Chapter 469 Hanging on the Wall
The streets were bustling with people. It was unknown how many people had gathered from surrounding areas to participate in the celebration. The market was bustling with activity. The stalls displayed a dazzling array of local ornaments and food. There were also street performers who performed many of their acts, many of which seemed outrageous to Yu Sheng.
After all, in a world where everyone truly practices martial arts, it's easy to imagine how ferocious the acts of a bunch of casual cultivators performing extreme sports could be. Let's just say, if those people on the stage were ordinary people, their deaths would be beyond imagination (and reality)...
Yu Sheng was carrying a small doll, followed by the silent Saint Lady and the exceptionally happy Fox Girl. The four of them were walking slowly and leisurely through this alien city that was so bustling that it was almost bizarre.
Irene was adorned with several more trinkets she'd bought from street vendors—some genuinely blessed, some claiming to be, and some not yet but intended to be taken back to Yun Qingzi for consecration. The little doll had completely transformed herself into a garish spectacle. Even now, she was fiddling with a string of beads supposedly made of some kind of immortal stone, boasting, "Yusheng, look how beautiful this is! I'm going to put it on my bedside table when I get home... Silly fox, you only know how to buy food, and you don't even have the slightest aesthetic sense with a C-shaped buckle..."
She chirped, then haphazardly wrapped the string of beads around the Ominous Wandering Star—which, by this point, had been festooned with all sorts of random things, looking like a floating lantern ball—and clapped her hands, swaying on Yu Sheng's shoulders. "Holidays are great, and shopping is great too... I'm having fun!"
She narrowed her eyes, but suddenly lowered her head and rubbed Yu Sheng's head: "By the way, what were you and Yuan Hao talking about just now? It seemed so serious..."
Yu Sheng raised one hand to support the little one who was always shaking on his shoulder. After hearing her question, he did not answer immediately. Instead, he thought for a moment and asked, "Kong Daman—do you remember this name?"
"Kong...what?" Ailin scratched Yu Sheng's hair, looking puzzled. "What a strange name! I've never heard of it."
"No impression?" Yu Sheng muttered thoughtfully, then breathed a sigh of relief. "That's right, you can't even explain how you got into the painting."
Irene didn't understand, but she quickly forgot her doubts and became happy again. She raised her hand while rubbing Yu Sheng's head and said, "Hey, look over there! There's another painting seller over there... That painting doesn't look like you at all!"
Yu Sheng looked up and saw a portrait of "XXXX Yu Sheng Zhenjun" hanging on the stall in front of him. It looked like it was meant to be pasted on doors to ward off evil spirits...
His face turned green on the spot.
But fortunately, these portraits are more abstract and outrageous than each other, and the local "god statues" of Taixu Lingshu seem to have some special style and techniques, so that the portraits are quite different from the real people. Yu Sheng has not reached the point where he has to cover his face when walking on the street - and even if someone occasionally notices him and looks at him suspiciously, most people will not really associate an "ordinary person" wandering around the street with no spiritual power with the "True Lord" who can kill the Dark Angel. This makes him feel a little relieved.
But even though he breathed a sigh of relief, he couldn't help but mutter, "This is the first time this has happened... Who the hell thought of this first?"
"Who needs to think of this first? With something this big happening, it would be strange if no one on the entire planet hadn't thought of it," Irene shook her head. Although she was usually confused about her own affairs, the little doll still looked like she knew everything as she analyzed it. "I'm telling you, in a few years, you'll see, every household here will have you posted on their door during the New Year. Even your modified face won't pass facial recognition. The streets and alleys will be filled with various versions of your stories - some to ward off evil, some to attract wealth, some to cure diseases, and even to control romantic relationships and prevent pregnancy. The specific function depends on where you are posted. If they're even more outrageous, they'll even give you three incense sticks and half a pound of pork head meat a day..."
The fox girl's ears suddenly pricked up, and she looked around: "Pig's head? Where's the pig's head?"
Yu Sheng was stunned by the little puppet's chatter: "Where did you come up with all this... It sounds like you've really experienced it."
"I'm an expert in the occult!" the little puppet patted his chest. "I've been an expert in the occult for... for years!"
Hu Li's ears drooped: "There is no pig's head meat."
Luna stepped forward and patted Hu Li's shoulder, seemingly to comfort him: "Yeah, that's right."
"C-button, can't you say something else?"
"Yeah, right..."
Listening to the noisy movement coming from the side, Yu Sheng did not speak again, but suddenly laughed. He shook his head gently, looked up at the sky again, and separated a wisp of his mind -
Drizzle fell from the sky, continuously. A few weak rays of sunlight could be vaguely seen through the dark and gloomy clouds. Together with the falling raindrops, they fell on the ruins of the refining tower and on the pale crystals that, despite being cleaned up for several days, still occupied a large area of wasteland on the outskirts of the city, as if they could never be cleaned up.
A cluster of crystals that emerged from the cracks trembled slightly, and a faint light moved on the surface. Almost at the same time, another tiny glimmer appeared on the nearby crystal clusters and jumped between them, spreading like ripples that spread in an instant.
Deep underground, invisible to people, similar glimmers of light are also rapidly spreading, resonating, wandering, and diffusing.
Yu Sheng's thoughts surged across the vast body of the planet, traversing the amazing supporting structures beneath the crust, examining the crystal chambers, caves, mantle plumes, and lava rivers covered with crystals.
The distant Taixu Lingshu is still immersed in the atmosphere of festival celebrations, but Shuji in the long rainy season is so quiet that it seems like another world. And deep underground in Shuji, those crystal structures that emit low roars and are slowly moving are another scene.
Yu Sheng felt that he seemed to understand what it was like for Irene to do multi-threaded operations - he had been doing similar things recently.
He was thinking deep in the planet, and carefully operating the "corpse" left in this world after the death of the derivative star without affecting the stability of the earth's crust.
Underground to the north of Mo City, a magma lake buried deep at the interface between the mantle and the crust is being slowly stirred by huge crystalline limbs. Some small crystalline fragments are transported here from deeper places and then thrown into the magma lake.
The residue was then separated and the re-melted crystal material was salvaged, but was quickly discarded. New "materials" were then collected and put into this "geological furnace".
The huge magma lake and its surrounding transportation, salvage and analysis structures made of crystal material work together like a busy living factory. In a sense, this structure can even be regarded as an organ in the "living planet" of Shuji.
It can also be said to be an organ of life.
At the edge of the lava lake, on a smooth crystal cliff, huge words slowly emerged: Experimental Furnace for the Revival of Shuji and Industrial Transformation.
Then, after a while, two more slogans appeared below this line of words:
Ensure safe production to avoid cramps and standardize operations to prevent perforations.
A huge face emerged from the crystalline dome on top of the lava lake. Yu Sheng looked down at this "inner forge" that he had spent several days slowly rubbing out, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.
Although if Irene saw this place, she would definitely complain that it was worse than a toilet...
Afterwards, Yu Sheng's mind continued to wander inside the planet, confirming the current stability of the fragile areas he had discovered before, checking the progress of repair of some main crystal branches that were broken due to "ascension", and marking special locations one by one, finding those places where energy reactions accumulated, or remaining mineral veins and hot wells that could still be used for development.
It was a huge and long task, but fortunately it didn't take much effort for him.
Shuji is a frontier mining planet that has entered a period of decline. After the disaster of the derivative star body, the situation of this planet has become even worse. If it were in the past, Yu Sheng could only sigh about it and would be powerless to help. But now that he has "assimilated" this planet and has actually become the star guardian here, he naturally cannot sit idly by and watch this planet really decline completely.
He didn't want one of his "bodies" to gradually become a lifeless place in the days to come, carrying the desperate atmosphere of despair and despair of hundreds of millions of people.
On the other hand, if he wants to find a way to travel across the world and uncover the secrets behind those dark angels, he really needs a stepping stone to the starry sky. Shuji Star, which has experienced angel parasitism and happens to be located on the border of Feiyu Star Region, is a good option.
So no matter what, he needs to manage this planet under his protection well, take good care of the people on this planet, and continue to maintain good relations with the Feiyu Star Region.
Now, it’s time to go and see the situation of the female mayor of Mo City.
With a change of mind, Yu Sheng's "focus of thought" instantly shifted from deep underground to the surface of the planet. His vision passed through layers of rocks, soil and crystals, and then projected onto a mansion in the center of Mo City.
He saw Mo Ran.
She was wearing a black dress and was talking with several retainers, apparently discussing the progress of the restart of the industrial zone. Most of the crystals in the hall had been cleared out, but there were still some crystal clusters embedded in the corners of the roof.
Yu Sheng was about to say hello to Mo Ran, but was suddenly stunned.
He saw a huge painting hanging behind Mo Ran, and on it was "XXXX Yu Sheng Zhenjun"...
Yu Sheng: “…”
Is it ever going to end?
(End of this chapter)
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