Everything happened in a very short time. From the rift opening and the people on both sides staring blankly at each other, to the other side taking the initiative to fire, and then to the collapse of the pathway, Luna crossed the entire battlefield in the blink of an eye to grab someone from the other side. The whole process actually only took a few dozen seconds — by the time Luna tossed the "captured" person onto the ground, Zheng Zhi was still somewhat baffled. Then the entire alley fell into silence. On the scene, only that odd silver-white device at the intersection was still humming. A considerable portion of the spiderweb originally covering the area had been torn and dissipated during the previous rift turmoil. The remaining spider silk lay chaotically around the intersection and didn't seem likely to regenerate anytime soon. Yu Sheng looked down at the armed personnel in front of him who was still unconscious, twitched at the corner of his mouth, then looked up at Luna, "…Well done." Luna modestly lifted her nun's skirt hem, bowed slightly, and stepped aside. Hu Li cautiously moved closer, squatted in front of the captive, reached out to poke him, then looked up at Yu Sheng, "Savior, he's still alive." Erin swung her arms, which had cracked open again and were about to break off, "Silly fox, your phrasing has some real issues, I gotta tell you." "Don't swing them, they'll fall off later," Yu Sheng raised his hand to support the little one on his shoulder, and sighed, "I'll fix them when we get back… Ugh, this body's really prone to errors…" The King suddenly jumped onto Zheng Zhi's shoulder, stretching out his head to observe the situation at the various intersections. His cat face was serious, "Can you still see anything unusual now?" "It should be… no longer visible," Zheng Zhi hesitated for a moment, observing around while mumbling, "The main thing is, I often can't tell whether what I see is unusual or not. I don't know what an average person should see at this point. Anyway, all I see now is the intersection, spider webs, similar alleys on each side—plus a cat hanging in the air." "Then it's alright; that's what we see too," Little Red Riding Hood was relieved at the words, turned to Yu Sheng, "So what's next? There were too many unexpected events this time…" "Withdraw, the harvest today is already enough," Yu Sheng immediately said, "You guys return to No. 66 Wutong Road, and Luna and I will take this… captive directly to the Special Service Bureau." While speaking, he had already opened a door, and on the other side was the living room of No. 66 Wutong Road. "Hey, what about me?" Erin immediately shouted, "My arms are broken again!" "You follow Hu Li home and wait," Yu Sheng grabbed the little puppet from his shoulder and directly threw it into Hu Li's arms, "After I'm done, I'll fix you—if you're short on hands for gaming, just use a mass-produced sister out of the valley for now." Erin turned over in Hu Li's embrace, her head poking out, "Oh, then come back early! I've developed feelings for this body now…" The source of this content ɪs 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵※𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮※𝓷𝓮𝓽 Yu Sheng waved his hand, watching others fish through the door leading to No. 66 Wutong Road. After everyone had left, he breathed a sigh of relief, then opened another door, nodding slightly at Luna still beside him. At the same time, in the Director's office of the Special Service Bureau headquarters, Baili Qing was calling Song Cheng over to plan an investigation into that bizarre device in the Dark Alley. Suddenly feeling something, she looked up at the empty space in front of the desk. A phantom door had already opened there out of thin air; Yu Sheng's head peeked through, glancing around with a smile on his face, "I encountered some situation here, brought someone over… oh, Captain Song is also here?" While speaking, Luna in her nun attire had already walked out of the door, and dumped a captive in battle gear whose weapons had been removed on the office floor, producing a "thud" sound. Song Cheng, in the last second still discussing the situation with the Director, was stunned at this moment; he turned to look at the armed personnel thrown on the ground of unknown origin, then looked up at Luna's eternally unchanged smiling face, full of question marks. Baili Qing stood up from behind the desk, even with her Ironclad Expression, she was a bit puzzled. She glanced at the person on the ground, then at Yu Sheng who had walked in through the door, hesitating for less than two seconds, "What's going on?" "We got into a fight at the crossroads at the end of the 'Dark Alley'," Yu Sheng explained, "Didn't I send you some photos? Just across from that silver device in the photos, a pathway suddenly appeared out of thin air… I suspect it's the Black Dot Group…" Immediately, he briefly explained what happened in the Dark Alley to Baili Qing and Song Cheng, then pointed at the captive on the ground, "This one was directly grabbed by Luna on the other side before the pathway collapsed; consider it a local specialty." Standing beside the desk, Song Cheng's face changed as soon as he heard Yu Sheng's account. He had no time to think about whether the word "local specialty" was suitable here but quickly exchanged glances with Baili Qing. He then rushed to Yu Sheng's side in a whirlwind to check the captive. After quickly inspecting the equipment and some insignias on the captive, he looked up at Baili Qing with a solemn expression, "…It's a soldier from the Black Dot Group. Judging by the gear and badges, he should be deployed locally for security tasks." Yu Sheng suddenly noticed the key phrase in the other's words, "…deployed locally?" He looked at Baili Qing and saw a somewhat nuanced expression on the female Director's face. She opened her mouth but ended up not saying anything after thinking for a while. Then she took a gentle breath and turned to instruct Song Cheng, "Immediately dispatch a team of deep divers into the 'Dark Alley' to figure out what that 'device' is—bring it back if possible; if not, establish observation facilities on-site… Also, due to the presence of Black Dot armed personnel at the scene, remind the action team to prepare for combat." "Yes, Director." Song Cheng immediately nodded in acknowledgment and quickly left the office. Subsequently, Baili Qing picked up the phone on the desk and gave a few instructions. Moments later, several fully armed Special Service Bureau officers and a few medical personnel hurried in. "Take him to the medical center first," Baili Qing instructed, pointing to the Black Dot Group soldier still in a deep coma on the ground, "Don't let him die—once stabilized, send him to the Block One cell, and I'll interrogate him myself. Be careful, he might be very aggressive when he wakes up." After arranging and handling all this, Baili Qing took a gentle breath and looked up at Yu Sheng. "...Tell me more about that 'passageway,' and the 'laboratory' on the other side, what exactly does it look like?" Yu Sheng nodded, then casually pulled a chair from the side and sat opposite Baili Qing, but as he was about to speak, Luna suddenly interjected, "I have a record." As she spoke, she raised her hands in front of Yu Sheng, interlocking them in mid-air, palms up. After a moment's delay, a vibrating light screen appeared about ten centimeters above her palms, quickly transforming into a clear holographic projection. Yu Sheng was taken aback: "...You have this ability?" "Always have," Luna stuttered, nodding, "but never used before." "Ah, this is good," Yu Sheng smiled broadly, "From now on, you can act as the battlefield recorder..." Luna glanced at Yu Sheng, opened her mouth as if to speak, but in the end said nothing. The Holy Lady sure secretly records a lot of things... Meanwhile, Baili Qing's attention was quickly drawn to the footage Luna had recorded. Her eyebrows slightly furrowed. "Pause for a moment." She suddenly said. The image on the holographic projection paused, capturing the moment when the passageway had just opened, and the researchers and armed personnel on the other side stared in stunned silence. Baili Qing and Yu Sheng exchanged a glance. A pair of gigantic eyes appeared in the air nearby, with an ethereal voice from Baili Xue: "It looks like the people on the other side are even more surprised than you are." "Good evening," Yu Sheng greeted Baili Xue, then nodded, "Yes, I also noticed it, the people on the other side didn't seem to expect the passageway to suddenly open, both parties were stunned for a moment." "Were they not expecting the passageway to open, or were they not expecting what happened after it opened?" Baili Xue slowly said, "Those are two completely different questions." Yu Sheng frowned: "You mean..." "The other side does appear to be some kind of research facility, coupled with the presence of many technical staff, what you saw is very likely some kind of experiment site," this time it was Baili Qing speaking, the female director seemed to have some guesses, "The passageway that appeared in the 'Dark Alley' might be some kind of test, some sort of... transportation device, or something similar." Yu Sheng pondered: "A transportation device directly leading to the Exotic Realm? A wild advanced version of 'umbilical cord' technology?" "...Hard to say, but theoretically there shouldn't be such a thing, the rules for entering and exiting the Exotic Realm are very strict," Baili Qing said this and couldn't help but glance at Yu Sheng—it seemed every person who knew Yu Sheng would have this subtle and slightly annoyed reaction when discussing the 'strict rules for entering and exiting the Exotic Realm'—then, with a bit of reluctance, she continued, "Even 'umbilical cord' technology operates under the premise of obeying the Exotic Realm's rules; it merely simulates the conditions for explorers entering and exiting the Exotic Realm using safer technical means, but the 'passageway' you saw... such a large-scale and stable rift already belongs to an entirely different level of technological artifact." She shook her head at this, signaling Luna to continue playing the footage, and paused again a few seconds later, pointing at the center of the frame. "The key is this, this black object floating on the central platform of the laboratory—it seems to be the 'core' of the entire laboratory, you can clearly see all the surrounding equipment operating around this platform." Yu Sheng rubbed his chin; he, of course, had noticed that thing too. He noticed it the moment the passageway opened. His brow furrowed little by little: "So... what on earth is this thing?"