think you should call me," Baili Qing's voice came from the receiver, "We have a lot of problems here."
"I've saved a lot too," Yu Sheng said casually, "Would you like to meet up and chat?"
"Sure, I'm in the office."
Yu Sheng said "oh" and walked into the director's office in the deepest part of the Secret Service Bureau. He raised his hand and greeted Baili Qing who was sitting behind the huge desk: "Good morning."
Baili Qing was still holding her phone at this time. She raised her eyelids and glanced at Yu Sheng who had already pushed the chair over. She said with a somewhat helpless tone: "After seeing you so many times, I'm still not used to you pushing the door open directly."
"I'll get used to it, I'll get used to it," Yu Sheng said with a cheerful smile. He sat down in front of the female director and got straight to the point. "Let's get down to business. What's the current situation of those cultists I sent here? Have they been interrogated?"
"The small-scale interrogation just started this morning," Baili Qing said calmly, "This will be a big project, and it will take more than a day or two to get results. We will arrange for the best interrogation experts, and the Secret Service will focus on this matter for the next period of time."
Yu Sheng raised his eyebrows.
"Even in the history of the Secret Service, this is a rare event," Baili Qing continued, "They captured almost an entire ship of Priory members in a few hours. And they were not the lowest-level believers. They were all at least at the 'monk' level. They had undergone different levels of 'promotion' ceremonies and had certain levels of followers within the Priory... This time, the Council was shocked."
Yu Sheng was not at all surprised by this result.
And then Baili Qing asked: "That spaceship... have you 'driven it back'?"
"I parked it in the backyard, in that valley," Yu Sheng answered frankly, and then added, "Let me make it clear first, I won't hand it in - it's my personal trophy, and now it's the property of the hotel."
Baili Qing was about to speak when Yu Sheng stopped her from speaking. Her expression didn't change, but her tone was a little helpless: "I know, so I want to remind you by the way - do you know the Deep Space Navigation Convention, the Interstellar Navigation Act, and the Jump Safety Guarantee Act?"
Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, realizing that none of the many drafts he had prepared in advance seemed to have considered this situation: "...What?"
"I knew it," Baili Qing sighed, "You definitely haven't thought about these details. The universe is not a lawless zone. Sailing in an uninhabited area between stars and sailing within a civilized circle are two different concepts. Apart from anything else... If you want to dock at a certain starport, you must at least be able to understand the navigation signals and channel signs, right?"
Yu Sheng: “…”
He really hadn't thought about this question at all!
From yesterday till now, he has been immersed in such a shocking event as "the family has a spaceship". No one he has come into contact with can remind him - Hu Li's family had a spaceship, but she didn't even graduate from elementary school. Irene graduated from prenatal education and got a correspondence diploma from kindergarten. Hunter was just a worker in the Secret Service. The squirrel was eight and a half years old when the accident happened. Don't even mention Little Red Riding Hood. She hasn't even taken the driver's license test yet. She will only be eighteen next week...
After thinking about it, Yu Sheng's eyes became clearer.
"Fortunately, after you brought the spaceship back, you didn't go out for another ride in a hurry." Baili Qing said calmly, then stood up and moved a pile of books from a nearby filing cabinet and put them on the table.
Yu Sheng was shocked on the spot: "What is this?!"
"The navigation manual for novice captains contains the navigation regulations of major civilizations and the identification methods of most navigation signals, jump conventions, and near-earth navigation regulations. It does not involve specific spacecraft control techniques. I know you have your own ideas about sailing," Baili Qing said, and added, "In addition, you also need a basic star map that can help you mark several major star regions that have friendly relations with the border areas and can be directly reached, as well as the corresponding jump nodes. This can effectively prevent you from crashing into other people's planets or space stations."
She paused for a moment, then changed the subject: "However, this type of data needs to be directly input into the navigation computer of the spacecraft. If you agree, I will send a group of technical experts to help you study the operating system of the spacecraft. Of course, the Secret Service has its own purpose, which is to investigate the spacecraft and master the relevant technology of the Priory. I want to explain this in advance and ask for your opinion."
Yu Sheng was stunned listening, and only came back to his senses after the other party's last sentence, and quickly said: "Oh, yes, that's what I wanted to say, I need a group of experts, first to repair the damaged parts of the ship, and then to sort out the items left by the hermits on the ship, and also the experts who can handle the operating system as you said, if possible, it would be better to have a group of experts who understand decoration design, I want to redecorate the ship, and by the way, I also need a regular construction team, I have a lot of new engineering projects over there, and the docking platform of the spacecraft also needs water and electricity - otherwise you can just send Engineer Sun over..."
This time it was Baili Qing's turn to be stunned: "..."
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She wanted to discuss with Yu Sheng about arranging a group of people to go to the ship to take a look. Although they were indeed going to help, their main purpose was of course to collect more information about the monastic order. But obviously the degree of "active cooperation" from Yu Sheng exceeded her imagination.
All of a sudden, she jumped from "allowing the Secret Service to board the ship to collect evidence" to "wanting to steal 2,000 engineering experts from the Secret Service to repair the spaceship for the hotel". Her skill in stealing the wool is breathtaking. She has been the director for more than a hundred years, and the last time she saw such shamelessness...
She had never seen anyone so shameless.
Yu Sheng knew there might be some misunderstanding when he saw the other party's reaction, and quickly added: "It's not in vain. We still have to settle the accounts. Just see if the group of cultists I captured this time are enough to pay for the project. If not, the account will be placed on the head of the Chongsheng Hermitage. I will try to find their lair and capture some of them back..."
So Baili Qing's feeling changed from one kind of amazement to another, and her expression almost couldn't hold back: "...Do you think the Priory members are carrots in the field?"
"I don't know if they are carrots or not, but they treat people as wheat in the field," Yu Sheng adjusted his sitting position in his chair and said calmly, "I am not done with them yet."
Hearing Yu Sheng's words, Baili Qing's expression changed slightly.
"It sounds like you experienced something...unpleasant on that ship," she said seriously.
"The artificial saint, and the 'knights' around the saint," Yu Sheng said, exhaling softly, "are made from living people."
Baili Qing frowned immediately.
"They have set up a special 'recruiting ground' somewhere, which could be a fenced-off piece of land or even an entire planet. Many people are kept captive there, living in a customized society, and are being trained to become the raw materials for artificial saints and knights, harvested one after another," Yu Sheng said slowly, "This is one of their 'core technologies'."
Baili Qing didn't say anything, but a layer of frost seemed to vaguely appear on her face, which always lacked change.
"I know that it is a planet so far away that I don't know where it is. What happened there has nothing to do with the border area," Yu Shengze continued, "but this matter makes me confused, so now it is a personal grudge between me and them."
"So what do you want to do?" Baili Qing raised her head and looked into Yu Sheng's eyes seriously. "Find and liberate a planet? Or do you want to eradicate the entire Saint Hermitage in the entire universe?"
"This is... quite difficult," Yu Sheng said frankly, spreading his hands. "The hotel's current strength is not enough, but I think this can be a long-term goal. As I said before - why not give it a try?"
(End of this chapter)
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