Dimensional Hotel

Chapter 739 - 738: Crossing the Boundary Within Reach

Anyone who often interacts with Luo can feel it—she's increasingly adapting to the corporate culture of the travel agency, and her daily words and actions are gradually becoming more relaxed. This change became especially evident after she returned from her hometown visit.Everyone remembers when this golden-haired elf first arrived, she seemed so jittery and suspicious all the time, like a mouse falling into a thief's nest (although there's a chance she was partly acting). Now, she's even bold enough to swear in front of the boss.

Not only does she dare to swear, but she also dares to argue after swearing.

It's fair to say that now she possesses Erin's qualities, Hu Li's intelligence, Yu Sheng's thick skin—along with Luna's living metal.

She's a legitimate member of the travel agency group.

As for Yu Sheng, after discussing with Erin and Luo, he decided to personally confirm the situation with the Black Star.

However, the action plan was adjusted to carefully observe the situation before rushing in (at least for now).

Thirty minutes later, a special team arrived near the closest navigation marker to the Black Star's surface.

The silver-white Nine-Tailed Demon Fox floated in the universe, with Yu Sheng and the Alice Puppet seated on its back; Master Yuan Hao stood in space with hands behind his back, his protective spiritual light swirling upwards, with his Earth and Wood Array hovering also, dozens of bricks circling in flight; further away was Luo, as a fragile scientist, she couldn't perform a butterfly stroke in space with her flesh alone, so she came over in a Shuttle.

The scene was characterized by each displaying their unique style and talents, without interfering with each other.

"This location is approximately 12 kilometers from the 'crust layer' of the Black Star, and it's the closest beacon we've set up," Luo's voice transmitted through the headset, reaching Yu Sheng's ear, "Any closer and interference increases exponentially, and anchored space facilities lose stability due to all sorts of inexplicable reasons."

Yu Sheng adjusted the position of his headset—in the presence of Hu Li, with protective spirit qi maintaining the environment, he could communicate directly with those nearby, but for communication beyond the protective spirit qi, he would have to use communication devices: "This 'outer shell'... looks very calm."

"Indeed. And not just calm. According to our observations, the overall shape of the Black Star is impossibly orderly," Luo replied, "Can you imagine? Such a massive celestial body with a surface devoid of any undulation or wrinkles, its 'smoothness' surpasses the world's flattest mirror, and no matter how precisely you measure it, it's an extremely perfect sphere, just like..."

She paused, seemingly considering the cultural level of her boss before continuing, "Just like a vector void, entirely 'described' using precise mathematical language, projected into the real universe—this sphere is so perfect, it's unlike anything that should exist in the real world."

Yu Sheng pondered for a moment, thinking the other party was trying to accommodate his cultural level, but unsuccessfully.

However, he felt it didn't matter much; he probably understood that the other party meant the sphere was ridiculously round. After some reflection, he asked, "What are the properties of this 'outer shell' of the star body?"

Luo: "It's called an outer shell, but in reality, it's just a black 'boundary' without any physical structure, displaying temperature, radiation, and other parameters consistent with the external environment. In fact, if it weren't visible to the naked eye, according to device scans, it's simply a giant interference source floating here, intangible and without substance, like an illusion—the 'boundary contour' of the interference source only exists on the optical level, this is our current conclusion."

Yu Sheng nodded slowly, after some contemplation, he first patted the fox girl's back.

"In any case, let's fire a tail shot to see its quality."

The fox girl said nothing and immediately flicked out a large silver-white tail, which spat out massive blue propulsion flames, tracing a bright trajectory as it plunged into the black and calm star surface.

A moment later, the Great Demon Fox shook its head, then turned to Yu Sheng: "Lost contact. But I've set commands for the tail; if offline, navigate for 15 minutes and return if undamaged."

Yu Sheng nodded, staying silent as he patiently waited; suddenly Luo exclaimed, "Whoa, your tail is programmable too?!"

Yu Sheng vaguely remembered Erin marveling the same way once... all that could be said was the Cyber Fox Deity is like this, in the face of the fox girl's tail Immortal Law, the cultural level between Terra University doctoral perfection and kindergarten correspondence course for prenatal education is pretty much the same.

Master Yuan Hao started fanning his fan again, without speaking, Yu Sheng knew what this handsome elder wanted to say.

And soon enough, a blue stream of light appeared in everyone's sight.

The tail fired by the fox girl had flown back.

The tail is a precious thing, and must never be discarded lightly. Hu Li promptly reattached the tail to her body and began perceiving the intelligence recorded in the fox tail.

A few seconds later, the Great Demon Fox uttered a slightly surprised sound: "Huh?"

"What's wrong?" Yu Sheng hurriedly inquired.

"I feel... a bit of a familiar sensation," the fox girl said hesitantly, "Something down there I've seen, or encountered before..."

Yu Sheng instinctively exchanged glances with Erin.

The Alice Puppet couldn't hold back, and the next second she exclaimed, "No way?! Is the other side your hometown?"

The fox girl shook her head.

"No, I'm certain about that," she said earnestly, "It's just a bit of familiar sensation, or 'feeling', something I've encountered but can't quite recall."

Yu Sheng furrowed his brow tightly, speaking only after a moment: "In any case, at least within the 300-meter buffer layer below, the environment seems safe, I still need to go down and take a look.

"Hu Li, send me down with a tail, but don't go down yourself, we can't fully ascertain the situation below yet.

"Erin, you..."

Before he finished speaking, the little puppet was already raising its hand and shouting: "Me, me, me, I want to go down with you. I'll use a mass-produced body, anyway it's all made of mud, so I won't be upset if one gets damaged."

Yu Sheng frowned and reminded, "It's one thing if the body gets damaged, but I'm afraid of your mind being harmed. My blood contact down there is being interfered with so severely, your mass-produced body might get cut off from external contact down there. Will your mind be unaffected then?"

Erin seemed to have not thought about this, and after hearing it, paused, then seriously pondered for two minutes: "Then I'll split a bit of my thought thread to go down with you, if something happens I'll cut it off, it won't greatly affect the main mind. If there's no problem, I'll connect my main mind to the mass-produced body."

Yu Sheng looked surprised: "You can do that? Is this also a skill of the Alice Puppet?"

The little puppet immediately pointed proudly at itself: "Me, Omen Goddess, awesome!"

"The power of the Omen Goddess..." Yu Sheng's expression turned thoughtful at these words, "The Omen Goddess crawled up along the World Bridge, perhaps this part of the power might have special effects against the Black Star. Alright then, bring a mass-produced puppet yourself, we'll go down together."

Erin happily nodded at once, then raised her hand in a gesture, causing a twisted space rift to appear in mid-air. As the rift turned and opened, a mass-produced puppet with a vacant expression and dead fish eyes fell onto Hu Li's back.

Along with the mass-produced puppet, a gray-white stone ball with a pitted surface also dropped out.

Omen Wandering Star.

The stone ball floated over and began to circle around Erin's (head), and then got slapped by the little puppet, hurriedly floating beside the mass-produced puppet's head, continuing to circle.

Yu Sheng was curious: "Why did you bring it too?"

Erin: "This thing was my Holy Relic back in the day, wasn't it? Theoretically, it also fell to this side with the World Bridge back then, I thought going down it might enhance signals."

Yu Sheng thought about it and acknowledged Erin's reasoning.

As for the old handsome guy and the second-hand scientist, they had already given up on pondering the principle of the stone ball floating out and starting to orbit around Erin.

Moments later, a fluffy large fox tail flew towards the Black Star, with Yu Sheng sitting on it, clutching the fur underneath and holding a mass-produced puppet in his arms. The mass-produced puppet bore dead fish eyes, its small hands clutching the pitted Omen Wandering Star tightly.

——After all, the Black Star's internal environment was bizarre, with abnormal space, and the ball always floated around randomly. If it floated away after going inside, it would be hard to find it again.

The dark surface was getting closer in view, becoming an endless high wall, like the end of all things.

Yu Sheng gently shook the mass-produced puppet in his arms.

After a brief delay, the mass-produced puppet slowly tilted its head back with a vacant expression: "Wha...t?"

"It's nothing, just checking the connection."

The mass-produced puppet slowly lowered its head again: "Oh, okay..."

For the first time seeing this noisy little thing so quiet and sluggish, Yu Sheng found it quite amusing.

And almost at the same time, he crossed over the dark outer "shell" of the star body.

Feeling-wise, he couldn't perceive any change at all, and the protective spirit qi around the fox tail remained unaffected.

However, his spiritual awareness seemed to sense a kind of... anomaly.

At this moment, he felt as if the universe of all things had suddenly become distant, as if the entire reality had disappeared from his "perception," even feeling like he had... already left this universe.

All the starlight disappeared from view, and those blood-based connections, though still existing, all became distant and blurred.

Yu Sheng instinctively looked back, towards the direction of the fox tail propulsion flame.

The flame was weak, the fox tail was cruising at an extremely low speed, theoretically he crossed that thickness-free dark boundary distance in just over ten meters — yet those few meters seemed to span an entire universe.

"Wow... oh."

From Yu Sheng's embrace came a drawn-out, somewhat dumb-sounding exclamation.

Yu Sheng quickly looked down, seeing the mass-produced puppet with wide eyes slowly looking around.

"Your signal didn't break?"

"Still... okay," Erin said slowly, "Seems to be some interference, but still... can connect. Just feels like, my head's buzzing, lots of noise... making a racket."

Yu Sheng: "Huh?"

A lot of noise?!