Chapter 558 Successful Airdrop
Yu Sheng looked at the pure white dragon before him, sensing the subtle connection between himself and the dragon, established by blood, and tried to find the difference in this connection, but to no avail.
Baili Qing, of course, had no idea what Yu Sheng was thinking, nor did she understand the specifics of the "blood donation." She simply noticed that Yu Sheng suddenly seemed a little dazed, and after a moment of hesitation, she broke the silence: "Is the 'blood donation' over? What's next?"
Yu Sheng quickly pulled himself out of his reverie, steadied himself, and nodded to the other person: "Next... let's try again."
Eileen hugged Yu Sheng's head tightly: "I, I'll go with you this time!"
Yu Sheng hesitated for a moment, but before he could speak, the little doll hurriedly continued, "I can remotely control things from here, and most of my consciousness is currently in the mass-produced doll network. If something goes wrong on your end, I'll disconnect immediately... I just feel that you're unreliable on your own, and besides, isn't that the Goddess of Omens? What if I could help if I went over there, right..."
Yu Sheng turned his head and saw the little doll staring straight at him with bright, sparkling eyes. There was a hint of nervousness in its scarlet eyes—yet it was both timid and determined.
Unlike the powerful and dashing blonde Eileen from 3,700 years ago, or the gentle yet persistent goddess of omens who descended in ignorance.
It's just a little doll that lives at No. 66 Wutong Road. It looks arrogant, but it's actually quite timid.
Yu Sheng nodded and patted Eileen on the back: "Okay, let's go together. Just know to run if you see something's wrong."
Baili Qing lowered her massive body, letting one of her giant wings, covered in tiny crystalline scales, droop to the ground. She turned and stared at Yu Sheng with her no-human vertical pupils: "I can only send you over that pile of 'divine corpses'—I hope you have a safe landing plan."
Yu Sheng laughed: "Don't worry, I'm very strong. Unless a giant dragon hits me directly, I won't die easily."
"...Can we please forget about this?"
"Okay, okay, okay." Yu Sheng waved his hand dismissively, followed the other's wings and climbed up, settling steadily on the broad back of the pure white dragon.
Then he looked into the distance and shouted, "Hu Li! Cover us as we charge again!"
Seven or eight fox tails, spewing propulsive flames and protective aura, immediately flew into the air, followed by two chickens, Baiqie and Yanba, flanking the dragon on either side.
Baili Qing stood up from the platform, and before taking off, she couldn't help but glance at the mess of flying objects around her. She finally felt a little awkward: "I never thought that the next time I would fly, I would be taking off with these things..."
Yu Sheng chuckled upon hearing this: "You're one to talk! We never imagined you could fly—let's go!"
Baili Qing nodded slightly, spread her wings and took a step forward. A tremor came from the high platform, and the next second, a pure white dragon soared into the sky!
To be fair, the takeoff was quite stable, which surprised Yu Sheng—he had originally prepared for an emergency landing as the first thing to do after takeoff.
Almost at the same time that Baili Qing took off, the undulating, writhing shadows in the temple ruins immediately reacted!
The threat posed by the dragon seemed to have provoked those soulless shadows. The entire black mud tide began to rise rapidly into the sky, and countless phantom fragments of all sizes broke free from the black tide and flew into the sky. Yu Sheng peered down from the edge of the dragon's wing and for a moment felt as if the entire earth had "bulged up," extending countless tentacles and spewing out countless fragments to intercept them. The sight was chilling!
The white-cut and salt-baked dishes instantly rushed towards the black tide. Two dazzling beams of light burst into the darkness like clouds falling to earth, tearing open ravines in the shadows. At the same time, Baili Qing began to accelerate again.
The massive remains of the divine corpse rapidly magnified in their field of vision.
An unsettling fluctuation began to appear in the air around the divine corpse, a sign that a rift was about to form.
"It's coming!" Yu Sheng immediately shouted a reminder.
"learn--"
Bai Liqing's voice trembled and resonated strangely, and a powerful force began to brew within her. Yu Sheng saw a layer of magical radiance emanating from the crystal-like scales around him. Then he felt a jolt beneath him—the pure white dragon suddenly raised its head and opened its massive jaws toward the area on the ground that was constantly rippling.
Like a frost storm, the breath of crystalline dust erupted, and countless tiny crystal fragments plowed through the black tide like a storm. Thousands upon thousands of fragments of "Anti-Eileen Crystal" penetrated deeply into the viscous shadows, immediately disrupting the dark rifts that had just begun to form. Even the nearby shadowy black tide showed signs of stagnation and shrinkage for a moment.
The little doll perched on Yu Sheng's shoulder, no longer caring about the "anti-Eileen Crystal" issue, immediately began excitedly shouting, "Wow! This works great!!"
Then she lowered her head again and yelled at Baili Qing, "Hey! What's the principle behind this? How did you store the crystal in your body? Did you eat it before you left? And how did you vomit it out?"
Baili Qing ignored the little thing, because her entire attention was focused on the enormous divine corpse in the ruins. But Eileen didn't stay quiet for a second before suddenly blurting out, "...You can ruminate, huh!?"
Baili Qing finally couldn't hold back any longer: "Yu Sheng, she..."
“It’s usually this noisy, the busier she is, the more she chatters,” Yu Sheng said, grabbing the little doll and covering her mouth. “You’re not so bad, at least I’ve gagged her so you can’t hear her anymore—she can chatter in my head.”
Bai Liqing said from the bottom of her heart: "Then you must be working really hard usually."
She sighed like that, and then felt a sudden unease rise in her heart!
The mountain-sized corpse of the god underwent the same change as before—the edges of the twisted and piled-up remains instantly began to deform and writhe, and then cracks appeared out of thin air on the surface of the viscous shadowy mass. Countless scarlet eyes appeared and surged wildly to the edge of the cracks, scanning the sky!
A tremendous noise and waves of dizziness suddenly struck, accompanied by a sense of despair and tearing that felt as if even her mind was about to disintegrate. Baili Qing felt her body suddenly sink, but the next second, she realized that she had actually not lost control of her body.
Along with the raging storm of mental pollution in her mind, another force, as silent and serene as death, prematurely enveloped her sanity. She watched as those scarlet, frenzied eyes trembled and surged on the earth. Her vision blurred for a moment, then another illusion suddenly appeared in her field of vision—
She saw an endless wasteland, with nameless tall grass covering the horizon under a gray sky, and waves of grass undulating among the gently rolling earth and hills.
She saw a grand, burning bonfire, with twelve solemn stone pillars standing beside it, and a magnificent black church standing in the open field between the bonfire and the hills.
She also saw a thin mist flowing around the church, and echoes from within, like the sound of wind or hymns. A giant crystal tree was growing in the church courtyard, its branches blocking out the sky, its tops supporting the river of reincarnation—
A pure white dragon soared across the realm of souls, its enormous eyes reflecting the landscapes of both worlds. She opened her eyes wide in surprise, and then saw a blonde female knight suddenly appear in her field of vision.
The blonde female knight smiled, surrounded by twelve bronze knights. Baili Qing was slightly taken aback, and then saw the blonde girl walking towards her through the air.
The girl raised her fist and punched the pure white dragon in the nose.
Baili Qing's perspective was instantly jolted back to reality—she was flying over countless crazed crimson eyes, and the ancient mechanisms among the remains of the divine corpse were almost within reach.
The mental pollution in her mind had subsided, and Baili Qing didn't have time to think about what she had just seen. She hurriedly controlled her flight attitude and shouted to Yu Sheng on her back, "Hold on tight! I'm going to descend! Don't fall down prematurely!"
Upon hearing this, Yu Sheng panicked. Unlike the fox's back, which had many hairs to grab, the dragon's back was covered in smooth scales, without a single bump: "Where am I supposed to grab?!"
Bai Liqing: "You decide what to do!"
The next second, the pure white dragon began its swooping down towards the ancient mechanism.
The shadowy black tide, which had been briefly suppressed, had now resumed its writhing motion, and layers of black fissures began to brew again. The dragon's back tilted violently, and the swaying motion of its diving posture made Yu Sheng instinctively lower his body. In his panic, he noticed a slightly raised scale and without hesitation reached into the gap between the scales, gripping it tightly to prevent himself from slipping off the dragon's back—and all of this happened in just a few seconds.
Immediately afterwards, he and Eileen saw from the edge of the dragon's wing the huge gap that had been blasted out by Hu Li's tail missile.
"This is the spot!" Yu Sheng immediately released the scales in his hands, while hugging Eileen tightly. "We're going to jump—"
Upon hearing this, Baili Qing immediately tilted her body, folded one of her wings, and left a window for the "passenger" on her back to jump.
Amidst the little doll's excited screams, Yu Sheng, holding Eileen, jumped down without hesitation.
Just before losing her balance, Baili Qing miraculously regained her footing, then suddenly pulled herself up and accelerated towards the outside of the temple, quickly escaping the raging dark tide of shadows.
With a loud bang, Yu Sheng landed heavily on the ground.
"Wow!" Eileen peeked out from Yu Sheng's arms, looked up at the huge structure that was operating in front of her, at its three towering pillars and the cube structure in the middle of the pillars that was constantly rotating and recombining, and let out a small exclamation.
Yu Sheng then stood up after a long while.
Because he fractured a bone, he needs to rest for a while.
Then his gaze, along with that of the little puppet, fell upon the massive mechanical device.
The three tower-shaped obelisks arranged in a triangular pattern, and the Rubik's Cube that floats in the air and constantly deforms and reassembles—they look completely different from the surrounding temple ruins and are clearly not the work of the civilization to which the goddess of omens belongs.
Who built this? And what's the working principle behind it?
Around the device, shadows piled up like mountains. The remains of the Goddess of Omens surrounded the device like a small crater, as if even in death, even with her main consciousness extinguished by "fusion," this small fragment of hers was still instinctively protecting the "Bridge of Boundaries."
Yu Sheng put Eileen on his shoulder and walked towards the nearest "pillar".
Countless large and small cracks silently appeared on the surrounding remains of the divine corpses, and countless scarlet eyes emerged from the cracks, staring intently at him.
(End of this chapter)
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