CHAPTER 454: CHAPTER 454: THE CORPORATE CULTURE OF THE TRAVEL AGENCY

The puppet exclaimed softly.

However, the next second, she saw the surface of the stone sphere revert back to its original state; the scene of it "splitting open a mouth" seemed like an illusion.

But Yu Sheng had already heard her exclamation and immediately got up, asking as he walked over, "What’s wrong?"

"This sphere... just now it seemed to sprout a mouth," Erin, a bit nervous, held the Omen Wandering Star (youth version) and quickly showed it to Yu Sheng, "but then it disappeared."

Yu Sheng furrowed his brow, took the stone sphere and examined it closely, then knocked it against the corner of the table and listened to it by his ear.

Actually, he didn’t know how to check such a bizarre object, knocking it twice was mainly to create a professional atmosphere.

Erin suddenly became nervous: "Hey, don’t damage it!"

"You seem quite worried about this sphere," Yu Sheng raised his eyebrows and casually tossed the stone sphere back onto the orbital path beside Erin’s head, "I didn’t notice anything unusual, but this thing itself seems odd... honestly, if you keep it at home, it won’t bite, would it?"

"That should be pretty hard, with all these monsters and ghouls in this room, even if it grows a mouth, who could it bite—nibble on a fox and get a mouthful of fur, chew on a C-type buckle and chip a tooth, bite you and have blood sprayed all over the place for a lifetime commitment, not to mention gnaw on me?" Erin mumbled, poking the Omen Wandering Star, "I don’t think it’ll bite me."

Yu Sheng thought about it: "Then keep an eye on it, make sure it doesn’t bite others—if it really grows a mouth."

Erin responded in confusion, and then she saw Yu Sheng across from her stroking his chin, showing a classic contemplative expression, which startled the puppet: "What are you going to do now!"

Yu Sheng looked up at Erin, suddenly asking: "Where are your other bodies?"

The puppet looked wary: "...Two are upstairs playing video games, and one is sleeping in the attic. Why do you ask?"

Yu Sheng rubbed his hands together, his face showing an enthusiastic research expression: "I just thought of something, this sphere keeps orbiting you, right? So call your other bodies over—excluding the mass-produced ones, when the four Erin mainframes stand together, which one does it orbit?"

The puppet was dumbfounded, her first reaction was to marvel at Yu Sheng’s ingenious idea, and the second reaction was—hey, this is fun, let’s try it!

Then the next second, Yu Sheng heard clattering footsteps coming from the stairs. Looking up, he saw two energetic Erins followed by one rubbing her eyes and yawning as they ran downstairs.

...Speaking of which, the puppet’s previously mentioned skill of "sending one body to sleep while others play games around the clock" has really become a reality?

Several Erins arrived in the living room simultaneously, drawing curious gazes from Hu Li, who was snacking on walnut kernels, and Luna, who was maintaining her few blades. They all looked toward the mini version of the "Omen Wandering Star" with curiosity.

The travel agency’s corporate culture was displayed vividly at this moment—not afraid of making a scene.

The Omen Wandering Star started to tremble.

From the instant the second Erin appeared in the living room, the grey stone sphere began to visibly vibrate and stagger during its rotation. As more Erins approached, the sphere’s vibration turned into a rather unsettling vigorous sway.

Yu Sheng watched in amazement at the scene, looking at the "Omen Wandering Star" seemingly plunged into chaos, violently swinging among the Erins, and suddenly, it emitted a peculiar "buzz," and abruptly flew upward—

Yu Sheng: "Whoa!!"

"Bang—"

After a loud crash, the Omen Wandering Star embedded into the ceiling and remained motionless.

Several flakes of paint and cement crumbs fell from the roof, landing on Hu Li’s walnut kernels.

Everyone was dumbfounded, the Erins stood there with blank expressions, and after a few seconds, they slowly looked up at the Omen Wandering Star embedded in the ceiling.

Puppet X4: "Ah, my sphere!"

Yu Sheng: "My ceiling!"

Hu Li: "My walnuts!"

Luna: "Um, right."

Everyone belatedly reacted, and the living room suddenly became chaotic. Several Erins shrieked as they pounced on Yu Sheng, demanding compensation for their sphere, while Yu Sheng frantically dealt with the puppets crawling over him and emphasized that she agreed to the idea. Hu Li, distressed, picked her walnut kernels from the debris of the ceiling, muttering all the while...

Only Luna stood silently in a corner of the living room, starting to record while uploading to the Otherworld Inn’s database...

But this kind of chaotic atmosphere is also considered another corporate culture of the travel agency. Yu Sheng and his crew are quite familiar with it. After a brief chaos, the situation calmed down with all four puppets being tied into balls by Hu Li’s tail and unable to move. Yu Sheng finally breathed a sigh of relief and decided to first get the Omen Wandering Star off the roof...

Considering that there wasn’t a ladder tall enough at home, he borrowed a tail from Hu Li, rode on it, and carefully flew to the ceiling to pry at the ball. The four Erins, bound in the Fox Carrot ball on the sofa leaving only their small heads outside, chattered with their heads raised: "Be careful!" "Don’t drop the ball!" "A bit to the left, a bit to the left, don’t bump the light..." "Silly fox, your fur is stuffing into my joint!"

And just when the whole family was having fun, a knock on the door suddenly came from the entrance.

The door of No. 66 Wutong Road was unexpectedly knocked, which startled Yu Sheng for a moment. However, he quickly realized and turned to Luna, who was the only one seemingly idle at the scene: "It should be the nephew, after he came back, he went to clean that little house, maybe he has something to tell us."

Luna went to open the door, and sure enough, Zheng Zhi walked in—behind him was another familiar figure.

Xuan Che also followed in.

"Mr. Yu," Xuan Che folded his fists and bowed to express his intention as soon as he entered without seeing anyone yet, "My master invites you..."

He was cut off before finishing, then froze in place, and looked up straight at the scene in the living room.

The four Erins, wrapped into ball shapes by the fox’s tail, were piled on the sofa. Yu Sheng was riding a fox tail flying in mid-air, reaching up with his arms towards the ceiling while looking down.

At this moment, it was near dusk, the living room lights had been turned on, the halo of the daylight lamp forming circles, spreading evenly behind Yu Sheng, as he sat in the light with the just-pried Omen Wandering Star...

Looking like an Immortal changing a light bulb.

A few seconds of mutual silence, the stillness was in speech, the only sound was the bouncing of the Dao heart.

Xuan Che took a light breath: "This... what does this mean?"

Yu Sheng also felt that this scene might be a bit strange, but he still tried to keep a straight face, slowly descending from mid-air while casually passing the pried stone ball to Erin: "It’s nothing, we just did a little family experiment, accidentally flung the Omen Wandering Star onto the ceiling, fortunately, it wasn’t embedded deeply, I pried it off—Hu Li, you can release Erin now, she won’t cause trouble."

Xuan Che blinked, not knowing whether he should relax now, only feeling that following inside like that was indeed a bit rash—ah, having spent some time with Mr. Yu in Shuji made him have the illusion that he could keep up with the "travel agency" pace, now it seems that indeed, he was overthinking it.

He cleared his throat twice, then bent forward again, using an earnest demeanor to cover his subtle expression: "Uh, my master sent me to check if you are well-rested, if you have time, please come to Queyun Palace to discuss some matters regarding Angel Fall and the arrangements for the celebration in a few days..."

"Oh, oh, I was just thinking at noon that your master and the others should be looking for me," Yu Sheng quickly clapped his hands, "But couldn’t this matter be settled with just a phone call, you specially made the trip..."

"This shows the importance," Xuan Che straightened up with a serious face, "The master said that friendship is friendship, and courtesy is courtesy, Mr. Yu is now of the Feiyu Star Domain’s..."

"Alright, alright, I got it," Yu Sheng quickly waved his hand to interrupt Xuan Che, "I’ll go over there with you."

Saying this, he turned around again, instructing Erin and the others: "You stay and watch the house—especially keep an eye on the basement, if the long-haired princess tries to sneak out to play, chase her back, Little Red Riding Hood just messaged me, she hasn’t done her homework for three days..."

"Oh, got it, got it," Erin said impatiently, while fiddling with the seemingly recovering Omen Wandering Star, "Come back early tonight."

...

At the peak of Qianfeng Ling Mountain, the main hall of Queyun Palace.

Outside the wide-open main hall doors, the Cloud Sea surged, the sunset spilled into the clouds, the golden-red rays of the sun spread all the way to the front steps of the main hall.

Yuanling and Yuan Hao stood within the hall discussing matters, and when Yu Sheng stepped through the hall door, the two looked up simultaneously.

"I must say, the scenery in your place is really nice," Yu Sheng greeted the two with a smile on his face, "When I walked near the main peak, I was even reluctant to ’open the door’, always feeling that it would waste the scenery along the way."

"That makes sense," Yuanling laughed, "I often tell the disciples to pursue the true essence, but also not to overlook the journey of seeking Dao itself—unfortunately, not many listened to this seriously."

Yu Sheng looked around: "True Man Yuanhe isn’t here?"

"He’s attending to that big snake," Yuan Hao said casually, "That snake hasn’t been right since being struck by lightning, and he’s worried."

Yu Sheng responded with an oh, then sorted his thoughts and expression, becoming serious: "Let’s talk business, where do we start?"

Yuanling and Yuan Hao exchanged glances, then True Man Yuanling broke the silence.

"Let’s start with... the Emperor’s Legacy, then the Inference Star Body. We only got a rough idea from the communication you sent earlier, now that the dust has settled, it’s time to sort it all out."