Alien Hotel

I have to say that although the riding experience of Xu Jiali's car is a bit poor, it is still interesting to listen to the other party's unpopular knowledge.

It is much more vivid and vivid than the boring entries in the "Border Communications" database.

The scenery outside the car window continued to recede. Po Xiali drove from the old streets in the old city to the main road in the city, and then along the main road passed through the bustling areas lined with high-rise buildings and shopping malls. Hu Li was lying on the car window. She opened her eyes wide and looked at the scenery outside curiously. Although her ears and tail were tucked away, her excited and happy look still made Yu Sheng feel like there were a bunch of tails swaying behind her.

"How long does it take to get from here to your Secret Service?" Yu Sheng asked curiously, "Is it going to your headquarters -"

Or should we call it the General Administration? "

"We're going to the headquarters," Xu Jiali nodded and looked at Yu Shengren through the rearview mirror, "Very soon, we'll be there in half an hour."

"So close?!" Yu Sheng exclaimed when he heard it. He thought of the incredible scale of this city and was surprised by the distance that can be reached in half an hour's drive. "Is your headquarters near the old city?"

Xu Jiali shook her head: "No, the Secret Service headquarters is far, far away - but from any point in the city to the Secret Service, the drive will take less than half an hour."

Yu Sheng was stunned: "...—Huh?"

"Because we took a 'shortcut,'" Xu Jiali laughed, with a hint of pride that "I finally surprised you once". Then he turned the steering wheel and drove off the main road, along the business district. A side road on the edge turned into a secluded area behind a certain shopping mall. "We in the Secret Service also have some tricks of our own." "

While he was talking, Yu Sheng looked at the entrance of a parking lot in front of him. Xu Jiali drove in from the entrance ramp. The first floor that she just went down seemed to be just a normal parking lot, with many cars parked inside. Private vehicles, and many signs leading to above-ground shopping malls, supermarkets or nearby intersections can be seen in the venue. But then, Xu Jiali turned around inside and turned into another ramp from the depths of the venue -

—Yi Yusheng didn’t even see how this ramp appeared. Before they got closer, it seemed to be just an open space at the end of the parking lot. There was still some water from unknown sources in the open space. But as soon as they got closer, the water accumulated there. Suddenly, a road sloping downward appeared in the middle, and a dim light illuminated this long, awkward passage. The passage sloped all the way down, as if it could extend all the way to the ground.

As we go deeper, the colors of the lights on both sides of the passage gradually change. A cold blue fills the outside of the car windows. The surrounding becomes extremely quiet. Even the sound of the car engine sounds like it is separated by a layer. The thick curtains seemed distant and stuffy. Yu Sheng suddenly felt that his spiritual intuition began to jump. And while he was still wondering what this feeling was about, Irene was already feeling better. He reacted faster: "Wait a minute, we are falling into a foreign land?!"

"Strictly speaking, we are passing through a foreign land." Xu Jiali turned around slightly, "Depth L-1, foreign land's shortcut", covering the entire junction, will not generate entities, and is basically harmless except for a little risk of getting lost. . The Secret Service is located at the main intersection of "Shortcut" and "borrowed" the special power of this foreign land a little bit - here we are.

As soon as Xu Jiali finished speaking, Yu Sheng felt a sway in his body, and then the weird feeling of jumping spiritual intuition when falling into a foreign land quickly subsided. He noticed that the car had driven out of the passage and was passing through. After passing a gate, you entered a brightly lit parking lot.

"Get out of the car." Xu Jiali parked the car in a parking space and came over to help Yu Sheng open the door. "We will go directly to the central elevator."

Yu Sheng easily carried Irene on his shoulders, and then followed the "guide" Xu Jiali with the fox girl full of curiosity and excitement. The group walked through this surprisingly large parking lot and entered the labyrinth-like parking lot. After going around several intersections in the underground space, I arrived at the elevator hall, and then followed Xu Jiali to swipe her card and get on the elevator.

As soon as he entered the elevator, Yu Sheng noticed the identification papers posted on the car and near the buttons.

There are many strange tips and warnings printed or written on it, "The elevator will not stop on floors 1-3."

"Light control on the 4th floor. If you enter the brightly lit 4th floor, please immediately return to the parking lot or go to the security floor on the 12th floor."

"The elevator is under maintenance on Saturdays. Outside of this time, if you encounter the word 'inspection' on the screen in the elevator, press the blue button and leave. You can transfer to elevator No. 2 or No. 5."

'If you are an upper-level employee, you can only take this elevator to minus 1, minus 2 and the above-ground floors. If the elevator prompts you to reach minus 3 or a deeper underground floor, please say hello to the staff at the lower level, but do not leave the car. . "

There are several more tips like this.

Yu Sheng looked at the notes posted on the car and was stunned for a few seconds before turning to look at Xu Jiali: "...——The risks in your work environment are quite high? You have to go through a round of rules before you can work. The test failed?"

"Actually, you just get used to it," Xu Jiali said calmly, "The main reason is that there are many special nodes in the Secret Service headquarters building," which connect many places. Some floors are simply set up in different spaces. In addition to offices, There are also some strange "aboriginal people" appearing. However, it is not as dangerous as outsiders think. Most of the places and rules here are not fatal, and there are special help devices or shortcuts for returning if you get lost. There is also a special "Safe Work Department" in the building, with The security department is jointly responsible for bringing those colleagues who are lost in the building back to their workstations..."

It was okay if he didn't explain it, but when he explained it, it made people feel even more evil. Even Irene couldn't help but muttered: "God damn safe work department - co-author here just wants to sneak in and there is no one." If you touch a fish in a corner, it will be regarded as a "lost" incident, and then you will be caught by a group of security guards and brought back to your work station?"

Xu Jiali shrugged: "That can't be helped. After all, the nature of our work and the working environment are special, especially those near special floors. If you didn't come back after leaving work for thirty minutes, who knows whether you went fishing or were swallowed up by the office next door. But it's actually not bad. Most of the floors here are very stable, and some of the more stressful positions have short working hours. For specially trained Secret Service employees, this environment is different from ordinary people in office buildings. There’s no difference when you go to work.”

"You also work in this building?" Yu Sheng asked curiously.

"No, I'm out in the field most of the time," Xu Jiali waved her hand, "When I come back, I'm basically on standby in the annex building.

In addition, there are some facilities such as "attendance offices" and "stations" for the use of regular action troops. They are not directly connected to the headquarters building, but they can be quickly traveled to and from via shortcut floors or special "passages". "

While talking, the elevator had stopped at a floor marked 54-1/2. With the car's soft door opening announcement, the elevator door opened, and a brightly lit corridor appeared in the eyes of the group of people.

Yu Sheng and the others followed Xu Jiali into the corridor and noticed that this floor was very deserted. Only a few people in uniforms could occasionally be seen walking by, and each of them seemed to be in a hurry and looked serious.

On one side of the corridor are closed doors, and on the other side is a row of neat and wide windows. Through the windows, you can see the outside scenery - outside the window is a thick and oppressive rock formation with a dark color. Stone pillars and huge stalagmite structures criss-crossed the entire space, and there was a huge crack at the end of the rock formation in the distance. Outside the crack, there seemed to be a forest. There was white snow in the forest, and the sun shone on the snow layer, making it blindingly bright.

Yu Sheng: ".————What the hell kind of scenery is this!"

Xu Jiali, however, had an unsurprised expression on her face. She looked outside and was quite happy: "Oh, it's sunny outside on the 54th and a half floors today.

The weather is quite good—it has been snowing outside this crack for half a year. "

Hu Li opened her eyes wide, and finally she couldn't help but ask: "Is every floor of this building its own world?"

"Not every floor," Xu Jiali waved her hand, "Didn't I just say that most of the floors here are quite stable. Only about one-third of the floors have some strange scenery, and they are not a world of their own. It’s just that they don’t happen to be at the junction.”

Yu Sheng was dumbfounded - "Only one-third of the floor" and "just not at the junction"! Is this place so evil?

Xu Jiali didn't seem to notice the wonderful expressions on the faces of Yu Sheng and others, and calmly explained further: "The headquarters building of the Secret Service is like a huge 'space-time rift sampling needle', with many 'special features' running through each floor. "Place", if the junction is the 'spatial hub' of the world , the Secret Service headquarters is built at the busiest N-shaped intersection in this hub, so we even have two small customs and a border transportation station in this building. When I have the opportunity, I can take you to visit them. It's quite interesting for people who come here for the first time. "

"It sounds interesting enough to me now," Yu Sheng's tone was already a little numb, "How did you build this building?!"

"A bit of magical civil engineering, I don't know the details," Xu Jiali shrugged, "But now you should know why you 1

"Open the door", our entire Secret Service will be in a state of panic, right? "

The expression on Yu Sheng's face froze instantly.

"When time and space misalignment is detected, the entire building sets off alarms from top to bottom," Xu Jiali sighed, with a sense of the past that she couldn't bear to look back on. "There are even auxiliary buildings and several floors connected to the main building. All the satellite facilities set off the alarm. Although we later discovered that no damage was actually caused, when the alarm sounded, it was as if the headquarters had fallen. On the busiest night, half the building was evacuated. —”

What else could Yu Sheng say, he could only continue to freeze: "..—"