Chapter 566 Okay
"I think you can try to think more positively."
Yu Sheng stood by the path near the farmland outside the fairytale town, looking at Luo beside him who looked dejected, and said with a smile.
Luo looked up at the sky, then at the distance, sighed resignedly, and the mechanical limbs behind him swayed a few times before quickly reforming into a silver-white chair. He then plopped down on it.
Yu Sheng couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at the other party's actions: "...I was just thinking about this in the square. So, these mechanical limbs of yours can do everything except fight?"
Luo looked somewhat exasperated upon hearing this: "No, what's wrong with you all... I've said it so many times, I'm a scientist, why do you all have to bring up fighting? I'm even a pacifist, I formed the guard just so I could have a quiet research environment, okay?"
Yu Sheng listened, stunned. Seeing that the other person seemed genuinely angry, he awkwardly scratched his head, pondered for a long time, and finally blurted out, "Okay, that's probably a stereotype about scientists..."
Luo was dumbfounded: "No, that's even more wrong! Why do you have this kind of stereotype about scientists?!"
What else could Yu Sheng say? He also felt that the older woman was right...
Then he abruptly changed the subject: "Let's not talk about that now. Let's talk about your accommodations. You can stay in town for the next few days. If you need anything, just tell Little Red Riding Hood or the town council staff, including the teachers. Don't worry about anything else. Just think of it as... a few days off. You're a victim in this chaos to some extent—at least that's what I think."
“Well, I appreciate your understanding,” Luo sighed, then hesitated for a few seconds before speaking, “There’s something else.”
"explain."
"...How's my space station doing?"
"I gave it a thumbs up."
Luo: "...So direct?!"
The blonde elf glared, and if not for the circumstances, she probably would have flown up and started cursing. She held her breath for a while, but finally couldn't hold back and spoke again: "Normally, shouldn't you be a little more tactful? At least as a matter of courtesy, could you have told me the space station was temporarily seized as disaster compensation? Or at least lied to me and said it exploded, then repainted it and said you found it outside, and I wouldn't have said a word..."
Yu Sheng almost burst out laughing as he listened. He found that this "black-spotted warlord" was much more interesting than he had imagined, but he managed to hold back his laughter in his bronchus—mainly because it would be impolite to laugh out loud at this point.
“I’m a pretty honest person,” he waved his hand and explained to Luo, “The situation at the time didn’t allow me to think too much. I had to complete the assimilation and dismantling of the Boundary Bridge in the shortest possible time—and your space station had almost become part of the Boundary Bridge by then. Under those circumstances, it was already quite difficult for me to remove it from the Boundary Bridge.”
He paused for a moment, then added, "The assimilation process has many uncontrollable factors, and the result is irreversible—see that spaceship by the Black Forest? I think that big-mouthed guy with long hair has already introduced it to you, right? The 'Black Rock Station' is now in a similar state to it. It's not a matter of whether I want to or not, but that space station has already become a part of me in fact."
Luo opened her mouth, seemingly wanting to say a lot, but in the end she swallowed most of it back. She just raised her hand and grabbed her messy hair, her voice a little muffled as she asked, "Then where is it now?"
“I’ve temporarily sent him to the Flying Feather Star Region—I have an industrial planet there,” Yu Sheng said casually.
Luo paused in her hair-scratching motion, then slowly looked up: "...Why do you still have an industrial planet?"
Yu Sheng: "What the hell?"
Luo: "...?"
Elf Princess Youlao was a bit dumbfounded. She originally thought that Yu Sheng had a wide network of connections and supernatural abilities, and that he had a great influence in the border area and the Flying Feather Starfield by relying on his ability to "hunt angels". That's why the "inn" sent wave after wave of various reinforcements when the battle broke out in the border city. But she never expected that... the supernatural abilities of this "angel hunter" were even more outrageous than her boldest prediction.
Yu Sheng, however, seemed oblivious to the fascinating expression on Luo's face, and continued talking to himself: "To be honest, that space station was badly damaged. It was practically a total wreck, except that it hadn't disintegrated. The main reason I sent it to the Feiyu Star Region was to repair it..."
"Actually, I'm quite confused. Shouldn't the main area of boundary bridge erosion be the core laboratory area? How come there's a huge penetrating wound running from the edge to the core of the space station? It looks like it was pierced by some kind of mass weapon..."
"You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?" Luo said, a little annoyed. "You took it openly and honestly, what does it have to do with me?"
Upon hearing this, Yu Sheng smiled awkwardly and said nothing more, simply gazing at the distant scenery with the other person.
As dusk approached, there was no sunrise or sunset in the valley, but the sky was filled with slowly gathering clouds and the evening glow from the "fairytale" sub-collection. Night was rising from the direction of the Black Forest and gradually moving towards the town.
A procession of knights carrying the banner of the Cat King was marching along the main road outside the town. Heavy-duty drones buzzed from afar toward the town, their cargo baskets overflowing with mushrooms and berries from the Black Forest. Titans carrying giant logs were building a small bridge on the distant riverbank, while the serpent demon who mooched meals in the town was also busy crawling around nearby.
The sounds of children shouting and playing drifted from the town's playground, though they were faint in the distance. In the fields outside town, Luna's first crop of wheat swayed in the wind. The children from the orphanage had made a scarecrow together in their craft class last Wednesday, and it now stood awkwardly by the field.
A mass-produced doll that had been wandering outside the town drifted to the edge of the field. After a moment of stunned silence, it blankly stretched out its arms, mimicking the scarecrow's movements—it was unclear which thread of Eileen's had created this abstract operation.
A melodious tune echoed through the valley, like the lighthearted tune played by a bard when adventurers returned to the tavern at dusk in the story, accompanied by pleasant humming.
Luo listened intently, but couldn't discern the source. He only felt that the beautiful sound seemed to linger in the background of the entire world.
She sighed softly, feeling as if she hadn't heard such a beautiful voice in many years—the last time she felt so relaxed seemed to be a long, long time ago, before she embarked on this long and arduous "journey of knowledge," when she was still just an "Algrid elf."
“The mermaid is singing,” Yu Sheng’s voice came from the side. “She sings every evening to remind the children playing outside that it’s getting dark—her singing is like the background music for the whole valley.”
Then he paused and said, "I'm going back now. There's a cell phone in your temporary accommodation, sent by the Secret Service. Baili Qing is currently prohibiting you from contacting the outside world, but you can use the intranet. You can use it to relieve your boredom."
Luo blinked and looked back in Yu Sheng's direction, only to see a door closing in front of her; Yu Sheng had already left.
She paused for two seconds, then slowly turned her head and stared at the sky, somewhat lost in thought.
The beautiful "song" still echoed in the valley, while the clouds above the town slowly closed in from both sides like a curtain. She saw words gradually forming at the edges of the clouds, but upon closer inspection, she realized it was not an illusion—
A line of text floated in the sky, reading "Eat when you're hungry, drink when you're thirsty, don't take anything to heart," followed by a smiley face.
Luo sighed, unsure of what expression to make. To the mermaid's song, she felt herself slowly sinking into a gentle, inescapable languor.
I'm about to sink into a bizarre and fantastical dream.
Yu Sheng returned to the living room at No. 66 Wutong Road and saw Hu Li watching TV on the sofa while hugging her big tail. Luna was wiping the table not far away, but Eileen was nowhere to be seen in the living room.
Baili Qing, who was sent over earlier, must have already left, since she was very busy. But where is that little doll that usually hogs the living room TV?
Where did Eileen go?
Yu Sheng looked around and then turned to ask Hu Li.
"The one who came back with us went upstairs. I could tell from the noise that he went to the attic. I don't know where the others are," Hu Li quickly moved to the edge of the sofa, nuzzled Yu Sheng's arm with her head, and then pointed to an advertisement on the TV. "My benefactor! I want to eat this!"
Yu Sheng looked up and saw that it was just a snack advertisement, so he nodded: "Okay, I'll buy you two cases later."
He then greeted Luna and stepped up to the attic.
The attic was also quiet.
On the large table used for making dolls, there were still some uncollected materials. On the shelf next to it were newly purchased clay and makeup tools. Yu Sheng's gaze swept over these things and he suddenly noticed that the ventilation window leading to the roof was open not far away.
The window was small, but big enough for a guy who was 66.6 centimeters tall to squeeze through.
Curious, Yu Sheng walked over, poked his head out the window, and looked around.
A small figure was sitting on the roof next to the window.
Eileen was holding her frying pan, staring blankly at the sky, with the ominous planet floating above her head, slowly circling around and around.
The little doll squinted its eyes slightly.
The sky is so high, so vast.
When I first got home, the sky was still very blue, clear and beautiful. Now it's getting dark, and the sunset is like paint splashed on the clouds, dyeing the rooftops.
People are busy in the city, the wind blows through the alleys of the old town, and many leaves have fallen from the big trees at the intersection—the valley is like spring all year round, but winter is coming soon to Jiecheng.
It will rain recently, and the temperature will drop a bit more. Later on, it might snow, and the whole city will be white... and the raccoons will become fluffy.
"Puru" is also a molting animal; its fur is grayish-black in summer and grayish-white in winter.
She thought that long, long ago, the people who told her stories in the temple had said these things to her—about clear blue skies, beautiful sunsets, bustling cities, snow that falls in winter, and the normal cycle of the seasons.
A completely new feeling spread through my heart, both peaceful and joyful.
The little doll hugged the frying pan in its arms tightly again, smiling happily.
Okay.
(End of this chapter)
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