Now, Baili Qing also realized how seductive Yu Sheng's "give it a try" really was.

The always rational and composed Special Service Director reluctantly had to accept Yu Sheng's "plan," which couldn't even really be called a plan—because there really were no other ideas to consider.

"I hope things can really go according to your 'plan,'" Baili Qing adjusted her sitting posture on the chair, watching the "person" in front of her with a slightly relaxed demeanor, "Even if we can't completely resolve that 'Exotic Realm,' at least make it stable and controllable like most of the other territories within Boundary City—'Fairy Tales' have already caused too much destruction in Boundary Land."

After that, her gaze fell on Hu Li, sitting beside her.

"Let's set aside the matters regarding 'Fairy Tales' for the moment. Next...I want to talk about her."

As soon as Yu Sheng heard this, he thought of the hair samples he had given to Song Cheng, and his expression immediately turned serious: "Did you find something? Did you locate Hu Li's homeland?"

The demon fox girl, who had been mostly quiet during the conversation, suddenly perked up her ears and involuntarily leaned forward a bit.

"No, we haven't found it," Baili Qing shook her head, pouring cold water on the discussion right from the start, "Despite checking almost all known species and factions with official ties to Boundary Land, we have still not found a homeland that matches her description. The biological sample search also yielded no results—I'm afraid I bring such bad news."

The room fell quiet for a moment, and Yu Sheng furrowed his brows, turning to look at his side.

Hu Li's ears visibly drooped.

Clearly, despite the fact that the demon fox girl often claimed she could hardly remember her homeland or seemed unconcerned about returning, she was still quite disheartened when faced with the bad news.

Yu Sheng reached out and placed his hand on Hu Li's, and she then flipped her palm over to grasp Yu Sheng's fingers with both hands.

"I guess you're not just here to tell us this, right?" Yu Sheng, letting the demon fox girl hold onto his fingers, turned his head to meet Baili Qing's eyes, "Besides this 'bad news,' what else is there?"

"There are a few more issues," Baili Qing calmly said, "Hu Li, could you describe your homeland for me a bit more? Especially the names you used for the ground beneath your feet, and the tales and names you used for some of the characteristic celestial bodies in the sky."

"She might not remember much," Yu Sheng couldn't help but interject, "She hadn't even finished elementary school when the accident happened, and there was a long period of confusion after that."

"I understand," Baili Qing nodded, "Tell what you remember, no matter how much."

Hu Li glanced instinctively at Yu Sheng, and after he nodded, she began organizing her words to describe her homeland to Baili Qing.

Many of the things she mentioned were ones Yu Sheng had heard before and had already been conveyed to the Special Service Bureau through Li Lin and Xu Jiali's channels; Baili Qing nearly knew all of it.

Yet Baili Qing still listened very carefully, trying hard to extract more details and "reference points" from Hu Li's description.

"...We called the planet beneath our feet 'Balance Jade,' which before the interstellar era was also called 'Yuheng Thirteen States' or 'Thirteen States,' because there were a total of thirteen continents, including two that broke off from the planet due to the ancient 'Great Turmoil of Heaven and Earth' and floated above the equator—originally, they were inhabited by creatures known as 'Nightmare Demons.' The textbooks said they are an ancient species thrown into the high sky during the Great Turmoil, mutating over generations into monsters that attack the mortal world...

"The Immortals said, historically, these Nightmare Demons came down from the sky many times to harm people, and some Cultivators who fought them were chronicled and written into history books.

"After the advent of the interstellar era, the two floating continents were transformed into Immortal Shuttle launch bases, and most of the Nightmare Demons were exterminated, with the few remaining becoming endangered species. The Immortals locked them in the 'Demon-locking Palace' and 'Evil Suppressing Palace' in Yuheng's synchronous orbit, and charged admission for entry.

"After the Heavenly People arrived, they built something called 'Channel Beacon' near Balance Jade. We went to see it during a field trip—it's a very large orb of light, surrounded by many 'palaces' even larger than the 'Evil Suppressing Palace.' The Immortals said the beacon helps Balance Jade keep up with the Heavenly People's 'galactic river.' Without the beacon, Balance Jade would drift at random, eventually falling out of the galactic navigation route and into the vacuum of space...

"The Channel Beacon is the brightest thing nearby, well, besides the sun—the sun was also hauled away by the Heavenly People..."

Hu Li thought back carefully as she described her homeland to Baili Qing in her own understanding, gradually including some newly remembered content—content that was just as chaotic as the other details, making it rather hard for even Yu Sheng, with his imagination and understanding, to follow her description.

Erin, upon hearing half of it, gave up, noticing Yu Sheng and Baili Qing listening intently, she couldn't help but poke Yu Sheng's arm: "Hey, can you even understand that? Is what silly fox is saying even human language?"

"I was just pretending to understand," Yu Sheng brushed off the puppet's hand, "and your interruption has completely thrown off my train of thought."

At this moment, Hu Li's narration had finally come to a pause, and Baili Qing blinked her eyes, seeming quite shaken — she was stunned for a full six or seven seconds before asking with a slight frown, "You just said... your mother planet 'Balance Jade,' is trying to keep up with the 'Milky Way' of the Heavenly People? And if it can't keep up, it would end up in an empty space in the universe... I'm not sure if my understanding is correct, but you mean, your mother planet is in some kind of 'navigation' state?"

Hu Li immediately nodded as if it was all obvious: "Yeah."

"Even your sun is 'navigating'? Not just traveling normally through space, but in some kind of artificial, controllable 'navigation' state?"

"Yeah."

Baili Qing fell silent, slightly bowing her head as if lost in thought.

If someone familiar with her was here, they would immediately realize that this lady Director was exceptionally spaced out, which was extremely rare for her.

After zoning out for a while, she suddenly raised her head: "Do you remember the specifics of when you fell into Nightfall Valley? What happened at that time, and what did you see or hear?"

She paused for a moment before adding, "I know these memories are not pleasant for you, but this part of the information is really important."

"Well... it's alright, after all, it's been a long time," Hu Li said and tilted her head to think for a moment before continuing with uncertainty, "I was young at the time, and the adults were all protecting me during the incident, so I didn't really understand what was happening... I just remember the Immortal shouting something about 'hitting a crack,' and then the Immortal Shuttle started spinning, alarms went off, and there was..."

She stopped, trying to recall more, and then continued: "Yes, also, later I heard the adults talking about 'hitting a dangerous zone' at some unknown time, and there were 'travel warnings' recently, 'navigation should have been maintained' and such. It seems like there was an issue with the navigation while the Immortal Shuttle was operating, leading us in a dangerous direction, and hit a crack there..."

Hu Li scratched her head and said: "I can only remember this much, nothing else... I have no other impressions."

Baili Qing sank into thought again.

Yu Sheng and Erin both remained quiet, curiously observing the attitude of the Special Service Director — from Baili Qing's latest questions, Yu Sheng keenly sensed the possibility that she might already have some hypothesis; her questions evidently had strong specificity.

After a while again, Baili Qing suddenly broke the silence: "The 'Immortal Shuttle' you mentioned that crashed, is it still in that valley?"

"Yeah," Hu Li nodded her head, "it's halfway up the mountain side, crashed into a mountain recess, half-buried by earth and rocks — later our Savior did some work and plowed through the whole mountain, so now the remnants of the Immortal Shuttle are probably buried even deeper, but it's very sturdy, it wouldn't be crushed."

"True, the main structure is quite intact," Yu Sheng interjected, "I took a distant look at it once before, but the terrain is quite complex around there, and the whole area severely collapsed during the 'Hunger' self-devouring event, and I haven't had the chance to clean it up yet, so I also haven't gotten around to investigating it closely."

Having said this, he then realized and looked into Baili Qing's eyes: "You mean to..."

"Do you remember what I said to you before? If there is an opportunity, the Special Service Bureau hopes to investigate that 'Nightfall Valley'," Baili Qing said seriously, "and now I am asking you again for this, and if possible, we hope... to get a look at the transport called the 'Immortal Shuttle.'"

Yu Sheng was silent for a moment, and after a brief pause, Baili Qing continued, "Of course, I know that the valley is currently under your control and in some sense, it's your 'territory', so we will offer an appropriate 'price' — you can make any reasonable demands."

Yu Sheng pondered thoughtfully.

He looked at Hu Li, who was quietly sitting beside him.

He looked at Baili Qing, whose eyes were faintly filled with anticipation.

He looked at Erin, who was lost in her thoughts... oh, the last one he didn't need to consider.

He took a deep breath.

"Of course, there are some conditions, I do indeed have some things I need your help with, but let me confirm first — does your Special Service Bureau... have people who understand land reclamation, farming, and livestock breeding?"

Baili Qing: "... Eh?"

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