A... silver-white artifact that seemed completely out of place in the dark alley stood just like that at the intersection at the end of the alley, emitting a low humming sound, with black spider webs spreading out around it. The entire device was about the height of a person, with a diameter of about half a meter, resembling a cylinder. Its silver-white casing was inlaid with slender, light purple crystals at regular intervals, and complex grooves surrounded those crystals. Inside, lights could be seen flickering, brightening and dimming in tandem with the humming sound within the device. This thing was clearly operational, but... what exactly was its purpose? Yu Sheng couldn't help but feel a little suspicious. He cautiously circled around the device twice, took out his phone, and snapped several photos from various angles, then turned to look at Little Red Riding Hood and Zheng Zhi: "Does anyone know what this thing is?" "Never seen it before," Little Red Riding Hood immediately shook her head, "It's obviously not something from the Exotic Realm, nor does it seem to belong to the Special Service Bureau." Erin fiddled with Yu Sheng's hair while muttering, "...Could this be some contraption from that Black Spot Group?" "It's the Black Dot Group," Hu Li promptly corrected from the side. "Can't rule out the possibility," Yu Sheng frowned as he glanced at the large amount of spider silk surrounding the silver-white device. Then he recalled the intelligence the King learned from those black cats — the spider silk began spreading from the intersection. Could it be that the web covering the entire dark alley was "lured" by this device? Was it the doing of the Black Dot Group? What was their conspiracy in setting up such a thing in the dark alley? While Yu Sheng pondered swiftly, Hu Li seemed to have discovered something else. She approached the device and scrutinized it for a while, then suddenly pointed at a protrusion on its side: "Savior, this looks like where something broke off, you see this glowing edge..." Yu Sheng hurriedly looked in the direction Hu Li's finger indicated and indeed saw something peculiar close to the top of the cylindrical device — it looked like some kind of connection structure, but appeared as if cut by an invisible blade, presenting a smooth and abrupt fracture. Inside the fracture, threads resembling cable textures could be faintly seen. Immediately after, Yu Sheng noticed around the ground surrounding this cylindrical device were some not too obvious fracture marks, seemingly caused by an impact. Yu Sheng stroked his chin: "Rather than saying this thing was deliberately 'placed' here, it acts more like it broke off from something and slammed down here..." "Slammed down here?" Little Red Riding Hood frowned, "But this is the Exotic Realm... a closed space, accessed via specific rules, aside from your 'door,' I haven't heard of anyone able to smash something into the Exotic Realm. Oh, the Dark Angel can, but this doesn't look like the Dark Angel's doing... Can the Black Dot Group really create such black technology?" "You're asking me, who should I ask?" Yu Sheng mumbled, then quickly made a decision, "Regardless of where this thing came from, it obviously shouldn't be here, let's take it back." "How? Open a door? This thing looks quite heavy, and moving it recklessly might cause problems," Little Red Riding Hood stroked her chin, "Won't it just explode... Even if it doesn't, this thing looks so precise, wouldn't it become useless if bumped?" Professional Spirit Realm detective indeed considers things more comprehensively than the untrained; with Little Red Riding Hood's muttering Yu Sheng immediately realized it was unwise to move it recklessly before understanding what the device's purpose truly was. With this thought, he casually took out his phone, rapidly typed a message, and opened a small door leading to the outside world, sending out the message alongside the photos he just took: "I'll message Baili Qing — let the Special Service Bureau worry about it later." Just then, Zheng Zhi suddenly raised his head, staring with confusion at the opposite side of the intersection. Within the intersecting webs, the opposite side was another "dark alley" — the scenery within the alley mirrored that of this side. But an inexplicable sense of discord gradually rose. Zheng Zhi rubbed his eyes, looking at the area separated by a web, and in a trance, he saw the edges of the spider webs quietly slicing through the space, fissures opening in the air. Strange humming emerged from those fissures. Zheng Zhi paused for a moment, quickly reacting with his experience, "Brother Yu, something's wrong! I 'saw' something again!" The next second, before Yu Sheng could ask, he swiftly began describing, "There are fissures at the web's edge across the intersection, they're about to open, there's noise, sounds like something tearing… Wait, there are shadows! There are shadows on the other side of the fissures!" "Good job, young nephew!" Yu Sheng instantly responded, then tugged Zheng Zhi back, "Hide behind us!" Virtually at the same time, everyone moved — Little Red Riding Hood immediately summoned several Shadow Wolves to stand at the front of the team, Yu Sheng swung out his Tetanus Wand, Luna Blade expanded shielding beside Yu Sheng, Hu Li's treasure sword unsheathed with a clang, she wielded two tails on either side like a Gatling gun, six tails stretched behind her like a Sword Tomb, Fox Fire blazed. And due to the narrow intersection with numerous areas web-sealed, the King's summoning army had difficulty maneuvering here; he opted to have his Hero Squad remain on the site — each team member quickly rifled through kits, ingesting pills, applying oil, burning incense, praying... The next second, Yu Sheng noticed the air at the intersection opposite was rapidly twisting. Several unstable fissures almost instantly filled the entire intersection, the black cobwebs fading into the voids. Just a few seconds of vibrations later, the fissures merged into a clear and massive portal, and on the other side of the portal was a gigantic... laboratory? Even Yu Sheng was momentarily taken aback; the situation on the other side of the portal was completely opposite to what he expected. The eerily mysterious Alternate Dimension he anticipated did not appear. Instead, there was a brightly lit hall, a vast indoor space seemingly built for some large-scale experiment. He could see a platform elevated above the ground in the distance, a black irregular shard trapped in the floating force field on the platform, yet he couldn't tell what it was. Surrounding the platform were many peculiar devices running automatically— But he didn't have the chance to observe more details. Because there were people on the other side of the portal—many people wearing white or light blue robes were standing at the edge of the portal, and some armed personnel were guarding directly opposite the entrance. They were staring dumbfounded at Yu Sheng and his team on this side of the portal. This scene was somewhat comical—because obviously, when the portal opened, both sides were a bit stunned. But the stalemate caused by mutual bewilderment didn't last long. Someone on the other side of the portal shouted— "Category III accident!" The next second, Yu Sheng saw all those in robes scatter, while the armed personnel in black combat uniforms shielded the retreating researchers. At the same time, the portal's edges began to flicker and shake violently, seemingly as if the people on the other side were forcibly closing the fissure—accompanied by a series of piercing noises, the entire intersection began to sway and vibrate. The black spider silk covering the intersection seemed to be disrupted, and began breaking and retracting. "Hey, they're trying to escape!" Erin exclaimed on the spot, standing up directly from Yu Sheng's shoulder, "These must be from the Black Dot Group! They've drilled a hole right under our noses!" Before the words were finished, the little Puppet had already raised her hands and summoned vast spreads of spider silk, the black threads weaving into a net and covering the rapidly closing edges of the fissure, as if forcibly trying to keep the portal open. Then the armed personnel on the other side of the portal began their attack without hesitation. Thıs text ıs hosted at 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵※𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾※𝙣𝙚𝙩 They expertly tapped into the fissure's edges and the laboratory terrain to establish firing points, using various strange weapons to fire at Yu Sheng's team, dense ion beams and bullets whistling sharply across the portal through the air— The Wandering Mage from the Hero Squad immediately raised a shield, but the shield only held for a few seconds before it began flickering rapidly, teetering on the brink of collapse. Yu Sheng's group used the few seconds the Mage's shield delayed to swiftly find cover and began counterattacking. The Foxfire Barrage from Hu Li's side poured towards the fissure like water, followed immediately by six Fox Radish Missiles tracing dazzling paths in the air before crashing into the laboratory opposite. Micro glow flickered on the shields of the armed personnel simultaneously. In the explosion caused by the Fox Radish Missiles, some were blasted away on the spot, but the timely raised shields coupled with Hu Li's deliberately controlled power only rendered them unconscious—immediately, Yu Sheng shouted, "Find a way to capture a couple alive!" Meanwhile, the edge of the fissure started flickering violently again. The support structure Erin maintained with spider silk was rapidly disintegrating. The little Puppet stretched her arms furiously, her face flushed from effort: "Yu Sheng—I can't hold it anymore!" Yu Sheng widened his eyes, turning to look at the little being: "...You should've brought a sturdier body out for fighting!" "I-brought-the-wrong-body!!" Just then, Erin's scream hadn't even landed when a piercing noise spread through the air, followed by the spider silk she summoned snapping in pieces, swiftly closing the precarious portal. But before this, a shadow had already darted out. Like dancing amidst a storm, like petals flying through a hail of bullets, Luna rushed directly towards the remaining firing points opposite the portal, facing a barrage of bullets pouring from those armed personnel. Their reactions were not slow, they could barely keep up with Luna's movements, but only barely—almost instantaneously, Luna had darted back out from among the enemies, unharmed. The portal shut closed with a boom. A dazedly unconscious armed personnel was carried back by Luna. She tossed the person in front of Yu Sheng, a note of apology in her tone: "Only caught one."