Alien Hotel

Yu Sheng didn't know why the woman opposite who called herself the Director of the Secret Service suddenly froze. He just looked at her curiously. Seeing that she didn't speak, he took the initiative to open the topic: "By the way, when your Secret Service came into contact with the client" The standards are high enough. I thought it would be Li Lin and others coming to meet me, but I didn't expect that I met the director directly - have you always been like this? "

Baili Qing quickly returned to her usual calm demeanor: "No, only under special circumstances." "Under special circumstances?"

"For example, a "weirdo" who has lived in a foreign land for a long time but has lived in the border area as an 'ordinary person' for more than twenty years..." Baili Qing looked into Yu Sheng's eyes, "I'm sorry. , hope you don't mind me calling you this way. "

"Well, I don't mind, but am I really so strange in your eyes?" Yu Sheng was a little embarrassed, "I saw the same reaction from Li Lin and Xu Jiali before. My living situation surprised them, although it was also It’s not that I can’t understand it.”

"Perhaps you don't feel it yourself," Baili Qing sighed, "Many people in the Secret Service are paying attention to your actions. Just in the past few days...a large number of operators are busy with this."

Yu Sheng opened his mouth: "...Huh?"

Baili Qing looked at him: "You have the ability to open doors, right?" "

"Ah, yes," Yu Sheng nodded, reached out and grabbed a handful in the air next to him, and a door appeared out of thin air around him, "Li Lin and I used this thing to come back...

Before he could finish speaking, the woman opposite suddenly raised her hand: "No need to demonstrate!" Baili Qing, who had always been calm and indifferent, rarely got so excited.

Yu Sheng let go of the hand holding the doorknob in a nonchalant manner. Seeing the other party's reaction, he vaguely understood: "Then what... looks like this, will it affect you when I open the door?"

"When you open a door, the entire junction will observe space-time vibrations of unknown origin," Baili Qing said bluntly, "The staff responsible for relevant monitoring have been very dissatisfied recently - you really don't feel it? ?”

Yu Sheng's expression was a little dull, and his eyes gradually became more subtle. After a while, he shook his head with a strange look in his eyes: "I don't think so. If I open the door together, the impact will be great on the entire junction." Huh? You mean I’d better not use this ability in the future?”

He was obviously not happy when he said this. After all, the "door" is really easy to use. He has only recently become familiar with this ability and tasted its convenient benefits. At this time, someone from the Secret Service suddenly came over and said this thing Disturbing people...that's a bit awkward.

But looking at the attitude of the female director in front of me, it seems that the degree of "disturbing the people" by opening the door is... indeed not small, which is a bit embarrassing.

Of course, Baili Qing noticed Yu Sheng's emotions. After thinking for a moment, she shook her head: "I just want to make a suggestion. I hope you can try to control the frequency of 'opening the door' in the future, at least... don't do it like before. Open hundreds of cracks overnight, or at least report it in advance. After all, this is you. ability, and it itself does not actually cause substantial damage to the border area. In principle, we cannot directly prohibit such behavior - of course, the premise is that you are willing to cooperate with us in doing some registration in your legal capacity, and we will also cooperate Your ability to make some technical adjustments to monitoring methods.”

Yu Sheng was a little surprised.

The female director in front of me looks cold and serious, giving people a feeling that she is very difficult to get along with, but I didn't expect that she is actually quite... easy to talk to.

Of course Yu Sheng knew what was going on when she mentioned "hundreds of cracks opened overnight". He really didn't feel anything at the time, but now even if he just imagines it, he can imagine that he actually felt it that night. What a fuss was made - just now, the "Director Bailiqing" in front of him was actually willing to negotiate and resolve this matter with him in a serious manner, and even came over to discuss it in person...

Yu Sheng was not a dazed young man of fifteen or sixteen years old. Of course he knew how much of a proactive attitude this was from an "official" perspective.

This "good negotiation" even caught him off guard - he was already ready to have a battle of wits with the Secret Service as soon as Bailiqing mentioned the matter of "nuisance to the people", but as a result, the cotton was knocked out before the punch came out. It's already stained my face.

Instead, he felt a little embarrassed: "That's easy to say, it's definitely not a problem to register... But I have a few questions, can you answer them first?" Baili Qing nodded: "Of course, you want to What to ask?"

“First, what kind of organization is your ‘Secret Service’? "Yu Sheng immediately sorted out the questions that had been hidden in his stomach for a long time, and said seriously, "What is the nature of it? How wide is the management? "

"Are you just curious about these?" Baili Qing seemed a little surprised by the issues that students were concerned about, but she still quickly said, "The Secret Service, the full name is 'Special Security and Service Security Bureau', is the highest management agency in the border area - The department directly managed by the Council is also the highest-level official department in the borderland that handles all kinds of 'paranormal events' such as foreign lands, entities, weirdness, etc. If the borderland is divided into 'natural' and 'unnatural' sides, you can think that we are The highest responsible unit on the 'unnatural' side.

"But our scope of activities, or jurisdiction, is not limited to the border area - I don't know if you have understood the special characteristics of the border area..." Baili Qing stopped and looked into Yu Sheng's eyes.

"The special nature of the junction." Yu Sheng frowned and immediately remembered the various information he had heard from Irene before, as well as one thing he realized when he opened the doors to the distance -

This world is far more than just one junction. There are countless "distances" outside this weird "city".

"I probably know something about it," Yu Sheng said while thinking, "Judging from the name, it seems to be connected to many places? It is said that there are all kinds of weird things here, but they are all hidden under the appearance of 'normal'... "

"Hide those things that are beyond common sense and beyond the 'standard' of the junction, and let the city operate and develop according to the 'standard parameters', is one of the jobs of the Secret Service," Baili Qing nodded lightly, "Just like you As you can understand, this place is connected to many places, the number and breadth of which are connected....beyond anyone's imagination. You can imagine the whole world as a "big network" woven by countless transportation lines. These "transportation lines" do not exist in the real dimension, and ordinary people cannot perceive them, but on the "unnatural" side, They are intertwined, they influence each other, and there is a place where all the lines meet...

"That's the junction."

Baili Qing paused and confirmed that Yu Sheng could fully understand these things before continuing to speak.

"The job of the Secret Service is, first, to maintain the boundary between 'natural' and 'unnatural' within the border area and ensure order on the 'unnatural' side. Second, it is to deal with those who come from the 'traffic network'. "All the threats that are spreading towards this "intersection point" - whether they come from just a short distance away or from deep space 36 billion light years away. "

Yu Sheng's eyes widened, and it took him a few seconds before he said, "...Isn't the distance between the two of them a bit too big?"

"As far as the special attributes of the 'junction' are concerned, their distances are the same," Baili Qing said calmly, and raised her finger to point at Yu Sheng, "For you, isn't it the same?"

Yu Sheng was startled and quickly understood the meaning of the other party's words.

"Among the hundreds of cracks, the number of cracks pointing tens of billions of light-years away is no less than double digits." Baili Qing said calmly. Yu Sheng said nothing.

His expression was calm, but his thoughts were racing in his heart.

In fact, he was not surprised. When those doors opened, he had already guessed it - how far are those distant scenery?

He didn't have a clear answer, but when he and Eileen discussed it enthusiastically, he felt that... some of them might be as far away as the limit of his imagination. The numbers he heard from Baili Qing at this moment were just like a "footnote" that suddenly appeared in his imagination at that moment.

What really shocked Yu Sheng was the "coverage" of the "Secret Service" - he had met Li Lin, an "operator" who worked with him in the supermarket to collect instant noodles, and he would also disguise himself as a squatter when stalking. The spirited young man who posted short videos on the roadside (he was already on the right track at this time), his style of painting could be said to be just that of a film policeman at best, just such a character... suddenly it was said that the organization behind him had a background of Stars and Seas, That's really hard to imagine...

But Yu Sheng hesitated for a long time, and he was too embarrassed to talk about his feelings at this moment to the "director" in front of him. Mainly because he was worried that it would affect Li Lin's career.

Yu Sheng didn't say anything, Baili Qing didn't say anything either, and the two of them fell into a brief silence. It wasn't until half a minute passed that Baili Qing took the initiative to break the silence: "Is there anything else you want to ask?"

"Yes," Yu Sheng immediately cleared away the messy thoughts in his mind, sorted out his words and then said, "Next question, is there only one Boundary City...?"