Chapter 582 Baili Qing Returns to Work
Deep inside the Secret Service, in the director's office.
Yu Sheng looked Baili Qing up and down until she sighed helplessly and stared back at him with her light gray eyes.
What are you looking at?
"Uh, nothing, nothing," Yu Sheng quickly looked away, scratching his head a little awkwardly, "I was just curious about you..."
“If you’re talking about my horn, it’s already faded naturally,” Baili Qing said expressionlessly. “If you’re talking about my ‘sister’—she’s not feeling well, so she’s resting today.”
Yu Sheng pondered for a while how Baili Xue, who only had one pair of eyes, could be "uncomfortable"—especially since those eyes were something like a projection.
However, seeing that the bureau chief's older sister didn't seem very happy, he hesitated for a long time before deciding not to ask.
Having known Baili Qing for so long, Yu Sheng felt he could now discern subtle expressions from her icy face.
"Let's get down to business," Baili Qing rubbed her forehead, and seemed to sigh faintly. "I apologize first. I should have contacted you sooner, but there were so many things to do. Just arranging all the follow-up work took up most of my energy, and I only finally have some free time now... Let's talk about Eileen's situation first. How is she doing?"
Yu Sheng quickly adjusted his posture, organized his thoughts, and began to share the information on his side with Baili Qing.
Previously, the crisis involving Boundary Bridge and Omen broke out suddenly, and Yu Sheng did not have time to communicate with Baili Qing in detail. He had not yet had time to explain to her the final disposal of Boundary Bridge, the information obtained from Omen's memories, and his speculations about the secrets behind Boundary Bridge. Now that everything has finally settled down, he did not hide anything and told this "Director of the Special Operations Bureau" many things.
Perhaps because of their shared battle at the Temple of Ominous Signs, Yu Sheng and Baili Qing have now clearly built a deeper level of mutual trust.
"Eileen's original body has been repaired, but there's still a minor malfunction? Okay, I guess what you mean by malfunction."
"You said she has a great attitude? And now you've already started researching new charging solutions... Well, that's typical of you guys. No, I don't mean anything by it, this is genuine praise."
"She regained some of the nightmare memories?! Um... the most vivid memory is of making the believers sacrifice egg yolk cakes and sweet drinks..."
"Addicted to the Garden Network? No wonder she didn't come with you today."
Baili Qing rubbed her forehead again, unsure whether it was because she was deeply moved by Eileen's attitude towards life or simply because she hadn't slept enough. However, one thing was clear: after hearing about Eileen's current state, her "worries" had noticeably subsided.
Then Yu Sheng naturally changed the subject and began to discuss the boundary bridge with the other party.
“A kind of ‘transportation’ collectively built by the Dark Angels… and judging from ‘Eileen’s’ mission back then, this matter was very likely approved by the Ancient Holy Spirit,” even Baili Qing’s expression quickly became somewhat solemn after hearing the information provided by Yu Sheng. “Once this news gets out, the shock it will cause will probably be no less than the first fall of the angels.”
“Just the fact that ‘some of the Dark Angels possess rationality and act in groups outside the world’ is already quite a challenge to many people’s values, after all, everyone previously thought that the Dark Angels were mindless,” Yu Sheng stroked his chin, “As for the Ancient Holy Spirits…”
“In fact, no one knows what the ancient Holy Spirits’ attitude is toward the ‘Dark Angels’,” Baili Qing calmly took over the topic. “They rarely interfere in mortal affairs, and besides, they have now gone to the ends of the earth and no news has come back for a long time.”
The End of the World...
Upon hearing these words, Yu Sheng felt his spiritual intuition begin to stir. The distant starry sky he had glimpsed through the "crystal tree rift" seemed to resurface in his memory like some living thing, radiating a strong sense of presence.
This prompted him to say instinctively, "Speaking of the ends of the earth, I happen to have something to tell you."
Bai Liqing rarely saw Yu Sheng with such a serious expression, so she immediately perked up and said, "Go on."
“I saw something strange last night,” Yu Sheng said, stroking his chin. “A huge ship, looking like one of those classic sailing warships, but ridiculously large, was sailing in the starry sky, surrounded by illusory green flames like the surface of the sea. The background of the starry sky in the distance was also strange; the starlight looked erratic, and for some reason, I had a feeling that the starlight was coming from the edge of the universe… Hmm? Are you listening?”
Yu Sheng was speaking when he suddenly felt that the atmosphere was not right. He looked up and saw Baili Qing sitting behind her desk as if she were frozen in place. Although this expressionless woman often had this kind of still-image-like expression, this time the situation was obviously different.
Her eyes flashed with a "What the hell are you talking about?" light (the interjection was added by Yu Sheng himself). The momentary stillness was clearly not due to facial paralysis, but rather to shock.
“Well…” Yu Sheng began cautiously.
Baili Qing jolted awake, finally revealing a look of astonishment: "Say it again, what did the captain of the ship you saw look like?!"
Yu Sheng was startled by the other party's reaction and quickly said, "It's a classic sailing warship, oh, the sails are even semi-transparent, like a ghost ship, surrounded by..."
Before he could finish speaking, Baili Qing swiftly waved her hand, and a thick fog instantly surged outside the huge floor-to-ceiling window behind her desk. Then, a massive ghost ship enveloped in flames appeared in the fog, floating majestically in the void—Baili Qing pointed back: "Is it this one?"
Yu Sheng blinked, then looked at Baili Qing in surprise: "You saw it too?"
“No… this is video footage from Terra Academy’s database,” Baili Qing breathed a sigh of relief, and seeing the curious expression on Yu Sheng’s face, she stopped teasing him. “If I’m not mistaken, what you’re seeing… is the gathering place of the ancient holy spirits.”
Yu Sheng: "...?!"
"It is called the 'Lost Home,' an ancient and mysterious ship of the Creator, the final and the first ark—the ancient Holy Spirit 'Captain' once sailed this ship across the final sea of ashes of the old world, and at the birth of the new world, he determined the initial background parameters of this universe on board..."
Bai Liqing paused at this point, seemingly to calm her emotions, before slowly continuing, "In the initial days after the second singularity eruption, before the ancient holy spirits had left, it is said that invited mortals would visit the ark in their dreams."
"The lucky ones have the opportunity to directly hear the teachings of the ancient Holy Spirits to understand the operating order of the new world and the mysteries of the depths of the stars. Terra Academy's database even preserves a lot of information on this topic—but that was a long, long time ago."
"By now, the story of the 'Lost Home' is just a legend to most people, and many don't even know about it. It seems that the ancient spirits intentionally withdrew from the sight of mortals before they left, and even their familiar races, such as the Alice dolls, rarely mention that ship..."
Baili Qing raised her head and stared intently into Yu Sheng's eyes.
"So, how exactly did you 'see' it? And where did you see it?"
Yu Sheng was also a little stunned at this moment. He did not expect that this matter would suddenly involve such a high-level background. Bai Liqing's almost transparent light gray eyes were filled with a stubborn determination to get to the bottom of things today. So after a moment of hesitation, he still nodded: "This matter may be a little complicated... and you have to be mentally prepared."
“I’m good at handling complicated things,” Baili Qing said immediately, adjusting herself into a comfortable position in her chair, adopting an attitude that said, “I won’t be surprised by anything you say.”
Yu Sheng nodded: "First of all, I actually ate Jieqiao."
Baili Qingteng immediately stood up.
Yu Sheng: "...You said you wouldn't be surprised."
Baili Qing stared at Yu Sheng for several seconds as if she had seen a ghost, her lips trembling.
“I don’t usually tell outsiders this level of inside information—this is internal intelligence of the ‘hotel’,” Yu Sheng looked at the other person seriously, “but since you accepted my ‘blood,’ you have the qualification to enter the Soul Wilderness. Who knows, you might see those things with your own eyes one day, so that’s why I’m telling you.”
Baili Qing stared at Yu Sheng for a while before finally sitting back down: "You... fine, I guess I should get used to it. I won't delve into the reasons behind this. So what? You 'swallowed' the Boundary Bridge, so you were able to observe the 'Lost Home' at the edge of the universe through it?"
“Oh, it’s a bit more complicated than that. There’s also the matter of the Star Derivative Body—didn’t I mention before that there was still a seed left of the Star Derivative Body? In fact, I planted that seed in the Soul Wilderness, and recently it has sprouted and merged with the Boundary Bridge…”
Bai Liqing suddenly "jumped" again.
Yu Sheng looked at the other person with a hint of helplessness: "...Why don't you stand and listen?"
Bai Liqing: "...No need."
She sat down again.
“Actually, you don’t need to be so surprised,” Yu Sheng thought for a moment and said logically, “After the Dark Angels ‘fall,’ they always leave something behind. Your Special Operations Bureau is still cultivating Ankaela Crystals. You even used that stuff to vomit all over the Goddess of Omens not long ago—the seeds of the Star Derivatives and the ‘blueprint’ of the Boundary Bridge are similar in nature.”
Baili Qing was genuinely swayed by Yu Sheng's reasoned and well-founded attitude, but as expected of the bureau chief, she instantly realized: "...Well, we don't act as recklessly as you! What do you mean you ate the Boundary Bridge, then cultivated the Star Derivative, and now the two of them have hybridized into a new variety..."
Yu Sheng looked completely innocent: "I didn't mention anything about hybridization, you just made that up yourself."
Baili Qing: "..."
(End of this chapter)
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