Dimensional Hotel
Chapter 335: Preparing for a Rainy Day

Chapter 335: Chapter 335: Preparing for a Rainy Day

Before today, Yu Sheng’s impression of the dangers posed by the Venerate Saints Monastery wasn’t very deep—he only knew it was a fanatical extremist group, knew of their major unethical actions regarding the Artificial Saintess and the Brass Knight, and was aware they possessed plenty of black technology while occupying a region, causing considerable trouble for many forces. However, he lacked a real sense of the threat this organization posed to the outside world.

As a matter of fact, he had a deeper impression of the Angel Sect, after all, the Angel Sect truly woke a sleeping Dark Angel, and almost blew up the Boundary Land...

But now he understood why the Venerate Saints Monastery is rightly listed among the world’s three major tumors alongside the Angel Sect and Black Dot Group—in fact, he believed the Monastery was more dangerous than the Angel Sect.

Because they have culture, not only culture, but organization, and even a steadfast action plan!

The Angel followers merely chant verses when encountering situations, chanting until the Dark Angel drives them crazy, then consider it a success; aside from this, they are scattered like loose sand, but the Monastery madmen... they treat the Angel as research material, aiming to develop mass destruction weapons and produce them at scale! For this goal, they would stealthily operate a ship in the treacherous Exotic Realm for ten years, actively seeking Dark Angel descent points everywhere, even dancing on the razor’s edge under the noses of major forces like the Boundary Council and Taixu Spirit Hub!

"We will immediately contact the Qianfeng Ling Mountain and other forces," Baili Qing’s tone was particularly severe, her expression more grave than usual, "The Monastery believers we found in Boundary Land and Feiyu-13b may not be all, these cultists are like cockroaches; when you discover one, they might already have spread everywhere."

"Focus on checking areas where Dark Angels have descended," Yu Sheng said on the side, "The Monastery’s target is the ’Angel Catalyst’ produced after an Angel Fall, but Dark Angel descent is entirely irregular, so they are most likely observing and sampling locations with previous Angel descent incidents."

"That’s true," Baili Qing said, "And not just places where Angels descended, also find survivors who lived through Angel descent events... The Monastery is highly likely to try contacting them."

"It’s been over ten years, some may have already contacted the Monastery, even been converted into undercover agents," Hu Li suddenly interjected, having sat quietly listening without much speaking, "We also need to be cautious not to alert them."

Yu Sheng glanced at the fox girl in surprise, realizing this seemingly dazed Nine-Tailed Fox was also following the conversation, unlike Erin who was genuinely spacing out.

Of course, Luna was even more impressive—she seemed to have crashed again.

"Don’t worry, we will inevitably proceed with caution." Baili Qing solemnly nodded, her gaze then fell on the distant platform’s Ankaela Crystal.

Yu Sheng also noticed her gaze.

"It’s still uncertain how these crystals react, but one thing is certain, these ’Angel Catalysts’ aren’t as harmless as they appear," Baili Qing said softly, "It’s necessary to add a few safety measures."

Yu Sheng nodded: "For example, avoid jumping while carrying Ankaela Crystal."

...

After leaving the Special Service Bureau, Yu Sheng didn’t go home, but directly took Erin, Hu Li, and Luna to the ship in the valley.

Technical experts from the Special Service Bureau were still wrangling with the complex and bizarre core system of the ship.

Frankly speaking, during normal ’sailing,’ Yu Sheng didn’t really use most of the ship’s systems, since controlling its voyage was practically just moving his own ’limbs,’ teleporting home merely added the coordinates as a ’door’ in the Phase Engine’s jump parameters, the entire process was purely ’Super System’—in terms from Boundary Land, it was more akin to a ’Mechanical Soul’ steering the ship.

He himself was the ship’s Mechanical Soul.

But he understood the necessity of the ship’s vast control systems, especially regarding navigation and jumping.

After all, his ’door’ aside from random teleportation could only lead to places he had been, and to reach some unfamiliar coordinates on a star map, he needed the ship’s own navigation and jump functionalities—he as a ’Mechanical Soul’ was merely placing commands into these systems more conveniently.

In the ship bridge control hall, a scruffy, tall and lean middle-aged man was busy in front of the main control platform, the console before him had been opened up, several external cables extending from it connected to multiple terminals beside him, every terminal’s screen rapidly refreshing with numerous dazzling data and patterns.

Nearby, several people looking like assistants were busy in other places, some connecting additional read-write devices to other control platforms, some resetting the operating states of certain subsystems, and others communicating with personnel from other workgroups via communicators - while things were hectic here in the Control Hall, several groups were performing similar tasks in the spaceship’s server cabin, subsystem cabin, disaster recovery database, and other areas.

When Yu Sheng and others came in, they saw this tense and busy scene, and apart from the middle-aged man guarding the main control platform who looked up to greet him, everyone in the hall didn’t even have time to lift their heads.

Yu Sheng didn’t mind at all, he fully understood the state of these technical personnel needing to be completely focused at this moment, only... his own "feeling" was a bit strange at the moment.

Because he was completely connected to this ship.

He could even feel the process of these technical groups connecting a bunch of wires inside his "body" to refresh the system here.

Yes, refreshing the system, the main task of these technology experts was to refresh the system of this ship produced by the Monastery, changing its core program to the Special Service Bureau version, and by the way updating its navigation identification code to a legal sequence.

"My dad used to do similar things," Hu Li, standing beside Yu Sheng watching for a while, suddenly muttered, "We have an old ’Immortal Shuttle’ at home, sometimes it just wouldn’t fly properly, and Dad would connect a bunch of wires like this and then it was fixed... but sometimes it couldn’t be fixed and it would be sent to the factory after Mom scolded him."

As she spoke, she pulled a sausage out of her tail, tearing it open with her sharp teeth while mumbling, "But that ship is much smaller than this one."

Yu Sheng reached out and rubbed the fur behind the fox girl’s ears, then came to the main control platform and curiously asked, "How is the progress now?"

"We have started rewriting its main system, and the progress is smoother than expected," the scruffy middle-aged technical expert looked up at Yu Sheng, "those cultists wiped the original star map and navigation data of this ship thoroughly, which saved us a lot of trouble - however, the data port used by its Phase Engine is... unique, most universal star maps cannot be directly mounted in, which requires some time for recompilation.

"Additionally, we received orders to crack the database of the ’Holy Coffin’ without causing any damage to the Holy Coffin itself, and this work has just started, you may need to be patient for a while - mainly because it’s the first time we’ve encountered this setup, even though it still uses a set of classic instruction architecture from the Monastery, the underlying code includes many weird things, some old experiences don’t apply."

Yu Sheng thought for a moment but couldn’t understand, though he wasn’t interested in the technical details themselves either, so after a moment of thought, he asked another question he was interested in: "The ship’s identification code is currently still the Monastery’s set, right?"

The technical expert was slightly stunned and paused his work, looking up at Yu Sheng: "Yes, but we will update its identification code to a legal sequence after updating the main system..."

"Can the old one be retained?" Yu Sheng asked earnestly.

"...Ah?"

"Just retain two sets of navigation identification codes," Yu Sheng scratched his head, "I don’t really understand technical matters, don’t mind my mistake, is it technically feasible? Retain this ship’s identification code in the Monastery’s spaceship system while maintaining its identification code as a legal ship, switching as needed."

The technical expert in front of him responded: "You mean..."

"Just in case it might be useful in the future," Yu Sheng rubbed his chin, "for infiltration or something."

"What you’re saying is technically feasible, it’s just retaining a ’shadow system’, but practically it’s difficult to achieve the effect you want," the technical expert seemed troubled, "mainly because this ship is certainly already flagged on the Monastery’s side, especially these infiltration ships, basically treated under ’lost contact means betrayal’, its old identification code is likely on the alert list in the Monastery’s system, using it for infiltration won’t achieve anything, quite the opposite, it’s more likely to immediately summon an entire fleet."

"Well, that makes sense," Yu Sheng pondered for a moment, but then still waved his hand, "No worries, just retain the old one too, just in case it’s useful."

The technical expert blinked, seemingly a bit unaccustomed to Yu Sheng’s rhythm of coming up with inexplicable ideas after thinking for a bit, but quickly remembered the instructions from the top before departing from the bureau—

Don’t delve into "his" thought process, don’t be curious about "his" purpose, these are matters the director needs to consider, just follow what "he" says as long as "he" isn’t trying to overthrow the entire Boundary Land, don’t worry about the irrelevant details...

"Understood, everything will go according to your idea."