Chapter 577 Repair Project
After all that trouble, it was already past midnight when they finally got home after giving birth to several dolls. Hu Li was so tired when she came out of the doll printing room that she immediately flopped onto the sofa to indicate that she wanted to sleep. Yu Sheng went up and tugged at her tail to get her back to her room, which resulted in the fox-girl whimpering and then followed by even snoring...
However, she soon woke up groggily, wagged her tail at Yu Sheng, and then went back to her room in a daze—she climbed upstairs on all fours.
Luna doesn't need to sleep, but she occasionally needs to return to her "Iron Coffin" for self-maintenance. Today was her maintenance day, so after greeting Yu Sheng, she teleported back to the Otherworld Hotel.
Soon, only Yu Sheng and two small dolls, one blonde and one black, remained in the living room.
She heard stealthy footsteps approaching, and the other three Eileens who stayed at home emerged from various nooks and crannies.
Including the newly added blonde little one, there are now five Eileens standing in front of Yu Sheng—the blonde one, with her head tilted back, spoke first: "Yu Sheng! I want to sleep in the master bedroom too!"
"Didn't we agree before that you'd sleep in each of your new bodies?" Yu Sheng was about to go upstairs when he heard the little doll's self-righteous words and felt a little helpless. "Besides, this is still your original body—and you're still sharing a room with me?"
"My body has shrunk too!" Eileen said, sounding very aggrieved. "I don't even take up much space... and I just feel uneasy... it always feels empty sleeping in a big room when my body is so small..."
Then came a string of rambling: the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment; his 1.67-meter height only allowed him to experience less than two hours; being kicked out of the room with nowhere to go; the room at the end of the second-floor corridor being haunted; and the only options left being to sleep in the basement or attic, which was worse than sleeping in the corridor... In short, it was a string of rambling. Finally, the five bodies simply squatted around Yu Sheng and started rambling together, making Yu Sheng's head spin.
"Fine, fine, sleep wherever you want. There are four boxes, enough for four people, and the extra one won't take up much space on the bed," Yu Sheng said, raising his hands in surrender. He then added, "But let's make this clear: if you kick me again, I'll throw you on the bedside table..."
He then looked down at the five puppets crouching in a circle around him and stroked his chin.
You know what, with another main body added, the little doll's "self-imposed isolation" is getting rounder and rounder...
Eileen, however, didn't notice the subtle expression on Yu Sheng's face at the end. She was already happy at this moment—once again gaining the privilege of sleeping in the master bedroom through her shamelessness made her feel great. She even forgot for a moment the tragic situation that her new body's height had shrunk to 66.6 centimeters. The five little dolls hummed some random tunes and ran towards the stairs, then began to climb up to the second floor on all fours...
Yu Sheng was speechless at the sight of the group of little ones scrambling and crawling laboriously up the stairs in the dark. Unable to bear it any longer, he stepped forward, but before he could even speak, a group of Eileen turned around and ran towards him again, as if they had planned it all along, and in the blink of an eye, they were all covered in him...
The heaviest steel doll sat on Yu Sheng's shoulders, clapping its hands happily: "Upstairs! Upstairs~~~"
Yu Sheng looked at the little dolls hanging on his body, and seeing their usual noisy, carefree, and unrestrained appearance, he suddenly laughed.
It's alright. Eileen is still Eileen, the cowardly doll from No. 66 Wutong Road. That's good enough.
He stepped upstairs.
"Yu Sheng!" a voice came from his shoulder. "You should probably investigate why my new body shrank back then, maybe recharge it or something..."
"Okay, I'll study it after I wake up tomorrow. I'm sleepy."
"That works too... Can I chat with you while you're asleep? While you're dreaming."
"No, I need to rest today—and can you please stop bothering me in my dreams? Can't I go play with Hu Li instead?"
"Hu Li's dreams are so boring. They're either about eating or trying to get you to eat with her. No matter what kind of dream I try to guide her into, she always pulls me back to where I left off. It's so dull!"
Then the doll was silent for two or three seconds, and then it suddenly thought of something: "Ah! I can go play in the garden network! Maris taught me how to enter wirelessly... She also said that as long as I'm online, I can ask her to be my guide. It seems like the servo robots don't need to sleep... I want to chat with other Alice dolls! I wonder if they play games..."
"There's definitely a chance, the universe is so big, and there are so many Alice dolls—but can the Garden Network connect to a regular network?"
"Oh, sure, Mary said the Garden Network is the oldest and most ubiquitous communication system in the universe. It's not just ordinary networks; even the Secret Service's border communications have secret interfaces to the Garden Network. But I forgot how to connect... I'll have to ask Mary for help. By the way, should I bring her into the gaming world too? I feel like robots would be really good at games."
"Keep it up... Don't lead others astray, after all, she's Marlene's assistant."
"How could playing games together be a bad thing? It won't give you a virus, will it?"
...
At the same time, on the distant border of the Flying Feather Starfield, above the high orbit of the Silence Guardian.
The heavy orbital platform "Lingquetai" hangs high above the mother planet. The hundred-foot-long light bridge extending from the edge of the platform shines brightly in the universe. Several large industrial spaceships are slowly decelerating in the gravity docking port on the side of the platform, while several small fast shuttles are departing from the fast transportation port near the gravity docking port, streaking through streaks of light and heading into nearby space.
The destination of those fast shuttles was very close, within the visible range of Lingquetai—in an open area at the same orbital altitude as the platform, a large space station with a solemn black paint job, covered with heavy armor, and shaped like a giant disc, was quietly floating in space.
The space station was almost twice the size of the "Lingquetai". Between the wide and thick armor belts, there were dim lights that flickered and moved slowly. There were also a large number of auxiliary buildings attached to the inner armor surface of the space station. Among them, there were rows of turrets and powerful shield generators that emitted a hazy glow.
Such an armed fortress would be an imposing behemoth in the skies above any planet in any civilization. In some more remote locations, the space station's visible defensive firepower alone might even be enough to suppress a planet.
However, its current condition is definitely not good.
The giant space station has shocking, visible damage on its surface. The massive hole running through its core is the most fatal. Sparks fly from the inside of the 100-meter-wide laceration, and there are hundreds of leaks in the energy lines that have not been completely severed. The fire in the main area has been brought under control, but repairing the massive laceration is clearly no easy task.
The first batch of engineering teams has entered the tunnel entrance. Their primary task is to find a way to seal the huge tear in sections, forming several main closed construction areas, in order to lay the foundation for the next stage of repair.
Large-scale mechanical devices have begun welding operations at the edge of the crack, and the bright electric arcs are clearly visible even from space.
A celestial ship bearing the emblem of the Shuji Mo family silently departed from Lingquetai, crossed the vast expanse of space, and landed at a docking point in the inner ring of the "Black Stone Station".
This is one of the few areas on the entire space station with normal energy supply at present, and it is also the main landing and assembly point for engineering teams coming and going.
The side door of the fairy boat opened, and Mo Ran, dressed in a black gauze dress, stepped out with several retainers and gracefully landed on the connecting bridge.
The airlocks for entering and exiting the space station have been closed, but perhaps due to a malfunction in the circulation system, the air in the docking port inside the station has a slightly unpleasant odor, and the gravity in the connecting bridge area is noticeably weaker.
Mo Ran looked at both sides of the long bridge and saw a storage area below the wide port. Toxic smoke that had not yet completely dissipated was still lingering between the towering stacks. Dim lights illuminated the material tracks connecting the stacks. Some drones were busy shuttling between the shelves, maintaining and taking inventory of the warehouse according to the default program.
Mo Ran withdrew his gaze and led his retainers across the port connecting bridge to a platform leading to the inner ring residential area.
After passing through a semi-transparent energy barrier, the surrounding air quality improved significantly, and artificial gravity appeared more stable and normal.
A retainer of the Mo family who had been waiting there immediately stepped forward and bowed to Mo Ran, saying, "Master, the technical experts from Alglade have arrived."
Mo Ran nodded: "Yes, I will go see them in person."
In the rest area, Mo Ran met several "Star Scholars" who had just rushed over from the Alglade Starfield.
With their long, pointed ears, more handsome features than ordinary humans, slender and well-proportioned bodies, and unique nebula-shaped pupils that are easily recognizable throughout the universe, the Algrid Elves are a race quite familiar to Mo Ran.
The Flying Feather Starfield and the Alglade Starfield are adjacent to each other, and many of their border planets are only a "jump" away from each other through a stargate. Shuji is one such border planet. Even in recent years, despite the economic downturn, Shuji and Alglade still have frequent exchanges. In fact, Mo Ran himself has a good personal relationship with some Alglade elves.
After all, the mental interference of the "Star Derivatives" on the Shuji people was mainly focused on preventing them from noticing the crystallization phenomenon spreading on the planet's surface, rather than annihilating the minds of the local people. Without exposing the "planetary parasitism," the Shuji people's various exchanges with other planets continued normally.
This time, Yu Shengzhenjun entrusted the important task of repairing "Blackstone Station" to Shuji, and Mo Ran almost immediately thought of several of her Alglade friends.
After all, the people of Algeria themselves know their own technology best.
(End of this chapter)
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