Alien Hotel

To be honest, it was quite difficult for Yu Sheng to eat this first bite - it wasn't that he wasn't hungry. He hadn't eaten for a long time and was already hungry now, and he was not afraid to challenge the "food" in front of him. After all, he I've eaten the dish stewed by Huli once, and I know that the things this girl made are ridiculous, but the taste is actually OK. In addition, the fox girl is sitting next to her now, with two big eyes on her head and two big eyes. Look, he had to taste the thing in the bowl anyway.

The main difficulty lies in the pile of "stews" in the bowl... it hides from the spoon.

Yes, this pile of stewed with some scribble magic that God knows is applying, it is hiding from spoons! And he also bulged a bag from the middle while snailing the pupa, which seemed to be comparing to the middle finger - this is more out of raw understanding of food.

After staring at the bowl on the table for a long time, Yu Sheng finally raised his head with a little entangled confrontation: "Is this normal?"

"Ah, I'm sorry, I forgot that there is another step!" Hu Li suddenly realized, and her hand outlined a few glowing symbols in the air, and then muttered to the dining table. Anyway, it was a bunch of them, what would you think? It had nothing to do with "cooking", and then I breathed a long sigh and smiled on my face, "Okay, benefactor, it understands."

Yu Sheng was completely confused - ah? Do you understand? What do you understand? Who understands? Alas no, cook! Why is the last step in cooking? Communicate with the food to let it "understand"? The junction machine is organic, and the Huli can produce a food soul in the pot, right?

He looked down at the bowl and saw that the pile of substances that were still changing color was indeed quiet. He thought carefully for several seconds before confirming with Hu Li again: "I'll ask clearly first--this thing won't be Are you smart?”

"Of course not," Hu Li waved her hand quickly, "It's just that heaven and earth have their own spirituality. A stew with souls is to temporarily stew the spirituality of heaven and earth in the dishes, but if the soul has too much, the dishes will easily move... That's what my mother said .”

Yu Sheng felt that if you just say these words of Hu Li, you have to go through the san check in the ears of ordinary people - the combination of language and words is really amazing.

Then he took a deep breath, imagined the colorful thing in the bowl as ordinary ingredients such as physical tentacles or the heart of the wolf grandmother, and took a bite with his eyes closed.

A slight heat flow, and then a pretty good smell—no strange smell, and nothing suddenly came alive in his mouth. Yu Sheng couldn't tell what the taste of this mouth was, but it was obviously very normal. food.

It even tasted better than the last time the stewed dish of Huqiu.

"You... are OK," Yu Sheng opened his eyes and looked at the fox stew in the bowl with some surprise. "The taste is indeed better than last time."

The fox girl who was waiting for a long time to praise her was waiting with anticipation and squinted her eyes, her body shaking back and forth slightly, and a bunch of tails were shaking there: "As long as my benefactor likes it."

Yu Sheng lowered his head and took a second bite.

He felt that his fatigue had subsided in a few breaths. His mind, which was originally sleepy and a little drowsy, quickly woke up. It was not the temporary awakening under strong stimulation, but as if he had enough rest and supplies. Fully sober.

And the "food" he ate even continued to nourish his body, bit by bit, soaking his limbs and bones.

He frowned in confusion, and saw Huqi pull out two chicks from his tail and make a small bowl of "stew" for them: "Cut white, salt baked, eat~ you guys Today I will benefit from my benefactor~”

The two chicks happily came over.

They have grown up a lot, and are obviously well taken care of by the fox girl. A tuft of light golden fluff has begun to grow from the white cut head, and a translucent micro-washed behind the salt-baked tail is obviously floating. Light.

Yu Sheng: “…”

It seems that something is wrong, let's take a look.

Yu Sheng rubbed his eyes again, then raised his head to look at Hu Li.

"What's wrong with benefactor?"

"I'll confirm it," Yu Sheng hesitated for a moment, pointing at the stew on the table, "Is this really the 'home-cooked meal' you eat every day in your hometown?"

"No, you have to have a special day, such as when you get 100 points, or during festivals," Hu Li replied very honestly, "It's a tiring thing to do, and it's very exhausting, especially Yunling's. At that time, I was not skilled, so I could make a meal occasionally.”

Yu Sheng: “…”

This silly fox is definitely confusing cooking with other things! What is going on in her hometown?

Looking at the fox girl's nodding and half-headed look, Yu Sheng didn't ask anymore, and lowered his head and ate the food in front of him, and then looked at the two smaller feathers that were obviously shimmering than before. The chicken walked on the table with satisfaction, thinking.

Hu Li happily went to wash the pot and wash the dishes.

Yu Sheng and the two little chickens on the table who were walking and digesting food were staring at each other.

Bai Qi and Yan Ba ​​stopped, tilted their heads and faced Yu Sheng's gaze without fear at all, with inexplicable brilliance in their little eyes.

Yu Sheng even suspected that these two flat-haired beasts were almost enlightened.

But he has no evidence.

...

At the same time, outside the city.

The border is not an infinite space, and the boundary city - although it is so huge, even giving people the illusion of an almost "endless city", it obviously has boundaries.

At the end of this huge city is a "ring belt" composed of various heavy factories and three-dimensional farms. Outside the ring belt is the urban wall established by the Council. After the wall, it is a vast wilderness - here it has It has left the most stable and safest "prosperous city" at the border, so it is called the "suburb".

In the suburbs, only a few stable settlements are distributed in the boundless vast wilderness, and some observation stations and outposts established by the Council are distributed around settlements and some other areas that require key control. Under normal circumstances, the Secret Service We will not send people deep into this desolate area.

But today, it is obviously a special situation.

Several "meteors" flying from the sky above the Realm City fell on the "outbacks" - they must be recycled and contained in the shortest time.

Song Cheng jumped out of the car, tightened his coat tightly in the cold wind blowing through the wilderness, and walked forward.

The terrain here is smooth and the weeds are endless. The city in the distance is like a serrated silhouette on the horizon. In the other direction, you can see blurred light curtains rising from the ground and piercing into the chaotic sky curtain in the distance. ——Those light curtains are the "boundary markers" set by the Council at the border, and the theoretically the farthest place an ordinary person living in the border can go to in his life.

"This landing point is really biased. It's even farther away, it's outside the 'border'," a secret service officer wearing heavy protective clothing muttered beside him, "It's really hard to find."

"Good, at least it's going outward, not close to the city. If you really fall near the city, it will be a big trouble," another operator said, "Of course, the group of the third brigade may be working overtime at that time. Unlucky..."

Song Cheng coughed twice: "How much does the equipment read now?"

"The depth is 0, slightly offset to L-1, but within the safety value," the subordinate immediately reported, "no pollution was found."

Song Cheng nodded.

Just then, a shout suddenly came from the front: "Finished! It's landed here!"

An impact crater with a diameter of more than ten meters is like a burning charred scar, "imprinted" in this wilderness covered with weeds.

The small drone buzzed and arrived above the impact crater, monitoring the surrounding environmental parameters. Then, the robot stepped forward and set the basic monitoring equipment and protective devices on the edge and inner wall of the impact crater, and passed again. Yes, the Secret Service Officers wearing heavy protective suits came forward and observed the situation in the impact crater.

A glimmer of light came into Song Cheng's eyes.

The Secret Service commander with rich frontline experience looked at the bottom of the pit with a serious expression - it was a translucent white crystal with irregular shape, with traces of melting and recondensing on the surface, in the soil layer around the crystal The residual heat has not disappeared, and there are still slight white smoke. There are also tiny, small, small fragmented crystals distributed around the large crystal, as if echoing the large crystal, slowly disappearing and changing.

He heard an operator muttering quietly behind him, with a hint of vigilance and nervousness in his voice: "This is the 'corpse' of the dark angel..."

"It's just some tiny pieces, its main structure has 'evaporated' during the fall," Song Cheng said casually, and waved behind him, "Prepare for recycling process - send a drone for contact testing first. ”

After a while, Song Cheng retreated from the impact crater and came to the command car.

"How is the situation with several other recycling teams?"

"Group II and Group III are still searching in the search range given by the director. The wreckage landing point has not been found yet. Group IV sent a message just now that they have found a small fragment and are undergoing the first phase of contact testing. "A Secret Service Officer wearing headphones reported, "There was an unexpected situation that the small fragment landed near a settlement, only two or three hundred meters away from the partition wall. Although the settlement itself did not have it, Damage, but because the landing point is very close and the local residents witnessed the flash of the angels at close range, there may be some risks, and an assessment team has already set out from the headquarters.”

"Well," Song Cheng nodded, then looked at the sky, "...The wind is coming here, and the forecast is that there are times of turbulence. When the container is on the bus, I will withdraw quickly - it's been a weekend, Don't fast forward to Monday when you open your eyes."

"receive!"

Song Cheng nodded, and just as he was about to go over and watch the recycling progress himself, the correspondent suddenly changed his expression, and then he quickly talked to a communication channel.

"Leader, something might have happened," the correspondent raised his head, his tone changed a little. "The three groups just sent a contact, and they found a shock pit - but the pit was empty."

Song Cheng: “…what?!”