Chapter 728: Chapter 727: The New City by the Black Forest

Just like that, Freyia got her new legal identity—though in her current state she probably won’t have many chances to go out in Boundary City, according to Erin, at least she can create a game account in the future, which will greatly benefit the travel agency’s operations.

Yu Sheng couldn’t be bothered to ask this little puppet where the "benefit" she mentioned was.

Miss Angel floated beside the TV in the living room, curiously flipping around the new little card she had just received. She played with it for a while, then casually stuffed it into her stomach, only to retrieve it from somewhere else on her body, gradually having a lot of fun.

She could even take this card and shuttle back and forth between the Soul Wilderness and the real world, and even Yu Sheng didn’t know how she managed it.

In fact, Yu Sheng couldn’t be bothered to ponder how this worked; he was currently sitting on the sofa looking towards the door, deep in thought.

Ren Wenwen had just left from here.

A fluffy big tail brushed across, rubbing back and forth on his back: "Savior, what are you thinking about?"

"I really didn’t expect it. I thought with me not writing anything for a while, Ren Wenwen, as the Shipper, would quiet down a bit. Never thought she could ship me and the Star Gate from the battle reports sent by the United Fleet..."

Erin had climbed up to the back of the sofa, whispering evilly in Yu Sheng’s ear: "The cold arrogant machine soul guarding the border of the Demon Realm was awakened by the hero’s blood, and after awakening, it turned into the hero’s steed, leading a counterattack against the evil axis in the cold space, watching the demon den fall into blood and fire..."

Yu Sheng turned his head to grab her halfway through her words, but this little rascal relied on her agile abilities to dodge left and right, stubbornly finishing her sentence. Then, Yu Sheng caught her by the scruff, suspending her in mid-air, arms crossed and swaying with a smug look.

The fox girl was still comforting on the side: "Think positively, at least she’s shipping the Star Gate and not the Gate of Eden..."

Yu Sheng raised his head expressionlessly: "How can you be sure?"

The innocent and honest cyber fox from the Alternate Dimension was greatly shocked: "...?!"

Even Erin exclaimed: "Mama mia, what exactly has that girl experienced..."

"Who knows, it’s certainly not a healthy romantic experience," Yu Sheng sighed, "Working at the Special Service Bureau often results in some mental issues..."

At that point, Erin climbed along Yu Sheng’s arm up to his shoulder and suddenly came up with a sentence: "Ah! Right, shall we take a trip to the valley? I’ll show you something good..."

...

Behind the tall bushes at the edge of the Black Forest came a rustling sound, followed by a figure in a green gauze dress poking halfway out from behind the bushes.

"Wow, it’s already so big?! They’ve developed so quickly?"

A fluffy, chubby squirrel jumped out of the bushes, landing on the head of the figure in the green dress: "No rest, they don’t rest, and their houses aren’t big, with the craftsmen sent by the King helping for a few days, a large area was built quickly!"

The figure in the green dress slowly crawled further out, revealing the long snake body behind, with the Snake Princess’s vertical pupils reflecting a glimmer of anticipation: "Little squirrel, is it fun inside?"

"Very fun, very fun," the squirrel bounced on Snake Princess’s head, "The houses are like adventurous mazes, running around is fun and exciting."

"Great! Let’s play!"

"Let’s play!"

Thus, a quickly crawling snake demon, along with an excited squirrel, eagerly charged towards the marvelous structures on the riverbank outside the Black Forest.

A few minutes later, Yu Sheng pushed open the door, not yet seeing the riverbank scenery clearly before a cacophony of cries reached his ears, mixed with the zipping sounds of heat rays firing.

He looked up only to see a ten-meter long snake demon sprinting over from afar, with a squirrel perched on its head, the pair running for their lives while loudly yelling at each other—followed by hundreds of angry red-eyed little dwarves firing scorching rays.

Snake Princess: "Why did I get hit as soon as I went in?! This is different from what you said!"

Squirrel: "Your tail, your tail is too long! Inside, with one twist you knocked down many Erins!"

"Did you do it on purpose? Did you do it on purpose?"

"Clearly it was your fault! You act like a Great Demon but can’t even fully transform into a humanoid..."

"Waaahhhh my waist got hit."

"Your whole body is basically waist, where else would they hit but your waist... wahh!"

Then, as they ran, the snake demon suddenly emitted a puff of white fog, with a bang the fog dissipated, and the Great Demon transformed into a person-legged snake-bodied π, frantically crashing into Yu Sheng.

Then, a gigantic nine-tailed demon fox suddenly appeared and smacked it flying away.

Yu Sheng reached out and caught the little squirrel flying off the Snake Princess’s head.

The furry little creature was dazed for a moment, then looked up to see Yu Sheng and joyfully began to hop around, "Oh! Human! Yu Sheng, you’re here!"

The "π" that got smacked away by Hu Li also climbed out of the dirt pit. She walked towards Yu Sheng with a swagger, her large snake head drooping as she flicked her tongue, "Little demon pays respects to the True Monarch... Is that right? I didn’t break etiquette, you better not tattle to the old man later..."

Yu Sheng twitched his eye at this snake demon with two long legs, "Never mind etiquette, turn back first."

Snake Princess uttered an "Oh," then with a thud, turned into her human form with a snake tail, obediently coiling herself into a mosquito coil in front of Yu Sheng.

...Actually, Yu Sheng wanted to say she looked like a pile of X, but he felt it was too much considering she had a rough chase earlier and held back from adding insult to injury.

A large group of angry red-eyed dwarves had chased nearby but retreated now. Erin, who sat on Yu Sheng’s shoulder, crossed her arms discontentedly swinging, "Why ruin my Puppet City for no reason?"

Snake Princess lowered her head, puzzled, looking at the little creature, "Puppet City?"

Erin stood up, bracing on Yu Sheng’s head, proudly gesturing toward the riverside, "Can’t you see this is a grand city? Look at my amazing clock tower and cathedral, the fountain, the sculptures at the city gates, rows and rows of luxury communities..."

On the Black Forest outside the winding river bank, buildings of exquisite and curious classical style stood densely packed, roughly one to two meters high, arranged along the river’s foundation, with a long slope extending from the riverbank to the heart of the tiny city; tall towers and church-like buildings could be seen within.

—Although described as tall, the buildings were at most ten meters high, a very subtle height, needing to be looked up when close, and could be considered large facilities, yet all details were truly scaled-down versions of big structures, giving a grand yet petite impression, a contrast of towering yet humble wonder.

Most buildings in the "city" were only human height or even less.

Besides, surrounding the intricate Puppet City was a circle of incomplete walls—not completely encircling the whole city, merely erecting ornate high walls (one meter) outside the denser building areas, serving more as decoration than protection.

Many puppets were coming in and out of several entrances in the city, others were busy between buildings: installing street lamps, paving roads, decorating walls and roofs.

Erin was happily swinging on Yu Sheng’s shoulder, her tiny face glowing with immense pride.

"Yu Sheng, look, this is the foundation you initially worked on, my mass-produced puppets have built numerous houses—it’s no longer just a town, it’s a city!"

"Looks about the size of Yuan He old man’s disciple test site..." Snake Princess muttered beside, feeling hundreds of gazes from behind, her scales seemed ready to stand up, she shrank her neck and crouched, "I, I won’t speak more, I won’t."

Yu Sheng was indeed a bit stunned.

Because what Erin created was somewhat beyond his expectations.

To house the increasing mass-produced puppets in the valley, he did agree with Erin about building a separate community near the Black Forest, he had even prepared a large base for it ahead of time (actually intended to build the houses too, but was outright rejected by the little puppets, he had to abandon the idea), yet he hadn’t anticipated it turning out this way.

A compact everywhere, yet overall scale shockingly grand Puppet City.

After a brief daze, an astonishing thought suddenly popped into Yu Sheng’s mind—

"Could I be the only one at home who can’t build houses?!"

The nine-tailed demon fox beside him lowered its head, offering comfort, "Savior, I can’t either."

Even Erin graciously patted Yu Sheng’s head, the cheerful little puppet showing far superior character than usual, "Oh my, these houses are not all built by me; Sun and the King helped quite a lot. Though the design is indeed mine."

Yu Sheng was still somewhat amazed and then stepped toward the Puppet City.

Erin turned to remind the large white fox following, "Hey, hey, silly fox, turn back into human form first, don’t squeeze into the city with such a big size like that crazy snake demon... don’t step on my mass-produced machines either, I’m telling you the puppets’ density here is high."

Yu Sheng felt like a giant, barging into a gothic-phantasmagoric style tiny city.

A large bunch of 66.6 cm high mass-produced Erin moved around his feet on the streets, though each had the standard dazed silly appearance of mass-produced machines, yet in this Puppet City belonging to them, even these mass-produced ones seemed to gain more lively spirits.

Between the buildings of the Puppet City, many complex layout pipeline facilities could be seen, in the city center’s high ground, huge gear devices driven by steam operated without apparent purpose.

And the great cathedral located at the city center, Yu Sheng was also unsure of its significance—it seemed just an ornamental building, as no definitive religious symbols were observed on the cathedral, and the flags in front had Erin’s own portrait on them.

"This is modeled after the ’Assembly Hall’ I saw in the Alice Network," Erin explained to Yu Sheng excitedly, "In the Old World, there was a city named Plande..."