Dimensional Hotel

Chapter 276: It's Over


For ordinary people, No. 66 Wutong Road is invisible.

But for Special Service Bureau Officers who possess certain spiritual talent and have undergone focused training, the "no-entry" vacant land occupied by No. 66 Wutong Road and the mysterious wall at the end of the land are visible.

And now, the vacant land and the wall at its end have disappeared, vanished into the calm night—without making any sound, as if they never existed.

Two Special Service Bureau Officers almost teleported out of the station and stood slack-jawed at the narrow alley before them, facing the cold night wind, sweat flowing from the back of their necks down to their feet.

The keen observation skills honed through specialized training allowed them to quickly assess the condition of the surrounding buildings in the night and confirm that all these buildings had undergone varying degrees of displacement and distortion; some structures originally at the other end of the vacant land had moved out of support, while some originally isolated vacant houses now formed a row, and all of this gave a feeling that...

It's as if the space here was forcibly "stretched" by something and now that the "foreign object" stretching the space suddenly left, the region long deformed and unnoticed in time and space silently returned to normal.

One Special Service Bureau Officer wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, turned his head to his companion: "…What do we do?"

"What else can we do, report it up," the other Special Service Bureau Officer looked equally unsettled, "After all, this matter will definitely alarm Director Baili."

"…Damn, how do we explain this."

"Just report what you saw; it's already beyond our handling authority," the young Officer sighed, then his face tensed again, "It shouldn't be that we did something to chase them off, right?"

"It shouldn't be, Yu Sheng was out taking a stroll with Hu Li and I even greeted them, they seemed pretty happy at the time…"

Thick fog rolled and surged across the street like some substantial viscous fluid, but all the fog remained several meters away near No. 66 Wutong Road, where it formed a clear "boundary," without a shred infiltrating inside.

"It really works, huh!" Yu Sheng was quite delighted, turning to Erin and Hu Li, who had come over to watch the commotion, "The moment we opened the gate, we landed on the foggy side!"

Erin did not speak immediately; she cautiously stepped out of the house two steps, looked around, then turned to face Yu Sheng with a dubious look: "I say…did you really just open a door? Why does the atmosphere feel…off, hey, wait a second, the whole house is standing here! And the surroundings look a bit odd; the utility pole over there should have been further to the left…"

Yu Sheng then focused on looking around, frowned as if perceiving something, and after a while touched his chin in uncertainty: "Maybe it's a bit crooked."

Erin seemed to have reacted: "…What did you open crookedly?!"

"The house."

"…Whoa?!"

"If the theory is correct, I should have successfully 'landed' the entire No. 66 Wutong Road on this foggy side, the whole process is controllable," Yu Sheng scratched his head, explaining to the little puppet what he had done, "Wasn't it said that the whole house was falling into the Exotic Realm, so I thought, if this house can 'descend' to the Exotic Realm like a person, then it means it's really 'moving' like a person, perhaps it's what you said, people have human souls, machines have mechanical souls, houses have house souls, so I decided to try and see if this process could be actively guided and controlled, thus when opening the door I considered the entire No. 66 Wutong Road as part of the door frame…"

Erin's eyes were almost popping out: "…You can really do this?!"

Then she looked around again, quickly bounced back two steps: "You're not kidding me, right? It's really not 'the shadow of No. 66 Wutong Road exists on the foggy side too'? You really brought the real house over here?"

Yu Sheng raised his eyebrows: "Do you think No. 66 Wutong Road would cast a projection like the other common buildings in this dense fog?"

"…Well, that seems right, No. 66 Wutong Road is a Exotic Realm after all, and the most special kind," Erin scratched her head, "And you even opened it crookedly…"

"No need to emphasize that part."

"Savior, what's next?" Hu Li blinked, turning her head to Yu Sheng, without a trace of nervousness but rather a bit of eager anticipation in her large eyes, a bunch of big tails swaying, "Are we going out?"

"Hold on, let's go back first," Yu Sheng did not rush to go out but closed the door first, "Go check the situation in the valley."

"Valley? Oh, right!" Erin suddenly realized, "You moved the whole No. 66 Wutong Road away! Who knows if the valley connection was affected!"

Soon, Yu Sheng led the fox and puppet to the basement, then pushed open the fixed Teleportation Gate to the valley.

The tranquil valley under the "night curtain" greeted the three.

Yu Sheng came to the Teleportation Gate platform, looked up at the sky—dense clouds forming an artificial night curtain enveloped the entire valley, which was of course his doing.

He's now quite practiced at this; every evening when the outside world turns dark, he "draws the curtains" over the valley, then releases the sky again early the next morning, using this simple, straightforward method to maintain normal day-night cycles in the valley—solving both the poor growth of crops and the problem of the little dolls not sleeping well at night.

Even saved the need for vegetable greenhouses.

Next, Yu Sheng sensed the condition of the Teleportation Gate in the "small town."

"Not bad, it seems that the 'movement' of No. 66 Wutong Road won't affect the established Teleportation Gates," he nodded, speaking with satisfaction, "The environment of the valley itself hasn't changed either."

The group returned to the living room.

Yu Sheng pulled out his phone and took a glance: "The signal is still normal."

"The whole house has gone to 'the other side,' yet the phone still has a signal?" Erin exclaimed in disbelief, leaning over to check, "What's going on with this house..."

"How would I know," Yu Sheng shrugged, "From the start, having a signal in this house was already an unexplained phenomenon, and now you want to solve it?"

"Whether it's solved or not doesn't really matter, I just suddenly remembered something," Erin paused, thinking, "Since you directly brought the whole house into 'this side,' isn't it necessary over at the Special Service Bureau..."

Yu Sheng was startled: "Oh wow! It's like that..."

Before he could finish, the urgent ringtone of his phone interrupted him.

The caller was none other than Baili Qing—currently topping Yu Sheng's recent call records.

Erin glanced at the screen: "You should really get a family number plan with her, save on phone bills."

Yu Sheng waved his hand to quiet down the Beeper, then cautiously answered the call with an awkward and guilty smile (though the director couldn't see it): "Uh, good evening, Director Baili."

He wondered if it was just his imagination, but when his polite "Director Baili" came out, he seemed to hear a faint exhale from the other side, as if Baili Qing was suddenly relaxing.

Then, a cool and calm voice came through the receiver: "I received a report, Wutong Road Station said... hmm, said the entire 'plot' where your house is has disappeared."

Yu Sheng: "..."

Honestly, he never expected this "phenomenon"—the whole plot disappeared? That's quite something.

He thought at most the Special Service Bureau would receive another alert or something, especially since this time he opened the door in a rather novel way, the newly implemented automatic filtering system might not recognize it.

During Yu Sheng's brief silence, Baili Qing spoke again: "What happened?"

Yu Sheng looked up, glancing at the fog-covered street outside, trying hard to arrange words logically, forming an accurate and fact-representing sentence. After careful deliberation, he finally broke the silence: "I just noticed fog coming up outside, the abnormal kind, so I came out to check the situation."

"...Uh, and?"

"I brought the house along, just in case."

Baili Qing: "…?"

Erin nearly jumped off the coffee table: "You held back all this time just to say that?!"

"I know it's hard to understand, because I just researched this new function," Yu Sheng explained to Baili Qing, "Rest assured, nothing's wrong, I'm fine over here—and my house is fine, too."

Baili Qing's silence was deafening.

Erin sat cross-legged on the coffee table, nodding as if she understood, and translated the silence: "She's cussing, the really nasty kind, at least three generations deep."

Yu Sheng ignored the puppet.

He heard the director take a gentle breath over the phone.

"Are you coming back?" Baili Qing asked calmly, then added a slightly awkward sentence, "I mean, you and your... house, both coming back?"

Yu Sheng responded with equal awkwardness: "Uh, yes, coming back."

"Approximately when?"

"Probably... before tomorrow morning?" Yu Sheng thought for a moment, replying uncertainly, "The main thing is, I want to go out and check the situation, you don't know, the fog out there is really thick, not sure if it'll go smoothly..."

"Need any support? I can send the Deep Dive Team over."

"No need for that, I'll just bring Erin and Hu Li, fewer people is actually more convenient."

"Alright—make sure to activate the environment recording function in 'Border Communication'. Also, remember to send a message when you're back."

"Uh, okay."

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