The ace regiment A of Erin went up, and Yu Sheng watched as a mass of dark mass-produced dolls stepped on mass-produced brick-shaped flying swords, heading straight for the rift that stretched across the sky. Halfway through, the little things began to bend over and pull a brick from beneath their feet, holding it high over their heads...At that moment, Yu Sheng understood why every mass-produced doll came out stepping on a pile of bricks—they weren't just flying carriers but also their ammunition reserve.
There's no need to ask where this technology came from.
And just in that flash of thought, he saw the leading mass-produced dolls swing their arms in a circle and throw the bricks in their hands into the distance—within the dark rift stretching across the sky, a huge and fragmented building complex was slowly falling from the sky, with countless invading entities descending along the building debris into this world, and the first wave of "bombing" from the mass-produced dolls landed right in their midst.
The next second, a succession of enormous explosions accompanied by visible shockwaves swept over the building complex falling slowly as if under anomalous gravity, and it wasn't just explosions either. Yu Sheng even saw spherical lightning rampaging in the rising smoke, spreading flame wreaths, suddenly collapsing localized force fields, and even a batch of invading monsters resembling stone gargoyles turning into huge frozen clumps and falling from the sky, only to shatter before hitting the ground due to subsequent shockwaves.
Yu Sheng was amazed from a distance, turning to stare at Erin, who was excitedly shouting: "No really, what did you mix into these bricks? They're so flashy when thrown... I remember the hallmark of the chief's tech is mainly just great force."
"The leftover medicinal residue after Mr. Yun's alchemy," the Little Puppet replied with glee, "Later, when he ran out of residues, we even imported a batch from Qianfeng Ling Mountain. Let me tell you, it's great stuff; when it explodes, it comes out in all colors. I just don't know exactly what it'll turn into when it blows up..."
Yu Sheng was stunned, realizing this was actually an Immortal version of flame color reaction...
Nonetheless, this impactful scene didn't divert him from his primary task. After noticing that the mass-produced dolls throwing bricks from the air temporarily halted the rift's invasion and expansion, he immediately turned to Baili Qing: "We..."
But before he could finish his sentence, he heard a commotion from the entrance of a nearby sanatorium, looked up, and saw a tall figure clad in armor, scarred all over, staggering out from inside, unable to be stopped by several armed security and orderlies.
Yu Sheng looked surprised at this "Clumsy Knight," who seemed always to be getting beaten up everywhere, running up to him. Before he could inquire, he heard a muffled voice from beneath the knight's helmet: "Take me, take me with you—you're heading to the other side of the high wall, aren't you?"
Yu Sheng instinctively furrowed his brow: "Didn't you just barely escape from those who captured you? Plus, you've seen the current situation, and you're still planning to go back?"
"I want to go back, Rosaline is still waiting for me," the knight insisted stubbornly, "I promised my daughter, I would return home."
Yu Sheng stared at the knight, from whose dark, hollow empty helmet, a gaze seemed to be returned, meeting his eyes frankly.
Yu Sheng had a lot to say, and Erin seemed to want to speak as well, but ultimately, neither of them continued to persuade him. Only Hu Li asked the knight seriously: "Are you sure? You're different from us, we always have a way to retreat, but you 'belong' to the Kingdom, once you go in, that place might never let you leave."
"...I'm sure, I want to go home."
"Alright, we'll take you," Yu Sheng seemed to contemplate many things within those few seconds before nodding in agreement, "but you have to protect yourself, the situation up front is very chaotic."
Saying this, he once again looked at Baili Qing. However, this time, before he could speak, she lightly nodded: "You all go ahead, I need to stay here to continue directing—before you solve the 'root' of the invasion, the Special Service Bureau will do its utmost to keep various invading entities from reaching the real world."
Yu Sheng nodded, while Hu Li had already swiftly run a few steps away. Then with a tumble, she transformed into a huge Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, and with a flick of her tail, Yu Sheng and the somewhat stunned-looking knight were rolled onto her back.
Accompanied by the roar of propulsion, the Nine-tailed Fox soared into the sky, heading toward the "Kingdom Border" which was becoming increasingly distinct in Yu Sheng's perception.
Web-like rifts spread across the sky, forming a massive three-dimensional structure, with gray and black building debris falling beside the Nine-Tailed Fox. At their closest point, Yu Sheng could even clearly see the patterns on those stones and the remnants of plant material entwined upon them.
"Wow... oh oh oh! Haha, Yu Sheng, Yu Sheng, this is a bit thrilling!"
The Little Puppet, sitting on Yu Sheng's shoulder, was holding onto his head to prevent herself from falling, all the while excitedly watching the minor rifts and falling objects passing by without pause.
Yu Sheng raised an arm to support the wobbling little thing on his shoulder, but his gaze was fixed on the space rifts converging ahead—the clock tower, showing bizarrely twisted forms, was slowly dropping from within one of the rifts and disintegrating in the process, with black flames spreading from the tower, causing it to eerily hover between the sky and the ground as if losing gravity.
The next second, from the spreading black flames, hundreds to thousands of stone gargoyles rushed out from the shattered building structure.
"A whole swarm of enemies... Savior, hold tight! I'm going to charge through!"
Then with a few thunderous booms, Yu Sheng, in the corner of his eye, saw several gigantic Fox Radish Missiles carve through the sky, heading for the invading entities that came like a dark cloud, and swiftly Hu Li abruptly accelerated in the air, attempting to bypass the stone gargoyle swarm, trying to skim past the edge of the clock tower.
At this time, "Imperial Brick Aileen" in the nearby sky swarmed over, with numerous Gothic dolls stepping on bricks flying around the Nine-Tailed Fox, instantly forming a massive escort squadron. Among them, a few Foxfire tails acted as Fox Travel Cannons, and for a while, foxfire interwove with the flying bricks, creating a chaotic mixture of Gothic and Immortal styles with a hint of Old Boys, which was as chaotic as when Xu Jiali, in the women's basketball group match, kicked a penalty and destroyed the opponent's crystal, achieving an unparalleled national success...
In any case, Luna, who was originally using Shadow Step to jump around Hu Li to serve as a guard, retreated altogether upon seeing the situation, not even bothering to fight, just standing there wide-eyed, filming video material.
Yu Sheng kind of wanted to rename the Holy Lady to "Luna Recorder".
And just as he was lost in thought, he suddenly saw a particularly large Stone Gargoyle break through the Foxfire Barrage. Looking like a stone sculpture, yet unusually agile, this gigantic demon charged straight at Hu Li, with the edges of its massive wings simultaneously lighting up with dark green runes.
However, just as Yu Sheng was about to use the Blood Needle Launcher to shoot the enemy down, he saw two mass-produced puppets rushing over nearby—one puppet abruptly stopped near the stone gargoyle, raised its hand to summon a swath of cold black spider silk (it turned out to be an enhanced worker bee type puppet), momentarily binding the demon in place. The other puppet seized this two-or-three-second opportunity to jump directly onto the stone gargoyle, gripping a brick almost half the size of its body with both hands and smashed it down vigorously.
Yu Sheng even heard a very loud "thud" sound. Manifestly devoid of intelligence and acting purely on instinct, the stone gargoyle seemed stunned by the hit, its wings pausing for two beats.
Then the mass-produced puppet on its head raised the brick again, expressionlessly continuing to smash it down.
A petite Gothic doll, riding on the ferocious stone gargoyle demon, expressionlessly wielding a brick—with the backdrop of a fragmented land falling from another time-space into this world.
"This is simply bloody art."
Aileen suddenly exclaimed, her small face full of big emotions.
Then the head of that stone gargoyle was fashioned into an irregular polygon by the mass-produced puppet under her control.
The stone gargoyle, in its final howl, burst into intense flames, the pitch-black fire rapidly consuming it from the inside out. The mass-produced puppet riding on its back flipped back into the escort formation, while Hu Li accelerated again, crossing the battlefield.
In the smoky sky, a shredded piece of paper fluttered by, which Yu Sheng reached out to catch, seeing clumsily drawn patterns sketched in a childish hand on it.
The back of the pattern contained brief and broken words.
"...They were monks hiding in castles and towers... constantly climbing higher until the plague came... When they fell towards the sky, they thought they were like birds..."
"Savior! We're charging forward!" Hu Li shouted joyously, having already left behind the clock tower floating in the sky.
Yu Sheng heard a sound of metal clashing beside him. He turned his head to see the knight sitting next to him in an awkward and somewhat tense position, body pressed very low.
"Relax a bit," Yu Sheng said, "We got through safely."
The knight struggled to lift his head, a muffled voice emanating from beneath the helmet: "I... I'm afraid of heights."
Yu Sheng: "..."
"Mister, are you serious! You should have said something about your fear of heights earlier!" Aileen suddenly burst out, "Who knows when we'll even land, and crossing the rift doesn't guarantee a landing spot, okay!"
The knight, somewhat ashamed, lowered his head: "I... I can still hold on..."
He didn't finish his last two words before a sudden weightlessness and sense perception distortion struck.
The sky split rushed toward them, and the Nine-Tailed Fox accelerated one last time, crossing some sort of "space boundary", and then heaven and earth inverted as a world shrouded in chaos and continuously disintegrating rushed toward them.
Aileen's screams echoed in Yu Sheng's ears—
"Oh oh oh! We're falling! We're going to fall!"