Dimensional Hotel-Chapter 599: New Job, New Environment

Luo realized that whenever she's involved with Yu Sheng, things never go well for her. However, considering she had already signed a soul-selling contract with this new boss (which is how she viewed the Blood Transferring Ceremony), any regrets or lamentations were too late. For now, she could only accept her fate.

It's only fair to say that switching sides can be like this; a legal license is a path of no return. Once you take it, you can only follow it to the end of darkness... into the depths of brightness, where an even more brilliant future awaits, much more thrilling than Subspace and Black Spirit Ability.

The team of Star Scholars led by Master Alvin would stay at Black Stone Station for a while. Besides continuing detailed work transitions, they would continue with the repair engineering of the space station system under Luo's guidance, especially since the original technical team had disappeared. Any remaining guards around her could handle some space station maintenance tasks but were ultimately not real technical personnel—Luo was almost like a solitary commander, desperately needing more hands.

The Engineering Immortals sent by Mo Ran to Black Stone Station were not influenced by Luo. They would continue assisting Yu Sheng with the welding repairs of the space station's main body, but since the technical routes of Feiyu Star Domain and Algerde differed, once the main body repair was completed, these Artifact Refining Masters could be of very little further assistance. According to the current progress estimates, these Guardian People would likely withdraw in about half a month.

Yu Sheng took Luo for a round near the Core Cabin Segment of the Rift Laboratory, allowing her to see with her own eyes the current operational status of the space station.

To summarize the operational status in one sentence: It's not the so-called control system maintaining the operation of the space station's core area at this stage but Yu Sheng's Seeking Thought Power.

"Currently, the main system is still offline, and the stable environment inside the space station is basically maintained by me," Yu Sheng explained the current situation to the golden-haired elf beside him in a rest area near the Rift Laboratory. In front of them was a huge ecological wall, with the wall structure formed by high-strength polymers filled with liquid, with lush aquatic plants slowly releasing bubbles within, "I've marked several areas for you on the station's guide map.

"The green areas are livable zones, the yellow areas are somewhat harsh environments that you should be able to withstand, and the red areas require protective equipment—except for those Guardian Immortals who can chant a Five Elements Body Protection Spell and enter to weld the boards…

"The reactor situation is fine, the team led by Alvin managed to fix it, but one set of mass coupler or something still runs unstably, ask them about it later.

"The high orbit on Shuji's side can provide long-term docking for Black Stone Station, with material supplies delivered by the 'Spirit Sparrow Platform's freight Immortal Boat—the Spirit Sparrow Platform is the 'Orbital Immortal Palace' you saw earlier from the observation window, it's one of Shuji's high-orbit stations, I'll send you the contact info for its manager later."

Yu Sheng endlessly explained a lot, while Luo listened quietly, nodding slowly after a while: "I've noted everything."

Then she paused and added: "Don't worry, I'm very familiar with this space station—after all, I designed the place, and no matter how much it changes, I know how to interact with it."

Yu Sheng thought for a moment; there was still quite a lot he wanted to say, but he swallowed most of the words in the end.

"Is there anything else you need?" he asked.

Luo had an expression that seemed like she wanted to say something, but her attitude was hesitant. After hesitating several times, she finally spoke: "Actually... I'd kinda like to go back and see, do you think it's okay?"

"Go back?" Yu Sheng didn't immediately understand but quickly caught on, "Ah, you mean the place where Black Stone Station was before?"

He vaguely remembered that Black Stone Station had originally been docked over a desolate rocky planet, which should have been a secret base of the Black Dot Group—or could also be considered Luo's personal territory.

Luo slowly nodded.

"What do you plan to do when you go back?" Yu Sheng asked curiously.

"I'm obviously not planning to escape—I can't run away anyway," Luo sighed, "I just want to see if I can gather some more hands, mainly technical personnel—Alvin's team is from the Algered Astrological Association and will return eventually, so I still need to find a way to rebuild my own lab team. Recruiting through other channels will take time and adjustment, but if I can regain some technical backbone, things will improve greatly."

Yu Sheng blinked: "... I had assumed that aside from those dozens of Loyalist Faction guards, all your people were wiped out in the previous accident."

Luo lifted her eyelids and looked at Yu Sheng as if he were an idiot.

"I hold the title of 'Black Spot Warlord'—do you think I only have one laboratory under me? Even if you only consider Black Stone Station, don't tell me none of my many employees happened to be on vacation, on leave, or sneaking out for a break? Even though my space station was raided by you, I still have two orbital platforms, a shipyard, and three ground mining stations on my base..." 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Yu Sheng was startled upon hearing this: "... You have orbital platforms, a shipyard, and mining stations?"

As soon as he said this, the scene went a bit silent. Luo's eyes immediately widened, and then she quickly stepped back two paces: "...What do you intend to do?"

"What do you take me for?" Yu Sheng could tell what she was thinking just from her reaction, and he waved his hand with a righteous look, "It's not like I grab everything. I usually only bring back some local specialties when I go out for a fight..."

As a result, Luo still didn't believe him and maintained a three-meter distance, looking at him as if facing a great enemy.

"Alright, alright, let's not discuss this now," Yu Sheng raised his hand, "I don't object to you going back to gather your people. After all, rounding up is also strengthening the travel agency, but the risks of doing so must be considered in advance—the World Bridge incident caused quite a stir, and Black Dot Group is well-informed. It's been so long since it happened, if you go back to check the situation..."

"The company on their end must already know about my failure," Luo nodded calmly, clearly agreeing with Yu Sheng's assessment, "Blowing up one or two Pioneer Laboratories doesn't really mean much to the whole Black Dot Group, but this incident brought out the Dark Angel, and that's another level of issue—they will definitely send someone to investigate my base.

"So I plan to sneak back—I left a backdoor in the local interstellar network there. As long as I get within a light-year of the broadcasting device, I can access the group network in ghost mode. Additionally, I have a list of trusted key figures, some group employees I have leverage over, and some targets I can bribe or recruit...

"I also plan to make a trip to the black market. I have a few informants there, and I can ask them about the group's movements. If everything goes smoothly, I might even have time to transfer assets from a few secret accounts to some shell companies under my name, and then I can use this channel to legally market..."

Perhaps influenced by the "Blood Transfer," Luo became more and more excited as she spoke, even unconsciously revealing many secrets she had never disclosed before. A series of plans lit up in her mind, seemingly dispelling much of the gloom caused by recent misfortunes from her heart.

And Yu Sheng, standing across from her, gradually showed a somewhat astonished look.

Yu Sheng was truly a bit surprised.

Because since the day he met Luo, this "Space Long Ears" had been unlucky, always appearing to be battered and bruised by fate and then finding a place to lie flat in despair. So much so that in his recent memory, the best state of Luo's spirit was even when she was lying in the grass nibbling on Spirit Mushrooms—the sight of her dizzy with mushrooms.

He had never seen her in such a radiant, confident state, let alone connect the things she just mentioned with the golden-haired mess in the grass who was entranced by fungi.

"...Why aren't you saying anything?" Luo suddenly stopped, looking at Yu Sheng with some confusion, a hint of tension in her expression, "Uh, these are just plans for now, I know there's risk, if you need detailed reports..."

"No, I was just thinking about something else," Yu Sheng immediately snapped out of it, quickly waving his hand, then seemed to think about something, "So from what you're saying, your loyalty to Black Dot Group wasn't that 'loyal,' huh?"

Leaving backdoors in the group network, secretly recruiting among employees, leveraging, bribing and recruiting, establishing your own base, even secret accounts for transferring assets—who does this as a 'good' employee?

Moreover, she wasn't an ordinary employee, she had risen to the position of project manager... This Black Dot Group doesn't seem as united as outsiders imagine.

Listening to Yu Sheng's words, Luo also felt a bit embarrassed, only now realizing she had spilled quite a lot of secrets. But there was no taking it back, so she could only smile awkwardly in front of her new boss: "Who doesn't think about finding a way out for themselves... especially in the high-pressure and harsh environment of Black Dot Group, everybody has a few little secrets—besides, the board doesn't actually care much about that. They only want results, results mean everything, as long as the profits cover the costs, there's no lack of life and death struggles among the Black Spot Warlords within the group, that's the 'corporate culture' of Black Dot Group."

She suddenly paused here, hastily adding: "But now, I'm completely loyal to you, boss! Rest assured, my issues with Black Dot Group were purely because I saw through their dark truths, driven by my conscience..."

Yu Sheng waved his hand before she finished, not really concerned: "Hey, no worries, no worries, after all, your soul is pledged to me, there's nothing for me to worry about..."

Luo's facial expression froze, her mouth twitching involuntarily.

So this is what it's like to defect...

Yu Sheng, on the other hand, spoke without filtering his thoughts—because he was thinking about something else at that moment.

He stroked his chin, pondering for quite a while, and just when Luo's gaze grew more curious, he finally spoke:

"I say... your company probably doesn't know you've defected yet, right?"