Dimensional Hotel-Chapter 628: Eight Pairs of Long Legs

A strong wind began to blow in the old town during the second half of the night—although there was no snowstorm in the real world, the whimpering wind outside the window still made people inevitably think of the screaming wind and snow outside the parking lot.

Erin (167cm) lay on the windowsill in the living room, peering outside at the cold and deserted streets and street lights. On her head was a little humanoid doll made of lightweight clay, and three other dolls (66.6cm) were lined up on the windowsill beside her, filling up the otherwise spacious window.

"Why isn't Yu Sheng back yet..."

The blonde doll shook her head in boredom, turned back to glance at the living room, saw Hu Li asleep on the sofa, and Luna was nowhere to be found. Sighing, she muttered to herself, "Such a bore... it's way past midnight, there's no place worth visiting outside, so what's the point of me growing to 167cm... Silly fox, could you stop sleeping for a bit? I worked hard to grow taller!"

The fox girl curled herself into a giant furball on the sofa, poked her head out from a pile of tails, and sleepily looked at the large doll by the windowsill, "...Who are you?"

Erin: "..."

"Oh, right, Erin. I was half-asleep," Hu Li rubbed her eyes, stretched her limbs as she got up and muttered, "Luna just said, Savior is in the Soul Wilderness and will be back later... You're really bored, why not watch a show? No one's competing with you for the TV now."

"Have you heard this saying," Erin turned and walked over. Her several bodies, each 66.6cm, simultaneously jumped down from the windowsill and quickly clambered onto her. "What's it called... Growing taller but not showing off is like wearing... uh, wearing something expensive at night while walking where no one can see..."

Hu Li was already half-dazed and got more puzzled listening to Erin's babble. It took a moment for her to react, "Are you trying to say 'returning home in wealth is like wearing splendid clothes at night'?"

Erin thought hard for a while and slapped her palm, "Yep, that works."

"...Maybe read some books or, at least, something with illustrations," Hu Li sighed, her ears and tails drooping, "Savior is a writer recording history, and you seem almost illiterate beside him."

Erin almost couldn't hold back her laughter, "A writer, my foot! He's just a procrastinating author who digs holes and never fills them—silly fox, aren't you using a massive filter when looking at Yu Sheng? Don't you know he's already onto New Folder (7) on his computer?"

"Being inspired doesn't conflict with procrastination," Hu Li bared her teeth, "Once Savior fills the holes, he'll surely amaze the literary world..."

Just as she finished speaking, an aura appeared suddenly beside her, Yu Sheng reached out and ruffled her head twice, "Ah, Hu Li, you get it."

This unexpected move startled the fox girl, and she jumped from the sofa, her tail exploding like a peacock's. Erin, walking by the sofa, couldn't dodge in time and was spun like a top by Hu Li's large tail, scattering her dolls all over the floor.

The living room was silent for a moment, then Erin's crew started babbling like birds and flowers, a mix of four small and one big dolls surrounded them, chirping and cursing. Yu Sheng found no opportunity to speak.

Even Hu Li had a bit of grievance. After climbing up from the floor, she pressed down the fur puffed up on her tail and nudged Yu Sheng's arm with her head, "Savior, you gave me a scare! Appearing like a ghost..."

As if she was truly afraid of ghosts.

Yu Sheng gestured surrender with both hands, finally calming Erin, and sat on the sofa, letting out a long breath.

The newly born body was healthy and robust, brimming with energy like the newborn sun, yet he still felt that only when he relaxed onto the sofa at home did he truly unwind.

Yu Sheng knew this was a bit melodramatic but couldn't change it—no matter how long he rested elsewhere, or how his body condition was, he needed to relax at home to truly ease some part of his mind.

Hu Li and Erin instinctively exchanged a glance (usually quite challenging for them), then Hu Li habitually sat beside, resting a tail on Yu Sheng's leg—amid crackling static, Yu Sheng's hair stood on end.

It's winter... seems Hu Li was pressing down her tail fur to charge herself just now.

Yu Sheng had grown somewhat used to it, as Hu Li's grounding tail wasn't always effective, and with the temperature dropping and the climate being particularly dry, he often saw the girl fuzzing around the house all day. At night, she sparkled like a Thunder Cultivator when the lights were off—he merely tugged at the corner of his mouth, then continued petting the fox fur, while his gaze fell on the blonde doll across the way.

Erin, meanwhile, perched with all her dolls like a Christmas tree on the opposite sofa, blinking her eyes.

To be honest, the look was somewhat magical.

Yu Sheng couldn't quite understand the thought process of this silly doll stacking herself like this, but he was more concerned about the condition of the blonde shell.

"Any signs of shrinkage?"

"Seems... not for now?" Erin (Lotus) scratched Erin's (Blonde) head, while Erin (Mysterious Iron) on the other shoulder stroked her chin thoughtfully, "I'm keeping an eye on the state of the original body as you advised. Besides a bit of fatigue, there aren't any noticeable issues so far."

"A bit tired?"

"Yeah, but I can't quite put my finger on it. As time goes on, I just feel less and less like moving, and resting doesn't help," Erin (blonde-haired) said. "I wonder... could it be that if I get tired enough, I'll start shrinking?"

Yu Sheng didn't speak; he just thoughtfully stroked his chin. After a while, he suddenly spoke up again, "What about your other form? Like that spider when we were fighting before..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw the large puppet across from him raise its hand slightly to the side.

An illusory spider limb appeared out of nowhere in the air, winding around the sofa and coffee table, and lightly placed itself on Yu Sheng's shoulder.

The surface of the semi-transparent black limb was covered with countless mysterious runes. Although it appeared to be just a phantom, it emitted a substantial chill, which could make ordinary people feel uneasy or even terrified. But Yu Sheng felt more of some subtle... familiarity and peace.

As if in his eyes, death was just a peaceful curtain.

"Can't fit the whole thing here, so I can only extend one leg over," Erin said while adjusting her cocky posture on the sofa, her expression full of swagger, "Let me tell you, my legs are longer than your life..."

"Nonsense, there are lots of things longer than my life," Yu Sheng brushed away the spider leg that was poking his shoulder, "Put it away first—come with me to the valley."

"Huh? What for?"

"What else, didn't you say you can't fit here—find a spacious place and figure out what's going on with you now."

"Oh."

...

At this time, the outside world was still in the latter part of the night, and naturally, the valley was still shrouded in darkness. However, this was no problem for Yu Sheng—the Hub Pyramid was brightly lit, and there were plenty of spacious areas.

Thanks to someone's original thought of building this pyramid with the mindset that "big is good" and "just add more layers regardless of their use," at least half of this enormous "wonder" building was empty. Yu Sheng had never figured out what to do with these vacant halls inside the pyramid, but it turns out they now came in handy.

The wide and empty Hub Pyramid was spacious enough to accommodate the "Spider Goddess's" shell, and most of the floors here were enclosed, so there was no worry about scaring the kids outside—of course, whether those super kids would be frightened is another story.

Yu Sheng brought Hu Li and Erin (blonde-haired) to an upper-level hall.

It was next to the "alchemy floor" used to mass-produce Erin, and a part of the hall's side area was separately partitioned to temporarily house some on-call puppets. The remaining area was a roughly rectangular space with nothing much except the lighting fixtures on the ceiling.

"This is it," Yu Sheng looked around to check the size of the place, then clapped his hands and looked at the blonde puppet beside him, "Release your other form."

Erin didn't waste words and just raised her hand—a gesture akin to parting a veil only she could see, or perhaps clapping hands with another "self" in the invisible.

In the next second, the blonde puppet vanished into thin air, her final silhouette falling to the ground like falling towards a mirror. The reflection in the mirror "cut into" reality in the next instant—a huge black spider appeared in front of Yu Sheng.

To be honest, although Yu Sheng had seen this scene before when fighting those Hidden Monastery Sect believers, things were chaotic back then, and he hadn't seen the details as clearly as now.

Watching Erin suddenly transform into this form, he even felt a belated... shock. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

The majestic armor, mysterious runes, awe-inspiring sharp limbs, and the female upper half that seemed to possess some saintly grace, looking down from above—long black hair down to her waist, eyes crimson as blood, and that face strikingly similar to Erin's usual appearance but with a slightly more mature aura.

She inclined her head, the long limbs on her lower half gently scraping the ground, but her face bloomed with a brilliant smile, those crimson eyes forming a familiar silly look that Yu Sheng had come to know.

Then she began to babble: "Wow, from this angle, you two look so short! Hu Li, you look like a mop... The C-shaped hook isn't here, she wouldn't be able to reach my current shoulder... I told you I have long legs, but you guys didn't believe me before, so how about now? Not only long legs, but I have so many legs... It's eight legs, right? Feels weird, didn't even notice when fighting before, how does this thing walk... Holy cow, is it left front first or right front first?! Yu Sheng, move aside a bit, let me try hopping forward..."

Yu Sheng: "..."

What can I say, all that hard-earned majesty and shock is gone, left only with a lingering babble here.