Chapter 895 - 894: Erin’s Golden Throne

Chapter 895: Chapter 894: Erin’s Golden Throne

Erin sat on the sofa back alongside White Cut and Salt Roasted, watching Yu Sheng make a phone call together with two Colorful Divine Chickens, then curiously asked, "What’s the matter?"

"The ’card reader’ I’ve customized for you is ready," Yu Sheng put away his phone, got up from the sofa, and while speaking, picked out the blonde one from a pile of Erin and placed it on his shoulder, "I’ve asked Marin to deliver it to the front door—let’s go directly to the old tree."

Erin instinctively murmured, "Feels like we just got back from the old tree..."

The next moment, Yu Sheng and his group were already back on that Lake Heart Island — and after not waiting long, a large transport vehicle passed through the Giant Tree Gate, driven by none other than the spring-loaded maid named Maris.

Marin got down from the co-pilot’s seat, and before greeting Yu Sheng, this Alice Puppet was first awed by the majestic scenery around the Angel Giant Tree.

This was her first time at this place.

The puppet lady widened her eyes and looked around under the giant tree—the canopy, which blocked out the sky and sun, and the crystal-like illusions surrounding it were reflected in her eyes, while the lake water around the giant tree mirrored the starry light from the world’s end, the Suspended River pierced through the clouds, a spectacular waterfall poured down onto the distant lake surface, like the fall of white clouds, the water mist rising.

Yu Sheng walked over and waved his hand in front of Marin, finally waking the puppet lady.

"Sorry, this scene... is even more astonishing than I imagined," Marin said with a slight embarrassment on her face, but her tone remained as elegantly and gracefully as ever, conveyed with some awe, "I have been to many planets, but such a wondrous sight is truly seen for the first time. Is this giant tree the ’Tree Angel’? And what are those illusions around the canopy?"

"This is indeed the Tree Angel, it has already seen you and is greeting you," Yu Sheng smiled, "As for those around the canopy, they are the realistic projections of the calibrator, with another part located in the Soul World."

Marin blinked and pointed to the distance: "Those floating in the air..."

"Are the ’Satellite Islands’ around this Floating Continent, the largest two islands host some very beautiful large birds, they fly to the main island to forage every day."

"Across the lake that is..."

"That is New Moon City, the vampire city, though everything is just barely starting now."

"And those by the shore..."

"Are the vampires, they are undergoing photosynthesis."

Marin couldn’t comprehend, but she was greatly stunned.

Yu Sheng, on the other hand, was accustomed to this—everyone coming here for the first time has this reaction, even the immortals from the Taixu Spirit Hub.

Floating Island, Suspended River, Heavenly Light Flow, and the Angel Giant Tree rooted in the real world, no matter how much you’ve seen, there is always something here to astound you.

Even if you’ve seen everything such that a tree taller than a mountain doesn’t faze you, there are still a bunch of vampires here gathering to do photosynthesis after meals...

"Alright, you have plenty of time later to admire the scenery, but for now let’s focus on the task," Yu Sheng reminded, "Here’s camp, quite messy, let’s switch to another spot, to the Lake Heart Island’s other side."

Following Yu Sheng’s lead, Maris drove the transport vehicle halfway around the island to the other side of the Angel Giant Tree.

The magnificent tree trunk blocked the view of the Dark Moon Camp on the other side, this side of Lake Heart Island remained unexplored land awaiting development, vast open areas appeared serene, sparse plants lay between several prominent tree roots, with only a few low unknown shrubs.

"Here will do," Yu Sheng pointed to an empty space between two tree roots, "Let’s first unfold the device, then have the old tree establish a connection, and if it doesn’t connect, I’ll figure something out."

Marin nodded and gestured readiness to the nearby spring-loaded maid.

The mechanical sounds of the locking devices opening echoed from the cargo compartment at the rear of the large transport vehicle, followed by the slow drop of the cargo door, first several faceless low-level autonomous puppets walked out, then under Maris’s command, these puppets began pulling out the freight platform from the compartment.

The anti-gravity freight platform emitted a low hum with corner indicator lights flashing slowly, while atop the platform was a large silver-white cube, thin micro-lights flowed on its surface, upon close inspection, one could even see its surface slowly wriggling like living liquid matter.

The little puppet sitting on Yu Sheng’s shoulder suddenly became excited: "Oh oh—tech stuff!"

"This equipment is specially made, and it’s quite different from the Alice Tree installed at Erin’s ’Puppet City,’" Marin smiled elegantly while activating the silver-white cube on the freight platform, "Alright, now deploy."

In the next second, along with the faint sounds of living metal and nanoclusters transforming and wriggling, that silver-white cube instantly melted down from the freight platform, flowing like a liquid while streams of micro-light moving upon its metal surface, began reassembling quickly upon contacting the ground.

An odd mechanical device that Yu Sheng had never seen before "grew" from the wriggling living metal, its base part looked similar to the Alice Tree, yet atop the base was a glittering, throne-like small structure, numerous cables and luminous conduits extended outward from the "throne," these faintly glowing pipe bundles intertwined and stretched, half vanished seemingly into space cracks during their upward extension, ending abruptly, while the other half connected back to the base downward.

The entire device wasn’t very large, measuring just a bit over two meters high, and the small, golden throne centered in the device was clearly designed specifically with Erin’s stature in mind.

"Why do I feel like this thing..." The little puppet on Yu Sheng’s shoulder suddenly hugged her arms and muttered, "Looks kinda weird? Feels like once you sit there you can’t get up..."

"Illusion, that’s just your illusion," Marin responded earnestly, "This is a dedicated data reading device, built upon the Alice Tree, with unnecessary network modules and immersive features removed to maximize data reading efficiency and stability, also accommodating comfort and aesthetics."

Erin still hugged her arms, wearing an expression of "Are you tricking me?"

Marin saw the reaction of the little puppet and couldn’t help but laugh: "Don’t worry, similar data connection devices have actually been around for a long time. You can directly search for the regular model on the Alice Network. This is just adjusted for your situation—don’t you think it looks quite impressive?"

Erin finally scratched her head: "Yes, oh... Then should I give it a try?"

Yu Sheng also found the style of this small-sized Golden Throne somewhat subtle, but he quickly set aside his inner complaints and said, "Wait a moment, let the old tree first connect with this thing and see. Confirm there’s no problem before you get on."

The slow voice of the Tree Angel sounded in his mind: "Wait a moment... I am... growing..."

The creak and crack of wooden structures emerging from the tree bark replaced the sound of living metal writhing. Under Marin’s somewhat amazed gaze, the surface of the Angel Tree Trunk suddenly began to grow and transform.

Part of the bark rose up, its mottled, hard structure cracking and falling away, fresh branches grew out and extended towards the connection device placed in the clearing. Then those branches quickly multiplied and expanded, almost instantaneously enveloping the entire device.

It all took just a few minutes, and the connection device placed in the open air was completely wrapped up by a large amount of proliferating wooden structures. Then this structure that had just grown out of the trunk of the Angel Giant Tree transformed into the shape of a house—a wooden house naturally merged with the giant tree, as if the building had been there all along.

"I don’t quite understand... the principle of this thing..." The Tree Angel’s slow voice sounded again, "But it’s very intriguing, it’s actively guiding me to understand it. I think... we’ve established a connection."

Yu Sheng turned his head to glance at the little puppet nearby, then took the lead in approaching the "wood house."

The small house had no door, only a thick layer of vines hanging at the entrance. The vines automatically retreated to both sides, revealing the inside to Yu Sheng.

Nameless fluorescent plants hung from the ceiling, a light-colored wooden structure formed a surrounding wall, and technological mechanical devices quietly stood in the center of the wooden house filled with natural mystery. A dozen tendril-like or nerve cord-like things hung down from the ceiling and merged into the glowing bundles behind the connection device.

A low and pleasant buzzing echoed in the air, as if the connection device were already in standby mode.

"It really connected," Yu Sheng said with some surprise, "How is this thing even compatible..."

"Don’t understand," the Tree Angel said leisurely, "But I feel... it resonated with ’another part’ of me that has merged together with this device."

"Another part..." Yu Sheng frowned, then suddenly realized.

It’s the Calibrator.

The Captain and the Dark Angels jointly designed the Calibrator (World Bridge), and the "Alice Tree" technology used by the Alice Puppets clearly originated from the Lost Home, presumably also designed with Captain’s involvement. Now the Tree Angel has merged with the Calibrator—the technology route forms a closed loop!

"So this was indeed part of the plan..." Yu Sheng murmured to himself while stroking his chin, then his gaze fell onto the little puppet, "The system is ready, want to give it a try?"

"Sure!"

Erin nodded immediately, jumped to the ground, and strode towards the nearby connection device, then climbed into the Golden Throne in the center of the device using both hands and feet.

Yu Sheng silently watched this scene, and suddenly couldn’t help but turn his head, whispering beside Marin’s ear: "Honestly, is this really some proper thing you Alice Puppets originally had?"

"Absolutely, this set of equipment is indeed a normal variant of the Alice Tree, just slightly adjusted for Erin’s situation."

"What exactly was adjusted?" 𝘧𝓇ℯℴ𝓂

"Mainly the chair in the middle was shrunk a few sizes..."

Yu Sheng: "..."

Meanwhile, in the living room at No. 66 Wutong Road.

Two colorful divine chickens surrounded by auspicious clouds still stood side by side on the back of the sofa, staring with four fighter eyes in a daze.

After quite a while, one of the chickens suddenly said: "Stay focused, it’s a piece of cake!"

The other nodded in agreement: "That was close, almost transformed..."

However, the next second, a glow began to diffuse throughout the living room.

The source of the light was the few crystals placed on the coffee table.

The glow enveloped the surroundings, filling the four small glossy eyes.

"This is bad!"

"Bad, bad..."