Chapter 518 The sudden appearance of a passage
A... silver-white man-made object that looked completely out of tune with the painting style of the entire dark alley stood at the intersection at the end of the alley, emitting a low buzzing sound, and was surrounded by black spider silk that spread out of thin air.
The entire device is about one meter tall, about half a meter in diameter, and is roughly cylindrical. Its silver-white shell is inlaid with lavender slender crystals at even intervals, and there are complex grooves surrounding those crystals. Lights can be vaguely seen wandering inside, and the lights change with the buzzing sound inside the device.
This thing is clearly working, but… what is it for?
Yu Sheng couldn't help but feel a little wary. He carefully circled the device twice, took out his phone and took several photos of it from various angles. Then he turned to look at Little Red Riding Hood and Zheng Zhi and the others: "Does anyone recognize this thing?"
"I haven't seen it before," Little Red Riding Hood immediately shook her head. "It's obviously not an exotic product, nor does it look like something from the Secret Service."
Irene ruffled Yu Sheng's hair while muttering, "...Could this be something made by that little black group?"
"It's the Black Spot Group." Hu Li immediately corrected.
"This possibility cannot be ruled out." Yu Sheng frowned, and at the same time took another look at the large amount of spider silk surrounding the silver-white device. Then he recalled the information the king had heard from the black cats before - the spider silk started to spread from the crossroads.
Could it be that this device was responsible for the spider web that covered the entire dark alley? Was it the work of the Black Spot Group?
What's their plan for setting up something like this in a dark alley?
Just as Yu Sheng's thoughts were racing, Hu Li seemed to have discovered something. She moved closer to the device, staring intently at it for a moment, then pointed at a protrusion on the side. "My benefactor, it seems to be broken off somewhere. Look, this section is glowing..."
Yu Sheng quickly looked in the direction of Hu Li's finger, and sure enough, he saw that there was something strange about the cylinder near the top - it looked like some kind of connecting structure, but it seemed as if it had been cut by an invisible sharp blade, leaving a smooth and abrupt fracture. Something like a cable texture could be vaguely seen in the fracture.
Immediately afterwards, Yu Sheng noticed that there was a circle of unclear cracks on the ground around the cylindrical device, which seemed to be caused by an impact.
Yu Sheng touched his chin and said, "Rather than saying this thing was deliberately 'placed' here, it looks more like it fell off something and landed here..."
"Smash it here?" Little Red Riding Hood frowned. "But this is a foreign realm... a closed space, a foreign realm that can only be entered through specific rules. Aside from your 'door', I've never heard of anyone being able to smash things into this foreign realm. Oh, the Dark Angels can, but this doesn't look like something the Dark Angels could do... Can the Black Spot Group really come up with this kind of advanced technology?"
"You ask me, who should I ask?" Yu Sheng muttered, and then quickly made a decision. "Anyway, no matter where this thing came from, it obviously shouldn't be here. Let's take it back."
"What should I do? Open the door? This thing looks quite heavy, and I don't know if it will break if I move it rashly," Little Red Riding Hood stroked her chin. "Isn't it going to explode? Even if it doesn't explode, this thing looks very delicate. Will it break if it gets bumped or dented?"
Professional spirit world detectives are indeed more comprehensive in their considerations than laymen. After hearing Little Red Riding Hood's words, Yu Sheng immediately realized the inappropriateness of moving the device rashly. He should not touch it casually before being sure of its function.
Thinking of this, he casually took out his phone, quickly edited a message, then opened a small door to the outside world and sent the message out, attaching the photo he had just taken: "I'm sending a message to Baili Qing - I'll give the Secret Service a headache later."
At this moment, Zheng Zhi suddenly raised his head and looked across the intersection with some confusion.
Among the crisscrossing spider webs, you can see another "dark alley" across the intersection - the scene in the alley is exactly the same as this side.
But a sense of disharmony that came from nowhere gradually arose.
Zheng Zhi rubbed his eyes and looked at the area separated by the spider web. In a trance, he saw that the edges of the spider silk seemed to be silently cutting the space, and tiny cracks were opening up in the air.
A strange buzzing sound came from the cracks.
Zheng Zhi was stunned for a moment, but his experience quickly led him to react: "Brother Yu, something's wrong! I saw something again!"
The next second, before Sheng could even open his mouth to ask, he quickly began to describe: "There's a crack at the edge of the spider web across from the intersection. It's about to open, and there's a noise, like something is being torn apart... Wait, there's a figure! There's a figure across from the crack!"
"Well done, nephew!" Yu Sheng reacted instantly and immediately pulled Zheng Zhi back, "Hide behind us!"
Almost at the same time, everyone started to move - Little Red Riding Hood instantly summoned several shadow wolves to the front of the team, Yu Sheng drew out his tetanus staff, Luna opened her sharp blade to protect Yu Sheng, and Hu Li even made the clanging sound of a sword being unsheathed, and pulled out her two tails, one on the left and one on the right, holding them like a Gatling gun, and behind her there were six tails spread out like a sword tomb, and fox fire rose.
Because the intersection was narrow and many areas were blocked by spider webs, the king's summoned army was difficult to use in this place. He chose to let his brave team remain on the scene - but everyone in the team began to quickly rummage through their packages, then took various drugs, applied oils, burned incense, and prayed...
The next second, Yu Sheng noticed that the air across the intersection was rapidly distorting.
Unstable cracks filled the entire intersection almost in the blink of an eye, and the black spider webs disappeared between the cracks. After just a few seconds of vibration, the cracks merged into one another, turning into a clear, huge passage. On the opposite side of the passage was a huge... laboratory?
Even Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment. The situation on the other side of the passage was completely opposite to what he had imagined. The strange and bizarre space he had expected did not appear. Instead, there was a brightly lit hall. The vast and spacious interior seemed to be built specifically for some large-scale experiment. He could see a platform high above the ground in the distance. A black, irregular piece of debris was trapped in the suspended force field on the platform, but he could not see what it was. There were also a large number of strange devices running automatically around the platform.
But he didn't have the chance to observe more details.
Because there were people on the opposite side of the passage - a large number of people wearing white or light blue robes were standing at the edge of the passage, and there were also some armed men guarding directly opposite the entrance, and they were staring at Yu Sheng and others on this side of the passage in amazement.
This scene was somewhat funny - because it was obvious that people on both sides were a little confused when the passage opened.
But this stalemate caused by the confusion of both sides did not last long.
Someone shouted from the other side of the passage—
"Category III accident!"
The next second, Yu Sheng saw all the people in short robes running away, while the group of armed personnel in black combat uniforms were covering the researchers' retreat. At the same time, the edge of the passage flickered and shook violently, as if the people on the opposite side were forcibly closing the crack on this side - accompanied by bursts of harsh noises, the entire intersection began to shake and vibrate, and the large amount of black spider silk covering the intersection seemed to be disturbed, and began to break and shrink.
"Hey, they're trying to escape!" Irene yelled, standing up from Yu Sheng's shoulders. "These must be members of that little black gang! They dug a hole right under our noses!"
Before he finished speaking, the little puppet raised his hand and summoned large pieces of spider silk. The dark silk threads were woven into a web, which covered the edge of the rapidly closing crack in the blink of an eye, as if to forcibly open the passage again.
Then the armed men on the other side of the passage launched an attack without hesitation.
They skillfully built firing points based on the edges of the rift and the terrain of the laboratory, and began firing at Yu Sheng and his group with all sorts of bizarre weapons. Dense ion beams and various live ammunition flew across the passage, whistling sharply in the air.
The wandering wizard in the brave team immediately put up a shield, but the shield only lasted for a few seconds before it began to flicker rapidly and became shaky.
Yu Sheng and his companions took advantage of the few seconds of delay of the mage's shield to quickly find cover and start fighting back.
The fox fire barrage from Hu Li's side splashed towards the crack like water, followed by six fox carrot missiles that drew dazzling trajectories in the air and slammed into the laboratory opposite.
At the same time, the shields on the armed men shone faintly. In the huge explosion caused by the Fox Carrot missile, some were blown away on the spot, but the timely deployment of the shields and the power controlled by Hu Li only made them fall into a coma. The next moment, Yu Sheng shouted: "Find a way to capture two alive!"
At the same time, the edge of the crack began to flicker violently again. The supporting structure that Irene had barely propped up with spider silk was rapidly disintegrating. The little doll stretched out its arms, its face flushed with frustration. "Yusheng—my arms can't hold on anymore!"
Yu Sheng's eyes widened when he heard this, and he turned to look at the little thing: "...You should have a stronger body when you go out to fight!"
"I brought the wrong one!!"
It happened so quickly that before Irene's scream had even died down, a sharp noise was heard in the air, and then the spider silk she summoned broke into pieces, and the already shaky passage was quickly closed.
But before that, a black shadow rushed out like a ghost.
Like dancing in a storm, like flying flowers through a hail of bullets, Luna rushed directly towards the bullets pouring out from the remaining firing points across the passage. The reaction of those armed personnel was not slow, they could even barely keep up with Luna's movement trajectory, but they could only barely keep up - almost in an instant, Luna rushed back from the enemy, unharmed.
The passage closed with a bang.
An unconscious armed man was carried back by Luna.
She threw the person in front of Yu Sheng, her tone apologetic: "Only caught one."
(Oh my god!)
(End of this chapter)
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