Dimensional Hotel
Chapter 385: Navigation Plan Is No Plan

Chapter 385: Chapter 385: Navigation Plan Is No Plan

Upon hearing Zheng Zhi’s words, Yu Sheng didn’t speak for a moment; he simply looked in the direction of the fissure with the other.

He actually couldn’t see any "fissure," but through the limited blood connection established between him and Zheng Zhi, he could vaguely sense the presence of something there.

Immense, bizarre, boundless—approaching the limits of perception, the fissure seemed to be just a small extension of a much larger structure.

What exactly is that?

Erin reached out and poked Yu Sheng’s head, "Hey, Yu Sheng, do you think this has something to do with the ’Emperor’s Legacy’?"

Yu Sheng raised an eyebrow, "Why do you say that?"

"Everything’s happening all at once," Erin said matter-of-factly, "Also, previously, your nephew suddenly ’fell’ into the Exotic Realm on the main path of the Qianfeng Ling Mountain, and now this giant fissure appears nearby—there’s no way it’s all coincidence."

As the little puppet finished speaking, Hu Li, who wandered over, nodded in agreement, "I think so too. From a statistical and probabilistic standpoint, when two extremely unusual events occur at the same location within a short time frame, the likelihood of a connection between them is very high."

Erin blinked, listening to Hu Li’s words, then poked Yu Sheng’s head again, "What’s that silly fox talking about?"

"...The same thing you said," Yu Sheng glanced at the illiterate puppet on his shoulder, then thoughtfully rubbed his chin, "If this ’fissure’ was truly triggered by the Emperor’s Legacy, then it’s even more concerning."

Erin: "Why do you say that?"

"Because the Emperor’s Legacy has always existed, but for all these years, the Taixu Spirit Hub has been peaceful, indicating that it’s been in a ’dormant state,’" Yu Sheng said casually, "Now there’s suddenly a fissure, which only suggests that after years of calm, the Emperor’s Legacy is beginning to ’activate,’ and whatever the principle behind these ’activities’ might be, it only means one thing: today’s chaos is just the beginning."

Erin’s eyes widened, remaining silent for a long while.

Hu Li pondered seriously, his large, furry ears suddenly twitching, "Then why is it suddenly activating?"

Before Yu Sheng could speak, the image of masked black-clothed cultivators appeared in everyone’s minds.

"Two possibilities: either the ’legacy’ decided on its own to awaken after years of dormancy, or someone is stirring up trouble, attempting to ’activate’ this legacy," Yu Sheng spread his hands, "Which do you think it is?"

"That’s no question!" Erin immediately stood up on Yu Sheng’s shoulder, "It’s definitely someone causing trouble! I said that the black-clothed people we caught last time in the Exotic Realm aren’t the only ones in action; there must be many more hiding in corners and crevices trying to cause trouble..."

"We must hurry to that planet called ’Shuji,’" Yu Sheng reached out and pressed the wobbling puppet back onto his shoulder, "We need to quickly find that ’Yun Qingzi’ hiding behind the scenes... Don’t fall off, wobbling like that!"

At this moment, True Man Yuanling, who was initially communicating with the ’Omen Wandering Star,’ also came over. Upon hearing the conversation, the old man looked especially solemn, "The geomantic energy around here remains very unstable. Like you said, all this is just a beginning. If we don’t find Elder Yun Qingzi and resolve the Emperor’s Legacy, there will inevitably be more trouble here."

He paused, thought for a moment, and said, "It’s urgent; I’ll arrange a Long-range Immortal Boat to take you to ’Shuji’ right away."

As soon as the old man finished speaking, Yu Sheng waved with a smile, as if he was already expecting this sentence, "No need for the trouble. Our travel agency has a spaceship; just prepare the passage documents and navigation coordinates for me."

As Yu Sheng finished speaking, Erin instantly stood up again on his shoulder, "Our spaceship can fly?!"

"Of course, the ship could fly all along," Yu Sheng had to reach out and press the puppet down once more, "The reason we’ve been waiting is just because the ship was made by the Venerate Saints Monastery and required modifications, plus the main control system needed a reset—although the modifications aren’t entirely completed, the outer coating is done, and the star map and navigation systems are already usable, which is enough for me."

Erin blinked, "What about the parts that aren’t finished yet?"

"Let’s continue the modifications while flying; anyway, all the external construction that needed to dock at the platform is done," Yu Sheng said casually. "Now the remaining work is all internal, like subsystem adjustments—The technical team sent by the Special Service Bureau is staying on the ship now. I’ve even set up a door on the ship for them to go directly to the Special Service Bureau. When they need to change shifts, they just open the door in D-2 passageway to return to Boundary City. It doesn’t matter where the ship actually is."

Erin was left dumbfounded. Although as a kindergarten level illiterate she basically didn’t understand interstellar navigation, she could still hear the oddity in Yu Sheng’s description: "...Is that really okay?! I mean, I don’t really know what a subsystem is, but can you really take off without solving these problems?! And making modifications while flying... Why does this sound so unreliable to me? Won’t it blow up halfway?!"

"Rest assured, you know my piloting skills and operation methods," Yu Sheng said confidently. "Theoretically, as long as the engine can provide thrust, I could drive a drum washing machine to the edge of a star system. It’s certainly easier with those subsystems, but even without them, I can brute-force my way through..."

Erin was stunned: "...This makes me feel even less assured, okay?!"

But apparently, she was the only one on the scene finding it unreliable. On the side, Hu Li’s eyes lit up upon hearing the ship at home could fly, and her tail wagged fiercely, creating a small whirlwind of dust: "I think our savior is right!"

On the other side, though Luna didn’t have such an intense reaction, she nodded slightly and made a dull sound: "Mm, right."

Erin blinked, looked at the confident Yu Sheng, then at Hu Li and Luna beside her, before finally letting out a long sigh: "Alright then, after all, you did manage to bring that thing back successfully back then..."

True Man Yuanling had been standing beside without interjecting because he was unfamiliar with the situation inside the "travel agency," nor had he seen what the "spaceship" that Yu Sheng mentioned was. Seeing them reach a consensus, he stroked his beard and stepped forward: "Then I’ll arrange for you the passage permit and the navigation coordinates to Shuji."

Yu Sheng nodded: "Alright, let’s go up and meet your Senior Brother and True Man Qianji."

True Man Yuanling nodded slightly, then waved his hand, and the hovering platform that brought the group down silently floated back over.

Meanwhile, between those towering Demon Suppression Stone Pillars and countless thick chains, the "Omen Wandering Star" bound tightly was slowly moving its body, and its terrifying face turned to look at Yuanling and Yu Sheng’s group as they returned to the platform preparing to leave.

"Don’t act rashly," True Man Yuanling said calmly at the edge of the platform, looking at the stone sphere, "Act rashly, and you die."

"You’ve tried so many times, but I won’t ’die’," the stone sphere slowly grinned, squeezing a mocking smile between its jagged sharp "teeth"—no one could decipher what this strange sphere was truly thinking from its inhuman and horrifying face, as if each expression was merely a kind of non-human mimicry. "But you can rest assured, I’m not going anywhere. I’ll just watch from down here. The brief flourishing and demise of mortal civilization mean nothing to eternity. You all will eventually vanish, just like this toxic planet... I have the patience."

The Omen Wandering Star babbled on, then slowly lowered its face, muttering to itself as if alone: "The end of all struggles is extinction, the only truth in the world is such a sad truth."

Before it could finish, a black "spider silk" swiftly crossed dozens of meters and slapped the surface of the stone sphere with a "snap".

The Omen Wandering Star immediately shut up and stopped moving.

"Nonsense, ugly and talks a lot of rubbish," Erin sat on Yu Sheng’s shoulder with her arms akimbo, retracting the spider silk, still glaring at the Omen Wandering Star displeased. "I’m telling you, with your spooky babbling, you wouldn’t even survive the opening cutscene in a game. At most, you’d be gone in the beginner tutorial..."

The floating platform slowly ascended, gradually accelerating, and soon carried Yu Sheng and the group away.

The "Omen Wandering Star", confined between the Demon Suppression Stone Pillars, remained quietly in place. After being whipped by Erin’s spider silk, it stayed motionless, but it probably always behaved like a stone, staying unmoving, so much that True Man Yuanling didn’t even notice its sudden prolonged "stillness" this time.

Time passed unknowingly, until the "Omen Wandering Star" suddenly trembled in place, as if awakening and rebooting from a kind of temporary "shutdown," the terrifying huge stone sphere shuddered, then a large amount of gray-white debris rustled down from its surface. The spot hit by the black "spider silk" exposed black, seemingly abyssal cracks of extreme void.

But these terrifying "wounds" vanished in a flash; within a few breaths, the gray-white debris floated back from the ground, refilling the stone sphere’s surface deficits.

The Omen Wandering Star hesitated and floated upwards, and the chains binding it clattered, while tiny sparks flickered and jumped between the Immortal Talisman tied to the chains. After a brief state of confusion and thought, a dream-like murmuring came from the stone sphere’s gaping mouth—

"...Omen?"