Chapter 61 Assessment
Yusheng and Eileen led the beaver down the stairs.
The next important thing was to arrange a place for the demon fox girl to sleep.
"Now there is an empty room on the second floor and one on the first floor," Yu Sheng stood in the corridor on the second floor, pointing to the door opposite to his own room, "This room is opposite to my room, no one has been living there so I piled up some sundries for the time being, but it is still quite clean, and the empty room on the first floor has not piled up any things, but there is no furniture, and it hasn't been cleaned for quite a long time. It hasn't been cleaned for a long time. There's also a basement, but it's spacious but damp and not fit for living."
"Whatever Enkou arranges, whatever," the beaver said with a nod, casually pulling another cookie out of his tail and placing it in his mouth for a small nibble, "Either way, it's better than the valley."
Yu Sheng's gaze couldn't help but fall on the Demon Fox Girl's big pile of fluffy tails, he couldn't figure out how this girl hid her stuff in here until now.
Just like he couldn't figure out how Beaver's tails got out of her clothes - it looked like those tails went right through her clothes like a phantom, and didn't require a hole in her pants, but those tails swept around, occasionally bumping into things around them, and again were clearly solid structures.
Let's just say that demon foxes, they really are amazing.
"What's that room for?" At this time the Beaver seemed to have suddenly realized something again, and raised his hand to point at the door at the end of the corridor and asked.
"Over there ah ... is theoretically Erin's room," Yu Sheng glanced in the direction of the other's finger with a slightly different expression, "but there's a little problem with that room right now... ..."
"Little problem?" Beaver asked curiously as he pulled another half-pack of instant noodles out of his tail and stuffed them into his mouth to chew and munch.
"The situation in the room wasn't very stable after opening the door, I still have to observe for a while," Yu Sheng said, seeing the Beaver's constant action of pulling things out of his tail finally couldn't help but have the corners of his eyes jump, "... You've all stuffed in there How many things?"
"I took a shower, passed by the living room, and filled it with the ones that Eun Gung gave me, those food," Hu Beaver held the instant noodles with a contented smile on her face, "the other things, I didn't move."
Then she looked at the room at the end of the corridor again, and sighed with serious emotion, "Enkou's cave, it's amazing."
Yu Sheng stared blankly at the beaver's pile of tails, thinking that this girl than his "cave" can be much more magical ... How did she stuff that big pocket of things into it? This thing is that round hand blue fat man's pocket is not?
He put aside his heart to lament for half a day, and finally put these doubts down for the time being, pointing to the house opposite his room, "Then you will live in this house first, in addition to piling up some sundries inside, there is still ready-made furniture, and later with me to move all those messy things to the basement on the line ... I'll then find you a set of clean bedding."
Beaver immediately nodded his head happily, "Yes!"
Next to her, Erin followed suit, "Yeah hey! Moving things around, I like to clean up!"
"You don't follow the blind hilarity," Yu Sheng looked down at the little mannequin (66.6cm), "is not as high as a box, later carry something and then rolled down the stairs, arms and legs broken and still have to be repaired."
After hearing this, Irene instantly became furious, rushed over and made a big effort to jump up and kicked Yu Sheng's knee: "Yu Sheng your great master!!!"
Yusheng wailed a voice much higher than Erin's bouncing.
The beaver next to him watched the scene with some bewilderment, but quickly realized that it was just a friendly, everyday exchange between Eunuch and Erin, and the brief worry on his face dissolved into a happy smile - before he fished another ham sandwich out of his tail.
...
Deep inside the old city, inside a private clinic that looked plain and ordinary from the outside, Lin Yi, who had dark brown shawl hair and wore a white lab coat, was frowning tightly as he looked at the right arm of the young girl in front of him.
Little Red Riding Hood sat across from Dr. Lin in a sleeveless t-shirt, resting her arms on the table, while the dark red jacket with the missing sleeve hung on a coat rack near the door.
"Dr. Lin, is the situation serious?" Seeing that the doctor across from her didn't say anything for a long time, Little Red Riding Hood finally couldn't help but ask.
"It's not serious this time - but you've got a serious problem," Lin Yi looked up with some exasperation in his gaze, "How many times has this happened? Your injuries just don't stop, at this rate you're going to have almost no intervals between the after-effects of your alienation, it's too late for your body and spirit to recover, it's not a problem this time, but it's bound to go horribly wrong sometime in the future."
"I know, but it was a real emergency and there was really nothing else to do," Little Red Riding Hood's vision was a bit evasive, "We were being hunted by an entity of danger level three or higher, or with a tendency towards mental contamination, and it was a miracle that we made it out of there alive and in one piece... ..."
Lin Yi looked deeply at the young girl in front of him, but he didn't say anything else, he just took a sharp scalpel from the side and slashed across his own arm without hesitation.
The next instant, Little Red Riding Hood's right arm in the same position also appeared out of thin air a slash, black and red blood instantly from the knife out of the mouth, but also as if absorbed by what invisible power generally blinking disappeared.
The black lines all over the young girl's arms began to fade and dissipate rapidly.
"Thank you Dr. Lin ...," Little Red Riding Hood lowered her head and thanked her earnestly, "I'll transfer the consultation fee to you when the Secret Service side settles the bill."
"Forget it, let's consider this time as a favor to you, no money," Lin Yi sighed, looking somewhat helplessly at the young girl across from him, hesitating for a few seconds before continuing to speak, "... I know you're their 'parents', but you should also keep some money for yourself, look at how thin you are."
"Got it got it got it." Little Red Riding Hood bristled and made an impatient face.
"That's one sentence at a time," Lin Yi shook his head, casually tossing the scalpel onto a nearby china plate and adjusting his posture in the chair, "It's just as well that you're here today, to assess you in advance - when was the last time you 'dream' was?"
Little Red Riding Hood immediately followed and adjusted her sitting posture, her expression following with seriousness, "Three days ago."
"Is the dream from a human's point of view, or a wolf's?"
"Two-thirds of the time it's human, one-third of the time it's wolf - and for a moment it's 'hunter'."
"Who did the hunter shoot at?"
"To the wolves."
"Good, it seems to be quite stable," Lin Yi rummaged a form from the cabinet next to him, and took a ballpoint pen from the pencil on the table, scratched on the paper, no water, took another one, still no water, suddenly frowned, "... . quasi it's those two new assistants, one writing with carving a monument as hard as ..."
She dug halfway through the pocket of her white coat, finally finding a working pen, and began to swipe notes on the form, continuing to ask questions as she did so, "Did you see 'Grandma' at the end? Was it a human or a wolf?"
"... is a wolf."
"Look at the look on your face ... caught in the act?"
"Captured, but that part of the memory is confusing, the last sight I remember was following the wolves out of the forest."
Lin Yi paused, his brow furrowed in some annoyance as he tapped his ballpoint pen against the desktop next to him, "That's still a bit of a risk, take one of the #2 interventions on your way out later, and inject it intravenously tonight before bed, and put the cost on your tab."
"Good."
Next, Lin Yi asked several more questions in succession, and Little Red Riding Hood answered them all honestly.
It's a monthly "assessment" that she conducts, and every member of Fairy Tales, including her, is required to do regularly at .
There were many "doctors" in Junction who could perform such assessments and provide the corresponding "treatment", but Dr. Lin was the one she knew best.
The long "questionnaire" was finally over, and Dr. Lin wrote a conclusion of "Temporarily stabilized, to be observed" at the end of the form and let out a long breath.
Red Riding Hood saw the conclusion at the end of the form, and despite the young girl's efforts to strain her face into a calm demeanor, she smiled some reassurance.
"You also know to worry ah?" Lin Yi glanced at Little Red Riding Hood, "If you're really such a wimp, protect yourself, don't be like the last Little Red Riding Hood ..."
She stopped abruptly, not saying anything.
Little Red Riding Hood followed suit, and an oppressive silence fell over the clinic for a time.
After an indeterminate amount of time, Little Red Riding Hood suddenly felt a warmth coming from her hand.
Dr. Lin put his hand on hers.
"Little Red Riding Hood, you're not like the others - at least not like the other members of 'Fairy Tales' I've come into contact with," the young "fey healer " stared intently into the young girl's eyes, his tone serious and grave, "your wolves ... the ones you initially took in, they're very close to you, and although I don't feel it as directly as you do, I can tell that they're willing to protect you.
"So, you have a higher success rate of making it through adulthood, or even making it through 'Feathering' than anyone else, but that's exactly why you can't wantonly waste this talent just because you're in a more stable condition than everyone else, you have to find a way to survive and live longer before you do, do you understand? "
Little Red Riding Hood was silent for a long time before she finally nodded softly, "... Well."
Several pairs of ghostly green eyes crept out of the shadows beside the young girl, and one of them came closer, sticking a tongue out of the shadows and gently licking her fingers.
Lin Yi sensed the change in her aura in the shadows, but instead of looking that way, she got up from her chair and turned towards the refrigerated cabinet in the corner of the room, from which she took out a potion that glowed with a dim fluorescent light.
"Here you go, Interventionist #2, it just so happens that this one is the last one left, counting you in at half price - hurry up and settle the bill when you turn around and get paid, you owe me thousands."
"Thank you Dr. Lin."
Chapter 62: Ghosts living in the Junction
For the first time, Li Lin saw that the usual steady and reliable Captain Song would reveal this frown as if he was facing an enemy.
"So ... the obscure angel in eyeball form at the end just left the alien realm it was hosting without a word, without attempting to contaminate or control anyone, and without leaving behind any 'offspring'? " Song Cheng finished listening to the reports of the two Secret Service agents in front of him, and only spoke after a long period of silence, "You also didn't hear any 'higher-dimensional whispers' or anything like that coming from your minds throughout the entire process?"
"No," Xu Jiali shook her head, her voice low, "but that thing definitely noticed us, and for a moment, I could clearly feel that 'gaze', the focus of its sight had fallen on the place where we were hiding . It was as if ..."
Song Sung frowned, "As if?"
Xu Jiali recalled and said with less certainty, "It's like she's looking for something."
Song Sung tapped his fingers on the desktop with some annoyance and didn't speak for a while.
After another ten seconds or so, he let out a long breath and turned his head to Li Lin, "When you came into contact with that person who called himself 'Yu Sheng', did you feel the aura of 'heterogenization' on him? Judging from your intuition, do you think he's a bit more like a human, or like ... something else?"
"Human-like, at least in speech and demeanor and common sense in dealing with people, and if that was an entity disguised as a human being, one could only say that the disguise was simply too perfect-so perfect that it could be looked at directly as if it were a human being." Leylin said with certainty.
"But he has been 'residing' for a long time in a '66 Sycamore Road' that doesn't exist in the real world at all, that's an alien domain that doesn't appear in any official records," Song Cheng sighed Sigh, "Only 'entities' will be generated in the foreign domain, but not ... humans."
Xu Jiali, who was silent for a while, spoke at this time, "There do exist some 'entities' in this world that have reason and can communicate, and there are some extraordinarily friendly entities or entities that have a desire for the present world that can even cooperate with humans, such as the 'Storyteller' and 'Passenger 22', they even look like they have some human characteristics as well. ' and 'Passenger 22', they even look like they have some human characteristics ..."
"But it's still a completely different tier from that 'Yu Sheng' you guys mentioned - on the 'anthropomorphic' front. "Sung Sung shook his head and looked at Seo Jia Li, "Can you confirm that he's the same 'Open Door Man' you saw on the Emain-IX?"
"It can be confirmed, but he didn't recognize me at all," Xu Jiali nodded, "I was equipped with a full set of power armor and mental shields, and it doesn't look like his perception ability could penetrate said equipment."
"Limited perceptual ability, possesses a high degree of personality traits, possesses the ability to open 'gates' at will, can fight against hungry entities that have been greatly strengthened by the influence of the 'Angel of Obscurity', but the exact process of the kill at that time is a mystery ... seems to be intentionally concealing his own fighting style ... "Song Cheng slowly summarized the information that he has so far obtained, and said while thinking, "And there is also a point ..."
"Friendly to humans." Lirin, who was on the sidelines, said.
"Yes, friendly to humans, even willing to initiate contact with Secret Service agents." Sung Sung nodded slightly, as if he was about to say something else, but a sound of footsteps suddenly came from the corridor outside the door, interrupting his next words.
A knock sounded on the door, and then a short girl with short hair pushed the door in, holding a folder in her hand, "Captain Song, the archive department sent over the information over there."
Song Cheng instantly widened his eyes slightly, "... really has information on that 'Yu Sheng'!?"
"Yes, but if you retrieve it directly from the system it will show that it has been logged off, and the time of logging off is the day that the current Junction Population Records System was established, that is to say, from the very beginning this person was 'no longer', even long before the date of birth on his profile, but it was after the time of logging off that this person's identity data had also been in the 'enabled' state, the word 'logged off' was like an insignificant watermark in the system display, "The short-haired girl placed the folder of information on Song Cheng's desk, her face with an unbelievable expression, "Even some recent shopping purchases, social registrations, and transportation records under this ID card can be found - all of which were done normally with the system displaying that they were canceled."
Song Cheng looked up in surprise while picking up the binder, "Such a serious bug, and the system hasn't reported it to the police?"
"No, the information center side is already arranging for overtime this evening, when I passed by I saw Director Wu was letting out a sharp burst ..."
"... Let him burst, he has to burst so many times a month anyway." Song Cheng shook his head and looked down at the information in his hands.
From beginning to end, it seems to be just a very ordinary residential file, and a very ordinary life consumption record, except for the red to some eye-piercing "cancellation" watermark on each page, and "Sycamore Road 66", an address that should not appear in the file system at all.
Song Cheng turned his chair, opened the computer on his desk, entered the Secret Service's internal application to enter the Wutong Road 66 a few keywords, directly after the carriage return to show the error.
"A ghost ... living in the Junction, casting an indelible shadow in our complex population management system, he didn't even pop up recently, according to that 'Yu Sheng''s own words, he has been living in this city for more than twenty years, which also matches the records on the data," Song Cheng muttered softly, his face looking a little worse for wear - of course, this was mainly related to the fact that he had been working overtime frequently lately, "No one has been aware of it, not even those eyes of the Director saw him-until now he's taken it upon himself to jump out and make contact with us."
Li Lin and Xu Jiali glanced at each other, both seeing a hint of gravity in the other's eyes.
--Fortunately, this "ghost" has no interest in destruction, and even thinks of himself as a "normal person".
And just then, Song Cheng's eyes noticed another column on the information.
"... writer?" He raised an eyebrow in some surprise, "This spook has a job?"
"Freelance writer, contributing to a few small magazines and also media accounts, writing thrillers or third-rate dramas books, but not much of a name, and hardly any writing lately."
Song Cheng thought for a moment, "... is a puffer?"
The short-haired girl looked serious: "It's not a punt if you can support yourself."
"... What does he write like?"
"There's a short piece at the end of the file that I found in one of last year's magazines - I just thought you might be interested."
Song Cheng immediately flipped the document to the end and scanned it quickly.
The short-haired girl looked at Captain Song with vague anticipation, "How does it feel?"
Song Cheng was silent for a moment and looked embarrassed, "I ... don't quite understand the preferences of young people nowadays."
After saying that he immediately coughed dryly twice, and motionlessly closed the folder with a whole expression, "But anyway, this is a line that is very worthy of attention-arrange for someone to collect everything that this 'Yu Sheng' has written, do psychological profiling and personality research, in addition to keeping an eye on his ... future 'creations'."
At this he paused, and added: "A 'suspected entity' who considers himself human, and who not only thinks like a human, but can even create like a human, and whose works, must reveal his inner truer way of thinking and feeling, such a thing has never been seen before, must be be taken seriously - but not perceived by him."
"Roger that, Team Song."
The short-haired girl left the office with the information, and Song Cheng's gaze returned to Xu Jiali and Li Lin.
"Regarding the creation of the 'spatial rift' at the Junction, have you asked the other side what the situation is?"
When Li Lin heard this, he immediately looked at Xu Jiali next to him a little awkwardly, and seeing that the other party did not have the intention to open his mouth then he had to say stiffly, "... I forgot to ask."
"Can this be forgotten too?!"
"At that time, I was mentally overstimulated, probably due to the effects after witnessing the 'Angel of Obscurity'," beside her, Xu Jiali finally spoke up, the veteran greaseball relieved Leylin as a newcomer as soon as he opened his mouth, "but although we didn't ask directly. We also heard some information during our evacuation towards the hideout with two of 'Yu Sheng's' companions."
"You mean the doll and the demon fox?"
"Yes, based on what they mentioned in their conversation, the so-called 'spatial rift' seems to be just ... 'Yu Sheng' trying to open a door in order to rescue the Demon Fox trapped in the foreign realm."
Song Cheng stared, "... Just this?"
"That should be all."
"... just to find a way to open and close a few doors and shake up the whole Junction?!"
Xu Jiali pulled the muscles on her face, "Actually, it is also shocked to the bureau ..."
Noticing the look on the captain's face, he stopped talking at once.
Song Cheng stared at his eyes sitting behind the desk luck, after a while before physically and mentally waved his hand, "Okay, you two first withdraw, this thing is a bit big, I have to discuss with the upper side again."
Li Lin two people looked at each other, Xu Jiali hesitantly opened her mouth, "Then after that with that 'Yu Sheng' formal contact ... still according to the process?"
"Don't worry about it for now, this will more than likely have to go through the director as well," Song Cheng sighed, "If that Yu Sheng was really an 'ordinary person' I would have just sent the two of you over there, but this isn't as simple as it seems right now. Go back and rest first - ah, don't forget to make a trip to the 'treatment room' first, fill out the forms after the checkups before you leave, and you'll be given three days off starting tomorrow."
63. Investigations and settlements
Encouragement and big pies from leaders don't always soothe the physical and mental exhaustion that comes from working overtime in exotic locations, but paid vacation surely does.
The two unlucky cadres walked out of the office with smiles on their faces, leaving Song Cheng to sit behind his desk and let out a long breath as he continued to look at the computer screen with a sad face.
And just then, he noticed that an icon in the corner of the screen suddenly started flashing, and the next second, a video window appeared abruptly on the screen.
A young woman in a white sheath dress with a single gray ponytail appeared in the picture, as if she had lost her colorful light gray pupils looking at Song Sung's eyes across the screen, "Finished working?"
Bigger leaders are coming.
"Director," Song Cheng instantly sat up straight, his expression a little tight, "You're not off duty yet?"
"I'm working overtime today," Baili Qing said lightly, her voice as lacking in fluctuation as her faded eyes, "I saw the information that the archive department passed over just now, and I wanted to hear your opinion."
"About that 'Yu Sheng'?" Song Cheng frowned slightly, and shook his head after a little contemplation, "I don't think there's any way to make any judgments right now, we need to make a formal contact with the other party in order to assess what kind of ... individual he really is. But the difficulty lies in whether to make contact according to the standards of a 'person' or an 'entity' ..."
"Follow the person." Baili Qing said without hesitation.
There was some surprise on Song Sung's face.
"Because his self-perception is 'human'," Baili Qing said calmly and patiently, "then whether he is human or not, we have to make sure he still thinks that way in the future."
"... maintains the target's self-perception, yes?" Song Cheng was thoughtful and seemed to understand the Director's thoughts, "You are thinking that ... once that individual's self-perception is shifted, there could be very serious consequences?"
"It's too soon to determine exactly what all the target is capable of, and his impact on the future of the Junctionlands, but one more on the 'human' side is one less on the 'non-human' side, and naturally human-friendly exotic Entities don't come around very often - especially since he's also 'lived' in the Junctionlands from way back, and we're going to consider that a blessing."
Song Cheng immediately nodded, "Good, I understand what you mean, Director, then I will arrange a contact program with 'Yu Sheng' ... I will personally go."
Baili Qing on the screen nodded slightly, and immediately added, "Regarding the latest appearance of the 'Angel of Obscurity', the Council is already aware of it, and it's now basically certain that it's new."
Song Cheng's pupils instantly shrunk.
"Not on the old records?" He subconsciously sat forward, his expression unusually grave, "What about the records of the other powers?"
"Already inquired about the Algrad Astrological Conjunction and the 'Academy' side, neither of their official records have ever shown that giant eyeball-shaped obscure angel that can cover the sky mentioned in the report, and there's no word back from the Bamosa Hermit Society side yet, but if it's not even in the Academy's records. Then the Bamosa people shouldn't have it either," Baili Qing shook his head, "Although we can't rule out the possibility that there are still certain minor forces that have come into contact with that Obscure Angel, the ... likelihood of that is not high."
Song Cheng's brows were furrowed almost to the point of wrinkling into lumps, looking rather anxious.
"This isn't good ... a new 'Angel' with no information recorded, running straight away without any time to gather any intelligence, and on such a large scale," he muttered said, "capable of covering the entire sky above Nightmare Valley ... Judging by the official information on Nightmare Valley, I'm afraid this thing has been parasitizing that foreign land for a long time now ..."
"Yes, high-level camouflage and deep parasitism, so much so that early investigators who had entered that valley even believed that the sky there was meant to be that way, hence the name Nightfall Valley," Baili Qing said slowly, "Purely on a physical scale, this newly emerged 'Angel of Obscurity' can, I'm afraid, be ranked in the top three of all known angels."
Song Cheng couldn't help but fall into thought, and after a short period of contemplation, he spoke, "... According to the intelligence gathered by the two team members on my side, the demonic fox by Yu Sheng's side who calls herself 'Hu Beaver' seems to have been trapped in the Nightfall Valley for a long time, and she might know something related to that 'Angel of Obscurity'?"
"It's a breakthrough, but you need to be careful when investigating."
Songcheng bowed his head slightly, "I understand."
Baili Qing hmmm'd and seemed ready to hang up the video.
But Song Sung suddenly spoke up, "By the way, Chief, there's one more thing."
"Say."
"... I'm going to take a ride on the 'train' once," Song Cheng said with a serious expression, "to see if I can't inquire on the ' Train' to inquire about something related to 'Yu Sheng'."
"... approved - but be cautious, even with relatively sane and friendly entities, contact must be made with care."
"Understood."
...
Yu Sheng, who was helping Hu Beaver make his bed, suddenly stuttered and sneezed several times, frightening Irene, who was walking the balance beam with her hands open on the end of the bed's baffle, and almost falling off.
"You scared me!" The little mannequin glared.
"Itchy nose," Yusheng rubbed his nose and casually grabbed Irene off and threw her onto the bed, "Don't just watch, come help - sit in the middle of the bed while I stretch the sheets."
Erin let out an oh-so-happy sigh and ran to sit cross-legged in the middle of the bed, looking up at Yu Sheng as he busied himself next to her.
The beaver stood a little farther away, watching helplessly as her "benefactor" made her bed.
"Eunuch ... I, too, can help," the demon fox girl rubbed her hands together, her tail wagging uneasily behind her, "Tidy up the room, it's easy, I'll see what I can do!"
"Then you can just clean up your own room in the future, but not today," Yu Sheng didn't raise his head, "I'm almost done here."
The beaver let out an oh-so-substantial sigh, suppressing the unsettling emotions that surfaced in his mind from being taken care of, and carefully but curiously surveyed his new room.
This is the second floor of the room originally piled up a lot of sundries, but now those holding sundries of paper boxes have been cleaned up to the basement, after a simple cleaning, this place has been restored to a state that can be inhabited - but said to be inhabited, in fact, the furnishings of the room is still very simple, in addition to the original placed in the room, but was previously piled with In addition to the bed and a table, the only official "furniture" in the room was a chair in the corner.
For this reason, just now Yu Sheng found another folding closet from the basement, and studied with Irene for a long time before combining those iron pipes and canvas, placing them in the corner to act as the fourth piece of furniture here.
But Hu Beaver now also has no clothes can be put inside - she almost nothing with the goods, only from the valley out of the tattered "dress", but that is almost a piece of rags, she did not want to throw away, so she washed and barely folded, placed in the bottom of the ugly folding wardrobe, as her first belongings in this "home". She did not want to throw it away, so she washed it, folded it up and put it at the bottom of the ugly folding closet, which was her first belongings in this "home".
Yet even such a plain to somewhat shabby cottage made her happy.
She could sleep in a bed, and having just lain down, 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 instead of cold everywhere, as it had been in the valley, and it was warm enough to sleep without having to cuddle up to her tail, and with a bright electric light, brighter than a fox-fire.
And most importantly - no matter what you do here, you won't attract that monster, and if you're hungry, you can always find something to eat.
There's plenty of food in the tail right now.
Beaver took a seat on the floor with a happy smile on his face.
Yu Sheng finished laying the bed sheets, and with a twist of his head, he saw the Demon Fox who was giggling on the floor: "Why are you sitting on the floor again, there is a chair next to you - what are you giggling about?"
The beaver let out an oh-so-subtle cry, rising from the floor and sitting in a side chair, "Gladly."
"That's gotta be nice." Yusheng nodded, then straightened up and looked around with a slight sense of accomplishment.
The room was sparsely furnished, but it took a great deal of effort to clean it up, at least it was the fruit of more than two hours of labor.
-- but it's still a little too sketchy.
"Tomorrow go to the mall to buy you another replacement bed four-piece set, and then buy two bodies of clothing, curtains back can be replaced with a new one, this have holes in the ... closet first temporary use of this it, buy a new one is quite expensive, and recently hand is not loose," Yu Sheng planned "Well, in the future, you can also get a nightstand, set a lamp."
"No, no need for all that stuff," said the Beaver, hastily waving his hand, a little bemused, "this is fine for now."
"Don't mind it, it's all everyday stuff that should be there," Yu Sheng waved his hand carelessly, "You're going to be my number one fighter here at least, you can't afford to be in poor condition."
Is sitting in the middle of the bed Irene sniffing raised his head, glanced at Yu Sheng: "Consider buying furniture before you first consider how to let people give you the furniture sent over, you this 'Sycamore Road 66' - looks like the new television also don't need to count on it, certainly can't send it over, or ... you plan to open a 'big' door and carry a bunch of furniture to your home by yourself?"
Listening to the little mannequin's chatter, Yu Sheng's enthusiastic "planning" suddenly cooled down a bit.
His expression followed suit with a slightly more serious one.
Yusheng recalled what the two "Secret Service agents" had said to him before they left.
... Yeah, delivery is still a problem, after all--
There is no 66 Sycamore Road.
Chapter 64 A Future to Look Forward To
The beaver soon drifted off to sleep - despite the fact that she had been chatting with Yu Sheng with curiosity and anticipation moments before, seemingly too excited to sleep a bit in her new surroundings, almost as soon as they turned their eyes, all Yu Sheng and Erin could hear was the sound of even and gentle snoring coming from the bed.
Erin sat on the edge of the beaver's bed and looked at the demon fox who had fallen into sleep.
"She's really sleeping in seconds ... already dreaming. Well, it's okay, it's a peaceful dream."
"She shouldn't have had a good night's sleep for a long time," Yu Sheng unconsciously lowered his voice, "I was worried at first that she wouldn't be able to sleep when she got here, after all, the environment suddenly changed, and the place she stayed before didn't even have a bed."
Erin got up from the edge of the bed and walked over to help the beaver press the covers, while still speaking professionally, "She should feel safe here - she told me that foxes can be very intuitive ... "
The little mannequin just said halfway, the beaver turned over in his sleep, followed by a flash in front of Yu Sheng's eyes - the demon fox girl put away before going to bed, the tail came out with a bang, is bending over to help cover the quilt of the Eileen, "mom hey" sound will be flung to the face of the Tail flicked out, even people with paintings to slap on the wall ...
Yu Sheng instantly "groan" sound, dashed over to the wall slipped down the Irene lifted up, just to hear the doll lady opened her mouth and began to birdsong ...
As a result, the Hu Beaver on the bed didn't wake up either, and this demon fox just mumbled vaguely twice before rolling over into a more comfortable position, picking two of his own tails out of his pile to cradle in his arms, and replacing the rest with the quilt that had just been lifted off the ground, and wrapping it tightly around his body.
Wrapped into a furry fox ball in two seconds.
"X's a tail monster! I&*&¥#% up kindly help her ...," Irene hangs on Yu Sheng's arm and spits out a fragrance, followed by a sudden twist of the head to look at Yu Sheng, "I'm telling you that you don't need to buy her a quilt tomorrow! I don't need to buy her a quilt, I don't think she needs it at all!"
Yu Sheng hurriedly slipped out of the room carrying the cursing mannequin, and only sighed in relief when he reached the corridor outside, glancing back somewhat helplessly, "Well, it seems like it's going to take some time to get used to adapting to it ... Erin are you alright?"
"Self-esteem a little hurt is not considered something?" The mannequin vigorously rolled his eyelids, climbed along Yu Sheng's arm to his shoulder, "Hey, I want to still be the body I can suffer this aggravation, you do not know how powerful I was in the beginning, I ... can be powerful anyway!"
"OK, OK, OK, you're great, I believe ...," Yu Sheng perfunctorily said while carrying Irene back to his room.
However, the mannequin on his shoulder rarely fought with him because of this perfunctory statement, Yu Sheng felt strange, so he looked up, only to see that Eileen was slightly lowering her head, appearing to be seriously thinking about something.
"Thinking about what?"
"I was thinking ... about what you said about getting the Beaver to help you fight," Erin said with a rare bit of seriousness, "It looks like you've decided that you're going to have to deal with Exotic all the time in the future isn't it, and I don't mean the kind of getting caught up in the incident of dealing, but rather ... you're going to actively go looking for trouble?"
Yu Sheng didn't say anything for a while, silence was equivalent to acquiescence.
"Why?" Erin asked curiously, "You've already rescued the Beaver, there shouldn't be any reason why you have to actively seek out other trouble in the future - while it's true that people who've had contact with the Other Side are prone to encountering the 'other side' again for the rest of their lives things, but you can also choose to work with the Secret Service side to learn some 'systematic techniques' for circumventing the Otherworld, and many people would choose to do so, and also be able to live peacefully for many years ... at least, more peacefully than all those Spirit World detectives and investigators. "
Yu Sheng thought for a moment and looked at Erin half-jokingly, "What if I say it's because of curiosity, this strange phenomenon in the foreign land triggered my curiosity, and I just want to stimulate it ..."
The little mannequin immediately scratched Yu Sheng's hair into a mess, "Are you serious? Are you serious?"
Yu Sheng spoke quickly while raising his hand to press down on Erin's paw, "Stop, stop, stop, stop tugging - there's a tiny bit of seriousness."
Erin stopped scratching her hair and stared at Yu Sheng with wide eyes.
"Curiosity, that's really part of it, I'm not kidding," Yu Sheng breathed, his expression becoming solemn, "Remember the night I led you to open gate after gate? The scenery behind those ... gates, remember?"
"... remembers."
"I remember that too, fondly," said Yusheng slowly as he sat back in his chair, "So many 'faraway places' ah, and we had a serious discussion about that glowing mountain... ...Erin, don't you want to go see it? And that city that floats in the air, those birds that fly over the Rift Valley ..."
"And the eldest brother who was hanging from the beam."
"... Right, and the Eldest Brother hanging from the beams," Yu Sheng laughed and shook his head, "Erin, whether they are some 'faraway place' or some 'foreign land', I was really attracted by those views. You say, I've opened so many doors, and I can open them again at any time, and I already know that there's such a vast world beyond the Boundary City, can I still just stay here in the Boundary Land honestly and live a 'peaceful life' like you said?"
Yusheng said this and breathed a soft sigh of relief, "As long as I continue to 'open the door', I will definitely continue to deal with those 'landscapes' - and this door has already been opened."
"It seems to make sense," Irene hugged Yu Sheng's head, thinking hard for a moment, and began to brush back the hair she had just raked and messed up, "If I were you, I'd be full of death thoughts at this point, too - I'd have to be more of a dead man than you."
Then the little mannequin paused and asked, "And the other part of your reason?"
Yu Sheng didn't say anything for a while, only narrowing his eyes slightly.
Memories come to mind.
The sunlight flowing in the old alleys, the reddish sky, the watery clouds - that is not very big, but familiar and friendly "Linhai small town".
"There is a place, and I want to find it." Yusheng said softly.
He felt the little hands on his head that were picking and pulling at him suddenly stop.
"Why do I feel ..." Irene suddenly bent down and stared very keenly at Yusheng's face, "as if you were going somewhere and didn't intend to come back?"
When Yu Sheng opened his eyes, he saw those scarlet pupils staring straight at him, and the gaze of the mannequin made him a little weak.
"... er, just trying to find the place, go over there, and come back."
"Really?" Erin frowned suspiciously.
"It's true," nodded Yusheng, then he paused, as if he did think seriously about something, and repeated it again, "It's true."
"It seems ... like you didn't lie to me," Erin cocked her head, tentatively like she believed Yu Sheng's words, but soon she shook her head, "Forget it, there's not much I can do if you want to lie to me anyway, the ability to open the door is in your hand ... Let's not talk about this, since you have decided to deal with those messy things in the future, have you thought about how to start? You're going to be a spirit world detective? To take on commissions that might have something to do with the otherworldly? Or are you going to be a solo investigator? Actively going into nooks and crannies to find clues to the otherworldly and faraway places? Or do you ... open a random door every day and jump through it to your death ..."
"This last one is not to be considered for the time being," Yu Sheng immediately waved his hand, "I am not afraid of death, but I have not made a mistake to such an extent, in case I really messed with the kind of thing that can't fight but can't run away then it's really finished ... "
"Oh, it's not bad, and it's not insane," Erin bobbed her head happily, "So that means being a Spirit World detective or investigator? The former relies mainly on taking orders, characterized by a stable but restricted 'job', while the latter relies mainly on being tough and reckless, characterized by freedom of movement but often encountering big 'surprises' ... "
Yu Sheng thought for a moment and asked, "Which one is that 'Little Red Riding Hood'?"
"Definitely a Spirit Detective, she's the one who takes on Secret Service outsourcing and is a student working a holiday job," Erin waved her hand, "but according to her there's another organization behind her, called 'Fairytale' or something ..."
Yu Sheng heart this then activities open: "Organization ... this kind of organization still need to register?"
"... Probably?" Erin scratched her brain, "I don't know if you're asking me, I've forgotten all about it~ but most likely it needs to be registered, right? After all, with the Secret Service as the official management department, if you gather a bunch of exotic experts with specialized skills and still don't register for the record, wouldn't it become a 'dynamic and illegitimate social group'?"
Speaking of this, Miss Mannequin was suddenly stunned for a moment, and looked at Yu Sheng with some confusion: ''What, are you still planning to set up an organization? There are only three of us counting that fox, and that fox doesn't have an ID card - of course I don't have one either. Hey so you're the only one in the family that counts as a 'person' ah?"
"Seems to be," Yu Sheng instantly touched his nose in embarrassment, before reacting as an afterthought, "Hey I'm going to go, where can I get an ID card for Hu Beaver to go ..."
"Ask around the next time someone from that 'Secret Service' contacts you?" Erin started to come up with ideas, "I don't think they'd mind helping with that little favor, would they?"
"... Is this a unit?"
"It doesn't cost anything to ask."
"Well, that too."
Yu Sheng scratched his hair, and just then, he suddenly realized another problem.
"Wait, Erin, you're going to stick around my house again today?!"
"Nonsense! How evil that room of mine is!"
"You're evil enough on your own, go to your room!"
"I don't!"