Dimensional Hotel

Chapter 746 - 745: Unknown Wanderer

That colorful and towering figure appeared silently, its image full of weirdness and incongruities—it was composed of a large stack of geometric figures, as if the graffiti by the platform had flowed down from the wall and layered on the ground to form this product, the edges of countless geometric figures quivering, colorful and sharp lines accumulating into a rough human shape, constantly twisting into various bizarre poses before the long-haired princess.The long-haired princess held a golden giant sword, but didn't rashly strike, carefully adjusting her posture and footing while slowly saying: "The train is about to arrive, don't mess around on the platform."

The colorful and bizarre heap reacted somewhat to the long-haired princess's words, with the constituent colorful geometric shapes beginning to drip onto the ground like melting wax.

However, just as the long-haired princess was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the broken grime-covered light tubes above the subway platform suddenly emitted a series of faint popping sounds, followed by several tubes flickering violently.

The long-haired princess exclaimed "Damn it!" just as the colorful strange shadow reconstructed itself in the instant the lights dimmed, and then ferociously lunged forward.

Numerous geometric shapes forming the illusory body stabbed out like switchblades all around, at a speed impossible for the eye to catch, and the platform's ground and benches were instantaneously shredded upon contact with those graffiti geometries.

But immediately afterward, a series of collisions and dazzling sparks illuminated the surroundings, with countless spears and swords forged from golden hair exploding around the long-haired princess, followed by her blonde hair cascading down like a waterfall, spreading over the ground, and in the blink of an eye forming countless upward-shooting spikes and thorn bushes, intercepting and piercing the attacking geometries in mid-air.

In the next instant, blinding beams of scorching light sliced through the air, illuminating the surroundings and cutting the pursuing graffiti geometries into pieces.

A giant sword slashed down from the forest of blades and sword rain, striking the core of the colorful strange shadow.

"Die, you damn bastard!"

The blonde girl shouted sharply, the massive force of the swing capable of vertically slicing a large demon in half shattered that heap of "graffiti conglomerate."

Yet she didn't stop to admire her "victory," instead in the moment that heap of graffiti exploded, she reached out, grabbed the mass-produced puppet still aiming at her feet, and turned to leap off the platform, sprinting along the tracks.

Behind her, the shattered graffiti geometries scattered on the ground, and the next moment, countless geometries rapidly wriggled and "flowed" towards the wall beside the platform, instantly activating the graffiti on the wall, with torrents of color flowing down the wall and quickly piling up on the dirty broken platform.

Long-haired princess heard the sounds of squirming and friction behind her, and with a side glance she saw a "wave" formed of colorful graffiti geometries surging along the dark subway tracks towards her.

Almost simultaneously, she heard a massive noise approaching from the front—the sound of a subway train running on the tracks.

"...Really, it's not late today!"

The long-haired princess muttered, and without another word jumped beside the tracks, pressing her body tightly against the wall, while her hair extended backwards, deeply embedding into the rough concrete wall.

She also wrapped the mass-produced puppet within her hair.

In the next second, the loud clattering noise arrived by her side—the tracks were empty, only the loud sound of train running echoing in the subway tunnel, causing the tracks to subtly tremble.

The invisible subway train was heading towards the platform.

The long-haired princess ensured her stable position against the wall, and glanced back towards the direction of the "wave."

In the next second, her eyes widened in shock.

She saw an enormous figure draped in iron-gray heavy armor emerge from somewhere, striding to the center of the tracks, like those knights in stories who confront storms, facing the surging graffiti wave, raising the treasure sword high.

The long-haired princess gasped.

"...Where did this come from!?"

She uttered this small cry of surprise just as the towering figure slightly turned its head towards her, with its features obscured under the dark face armor, yet the long-haired princess sensed a calm and gentle gaze.

Containing reason, not a "train" generated entity.

That was a human in strange armor!?

The moment she realized this, the long-haired princess shouted loudly: "Get out of the way! Don't just stand there! The train's coming!"

However, the towering knight apparently didn't understand her warning, still standing steadfastly in the middle of the tracks, and nodded firmly in the long-haired princess's direction with a posture of unwavering reliability.

Then he turned his head, raised the longsword, and stepped forward.

In the pose of a knight ready to sacrifice everything to protect others.

"You're pretending to be brave!" The long-haired princess gritted her teeth, "A 'train' periodically generates a 'train' inside, which detective agency sent you, rookie..."

The invisible train roared as it sped down the tracks.

A strand of golden hair crossed a distance of more than ten meters at a speed faster than the train, swiftly wrapping around the knight's arm and tugging hard.

However, it couldn't move him.

The knight was as steady as a mountain.

Long-haired princess: "Damn…"

Half the curse was not uttered before the invisible train collided, moving what the hair couldn't— the strange knight's figure flew like a cannonball, and the train crashed into that pile of colorful tide. The aggregation of vibrant graffiti geometries exploded like fireworks, with splendid colors splattering along the subway tunnel, painting the walls in an instant.

Large swathes of graffiti were imprinted on both sides of the tunnel, like a brief and magnificent burst of art.

The knight, who had been struck flying, flew into the scattering graffiti colors like a cannonball.

Yet the long-haired princess was no longer able to admire this spectacular "art."

The massive derailing noise echoed through the tunnel, the invisible train had been derailed due to consecutive impacts with the knight and graffiti. She heard the two recent collisions happen very close to her, then saw a stream of sparks from friction rapidly approaching from not far away, with walls of the tunnel collapsing and peeling off massively wherever the sparks touched.

The long-haired princess instantly released her hair pinned to the wall, while simultaneously raising her hand to retrieve a mass-produced puppet from her hair, shaking it vigorously: "Let's get out of here!"

The mass-produced puppet instantly transformed into an irregular space rift, rapidly expanding and flipping, revealing a valley scenery within the rift.

The next second, the expanding space rift engulfed the figure of the long-haired princess.

With the departure of the only "passenger," the subway instantly returned to a state of calm.

Yu Sheng hurriedly led Hu Li and Erin to Fairy Tale Town, where the first thing they saw was the long-haired princess crouching by the town fountain, dry heaving.

The Snake Princess had most of her body coiled in the fountain, while she tapped the long-haired princess's back with her tail tip, muttering, "I'm telling you, don't you really puke in here. You puke in here, I'll puke too…"

The long-haired princess struggled to lift her head, grabbing the Snake Princess's tail tip with a face showing signs of nausea: "Get out from the fountain... There's a public bath where you can wash."

"Okay."

The Snake Princess nodded, cooperating by crawling out of the fountain then lifted her head upon seeing Yu Sheng, hurriedly bowed respectfully: "Greetings, True Monarch~"

"So, what's the situation here?"

Yu Sheng spoke as he glanced at the long-haired princess, who looked even worse after the emergency teleportation, generally confirming she had no visible injuries, then his gaze fell on the mass-produced puppet with the dead fish eyes beside her.

"Why did the emergency teleportation suddenly trigger? Erin wasn't focusing on this mass-produced machine at the time, and the situation she relayed to me was all muddled, just saying you almost got hit by the train…"

"Yes, I nearly got hit by the train," the long-haired princess finally caught her breath at this point, lifted her head and said, "I accepted a task today, went to investigate a missing Spirit Realm detective in the 'subway', and then encountered some unexpected situations."

"Subway?" Yu Sheng raised an eyebrow; although he hadn't encountered this term before, he instinctively realized it wasn't an ordinary subway station, "Which subway?"

"Oh, that's an Exotic Realm," the long-haired princess waved her hand, "Depth L-2, danger level 2~3 in the dangerous Exotic Realm; I've been there several times, it's a well-trodden path… The place collects 'moss' and 'spray cans' that can be used to process gray drugs and marking spray cans. Plus, the place itself has fairly stable entrance and exit channels, so Spirit Realm detectives and investigators often go in… But there's also bound to be careless unluckies trapped inside."

As she spoke, she unscrewed her carried canteen, gulped down two mouthfuls of water, then continued talking.

"A Spirit Realm detective went missing after entering the subway a while ago. I saw the investigation commission wasn't too hard, the pay was pretty generous, so I brought a mass-produced puppet in to check things out. At first, it went pretty smoothly; didn't expect an entity to suddenly materialize as I was about to wrap up…

"Actually, encountering entities is usually not a big deal, I've faced them before and can handle them, but didn't expect this time an inexplicable… stranger showed up."

"Stranger?" The fox girl listening eagerly aside pricked up her ears in interest, "What did it look like?"

Erin lifted her hand: "I glimpsed it through the mass-produced machine at the end, seemed like a tin can…"

"Yes, a tin can," the long-haired princess nodded, "Looked about 1.9 meters in height, wearing those ancient armors like in movies, with its whole head and face covered, holding a large sword. It stood right in the middle of the tracks, looked like it was trying to help me block the incoming entity… Then got hit and flown by the train."

Yu Sheng frowned: "…So, 'he' wasn't a normal entity generated within the subway?"

The long-haired princess shook her head: "Definitely not, the art style wasn't even matching."