Dimensional Hotel-Chapter 653 - 652: New Recruits

Old Qiao is dead.

When this news hit the crowd, everyone’s first reaction was disbelief. The Jipulo girl named Momo and the "prisoners" behind her repeatedly confirmed the authenticity of this information. They circled Old Qiao’s mechanical head for a long time before daring to run and deliver this news to others hiding in the rooms and laboratories. Soon, more people in lab uniforms rushed out from various places to the hall to confirm the situation.

It was quite a while later that people started cheering, waving whatever objects they could find, and shouting, while others began to cry quietly. All of this gradually turned into an infectious clamor.

In the end, the Jipulo girl, who had lost an ear and part of her body, had to run to maintain order. She even had to assign people to tie up some overly emotional "inmates" and inject them with tranquilizers to prevent their excessive excitement from burning out their sanity and stop them from self-harm.

She handled these tasks with ease and clearly held high prestige among those present.

The mechanical head cut from Old Qiao’s "main body" was left on the ground. Initially, many people steered clear of it, but soon Momo was the first to kick it in front of everyone. Noticing that neither Luo nor Yu Sheng stopped her, the act quickly "spread". Once the first bold person kicked it, there was a second and a third. People kicked the head around until it smashed against the wall, becoming deformed.

These people seemed unaware of what Old Qiao’s true "body" was. Perhaps after Luo escaped control, Old Qiao never revealed his brain hidden in the Life Support Tank to any "laboratory assistant". To the people here, that terrifying mechanical head represented "Old Qiao", and now that it had been unscrewed by a group of "invaders" announcing Old Qiao’s death, then Old Qiao was indeed dead.

Luo stood quietly nearby, watching the scene without intervening in the people’s celebration and without speaking for a long time.

It wasn’t until Yu Sheng approached from the side that she quietly said, "This is the scene I once dreamed of witnessing, and they finally experienced it."

Yu Sheng nodded towards the Jipulo girl running around: "Seeing a reflection of yourself in her?"

"...Not exactly the same. Back then, I didn’t have her energy. Jipulo people are always a bit more optimistic than other races, and she probably hasn’t been here that long," Luo slowly said. "And this place isn’t quite the same as I remember. After all, two hundred years have passed, and this place has changed significantly."

Yu Sheng chatted with Luo for a few more minutes before they saw a few people walking towards them, with Momo leading them.

They seemed to have just calmed down from the excitement, realizing they hadn’t figured out the origins of this group of strangers.

"Excuse me, you are..." Momo raised her head, carefully looking into Luo’s eyes.

Luo glanced at these people, opened her mouth, instinctively wanting to say she was a senior project manager of the Black Dot Group, which was the identity she had publicly shared with those surrendered clone soldiers outside. But the words stopped suddenly, as if she remembered something, and she quickly changed her tune: "You can call me ’Luo’, a member of a travel agency organization. Also—"

She stepped aside, pointing to Yu Sheng.

"This is my boss."

When Yu Sheng heard Luo’s self-introduction, he raised an eyebrow. Now understanding, a smile appeared on his face: "Sure, sure, you can just call me Yu Sheng."

As soon as he finished speaking, a small puppet hopped onto his shoulder: "I’m Erin! The second-in-command of the travel agency!"

"I’m Hu Li," the fox girl joined in, pointing to the silent Luna beside her, "This is Luna."

Momo blinked, seemingly taking note of each person’s name, though she had never heard of the "travel agency" organization and still couldn’t figure out who these people were.

Yet she cautiously refrained from asking further, maintaining a gentle and awaiting-instruction demeanor.

"Boss, could you please open a door," Luo turned to look at Yu Sheng, "I want to transfer these people to Black Stone Station."

Yu Sheng nodded, thinking this was indeed the case.

Just as he speculated, Luo had specific arrangements for these people—they would have no more entanglements with the Black Dot Group in the future.

"I’ve already explained the situation to Mo Ran over there, she’ll soon send the nearest person to Black Stone Station for support," Yu Sheng said, turning around and casually pulling a door into existence. As the door opened, the ecological leisure area of the Black Stone Space Station appeared on the other side. "Moreover, I see that many people’s health here is not very good, Mo Ran will arrange a team of doctors to treat them."

"The erosion and symbiosis of living metal are irreversible... but at least other injuries can be salvaged," Luo nodded, with a look of gratitude. "The medical technology of the Feiyu Star Domain is very renowned."

With that, she turned and waved to Momo.

"Gather all the people in this area, and walk through this door—soon someone will support you on the other side and provide treatment, just follow the arrangements."

Several Algredians looked at each other in confusion, and many faces showed hesitation and unease. Evidently, the door that appeared from thin air and the hall on the other side with the style of the Black Dot Group made them a bit nervous.

At this time, it was the Jipulo Girl who stepped forward first—Momo went to the door, turned her head, and looked at a tall Algredian youth: "Allen, you take Lian and Babadian and call everyone over, we now all follow the arrangements of Miss Luo and Mr. Yu."

"Uh, okay!" The tall elf youth quickly nodded, and then hurriedly ran with the two people towards the other end of the hall.

"After you go over, you can rest in the hall, just don’t run around, food and drinks in the hall are available," Luo thought for a moment and added a reminder from the side, "Also, you will see some soldiers over there—wearing Black Dot Group equipment, don’t be afraid when you see them, they won’t harm you."

Momo prudently didn’t ask more questions, just nodded slightly.

The personnel transfer didn’t take long, and soon all the people in the laboratory area were gathered and passed through the door leading to Black Stone Station under Momo’s command—the number was even fewer than Yu Sheng had predicted, totaling around a hundred people.

However, the condition of these people was far worse than Yu Sheng expected. The first dozen people gathered in the hall, along with the thirty or forty people who arrived one after another upon hearing the news, were already the best in condition among them, even though almost all of them were disabled and carried the weakness of reconstructive surgery and various aftereffects, but at least they could move freely. Those who came later were mostly brought by companions, and there were even a few Algredian people on their last breath placed in Life Support Tanks, already maimed beyond recognition.

Hu Li was deeply worried when she saw the last batch of sufferers come out. Even though Luo assured her personally that the Life Support devices on these people were sufficient to hold out until the arrival of the surgical Immortals from Shuji, she still used a pile of healing and life-sustaining Immortal Techniques on everyone before allowing them to pass.

Once Momo led the last batch of "prisoners" through the door to Black Stone Station, the illusory door slowly dissipated in the air, and Luo finally exhaled gently, her always tense body starting to relax slightly.

She turned to Yu Sheng, bowing especially solemnly: "I’m sorry, boss, I acted on my own."

"Uh, it’s okay, I’m just curious how you plan to settle these people?" Yu Sheng, who hadn’t spoken this whole time, finally asked, "Keep them all at Black Stone Station?"

"...I know Old Qiao’s preferences well, he has high standards for his ’creations.’ ’Lower life forms’ are unworthy as his experimental subjects—and to be honest, his living metal symbiosis technique indeed requires high aptitude in spiritual talent and a developed brain neural network for the transformation targets, these people must have been carefully selected by him and then abducted or deceived from various parts of the universe, either having outstanding spiritual talent or possessing certain knowledge skills, only in this way could they serve as ’laboratory assistants’ here."

Luo explained seriously and sighed gently.

"Black Stone Station indeed lacks manpower now, I successfully infiltrated the local database when I returned to the base before and found that many of my surviving scientist teams had already been directly transferred by company orders. Even if I go back now, it would be difficult to reclaim those people from other managers, as for the remaining ones, they need careful screening... after all, from what Old Qiao confessed, he had been targeting me for a long time, and such severe intelligence leaks at Black Stone Station couldn’t have happened without internal help. Who knows to what extent this infiltration has reached over such a long time.

"Now, even though Old Qiao is dead, those who have betrayed in the past are no longer trustworthy—especially since Black Stone Station is docked at Shuji, and we often deal with people sent by the Special Service Bureau, so I have to be very cautious when contacting former subordinates."

"Indeed, from a certain perspective, the people we rescued from under Old Qiao are much more reliable than those who once worked at Black Stone Station," Yu Sheng agreed, "At the least, no matter who they join, it’s impossible for them to throw in with the Black Dot Group again."

"The only drawback is that they all need training," Luo added, "But with so many people... there’s bound to be a few who can quickly be put to use."

Yu Sheng said nothing, merely nodding slightly.

"Next, we should tally up what we’ve gained from this trip," he exhaled, thinking as he spoke, "especially with Old Qiao’s confessions—the Venerate Saints Monastery’s machinations might be something big this time."