Dimensional Hotel
Chapter 366: The Scenery Beyond the Layered Rocks

Chapter 366: Chapter 366: The Scenery Beyond the Layered Rocks

In the dark and vast underground cavern, the long-haired figure looked somewhat dejected.

Yu Sheng felt quite surprised to see this scene, because it was the first time he had seen such a gloomy expression on the girl’s face. The long-haired princess was usually a complete optimist, her state of mind was perpetually in a mushroom-eaten state, and seeing her genuinely downtrodden was a rare sight.

Even Hu Li, who normally paid little attention to others, noticed this and curiously asked her, "What’s wrong with you?"

"Brother, I wonder if I shouldn’t have urged Zheng Zhi to lead the way for us," the long-haired princess looked at Yu Sheng with some helplessness, "or maybe he wouldn’t have gotten into trouble..."

"So you’re feeling down purely because of this?" Yu Sheng couldn’t help but feel a mixture of tears and laughter upon hearing her words. "You’re overthinking it—before you came, he spent over half a day exploring the areas around Spirit Storage Peak. Does he really need anyone to urge him on with that level of activity? And honestly, with his ’constitution,’ do you really think he’d get lost even if you didn’t ask him?"

The long-haired princess blinked as she listened, initially feeling that the other was comforting her, but then suddenly recalled Zheng Zhi’s many "achievements," and started to feel Yu Sheng might be right...

At this moment, the mermaid also shed her tail and returned to human form—Yu Sheng didn’t quite grasp how she managed to transform; in the blink of an eye, she was standing up—she looked around with wide eyes and, after several attempts to speak, finally said, "Did any of you hear a humming sound?"

"Humming sound?" Yu Sheng was puzzled, "I didn’t hear anything, what kind of sound?"

"It’s like... a mountain cave is humming? There are faint echoes everywhere," the mermaid explained as she observed her surroundings, "and it also sounds a bit like something is snoring."

Yu Sheng frowned and looked up at the others, "Did any of you hear it?"

Everyone indicated they hadn’t heard any such noise, even the long-haired princess shook her head. However, after shaking her head, she quickly added, "Salted fish can often hear sounds that ordinary people cannot, even low and high frequency vibrations that precise instruments can’t detect."

Everyone fell silent. Although no one else present could hear the "humming" that the mermaid mentioned, no one ignored this piece of information either.

The mechanical device inside True Man Qianji ticked softly, and after a moment of contemplation, broke the silence, "There’s a vibration, but the source is unknown, extremely faint."

The mermaid suddenly lifted her head and released a strange soft hum in a certain direction.

It was a very brief series of notes, sounding similar to a certain type of bird’s sharp call.

Then she produced a few more sounds, increasingly sharp and high-pitched, until they became indiscernible to human ears. Yu Sheng could only see her slightly open her mouth, unable to hear any sound.

Yu Sheng, puzzled by what he saw, suddenly realized that she was scanning the structure of this "cave."

He thought it was unnecessary—after all, the mechanical ball of True Man Qianji, Hu Li’s detecting tail, and the two guardians, White Cut and Salt Roasted, had already been dispatched. They had no lack of detection methods, and the mermaid’s "sonar" was unlikely to provide more information.

However, just as he was thinking this, a faint "crack" suddenly came from a distant dark area, interrupting his thoughts.

Yu Sheng instinctively looked up in the direction of the sound, and almost simultaneously, an even more distinct and loud strange sound emanated from that direction.

In the next second, he suddenly saw a faint light—right across from the "Underground Lake," deep within the shadowed rock wall, a horizontal rift of light suddenly brightened, capturing everyone’s attention!

Immediately following, that light began to rapidly expand, and the boundless darkness within the cavern seemed to be torn away by unseen hands. At the same time, Yu Sheng heard a deep rumble, like something stirring one’s heart, reverberating through the entire cavern as if the low hum of some giant beast echoed across the space.

The ground began to tremble, the previously tranquil surface of the "Underground Lake" began to ripple violently, and soon it was boiling over, the surrounding rock walls emitted unsettling creaking sounds, the glowing vines and various-sized stalactites hanging from the cavern ceiling shook and trembled. The distant light once again expanded, no longer a mere faint glow but becoming a bright and rapidly widening chasm, its edges displaying uneven contours—

Yu Sheng finally realized what it was.

It was teeth, a slowly opening mouth—they were all inside the mouth of a giant beast!

"Holy crap!!" Erin finally exclaimed out loud. Although the little puppet’s mind was mostly empty at times, at this moment she grasped the situation and instantly jumped onto Yu Sheng’s shoulder, "This thing is alive! Uh, Mermaid, how did you do this?!"

Even as she shouted, another boom of grinding rock rang out, further escalating the trembling of the entire cavern. In response, Hu Li instantly dropped to the ground, transforming into a gigantic Nine-tailed Silver Fox, using her body to shield Yu Sheng and the others.

The Mermaid had already stopped her "chanting," but when she turned back, she too looked bewildered. Upon hearing Erin’s exclamation, she immediately replied, "I don’t know either! I just kept hearing a buzzing sound. The more I listened, the more it sounded like a living creature softly humming, so I tried to mimic it in an attempt to communicate with it..."

"Salted fish, can you... next time when you have a similar thought, at least tell someone first!" Changfa’s voice sounded a bit frantic, and the trembling beneath her feet almost made her lose her balance—next second, her golden hair began to grow wildly, firmly supporting the surrounding rock walls and ground, forming an interwoven protection around her. "The ’lake’ is boiling! Oh, damn!"

Not even finished speaking, she heard a deep solemn voice suddenly coming from ahead. Looking up, she saw True Man Qianji had somehow floated to midair, his metallic Daoist Robe flickering with layers of brilliance. Countless mysterious runes lit up sequentially on the robe surface, as he raised his arm in a certain direction. The shell of his arm unfolded like fish scales, accompanied by talismans lighting up, a command echoed throughout the entire "cavern":

"Silence——"

And then the gigantic "giant beast" unexpectedly calmed down briefly, and the violently shaking "cavern" also regained stability for a moment.

Yu Sheng already stretched out his hand toward the air, preparing to open a door to send some people away. However, just before the door opened, he abruptly sensed a connection established through blood.

Instantly perceiving and judging the information carried within that connection, he stared with wide eyes at the mouth on the opposite side of the "lake."

"Zheng Zhi is over there!"

Changfa was bewildered: "What?!"

"He’s at the ’rift’ over there—he fell outside!"

Yu Sheng spoke quickly while already grabbing one of Hu Li’s tails proficiently, swiftly flipping onto the huge demon fox’s back, then waved to Changfa and the Mermaid: "Hurry up and get on!"

Changfa hesitated for a moment, after all, riding the Nine-Tailed Fox was a first in her life, but she quickly reacted, mimicking Yu Sheng’s moves as she darted onto the demon fox’s back. Next, the Magic Golden Hair grew crazily, and she also grabbed the still dazing Mermaid on the ground and tossed her beside her.

Several fluffy Fox Tails closed around Yu Sheng’s group, Protective Spirit Qi erected a layer of barrier emitting a faint glow, and in the next moment, Hu Li stepped towards the boiling "lake." She ran faster and faster, skimming over the lake surface, under Yu Sheng’s direction, heading for the open giant mouth in the distance.

Xuan Che and True Man Qianji each followed closely, riding the spiritual light.

The light spilling from the outside of the giant mouth had entirely dispelled the darkness in the "cavern." That light carried a streak of eerie dark red, as the demon fox and Immortal flew through this red glow, in an instant surpassing the seemingly vast and boundless "lake water" originally cloaked in darkness.

"...Turns out this water surface isn’t that large after all."

Erin lay on Yu Sheng’s shoulder, craning her neck to observe the water below, muttering subconsciously.

"Because it was dark before," Luna replied lazily at the side.

Yu Sheng’s gaze always fixed ahead.

Hu Li leapt over the great mouth.

Yu Sheng saw jagged giant stones, rocks covered in moss stood like blade barriers at the end of the "cavern’s" exit, and among these strange "teeth," there were also many severed vines and dead branches visible.

He saw rugged rock layers, as if a sheer mountain wall, beyond the giant mouth.

He could hardly imagine what kind of giant beast this might be—an alive mountain? Or a moving island?

"Fly upwards, follow that inclined edge, Zheng Zhi is up there." Yu Sheng directed Hu Li, meanwhile sketching the possible form of this "giant beast," while his gaze involuntarily looked further away, beyond the sharp teeth of the beast to the rock wall, trying to see what scenery lay beyond this giant beast.

There, he saw the torn planet, with its atmosphere evaporated completely.

A curved horizon came into everyone’s view, the land dotted with surging molten lava seas and fiery columns nearly spewing into space. A horrifying trench seemed to divide the entire celestial body in half, etched deeply into the torn ground, with molten fire rising from below, and above, the atmosphere had evaporated entirely, facing the maddening dark Universe with its countless stars trembling, falling, colliding, burning. An ominous red glow spread along the entire cosmic background, scorching the remaining everything on the planet.

The giant beast slowly crossed over the disintegrating planet, its deep and lamenting cries reverberating within the dwindling hometown atmosphere beside it.