Chapter 63 Investigation and Settlement
The encouragement and big promises from the leader may not necessarily soothe the physical and mental exhaustion caused by working overtime in a foreign land, but paid leave certainly can.
The two unlucky operators walked out of the office with smiles on their faces, leaving Song Cheng sitting behind his desk, letting out a long breath and continuing to look at the computer screen with a sad face.
At this moment, he noticed that an icon in the corner of the screen suddenly began to flash, and the next second, a video window suddenly appeared on the screen.
A young woman wearing a white dress and a gray ponytail appeared in the picture. Her light gray pupils seemed to have lost their color and looked at Song Cheng's eyes through the screen: "Are you done?"
A bigger leader is coming.
"Director," Song Cheng sat up straight instantly, his expression a little tense, "You haven't finished get off work yet?"
"I'm working overtime today," Baili Qing said calmly. Her voice was as dull as her faded eyes. "I saw the information that the archives department just sent over, and I want to hear your opinion."
"About that 'Yu Sheng'?" Song Cheng frowned slightly, and after a moment's hesitation, he shook his head. "I don't think we can make any judgments now. We need to make a formal contact with him before we can evaluate what kind of... individual he is. But the difficulty lies in whether we should contact him according to the standards of a 'person' or an 'entity'..."
"According to people." Baili Qing said without hesitation.
There was some surprise on Song Cheng's face.
"Because he identifies himself as a 'human'," Baili Qing said calmly and patiently, "So whether he is a human or not, we must make sure he still thinks so in the future."
"... Maintain the target's self-awareness, right?" Song Cheng seemed to understand the director's idea. "Do you think... once the self-awareness of the individual deviates, there may be serious consequences?"
"We are still unsure of the target's abilities and his impact on the future of the Junction, but one more person on the side of 'humans' means one less person on the side of 'non-humans'. It is rare to see an alien entity that is naturally friendly to humans - especially since he has been 'living' in the Junction for a long time. We should consider this as a kind of luck."
Song Cheng nodded immediately: "Okay, I understand what you mean, Director, then I will arrange a contact plan with Yu Sheng... I will go there in person."
Baili Qing on the screen nodded slightly, and then said: "The Council has already known about the latest 'Dark Angel'. Now it is basically confirmed that it is new."
Song Cheng's pupils shrank instantly.
"It's not in the old records?" He subconsciously sat forward, his expression extremely solemn, "What about the records of other forces?"
"I have already asked the Algrade Astrology Society and the 'Academy', but their official records do not mention the huge eyeball-shaped dark angel that can cover the sky mentioned in the report. There has been no response from the Bamossa Hermits, but if there is no record of it in the academy, then the Bamossa people should not have it either," Baili Qing shook her head. "Although it is possible that some small forces have come into contact with the dark angel, but... the possibility is not high."
Song Cheng's brows were furrowed almost into knots, and he looked quite anxious.
"This is not good... A new 'angel' without any records, ran away without collecting any intelligence, and it's on such a large scale," he muttered, "It can cover the entire sky above the Night Valley... According to the official information of the Night Valley, this thing may have been parasitic in that foreign land a long time ago..."
"Yes, it's a high-level disguise and deep parasitism. Investigators who entered the valley earlier even thought that the sky there was originally like that. That's how the name Night Valley came from," Baili Qing said slowly. "From a purely physical perspective, this newly emerged 'Angel of Darkness' is probably ranked in the top three among all known angels."
Song Cheng couldn't help but fall into thought. After a brief pause, he said, "...According to the information collected by my two team members, the fox demon who calls herself 'Hu Li' beside Yu Sheng seems to have been trapped in the Night Valley for a long time. Maybe she knows something about the 'Angel of Darkness'?"
"This is a breakthrough, but we need to be cautious when investigating."
Song Cheng lowered his head slightly: "I understand."
Baili Qing hummed, as if preparing to hang up the video.
But Song Cheng suddenly spoke up: "By the way, Director, there is one more thing."
"explain."
"...I'm going to take a 'train'," Song Cheng said with a serious expression, "to see if I can find out anything about 'Yu Sheng' on the 'train'."
"…approved—but be careful. Even if it is a relatively rational and friendly entity, you must be careful when contacting it."
"clear."
…
Yu Sheng, who was helping Hu Li make the bed, suddenly sneezed several times, scaring Irene, who was walking on the balance beam with her hands outstretched on the end board of the bed, and almost fell off.
"You scared me!" the little doll stared.
"My nose is itchy," Yu Sheng rubbed his nose, and casually grabbed Irene and threw her onto the bed. "Don't just stand there, come and help - sit in the middle of the bed, and I'll stretch the sheets."
Irene said "oh" and happily ran to the middle of the bed and sat cross-legged, looking up at Yu Sheng who was busy beside her.
Hu Li stood further away, looking at her "benefactor" helping her make her bed with a somewhat helpless look.
"My benefactor... I can help you too," the fox girl rubbed her hands together, her tail swaying nervously behind her. "Cleaning up the room is very simple. I can learn it!"
"Then you can clean up the room yourself in the future. Let's not do it today," Yu Sheng said without even looking up. "I'm almost done here."
Hu Li said "oh" and suppressed the uneasy feeling in his heart about being taken care of by others. He looked at his new room carefully and curiously.
This is the room on the second floor that was originally piled with a lot of junk, but now those cardboard boxes containing the junk have been moved to the basement. After a simple cleaning, it has been restored to a habitable state - but although it is habitable, the furnishings in the room are still very simple. Apart from the bed and a table that were originally placed in the room but were previously piled with things, the only formal "furniture" in the room is a chair in the corner.
To this end, Yu Sheng just found a folding wardrobe in the basement. He and Irene spent a long time studying it before combining the iron pipes and canvas together and placed it in the corner as the fourth piece of furniture here.
But Hu Li didn't have any clothes to put in now - she had almost no personal belongings, only the tattered "skirt" she brought out of the valley, but it was almost a piece of rags, and she was reluctant to throw it away, so she washed it, folded it up, and put it at the bottom of the ugly folding wardrobe. It was her first belonging in this "home".
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However, even such a simple and somewhat shabby little house made her very happy.
She could sleep in her bed, and had just laid there for a while, and it felt more comfortable than the softest and flattest haystack, with a full roof over her head and walls to keep out the wind—the room was warm, not cold as it was in the valley, and she could sleep without hugging her tail, and there was a bright electric light, brighter than a foxfire.
And the most important thing is - no matter what you do here, you will not attract that monster. If you are hungry, you can always find food.
Now there is a lot of food in the tail.
Hu Li sat down on the floor with a happy smile on his face.
After Yu Sheng spread the bed, he turned around and saw the fox demon grinning on the ground: "Why are you sitting on the ground again? There is a chair next to you - what are you grinning about?"
Hu Li said "oh", got up from the ground and sat on a chair beside him: "Happy."
"Of course I should be happy." Yu Sheng nodded, then stood up and looked around with a slight sense of accomplishment.
The room was simply furnished, but it had taken a lot of effort to tidy up. After all, it was the result of more than two hours of work.
——But it’s still a bit too simple.
"Tomorrow I'll go to the mall and buy you a replacement four-piece bedding set and two sets of clothes. You can get new curtains later, as this one has holes in it... You can use this wardrobe temporarily for now, as a new one is quite expensive, and I'm tight on cash lately," Yu Sheng planned. "Well, we can also get a bedside table and a desk lamp in the future."
"No, we don't need so many things," Hu Li waved his hands hurriedly, saying somewhat helplessly, "It's good enough now."
"Don't worry about it. They are just daily necessities. You have to have everything you need," Yu Sheng waved his hand nonchalantly. "You are going to be my number one thug after all, so the conditions can't be bad."
Irene, who was sitting in the middle of the bed, looked up and glanced at Yu Sheng. "Before you think about buying furniture, you should first think about how to have it delivered to you. Your 'No. 66 Wutong Road' - it looks like you can't expect a new TV, it's definitely not going to be delivered. Or... do you plan to open a 'big' door and carry a bunch of furniture home by yourself?"
Listening to the little puppet's mumbling, Yu Sheng's enthusiastic "plan" suddenly cooled down.
His expression also became slightly serious.
Yu Sheng recalled what the two "Secret Service agents" said to him before they left.
...Yes, delivery is still a problem, after all——
There is no No. 66 Wutong Road.
(End of this chapter)
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