Dimensional Hotel-Chapter 658 - 657: Luo Missing Home

In the end, Momo still signed.

She had more than one reason for signing—of course, one reason was Luo's persuasive eloquence. Additionally, she really didn't have many options now, and she still remembered the scene when Yu Sheng and his team rescued her and her friends. Honestly speaking, although these people seemed a bit strange... maybe more than just a bit, she could feel their sincerity and friendliness.

Of course, there was another reason, which was that after Yu Sheng created a blood sphere, a small puppet immediately "flew" up to munch on Yu Sheng's head, and the two of them got into a lively tussle—watching from the side, Momo slightly analyzed and felt that the villains' group probably didn't have this kind of style...

"Alright then, for now, you'll stay here at Mo Ran to recuperate. Once your health is fully restored, report to Black Stone Station," Luo stood up from the opposite side of the table, extending her hand towards Momo. "We will later inform you how to use the teleportation gate within the space station and the situation over at the hub station. In any case, since you've signed with Black Stone Station, from today, I'm your boss."

Momo looked at the hand extended across from her, hesitated a bit, lifted her right hand to reach over, but suddenly stopped halfway, seeming to want to retract it and use her left hand instead.

Luo directly grabbed the metallic gleaming hand and gave it a good shake.

Her smile was exceptionally bright, and Yu Sheng even thought he had never seen this elf smile so brightly since he knew her.

...

Half a day later, High Orbit of Shuji, Black Stone Space Station.

With the powerful "self-healing" effect, this gigantic space station that was once nearly dismantled had almost fully recovered its functionality, and its appearance had completely returned to its original state.

At a certain edge of the disc-shaped shell of the space station, Luo, along with Erin, Luna, and Hu Li, arrived at an observation deck overlooking space—a vast platform enveloped by an invisible protective force field and artificial gravity environment, extending dozens of meters from the main body of the space station, completely basking in starlight, standing on it felt like stepping directly into the universe.

This was Luo's favorite place.

Erin looked up at the vast and endless universe, the distant starlight reflecting in her scarlet eyes, and the small puppet became happy, sincerely praising the golden-haired elf beside her for the first time: "Wow... It feels like I'm going to fall in. Luo, you've got some design sense here."

"Algredians love stars," Luo squinted her eyes, a serene and gentle smile on her face, "Although my ability to 'listen' to the stars has mostly vanished... I think, deep down, I should still be an Algredian."

Erin blinked and thought, though deep down Luo was still an Algredian, her "core" had been taken out.

Saying that might get her punched—even with the solid head of a little puppet, she held back the urge to say something snarky.

So she seriously thought about it and decided to change her approach to comfort her friend, walking over to pat Luo's leg: "No worries, your core's been found."

Luo blanked out slightly, looking down at Erin, and for the first few seconds didn't react—her high level of competence and cultural literacy hindered her from keeping up with this little thing's thinking process. By the time she finally reacted, Erin had already nonchalantly slipped behind Hu Li.

Just then, a flash in the distant space interrupted her train of thought.

"Hey, hey, it's here, it's here!"

Erin instantly ran excitedly to the edge of the observation deck, crashing into the invisible safety barrier, bouncing back entirely, but the next second, she flipped over, got up, and continued waving vigorously at that flash—

A giant space rift was unfolding in space, with flickering unstable light and shadows. The next second, those light and shadows started to "flip," just like when the Otherworld Inn conducted a "transfer," and a massive real entity began to cross vast spatial distances to arrive here, almost in a blink, the rift began to outline the shape of the Deep Rock Fortress.

Erin's eyes sparkled, the swirling spatial ripples reflected in her scarlet pupils.

The World Bridge was truly beautiful.

She happily thought—and then the sentiment quickly vanished from her not-so-bright mind.

Immediately following was Yu Sheng's voice in her mind: "...Oh damn, I'm exhausted, teleporting this thing is much more difficult than teleporting the Otherworld Inn, it almost cost me half my life."

Erin was a bit curious: "Hey, didn't Luo say this was a mobile fortress? And that its Hyperlight Core could help relieve your stress or something..."

"Well, the point is the Hyperlight Core has to be usable! Hu Li headbutted like a rocket from the core area to the launch channel, when I went down there just now, there was a fox-shaped hole several meters high on the Hyperlight Core, the navigation equipment cabin was also punched away by her, when I got inside, only a couple of cooling fans were spinning on the ground," Yu Sheng's voice sounded half-dead and half-alive, "I dragged this powerless thing from the Dark Meteor Domain to the orbit of Shuji, at least Black Stone Station had some power back in the day... Alright, let's not talk about it for now, I need to rest a bit in the fortress control room here, and reinforce some structures, a few areas collapsed again during the teleport."

He paused for a moment, then added: "Got to remind Hu Li to control herself a bit next time she drills holes in buildings, after all, you never know which part we might reclaim back as our asset, she's tearing up our own property here..."

Erin: "...Wow! You're so righteous!"

Yu Sheng didn't respond to this—probably truly exhausted.

After a long while had passed, Yu Sheng finally completed the emergency reinforcement and core reboot process for the Deep Rock Fortress. Once the fortress's orbit-maintaining system was successfully online and stable, he opened the door and arrived at the stargazing platform.

By this time, Hu Li was so bored she was lying on the ground drowsing. Seeing Yu Sheng push open the door, she suddenly perked up and jumped up excitedly, enthusiastically rushing over with her tail swaying a trail—while her ears drooped on either side of her head, her face bore an awkward silly grin.

How to describe this look? It's like leaving a Samoyed alone at home to watch the door, and after half a day, you return to find the sofa ruined, the walls broken, water gushing from the sink, a trail of flour bags from the kitchen to the toilet, and a pile of ripped pillows in the corner. The Samoyed hears you and runs over, wagging its tail wanting to snuggle next to you while its ears droop, wanting to hide to the side, torn between guilt and excitement—pretty much the expression Hu Li had at that moment.

Yu Sheng looked at the fox girl's expression, feeling both amused and helpless, realizing that Erin hadn't held back and told her what he had been rambling about.

"Just be more careful next time," he casually stroked the fur behind her ears, "You always crash with such a big hole, it's really hard to fix."

Hu Li nodded her head vigorously, suddenly cheerful again.

Luo suddenly clapped his hands, staring wide-eyed at the Great Demon Fox in front of him: "Ah! So those holes at Black Stone Station were caused by your collision!"

Yu Sheng and Erin looked at Luo in surprise, and spoke in unison: "You just realized?!"

Luo: "…"

It proves that scientists have great minds, but they don't necessarily react quickly.

"Ahem," seeing this, Yu Sheng coughed twice, breaking the awkwardness while changing the topic, "Anyway, I've brought you the Deep Rock Fortress, but I'm controlling this entirely by instinct, so you'll have to fine-tune the operating system later, as I don't understand the professional stuff. Also, if there's anything you need help with in terms of personnel or supplies, just let Mo Ran know... Besides, I've left a door in the fortress's control room that leads to the valley teleportation hub, making it easy for you to come and go."

Luo nodded quickly, temporarily setting aside the matter of Hu Li's headbutt causing a penetrating injury at Black Stone Station.

After that, Yu Sheng explained to Luo about the Deep Rock Fortress's situation, and the arrangements for Black Stone Station and Boundary Land in the coming period, as well as some actions concerning the Venerate Saints Monastery. Once everything was arranged, he directly opened a large door on the observation platform—the other side was the living room at No. 66 Wutong Road.

Luo suddenly thought of saying something, took half a step towards Yu Sheng, showing a hesitant expression.

Yu Sheng stopped curiously: "What is it? Anything else?"

Luo thought for a moment, then shook his head: "…No, it's not a big deal; I'll wait until the Venerate Saints Monastery's matters are resolved."

Originally climbing onto Yu Sheng's shoulder, ready to go home together, Erin suddenly turned her head, with her slightly eerie doll eyes staring straight at the golden-haired elf.

Being stared at by the red-eyed evil dwarf made Luo feel uneasy, instinctively saying: "Wh-what is it?"

"If this were a TV series, you'd be dead I tell you," the little doll jumped down from Yu Sheng's shoulder, looking up at Luo in front of him, "Just by uttering that line, you'd definitely die in slow motion in the second-to-last episode."

Luo still didn't understand: "Wh-why?"

"Raising flags!" Erin put her hands on her hips, "If you want to do something, just say so, but never say something like 'I'll get married when XXX is done,' just keep it to yourself if you truly mean that, and I'll pretend I didn't hear."

"What the heck... I just wanted to take leave! Take leave to visit home!" Luo made a hard-to-control expression, "Be we're too busy lately, and the Hidden Monastery matters can't be delayed, and I still need to crack the communication logs left by Old Qiao, so I said after the busy period I'd talk."

"Then just say it straight!" Erin jumped up and kicked Luo's leg, "You scared me thinking you'd also bleed out... Ow, it hurts! Your leg is made of iron!"

The little puppet jumped and hopped, cursing.

Luo lifted his skirt, exposing his legs covered in silver-white alloy: "Not iron, it's harder alloy."

Yu Sheng paid no mind to the noisy commotion Erin caused, only silently gazing at Luo for a moment before suddenly speaking: "Because you saw Momo?"

Luo quieted, nodded gently after a moment.

"She said she wanted to try contacting her family first—it's been ten years since she's returned, her family must be very worried," she said slowly, "And I, haven't been back in two hundred years."

Yu Sheng felt a lot of curiosity, but staring at Luo's expression, he ultimately asked nothing.

"Alright, pre-approved—after wrapping up the Hidden Monastery's matters."

"Thank you, boss!"