Dimensional Hotel-Chapter 568: The Average Quality of the Travel Agency
Suddenly, the scene became a bit quiet; Hu Li’s furry big ears twitched, she looked up at Yu Sheng, then nonchalantly continued eating her chicken leg, seemingly indifferent to the happenings around her.
Erin placed her precious frying pan on the table and sat cross-legged inside it, resting her chin on her hands, looking as though she was watching a show.
Yu Sheng thought for a moment, looking at Baili Xue, who was currently disguising herself as Baili Qing: "I remember your sister said her horns would fade after a while..."
Baili Xue spoke calmly: "Skills that aren’t used for a long time will degrade."
Yu Sheng instantly recalled the image of the pure white giant dragon landing face-first, all questions suddenly disappeared.
But he couldn’t help being a bit curious: "You talk like this behind your sister’s back, she doesn’t mind?"
"She wouldn’t find out," Baili Xue responded, seemingly relaxed and exuding a sense of calm, "I’ve disabled the monitoring here."
Yu Sheng blinked his eyes, then had a vision of the tall grass in Soul Wilderness, where a golden-haired young knight was looking at him brightly: "I’ve recorded everything."
Blinking again, Yu Sheng saw Luna, who was standing perfectly serious next to him, slightly tilting her head and making a solemn "Yes" gesture.
Yu Sheng: "..."
Of course, Baili Xue didn’t know about the communication interface between Yu Sheng and Luna in Soul World, nor seemed to notice the small movements of the indifferent Artificial Saintess beside her. After chatting with Yu Sheng for a bit, she turned her gaze to Erin.
The little puppet was currently sitting in her precious frying pan — from a certain angle, the pan seemed quite fitting for her size — Erin instantly reacted upon noticing Baili Xue’s gaze: "What are you looking at?"
"Just saying hello to the guest who visited this world three thousand seven hundred years ago," Baili Xue hesitated for a moment, with a faint smile seemingly appearing on her face — Yu Sheng wasn’t too sure, as Baili Qing·Xue in his vision was a blur, even if her expression was rich, the resolution was low. "Although we’ve met many times, considering the special incident this time, I deemed it necessary to conduct a renewed and formal greeting."
Erin pondered for a moment, then turned to Yu Sheng: "What’s she mean?"
"She’s worried about the residual pollution from the Omen Goddess in you, and is coming to check," Yu Sheng said casually, then turned his eyes to Baili Xue, "Is that what you meant?"
Baili Xue: "...Yes, but we could be more tactful."
"She doesn’t understand tact," Yu Sheng gestured toward Erin, then shifted his tone, "Of course, I understand, if she understood, she’d curse you."
Baili Xue: "...That’s not what I meant..."
"I know," Yu Sheng interrupted her, gesturing dismissively, "After all, unlike the previous two ’Angel Falls,’ this Omen-World Bridge incident is special, you need to ensure the security of Boundary Land."
At this, he paused, his expression suddenly turned somewhat serious.
"She’s not an omen, you can rest assured — even if she is, you should rest easy."
Baili Xue remained silent for two seconds, those eyes hidden in illusion slightly lowered: "Alright, I understand."
Erin sat in the pan, supporting her chin and looking at Yu Sheng, then at Baili Xue, suddenly realizing and pointed at the latter: "You..."
Yu Sheng pressed down the little puppet’s arm with two fingers: "This part is over, this part is over."
"Is it, oh?"
Baili Xue silently watched the scene; shortly after, a faint smile appeared on her face. She then slightly bowed and left her seat.
"I won’t disturb anymore," she stepped back half a step, "By the way, Special Service Bureau just received a passage application from the embassy area at the border. I’ve opened a temporary special permit for it, the ’Maris’ lady will be waiting for you at the Special Service Bureau headquarters parking lot."
Baili Xue left.
Hu Li finished eating her chicken leg seriously, tossed the clean chicken bone into her mouth to chew (emphasizing the ritual aspect), then wiped her mouth with a tail and looked at Yu Sheng with bright eyes: "Savior, she spent a third of her time looking at Erin, but two-thirds actually looking at you."
Yu Sheng pondered for a moment, touching his chin: "Why was she looking at me..."
"I don’t know," Hu Li said, her ears twitching and suddenly perked up, "Ah, the fried balls are ready!"
Yu Sheng laughed: "Go ahead and eat, Maris is coming from the border, even going through ’shortcuts’ after entering the city will take a while."
...
In the high-end apartment within the Boundary City Central District, the wide floor-to-ceiling windows reflected the city’s night scene outside.
The world of ordinary people remained peaceful and serene, the citizens living in the "surface" layer were entirely oblivious to the crisis happening below their everyday lives, people busily living and working, while the city remained bustling under the night sky—except for occasional talks of strange dreams during daytime naps, or brief mentions of bizarre thoughts during moments of distraction, everything in Boundary City seemed to be back on track.
Only those out of sight of ordinary people — Special Service Bureau officers, Deep Dive Team, Council security group, hired detectives and investigators — would stay busy for a long time ahead. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮
Baili Qing’s figure reflected in the glass of the floor-to-ceiling window wearing a nightgown, looked at the outside calmly.
The bedroom light was off, and in the darkness, a pair of crystalline and elegant dragon horns seemed to spontaneously emit a faint glow, appearing somewhat unreal in the glass reflection.
"How’s the situation?" she asked in her heart.
Baili Xue’s voice echoed from within: "No signs of contamination—by my sight, that puppet remains mostly the same as before, just a bit more ’solid,’ consistent with the characteristics of ’soul completion,’ as we expected."
"Hmm..." Baili Qing pondered, "What about Yu Sheng’s situation?"
"I still can’t discern it, though I can definitely sense a subtle ’connection,’ almost as if... a part of my ’essence’ is being influenced by him—but he seems unaware of this."
Baili Qing didn’t respond for a moment, only looking down at her arm.
She lifted her arm, slowly rotating her palm. Suddenly, the slender human wrist was covered with fine scales, transforming into a jagged dragon claw and then quietly returned to the shape of a human hand. During the transformations, faint red lines could be glimpsed, appearing in the gaps at the edges of the scales.
"Sister, I... don’t understand," Baili Xue’s voice suddenly rang out in her mind again, "Regarding the so-called ’Blood Transfer’ ritual, it was you who contacted the blood. Why am I also ’marked’? And you seem to have anticipated this from the start..."
"Xue," Baili Qing interrupted her, "You are my illusion."
The voice in her mind fell silent.
After several seconds, Baili Xue spoke again: "...I thought I already existed independently from you, after all these years, I’ve been continually breaking away from your control."
"Now it’s proven that you haven’t," Baili Qing said casually, "You are my illusion, ’freedom’ is your illusion."
"...Alright, it’s not something I can’t accept," Baili Xue reacted calmly, "And we’ve also figured out another thing, Yu Sheng’s ’Blood Transfer’ is indeed not a typical ’contamination’ or ’transformation.’ It can affect not only actual things but even... ’illusions.’
"Right," Baili Qing responded, after hesitating for a moment, she asked, "Do you mind being just an ’illusion’?"
"Seems like I do a bit."
"Then this sense of ’mind’ is at least real—and it belongs solely to you."
"You really know how to comfort people."
Baili Qing didn’t pay attention to the teasing voice in her mind; she just softly exhaled, turning away from the window.
"I’m going to sleep."
"Resting so early today?"
"Dragon transformation takes quite a toll, especially when battling the ’Dark Angel’s’ voice—I do get tired," Baili Qing said casually, "And today Yu Sheng took his family to visit ’Alice Ambassador,’ so he probably won’t be calling me in the middle of the night."
"Alright, the Special Service Bureau’s work tossed to the sister, the ’Midnight Call Maniac’ took his noisy family to the border, this is indeed a rare chance to catch up on sleep, even the Special Service Director deserves a break... Goodnight, sister."
"Goodnight."
Baili Qing seemed to have a slight, imperceptible smile on her lips, then she softly exhaled, lying on the bed ahead of schedule, relaxed for the first time in a while.
Half a minute later, the director sat up.
The horn was poking into the bed.
Baili Qing’s expression was somewhat subtle as she raised her hand to feel the dragon horn on her head, roughly judging its size and position, then lying on her side.
This time, she sat up again in less than half a minute.
After staring off into space for a few seconds while sitting on the bed, Baili Qing silently removed the pillow hanging on her horn. She sighed at the hole poked through it.
Then she began to try various ways: lying flat made her horns press on the bed, sideways too, sleeping on her stomach was uncomfortable, with her head hanging over the edge was worse, thinking about sawing it off was impractical—it hurt.
Natural shedding might not happen until tomorrow, and that’s in the best case scenario, in the worst, it might not fall off in three days.
Can’t even remember how she managed to sleep before when the dragon horns couldn’t naturally retreat... Maybe she didn’t sleep at all?
Baili Qing, wearing a nightgown, sat up again, her face tense in the dark.
A moment later, she sighed again and picked up the phone on the bedside table.
If I can’t sleep, then I won’t—at least there’s no need to handle work; leaning on the bed scrolling through the phone counts as relaxation.
As she unlocked her phone, a message notification sounded, Baili Qing frowned, relieved to find it wasn’t from the Special Service Bureau or Council group chats.
But the sender was a bit unfamiliar—the information source showed "Otherworld Inn Database"...
