Dimensional Hotel
Chapter 405: Yu Sheng’s Scheme (Correct)

Chapter 405: Chapter 405: Yu Sheng’s Scheme (Correct)

After returning to the "Immortal Gathering Continent," the first thing Yu Sheng did was run to the bathroom to fill the tub with hot water for the little puppet.

The mechanical doll won’t catch a cold—but it will run all over the place, scratching and leaving muddy footprints everywhere.

The sound of the rushing hot water echoed, creating ripples in the bathtub big enough for Erin to use as a swimming pool. The rising steam dispelled the chill of the rainy night, and the sound of the water gradually calmed the slightly chaotic thoughts.

Yu Sheng stood with his arms crossed beside the bathtub, a bit lost in thought as he watched the churning water. Dirty all over, Erin (Reinforced Steel) lay beside the tub, trying hard to tiptoe and watch the water level rise. Steam wafted over the little puppet’s face, and she laughed joyfully, reaching out to try to scoop up the hot water but couldn’t quite reach.

"Is it ready yet?" Erin turned her head, looking up at Yu Sheng, "It’s been filling for ages now."

"Just a few more minutes, adding more hot water makes it easier to get clean," Yu Sheng replied absentmindedly, then glanced at the trail of muddy footprints Erin had left in the bathroom, "...Should I throw you in the shower first for a quick rinse?"

Erin thought for a moment, her eyes gleaming with mischief. Seizing the chance while Yu Sheng was distracted, she suddenly pounced on him, her tiny paws grabbing onto his pants: "Ha—"

Instantly, there were two small handprints on Yu Sheng’s pants.

"Oh, come on," Yu Sheng jumped up on the spot, dodging backward while quickly grabbing Erin by her waistband and lifting her into the air, "What’s gotten into you all of a sudden!"

"Ah haha..." Erin giggled as she dangled in the air, not feeling tense at all, "Serves you right for zoning out so often; you always go brain-dead when you’re distracted..."

Yu Sheng thought for a moment, glanced at the now-full hot water tub, and without a second thought, tossed the little puppet in.

Erin immediately flailed in the tub, sputtering angrily: "Blub blub! Blub... blub blub!!"

Yu Sheng didn’t understand a word she was saying.

But his mood improved.

He clapped his hands, ignoring the little puppet now dog-paddling in circles in the tub, turned, and headed toward the bathroom door, just as Hu Li pushed the door open and walked in.

The demon fox girl was holding an armful of tails.

Yu Sheng paused, "What are you going to do with those?"

"Got caught in the rain, need to wash them with hot water, or they’ll get coarse and uncomfortable the next day," Hu Li said seriously, then noticed the two handprints on Yu Sheng’s pants, "...Erin causing trouble again?"

Yu Sheng waved his hand with a smile, "No big deal, these pants needed washing anyway."

"Then just leave the pants outside the bathroom door after you change, I’ll wash them for you," Hu Li laughed, "I have lots to wash anyway~~"

"Sure."

Yu Sheng walked out the door, while Hu Li, still holding her bundle of tails, spun around the bathroom twice, only to find there wasn’t a suitable place to wash the tails.

Suddenly, Erin, who was splashing in the tub, felt a chill run down her spine. She looked up reflexively to see a massive ball of fur made of tails approaching her.

"Silly fox, what are you doing... I’m warning you! I’m warning you not to come any closer! This is my bathing spot! We have a washing machine at home, go wash your tails there, aaaah..."

Seemingly oblivious to the protests coming from the tub, Hu Li raised her hand and tossed the mass of tails into the hot water, then brought over a stool and began scrubbing—at first, it was her own tails she was scrubbing, but soon enough, she was scrubbing Erin who had been caught in the fluffy tails.

The main thing is to ’share the blessings of rain and dew’, no matter what comes out of the pool today, it has to be squeaky clean.

There seems to be a lively noise coming from the bathroom—but that doesn’t really have anything to do with Yu Sheng.

He pushed open the door and went straight into No. 66 Wutong Road, went home to change into some clean and refreshing clothes, and then returned to the living room of the "Immortal Gathering Continent" hotel suite.

At this time, Zheng Zhi was sitting behind the coffee table, holding a phone and writing his work report. Master Yuan Hao was communicating with Qianfeng Ling Mountain through the Lingxi Mirror, seeming to discuss the situation on Shuji’s side. Luna, in her usual statue-like pose, stood motionless by the window—actually, she was in the Soul Wilderness with her Knight Order, continuing to work on the details of the great cathedral.

Aside from these three, there was also a small puppet in the most open part of the living room—Erin (pika) was still in a state with electricity buzzing all over her. No one dared to touch her, so she was sitting cross-legged in a non-obtrusive place. When Yu Sheng came out after changing clothes, this little thing was sulking and immediately started buzzing loudly upon seeing him: "Yu Sheng, go deal with that silly fox! She’s washing her tail in my bathtub and scrubbed me along with it... It’s just because I zapped her a few times before..."

"You do realize it’s because you were mischievous beforehand, right?" Yu Sheng raised an eyebrow at her words, initially intending to walk over and give the little puppet a pat on the head to placate her, but seeing the zapping electric state she was in, he stopped himself just in time. Keeping his distance, he slightly frowned, "I mean... you haven’t finished discharging yet? You can’t keep buzzing like this afterward, right?"

"I’m discharging, discharging. This kind of overcharged electricity definitely can’t be stored; it’s just discharging a bit slowly," Erin said while raising her hand, showing the steel cable she was holding—extending from the living room to the windowsill and hanging down the building’s exterior wall outside, "I even attached a grounding wire... But for some reason, it’s still discharging so slowly even with the grounding wire."

Yu Sheng couldn’t help but frown: "So, you’re basically a short circuit, aren’t you?"

"Uh, is there a difference?" The little puppet blinked her eyes and raised her other hand to rub it in the air, seemingly wanting to test the remaining electricity in her body. Just as she snapped her fingers, a nearly two-meter-long arc of electricity shot from her fingertips, making everyone in the room feel their hair stand on end. Zheng Zhi was so startled that he immediately hid next to Master Yuan Hao: "Let me borrow your shield, borrow your shield..."

"Stop, stop, stop!" Seeing this, Yu Sheng quickly waved his hand, "You might end up frying the hotel’s stuff... If it really doesn’t work, I can open a door to outer space for you? Find a place on the orbit with no people to ’discharge’ the extra energy, ’cause you can’t just keep buzzing like this."

After considering Yu Sheng’s suggestion, Erin actually thought about it seriously, her expression even a bit eager: "Sounds kind of interesting..."

However, she soon shook her head: "Better not, it seems too noisy, and if I lose control, this body might overload and burn out, which would be a big loss. I guess I’ll just keep ’leaking’ like this, though slow, at least it’s stable."

Saying that, she looked down at herself and raised her arm to gesture at Yu Sheng: "And look, actually the sparks leaking from my body are much less than before!"

No need for her to point it out; Yu Sheng also noticed that the electric light around the little puppet was much less than when she returned, just as she said—the overcharged electricity can’t be stored.

In a way, a 400% charged light cannon to destroy the world sounds cool, but the side effect is that she has to keep leaking electricity for a while, and judging by the current rate, Yu Sheng estimates she’ll be buzzing for at least two more days...

"Seeing it like this, I feel your body has a lot of room for improvement," with all sorts of creative ideas rolling in his mind, Yu Sheng muttered, rubbing his chin, "Getting struck by lightning could charge you, even overcharge several times without damage, and yet you can’t store the overcharge, continuously leaking electricity... Whether pros or cons, this was something completely unforeseen in the initial design."

Erin rolled her eyes at his words: "Honestly, did you really ’design’ when you first crafted this body for me? Weren’t you just making it up as you went along?"

"How is making it up not designing?" Yu Sheng instantly retorted seriously, then rubbed his chin again, "I’m being serious, though, what happened this time is quite enlightening. I have a feeling the ’traits’ of your body could be utilized; if we get the mechanism right, it could potentially lead to developing some powerful techniques."

Erin looked up at Yu Sheng: "Well, it’s not like we can find someone to strike me with lightning every time we fight, right? Regular charging methods can’t achieve this effect, and when I’m at home using that ’charging station’ you made, it just stops once it’s full..."

Yu Sheng didn’t answer, just looked at the little puppet in front of him with a contemplative expression, making her increasingly uneasy: "Yu Sheng, your look is a bit dangerous, let me tell you, what do you plan to do?"

"I suddenly have an idea," an idea slowly brewing in Yu Sheng’s mind, now ready to be shared, "Up to now, every body I’ve made for you is ’unique’, each can be seen as different ’models’ with non-interchangeable abilities. But what if I made some ’mass-produced’ bodies for you based on a unified standard? Using the same materials and ’craftsmanship’, creating shells of the same standard—would these bodies possibly ’cooperate’ with each other?

"Taking this idea further, your current body has the ’trait’ of storing and discharging energy, so if there were multiple such bodies, all fully charged—"

Yu Sheng paused, watching the little puppet go from bewildered to pensive and gradually widen her eyes, and a smile appeared on his face.

"How about trying to create an Erin Matrix or something?" He said, rubbing his chin and looking eager, "After all, Hu Li can mass-produce the core material, and other materials can just be soil from the valley. The main cost would be the essential oils for the ritual, which we can get from the Special Service Bureau—it turns out quite cheap that way."

Erin listened in stunned silence for a while, finally clapping her hands: "Although something about this feels off, your idea sounds really exciting!"

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