Dimensional Hotel
Chapter 332: Connected Information

Chapter 332: Chapter 332: Connected Information

The interrogation in the room next door was still ongoing, and more and more shocking truths gradually surfaced over time.

A timeline was slowly becoming clear before Yu Sheng and Baili Qing.

The theory of the "world’s terminal illness" had always been a concept of the Venerate Saints Monastery from the beginning, and all their subsequent actions and research on the Dark Angel began with the mysterious "Adar Giant Pit" seventeen years ago, and the discovery of the angel’s remains, the "Shadowless Skeleton", at the bottom of the pit. In their research, they believed that the fragments of the Dark Angel, known as the "Angel Catalyst", could be used to "heal" this world. However, the Angel Catalysts found in the Adar Giant Pit had already lost their activity, so they turned their attention to Anka Aela...

And that was already ten years ago. They had been lurking in the Boundary Land for a whole decade to obtain Anka Aela’s "Angel Catalyst".

"Where did you learn about ’Anka Aela’?"

In the shadows, the interrogator’s calm voice resonated, containing powerful spiritual might that continuously weakened the mental strength of the monastery believer, making it difficult for him to rebuild his psychological defenses once he began to answer.

"...The information came from the Angel Sect believers, from a long-ago exchange."

"Did you reach a cooperation with the Angel Sect?" The interrogator leaned slightly forward, "You want the ’remains’ of the Dark Angel, which is blasphemy to the Angel Sect. Would they be willing to tell you the ’Lord’s’ secret?"

"We indeed had differences, but that doesn’t mean we can’t utilize each other," said the cultist on the chair, his head drooping, speaking slowly. "Moreover, they don’t even know the truth about the ’Angel Catalyst’—we explained it as some kind of ’gift’ left by the Dark Angel, and the Monastery hoped to receive this gift. Besides this, no details were revealed, and they mistakenly thought the Monastery had intentions of conversion, thus happily collaborating."

"Oh, so you also deceived your ’partners’?"

Upon hearing this, an unexpected smile appeared on the pale-faced man on the chair. He shook his head, a mocking tone in his voice: "Deception? The voice of the Angel had long burned away the sanity of those Angel Sect believers, who were flawed mortals, now with festering souls. Our deception of them was actually a form of salvation... yes, it wasn’t deception; it was pulling them back from the wrong path. Moreover, did we really deceive them? Why can’t the remains of the deceased Dark Angel be considered their ’gift’? Ultimately... it’s a gift, just not from a willing giver."

"Alright, let’s not dwell on these details," the interrogator shook his head, evidently having no interest in judging the deceit between two cult factions, "Then the next question—at that time Anka Aela was still alive, just sealed. How did you determine you could obtain Her ’Angel Catalyst’? You must know that before this incident, no one could have imagined that ’Angel Fall’ would occur."

This time, the cultist on the chair suddenly fell silent. After two or three seconds, he opened his mouth with a somewhat peculiar tone: "We didn’t expect ’Angel Fall’ to happen."

"Hmm?"

"We targeted Anka Aela simply because She might be the weakest known Dark Angel, and the only one unable to move due to being sealed, making Her a research subject—even though for a long time, we didn’t even know exactly where She was sealed," the cultist slowly said. "In our best projection, Anka Aela would be released by the Angel Sect believers, making the Boundary Land fight desperately. Even if the Boundary Land could not defeat Anka Aela, they should at least wound Her, similar to the Algredians’ war to kill the ’Beauty God’ at the frontier—during which there might be ’Angel Catalyst’ produced..."

From behind the observation window, Baili Qing pressed the button again: "So, you originally just planned to wait for an opportunity to fish in troubled waters, hoping to collect some Dark Angel fragments when both the Boundary Land and Anka Aela were heavily damaged?"

As soon as she spoke, Erin, who had been quiet beside Yu Sheng, muttered, "Well then, it turned into trying to catch fish in muddy waters... let them grope around aimlessly!"

Yu Sheng poked the little puppet on the head with a finger: "All your wit is used on puns, huh?"

Meanwhile, in the interrogation room next door, the cultist did not hear Yu Sheng and Erin’s voices. He only showed a complex, bitter smile, nodding slowly: "Yes, that was our initial plan. Therefore, when the ’Angel Fall’ suddenly occurred, many plans were disrupted, which indirectly led to... our subsequent exposure."

Interrogator: "Indirectly led to your exposure?"

"Simply put, due to the ’impact’ of Angel Fall on the spatial structure itself, coupled with our insufficient understanding of the Angel Catalyst, mistakes in contact and containment procedures... a series of reasons led to the overflow of catalyst power during an experiment, briefly puncturing space, which then made you discover the existence of the ’Deep Layer Boundary City’—what you call the ’Mist City’."

Behind the observation window, Yu Sheng and Baili Qing instinctively exchanged a glance upon hearing this sentence.

Yu Sheng instantly thought about how that "thick fog alien land" suddenly appeared—without any warning, but a series of frequent and short "tremors" had occurred near the opening point before its first activation, which didn’t resemble the normal characteristics of Exotic Realm openings, but rather some kind of human "interference"...

And that happened shortly after Angel Fall.

"Is that how it was?" he murmured to himself.

This way, it seems that the series of short "tremors" when "Mist City" first unleashed were not attempts to open the Exotic Realm, but rather failed attempts by the Monastery Sect believers to close it? Yet, they clearly underestimated the "puncture" power of the "Angel Catalyst." After hundreds of leaks and blocking attempts, Mist City still opened and swept someone inside...

The unlucky nephew played a great part in this.

Feeling a brief wave of sympathy for Zheng Zhi, Yu Sheng’s attention was soon pulled back by the speaker’s voice.

In the interrogation room next door, the interrogator’s low voice once again sounded: "About ’Mist City,’ or as you call it, the ’Deep Layer Boundary City,’ what do you know about it? How was this Exotic Realm formed?"

"I, I’m not really sure... Honestly!" said the cultist, seemingly trying hard to make his words sound more credible, "I just followed orders and boarded the ’Order Pillar,’ but before we arrived, that place already existed. Probably only the Sage or those at a higher level know the truth about that Exotic Realm... I only know that the scope of that Exotic Realm is vast, it seems as large as the entire Boundary Land, yes, an entire ’Boundary Land’ within the endless thick fog, right ’beneath’ the real Boundary Land..."

Observing through the window, Yu Sheng and others exchanged glances.

"Oh my..." Erin scratched her cheek, "Is it really that ridiculous? It’s not just the Boundary City, but even outside its region?"

"The richness of Boundary Land has increased again," Yu Sheng glanced at Baili Qing, spread his hands, "So you guys were actually living on the ’second floor’?"

Baili Qing remained silent, her expression turning cloudy.

Secrets right under the nose of the Special Service Bureau, unknown even to the Boundary Land people, ended up being revealed by a cultist from a monastery... This was obviously very displeasing to her usually calm and indifferent demeanor.

Looking at the now-cloudy Director sister, Yu Sheng wisely decided not to joke further with her.

After a couple of seconds, Baili Duoyun seemed to sort out her feelings, her face returning to normal. She pressed a button again: "So, you initially stole the ’Angel Catalyst’ from under our recovery team’s noses through this ’Mist City’ path hidden beneath the real world?"

She referred to the Ankaela Crystal mysteriously disappeared in the suburbs after the Angel Fall incident.

But the cultist in the interrogation room shook his head.

"Strictly speaking, it wasn’t ’stolen’ by us, it fell in by itself," he slowly said, "That crystal directly smashed the barrier between the real world and Deep Layer Boundary City, briefly creating a puncture point... I’ve mentioned that the Angel Catalyst has a very strong ’puncture’ characteristic, it has the potential to unleash this power even without intentional activation.

"At that time, we actually didn’t plan to take any action because Angel Fall disrupted all our plans, and the Special Service Bureau responded quicker than expected—the anticipated chaos didn’t occur, all eyes were fixed on the Angel Fall incident, the wilderness outside Boundary City was full of your posts and monitoring points, we had no chance to retrieve the Angel Catalyst that fell outside... Yet no one expected the crystal would directly drop into the thick fog..."

"Then you guys just picked it up?"

Baili Qing said into the microphone, and then turned back to look at Yu Sheng with an odd expression.

She clearly recalled something Yu Sheng said before——

It’s not unheard of for someone passing by to spot something shiny in a roadside pit and casually pocket it...

What could Yu Sheng say, he recalled his unintentional remark back then and could only awkwardly scratch his head: "The situation is a bit different from what I said before, that crystal’s so big, they probably couldn’t pocket it..."

Baili Qing: "..."